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Use this tag when the question is about whether someone said or wrote a quote.
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Did Alain Finkielkraut say that "the left no longer has ideas, only enemies"?
Incomplete answer:
I found the disputed quote in a list of quotations, most of which I was able to trace to interviews published in ABC.es, libertaddigital.com, or El Mundo between 2006 and 2007. Of t …
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Did Guru Padmasambhava say "When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan p...
The earliest citation I can find for this prophecy is a 1976 letter to the editor of the New York Times, where it is grouped with two others.
Buddha predicted the spread of
Buddhism to the West with …
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Are Socrates' 3 tests from a historical source?
ChrisW quotes the Abhaya Sutta; I am not sure that this was being read in India at that time, but it's certainly possible. …
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Did James Buchanan say there were "too many educated people in the world"?
I read the text of the veto and found nothing like this. He did say this:
Now no consideration could be presented of a stronger character to
induce the American people to brave the difficulties …
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Did Edison refuse to pay Tesla, saying "You don't understand our American humor"?
The source of the quote is John J. O'Neill's Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (1944). The story essentially claims what The Oatmeal says: that Tesla went so far as to see machines built with …
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Did George Soros say he helped a Nazi confiscate property?
Media Matters, reporting on the retraction, quotes Soros' biography:
This is what actually happened. …
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Does Sitt al-Banaat Khaalid exist, and did she write about the benefits of FGM?
The answer to this question was hiding all along on the linked website, since Islamqa offers its articles in multiple languges.
If you switch languages from English to Arabic, Sitt al-Banaat Khaalid p …
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Did Ariel Sharon say that the Jewish people control America?
No, Sharon never said this. This is a fabricated quote.
Kol Yisrael political correspondent Yoni Ben-Menachem, who reports on
Cabinet meetings, confirmed to CAMERA that he never made such a
br …
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Did a British committee in 1907 recommend pushing Middle East into internal wars?
As the questioner has observed, the 1907 Imperial Conference was primarily about Britain's official colonial holdings and the question of Zionism and Arab nationalism never arose. Before this translat …
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Did B. R. Ambedkar say it is shameful for women to enter politics?
I see that this entry is attributed to a speech Ambedkar gave on October 15, 1956 in Nagpur. I ran the text through Google Translate and, to be frank, it is totally ordinary. Nothing here calls for sk …
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Did Einstein say this about philosopher Peter Deunov?
The earliest citation I can find for this claim is that it came from a 2007 Bulgarian National Television interview with Andrei Griva, a disciple of Deunov. In that interview, Griva stated this statem …
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Did Napoléon Bonaparte ask his wife Josephine not to bathe for several days in a letter befo...
I obtained the purported citation Lettres d’amour à Joséphine (Fayard, 1981), which was also mentioned by Chantal Jacquet in Le Monde in 2013. Page 155 does not contain anything like the phrase “Ne te …
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Was this quote on a clay tablet about unruly kids written by an Assyrian?
Updated 2019, regardless of the fact that it has been downvoted.
As another answer reads, this complaint has been attributed to a specific king:
In the museum at Constantinople the writer [Prof. …
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Did Nikola Tesla say that 3,6,9 are the key to the universe?
UPDATE!!
Okay, so this goes deep. I initially posted that I had found the quote archived in 2002 the website of SomaEnergetics, "designed to Release Blockages in the Energy Bodies & assist you in Conn …
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Did Harry Anslinger say these things?
I see no evidence that he actually said these things. I believe one of the principal sources for these quotations is this ad by Common Sense for Drug Policy, which ran in 2006. It claims to be a summa …
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