Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 17, 2015
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)  
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line  
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)  
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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Ellen Goodman (1941 - )  
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