Attribution of "... Life is about creating yourself" Quote?
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The following quote:
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
Is attributed to [George] Bernard Shaw in the current version of quotes.json
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Lines 666 to 671 in db96789
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/09/28/create-yourself/ suggests it should be Sydney J. Harris
However the Goodreads page linked to in the source
: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8727-life-isn-t-about-finding-yourself-life-is-about-creating-yourself indicates that it's an accepted "fact" ...
This is George's most "liked" quote ... https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5217.George_Bernard_Shaw
Does it mean that he said (or wrote it...) or just that the Internet has liked it into being a fact? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
What should we do? ignore or fix it?
annoyingly, Sydney J. Harris, does not appear to have this quote on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/169034.Sydney_J_Harris
So I'm inclined to leave it as-is, perhaps with an amendment to the author to include George's first name.
So I'm inclined to leave it as-is, perhaps with an amendment to the author to include George's first name.
This was fixed in 09ce0b885bc70e57dff0192e57084ef619014880
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Is there any further work to do on this issue, or should it be closed?
Thanks for fixing. Letโs close. ๐