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I think my favorite weapon is a twenty-dollar bill. --Raymond Chandler The
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Six Quotes to Get You Through Any Senior Exam. Use Them Wisely":8 Indian summer is like a woman, ripe, hotly passionate but fickle. --Grace Metalious Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. --Lionel Trilling I think my favorite weapon is a twenty-dollar bill. --Raymond Chandler The statement credited to Grace"
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Satyagraha is peaceful. If words fail to convince the adversary perhaps purity, humility, and honesty will. The opponent must be "weaned from error by patience and sympathy," weaned, not crushed; converted, not annihilated. Satyagraha" --
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had learned four important lessons: The Google Books database is an enormously powerful and valuable tool for researchers. Dates (and other items of metadata) provided by Google Books are sometimes inaccurate. When a book is reprinted it may be revised, and a revision may shift the date of publication. Precise details about editions must be collected. A book in the Google Books database that is only visible in snippets must be examined dire..
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Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker, and Yogi Berra are quotation superstars. Personas of this type are so vibrant and attractive that they become hosts for quotations they never uttered. A remark formulated by a lesser-known figure is attached to a famous host. The relationship is symbiotic and often enhances the popularity of both the host and the quotation.
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Artemus Ward: Respected Sir--My wife was afflicted with the pipsywipsy in the head for nearly eight years. The doctors all gave her up. But in a fortunate moment she went to one of your lectures, and commenced recovering very rapidly. She is now in perfect health. We like your lectures very much. Please send me a box of them. They are purely vegetable. Send me another five dollar bill and I'll write you another certificate twice as long as ..
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How did I begin investigating the dubious origins of familiar quotations? I will tell you: In the 1990s I developed an enthusiasm for electronic books.
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Interestingly, over a long period, a popular expression can shift ascriptions multiple times as the fame of individuals expands and contracts. You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse.
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You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse.
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In 1996, as discussed earlier, Gates denied that he made the remark. He also questioned the existence of any solid reference for the statement:
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Using an Internet search engine to learn more about these sayings can be both a revelatory and exasperating experience. Search engines contain link after link to websites with faulty information, repetitive text, and incomplete data. Moving beyond this melange of misinformation is nearly impossible for the average web user. It's no wonder, then, that such mistakes are perpetuated and duplicated to the extreme. Many truth-seekers have strugg..
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FOR SALE, BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN." A"
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