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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 14, 2013
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968  
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)  
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41  
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
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Jeff Foxworthy  
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