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Can I get a quote?
Hi. I'd like to verify a slew of quotations for my random sig file. I've been very surprised at how difficult it's been. After seeing endless amounts of information about truly absurd things out here on the web, it's easy to feel that literally everything in the universe can be found on the internet, but apparently not.
I've tried google, of course, and I've found a fair number of quotation- dedicated search sites, but still I'm getting goose eggs. I hope there is a truly spectacular site I've so far overlooked, or some other way to go about this. Help?
Here's an example:
?The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.? J.L. Mencken
JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas? From the time that Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped. The web has almost nothing on this guy, certainly not a list of his quotes... Perhaps history is not proportionally represented on the web.
Eden
I've tried google, of course, and I've found a fair number of quotation- dedicated search sites, but still I'm getting goose eggs. I hope there is a truly spectacular site I've so far overlooked, or some other way to go about this. Help?
Here's an example:
?The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.? J.L. Mencken
JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas? From the time that Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped. The web has almost nothing on this guy, certainly not a list of his quotes... Perhaps history is not proportionally represented on the web.
Eden
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[nq:1]Hi. I'd like to verify a slew of quotations for my random sig file. I've been very surprised at how ...
- [nq:1]Hi.
- I'd like to verify a slew of quotations for my random sig file.
- I've been very surprised at how ...
- The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.?
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[nq:1]Hi. I'd like to verify a slew of quotations for my random sig file. I've been very surprised at how ... an example: ?The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.? J.L. Mencken[/nq]
That was H.L. Mencken.
[nq:1]JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas? From the time that Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped. The web has almost nothing on this guy, cer
That was H.L. Mencken.
[nq:1]JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas? From the time that Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped. The web has almost nothing on this guy, cer
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Oh, and here's a link to a biography.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mencken.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mencken.htm
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[nq:1]Hi. I'd like to verify a slew of quotations for my random sig file. I've been very surprised at how ... web, it's easy to feel that literally everything in the universe can be found on the internet, but apparently not.[/nq]
Using the Internet to verify quotations as accurate is a mug's game. There are way* too many quotation lists where people have just copied wrong versions from each
Using the Internet to verify quotations as accurate is a mug's game. There are way* too many quotation lists where people have just copied wrong versions from each
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Eden Smallwood filted:
[nq:1]?The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.? J.L. Mencken JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas? From the time that Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped. The web has almost nothing on this guy, certainly not a list of his quotes... Perhaps history is not proportionally represented on the web.[/nq]
Try it as "H.L." instead
[nq:1]?The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.? J.L. Mencken JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas? From the time that Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped. The web has almost nothing on this guy, certainly not a list of his quotes... Perhaps history is not proportionally represented on the web.[/nq]
Try it as "H.L." instead
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[nq:2]"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false ... J.L. Mencken JLM was a fairly famous reporter, n'est-ce pas?[/nq]
[nq:1]No, but HLM was. Google finds 4,210 hits on "mencken" and "urge to save humanity", including several lists of H.L. ... like the way the idea would commonly be expressed today, and that the other is right. But I don't know.)[/nq]
This website looks like a pre
[nq:1]No, but HLM was. Google finds 4,210 hits on "mencken" and "urge to save humanity", including several lists of H.L. ... like the way the idea would commonly be expressed today, and that the other is right. But I don't know.)[/nq]
This website looks like a pre
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[nq:1].the man was "Henry Louis Mencken", and among other things he wrote a multi-volume treatise called "The American Language"..r[/nq]
I always thought that title was a lost marketing opportunity; it should have been Mencken on Mercken.
Ross Howard
I always thought that title was a lost marketing opportunity; it should have been Mencken on Mercken.
Ross Howard
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[nq:1].the man was "Henry Louis Mencken", and among other things he wrote a multi-volume treatise called "The American Language"..r[/nq]
I always thought that title was a lost marketing opportunity; it should have been Mencken on Mercken.
Ross Howard
I always thought that title was a lost marketing opportunity; it should have been Mencken on Mercken.
Ross Howard
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