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Dr. RWP@Dr_RWPOct 29
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" - the origins of this #business idiom are investigated on @QuoteResearch here: quoteinvestigator.com/2013/0…
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Indeed!
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@QuoteResearchOct 30
False Facts Are Highly Injurious to the Progress of Science, for They Often Long Endure Did Charles Darwin write this or is it apocryphal? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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False Facts Are Highly Injurious to the Progress of Science, for They Often Long Endure Did Charles Darwin write this or is it apocryphal? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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A wonderful quote!
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@QuoteResearchOct 28
Courage Is Not Having the Strength To Go On; It Is Going On When You Don't Have the Strength Is this inspirational saying from Theodore Roosevelt? Napoleon Bonaparte? Ken Harris? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Quoteiac@quoteiacOct 28
Good digging, QI. The earliest match is a 1972 poem, "Courage," by Ken Harris in the Springfield Daily News (Ohio). Roosevelt's name showed up in 1997. Ordinary people write lines worth keeping. They deserve the credit.
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@QuoteResearchOct 28
Courage Is Not Having the Strength To Go On; It Is Going On When You Don't Have the Strength Is this inspirational saying from Theodore Roosevelt? Napoleon Bonaparte? Ken Harris? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Courage Is Not Having the Strength To Go On; It Is Going On When You Don't Have the Strength Is this inspirational saying from Theodore Roosevelt? Napoleon Bonaparte? Ken Harris? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Duncan Reynolds@duncanr2Oct 25
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I hadn't heard this one before. I wonder if Yes, Prime Minister took some inspiration from it for the newspapers bit. youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUW…
Who reads the papers? - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy

Who reads the papers? - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy

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Eccles@BruvverEcclesOct 24
Replying to @QuoteResearch
Thank you. Very interesting. Of course, I'm a Cambridge man.
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Oxford people think they own the world. Cambridge people do not care who owns the world Was this saying coined by English editor James Payn, the Bishop of London Mandell Creighton, romance novelist Helen Ricker Beebe, or someone else? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Ardently Grant@ArdentlyGrantOct 20
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This blogger did an amazing job including proper source citations in but bibliography at the bottom! a rarity these days. quoteinvestigator.com/2012/0…
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White crows do exist (I understand due to Albinism, etc.), like there are some great listeners! Very rare, though!
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@QuoteResearchOct 21
Everybody Talks, Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows Is this quotation genuinely by activist and lecturer Helen Keller, or is it apocryphal? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Your discussion thread inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article. You are acknowledged. Thanks Everybody Talks; Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1… @chamblee54 @Auth_Courtney
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Everybody Talks, Nobody Listens. Good Listeners Are as Rare as White Crows Is this quotation genuinely by activist and lecturer Helen Keller, or is it apocryphal? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." A famous writer of science fiction and fact crafted this sentence. Who?
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Congratulations to the correct respondents. The answer to the question is Isaac Asimov in Newsweek magazine on January 21, 1980 quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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Bradbury bemoaned the destruction of libraries and knowledge in "Fahrenheit 451". So that is a good guess, but the answer is someone else. The picture makes me think of M. C. Escher "Ascending and Descending" and Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel".
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@privatefightOct 20
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Picture makes me think Borges but I'll guess Bradbury.
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Jeroen Coelen@CoeluhOct 20
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Normally attributed to Isaac Asimov, right?
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@bakerlinkOct 20
A periodic reminder that many quotes come with incorrect attributions. Thus far, LLMs are often wrong when you ask them to check a quote's source. "Long live Quote Investigator." Me.
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@QuoteResearchOct 20
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread ... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." A famous writer of science fiction and fact crafted this sentence. Who?
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What a lovely quote!
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@QuoteResearchOct 18
It Is the Supreme Art of the Teacher to Awaken Joy in Creative Expression and Knowledge Is this statement from Albert Einstein, Anatole France, or a random person nobody remembers? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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It Is the Supreme Art of the Teacher to Awaken Joy in Creative Expression and Knowledge Is this statement from Albert Einstein, Anatole France, or a random person nobody remembers? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/1…
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