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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 05, 2016
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)  
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)  
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002  
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