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jacket The Yale Book of Quotations is the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative quotation dictionary ever compiled. The editor, Fred R. Shapiro, used innovative research techniques to ensure that the most popular and eloquent quotations, especially modern and American ones often missed by other dictionaries, were included. Yale University Press invites you to continue contributing your favorite quotations to this project. Quotations from recent years are particularly welcome.
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"I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." -- Groucho Marx

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." -- Bill Clinton

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind — or not to have a mind." -- Dan Quayle