Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 14, 2009
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
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Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
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John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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