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John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.
According to both Pasteur Vallery-Radot and Maurice Vallery-Radot, the following well-known quotation attributed to Pasteur is apocryphal: " The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant.
Recognizing the profound implications and practicalities of the law of the lever, Archimedes has been famously attributed with the quotation " Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.
A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by ( punctuated with ) quotation marks.
" This quotation was incorrectly attributed to Allenby, and throughout his life he vehemently protested against his conquest of Palestine in 1917 having been called a " Crusade ".
A quotation frequently attributed to Thucydides on the Internet, but which is in fact spurious ( ref needed ), is:
The other common quotation attributed to Yamamoto predicting the future outcome of a naval war against the United States is: " I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success ".
The famous quotation, " We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97 % of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil ", by Donald Knuth, has also been mistakenly attributed to Hoare ( by Knuth himself ), although Hoare disclaims authorship.
A quotation attributed to a 1996 speech by Robert Wilensky states " We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare ; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".
In fact this quotation is more precisely attributed to Madame de Pompadour, although it is not certain that even she ever said it.
However, the quotations quite often are not exact ; this can be attributed either to the author using a different source text, or simply to the author paraphrasing the quotation.
The insightful quotation, " It's a great life, if you don't weaken ," is famously attributed to Buchan, as is, " No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated.
A quotation attributed to Kolmogorov is into English: " Every mathematician believes that he is ahead over all others.
In the Crimean War, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Malakoff at Sevastopol ( 8 September 1855 ), during which he reputedly uttered the famous quotation now attributed to him: J ' y suis, j ' y reste (" Here I am, here I stay ").
The quotation is not attributed to Bowles on his tombstone.
A quotation is often attributed to him: " The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
3: 8-10 ) that is attributed to John the Baptist ( the last verse of this quotation also appears in Mt.
* Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt ( Le Mépris ) ( 1963 ) opens with a quotation wrongly attributed to Bazin ( in fact the author of the quotation is French film critic and playwright Michel Mourlet from his article " Sur un art ignoré " in Cahiers du cinéma, no.
Thus the author supports his claims for Plato's various erotic relationships through his quotation of epigrams attributed to the philosopher ; and makes an extreme allegation that Periander committed incest with his own mother.
He wrongly attributed the quotation to Abraham Lincoln .'.
This second quotation does not contain several statements usually attributed to Arius by his opponents, is in metrical form, and resembles other passages that have been attributed to Arius.

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'" ( commenting on the treaties ending the First World War ; this quotation was the basis for the title of Fromkin, David ( 1989 ), A Peace to End All Peace, New York: Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-6884-8 )
In June 1992, Clinton responded both to that quotation and to something Souljah had said in the music video of her song “ The Final Solution: Slavery ’ s back in Effect ” (" If there are any good white people, I haven't met them ") while giving a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr .' s Rainbow Coalition, saying, “ If you took the words ‘ white ’ and ‘ black ,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech .”
David noted Kemble's quotation of Roswell King, Jr .' s statement against slavery in her journal.
On September 26, 2008, against a backdrop of growing economic turmoil caused by the Credit Crunch, an article written by David Leonhardt of The New York Times singled out a quotation made by Dorgan in 1999 during the US Senate's repeal of the Glass – Steagall Act.
"< sup > the dust jacket </ sup > The title of the book is an allusion to a quotation from the aged David Malo, who had been the first Native Hawaiian ordained to preach and Hawaii's first superintendent of schools:
They took their name from a quotation in an NME article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick.

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His defenders, notably Hannah Arendt, see this support as arguably a personal " ' error ' " ( a word which Arendt placed in quotation marks when referring to Heidegger's Nazi-era politics ).
By referring to Katherina as a " cake " and a " cat " ( 2. 1. 185 – 195 ), he objectifies her in a more subtle manner than the above quotation.
Churchill devotes almost an entire page in his history " The Second World War " to a lengthy quotation of this speech, yet he never mentions Bevan as the speaker, referring to him only as, " One Member.
The quotation was from a discussion of the Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan and was referring to counts of enemy soldiers killed, in the context of using enemy body counts as a measure of military success.
* September 27, 2006 Epoch Times Editorial on Harry Wu ( quotation referring to Jan Karski and Felix Frankfurter: When Jan Karski disclosed the message of Nazis ' slaughtering of the Jews, the U. S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter's response to a Polish diplomat was, " Mr. Ambassador, I did not say this young man is lying.
* The Latin motto, " JOANNES EST NOMEN EJUS " ( a quotation from the Vulgate of Luke 1: 63 ), means " John is his name ", referring to St. John the Baptist or San Juan Bautista, the original name of the island.
This quotation, referring to fossil fuels, reflects his approach:

quotation and order
Quotations are used for a variety of reasons: to illuminate the meaning or to support the arguments of the work in which it is being quoted, to provide direct information about the work being quoted ( whether in order to discuss it, positively or negatively ), to pay homage to the original work or author, to make the user of the quotation seem well-read, and / or to comply with copyright law.
In late May 1845 Engels published the English version of his first book-a quotation: " A class which bears all the disadvantages of the social order without enjoying its advantages … Who can demand that such a class respect this social order?
The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.
The various guides thus specify order of appearance, for example, of publication date, title, and page numbers following the author name, in addition to conventions of punctuation, use of italics, emphasis, parenthesis, quotation marks, etc., particular to their style.
He used a Yossi Sarid ( a left-wing politician, Yachad ) quotation that an order to transfer Palestinians should be resisted by any means, as a legitimation to a total and even semi-violent resistance against transfer of settlers.
Stanislavski's initial choice to call his acting technique his System struck him as dogmatic, so he preferred to write it without the capital letter and in quotation marks to appear as his ‘ system ’ in order to indicate the provisional nature of the results of his investigations.
Customers of Citibank Hong Kong now have access to services such as account inquiry and management, transfer and payments, time deposits, stock trading, pending order management, stock quotation and portfolio management through their mobile phones. 2
In an exam on the subject, students were asked to use details from both " A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings " and " Lisa the Skeptic ", in order to analyze the quotation " Appearances can be deceiving.
Paton makes frequent use of literary and linguistic devices such as microcosms, intercalary chapters and dashes instead of quotation marks for dialogue to indicate the start of speech acts in order to portray the devastating conditions in South Africa.
Extensive fragments of the first seven books are preserved in quotation in the Excerpta compiled at the order of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

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