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News imageNews image We've been asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite quotations - from speeches to books, poetry and plays....
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The words of Lao Tzu have been voted the world's favourite quotation! News imageMore

Our language expert, Professor David Crystal, explains
why he thinks these words have been so popular...

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The runners up...
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21.9%
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi:
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" News imageMore
3
12%
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela:
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
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10%
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine:
"Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." News imageMore
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7%
The Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama:
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
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6.9%
The Bible
Gospel of Luke, 6.31:
"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." News imageMore
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5.6%
The Statue of Liberty
US Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." News imageMore
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5.4%
Woody Allen
Woody Allen:
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
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5.2%
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - As You Like It:
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts ..." News imageMore
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4%
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton:
"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants..." News imageMore
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