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- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mgm
- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: quotation quotations - was This should have been...
- Message-ID: <BzpAD5.1FJ@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec22.213204.9240@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:05:29 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
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- >"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
- > -- Winston Churchill, "My Early Life" (1930), ch.9
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- >Before you start slavering in anticipation of the flames you will roast me
- >with, don't bother: this quote has already been the subject of a flame-war
- >(albeit a minor one) in rec.arts.books.
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- Hopefully, that won't happen - this newsgroup isn't for defending or
- attacking quotations, just for posting them, finding them, and arguing
- about who said them or what they said. :)
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- More quotes that should have been the first one posted:
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- "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
- --Simeon Strunsky
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- "It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
- -- Tom Stoppard
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- "Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- -- Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
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- "I improve on misquotation."
- -- Cary Grant
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- "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
- -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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- --
- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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