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Memo: Any one in power.

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"The 30% private health cover rebate will remain in place. We will not be changing it."

- Kevin Rudd
 
Memo: Any one in power.

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It seems that Abe did not say or write these.

http://www.cincinnatiskeptics.org/blurbs/lincoln-cannots.html

They were written in 1916 by the Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, a Presbyterian clergyman and pamphlet writer. In 1942, a group called the Committee for Constitutional Government gave out a great many leaflets entitled "Lincoln on Limitations" that contained on one side a real Lincoln quote and on the other side the 10 Boetcker statements. Boetcker was credited with his statements on the leaflet, but their proximity in print to one real quote by Lincoln, plus the title of the leaflet, led people to think that Lincoln had said the ten listed statements. They were repeated in many printed sources, and are still regarded by many as authentic Lincoln quotes. Carl Sandburg, Lincoln's most famous biographer, dismissed them as spurious.

Hence the line, "Don't believe everything you read."
 
Bob Hope lay dying, his family asked him "Where would you like to be buried?" his response "Surprise me".
 
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