quotes about Hoaxes
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I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.
-- Alexander StepanovSource : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
-- Andy Rooney -
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.
-- Charlton Laird -
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.
-- Clint Eastwood -
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I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
-- Elvis Presley -
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
-- Henry Miller -
When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.
-- J. Allen Hynek -
Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
-- Jean Anouilh -
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The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
-- Michele BachmannSource : "Elected Officials Deny Climate Science as Climate-Related Losses Grow" by Shawn Lawrence Otto, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.
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[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?
-- Naomi Klein -
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables ) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us
-- Periyar E. V. RamasamySource : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 482, 2005.
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Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)
-- Stephan Pastis -
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Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
-- John Coleman