Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 07, 2009
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Paul Fix
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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