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I just came across some one's sig and it shows the quote "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine" from 'Winston Churchill (1944)'. But Google takes me to http://funny2.com/fakequotes.htm[^] indicating the quotation is from Abraham Lincoln.
Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right? Any comments?
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Wow, this brings recursion, and irony, to another level.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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What? You didn't know that Winston Churchill was Abraham Lincoln in drag? That bit with Ford's Theatre was just a fake to hide his real identity from his enemies.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right?
I think Einstein said this first.
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It is Leslie Nielsen who said it first. Actually, he was the first to say anything.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I thought it was Chuck Norris
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Chuck Norris was scared of the kid who sucked his thumb in class. At high school.
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Quote: scared of the kid who sucked his thumb
Why would you want to suck Chuck Norris' thumb?
Don't you just love the vagueness of the English Language sometimes?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What? you believe everything you read on Wiki? You do realize that DD can edit it, don't you?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: You can not step into the same river twice.
True, but once your feet are wet no-one will care which river it's from.*
* Queen Marie-Antoinette as she was led to meet the Guillotine.
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That's definitely wrong, and is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.
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Blue Waffler wrote: is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet
Perhaps it recursively provides an affirmation on the original quote too. 
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The original quote WAS Winston Churchill, the bit about Lincoln is just Americans trying to claim it for themselves.
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Churchill was American, I've seen the film[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Churchhill's mother was an American.
His father was the duke of Marlborough.
Winston was the second son so he did not inheret the title.
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Blue Waffler wrote: you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.
I don't believe you.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I don't believe you.
I don't believe this.
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Well at the moment you are correct, but if time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in time and get Winston Churchill or Abraham Lincoln to say these things for irony's sake.
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Quote: time travel is invented in the future then we could hypothetically go back in
Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future. This means that instead of changing lets say WWI or WWII or any other mischief, we are saying that it was the best that could have happened? 
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Well, yes.
Without WWII and WWIII and the impetus it gave to research, we wouldn't have been able to stop that asteroid from hitting the planet.
Or was that next year? I always forget.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I think we have invented modulus[^] planning algorithm. (That is also often mislabeled as a clock though)
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Whenever I am presented by the notion that travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible I offer the following - if at any time in the past or future of life on this, or any other, planet, a being should invent time travel then we would have known about it since before the earliest records.
I think that was said by George VII.
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Now you are just making sh*t up 
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