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• The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Ornaments, Oratory, May

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• I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

  Matt Ghaffari

  Sports, Disappointment, Loss

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• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Quotation Marks, Politics

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.185, Crown Forum

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• Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

  Frances Brooke

  Writing, Crowns, Immortality

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• At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.

  Hannah Arendt

  Notebook, Reading, Choices

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• As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.

  David Swing

  Light, Air, Bird

  "Motives of Life".

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• Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

  Richard Hamming

  Teacher, Doors, Apples

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• There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Mistake, Lessons, Might

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89

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• Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Latin, Greek, Quiver

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• There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if the sun and the moon have left the sky." From that quotation, I would guess that while the Buddha loved all beings everywhere, with no exclusion, he also had relationships that were special to him, and he felt their loss.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Loss, Moon

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• The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Inspiration, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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• All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Eye, Air, Research

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• A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Men, Fading

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• What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Kind, Modern

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

  Nigel Rees

  Law, Doubt, Firsts

  Nigel Rees (2002). “Mark my words: great quotations and the stories behind them”

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• Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Games, Whimsical, Arise

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.

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• [D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

  Willis Regier

  People, Different, Gravity

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• Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

  Willis Regier

  Wade, Swamps, Scripture

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, World, Firsts

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• Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

  Louis Menand

  Giving, Authority, Circulation

  "Notable Quotables" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2007.

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• Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Giving, Good Thoughts

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

  Willis Regier

  Lovely, Flavor, Want

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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• Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.

  Willis Regier

  Essence, Bragging Rights, Battle

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• Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo

  Opportunity, Fantasy, Poetic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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