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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

- Golda Meir

We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh.

- Unknown

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Austria's greatest historical achievements are convincing the world that Mozart was Austrian and Hitler was German.

- Unknown

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Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

- Betteridge's Law of Headlines

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Dec 29, 2021

Credit @Afghabwe for #96.

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Jan 3, 2022

I found a quote for the Lawn Chair Larry fact.

Upon interview, he said:

"I had this dream for 20 years, and if I hadn't done it, I would have ended up in the funny farm". - The Original Lawnchair Larry

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Jan 20, 2022

"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but not solved one yet."

-Maya Angelou

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Jan 24, 2022

Interesting Quotes, not Peace quotes.

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Mar 16, 2026

Fast forward to we just bombed a primary school... Maya Angelou is right on time

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Feb 15, 2022

I think it would be fun to write a bunch of generic quotes like this and attribute them to respected authors and see which ones catch on.

Obviously hate is not a positive force in the world, but only someone with childlike naïveté could believe that it has never solved a single problem.

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Solved plenty of problems. Can't say we liked the solutions.

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"There is nothing permanent except change."

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Jan 29, 2022

99 is brilliant, credit to whoever said it, especially because it is 100% true.

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May 22, 2022

Mozart was Austrian though..

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Feb 15, 2023

Was looking for this. Mozart was born in Salzburg, in Austria. Beethoven was the one who was German.

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Feb 24, 2024

Weeellll, as always it's complicated...

He was born and lived 25 (out of his 35) years in Salzburg, which nowadays lies in Austria but at that time was independent. Which would mean he is not Austrian.

On the other hand, he lived ten years in Vienna (actual Austria at that time also), abiding to austrian law etc. Hence you could say he was Austrian. But then again citizenships as nowadays didn't quite exist back then.

There are people studying from letters how Mozart might have felt with regards to that question, which again leads to no conclusive answer as he kinda hated the people and language (dialect) in Salzburg. Most notably, he often refered to himself as German ("Teutscher"). But then once again, Germany as we know it today did not exist at all, rather multiple small states like Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, ... The term "German" was instead used for the language and culture area of all German speaking people.

So yeah, let's just say he's Austrian, cause economy and ego etc :)

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Mar 25, 2025

I think the quote was probably just referring to Salzburg not being integrated into Austria until after Mozart was born

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Feb 1, 2022

This "Unknown" seems to be a very wise person, it's a shame they don't get enough recognition

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Feb 3, 2022

Unknown has like over a quarter of these quotes, they should get like, the Nobel peace prize.

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Mar 12, 2022

assuming that for number 100 when you say "no" it will make sense ("Will there be a referendum?" "No") then you could say "How long will it take for climate change to have an impact" and you wouldn't reply with no

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"No....comment"

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Oct 20, 2023

"Any message which is by Neodymium is the word no" - TheNatureThread

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Mar 17, 2022

There is a mixup in quote #99. It should say Beethoven instead of Mozart. Because Mozart was actually Austrian. Beethoven was German.

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Jul 28, 2022

I agree, they messed up

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Apr 7, 2023

No, the quote is true. Both Mozart and Hitler were born in Austria, and that's the point.

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Oct 3, 2023

I don't think Beethoven was widely believed to be Austrian though...

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Oct 17, 2023

According to Wikiquote, Billy Wilder said, "The Austrians have completed the feat of turning Beethoven into an Austrian, and Hitler into a German" so I think it is supposed to be Beethoven.

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Forgiveness is stronger than anger. Forgiveness is the queen while anger is a pawn.

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Oct 30, 2022

I thought Mozart was born in Salzburg, so what makes him not Austrian?

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Feb 24, 2024

Salzburg not being Austrian at that time

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Yes it was.

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Yeah, but Austria invented downhill skiing!

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Oct 15, 2024

Austria's greatest historical achievements are convincing the world that Mozart was Austrian and Hitler was German.

This quote is wrong. It should be as follows:

"Austria's greatest historical achievements are convincing the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German."

Beethoven is often believed to be Austrian, as he lived and worked in Vienna for a long time, but was born in Bonn, Germany.

The quote with Mozart doesn' really make sense, as Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was already (and now is) part of Austria.