wit and wisdom from some of the greatest wordsmiths to live.

Jan 19, 2016 9:44 PM

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"Home isn't a place, let me give you a clue, home is anywhere, where people care about you." - Jake the Dog

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Small change can be found under seat cushions. - Lazarus Long

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"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will shortly find themselves plowing for those who kept their swords."

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I have to wonder what Jiddu Krishamurti would think of Tumblr and that ilk.

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Via my bookmark: Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill

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Pretty good words from a guy who's failures probably killed a fair number of people.

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“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ben Franklin, man, I did not need that today. You just broke my heart with the truth of my reality sir.

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Oh, Gandhi just fixed it, never mind

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"I drank WHAT?"- Socrates

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Imgur needs more of this movie

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"Kam Fong as Chin Ho" - Hawaii 5.0 (original series)

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> this person does not know what a wordsmith is

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Ha Ha! That tickles! - tickle me Elmo

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I love your username.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You are too kind.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No evidence that Einstein said that.

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And the William Wallace quote is from Braveheart, and I'm pretty sure there's no evidence of the Benjamin Franklin quote either

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But...if words on pictures are lying, who can we trust?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The internet.

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Hypnotoad

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#3 has always been my favorite Bruce Lee quote.

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Honestly I'd fear either of them motherfuckers. Or at least not get into a fight with 'em.

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I always thought his "be like the nature of water" was the most profound thing a teacher of self defence could encapsulate in a few words

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I agree that's a great quote too. But the fact that Bruce Lee would ever fear anyone just does something for me.

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I think he'd remind you that courage isn't the absence of fear, but being the only man in the room who knows you're afraid.

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Some of these are my favorites

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I like things.

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I like things.

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Do the Einstein quotes contradict each other? Or can a mediocre mind be a genius as well?

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Did you watch Ratatouille?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I did. I guess I'm missing your point. Do you mean the rat or the guy?

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"Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*." - Anton Ego

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Ah very nice. Thanks for sharing

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I think with willpower, anyone can be pretty rad at least at something.

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Legend has it that Lao Tzu wrote the Tao te Ching in one day.

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Lao Tzu just means "old man" or "old master". He wasn't a real guy. And the quote on this page isn't even in Tao Te Ching.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I don't believe everything I read on Wikipedia. Particularly when I have literature from qualified sources that contradict it.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which literature are you referring to?

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Introduction to 'Tao Te Ching', D.C. Lau 1963, Penguin classics. "..no reason to believe that Lao Tzu was a real person." (p. xi)

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Didn't he say it to a gatekeeper, or something? He didn't even "write" it. (According to the legend, and if he was real.)

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He wasn't allowed to leave unless he shared his wisdom. He wrote it all down in the Tao te Ching (The Way of Change) The book is real.

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I know the book is real, I meant Laozi himself may not have been.

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(Don't get me wrong - I majored in Asian Languages & Literatures because of this book (seriously). Love it and Laozi.)

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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

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Wow, this quote is inspirational! Sauce?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I could have sworn it was "Everything on the internet is true and cannot be questioned" - Abraham Lincoln

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Ben Franklin is one messed up dude, killing people at 25 and not burying them for 50 years...

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He never said that

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*was

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Well, we haven't buried him yet.

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NEWSFLASH: he invented the refrigerator!!

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OH. MY. GOD. The original use of the fridge was for dead bodies!? Mind blown

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Im not sure if you are serious or not. I genuinely hope not.

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I have no idea about this. Please educate me?

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Sir, do you understand the concept of 'humour'?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

I upvote you anyway just for responding. Thanks for spending your time on me.

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I just wasnt sure. No need for all this hate :(

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

I upvoted you because i've misunderstood sarcasm through text before :)

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It's not hate, it's just the overwhelming realisation of the lack of humorous understanding you present.

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Its hard to understand sarcasm and other similar forms of humor that typically use a voice inflection through text. Imo, at least.

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It is, but this is the kind of sarcasm Imgur makes and expects. Sorry m8, but it's true.

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"Man who goes to bed with itchy butt, wakes up with stinky finger." - My Dad

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@kylecorn

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Kyle? Is that you?

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Never forget

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Holy shit Franklin get the fuck out of my head

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yea that struck me

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..... - Mark Hamil

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Swiped right. Got it. Came back and upvoted you to 100. Nice one.

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This kicked me in my giggle dick

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More people need to see this.

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Your comment deserves to be the new Javert

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I am honored, sir/madame!

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Cloud Strife

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Hahaha

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That first quote from Oscar Wilde is totally meta

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Very fitting that it also describes the people today who dislike human rights because they were raised to fit their parents' mold.

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He was a pretty meta dude.

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Ironic, isn't it, to quote him on on this? (And I have huge trouble translating a sentence with "ausgerechnet", "gerade dieses"...)

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I understood just fine!

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Most Effective Tactic Available?

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Here, people, is the true definition of irony.

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I was disappointed when I found that my realization was not original. Take my +1

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which is a bit ironic in itself....

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He is a true member of UserSub...fighting the reposts since...a long time ago!

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Realizations don't have to be original to be effective. Many of mine, I'd heard a hundred times before I actually understood them.

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he looks so fuckn sassy

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Well he was gay after all.

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I didn't know that, but I always figured he was lol

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He very much was. A depressed homosexual that was not accepted by most people. A very sad life he has lived.

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i'd imagine so, specially doing that time period

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''Fuck bitches, get money'' - Mother Theresa

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I thought it was Helen Keller who said that

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too soon

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This was pretty close, actually. She was not a nice person.

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Thank you! I tell that to people and they get all pissy. I'd up vote this more than once if I could!

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She was a fanatical zealot who cared more about saving the soul than helping people. Her House of the Dying was disgustingly selfish.

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I mean she had access to modern medicine to cure or at the very least ease the suffering the sick and dying. But no Jesus wouldn't want that

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"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken." - Colonel Sanders

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"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed." -Eleanor Roosevelt

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"I scroll, therefore I am" - unknown imgurian

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I said that

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"If you ain't got no sauce then you lost, but you can also get lost in the sauce" - Gucci Mane

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"Be excellent to each other .. and .. PARTY ON DUDES!" -Rufus http://talesofatvaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Rufus.jpg

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I doubt therefore I might be.

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Sage words

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No, they're white words.

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I post, therefore I'm gur

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I enjoyed you're reply a lot

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your*

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#6 was never said by Plato. It was said by Ian Maclaren.

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To piggyback on this, Einstein never said #11. "Everyone is a genius" is a cute idea but it actually makes zero sense

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Thanks for the info. Great quote.

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To piggyback on this, Einstein never said #11. "Everyone is a genius" is a cute idea but it actually makes zero sense

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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill. Love this quote.

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"If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill.

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Or, what I call my graduate school experience. SCIENCE!

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Amen to that! Effing crystallography man.

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Yay...Haha. I'm struggling right now with some immunohistochemistry being finicky...

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i have that quote on my hockey helmet +1

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Paraphrased by Rocky Balboa; "Success is getting up one more time than you're knocked down,"

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.

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fucking gold

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Said the man who masterminded the greatest military blunder of the First World War.

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I like this.

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And he would know, what with his Mediterranean invasions and abandoned convoys.

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As a non-history major..details? AND DON'T USE FANCY WORDS OR SOUND LOGIC

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TL DR: He wasn't always successful, especially during WW1

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Google: Gallipoli, Sicily & Italy, RMS Lusitania and Convoy PQ-17. Not enough space to go into detail in 140 characters.

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Don't forget Gallipoli!

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Well Haig sure did, that fucking butcher.

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Churchill a bad ass statesman but poor military strategist

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As a history major... High fucking five

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REMEMBER CONVOY PQ-17!

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Well, as long as we're quoting Churchill: "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America [1/3]

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or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, [2/3]

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a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." [3/3]

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Rationalization at its finest.

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I don't get it. But I'm drunk, what do I know?

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Find an ukgy woman

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I've masturbated 10,000 times, do you fear me??

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but did you do it once?

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Well, yeah.

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chaffing.

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...yes.

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Was it the same stroke 10,000 times, if so yes.

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But was I the focus of your fapping? If so I challange you to a duel.

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Not really. I just have to make sure you never get close enough to use a one inch punch.

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Nosurvivors.gif

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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

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Comment of the week right here.

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OUCH! Holy fucking shit, I could hear him being burned from here.

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fear the man that has practiced 1 fap 10,000 times

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Yeah, Lennon really said that to his teacher. Okay

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Dudes a scumbag lying dick.

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At age 5.

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UGHgreed. And who the fuck quotes themselves?

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As sure as Al Gore created the internets!

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I know everyone loved him, but he was a goddamn blowhard and the third most talented Beatle.

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What's the last thing John Lennon ever heard? "Hey Ringo, fuck you!"

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And a misogynist, and a wife-beater. .... yaaaaaay the Beatles.... =\

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I can't believe a good person would fall in love with Yoko Ono.

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I actually liked a few of Lennon's songs more than all other Beatles songs, and a few more worse than all others. Make of that what you will

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You're all high. I am the Walrus....Across the Universe....how can anyone deny the man had talent whether you liked him personally or not?

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Never said he didn't have talent. Just said he was a blowhard and was the third most talented Beatle

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George was the shit

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Yeah George #1 easily

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