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Posts from Uncle Dave, Knoxville, MD

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Uncle Dave, Knoxville, MD

And Brave New World, and The White Mountains, and A Wrinkle In Time, and so much of Phillip K. Dick's work.... My point is, these writings mean so much more to the free thinker, because we are familiar with the sources; we can google them, read other of their works, if alive, we can know what they actually think of a given issue, if passed, it's amusing to play "what if", regarding how Franklin, for example, would react to OWS, or the Tea Party. "Unknown", can throw gas on a fire, but a movement, without leaders, is a mob. An unattributed quote, seems indistinguishable from platitude, to me...

Uncle Dave, Knoxville, MD

Mann: Fair enough, and well put. Perhaps I have a fascination with context; I may not agree any more strongly (or disagree, for that matter), based on context, but may be more intrigued, or more likely to disseminate the quote, if I knew it was scrawled on cardboard at an OWS rally, or cribbed from the Unabomber's Manifesto, or a comment on HuffPost or Townhall... Was the author sincere?....or satirically mocking an opinion diametrically opposed to his/her own... Agree or disagree with the sentiment of the quote, I think it would carry more weight, if it were sourced, even anonymously....

Uncle Dave, Knoxville, MD

Unknown? Ok, fine... But this isn't even sourced. How can you quote something, without mentioning from where it comes? Can someone please explain the difference between this, and making something up, out of whole cloth, and putting quotation marks around it? It's not that I disagree with the premuse, I'm just disappointed at this seeming lack of responsibility, from Liberty Quotes, which I regularly share with my friends. Please, editor... Will you source this? It's not as bad as the rampant mid-attribution of quotes we are subjected to on the 'net, but it's not far removed, IMHO... Thank you.

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