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Use this tag when the question is about whether someone said or wrote a quote.
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Did Harbhajan Singh Yogi say "... to learn something - read about it ..."?
Did Harbhajan Singh Yogi say
If you want to learn something - read about it; understand something -
write about it; master something - teach it.
Wikiquote has it as unsourced, and there's an u …
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Did "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas" have this quote, which has been compared to Trump's slogan? [closed]
Did the movies "The Boy in Striped Pyjamas" have dialogue with the following subtitle, which has been compared to Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again"?
He's [Hitler] making the country great …
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Did Hitler say "We'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry"?
Hopefully Germans in the 1950s weren't in the habit of making up bogus quotes to support their own beliefs. …
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Did Hitler say "We'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry"?
Hitler is reported to have been told by Carl Bosch in 1933 that if Jewish scientists were forced to leave Germany, physics and chemistry would be set back 100 years.
He's reported (in the comments se …
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Is this conversation between Dawkins and Justin Brierley genuine?
Is the following transcript between Richard Dawkins and Justin Brierley genuine?
Justin Brierley: When you make a value judgement don't you immediately
step yourself outside of this evolutionary …
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Did Moshe Feiglin call for concentration camps?
The Daily Mail claims that Moshe Feiglin, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, called for concentration camps in Gaza. Israeli official calls for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the …
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Did Gandhi say "The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork"?
Did Mahatma Gandhi say
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
Example of the quote as a heading image of the twitter account @Cutwitts:
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Did David Attenborough say that Israelis are more cruel than any animal?
Did Sir David Attenborough say the following about Israelis? From Israel has lost both the battle and the war (Wikipedia article on Arab News), but the quote has been circulating elsewhere as well:
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Did Muhammad Ali say "Impossible is nothing"?
Did Muhammad Ali say the following quote? Or was it created by Adidas?
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it
easier to live in the world they've been given than to …
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Did someone using a private jet tell Americans their expectations are too high?
From twitter, a tweet that's going viral, including among climate change skeptics (action against climate change is being discussed at Davos):
The cognitive dissonance in the first & last sentence …
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Did Steve Jobs compare Apple's market share with BMW, Mercedes-Benz's and Porsche?
From The Register: Apple CEO Cook: 'We're not in the junk business'
Steve Jobs reprised nearly that exact argument in a 2004 interview.
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's o …
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Did Obama tell people to ignore those warning against tyranny?
Yes he did. It may have been taken a bit out of context:
Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of
government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity tha …
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Did Golda Meir make this quote about curfews for women?
There's a link to Selected Quotes from Golda Meir, which has
22) When there was an outbreak in assaults against women at night, a
minister in the cabinet suggested a curfew to keep women in after … At the bottom is
These quotes are drawn from the sources noted in the bibliography and
from a number of books compiling quotations. …
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Did Matsuo Bashō compose a haiku about Matsushima where he was at a loss for words?
Lonely Planet's "Discover Japan" claims that Matsuo Bashō wrote a haiku where he was at a loss to describe Matsushima Bay.
Wikipedia says the supposed haiku is roughly translated as:
Matsushima …
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Did Taro Aso say that Japan should emulate the Nazis in amending the constitution?
Abbott's challenge in Asia says that
Abe's Deputy Prime Minister, Taro Aso, suggested a few weeks ago that
Japan should learn from the example of Nazi Germany in implementing a
constitutional …
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