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Who's the most misquoted person in History? (pg. 3)
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Anal porn gets a bum rap.
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Just start walking now. |
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| EgosXII |
in Hamlet, people always misquote him talking to horatio, about the dead old friend... the scene where he holds the skull..
can't remember the exact misquote now, but it's something like 'i knew him well', but the actual quote is 'i knew him, horatio'...
only one that comes to mind
Nietzsche would have to be the most misunderstood/misinterpreted person in history... |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Did you mean Yorick? |
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| montana |
| the most obvious ones have already been done so, ye, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" or "let them eat cake", attributed to marie antoinette which is bull |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
Nietzsche would have to be the most misunderstood/misinterpreted person in history... |
True that. But, even though his sister did her best in order to distort his ideas so he would be perceived as a Proto-Nazi, the guy never bothered to state his ideas clearly himself. |
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| Capitalizt |
| quote: | Originally posted by netroM
Charles Darwin |
yup..that's what I thought of.
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." - Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species
Christian nutcases love using that quote out of context..despite the fact that he follows it immediately with "HOWEVER", then goes on to Pwn them..explaining precisely how the evolution of the eye is explained by natural selection. They never include the full paragraph because it wouldn't be so easy to dupe uneducated dullards who subscribe to creationism. |
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| Lews |
| Wasn't Darwin not trying to disprove Christianity? I thought he didn't really have any problem with it, he was just a scientist trying to show how things had changed over time and . |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
True that. But, even though his sister did her best in order to distort his ideas so he would be perceived as a Proto-Nazi, the guy never bothered to state his ideas clearly himself. |
I think he did quite well in Nietzsche contra Wagner, as it's relatively clearer than his other works. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
in Hamlet, people always misquote him talking to horatio, about the dead old friend... the scene where he holds the skull..
can't remember the exact misquote now, but it's something like 'i knew him well', but the actual quote is 'i knew him, horatio'...
only one that comes to mind |
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? (Hamlet, V.i)
The opening words are very commonly misquoted as "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well." |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
Nietzsche would have to be the most misunderstood/misinterpreted person in history... |
Elaborate for the slower ones of us? |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
I think he did quite well in Nietzsche contra Wagner, as it's relatively clearer than his other works. |
Well, sort of, but it wasn't really one of his major works :( |
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