Great Quotations
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“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” So said Ambrose Bierce, at least we hope. In this entry, we discuss some of our favorite quotes. This show couldve been the length of a week, but we confine it here to one episode along with Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern and David Ingram of Loyola We have quotes from history, politics, cooking, and baseball, to name but a few.
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