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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 09, 2008
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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Anonymous
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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