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Franklind D. Roosevelt Simple Truths message to Congress (1938) Thomas Jefferson

We had the thread Best Opening Lines for Novels and people participated quite a bit. I thought it might be interesting to try the inverse. I have tried to be more inclusive by calling this "Literature's best closing lines," because I think just limiting it to "novels" would be too restrictive...

It seems that every year we have a "things overheard at TAM" thread. So here it is! Down at the Del Mar, I heard a lovely young woman say, "I've never done it, actually," followed by, "I just saw it on YouTube and wanted to try it." ;)

I often see ''quotes'' like the ones provided below as proof of a global conspiracy, NWO etc. But are these quotes real? Perhaps they were misinterpreted? Just Google ''NWO+quotes'' and you will find a plethora of links. I need your help debunking this ''proof''...

The quote attributed to Gough Whitlam on hearing an National Party member state "I'm just a country member", from Gough "we remember". Ian Sinclair, after being acquitted of forging his father's will, being bombarded with "can't sign his own name" Paul Keating going off can anyone add some...

http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html This may not be news to some, but I found this story really interesting. One faker starts something, and another tries to steal the thunder. So the first faker admits to being a fake, revealing that the other faker is also a fake. Also...

(Originally posted at the accelerating future blog) “..so many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value.” - committee advising Ferdinand and Isabella regarding Columbus’ proposal, 1486 “I would sooner believe that two Yankee...

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"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck." - Thomas Jefferson...

While searching for some other stuff, I cam across the Bible Science Quotes Newsletter http://www.bible-quotes-science-info.com/newsletter/index.htm . The site is kind of strange in that it agrees that there is no possible scientific explanation for the Biblical Flood. The author calculates...

I hope this is the right place for this. It's not really a JREF-related question, but I figure there's got to be someone around here that knows the answer: I have a simple question about punctuation marks and quotations. I'm working with a document in which terms like true and false as well...

Here's mine:

Following are two quotes as provided by the U.S. military in news releases: Sunday's news release said: "'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I...

Quotes from the The American Taliban

Imagine if this had been an interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Hitler had evaded capture rather than suicided ... Do you think FDR would be fondly remembered if he had said these words? Original quote from the War Weasel (before committing troops to the invasion of Iraq, instead of the...

"It is assumed that the sceptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of scepticism." (ILN 5-4-07) "Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and...

I originally intended to start a literature quote quiz, like the movie quote one, but I figured that would be too difficult. So let´s just have a "greatest quotes in literature" thread. Please state the quote, (and perhaps an explanation of the context) title, and author. All genres, fiction...

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I came across these at Islam-Terrorism, Inc. (Koran 2:216) "Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, you knew not." (Koran 5: 33-34)...