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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2004/11

From: MPeaceman@-----.de (Matthew Peaceman)
Subj: [DR-L] Goethe quote
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:11:20 -0500


>
> Since my signature Goethe quote was translated, I'd just like to mention
> that it means the same thing as the Gandhi quote - just expressed in a
> cruder fashion!
>
>>"Mach' es kurz! Am Juengsten Tag ist's nur ein Furz!" Goethe
> Cheers, Jim
>

To some extent this might be true Jim, but Ghandi said it is important
to do what you
need to do even if it is inevitably insignificant. Goethe seems to be
expressing
his exasperation at long windedness. Of course, since I don't know the
context of the Goethe quote I might be wrong.

Be interesting to have the entire passages of both quotes.

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