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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Who made these statements and when? These are paraphrases:
quote: --Percy
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8529 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Too early to spoil this too soon.
I'll let someone else emancipate this one. Edited by AZPaul3, : too forward
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
It is regrettable that black Americans do not have the right to vote. I think we should give that right to those who are very intelligent. I'm not going to give the answer so as to give others a chance. However the final sentence as actually presented does not end with a period at the point where it appears in your quote, and what's left is fairly important. I would be all over a creationist who posted something like that even with ellipsis dots. I'll speak more directly on this once the answer is given. Edited by NoNukes, : added "does not end"Je Suis Charlie Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
I originally included that part, but with that included it no longer seemed like a trivia question. Looking at it today I think my paraphrasing still left the answer a bit too obvious, maybe it would have been better to leave out or obscure a couple more details.
--Percy
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ringo Member (Idle past 433 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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When in doubt, Shakespeare said it first.
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anglagard Member (Idle past 858 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined:
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According to the 'science' of astrology, it was Charles Darwin.
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 498 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
Trivia question posted on the internet in the age of google... good idea
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Jon Inactive Member |
Age of Google doesn't have to mean age of dishonesty.
Edited by Jon, : No reason given.Love your enemies!
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
coffee_addict writes: Trivia question posted on the internet in the age of google... good idea Actually, it's because this is the age of Google that I used paraphrases instead of quotes, and left out a couple details. --Percy
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9142 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
As today is the 150th anniversary of his assassination I will divulge the answer.
quote:This is from his last public address on April, 11 1865 http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/...oln/speeches/last.htm Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1525 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Hmmm. I thought that was Oscar Wilde.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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Stile Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: |
I can beat that, and I'm not even joking.
I didn't know who he was talking about... and I even thought he was referencing two different quotes from (possibly) two different people I understand he used proper quote-notation for a single quote while leaving out some stuff in the middle... now, anyway. That's just how my brain interpreted it when I saw it.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
This is from his last public address on April, 11 1865 In fact, this speech might well have gotten Lincoln killed. Je Suis Charlie Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Looking at it today I think my paraphrasing still left the answer a bit too obvious You left in a too many of the original words. I recognized the source as Lincoln, but I still found that the easiest way to find a copy of the speech was grabbing about a half sentence and dumping it into a search box. Very timely quote as Theodoric points out.Je Suis Charlie Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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