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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 14, 2026
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)  
If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer.
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Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 10-02-07  
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)  
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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Bill Gates (1955 - ), Time Magazine, January 13, 1996  
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