# Revised rule about quotes

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I am interested in what exactly counts as an attribution for quotation marks.

This sort of thing, I’m guessing:

> [@Longevity in seventeenth-century U.S. and primitive societies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-in-seventeenth-century-u-s-and-primitive-societies/809178/19):
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> jtur88 writes:
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> \> So many people today inherit life-shortening genes, and we keep them alive until they can reproduce more issue with life-shortening  
> \> genes.
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> Do you have any proof of this claim?

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