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Re:Ooh.directory by kachnuv_ocasek on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:35PM (#33724847)
I prefer Slavoj Žižek’s “first time as a tragedy, second as a farce”.
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Re:Ooh.directory by notlukesky on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:48PM (#33726026)
That was Karl Marx:

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655

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Re:Ooh.directory by taneq on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:50PM (#33727331)
Maybe the first time. ;)
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Re:Ooh.directory by grey-area on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:53AM (#33728155)
In a fun essay named The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, though apparently lifted by Marx from a letter to him by Engels:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_L...

So really it was Engels.

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Re:Ooh.directory by pmontra on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:26AM (#33728957)
"First time is not first, second time is an inaccurate citation." Could we settle on this?
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Re:Ooh.directory by vanderZwan on Thursday November 24, 2022 @04:40AM (#33729404)
Isn't that more or less Stigler's Law of Eponymy?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

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Re:Ooh.directory by isamuel on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:39AM (#33731163)
That was someone else.
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