Maria Konnikova In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or mishear a line as something more colorful than it was. – Maria Konnikova Colorful Quotes Hear Quotes Historical Quotes Mishear Quotes Misquotation Quotes Misremember Quotes Orations Quotes Persistent Quotes Speech Quotes Speeches Quotes Understandable Quotes The more fluent the experience of reading a quote – or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind–the less likely we are to question the actual quotation. At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author’s work. But we also can’t ignore a writer’s express wish just because we don’t happen to agree with it.
Frances O'Grady Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne’s regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead. – Frances O’Grady
CM Punk I love the sport, and I have for a long time. I’d stay up late and watch the Pride New Year’s Eve shows. I watch all the UFC pay-per-views. I’m a fan. I love this stuff. – CM Punk
Jacqueline Woodson I don’t want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again. – Jacqueline Woodson
Isabelle HuppertMomReligion My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything. – Isabelle Huppert
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