Sic Quotes
82 quotes by 75 authors
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple…
— Friedrich Engels
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at…
— Francis Bacon
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody…
— Walter E. Williams
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite…
— William Johnson Sollas
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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds…
— Frederick Douglass
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So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
— Thomas a Kempis
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in…
— Sufjan Stevens
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Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
— Mark Twain
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I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want…
— Sheryl Crow
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And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban - I'm not trying…
— Pete Sessions
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In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the…
— Margaret Sanger
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England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest…
— Mitt Romney
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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