[Ads-l] Preliminary Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2022

[Shapiro, Fred]

I understand that James was not necessarily suggesting I use the entire quotation.  Despite any grumbles I may make, I very much appreciate suggestions of notable quotations of the year.  Please keep them coming.  This is crowd-sourcing.

Fred Shapiro


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Subject: Re: Preliminary Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2022

Right-ho. I wasn't imagining you'd use the whole thing, just providing
context for editorial intervention. For example:

So why are we only talking about transforming society and not about
obliging a highly profitable industry to clean up the mess caused by the
products it sells? -- Prof. Myles Allen, discussing record-high fossil
fuel industry profits in 2022

See https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk%2Fpeople%2Fmyles-allen%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7Cb0d59d13e48d464e276a08dab92620a3%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638025870660970416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JyhTVxKwZTFWInS2i6gRGSNLjXLwR3K4qmEdh%2FAcMu8%3D&reserved=0 for Allen's
background.

Or something along that line.

Another suggestion, the now well-known bit of pith, quoting Paul
Pelosi's attacker today: "Where's Nancy?"


On 10/28/22 12:38, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> Yes, this is a very provocative and notable quote, but note that at least a reasonable amount of pithiness is essential to make my list, I'm never going to include a very long quote.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of James Eric Lawson <jel at NVENTURE.COM>
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> This quote seems outstandingly notable to me:
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> Prof Myles Allen, at the University of Oxford, said: “The combined
> profits, taxes and royalties generated by the oil and gas industry over
> the past few months would be enough to capture every single molecule of
> CO2 produced by their activities and reinject it back underground. So
> why are we only talking about transforming society and not about
> obliging a highly profitable industry to clean up the mess caused by the
> products it sells?”
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> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2F2022%2Foct%2F27%2Fworld-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7Cb0d59d13e48d464e276a08dab92620a3%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638025870660970416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HatmVW8L%2BL%2F0huxtywKT4LG8WFctnXlkxGQw2a5DU6g%3D&reserved=0
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