#quota

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

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