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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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One sure fire way to entertain a forum of nerds is to bring up time travel
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THere must be a quote somewhere on the internet saying you started it. 
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"It was Vilmos! He started it!"
There you go.
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Ah, finally I can bend the Internet to my will :evil laugh:
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Bend the internet to your WHAT?
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will1
wɪl/Submit
verb
modal verb: will
1.
expressing the future tense.
"you will regret it when you are older"
expressing a strong intention or assertion about the future.
"come what may, I will succeed"
2.
expressing inevitable events.
"accidents will happen"
synonyms: have a tendency to, are bound to, have a habit of, do
"accidents will happen"
3.
expressing a request.
"will you stop here, please"
expressing desire, consent, or willingness.
"will you have a cognac?"
4.
expressing facts about ability or capacity.
"a rock so light that it will float on water"
5.
expressing habitual behaviour.
"she will dance for hours"
(pronounced stressing ‘will’) indicating annoyance about the habitual behaviour described.
"he will keep intruding"
6.
expressing probability or expectation about something in the present.
"they will be miles away by now"
Origin
Old English wyllan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch willen, German wollen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin velle ‘will, wish’.
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Ah! I thought you said willy.
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I thought the internet wanted to bend... never mind 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: travelling through time at anything other than 1 s/s is even remotely possible
Don't forget the theory of relativity:
- Einstein was Lincoln's grandfather;
- Churchill was Einstein's son, and Lincoln's mother;
- Hawking is his own grandfather;
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No no no. That was said by Marilyn Monroe in 2136. She famously had this conversation with Galileo.
George VII was famous for saying:
"Justin Bieber is a complete and utter talentless sh*t"
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Now you just assuming he said that as everyone else has
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: Let's assume that we invent time travel in the future.
I'm going to assume that we invent time travel in the past.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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