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Re: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t byfield)
Sun Mar 10 21:50:23 1996

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 21:42:38 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tbyfield@panix.com (t byfield)

At 2:10 AM 3/11/96, Anonymous wrote:

>Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
>simpletons"?

        No, it was Emerson. And that's not what he said.

>What the compromises have to do with are that one lives in
>a society with rules, mores, laws.  One of those touch-shit
>facts of life.  You can do what you want, but when it involves

        You seem to be rather fond of consistency. ;)

Ted



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