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"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
BobG said:Earlier in the day, my daughter and I were on the escalator at the Crossroads Mall in Omaha when it suddenly stopped, leaving us trapped between floors. I yelled for help, leaving my teenage daughter caught in the unresolvable conundrum of whether to die of embarrassment or to die of laughter. Fortunately, we were rescued unharmed.
zoobyshoe said:I just remembered another one:
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
OMG, I think that is my favorite video of all time!Borek said:Just in case someone doesn't remember...
Chi Meson said:"I never said most of the things I said."
Actually, I think he said that, but he was talking about the other things he didn't say, such as
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
... when you come to a fork in the road, take it. In life, the only poor decisions are the ones you don't follow through on.
Jimmy Snyder said:Play it again Sam.
phinds said:What Rick really said was "Play it Sam"
jtbell said:By the way, Sam's piano is going up for auction. Anybody got a million to spend on it?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/11/27/casablanca-piano-headed-to-auction/
phinds said:By amazing coincidence, right after I logged off (after my previous post) I turned on the TV and not only was Casablanca playing, it was actually playing RIGHT AT the part where he say the line.
I was wrong though. He not only didn't say "Play it again, Sam", he didn't even say "Play it, Sam", he just said "Play it" (he had used Sam's name in the previous sentence)
zoobyshoe said:I just remembered another one:
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
lisab said:I think that was Oscar Wilde...?
*google*google*google*
George Bernard Shaw. So I was right, after all - Wilde didn't say it.
BobG said:It's most often attributed to Mark Twain... plus to Abraham Lincoln, Confuscious, George Eliot... and any of them could have said it in private conversation, or something very similar, but none of them said this in any of their published works.
Its source probably comes from this:
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." -- Bible, 'Proverbs' 17:28
Borek said:"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Galteeth said:Benjamin Disraeli
BobG said:Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. "
Nelson Mandela. It doesn't surprise me that he wouldn't be the originator of the quote, since a famous person quoting a less famous person tends to link the quote to the person people remember (just like songs - how many people know the songwriter?). What surprises me is that he apparently never used this in a speech at all.
Who did say it? Marrianne Williamson in her book, "A Return to Love".
Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Does that quote sound different based on who its attributed to and based on its context?
BobG said:Okay, one that a famous politician actually did quote, even though the quote is not attributed to him (the politician also attributed it to the wrong person, which actually isn't surprising knowing the politician).A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"Patriotism always exists in the greatest degree in rude nations, and in an early period of society. Like all other affections and passions, it operates with the greatest force where it meets with the greatest difficulties ... but in a state of ease and safety, as if wanting its appropriate nourishment, it languishes and decays." ... "It is a law of nature to which no experience has ever furnished an exception, that the rising grander and opulence of a nation must be balanced by the decline of its heroic virtues
Borek said:
Galteeth said:Isn't the game who DIDN'T say it?