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Old 06-19-2012, 04:09 PM
FHwku FHwku is offline
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misquoting & misattributing

i hate reading quotes that have been attributed to the wrong author, abbreviated for a graphic, or attributed to a respected person to give the words more weight, piggybacking on their credibility.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/op...nes&emc=tha212

examples:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Ghandi (nope.)
List of Misquotations


grammar aside, "don't believe everything you hear," printed in quotation marks above a guy who never said that, just makes it worse.
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