Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 20, 2014
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
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Paula Poundstone  
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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M. Cartmill  
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)  
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)  
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