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The third, however, rarely merits mention beyond the simple recitation of the Declaration's most famous sentence.

Even those who have never read her work recognise her famous sentence, "A rose is a rose is a rose".

Remember "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," the famous sentence Noam Chomsky offered as a paradigm of grammatical nonsense?

I first heard Kennedy's famous sentence as a freshman pledge to a fraternity at the University of Texas in 1952.

Like everything else in our brave new world this famous sentence, written 56 years ago, could use an update — or in movie terms, a remake.

It takes its title from a famous sentence in William Paley's Natural Theology (1802), which Dawkins calls "a book that I greatly admire..."...

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"Conceptual artists", he wrote at the start of his famous Sentences on Conceptual Art from 1970, "are mystics rather than rationalists.

(Sample evidence: Constantine renders one of Machiavelli's famous sentences, "Since a prince must know how to use the nature of the beast to his advantage, he must emulate both the fox and the lion, because a lion cannot defy a snare, while a fox cannot defy a pack of wolves". Defy a snare?

Even at the late galley stage, we find him still undecided about one of the most famous sentences in all of modern literature, finally settling on "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure" ("For a long time, I went to bed early").

I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?" Whether it was a misquote or a verbal slip-up, the phrase has become one of the world's most famous sentences and will for ever go down in history as a line which defined an era.

"It is not my aim to surprise or shock you," one of his most famous sentences goes, "but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn and that create.

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