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Famous Quotations from speeches...politicians...media personalities...You know the routine

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 12:46

Easy one to start us off:

"I have a dream...."

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sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:33

I'm very tempted to say Alice Walker....but she isn't in the title group

DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 13:34

hmm, that's a tester matey

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mateychops · 02/04/2007 13:35

A hint - it's not a person in RL.

Molesworth · 02/04/2007 13:35

isn't that from the shawshank redemption?

sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:35

what, you mean it's a person from MN? The other side of the looking glass from RL

mateychops · 02/04/2007 13:36

Correct, Red from the Shawshank.
Thought it was all getting too Conservative for my liking.

I've got to get back to work, over to you Molesworth....

DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 13:39

good one...Yes, it's shocking how the Conservative quotes just come to mind [yeuch]

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Molesworth · 02/04/2007 13:39

"Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?"

sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:40

Simone dB

Molesworth · 02/04/2007 13:41

nope but you're in the right ballpark

sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:43

Collette

DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 13:45

Germaine Greer?

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Molesworth · 02/04/2007 13:46

yes it was germaine

sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:47

same ballpark as SdB???
are you right in the head???????

Molesworth · 02/04/2007 13:47

both freakin feminist thinkers int they wong?

DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 13:48

Ok. One more, then back to work:

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

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Christie · 02/04/2007 13:48

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sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:48

now, now, don't ruffle your mortar board molesworth

Molesworth · 02/04/2007 13:49
Grin
DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 13:49

christie - is that Winston Churchill?

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sunnywong · 02/04/2007 13:49

that's either churchill or the duke of wellington

Christie · 02/04/2007 13:54

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 13:55

you go sunny. i've gotta leave...

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 16:46

Ok. Thread seems to have gone quiet - here is my one from earlier again:

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

(Clue - famous scientist)

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KathyMCMLXXII · 02/04/2007 16:51

Einstein?