Quotes about verbatim (11 Quotes)


    And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

    The Founding Fathers were careful to distinguish representative republicanism from direct democracy. Alexander Hamilton, for example, endorsed the former but condemned the latter. ...the records of the ratification conventions were not verbatim transcriptions. It has been observed, by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny their figure, deformity. When they assembled, the field of debate presented an ungovernable mob, not only incapable of deliberation, but prepared for every enormity.

    We had another paper that ran the whole thing almost (verbatim) ... and we finally got that paper to retract it. We've contacted this reporter and asked them to correct the mistake.




    I said, 'Well I'm wrong. You can't tell them about it, they'll kill you.' He said nothing ... then I went through the questionnaire and I began to read him each question and read him the results of each question verbatim. And he was silent during virtually the entire process. ... And then I said, 'So you just can't do this.' And he said, 'It just won't fly. It just won't fly.' And I said, 'They're not ready for it,' meaning the voters.

    About a week before he chanced upon that ad, Marc said he was looking for a shop that focuses on military history and sells books, prints and maps. The ad read almost verbatim what he had said. A year after reading the ad, we closed the deal.

    We didn't see any benefit to following the script verbatim. We just felt we had more freedom in what we could bring the gaming world if we went outside the set script.



    And if you note, on the cover note of what the Department of Defense put out, they wrote, 'Due to the quality of the original tape, it is not a verbatim transcript of every word spoken during the meeting, but does convey the messages and information flow,'



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