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As a rule of thumb, I try not to quote from media unless I have seen the whole book&#x2F;story&#x2F;article&#x2F;movie myself and am sure I understand the quotation in context.<p>Part of that comes from the kind of frustration Hillel Wayne voices here:<p>&gt; People will offhand use famous quotes to support their arguments, when the context the quote was given in has nothing to do with it.<p>I spent a lot of hours in high school debate listening to people misattribute quotes or misconstrue them to mean the opposite. This was frustrating at the time but in retrospect this was a valuable lesson -- if EVERYONE is gonna say that Voltaire said that thing about disagreeing with what you say, what else is everyone wrong about?<p>I&#x27;m also pretty sure I had this idea reinforced by an Asimov book where he argues that intellectual societies decay as they begin to rely on secondary-source research (going to the library and reading what people have written about others&#x27; experiences, instead of going out there yourself and looking at stuff). But I can&#x27;t find the source now, ha ha.