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* ''[[The Bible]]'': "So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. ... Go and do likewise." This quote, which starts with Matthew 27:5 and skips over the entire book of Mark (among other verses) to end with part of Luke 10:37, is often used as an exaggerated example of what can result when Biblical verses are taken out of context. |
* ''[[The Bible]]'': "So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. ... Go and do likewise." This quote, which starts with Matthew 27:5 and skips over the entire book of Mark (among other verses) to end with part of Luke 10:37, is often used as an exaggerated example of what can result when Biblical verses are taken out of context. |
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* [[Artemis Fowl]] does this in the second book. He mines a recorded conversation with his mother for quotes that he then combines into an entirely different message to fool his school principal. |
* [[Artemis Fowl]] does this in the second book. He mines a recorded conversation with his mother for quotes that he then combines into an entirely different message to fool his school principal. |
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* ''Brother Eagle, Sister Sky'' by Susan Jeffers had hippy-friendly quotes extracted from the Chief Seattle's Speech (which may be apocryphal in the first place), of all things. Which was noted in ''A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children'' by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin - their response was "make a 'beautiful environmental statement' out of ''that'', if you can" and quoting the part which ends with "for the dead are not altogether powerless". |
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