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• Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

  Will Cuppy

  Florida, Three, Alligators

  "The Alligator". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, People, Judging

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• [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.

  Will Cuppy

  Years, Whales, Two

  "The Whale". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

  Will Cuppy

  Men, Ideas, Stories

  "The Pike". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

  Will Cuppy

  United States, Vipers, Common

  "The Common Viper". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.

  Will Cuppy

  Play, Snakes, Clubs

  "The Hog-Nosed Snake". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

  Will Cuppy

  Faces, Baboons, Chameleon

  "The Chameleon". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

  Will Cuppy

  Eruption, Would Be, Elders

  "Birds Who Can't Even Fly". "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

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• Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

  Will Cuppy

  Sex, Eye, Hummingbirds

  "The Hummingbird". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

  Warren Buffett

  Records, Enough, Lows

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1978.

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• One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of marriage, might in some particular cases have access to the sacraments.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Faithful, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Mean, Limits

  "On the State of Our Politics - Commencement Message" by Eric Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2016.

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• Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Book, Ideas

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.152, Lantern Books

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• Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

  William James

  Dog, Writing, Littles

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• Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

  China Mieville

  Sky, Sitting, Sun

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• Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tattoo, Anchors, Shapes

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• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

  Terry Pratchett

  Pie, Meat, Hot

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• The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

  Anthony Shadid

  Writing, Journalism, Sometimes

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• I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

  Joanna Russ

  Hair, Ill Health, Tragedy

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.137, University of Texas Press

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• Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.85, St. Martin's Press

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• On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.

  Richard E. Berendzen

  Book, August, Years

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• A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was.   In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, School, Men

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Ideas, Literature

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Lessons, Want

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• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

  Trent Reznor

  Careers, People, Mentor

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