Interesting Quotes - Page 23

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All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I'll never go there.
- Unknown. Popularized by Charlie Munger.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
- Thomas Sowell
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The job of the news is to take someone else's problem, and make it your problem.
- Unknown
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When we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there.
- Georgy Zhukov
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Writing turns vague ideas into bad ideas.
- Paul Graham
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Credit @McKenzieFam for #114
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Jan 29, 2024
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing".

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in Crime and Punishment Part 4 Chapter 4)

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Jul 23, 2024
that little raskol
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Feb 24, 2024
as for 111 your death could be on an vehicle or airplane going or being driven off course.
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Jan 2, 2025
Yes, so you'll die in the vehicle or the plane

Have to use public transport for now on

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Feb 18, 2025
could get flung out the vehicle
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Oct 19, 2025
The public transport crashes then
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Some World War I quotes.

"This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years."

-Ferdinand Foch, 1919 (Attributed to him by Winston Churchill)

"One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”

-Otto von Bismarck, 1888

"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees."

-Wilhelm II, August 1914

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Well, I guess that if you say enough things then eventually one of them will be right.
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Silence is not only golden, it's seldom misquoted.

-Bob Monkhouse

There are guys in Alabama who are their own father.

- Dennis Miller

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.

- Yogi Berra

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I never said half the things I said.

-Yogi Berra

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Apr 8, 2024
"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that"

- Captain Edward Smith, RMS Titanic

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Apr 23, 2024
Clearly you didnt read the other quotes. Someone can never draw up a list of things he would never think of! And he wouldnt think like 7 bulk heads would break, because what could cause that? Any damage would be to less than that.
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“No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer.”

-Hermann Meyer

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The first time i ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

-Chuck Yeager

If you can walk away from the plane after a landing, it's a good landing. If you can still use the plane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

-also Chuck Yeager

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“If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.” -Reggie Jackson

Can you guess what happened next?

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Some people become cops because the want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

-Bansky

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"You can never have too many Sun Tzu quotes

- Revelations 24:4"

- Albert Einstein, 34 BC

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- Sun Tzu
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Sun Tzu said that! And I say he knows a little bit more fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in a ring of honor!
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"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." - Dan Quayle
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That is funny, and I hear he's a great speller
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Jul 21, 2024
true, he is a good speller since to be fair, potatoe is a difficult word to spell
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"Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"

— first coined by Philip Siekevitz in 1957

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"I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults."

-David Lee Roth

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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

- Dan Quayle

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dan quayle quotes my favorite
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I TOLD HIM DANE QUAYLE QUOTES WERE YOUR FAVE WHAT A CROSS-OVER
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"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."

-General Heinz Guderian, (1939-1944)

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“Hitler massacred three million Jews ... there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

- Rodrigo Duterte

What’s even worse is that Hitler killed more than double what he said.

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But he did kill that many then just more too
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“My mother is very proud…”

-Tommy Tallarico, on many occasions

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Sep 13, 2024
the craziest fact here
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Dec 25, 2024
Amazing how he was the first American to ever get on the interesting quotes page.
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"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."

—Britney Spears

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

- Confucius

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

― Oscar Wilde

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"I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27"

- Clement Attlee

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Oct 5, 2024
New quotes!
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Oct 5, 2024
Yessss thanks QM!!
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"This morning... I woke up, at night, at four o'clock in the morning" - Rahul Gandhi

"Common sense, common sense is common for a reason, because it is common" - Y. S. Sharmila

the george bush and dan quayle of india

credits to neo for introducing me to sharmilaisms

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Jan 2, 2025
"I have become death, the destroyer of worlds" Oppenheimer

uhh, definitely been said before

Also, "Stop quoting me on everything" Suntzu

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Dec 18, 2025
Interesting fact. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a gramercally a correct sentence. No body tell me that I spelled gramercally wrong, because trust me, I know it.
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Jan 27, 2026
When Thomas Sowell says "ask for the impossible", he means basic social welfare services