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Re: Can You Identify This Quote?
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Susan J Avery <[log in to unmask]>
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Susan J Avery <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:06:05 -0500
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Tom
   The actual quote is "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a
beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts."  It was made by La
Rochefoucauld

Susan in Winston-Salem, NC

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:40:21 -0700 Tom Gilmore <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Hoping someone can tell me who wrote this terrific quote.  Came to me 
> from
> another researcher who can't remember where she saw it.
>  --Tom
> 
>   "There is nothing more tragic than the murder of a beautiful 
> theory by a
> brutal gang of facts."
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