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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
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"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." »William Gibson
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell
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"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available." »Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
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"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." »Douglas Adams
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." »Douglas Adams
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"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." »Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces." »Harold Ross
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"Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning." »George Carlin
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"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." »John W. Gardner
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