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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 27, 2015
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
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Edward P. Tryon  
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine  
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)  
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"  
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