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In article <327ACC57.51C5C911@earthops.org> klaatu <root@earthops.org> writes:
> Jeff wrote:
> >
> > > Bush acted noble and stood behind his mistakes.... (Quayle, John Tower,
> > > Clarence Thomas, and John Sununu).
> >
> > Now, I agree with most of your statement, but how was Quayle a mistake?
> > He's the sharpest political man I've seen of late, and he stands for what
> > he believes in.  What did he do to make him a mistake?  Spell potato(e)
> > wrong?  Man, he ought to be sent back to school for that.  Say that the
> > Murphy Brown show is immoral?  At least he says what he believes, and I
> > admire that ...
>
> He may say what he believes, but does it ever _mean_ anything? For
> instance, he's pretty famous for this one:
>
> "If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure"...
>
> Now _that_ is what I would call clarity of thought...

Hmmmmm... I've seen this quote before, along with others, but now that I
think about it, I just wonder what the context of it originally was.

You know, he just MIGHT have meant something like "If we do not succeed
[in this immediate subset of the matter] we run the risk of failure [in
the overall SUPERset of the matter]."

You know, something like "If we lose this battle, we might lose the
war."

>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff
>
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Heh!  Really like THIS line!

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