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Re: What about the first?
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Fri, 28 May 2004 02:41:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:

   But what does that mean? Humility is irrelevant. Your obfuscation is a dodge.

When someone observed to Winston Churchill that his predecessor as prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, was a humble man, Churchill is reported to have replied, “And he has so much to be humble about.”

Ditto for some current European leaders and opinion shapers, I think...

I agree. You can count my PM in the list :-/


Pedro

And Bush! ;-)

I’m surprised, ->Bruce<-, that you’d even recognize humility in a leader, given whom you recently voted into office;-)

JOHN



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(...) And Bush! ;-) -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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