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I didn't realise how many fake quotes he had attributed to him. Reminds me a bit of the many fake Buddha quotes that do the rounds. Some are obviously just the
by jmfldn 6y ago
I didn't realise how many fake quotes he had attributed to him. Reminds me a bit of the many fake Buddha quotes that do the rounds. Some are obviously just the sort of guff you'd read on Instagram hovering over a naff picture of a sunset. Others are harder to detect and may be a subtle distortion or sloppy transcription rather than a total fabrication.
Goes to show how sceptical we must be when reading things online, even when they sound plausible. As the late great Abraham Lincoln once said according to something I read recently... "The problem with quotes found on the internet is that many simply are not true".
- kergonath 6y agoWait, wasn't it Churchill?
- rchase 6y agoLady Astor: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your drink." Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it." -Apocryphal
- eckesicle 6y ago"To make up an Oscar Wilde quote just add '- Oscar Wilde' at the end" - Mark Twain
- JJMcJ 6y agoDon't leave me out - Benjamin Franklin
- a1369209993 6y ago"85% of quotes on the internet are made up. - Abraham Lincoln" (Actual quote*) * ᵇʸ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵒⁿᵉ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵗʰᵃⁿ ᴬᵇʳᵃʰᵃᵐ ᴸⁱⁿᶜᵒˡⁿ
- notahacker 6y agoA related quotes found on the internet subgenre is quotes which are actually real and correctly attributed but were a lot less cool than they look over a naff picture of a sunset At the beginning of this century, speechwriters for a struggling British Conservative Party leader gave him the line "do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man" to try to turn his dullness into a virtue. Media generally found it amusing, he was greeted on his return to Parliament by shushing from the opposition, and within the year he'd been replaced without even being given the chance to lead his party into an election. But it was a pithy enough line to find its way onto inspirational quote lists, and fifteen years later was improbably adorning the Twitter profile of Colin Kaepernick (complete with correct attribution to a politician Kaepernick almost certainly hasn't paid any attention to, never mind been inspired by). Can't wait for British civil rights icons to be inspired by the words of Jeb Bush!
- perl4ever 6y ago>Can't wait for British civil rights icons to be inspired by the words of Jeb Bush! "When the Women's March feminist organisation tweeted "Rest in peace and power, Barbara Bush" to mark the 2018 death of the conservative political matriarch, Twitter users criticised the organisation harshly for abandoning its radical beginnings" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_in_power#cite_note-24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_in_power#cite_note-24