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Denzel Washington never said just because you don't share it on social media doesn't mean you are not up to big things and live it and stay low key as well as privacy is everything.
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Did Morgan Freeman say 'Don't take criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice'?
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Mark Twain
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Benjamin Franklin: A penny saved is a penny earned.
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Former US President George Washington never said when any nation mistrusts its citizens with guns it is sending a clear message nor did he say that it no longer trusts its citizens because such a government has evil plans.
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Thomas Jefferson never said "a democracy is nothing more than mob rule."
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Mark Twain did not say, "The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie."
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Teacher, Person, Human
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Did Mariah Carey say she'd like to be skinny like 'starving kids'?
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George Washington’s private life and writings reveal no evidence of anti-Semitism.
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Although Jefferson certainly expressed disdain and mistrust of banking institutions and paper currency on many occasions, this particular quotation bears all the hallmarks of being a retroquote.
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Dr. Maya Angelou, who passed away in May 2014, became one of those figures (à la Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln) who ended up with more of other people’s words attributed to her than words of her own.
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Audrey Hepburn poses for her publicity photo to promote the film Sabrina.
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Franklin Graham giving a speech
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