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Quotes About Defenestration

Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
~ Anonymous
Defenestration," I said. "'The act of throwing someone through a window.
~ Scott Heim
The Calvinist nobles convey their objections by throwing two imperial representatives out the window of Prague Castle in the famous "defenestration of Prague.
~ Brad S. Gregory
In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam's origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy, or even defenestration.61
~ Tom Holland
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~ Jim Butcher
The only way to make your PC go faster is to throw it out a window.
~ Unknown
I knew a little bit about Prague. The first thing that came to mind was that Prague citizens had a habit of throwing powerful officials out of windows—the Second Defenestration of Prague began the Thirty Years War in 1618. There wasn't another capital city with a First Defenestration that I knew of, let alone a second one. Prague was full of my kind of people.
~ Patricia Briggs