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• In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice; a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.

  John Burroughs

  New York, Air, Two

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

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• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Order, Wind

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• Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

  Lev L. Spiro

  Waste, Mime, Despite

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• The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

  Frederick William Borden

  States, Resignation

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• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  Alistair Cooke

  Running, Couple, Men

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• Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

  Evan Esar

  Believe, Denial, Denied

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• The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Lasts, Subjects

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968. The rumor was widespread in the knowledgeable circles of Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church had arranged to assist Israel in bringing off Armageddon.

  Mae Brussell

  Circles, Lakes, Israel

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.249, Feral House

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• Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial

  Ed Furgol

  Spread, Beneficial, Manure

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• There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

  Bob Dylan

  War, Wind, People

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Workout, Couple

  "Jennifer Aniston "feels great" about putting on weight but jokes about pregnancy rumours" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2014.

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• Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Christian, Art, Stars

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• Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Gossip, Listening, Noses

  Stephen L. Carter (2007). “New England White”, Knopf

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• Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

  John Brunner

  Foundation, Santa, Radio

  John Brunner (2014). “The Sheep Look Up”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

  James Van Der Beek

  Gay, Care, Ifs

  The CinemaSource Interview, January 28, 2008.

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• As much as I want to stay on the team -- I love Chicago, I love the Bulls -- at the same time, I know the business part of it. Sooner or later, all the rumors are going to come up.

  Luol Deng

  Team, Chicago, Bulls

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• Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Self, Law, People

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.359, Kodansha International

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• [Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

  James Scott

  Anxiety, May, Aspiration

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• Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings

  Amit Abraham

  News, Faster, Spread

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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• The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Baby, Media, People

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, Years, Presidential

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• John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Should Have, Giving

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• I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, Taken, Family And Friends

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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