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Don't Panic
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Originally posted by BB61:
The Big List of 47 linked by Para lists Armstrong’s famous “misquote” as follows: “That is one small step for man….” Armstrong originally intended to say “for a man” but left the “a” out when he made his famous announcement to the world.

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He may have intended to say “for a man” but he didn’t.

Thanks for the link, but I don't need to listen to it again. I heard it live.

Hopefully the other 46 are right. But it's the Internet...Caveat browser! Wink
 
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I just learned of a variation on the “rough men” and “sleep safely” quotation as I was finishing The Man With the Poison Gun. The author, Serhii Plokhy, quotes a line from John le Carré’s novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold: “We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people here and elsewhere can sleep safely in their beds at night.”

I read the le Carré novel, originally published in October 1963, some time ago, but didn’t remember that line.




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Any thoughts on this one?


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I heard Warren Buffett say it,
But he didn't
Know who coined it.





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There’s an interesting one that a member here uses “from Cicero” that mentions something about a balanced budget, public debt repaid, and aid to foreign lands curtailed.

Only minor issue is that a. Cicero never said that and b. Rome didn’t send “aid” to foreign lands. If anything, tribute was received FROM foreign lands - it’a basically a nice neohistorical view of America as a reincarnation of Rome and attempting to match current to ancient history.
 
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“America is about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-assed speed”

Eleanor Roosevelt




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Too soon old,
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America is all about speed, fast, dirty, badass speed." -Elizabeth Roosevelt A line from the movie Talladega Nights


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This has been a favorite of mine recently:



I believe it fits into the context of this thread quite well.


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