Interesting Quotes - Page 24

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A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
- Max Weinreich
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Favors are pleasing when the receiver thinks he may be able to return them. Beyond that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
- Tacitus
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The Instagram generation experiences the present moment as an anticipated memory.
- Daniel Kahneman
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All my life I thought air was free, until I bought a bag of chips.
- Unknown
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If we eat McDonald's hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white, and our hair blonde.
- Den Fujita, founder of McDonalds Japan
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Level ∞
Oct 19, 2025
Credit @Pontiac for #119.
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Level 68
Mar 14, 2025
Wow, I don't even know when these were added! Legit could have been in January and I only noticed today 😅
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Level 27
Mar 14, 2025
ooh new quotes
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Level 27
Mar 18, 2025
Extremely meaningful and true
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Level 62
Mar 27, 2025
"I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me" - Fred Allen
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Level 81
Apr 5, 2025
I don't understand the Tacitus quote. I would be elated if someone gave me a million dollars and I didn't have to return the favor by giving a million dollars back. Am I missing something?
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Level 63
Apr 8, 2025
I think it means:

You are given it, and are expected to return the favor, but YOU think you can't. Now you are expected to do smth u cant

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Level ∞
May 25, 2025
No, this is not what Tacitus meant. EVEN IF you are not expected to return the favor, the recipient will still be resentful.
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May 25, 2025
You will eventually grow resentful over the giver's obvious superiority to you.

An equal returns favors.

A subordinate can not.

So while that may be fine in a situation where social rank is obvious (example: parent to child, king to subject), it will create problems among social equals.

Nothing makes a person feel hate so easily as being made to feel inferior.

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Level 63
May 25, 2025
lwk i feel like this guy is just wrong
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Level ∞
Oct 19, 2025
You will learn that he is not.
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Level 51
Oct 22, 2025
Like, I’d take the money if ur giving it
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Level 81
Aug 13, 2025
call me a freeloader, but i dont think i would grow resentful if my equals (friends, coworkers) started giving me free money; that sounds awesome, lol. I can admit my inferiority all day long if it means I get free gifts without having to work for them or give anything back
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Level 63
Oct 9, 2025
all this guy is saying is that giving big gifts makes people think ur flexing. that's all it really is
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Level 82
Apr 7, 2025
"Sock it to me?!" - Richard Nixon
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Level 77
Apr 14, 2025
"Who, after all, remembers the genocide of the Armenians?"

- Adolf Hitler

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Level ∞
Oct 19, 2025
Too good to be true.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

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Level 49
Apr 22, 2025
Sliced cabbage.

--Cole's Law

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Level 27
May 25, 2025
that's a good one
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Level 62
Aug 27, 2025
That is the most inspiring quote ever said
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Level 28
May 6, 2025
I have one: "Many say that there are ways to save humanity. What many don't realize is that the only way to save humanity is to destroy humanity." --Unknown
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Level 63
May 25, 2025
#118 proves qm has attained unc status
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Level 27
May 25, 2025
new quote
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Level 68
May 27, 2025
You beat me by like two days haha
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Level 62
Aug 7, 2025
“The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than to live on his knees.” - George Washington
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Aug 10, 2025
"It's not a lie if you believe it."

– George Costanza

– Lindwyrm

“My car had been broken into so many times that I put a Post-It note on the dashboard that said, ‘Nothing in car.’ Well, I go to my car one day and it had been broken into; someone had stolen the seats and written, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’”

– Orny Adams

– In2restingFacts

“The doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him."

– Charles J. Guiteau (President Garfield's assassin)

– CambodianQuizzer

"When Congress passes new emissions standards, we hire 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers."

—Soichiro Honda, former CEO of Honda

- In2restingFacts

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Level 27
Aug 10, 2025
thank you
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Level 62
Aug 13, 2025
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” —John F. Kennedy
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Aug 28, 2025
Here are the chosen quotes from the IF Group!

"Lenin founded our state, and we've f##ked it up." —Joseph Stalin, 1941 -CambodianQuizzer

"If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?" —President John F. Kennedy, the day he was assassinated -CambodianQuizzer

“I don’t understand Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers. Why would you go and blow yourself up on the chance that you might get 72 virgins after you die? You could be a Catholic priest and get them now!” —Jimmy Carr -In2restingFacts

“If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.” —Ed Koch, former mayor of NYC, and Zohran Mamdani, future mayor of NYC -CambodianQuizzer

"The same people [Boomers] who were raised by government programs—the GI Bill, public housing, and union jobs—grew up to believe that sharing is communism and poverty is a personal choice." -Tantris Humble -In2restingFacts

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Aug 28, 2025
“When I create a new login for a website, I let Google autogenerate an encrypted passcode for me. I learned this technique from Elon Musk, who uses the same process to name his children.” —Casually Explained -In2restingFacts

"When we see a silver plane, it's American. When we see a black plane, it's British. When we see no plane, it's German." —Wehrmacht Joke -CambodianQuizzer

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Level 27
Aug 28, 2025
thanks for posting!
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Level 27
Sep 17, 2025
“Your boos mean nothing, I’ve heard what makes you cheer!”

—Rick Sanchez

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Level 40
Sep 28, 2025
Quotes selection:

“If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.” —Ed Koch, former mayor of NYC, and Zohran Mamdani, future mayor of NYC [CambodianQuizzer]

"Power wears down those who don't have it."-Giulio Andreotti [Lindwyrm]

"I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former, I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings, and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, and apostles." -Niccolo Machiavelli [CambodianQuizzer]

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." -Pablo Picasso [Pontiac]

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Oct 14, 2025
Here are the quotes selected for the Interesting Fact Group's 15th Fact Selection! Join here to submit quotes for the Interesting Quotes Pages!

"A feature film's job is to send you out of the theatre on a high in 90 minutes. Television's job is to keep you glued to the television for your entire life." —Dan Harmon (In2restingFacts)

"All my life I thought air was free, until I bought a bag of chips." —Popular meme of unknown origin (Pontiac)

"I have never advocated for war except as a means of peace." —Ulysses S. Grant (CambodianQuizzer)

"The cemeteries are full of drivers who had right of way." —Unknown (In2restingFacts)

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Level 63
Oct 28, 2025
He's acc the founder of McDonald's Japan, not McDonald
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Level 77
Oct 29, 2025
Which is saying something. The Japanese really are infatuated with the idea of height, blond hair, and white skin.
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Level 27
Oct 29, 2025
i was so confused at that quote, thanks
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Level ∞
Oct 30, 2025
Fixed. Apparently there's a bug where the quote source can't handle an apostrophe.
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Level 17
Dec 18, 2025
120 most Americans. 🫢
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Level 53
Feb 24, 2026
Of course, McDonald's is a means of white eugenics, I should've known