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quotation and attributed
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 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.

quotation and 1996
* The quotation from the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, and Robert Layton, is from the 1996 edition, published by Penguin, ISBN 0-14-051367-1.
( The quotation is repeated by Leslie ( 1996 ) on page 26, on the subject of nuclear war annihilation, which he still considered a significant risk – in the mid 1990s.

quotation and speech
With narration of direct speech, both styles retain punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a full stop changing into a comma if followed by explanatory text, also known as a dialogue tag.
" Ich bin ein Berliner " (, " I am a Berliner ") is a quotation from a June 26, 1963, speech by U. S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin.
One feature of his speech was the extensive quotation of a letter he claimed to have received detailing the experiences of one of his constituents in Wolverhampton.
A segmental colon, like a dash or quotation mark, introduces speech.
In non-fiction, some British publishers may permit placing punctuation that is not part of the person's speech inside the quotation marks but prefer that it be placed outside.
Periods and commas that part of the person's speech are permitted inside the quotation marks regardless of whether the material is fiction.
This style also places periods and commas inside the quotation marks when dealing with direct speech, regardless of whether the work is fiction or non-fiction:
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.
If quotation marks are used, it is sometimes the practice to distinguish between the quotation marks used for speech and those used for mentioned words, with double quotes in one place and single in the other:
* The long quotation from Dante's Inferno that prefaces T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is part of a speech by one of the damned in Dante's Hell.
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 .”
" Charles Glass believes that the quotation was likely a fabrication, citing other published accounts of Nasrallah's speech that had no reference to the anti-Semitic comment, and statements by the editor-in-chief of the Lebanese newspaper which published the quotes, that questioned both the translation and the " agenda of the translator.
This speech is indicated, similar to Death's, ""; however, unlike those of her grandfather, the words which Susan speaks in this voice are often ( if not always ) enclosed within quotation marks, particularly in Hogfather.
* " We shall never surrender ", a quotation from Winston Churchill's We shall fight on the beaches speech
" Churchill's line has been called a " direct quotation " from Roosevelt's speech.
It was during this speech that Valvano stressed the importance of hope, love, and persistence and included his famous " Don't give up, don't ever give up " quotation.
A verbum dicendi ( Latin for " word " or " verb of speaking ") is a word that expresses speech or introduces a quotation, such as " say ", " utter ", " ask " or " rumble ".
At the head of the score of this concert overture appears a quotation from Shakespeare, generally known as John of Gaunt's speech.
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.
It was the site of two important conventions in the period leading to the American Revolutionary War, and is most famous as the location where Patrick Henry gave his closing speech at the Second Virginia Convention with the famous quotation " give me liberty or give me death.
The book also features an editorial curiosity: there are no quotation marks indicating speech.
His first speech in the House of Commons of Great Britain contained a quotation from the ancient Greek orator Demosthenes, which led to the satirist Peter Pindar calling him " the lord of Greek ".

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