Questions tagged [quotes]
Use this tag when the question is about whether someone said or wrote a quote.
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Was the name "Wendy" created for Peter Pan?
I ran across something odd today...
I have an iPhone app that lists facts, trivia, and other useless information (it's called Cool Facts, downloaded from iTunes). So far, nothing I've found on it ...
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Did Alexander the Great say the following quotation?
A common quotation attributed to Alexander the Great is as follows.
Bury my body, don't build any monument. Keep my hand outside so that the world knows, one who won the world had nothing in hand ...
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Did Bill Gates say 640k ought to be enough for everyone?
This is a quite famous quote:
640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Did Bill Gates say this?
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Churchill's quote: "This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put."
Did Winston Churchill say, as some on the 'net claim, in response to being told he should not end a sentence with a preposition, something like "This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will ...
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Did Martin Luther King, Jr. say that "I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy"?
Did Martin Luther King, Jr. say
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy
It's been going around the tweeterwebs today in ...
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Did the Swiss not produce anything of importance aside from cuckoo clock?
Today's claim to be skeptical about comes to us from a fairly infamous speech in a movie "The Third Man ":
in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and ...
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Did Tesla say that one could get or transmit energy through thin air [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you create energy out of nowhere ?
I recall reading that Nikola Tesla suggested that electricity could be created from the air. This claim is stated in the following quote ...
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Is a writer named Lisa Holst responsible for the belief that everyone eats eight spiders a year?
If you're reading this there's a good chance you're fan of Snopes.com, and I certainly count myself as the same. However, an issue recently came up a with particular Snopes article that was invoked on ...
