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The Times
February 11, 2018
The accusation arises from a misquotation of Zappone's book online. They quote her saying: “I have participated in . . . rituals facilitated by Starhawk [a witch] . . . where we celebrated the presence of earth, fire, air, and water in our lives.” Starhawk is a US author who has written on spirituality. And whatÃÂ ...
Lexington Herald Leader
February 2, 2018
Reading comments about Trump's SOU speech reminded me of my mother's favorite literary misquotation. While obviously not the original wording, she felt it shed light on many men who take up public life. It was in reference to Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, the part of the book that gave us theÃÂ ...
Inquirer.net
February 1, 2018
All too often, the rot starts within the press itself. The media give up this freedom with every gift accepted, every favor received from those it is supposed to scrutinize with objective watchdog eyes. Press freedom dies with every fluff piece, every misquotation, every massaged truth woven into for-sale stories.
PRWeek
January 19, 2018
Shortly after the election, a misquotation led to this sensational headline: "Ireland is now officially accepting Trump refugees from the U.S." The quote was attributed to an interview with Mary Heanue, a former official of Inishturk, an island off the west coast of Ireland, in The Irish Central. The problems?
Markets Insider
January 18, 2018
"Professor Paunio writes clinically and factually to demonstrate the errors, exaggerations, distortions, misquotations and suppressions of established evidence which pervade The Lancet reports. His facts and arguments are vitally important and should be widely read," writes former Labour minister LordÃÂ ...
WAND
January 18, 2018
"Professor Paunio writes clinically and factually to demonstrate the errors, exaggerations, distortions, misquotations and suppressions of established evidence which pervade The Lancet reports. His facts and arguments are vitally important and should be widely read," writes former Labour minister LordÃÂ ...
Eurweb.com
January 17, 2018
*President Trump recently used the word “shithole” to describe countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. There are multiple things wrong with this statement. Before I address the problems with this statement allow me to explain why this something I believe happened instead of a misquotationÃÂ ...
NHK WORLD
January 15, 2018
The newspaper interviewed the president last Thursday. It quoted him on its website as saying that he probably has a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump tweeted on Sunday that he obviously didn't say that. He wrote that he said he would have a good relationship with Kim.
Heavy.com
January 7, 2018
President Donald Trump tweeted a quote Sunday night calling his presidency “consensual,” an apparent misquotation of a New York Post column that called his time in office “consequential.” “His is turning out to be an enormously consensual presidency. So much so that…there has never been a day that IÃÂ ...
The Times
January 1, 2018
For his new year message, Michel Barnier, the EU's Brexit negotiator, tweeted a misquotation from Shakespeare. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves,” he wrote, a slight mangling of what Cassius says to Brutus in Julius Caesar as they plot to take back control from an unaccountableÃÂ ...
Alpena News
December 21, 2017
“Anything that is relative to being Christian is being silenced with a misquotation of Thomas Jefferson as separation of church and state.” Wnuk said Alcona County has been respectful toward religious freedom. “It aggrieves me to see the ignorance we have with kids and our moral base,” Ted Jolls, pastor ofÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 19, 2017
The Bank of England is coming in for some stick over the quotation it has chosen for its new Jane Austen note: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" Which character in Pride and Prejudice says it? "Bank Of England Unveils Jane Austen Ten Pound Note
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New York Times
April 26, 2017
This month, he published “Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations,” a book in which he collected and updated many of the posts from his site and offers new theories on how misquotations form. “When I started off, it was mysterious exactly where these misquotations were comingÃÂ ...
Yahoo7 News
December 31, 1999
... US actress (1970-); Jessica Marais, Australian actress (1985-); Athina Onassis, French heiress and equestrian (1985-); Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer, (1988-). Thought For Today: Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. - Hesketh Pearson, British biographer (1887-1964).
TIME
December 31, 1999
For the same reason that Trump seems inclined toward taping — anger over supposed misquotations — Franklin D. Roosevelt began recording some conversations in the 1940s using then-new tape technology. In the decades that followed, Presidents made an occasional habit of taping Oval OfficeÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
November 18, 2017
That the Free Press needed to acknowledge the misquotation and correct it in print was obvious. But McGruder, who worried that the reporter's ...
The Standard
November 16, 2017
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque refused to comment on the misquotation by the assistant secretary, saying he had no jurisdiction over the ...
Irish Times
November 15, 2017
Misquotations and mistranslations are rife. See Taylor's “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air,” a mantra she attributes to ...
Times of India
November 10, 2017
... stated that the BRP was ready to struggle for a provincial autonomy which was a misquotation, false report and attempt to spread confusion.
Red, Green, and Blue
November 1, 2017
“If Snopes can demonstrate this to be the case – viz that the quotations from the papers I quoted are themselves misquotations – then clearly IÂ ...
The Nation
October 29, 2017
She, however, immediately denied the statement as a misquotation. The publication wrote: “She hesitated to directly say whether she had ...
The Highland Echo
October 26, 2017
... of unaltered and direct communication between administration and population is free from the dangers of misquotation or misrepresentation.
Free Malaysia Today
October 19, 2017
“We need efforts by our religious authorities to explain to the public about the misinterpretation, the misquotation of certain al-Quran verses,” he ...
NDTV (blog)
October 19, 2017
Double checked with Google, which said, "Let a thousand flowers bloom is a common misquotation of Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred ...
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
October 18, 2017
As reported in this paper (Oct. 5, Page 6A), Linda Pall would like to impose a minimum wage on Moscow so "every person in the city can make ...
TheStranger.com (blog)
October 17, 2017
Our slight misquotation of Jenny Durkan has more to do with our imperfect organic brains and our inability to use Google Search in order to ...
Arkansas Online
October 4, 2017
... confronted with a dubious quote is to ask questions about its possible origin and check if it's listed on Wikipedia's common-misquotation list, ...
Palatinate
October 4, 2017
Correction, Wednesday 4 October: An earlier version of this article included a misquotation of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Colleges and Student ...
Philippine Star
September 30, 2017
Under HB 6022, “fake news” is defined as any of the following: misquotation, false and/or inaccurate reporting of one's statement; editing of an ...
Swarajya
September 25, 2017
In fact, the misquotation was substantially true to the original intent of Roy's statement. According to The Wire, missing from Lodhi's quotation of ...
Hollywood Reporter
September 19, 2017
"Even if Wheeler could otherwise state a claim for defamation, he cannot claim that the alleged misquotations falsely defamed him when he ...
Aitkin Independent Age
September 16, 2017
The most common victims of misattribution and misquotation, in my experience, are Abraham Lincoln, Theodor Geisel (or, Dr. Seuss) and Albert ...
The Good Men Project (blog)
September 4, 2017
I would like to explore something about misquotations, as well as two very interesting fellows. I want to start with a picture I came across with a ...
The Guardian
July 19, 2017
The Bank of England is coming in for some stick over the quotation it has chosen for its new Jane Austen note: "I declare after all there is no ...
New York Times
April 26, 2017
“When I started off, it was mysterious exactly where these misquotations were coming from, and it was interesting that sometimes you could find ...
The Independent Weekly
December 31, 1999
I came across several typos, along with a misquotation of an iconic Carl Sandburg line and misspellings of Allan Gurganus and Georgann ...
ChristianityToday.com
December 31, 1999
The misquotations don't end there. In early 2017 this line was misquoted yet again. The fictional character Mike Baxter (played by Tim Allen) in ...
Prince George Citizen
September 1, 2017
Hippocrates' maxim is likely a misquotation, one that many people have a vested interest in continuing to promote. All too often, the phrase isÃÂ ...
Artsy
August 19, 2017
But this was hardly the most absurd of the Spanish painter's many misquotations. In 1952, a columnist for the Washington Post wrote that ParisÃÂ ...
Trail Times
August 16, 2017
Hippocrates' maxim is likely a misquotation – one that many people have a vested interest in continuing to promote. All too often, the phrase isÃÂ ...
Jamaica Gleaner
August 8, 2017
Or worse, based on the minister statement - on which he has made no claim of misquotation - he is not even getting them to listen. "We haveÃÂ ...
Daily Signal
August 8, 2017
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to correct a misquotation of Addisu Gebre-Egziabher, head of the Ethiopia Human RightsÃÂ ...
Reason
July 31, 2017
To keep up with the daily sightings of misquotations, fabrications, and smears, read Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek.) Full disclosure: despite itsÃÂ ...
Blasting News
July 25, 2017
As expected, the internet was quick to respond to Ivanka Trump's misquotation of the physicist. Some of them made fun of her by coming up with their made-upÃÂ ...
Mail & Guardian
July 20, 2017
Mbeki, who wants Yeats's fluency and natural voice, managed to turn the poetry back into his usual farrago of misquotation and indirection:ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 19, 2017
The Bank of England is coming in for some stick over the quotation it has chosen for its new Jane Austen note: "I declare after all there is noÃÂ ...
Buxton Advertiser
July 11, 2017
Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring was ideal Saturday night entertainment for the opera festival on the day of the Buxton Carnival.
The Nation
June 22, 2017
Government Spokesman Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Thursday admitted to misquoting Public Health Minister PiyasakolÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 26, 2017
“When I started off, it was mysterious exactly where these misquotations were coming from, and it was interesting that sometimes you could findÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
December 31, 1999
Labarga said the Supreme Court was especially troubled by Shepard's claim that the misquotation was not meant to be deceitful. “You arguedÃÂ ...
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