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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: A comment regarding pedants (was A quotation regarding "quotes")
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Dec21161149@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:11:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.092210.8070@ugle.unit.no> <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- In-reply-to: paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 20:17:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.201712.24553@news.media.mit.edu> paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Paul Dworkin) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec21.095407.18752@husc3.harvard.edu> rice@scws3.harvard.edu (Ken Rice) writes:
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- >>Isn't there more to this quote?
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- >'Quote! Quote! Young man, the barbarians are hammering
- > at the gates of our civilization, and you stand there
- > saying "quote" when you mean "quotation." '
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- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
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- -- H.D. Thoreau
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- You sure you don't mean Emerson?
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