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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 16, 2025
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )  
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)  
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004  
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