[PW] 2 quotation questions

[Kristen L. Mastel]

I have two quotation questions that need authenticating, but for the life of
me I can't track them down.  I have checked almost a hundred quotation
books, including the classics such as Bartlett, Webster's, Oxford, Modern
Dictionary, Readers Digest Treasury of Modern Quotations, Evans Dictionary
of Quotations, and Hoyt's, just to name a few.  I also checked Oxford
Reference Desk with no luck.

 

Any suggestions or tips on where else to look?

 

1.        Patron needs to find the origin/author of this quote: maximum
independence comes through/from maximum accountability

2.       A professor is trying to find the origins of the phrase "tipping
point". All I've been able to find is a reference to the 1960's sociologist
Morton Grodzins who first coined the phrase in regard to white flight from
black neighborhoods. Our faculty member is convinced that there must be an
earlier usage of the phrase, perhaps related to scales or equilibrium. I
have looked in various phrase/word origin reference materials as well as the
OED, but to no avail.

 

Many thanks for your time and effort in advance.

 

Respectfully,

Kristen Mastel  

 

 

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