pmoseman
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How can you, as a person, be wrong. You are you.
As far as doing things that are wrong. The rules that make a person wrong are arbitrary and try as we might, we all break them from time to time.
I am curious as to whether these quotes are real or not. That is the horse I rode in on and the one I plan to ride out on. I looked at the first link and see the author did not source it. Quotes are quotes, if you want to paraphrase what someone said or wrote you do it without putting quotes around it, as the author of the book chose to do, offset it from the rest of the text. Quote means this is exactly what was said, it is like writing a math equation, you either get it wrong or right.
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You can't prove someone didn't say something. You have to prove that they did. See how that works?
Now I have some grainy old photos of Clemens at the exact moment he was saying,
"I like bacon." - Samuel Clemens (1860)
As far as doing things that are wrong. The rules that make a person wrong are arbitrary and try as we might, we all break them from time to time.
I am curious as to whether these quotes are real or not. That is the horse I rode in on and the one I plan to ride out on. I looked at the first link and see the author did not source it. Quotes are quotes, if you want to paraphrase what someone said or wrote you do it without putting quotes around it, as the author of the book chose to do, offset it from the rest of the text. Quote means this is exactly what was said, it is like writing a math equation, you either get it wrong or right.
EDIT:
You can't prove someone didn't say something. You have to prove that they did. See how that works?
Now I have some grainy old photos of Clemens at the exact moment he was saying,
"I like bacon." - Samuel Clemens (1860)
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