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+# Quote
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+- I sometimes use a no-op action 'quote' (a link to this node) to indicate that the block in question is a quote lifted from somewhere else -- often [[wikipedia]] or the link the block is a child of.
+- I do this because Markdown's quote operator (>) does not play well in lists (which I use to represent blocks in the [[agora]]).
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+[//begin]: # "Autogenerated link references for markdown compatibility"
+[wikipedia]: wikipedia "Wikipedia"
+[agora]: agora "Agora"
+[//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
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