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<font size=3>At 1/2/2011 09:30 PM, Federico Escobar wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">For instance, in books on
entrepreneurship and management:<br>
"Nobody ever reached her potential by scattering herself in
twenty<br>
directions" (John C. Maxwell, *Success 101: What Every Leader Needs
to<br>
Know*[2008], p. 9). </blockquote><br>
Here, however, it seems fine to me to have:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">For instance, in books on
entrepreneurship and management:<br>
"Nobody ever reached *their* potential by scattering *thenselves* in
twenty<br>
directions" (John C. Maxwell, *Success 101: What Every Leader Needs
to<br>
Know*[2008], p. 9).</font></blockquote><br>
The violated agreement does not bother me, as it might in other usages
with singular subject and plural pronoun.<br><br>
Joel</body>
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