Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 12, 2016
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )  
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)  
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
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Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"  
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934  
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