Yale Alumni Magazine Column on Quotation Magnets

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 16 01:54:27 UTC 2012


Excellent article, Fred. Your column is a highlight of the alumni
magazine. Thanks for your complimentary remarks about the Quote
Investigator website. Kudos for your always generous acknowledgments
of other researchers.
Garson

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> In the Sept./Oct. 2012 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine, I write in my reg=
> ular quotation column about Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli as "quo=
> tation magnets":
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> http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2012_09/arts_fredshapiro.html
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> I credit Barry Popik, Garson O'Toole, and Ben Zimmer for information about =
> Winston Churchill attributions, and praise Barry and Garson generally for t=
> heir respective wonderful websites.  I also focus. in the section on Disrae=
> li, on discussing Stephen Goranson's outstanding discoveries on "lies, damn=
> ed lies, and statistics."
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> Fred Shapiro
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