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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 1, 2024
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)  
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)  
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
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Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)  
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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