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Date: | Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:21:40 -0800 |
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Other questions aside do you really believe that the corporate
media would permit such an observation into print
wcm>
> > do not believe that I ever read anything of this nature attributed to him.
> The
> >
> > perils of the InterNet include stuff like this. He was a sweet and gentle
> man
> > and this just doesn't sound like him.
>
> I have to ask: why this quote, it's veracity notwithstanding:
>
> "I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard
> existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of
> freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime." -- Albert
> Einstein, 1947
>
> is something that is not suitable for a "sweet and gentle man" to say?
> So, Bertrand Russell was a "monster" and "bird-like creature" who had
> spoiled sweet American youth after all? Just because his of criticism of
> American society? And if Einstein did say that american society, or
> "Friendly Fascist State" as B. Gross vividly described it, is not sweet and
> gentle man?
> I sometimes do wonder is this really a Chomsky list or American patriot
> forum......
> Regards,
> Andrej
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert G. Grimes <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 5:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Einstein Quote
>
>
> > Tresy Kilbourne wrote:
> >
> > > News flash Andrej: this quote appears exactly one place on the
> Internet--at
> > > http://chumbly.math.missouri.edu/famousleft/einstein/ae.quotes.html, as
> part
> >
> > > of some ramshackle unfinished website for "progressives." It is sourced
> to
> > > someone named "Michael Williams," and there is no contact person to
> verify
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Excuse me if I'm not convinced. This quote appears in NONE of the many
> > > extensive Einstein websites/quotepages that exist out there.
> > > http://www.chesco.com/~artman/einstein.html
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Exactly my own response, Tresy, and my own evaluation. I do not believe
> that
> > this is a quote of Albert Einstein. I have read several books on his
> life and
> >
> > do not believe that I ever read anything of this nature attributed to him.
> The
> >
> > perils of the InterNet include stuff like this. He was a sweet and gentle
> man
> > and this just doesn't sound like him.
> >
> > I can be corrected and will be humbled if a reliable source could be found
> for
> >
> > this attribution but I doubt it seriously...
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bob Grimes
> >
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> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Man is not in control, but the man who knows he is not in control is more
> > in control...
> >
> > Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore....."
>
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