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This tag should be used for questions about someone's words and its context, reasons, origin, authenticity or purpose. It can also be used for the motives behind use of somebody's words by somebody else, e.g. "why did Smith quote Jones?"
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What is the source of quote attributed to W.E.B. Du Bois: "When you have mastered numbers..."
The quote is by Harold Geneen from his 1984 book Managing.
I first found evidence of this from Wikiquote:
When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any …
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Did Jefferson really say this quote about patriotism?
Those words were spoken by Adlai E. Stevenson in one of his campaign speeches for the 1952 U.S. presidential election.
The full quote is as follows:
What do we mean by patriotism in the context o …
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Did Louis XIV actually say "The State? I am the State."? Could he have said it?
If you'll take Ken Jennings as a source (as he does seem to know his literature), he not only agrees that there is no evidence that Louis XIV said this, but goes a step further and says that Louis XIV …
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