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{{pull quote|I would rather die fighting than give up even the smallest part of the idea that is "America".|author=[[Ian Fishback]]}} |
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{{pull quote|This, reader, is an honest book... Had it been my purpose to seek the world's favour, I should have put on finer clothes, and have presented myself in a studied attitude... But it is myself I portray. My imperfections may be read to the life, and my natural form will be herein so far as respect for the public allows... So, reader, I am myself the substance of my book. |
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|author=[[Michel de Montaigne]] |
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|source=Essays, 1580 (tr. J.M. Cohen) |
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{{pull quote|I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. |
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|author=[[Isaac Newton]] |
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|source=quoted in [[David Brewster|Brewster]]'s ''Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton'' |
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{{pull quote|Given WP's prominence as global source of information, the pressure has never been higher for people to manipulate what it says for public relations and propaganda purposes. |
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|author=[[User talk:SMcCandlish|SMcCandlish]] |
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|source=[[WT:Harassment]], 30 August 2016}} |
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{{pull quote|Editing Wikipedia is worse for your sense of perspective than M.C. Escher-designed beer goggles.|author=Luke McKinney|source=''Cracked'', August 2016}} |
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{{pull quote|This product is self-evidently a waste of money but I don't think we have any evidence that it's a ''notable'' waste of money. |
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|author=[[User talk:JzG|JzG]] |
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|source=[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Facial water|August, 2015 AfD]] |
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{{pull quote|The entity may be a "fraud" as the nom says, but it may be a notable fraud. |
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|author=[[User talk:Herostratus|Herostratus]] |
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|source=[[Talk:Elite Model Management]]}} |
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{{pull quote|Well, the Islamists, Jesus Freaks, and Bieber Cucumberists have won again.|author=[[User talk:Milowent|Milowent]]|source={{diff|Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:No_religion|718854660|718853252|MfD}}, 6 May 2016}} |
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Latest revision as of 18:46, 24 November 2021
| “ | I would rather die fighting than give up even the smallest part of the idea that is "America". | ” |
| — Ian Fishback | ||