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- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong (1930 - ), Upon landing on the Moon, July 20, 1969
- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), Catch phrase
- When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks (1944)
- Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Bud Abbott (1895 - 1974), and Lou Costello, Naughty Nineties, 1943 film
- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980), "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
- Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
- I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), In a press conference, November 11, 1973
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 2
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