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One fanciful tale traces it to Western European, pre-Christian societies in which whoever found a coin or bean in a special cake was crowned King for the year, whether the story was true or what you believe, Christians have long served King Cakes containing coins or gilded beans for the Feast of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, a celebration of the visit of the three wise men — the Magi or Kings — to the infant Jesus 12 days after his birth. – David Guas	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We aren't proposing anything fanciful, it's necessary and moreover it's possible. – Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There was a declared war on coal, a war on fossil fuels, the EPA was weaponized against certain sectors of our economy and that’s not the role of a regulator. Renewables need to be part of our energy mix, but to think that will be the dominant fuel is simply fanciful. – Scott Pruitt	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You've got to be willing to take on the lobbyists, which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse but specifying, 'These are the programs I would eliminate,'. – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is not the fanciful to think that ISIS may be assaulting some of those refugees with some of their operatives. – Ron Johnson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character. – Wilhelm von Humboldt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. – Sophocles, Trachiniae	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. – Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. – Henry Tuckerman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. – Sophocles	added by anonymous 14 years ago

One fanciful tale traces it to Western European, pre-Christian societies in which whoever found a coin or bean in a special cake was crowned King for the year, whether the story was true or what you believe, Christians have long served King Cakes containing coins or gilded beans for the Feast of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, a celebration of the visit of the three wise men — the Magi or Kings — to the infant Jesus 12 days after his birth.

– David Guas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion, this ought to be good news for everyone but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We aren't proposing anything fanciful, it's necessary and moreover it's possible.

– Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was a declared war on coal, a war on fossil fuels, the EPA was weaponized against certain sectors of our economy and that’s not the role of a regulator. Renewables need to be part of our energy mix, but to think that will be the dominant fuel is simply fanciful.

– Scott Pruitt

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You've got to be willing to take on the lobbyists, which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse but specifying, 'These are the programs I would eliminate,'.

– Texas Sen. Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is not the fanciful to think that ISIS may be assaulting some of those refugees with some of their operatives.

– Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

– Wilhelm von Humboldt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

– Sophocles, Trachiniae

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

– Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

– Henry Tuckerman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

– Sophocles

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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