>>>People of non-Anglosaxon cultures obviously never said anything smart, save for token presence of Voltaire, who was co-opted.
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>>>#1 entry in my new list that I promised I will begin compiling. May I ask for a link to the source, so I can reference it later?
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>>Hey, it's a list - I didn't say it was an exhaustive one :) A friend sent it to me - no idea where he got it from.
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>Guessed so. That's the early socialist economy of scarcity, you make do with what you have. In the internet economy, where everyone builds engines to show content but very few produce actual content, the same thing will be recycled endlessly. In the case of collections of quotes, there are maybe a dozen floating around, and they are all (haven't seen, but I bet a beer) composed from strictly U(S+K) sources, with a token presence of French, German, maybe an occasional Italian but he better be Renaissance, and once in a blue moon, a Scandinavian, or from other English speaking places like .ca, .za, .ie, .au, .nz, .in...
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>I have some ideas as to why is it so, but for now I've just begun compiling evidence. These lists are a start.


I think you need to take into account the universe you are being exposed to. For example, I bet there are lists of quotes in Chinese but they are not being forwarded to your circle of acquaintances and hence not to you either. You will need to cast a wider net in order to make a true measure of the quotes/content that are floating around.

In respect of creating content vs. just passing around existing content – nothing new here Dragan, this is the way it has always been since the earliest story tellers sitting around the tribal fire.