July 5, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
02:27
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| Okay, let's see. | |
| Here it is. | |
| Pessimists are usually right, and optimists are usually wrong, but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. | |
| Okay? | |
| So that was uh quote I used in my Bible commentary. | |
| Truth is everything. | |
| So I was simply interested because I, if I'm putting this quote into my Bible commentary, then I need to give it the proper attribution. | |
| I'm a very big stickler on that. | |
| I am the opposite of Claudine Gay. | |
| I am fanatical about not plagiarizing. | |
| For moral reasons, not even legal reasons. | |
| So I have to find out the source of the quote. | |
| So fine, if Thomas Friedman, whom I don't particularly care for, is the source, so what? | |
| It's a good quote. | |
| I'll use it. | |
| I can't use it without attributing it to the author of the quote. | |
| So I simply did a search on the New York Times archives, which you would think goodreads and LinkedIn and all these others would do if they're giving quotes, right? | |
| Like, where did he say it? | |
| Well, I found it. | |
| And you know what he said? | |
| As someone much smarter than I once said, and then he gives the quote. | |
| It is not from Thomas Friedman. | |
| Thomas Friedman never claimed it was from Thomas Friedman. | |
| Thomas Friedman himself said it was from somebody else. | |
| We don't know who is from. | |
| This is a very disturbing thing. | |
| Very, very disturbing, that a quotation site does not look up the source of the quotation. | |
| What the hell are they there for? | |
| It's the one thing they do, and they don't do it well. | |
| Truth. | |
| But this this Friedman quote is such a perfect example. | |
| He himself said, I am not the source of this quote. |
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