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https://open.substack.com/pub/bigthinkbooks/p/einstein-didnt-say-that-how-viral?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4lbnua
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“… Attribution is the lifeblood of scholarship. Pardon the pedantry, but this is precisely what my job description as a literature professor requires that I do in response to disembodied quotes without proper citations.
—Yours truly, Hollis ”

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https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/04/08/familiar-misquotations

I’m now misspelling in three languages, but was reassured by G.K. Chesterton’s maxim “if a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly”.

… until I found* that Chesterton was patronizing women, if not misogynistic, when he penned that little gem in an essay entitled the “Folly and Female Education”.
(*via Hollis Robbins)

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Einstein didn’t say that: How viral misquotes evolve and replicate - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/how-viral-misquotes-evolve-and-replicate/
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“Be curious; not judgmental.”
— Margaret Kirkland, “Henry County Extension Report”, Abbeville (Alabama) Herald, Thurs 21 Dec 1995, p. 29, c. 1.
(After 2000 CE, it has often and incorrectly been attributed to Walt Whitman.)
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