Tracing Quotations
Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Robert Lenzer? John Rhoades? Ann Landers? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A society which grants wide liberties and constitutional rights to engage in speech and action will contain people who are performing activities deemed distasteful or reprehensible by many. The following remark is pertinent: You have to be careful to protect the …
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Barry Commoner? Gotthold Ephraim Lessing? Leonardo da Vinci? Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.? John Muir? Jean Piaget? Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Solomon Short? David Gerrold? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The universe reflects a pervasive interconnectedness. Here are two versions of a pertinent adage: Everything is connected to everything else. Everything connects to everything else. Ecological thinkers have …
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Bernard Baruch? Daniel Patrick Moynihan? Rayburn H. Carrell? James R. Schlesinger? Alan Greenspan? Dear Quote Investigator: A family of popular sayings highlights the difference between opinions and facts. Here are three thematically related expressions: (1) Everybody has a right to their opinion, but nobody has a right to be wrong in their facts. (2) You …
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Raymond Wolfinger? Roger G. Noll? Richard F. Fenno Jr.? Daniel Patrick Moynihan? George Stigler? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: An anecdote is a single fact or datum. When many of these facts are combined the collection is naturally called data. Apparently, a social scientist coined the following saying: The plural of anecdote is data. Would you …