Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 15, 2025
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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Lee Simonson  
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)  
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858  
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )  
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