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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 16, 2025
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)  
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934  
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