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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 05, 2014
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)  
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"  
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)  
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946), Penrod (1914)  
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