[PW] 2 quotation questions

[Sue Kamm]

Nothing at Bartlby.com which includes RESPECTFULLY QUOTED.

I'm at work, and my copy of the YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS is at home, so I can't check there.  

Fred Shapiro reads this list; he might have an answer.
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Kristen L. Mastel" <meye0539 at umn.edu>
>Sent: Oct 15, 2007 1:08 PM
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: [PW] 2 quotation questions
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>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.
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>Any suggestions or tips on where else to look?
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>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.
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>Many thanks for your time and effort in advance.
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>Respectfully,
>
>Kristen Mastel  
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