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Quotations are the simplest form of attribution. Editors of controversial subjects should quote the actual spoken or written words to refer to the most controversial ideas. Controversial ideas must never appear to be " from Wikipedia ". When using a unique phrase or term created by a given author.
All hands on deck/to the pump. All is grist that comes to the mill [a] All roads lead to Rome [a] [b] All that glitters/glistens is not gold [a] [b] All the world loves a lover [a] All things come to those who wait [a] All things must pass [a] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy [a] [b] All you need is love.
International usage. Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan. Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans. Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen ...
Braverman said this in Commons at the end of October 2022 during a debate about asylum processing centres. She called illegal immigration to the UK an ‘invasion’, arguing that the opposition ...
e. A manuscript copy of Sahih al-Bukhari, Mamluk era, 13th century, Egypt. Adilnor Collection, Sweden. Criticism of ḥadīth [Note 1] or hadithical criticism is the critique of ḥadīth —the genre of canonized Islamic literature made up of attributed reports of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [1] [.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. " Lies, damned lies, and statistics " is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics. [2] It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.
Go West, young man. Horace Greeley, to whom the saying is attributed. " Go West, young man " is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, concerning America's expansion westward as related to the concept of Manifest destiny. No one has yet proven who first used this phrase in print.
The expression is thought to derive either from the controversial reputation of James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1918), son of British-born James Gordon Bennett Sr., founder and publisher of the New York Herald, or as a minced oath, "perhaps a euphemistic substitution for gorblimey". [2] Bennett Jr. was an accomplished polo player, tennis ...