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the questionable <a href="/wiki/Information" title="Information">information</a> you can find there, it also offers you the ability to connect with <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> and start a <a href="/wiki/Dialogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialogue">dialogue</a>.  <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a>, despite the inherent <a href="/wiki/Problems" class="mw-redirect" title="Problems">problems</a> of any Wiki to which anyone can contribute, can be a <a href="/wiki/Worthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Worthy">worthy</a> resource because it enables multiple people to engage in a dialogue.  It also often contains links to external sources in text and audio formats where applicable.<br /><center>— <a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Sullivan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Sullivan (page does not exist)">James Sullivan</a></center></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MileyCyrusApr09.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/MileyCyrusApr09.jpg/220px-MileyCyrusApr09.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/MileyCyrusApr09.jpg/330px-MileyCyrusApr09.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/MileyCyrusApr09.jpg/440px-MileyCyrusApr09.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2607" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Miley_Cyrus" title="Miley Cyrus">Miley</a> is either an undercover <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> buff or really adept at using <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a><br /><center>— <a href="/w/index.php?title=Meredith_Goldberg-Morse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meredith Goldberg-Morse (page does not exist)">Meredith Goldberg-Morse</a></center></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png/220px-Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png/330px-Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png/440px-Wikiquote_screenshot_2008.png 2x" data-file-width="1349" data-file-height="1087" /></a><figcaption>In short, the <a href="/wiki/Goal" class="mw-redirect" title="Goal">goal</a> of the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> is to produce a vast reference of <a href="/wiki/Quotations" title="Quotations">quotations</a> from prominent <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>, <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Films" class="mw-redirect" title="Films">films</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Proverbs" title="Proverbs">proverbs</a>.  There are, of course, a number of online collections of quotations already on the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">web</a>, however <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> is distinguished by being among the few that provide an <a href="/wiki/Opportunity" title="Opportunity">opportunity</a> for visitors to contribute, which is nice.<br /><center>— Posted at <i>Food for Translators</i></center></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG/220px-Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="365" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG/330px-Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG/440px-Scott_Glenn_2011_Shankbone.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2509" data-file-height="4159" /></a><figcaption>Well, not that <a href="/wiki/Wise" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise">wise</a>; he gets all his best lines from <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> <br /> <center>— <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Knight&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Knight (page does not exist)">Chris Knight</a> on the character<br />Wise Man</center></figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><span class="boilerplate seealso"><i>See also: <a href="/wiki/Wiki-sisters" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki-sisters">Wiki-sisters</a></i></span></dd></dl> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote" class="extiw" title="w:Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a></b> is one of a family of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki" class="extiw" title="w:wiki">wiki</a>-based <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_project" class="extiw" title="w:Wikimedia project">projects</a> run by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" class="extiw" title="w:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, running on <a href="/wiki/MediaWiki" title="MediaWiki">MediaWiki</a> software. Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project which began as an outgrowth to Wikipedia Famous Quotations is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of <a href="/wiki/Quotations" title="Quotations">quotations</a> from prominent <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>, <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Films" class="mw-redirect" title="Films">films</a>, <a href="/wiki/Proverbs" title="Proverbs">proverbs</a>, etc., and to be as proper as possible in regard to the details of the quotations and also providing the appropriate human reference of the quotation.  Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is one of the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute.  Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about individuals and topics on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> and to original texts on <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource" class="extiw" title="s:Wikisource">Wikisource</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_from_Wikiquote">Quotes from Wikiquote</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes from Wikiquote"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote:Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a> is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> for further information. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> since 10 March 2009.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Wikiquote">Quotes about Wikiquote</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Quotes about Wikiquote"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There are loads of <a href="/wiki/Quotations" title="Quotations">quotations</a> stored at <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> (http://www.wikiquote.org) where you can enter a search phrase like "<a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Humour" class="mw-redirect" title="Humour">humour</a>" and get loads of quotations from different notable <a href="/wiki/Personalities" class="mw-redirect" title="Personalities">personalities</a>.  Each personality is linked to their page in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hafsa_Ahsan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hafsa Ahsan (page does not exist)">Hafsa Ahsan</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504164927/http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/070127/science15.htm">It's all about Wikis</a>," <i><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(newspaper)" title="Dawn (newspaper)">DAWN</a></i> (27 January 2007).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Some might go a step further and contend that a place like <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> is appropriate since the <a href="/wiki/Quotes" class="mw-redirect" title="Quotes">quotes</a> can be verified.  The same with <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource" class="extiw" title="s:Wikisource">Wikisource</a>, which contains documents you can <a href="/wiki/Read" class="mw-redirect" title="Read">read</a> or download of great <a href="/wiki/Scientific" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific">scientific</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literary" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary">literary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> figures.  Unlike <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> or <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews" class="extiw" title="n:Wikinews">Wikinews</a>, there is no real <a href="/w/index.php?title=Crowdsourcing&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crowdsourcing (page does not exist)">crowdsourcing</a> of the content; the crowd only helped find the original works and posted them there.  So one wiki resource might be acceptable and another might not. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curtis_J._Bonk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Curtis J. Bonk (page does not exist)">Curtis J. Bonk</a>, interviewed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scott_Jaschik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scott Jaschik (page does not exist)">Scott Jaschik</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/25/bonk">'The World Is Open'</a>," <i>Inside Higher Ed</i> (25 August 2009).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a></b> is a repository of <a href="/wiki/Quotations" title="Quotations">quotations</a> from prominent <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>, <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>, <a href="/wiki/Films" class="mw-redirect" title="Films">films</a>, and so on.  If you're reading a page of quotations by a person (like <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>), you can jump to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article via a <a href="/wiki/Visible" class="mw-redirect" title="Visible">visible</a> link and vice versa... <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Broughton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Broughton (page does not exist)">John Broughton</a>, "What Wikipedia is Not" in "Reader's Guide to Wikipedia," ch. 1 of <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LapVI7GybPcC&pg=PA23">Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual</a></i> (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008), p. 23.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lazy" class="mw-redirect" title="Lazy">Lazy</a> recall frequently means any witticism is attributed to <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> or <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" title="Dorothy Parker">Dorothy Parker</a>, and any profound statement to <a href="/wiki/Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gandhi">Gandhi</a> or <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>.  <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> is good for tracing the correct wording and origin of bons mots</b>, but bear in mind what <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> said: "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tom_Calverley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tom Calverley (page does not exist)">Tom Calverley</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/14/mind-your-language-quotations">Cite and sound: the pleasures and pitfalls of quoting people</a>," <i>The Guardian</i> (14 October 2014).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> has interesting and useful categories to peruse and also offers all <a href="/wiki/Readers" class="mw-redirect" title="Readers">readers</a> the opportunity to become Wikiquotians (people who <a href="/wiki/Write" class="mw-redirect" title="Write">write</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Edit" class="mw-redirect" title="Edit">edit</a> articles) themselves.</li> <li>Although you can search <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> in a search box by topical <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>, such as "<a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights">animal rights</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Silence" title="Silence">silence</a>," "<a href="/wiki/Success" title="Success">success</a>," etc., that identifies applicable <a href="/wiki/Quotations" title="Quotations">quotations</a>, I find searching by categories to be more <a href="/wiki/Entertaining" class="mw-redirect" title="Entertaining">entertaining</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gemma_DeVinney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gemma DeVinney (page does not exist)">Gemma DeVinney</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archive/vol38/vol38n19/columns/eh.html">"Electronic Highways"</a>, <i>UB Reporter</i> (University of Buffalo, 18 January 2007).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As to the content, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquotes</a> <sup>[<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sic#Adverb" class="extiw" title="wikt:sic">sic</a>]</sup> does provide a good central repository of a massively broad range of references.  I can <a href="/wiki/Imagine" class="mw-redirect" title="Imagine">imagine</a> this will be of interest mostly to those <a href="/wiki/Reading" title="Reading">reading</a> for general interest, or doing specific research.  For example, you can find articles based on anything from the cultured musings of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Pepys" title="Samuel Pepys">Samuel Pepys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Ocar Wilde</a> <sup>[<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sic#Adverb" class="extiw" title="wikt:sic">sic</a>]</sup>, or <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a>; to the lesser known quotes from the world of <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek" class="mw-disambig" title="Star Trek">Star Trek</a> or <a href="/wiki/Stargate_SG-1" title="Stargate SG-1">StarGate SG-1</a> <sup>[<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sic#Adverb" class="extiw" title="wikt:sic">sic</a>]</sup>! <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Gilson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Gilson (page does not exist)">David Gilson</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/12838_Wikiquotes.php">Review: Wikiquotes</a>," <i>All About Symbian</i> (1 May 2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If we were contacted by a copyright holder with a complaint about Wikiquote, of course, we would attempt to respond within reason to resolve the complaint without anyone's having to resort to litigation. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act actually provides for services like Wikiquote a way of resolving copyright complaints without serious risk of litigation through its notice-and-takedown procedures. I'm not aware of any DMCA notices regarding Seinfeld quotations on Wikiquote. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Godwin" title="Mike Godwin">Mike Godwin</a> 21:20:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC), <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-September/045793.html">The foundation-l mailing list</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Situated on the 19-year-old's left forearm, the new <a href="/wiki/Tattoo" title="Tattoo">ink</a> reads: "So that his place shall never be with those <a href="/wiki/Cold" title="Cold">cold</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timid" class="mw-redirect" title="Timid">timid</a> <a href="/wiki/Souls" class="mw-redirect" title="Souls">souls</a> who knew neither <a href="/wiki/Victory" title="Victory">victory</a> nor <a href="/wiki/Defeat" class="mw-redirect" title="Defeat">defeat</a>."  <b><a href="/wiki/Miley_Cyrus" title="Miley Cyrus">Miley</a> is either an undercover <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> buff or really adept at using <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a></b>, because the <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a> are a portion of a <a href="/wiki/Speech" title="Speech">speech</a> made by President <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a> at the Sorbonne, Paris, in 1910. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meredith_Goldberg-Morse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meredith Goldberg-Morse (page does not exist)">Meredith Goldberg-Morse</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newsroom.mtv.com/2012/07/11/miley-cyrus-debuts-new-tattoo-theodore-roosevelt/">Miley Cyrus Debuts New Tattoo, And It's ... Kinda Smart?</a>," <i>MTV News</i> (11 July 2012).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It's somehow appropriate that in the same week that Michael Scott leaves <i><a href="/wiki/The_Office_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Office (U.S. TV series)">The Office</a></i> that two <a href="/wiki/Computer" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer">computer</a> <a href="/wiki/Scientists" title="Scientists">scientists</a> at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Washington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="University of Washington (page does not exist)">University of Washington</a> announce their particular breakthrough in natural language programing—a computer program that knows when to say "That's what she said" to a <a href="/w/index.php?title=Double_entendre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Double entendre (page does not exist)">double entendre</a>.  ...[T]his type of <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> <a href="/wiki/Play" title="Play">play</a> is actually a <a href="/wiki/Complicated" class="mw-redirect" title="Complicated">complicated</a> computer science program.  ...  To "train" the computer how to identify the right <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentences&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sentences (page does not exist)">sentences</a>, they used twssstories.com, a repository of user-submitted "TWSS" jokes, and non-entendre text from sites such as <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alex_Knapp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alex Knapp (page does not exist)">Alex Knapp</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/04/30/a-computer-that-knows-when-to-say-thats-what-she-said/">A Computer That Knows When To Say "That's What She Said"</a>," <i>Forbes</i> (30 April 2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sucker_Punch_(2011_film)#Babydoll" title="Sucker Punch (2011 film)">Baby Doll</a>'s escape plan comes courtesy of a <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> in which she meets <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scott_Glenn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scott Glenn (page does not exist)">Scott Glenn</a>, playing a character called <a href="/wiki/Sucker_Punch_(2011_film)#The_Wise_Man/The_General/The_Bus_Driver" title="Sucker Punch (2011 film)">Wise Man</a>.  Well, not that <a href="/wiki/Wise" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise">wise</a>; <b>he gets all his best lines from <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a></b>, and hangs out in one of those how'd-they-find-time-to-light-all-those-<a href="/wiki/Candles" title="Candles">candles</a> <a href="/wiki/Asian" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian">Asian</a> <a href="/wiki/Temples" class="mw-redirect" title="Temples">temples</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Knight&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Knight (page does not exist)">Chris Knight</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/film-review-sucker-punch-2-stars">Film Review: Sucker Punch (2 stars)</a>," <i>National Post</i> (24 March 2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buzzy_Jackson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buzzy Jackson (page does not exist)">Buzzy Jackson</a> is dismayed by "inspirational" <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>.  Not so much because they <a href="/wiki/Exist" class="mw-redirect" title="Exist">exist</a>, but because she "never encountered a single one that spoke directly to those of us with a <a href="/wiki/Secular" class="mw-redirect" title="Secular">secular</a> outlook."  ... [O]n going to the bookstore, she found a void.  If <i>Chicken Soup for the Soulless</i> didn't exist, would it be necessary to <a href="/wiki/Invent" class="mw-redirect" title="Invent">invent</a> it?  Yes, apparently.<p>Jackson seems to have scoured an extensive book collection—or possibly <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a>—for timeless <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a> on thirty-three alphabetical subjects, from "<a href="/wiki/Advice" title="Advice">advice</a>" to "<a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a>." </p><ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_R._Morgan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris R. Morgan (page does not exist)">Chris R. Morgan</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/05/chicken-soup-for-the-soulless">Chicken Soup for the Soulless</a>," <i>First Things</i> (New Jersey).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Web</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a>, and despite the questionable <a href="/wiki/Information" title="Information">information</a> you can find there, it also offers you the ability to connect with <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> and start a <a href="/wiki/Dialogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialogue">dialogue</a>.  <b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a>, despite the inherent <a href="/wiki/Problems" class="mw-redirect" title="Problems">problems</a> of any Wiki to which anyone can contribute, can be a <a href="/wiki/Worthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Worthy">worthy</a> resource because it enables multiple people to engage in a dialogue.  It also often contains links to external sources in text and audio formats where applicable.</b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Sullivan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Sullivan (page does not exist)">James Sullivan</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/edu/Misquotes--Searching-for-Authenticity-Online.html">Misquotes: Searching for Authenticity Online</a>," <i>finding Dulcinea</i> (27 October 2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To make sure your <a href="/wiki/Quotes" class="mw-redirect" title="Quotes">quotes</a> are available to the widest possible audience, we're working with the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> project to collect and archive the quotes for posterity.  ...  <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> has a <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">section on chemistry-related material</a> and we, working with the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Wikimedian in residence, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Andy_Mabbett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andy Mabbett (page does not exist)">Andy Mabbett</a>, are going to expand it...<b>The best quotes are striking sentences or poignant paragraphs that hold fast in the mind, long after their source has faded from memory, snippets and soundbites that encapsulate feeling or opinion.</b> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ben_Valsler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ben Valsler (page does not exist)">Ben Valsler</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2015/07/09/quotable-chemistry-a-chemistry-world-competition/">Quotable chemistry – a Chemistry World competition</a>," <i>chemistryworldblof</i> (Royal Society of Chemistry, 9 July 2015).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are good ways of checking <a href="/wiki/Stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Stories">stories</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quotations" title="Quotations">quotations</a>.  Just as the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> is the source of a lot of <a href="/wiki/Misinformation" title="Misinformation">misinformation</a>, it also offers the tools to find the <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>.  Most well-known stories and quotes can be checked using the search box on <a href="/wiki/Google.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Google.com">Google.com</a> or any number of other sites such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Snopes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Snopes (page does not exist)">Snopes</a> or <a class="mw-selflink selflink">WikiQuote</a>. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Walch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timothy Walch (page does not exist)">Timothy Walch</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2010/07/declaration-independence-and-other-historic-words-too-important-be-misquote">The Declaration of Independence (and other historic words): too important to be misquoted</a>," <i>MinnPost</i> (4 July 2010).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you're looking for a <a href="/wiki/Famous" class="mw-redirect" title="Famous">famous</a> <a href="/wiki/Quote" class="mw-redirect" title="Quote">quote</a> from a <a href="/wiki/Movie" class="mw-redirect" title="Movie">movie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book" class="mw-redirect" title="Book">book</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Historical" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical">historical</a> figure, try Wikiquote.  <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikiquote</a> is a free, searchable database of quotes from <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a> and <a href="/wiki/Creative" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative">creative</a> works.  The site, launched in <a href="/wiki/July" title="July">July</a> <a href="/wiki/2003" class="mw-disambig" title="2003">2003</a>, has blossomed quickly. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dan_Woods&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Woods (page does not 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