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That is a powerful quote. Apparently the author (Marianne Williamson, not Mandela) was flabbergasted and honored that her words were being attributed to Mandel

• ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
  Ah. Thanks for the correction. I will note that. Yeah, that's why I said "I think." LOTS of misattributed quotes out there. My fave is "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln. UPDATED TO ADD: I preface my Medium posts[0] with quotes, and those, I tend to research a bit more exhaustively. One of my entries[1] is prefaced by the quote "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." The quote is by John A. Shedd[2], but is often attributed to Grace Hopper, who used it one of her speeches. [0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny https://medium.com/chrismarshallny [1] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/thats-not-what-ships-are-built-for-595f4ae2c284 https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/thats-not-what-ships-are-... [2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Shedd https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Shedd
  • essayist 6y ago
    My mother's favorite actor, singing a song whose German lyrics include "a ship isn't designed just to lie in the harbor; it needs to sail out to the open sea", and other more scandalous metaphors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzX-uZUtI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzX-uZUtI4
    • ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
      Boy, he had great teeth!