[Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019

[Laurence Horn]

Same guy, on why it was OK for the U.S. to abandon the Kurds:

“They didn’t help us with the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy”

LH


> On Oct 14, 2019, at 8:47 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Some guy, I forget who, referred to his "great and unmatched wisdom" --
> notable because he would have better referred to his great and unmatched
> ignorance and folly.
> 
> GAT
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:03 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> “You called me 'Fredo.' You know my name is not f***ing Fredo.”
>> Chris Cuomo, CNN talk show host
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> 
> 
> -- 
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998.
> 
> But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> your lowly tomb. . .
> L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
> 
> The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> picture of his great-grandfather.)
> http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
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