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Re: consistency (OT)

To: mvheim@studiolimage.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: consistency (OT)
From: REwald9535@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 01:38:16 EDT
What other automotive list would have a post with a quote from Emerson?  Is 
this a great list or what?
Rick Ewald

In a message dated 8/31/99 1:17:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mvheim@studiolimage.com writes:

> "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little 
>  statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great mind has 
>  simply nothing to do.... Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as 
>  cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words 
>  again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
>  
>  Ralph Waldo Emerson
>  1803-1882

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