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Re: Can You Identify This Quote?
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byron bowman <[log in to unmask]>
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byron bowman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:59:12 -0500
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Tom,
I have it in my file of quotes as follows.
Sorry, I do not have a citation.
Byron
There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal  
gang of facts. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French writer and moralist  
(1613-1680)

On Jan 31, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Tom Gilmore wrote:

> 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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