Sic Quotes

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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
I would by all means have men beware, lest Ã†sop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at… — Francis Bacon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.') — Thomas a Kempis
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
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
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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
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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