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- Nov 07, 2020
Cited Quotes
Words about citation, credit, and being referenced.
From Nobel-adjacent research to a pandemic-era argument over fatality figures, being "cited" means something different depending on who is doing the citing. This collection gathers lines from scientists, journalists, and public figures on what it feels like to be referenced, quoted, or invoked as proof, a theme that overlaps with our Beyond quotes page as well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is much in the result of John Chilcot's seven-year inquiry into the decision-making that led to Britain's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq that can be cited to excuse headlines that refer to his findings as 'scathing' and 'damning.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early coronavirus fatality rates as often cited may appear worse than they actually are for a majority of the public because they do not include the many undiagnosed, asymptomatic cases; and because they do not reflect the dramatically elevated risk for the elderly compared to the rest of the population.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
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- Nov 07, 2020