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{{quote|''"Why is there a quotes page for the [[Quotes Wiki]]? [[Department of Redundancy Department|Isn't that a tad redundant?]]"''|'''[[Tropers/Reiko Kazama|Me]]''', after [[Must Have Caffeine|having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX]] and [[ |
{{quote|''"Why is there a quotes page for the [[Quotes Wiki]]? [[Department of Redundancy Department|Isn't that a tad redundant?]]"''|'''[[Tropers/Reiko Kazama|Me]]''', after [[Must Have Caffeine|having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX]] and [[Everything's Better With Chocolate|finished off the last of my chocolate supply for the day]]. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.}} |
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{{quote|''"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."''|'''Karl Marx''''s last words.}} |
{{quote|''"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."''|'''Karl Marx''''s last words.}} |
Revision as of 03:42, 10 January 2014
"Why is there a quotes page for the Quotes Wiki? Isn't that a tad redundant?"
—Me, after having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX and finished off the last of my chocolate supply for the day. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.
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"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
—Karl Marx's last words.
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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, —Edward Young
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"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
—Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
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"Only damn fools quote themselves."
—Me
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
—Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations, Introduction
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Ah, yes! I wrote "The Purple Cow" -- —Gelett Burgess
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I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ben Franklin: Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers. —from 1776
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You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.
—Walter Mondale
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Note that at least half of all Quotes Wiki entries seemingly have one or more quotes from Warhammer 40 K.
—Andrew J on the Warhammer 40000 page example for Trope Overdosed.
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