Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."
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Rumor
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Barack Obama
Politician
"Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth."
Richard Bach
Author
"A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe..."
Jay Gould
Businessman
"I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors."
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"Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures."
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"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know."
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"The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it."
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"This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life."
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"I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."
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"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
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"There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants."
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"Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes."
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"But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal."
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"It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again."
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"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
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"Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it."
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"The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor."
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"History: A distillation of rumor."
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"I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter"
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"What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do."
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"I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy."
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"the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated."
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"Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job."
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"As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues."
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