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aesthete8

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Feb 4, 2010, 1:38:15 AM2/4/10
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Zaadz?

Giga?

aesthete8

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Feb 4, 2010, 1:39:01 AM2/4/10
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On Feb 3, 8:38 pm, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zaadz?
>
> Giga?

Other?

The Sanity Inspector

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Feb 4, 2010, 1:06:43 PM2/4/10
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I prefer small, specialized or offbeat collections, rather than the
big, samey websites like brainyquote or thinkexist. A fun way of
discovering new caches of quotes is to google quotes and limit the
results to a particular country's domain, or limit the results to pdf
or txt files.

But the best thing is to just read widely, and develop an eye for pull
quotes.

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam

Verbi Vore

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Feb 4, 2010, 4:40:14 PM2/4/10
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>> Giga?
>
> Other?
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I like BrainyQuote because it is so incredibly accurate.

...
Reputations are built and broken by reports of quotations.
~G. Michael Killenberg and Rob Anderson, What Is a Quote? Practical,
Rhetorical, and Ethical Concerns for Journalists, Journal of Mass Media
Ethics, Vol. 8, 1993

Maybe the best idea would be to attribute it to someone else. Lots of
famous people are famous for saying things that they never actually
said. Presumably *someone* said those things, but that person lacked the
necessarily charisma to boost the quotation into the public
consciousness, so someone else was recruited for the job.
~Jan D. Wolter (2002)


--
//Verbi Vore

*Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores
devour words.
-Richard Lederer*
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David C Kifer

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Feb 4, 2010, 6:30:18 PM2/4/10
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Verbi Vore wrote:
> On 4/02/2010 5:09 PM, aesthete8 wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 8:38 pm, aesthete8<art...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Zaadz?
>
>>> Giga?
>>
>> Other?
> ______________________________
>
>
> I like BrainyQuote because it is so incredibly accurate.

I once started a list of websites not to use because they never, or
seldom, had source citations for the quotations they used, that I was
looking for. BrainyQuote was on it. Perhaps you had better fortune.

I'll use any website if I can't find a source for a quote I don't
already have, but I prefer quote websites that give me something other
than a URL I can cite for source. GIGA has always been one I check from
time to time. Others are:

http://www.quotationspage.com/
http://www.quote-db.com/


By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it
is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, _Letters and Social Aims_ (1876)


I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Quotation and Originality" (1866), _Journals and
Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson_ (1841)


--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

Ed C

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Feb 6, 2010, 9:07:20 AM2/6/10
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I use the same sites others use and I like Quote Garden. One of the best
sites is Quoteland.com. I moderate one of the forums there:
http://www.quotegarden.com/
http://forum.quoteland.com/eve

The problem is that most of the quotes online are unsourced. I have a very
large quote book collection at home and prefer offbeat, unusual ones.
Richard Kehl's quote books come to mind in this regard.

Ed

ObQuote: We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious
stands motionless in the cold.~Wallace Stevens

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The Sanity Inspector

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Feb 7, 2010, 10:36:16 PM2/7/10
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On Feb 6, 9:07 am, "Ed C" <ed...@snet.net> wrote:
> I use the same sites others use and I like Quote Garden. One of the best
> sites is Quoteland.com. I moderate one of the forums there:http://www.quotegarden.com/http://forum.quoteland.com/eve

>
> The problem is that most of the quotes online are unsourced. I have a very
> large quote book collection at home and prefer offbeat, unusual ones.
> Richard Kehl's quote books come to mind in this regard.
>
> Ed

Wikiquote has gotten more rigorous in requiring sources since last
time I checked.

Verbi Vore

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Feb 7, 2010, 11:18:52 PM2/7/10
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On 8/02/2010 2:06 PM, The Sanity Inspector wrote:

> Wikiquote has gotten more rigorous in requiring sources since last
> time I checked.

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Must admit am pleasantly surprised to have have had some luck with
wikiquote in recent times...but "dead tree" approach still preferable
except where there are time constraints.

...
Out of monuments, names, wordes, proverbs, traditions, private recordes,
and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes, and the like,
we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
~Francis Bacon 1561 � 1626, The Advancement of Learning. (1605)

Verbi Vore

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Feb 7, 2010, 11:27:46 PM2/7/10
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On 5/02/2010 10:00 AM, David C Kifer wrote:
>> I like BrainyQuote because it is so incredibly accurate.

> I once started a list of websites not to use because they never, or
> seldom, had source citations for the quotations they used, that I was
> looking for. BrainyQuote was on it. Perhaps you had better fortune.

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Maybe my standards are lower than yours? <s>

...
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and
courtly love and that stuff is all fantasy and veneer.† You couldn't
afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot
the truth and the truth was always hard as iron[y] bloody bars.
~Janice Galloway, Foreign Parts, ch.7.

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