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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 18, 2025
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )  
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)  
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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Henry Stimson (1867 - 1950)  
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)  
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