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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 02, 2012
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)  
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)  
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
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Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)  
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary  
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