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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an e

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said that “you are what you eat,” but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. – Guy Debord

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In quoting others we cite ourselves. – Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

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What a good thing Adam had — when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain, 1867

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