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"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

By Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

By Rene Descartes

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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."

By Rita Rudner

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"I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me."

By Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimoroumenos)

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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

By Seneca

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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

By Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776 (attributed)

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"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."

By Shelley Winters

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"It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. "

By Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)

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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

By Mae West

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"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

By Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

By H. L. Mencken

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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

By Edmund Burke

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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

By Martin Luther King Jr.

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"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

By George Burns

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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

By Umberto Eco

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"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."

By Aristotle

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"I have read your book and much like it."

By Moses Hadas

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"If you would marry suitably, marry your equal."

By Ovid

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"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."