Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 24, 2024
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)  
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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Charles Peters  
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)  
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Ted Turner  
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