Thylacoleo is on the prowl...

Essay writing question:

So if I write "As Taylor so astutely put it in his text The Vital Landscape, 18th century scholars believed that 'human beings were distinguished from minerals, plants and animals by the faculty of reason.'" or something similar, in my essay, do I then have to footnote that sentence? I honestly don't know  - I'm letting the reader know that this sentence is not my own, but it doesn't tell them where to look for the quote. I'm thinking footnote it. But I don't want to over-reference, because I got told off for that once and I think it's a silly thing to lose points for.

Oh fuck

MY ESSAY IS EATEN
FUCK

I wrote most of it on Illidan today because I left Elbereth's traveling power supply at Gavin's.
I came home.
ILLIDAN IS NOT STARTING UP.
Whenever I press the go button it tells me I need to restart. I got past the login screen one time, but then it happened again.

PLEASE SEND HELP!

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Immediate Crisis averted for now! The computer started (randomly) and I copied my stuff onto a thumbdrive and now all is well. HOWEVER I would still like to be able to use this computer so  I copied the error report thing... because I thought it might be useful? I'm going to post it here mainly because I want to remember that I have it and find out how to fix it, but if you Know Things and want to have a look please feel free to impart upon me your knowledge! :)
( Error report thing! )

GOD, THAT IS A RELIEF.