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Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:57 pm
by Arneb
OK, so I'll solve it. The quote is maybe more well-known than the man who spoke the sentence, Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the unifiers of evolutionary theory and genetics, foremost promoter of the Drosophila model, and co-founder of molecular biology. I was quite astonished to learn he never won a Nobel. The quote is the title of an essay criticizing the new tendency in America to espouse ideas of creationism (of course that was in the 60s, long ago. Luckily, these times are long ov... :shock: ).

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:12 pm
by Heid the Ba
I'm embarrassed to say I have never heard of him.

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:19 pm
by Lianachan
Heid the Ba' wrote:I'm embarrassed to say I have never heard of him.


I've never heard of him either, but am short of actual embarrassment about that given my almost perfectly complete ignorance of his field.

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:37 pm
by Arneb
Who wrote:There was lot of talk at the time. 'A currency that has Italy and Greece in it can never be a decent currency', they said.

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:52 pm
by Heid the Ba
Mutti?

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:19 pm
by Arneb
Plausible, but nope.

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:55 am
by Lianachan
Angela Merkel?

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:20 am
by Heid the Ba

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:26 am
by Heid the Ba
Was it a politician?

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:18 pm
by Arneb
Shit. This is so long ago, I've long since forgotten who the auther is. I,'ll try to reconstruct it, otherwise I'll just post anew one.

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:20 am
by Мастер
Arneb wrote:Shit. This is so long ago, I've long since forgotten who the auther is. I,'ll try to reconstruct it, otherwise I'll just post anew one.


Any progress?

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:11 am
by Arneb
None until you asked. I still can't figure out who made the first statement (it could have been a lot of people, really), so I'll go with the second part of my promise:

Who wrote:Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. [...] I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she’s given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her.

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:15 pm
by Мастер
Same person who wants to “lock her up”?

Re: Real Life Quotes

PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:35 pm
by Arneb
It was probably too obvious. The rambling, incoherent style is a dead giveaway, isn't it?

Your turn.