Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 23, 2017
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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Joan Baez (1941 - )  
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964  
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"  
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)  
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