Please do NOT post quotes here UNLESS you check them first, if you didn't find them from a reliable source. [View all]
And by a reliable source, I mean a news site or other site you can trust, or a book, magazine or newspaper offline.
Trusted sources do NOT mean people posting memes online, with no source given for the quote.
If you don't know how to check, just take a part of the quote and put quotation marks around it to see if a search engine can find that snippet - and from a trustworthy source. NOT a social media post, unless it's a social media post by the person who's supposedly being quoted.
We have fake quotes posted much too often here. One posted this morning was apparently very stupidly launched by someone on Threads who thought it would be clever to put memorable words into Martha Stewart's mouth - as satire - but NOT identify them as satire when he posted the "quote."
He admitted it later, apparently at least a day later, but by then the admission had little chance of ever catching up with the original lie.
No matter how much you agree with the sentiment in a fake quote, NO ONE should do what he did. That quote will survive for years online, and will probably end up in some AI search summaries that might not provide any source for it.
What he did was unfair to her and to everyone duped by his misguided attempt at satire. He wasted a lot of people's time, and treated her as a puppet.
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