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This nonsense of quoting the “profound thought” you’re about to read in the next paragraph is the most annoying stylistic choice to emerge from the internet. I didn’t finish the article because of its overuse.



I saw two uses. Is that right?

> Now, “flow state” has all sorts of associations ...

and

> Before I started writing this article ...


It emerged from printed news. It's more than a century old.




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