Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 08, 2016
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
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Bagdikian's Observation  
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)  
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)  
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)  
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