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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 12, 2026
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)  
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)  
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)  
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
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John Gaule  
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