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The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, 'Israel must be wiped off the map' "Vanish from the page of time" translation Many news sources have presented one of Ahmadinejad's phrases in Persian as a statement that "Israel must be wiped off the map",[1][2][3] an English idiom which means to "cause a place to stop to exist",[4] or to "obliterate totally",[5] or ....
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Abraham Lincoln said 'Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption will follow' The 'corporate corruption' prophecy attributed to Lincoln "We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood... It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near ....
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Julius Caesar said 'Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war' The 'Drums of War' misquote The following quotation warning of the dangers of patriotism attributed to Caesar, or sometimes to Shakespeare's play, began appearing on the internet and elsewhere in 2001: “ Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic ....
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Michelle Obama said she has never been proud of America until now The statement: On February 18, 2008, Michelle Obama commented that "People in this country are ready for change, and hungry for a different kind of politics and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback." As the campaign ....
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Jesus said, 'He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.' Although in line with many stories in the Gospels and probably primitive (Didascalia Apostolorum refers to it, possibly Papias also), most scholars agree that John 7:53-8:11was not part of the original text of John's Gospel.[4] The standard Greek texts of John, and almost all modern translations, mark it off with double ....
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Al Gore took credit for breaking the Love Canal story
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Bob Dylan said he sympathized with JFK's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald (receiving the award from Clark Foreman) Bob Dylan's speech accepting the "Tom Paine Award" in 1963 By the end of 1963, Dylan felt both manipulated and constrained by the folk and protest movements. Accepting the "Tom Paine Award" ....
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Donald Rumsfeld said he knew where the WMD in Iraq were 27-year CIA veteran Ray McGovern confronted Secratary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about his 2003 claim about WMD, “We know where they are.” Rumsfeld told the audience he never said it. Mr. McGovern then read Rumsfeld’s quote back to him: However, Rumsfeld did say he knew where the WMD were. From ABC’s This ....
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The saying O.K. began as a term for 'zero killed' The "Zero Killed" Rumor It has been suggested that in World War II the term "zero killed" was used when a unit suffered no casualties in combat, and that this was then shortened to 0K. This proposed etymology is grossly anachronistic, since by this time the term had been widely used for a full century. The same theory has ....
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Reagan compared the Mujahidin (later Al-queda) to the Founding Fathers No Original Source Can Be Found Many sources claim that Ronald Reagan said that the Mujahidin in Afghanistan (that later evolved into Al-queda) were the "moral equivalent to the Founding Fathers". "In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded men. These bearded men I was writing about in those days in The ....
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Benito Mussolini said Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism No Original Source Can Be Found Some critics equate too much corporate power and influence with fascism. Often they cite a quote claimed to be from Mussolini: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." Several variations of the alleged quote exist. However the veracity ....
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Updated: 2008/06/23 AM 11:13:51 |
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'Pull it' meant the controlled demolition of World Trade Center towers on 9/11 1. "Pull it" is not even a common term for the explosive demolition of a building. Brett Blanchard, from implosionworld.com explains: -----QUOTE ON----- We have never once heard the term "pull it" being used to refer to the explosive demolition of a building, and neither has any blast team we've spoken with. The ....
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Updated: 2008/02/22 PM 12:37:16 |
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George Bush pronounced that Nelson Mandela was dead Clips of President Bush saying the Nelson Mandela (South Africa's former President and leader for peace against Apartheid) was dead, or killed by Saddam were taken out of context. Bush was saying that the peacemakers of Iraq, (who he referred to as the "Mandelas") were dead because Saddam killed them all. Many websites took the ....
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Updated: 2008/02/22 PM 12:36:22 |
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Al Gore said he invented the Internet The "Invented Internet" Rumor While campaigning against Al Gore during the 2000 presidential elections George Bush said, "Yes, [Gore] is so confident about his abilities he claimed he invented the Internet. But if he was so smart, how come all the Internet addresses start with W?" -October 28, 2000 ....
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