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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 09, 2025
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)  
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)  
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)  
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
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Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996  
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