Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 07, 2016
This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)  
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)  
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)  
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
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Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011  
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