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I'd like to second R. B. Bernstein's suggestion that the discussion of spurious quotations continue with examples across any spectrum, political or any other. My own interest in the original discussion was not with the Tea Party but in how quotations appear yet cannot be traced to any known source. An example I'm currently trying to trace is FAR from early American history - the early twentieth-century futurist artist, Joseph Stella, who is quoted all over the web with the following: "I have seen the future and it is good. We will wipe away the religions of old and start anew." This one can be found at http://www.answers.com/topic/stella-joseph It's just the kind of statement one might expect from a futurist. But so far, no source can be located, and it doesn't appear in (the relatively few) works on Stella. Still, like so many vivid "quotations," it has taken on a little life of its own. Jon Butler --
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