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Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute [6] and the very few which strive to provide exact sources for each quotation as well as corrections of misattributed quotations. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on Wikipedia.
One particular case of misattribution is the Matthew effect.A quotation is often attributed to someone more famous than the real author. This leads the quotation to be more famous, but the real author to be forgotten (see also: obliteration by incorporation and Churchillian Drift).
You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like victory. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall: Apocalypse Now: 1979 Luke, I am your father. [4] No, I am your father. Darth ...
Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. [1] Context may be omitted intentionally or accidentally, thinking it to be non-essential.
Quote on a building of fashion designer Marlies Dekkers in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2019. 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression was inspired by a quotation misattributed to Andy Warhol : "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
“We might say, ‘Clap if you’re happy,’ and demonstrate it so they observe the gesture, and then they do it,” she said. “If it’s a culture that values and uses eye contact and you say ...
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.” — D.E. Stevenson. 51. "Summer bodies are made in the winter." — Krissy ...
Mark Twain popularized the saying in Chapters from My Autobiography, published in the North American Review in 1907. "Figures often beguile me," Twain wrote, "particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" [4] [1] [2]