| "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie |
| "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland |
| "Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland |
| "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." »Napoleon |
| "To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for." »Amos Tversky |
| "I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher |
| "According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts |
| "Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes." »Colonel William Prescott |
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