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"Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire...." – John Dryden, 1697.
"You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it." – Robert Anton Wilson, 1998.
"The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else." – John Searle, 'Expression and Meaning'.
"The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist." – Vladimir Lenin