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It’s a MUCH More Effective Quotation to Attribute It to Aristotle, Rather...

Yesterday, longtime offensive lineman Matt Light (left, bearded) announced his retirement from the New England Patriots. During the moving and humorous ceremony, he turned to a quotation attributed to...

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Even if it looks, sounds, walks, and quacks like an Orwell quote, it still...

Dick Polman of the Philadelphia Inquirer rightly screams about the quote-approval practice that has sullied some of the New York Times’–among others–coverage of government and politics. His column has...

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this misattributed...

This morning’s Washington Post points out that the U.S. Postal Service’s newest “Forever” stamp has apparently done something that has vexed quotation-checkers since, well, forever. Evidence indicates...

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Hitting the Trifecta: Trump, Palin, and Gandhi (together at last!)

This conjunction is hard to imagine–Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Mohandas Gandhi sharing space in one Facebook-post-turned-Tweet. Evidently, Mrs. Palin, the erstwhile governor of Alaska, has...

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