Perhaps Graeber's most interesting claim, though, is that our expressed hostility toward bureaucracy is at least partly disingenuous: that these thickets of rules and regulations are a source, to quote from his subtitle, of "secret joys" for most of us.
The earliest source to quote acusmata is Aristotle, in the fragments of his now lost treatise on the Pythagoreans.
Similarly, when trying to find out a player's wages, a club source is more likely to quote the basic wage, whereas the player's agent might also include image rights and performance bonuses.
It's sometimes necessary to quote a source anonymously, but it's almost always problematic in one way or another.
The paper was therefore able to quote "a source close to Mr Murdoch" who said: "Matthew and Rupert have no relationship and so none of this is a surprise".
The Star went on to quote it source as saying: "Plus, he's closer in height to Freddie than Sacha, who's much taller.
The Sensual World was originally intended as a direct lift of Molly Bloom's monologue from James Joyce's Ulysses, but Bush was forced to write her own lyrics when she was denied permission to quote the source material.
Protein source of the future, now, to quote The Mountain Goats.
Last week, the Wire highlighted the importance of holding mainstream media accountable especially when it comes to giving proper context to quoted sources.
The Democratic congressman and son of civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson is the politician anonymously cited in an FBI affidavit as allegedly offering to raise $500,000 for Blagojevich in exchange for an appointment to Obama's Senate seat, according to sources quoted by ABC news.
