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Interesting Quotes - Page 2
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I came not to send peace, but a sword.
- Jesus
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Facts are stubborn things.
- John Adams
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You'll most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.
- J. Peterman from the TV show Seinfeld
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
- Falsely attributed to the Duke of Wellington
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Naked people are seen as crazy
You could also think of it like the oxygen in the lungs make the man. People who don't breathe tend to not impact society past giving a Darwin Award maker more work to do.
- Bob Dylan
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
He said this in protection of British soldiers who fired in the Boston Massacre. His statement basically meant that, even though he wasn’t on the side of the soldiers, it didn’t matter; the facts were that the soldiers weren’t guilty.