User:RobertPlausible/Phrases

Sunk cost - An investment already incurred that can't be recovered.
Natural selection - An explanation of stupid actions that you do not subscribe to but cannot stop others in taking part in.
Don't ask a question you're not prepared to answer.
Trust, but verify.
We do not negotiate with terrorists.
We are all put on this world for a different purpose.
I believe in the right to privacy.
I truly believe we all have more in common than not.
I think everyone has or should be given the opportunity to positively contribute to human society.
I think everyone should be given a chance at rehabilitation, but some cannot be saved.
I seek no quarrel.
I [sincerely] wish you the best.
- I with you nothing but the best.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
You reap what you sow.
But I went ahead and did it just the same. - 1984 (George Orwell)
Quisling - The surname of Vidkun Quisling, whose name is synonymous with “traitor” due to his Nazi collaboration.
Forlorn hope - A hopeless venture or military operation
- Lost cause.
- Futile cause.
Hollow victory.
- Also called a pyrrhic victory.

This we know - Can also be used as a reaction to information that has been pre-established, or an introduction of information that is known while it is being introduced to others.

Don’t know anything about that.
- Notable in the Season 8, Episode 16 of Seinfeld, “The Pothole”.

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