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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 14, 2025
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
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Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)  
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)  
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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
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Elaine Gill  
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