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Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [16] Love makes the world go around
German – Wenn Schweine fliegen können! is identical with the English saying "when pigs fly", although the older proverb Wenn Schweine Flügel hätten, wäre alles möglich ("if pigs had wings, everything would be possible") is in more common use, often modified on the second part to something impossible, like "if pigs had wings, even your ...
[8] [25] Thus the crowd tends to make its best decisions if it is made up of diverse opinions and ideologies. Averaging can eliminate random errors that affect each person's answer in a different way, but not systematic errors that affect the opinions of the entire crowd in the same way.
"We might want to avoid saying something to the effect of, 'That’s not important to me,'" Dr. Cooper says. "This can be offensive to others." "Go away" is another no-go.
EDIT: I love how so many people in these replies are trying to find a different interpretation of what she must have meant, or say that she must have been joking :D but no, unfortunately I have to ...
Often I find in articles with large amounts of debating such as *fDs, RfA and even just talk pages, there will be users who voice there views on the matter, but do not explain why. This simply leads to people ask the user why they feel that way, sometimes suspicion of sock puppetry, trolling or bad-faith, or the users vote pretty much being ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Pejorative term Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". In its ...
I'm entitled to my opinion (or I have a right to my opinion) is an informal fallacy in which someone dismisses arguments against their position by asserting that they have a right to hold their own particular viewpoint. [1] [2] The statement exemplifies a red herring or thought-terminating cliché.