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'''''<big>Fremo ergo sum</big>.''''' |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011_January_12#Latin_translation_required] |
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'''''"Quality Control"''' |
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"''We believe in high quality of content, design and production of books, thereby, we approach highly academically established authors, as well up coming up writers to encourage their research and writing skils. Our books are printed in latest printed machines. In addition, our aim is costumer satisfaction, prompt delivery of our products to domestic market as well over the globe. Our organisation, professionally committed and devoted team of editors, proof reader to look after and ensure each detail before sending for printing". [http://www.globalvisionpub.com/aboutus.aspx] |
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'''''"Reliable sources"''''' |
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"''A hero Tornado pilot going 500mph 'back-flipped' his fighter jet at 250ft above the ground to avoid an inevitably fatal crash with a glider, it was revealed today. The daredevil's lightning reflexes allowed him to force his own plane downwards and miss the other aircraft by 'a quarter of a second' - or 100ft, an air investigation has found. His RAF jet was tearing through a valley in the Highlands on a training exercise when he saw the tiny glider coming towards him. To avoid collision at terrifying speed the fighter pilot 'bunted', an aerobatic move where a plane is forced into an inverted loop and speeds away upside down." [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2378728/RAF-Tornado-misses-glider-quarter-second-thanks-lightning-reflexes-fighter-pilot.html#ixzz2aBLvG9Ny] |
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'''''"Free speech"''''' |
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"''I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express." (mouseover text from [http://xkcd.com/1357/]) |
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'''''"Applied science."''''' |
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"''In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. This is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.'' Mark Twain, ''Life on the Mississippi''. |
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'''''Knowledge...''''' |
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''"An encyclopedia presents knowledge; it is not a bestiary of delusions in which the length of coverage is based on the number of believers." ''[[User:Kiefer.Wolfowitz|Kiefer.Wolfowitz]] [http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5452&p=114704#p114704] |
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