A Quotation, from Horace Mann

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Abraham Lincoln, on Elections

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A Question About Algebra II

This happened over twenty years ago, and it still cracks me up. I’m not going to name the student, but I did provide a clue by using the appropriate school colors.

Abraham Lincoln, on the Destruction of America

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Source of quote: The Lincoln Project.

Abbie Hoffman, on Sacred Cows

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President-elect Donald Trump, and President Vladimir Putin

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Source of quote: The Washington Post, online edition, December 14, 2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-kremlin-likes-the-hacking-attention-but-not-the-blame/2016/12/14/65279738-c177-11e6-92e8-c07f4f671da4_story.html?utm_term=.fc453119c6fd.

Fiona Hill co-authored the 2015 book Mr. Putin: Operative at the Kremlin, available here, on Amazon. She is also (according to the Washington Post story linked above, written by David Filipov) a scholar at the Brookings Institution. Here’s the headline, taken from a screenshot.

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For those who do not know, The Washington Post is the newspaper which blew open the Watergate scandal, and that, in turn, brought down the Nixon administration.

These are facts.

George Carlin, on Change

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On numerous occasions, I have repeated this experiment, in keeping with the scientific method. I have obtained the same null result as Carlin obtained, each and every time.

JMS, On Our Eagerness to Shout

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A John Lennon Quote, On Waking Up, and Finding a Cure

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Source of quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=lennon+yoko&commit=Search

Richard Feynman, on Limited Government

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Source: The Meaning of It All, p. 57.