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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 08, 2012

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.: John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy"
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.: Bill Vaughan
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.: Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

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