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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."

William Shakespeare

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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

Leo Tolstoy

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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."

Pythagoras

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"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."

Mahatma Gandhi

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"That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing."

Aristotle

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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)

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We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

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"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

Woody Allen

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"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."

Charlie Sheen

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"Even God cannot change the past."

Agathon

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"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

Muhammad Ali

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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Oscar Wilde

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"Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love."

Mary Wesley

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Walt Disney

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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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"Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith."

Leslie Nielsen

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“A zealous locksmith died of late,
And did arrive at heaven gate,
He stood without and would not knock,
Because he meant to pick the lock.”


William Camden

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"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!"

William Shakespeare

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"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect."


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

William Shakespeare

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."


W. Somerset Maugham

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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

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"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago"

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Mahatma Gandhi

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People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure.
Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29. Whatever choice you make, The Devil gets his due eventually., 08-22-04

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"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit'."

Bill Maher

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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

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"Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes."

John Stuart Mill

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Still other respected writes, such as Rufus Miles Jr. and Stanford Univerity's Barton Bernstein, have effectively refuted Truman's oft-repeated argument about the number of American lives saved by the bomb. Citing the most recently de-classified materials, Bernstein could not find a worst-case prediction of lives lost higher than 46,000-even if an invasion had been mounted, which, as noted, was deemed highly unlikely by July 1945. Most estimates went no higher than 20,000 combat deaths. "The myth of the 500,000 American lives saved", Bernstein concludes, "thus seems to have no bases in fact."

The Nation, May 10, 1993, pg. 641.

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction


...I love this thread Lucy UK...

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Douglas Adams

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Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Woody Allen (1935 - )

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“One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”



W. E. B. Du Bois

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"What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that."

George Bernard Shaw

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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."


George Bernard Shaw

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"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

-Anatole France

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"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

William Shakespeare