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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 07, 2008
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Sir Richard Steele
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