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Shantha R. Mohan, Ph.D., DTM@ShanthaRMohan12h
White crows do exist (I understand due to Albinism, etc.), like there are some great listeners! Very rare, though!
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Everybody Talks, Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows Is this quotation genuinely by activist and lecturer Helen Keller, or is it apocryphal? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Your discussion thread inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article. You are acknowledged. Thanks Everybody Talks; Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1… @chamblee54 @Auth_Courtney
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Everybody Talks, Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows Is this quotation genuinely by activist and lecturer Helen Keller, or is it apocryphal? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." A famous writer of science fiction and fact crafted this sentence. Who?
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Congratulations to the correct respondents. The answer to the question is Isaac Asimov in Newsweek magazine on January 21, 1980 quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Bradbury bemoaned the destruction of libraries and knowledge in "Fahrenheit 451". So that is a good guess, but the answer is someone else. The picture makes me think of M. C. Escher "Ascending and Descending" and Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel".
privatefight
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Picture makes me think Borges but I'll guess Bradbury.
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Jeroen Coelen@CoeluhOct 20
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Normally attributed to Isaac Asimov, right?
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Scott Baker
@bakerlinkOct 20
A periodic reminder that many quotes come with incorrect attributions. Thus far, LLMs are often wrong when you ask them to check a quote's source. "Long live Quote Investigator." Me.
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@QuoteResearchOct 20
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." A famous writer of science fiction and fact crafted this sentence. Who?
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What a lovely quote!
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@QuoteResearchOct 18
It Is the Supreme Art of the Teacher to Awaken Joy in Creative Expression and Knowledge Is this statement from Albert Einstein, Anatole France, or a random person nobody remembers? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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It Is the Supreme Art of the Teacher to Awaken Joy in Creative Expression and Knowledge Is this statement from Albert Einstein, Anatole France, or a random person nobody remembers? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Linus O'Neil@linusisonlineOct 15
#QuoteoftheDay -dunno if Rooney said it or not, but it's damn poignant.
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@QuoteResearchOct 15
Life Is Like a Roll of Toilet Paper. The Closer It Gets to the End, the Faster It Goes U.S. broadcast personality Andy Rooney has received credit for this folksy comical saying. Did he ever say it? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Life Is Like a Roll of Toilet Paper. The Closer It Gets to the End, the Faster It Goes U.S. broadcast personality Andy Rooney has received credit for this folksy comical saying. Did he ever say it? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Freedom — No Price That Is Ever Asked for It Is Half the Cost of Doing Without It Attributed to the Sage of Baltimore. Who was that and is the attribution correct? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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BobDeis
@SubtropicBobOct 13
If you're interested in famous quotations that are often misattributed, get the book HEMINGWAY DIDN'T SAY THAT by Garson O'Toole...amzn.to/3VMouCs

Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

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BobDeis
@SubtropicBobOct 13
How old is the saying “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made” — and who said it first? (Nope, it wasn’t Otto von Bismarck.) Those questions are addressed in the latest post on my This Day in Quotes blog. Here's the link→ bit.ly/LawsandSausages

“Laws are like sausages”

What are the origins of the saying "Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made"?

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Was the following from Oscar Wilde, a greeting card company, or someone else? Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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The new attribution is: Anonymous Parisian according to Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac in 1652; popularized by Blaise Pascal in 1657. Unfortunately, people write Mark Twain because they do not have the leisure to make the attribution shorter quoteinvestigator.com/2012/0…
Contingently i-RON-ick@ironickOct 8
Great. Now my attribution will have to be — Anonymous, widely attributed to Blaise Pascal (I apologize for the length of this attribution; I could not make it shorter.)
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Mig Greengard 🇺🇸🇦🇷
@chessninjaOct 8
Ooh, I’m sure this is an update on one of my favorite quotes by Pascal. I think I used to use it as an email sig.
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@QuoteResearchOct 8
Update: Earlier instance of a very popular saying: "That man" people used to say in Paris when I was there, "wrote a long book because he did not have the leisure to write a short one" 1652, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac in Socrate Chrestien quoteinvestigator.com/2012/0…
French text: Si nous — nous conseillions aueque le Temps, il reduiroit nos excés à la mediocrité, outre les autres bons offices qu'il nous rendroit. CET HOMME, disoit-on à Paris, lors que i'y estois, A FAIT UN GRAND LIVRE PARCE QU'IL N'A PAS EU LE LOISIR D'EN FAIRE UN PETIT.

ALT French text: Si nous — nous conseillions aueque le Temps, il reduiroit nos excés à la mediocrité, outre les autres bons offices qu'il nous rendroit. CET HOMME, disoit-on à Paris, lors que i'y estois, A FAIT UN GRAND LIVRE PARCE QU'IL N'A PAS EU LE LOISIR D'EN FAIRE UN PETIT.

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W. Joseph Campbell
@wjosephcampbellOct 7
1897 flashback: Recalling "jailbreaking journalism," an episoide "unique in American journalism" #OTD @Hearst #yellowjournalism #Cuba mediamythalert.com/2010/10/0…
Hearst's "New York Journal," taking credit for the jailbreak in Havana of 19-year-old Evangelina Cisneros

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Update: Earlier instance of a very popular saying: "That man" people used to say in Paris when I was there, "wrote a long book because he did not have the leisure to write a short one" 1652, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac in Socrate Chrestien quoteinvestigator.com/2012/0…
French text: Si nous — nous conseillions aueque le Temps, il reduiroit nos excés à la mediocrité, outre les autres bons offices qu'il nous rendroit. CET HOMME, disoit-on à Paris, lors que i'y estois, A FAIT UN GRAND LIVRE PARCE QU'IL N'A PAS EU LE LOISIR D'EN FAIRE UN PETIT.

ALT French text: Si nous — nous conseillions aueque le Temps, il reduiroit nos excés à la mediocrité, outre les autres bons offices qu'il nous rendroit. CET HOMME, disoit-on à Paris, lors que i'y estois, A FAIT UN GRAND LIVRE PARCE QU'IL N'A PAS EU LE LOISIR D'EN FAIRE UN PETIT.

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