Dennis Prager Show - Truth is Everything
Aired: 2025-07-05
Duration: 02:27

[00:00:00]  Okay, let's see.
[00:00:01]  Here it is.
[00:00:02]  Pessimists are usually right, and optimists are usually wrong, but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
[00:00:10]  Okay?
[00:00:11]  So that was uh quote I used in my Bible commentary.
[00:00:16]  Truth is everything.
[00:00:20]  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.
[00:00:33]  I'm a very big stickler on that.
[00:00:36]  I am the opposite of Claudine Gay.
[00:00:41]  I am fanatical about not plagiarizing.
[00:00:46]  For moral reasons, not even legal reasons.
[00:00:50]  So I have to find out the source of the quote.
[00:00:53]  So fine, if Thomas Friedman, whom I don't particularly care for, is the source, so what?
[00:01:00]  It's a good quote.
[00:01:01]  I'll use it.
[00:01:02]  I can't use it without attributing it to the author of the quote.
[00:01:07]  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?
[00:01:21]  Like, where did he say it?
[00:01:23]  Well, I found it.
[00:01:25]  And you know what he said?
[00:01:28]  As someone much smarter than I once said, and then he gives the quote.
[00:01:34]  It is not from Thomas Friedman.
[00:01:36]  Thomas Friedman never claimed it was from Thomas Friedman.
[00:01:39]  Thomas Friedman himself said it was from somebody else.
[00:01:42]  We don't know who is from.
[00:01:49]  This is a very disturbing thing.
[00:01:53]  Very, very disturbing, that a quotation site does not look up the source of the quotation.
[00:02:05]  What the hell are they there for?
[00:02:10]  It's the one thing they do, and they don't do it well.
[00:02:15]  Truth.
[00:02:18]  But this this Friedman quote is such a perfect example.
[00:02:23]  He himself said, I am not the source of this quote.