“I can't stand those French pancake shops. They give me the crepes.”
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“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.”
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“Rochester: That's for me. I can't stand the sight of blood.”
Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“I can't stand feeble, robotic psychiatrists. They give you false drugs and turn you into a zombie.”
Ian Brady (1938–2017) British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders
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“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Tribute
“Give me a place to stand, and I will include the world.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
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“Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
Archimedes (-287–-212 BC) Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
δῶς[No omega+perispomene doric form per e.g. LSJ, March 2017] μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω. <br class="br">Dôs moi pâ stô, kaì tàn gân kinásō. <br class="br">Said to be his assertion in demonstrating the principle of the lever; as quoted by Pappus of Alexandria, Synagoge, Book VIII, c. AD 340; also found in Chiliades (12th century) by John Tzetzes, II.130 http://books.google.com/books?id=dG0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA46. This and "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world" are the most commonly quoted translations. <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world. <br class="br">This variant derives from an earlier source than Pappus: The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus, Fragments of Book XXVI http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/26*.html, as translated by F. R. Walton, in Loeb Classical Library (1957) Vol. XI. In Doric Greek this may have originally been Πᾷ βῶ, καὶ χαριστίωνι τὰν γᾶν κινήσω πᾶσαν [Pā bō, kai kharistiōni tan gān kinēsō [variant kinasō] pāsan]. <br class="br">Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth. <br class="br">Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world. <br class="br">Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
“I hate barbeque sauce. Little known fact about me. Can't stand it.”
Patrick Stump (1984) American musician
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