Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 25, 2025
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
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Dick Werthimer  
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)  
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)  
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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E. W. Dijkstra  
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