“It’s just more about getting the other people than worrying about the American people.” Christine Etima, quoted in "Immersed in the election, but unable to vote", Duluth News Tribune, 2016-11-05
"But not making a choice — sitting out the election — is to turn our fate over to others." Ann McFeatters, Duluth News Tribune, 2016-11-06
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Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Unattributed quotes
One of the drawbacks of the web is that writings can be spread without any attribution to the original author. As a writer myself and as a former programmer, I am very sensitive to people copying my work or ideas without renumeration or attribution.
One of my relatives on Facebook linked to a beautiful poem that began
at the end of life
what matters is not what we bought
but the item did not mention the author. I did a search for these phrases, but almost every site that had a portion of the poem did not give the author's name. I finally found the complete poem at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-2009-to-all-poets/ with attribution. The author is Ric S. Bastasa, a judge in the Phillipines.
His list of poems at http://www.poemhunter.com/ric-s-bastasa/poems/ has titles in Greek, Russian, Arabic (or is it Farsi), Chinese, and Japanese. Can one guy write poems in so many languages? In this case, no. Only the title are in other languages, the poems are in English. He probably did as I do with foreign languages, he looked up keywords on Google Translate.
One of my relatives on Facebook linked to a beautiful poem that began
at the end of life
what matters is not what we bought
but the item did not mention the author. I did a search for these phrases, but almost every site that had a portion of the poem did not give the author's name. I finally found the complete poem at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-2009-to-all-poets/ with attribution. The author is Ric S. Bastasa, a judge in the Phillipines.
His list of poems at http://www.poemhunter.com/ric-s-bastasa/poems/ has titles in Greek, Russian, Arabic (or is it Farsi), Chinese, and Japanese. Can one guy write poems in so many languages? In this case, no. Only the title are in other languages, the poems are in English. He probably did as I do with foreign languages, he looked up keywords on Google Translate.
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Quote of the day: democracy or wealth
"We must make our choice. We may have democracy, Or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few but we can't have both."
- Louis Brandeis quoted by Forrest Johnson in the Reader Weekly, 2012-12-06
For the quote in context see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis.
- Louis Brandeis quoted by Forrest Johnson in the Reader Weekly, 2012-12-06
For the quote in context see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Check your chain mail, it might not protect you from falsehood
I received an email from a friend asking me to pass on a quote supposedly from Warren Buffett that we should have a Constitutional amendment to forbid all members of Congress to run for re-election if the budget is out of balance greater than a certain amount.
For more context, see http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/buffett.asp. The chain email, started in 2011, is included on that page.
If all members of any other group were held responsible for the behavior of some members of the group, we would call it discrimination.
For more context, see http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/buffett.asp. The chain email, started in 2011, is included on that page.
If all members of any other group were held responsible for the behavior of some members of the group, we would call it discrimination.
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