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Old 09-01-2008, 07:51 PM posted to rec.food.drink.tea
Scott Dorsey
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Default caffiene a carcinogen? (was New lurker)

Matti Lamprhey wrote:
"DPM" wrote...
[snip]
There are, as Winston Churchill said, three types of lies: lies,
damned lies, and statistics;


Actually, I believe this quote was originally attributed to Benjamin
Disraeli.


Fuller story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_d...and_statistics

"Eventually all bon mots will be attributed to Winston Churchill, Mark
Twain or Dorothy Parker"
- George Bernard Shaw.


"If, perhaps, I ever am
Compelled to speak an epigram
I never seek to take the credit
We all assume that Oscar said it."
-- Dorothy Parker (really)
(referring to Oscar Wilde)

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