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[Richmond]

It is amazing how many "wise" sayings are attributed to many "Wise" 
people: Voltaire and Einstein included. This, I believe, is a human 
tendency to seek authority to their ideas by ascribing them to
authority figures: like religious (and 'religious') people ascribing 
everything wise to their scripture.

R.

On 7.07.2016 11:09, Jacques Clavel wrote:
> Mark wrote :
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> *At any rate, the quote is variously ascribed to Einstein and to Benjamin
> Franklin, but probably originated with Voltaire:Lorsque l'on effectue une
> action, atteint un mauvais résultat, puis répète l'action plusieurs fois
> attendent un meilleur résultat, on est un peu fou de singe, non? --
> Réflexions sur la jonque*
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> I have found the Wikiquote english site, which says that...
> But this quote is not a correct sentence in french. Correct sentence would
> be :
> "Lorsque l'on effectue une action, atteint un mauvais résultat, puis répète
> l'action plusieurs fois *en attendant* un meilleur résultat, on est un peu
> fou de *recommencer*, non?"
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> And I have not found "Réflexion sur la Jonque" in the list of the text from
> Voltaire. Perhaps it exists, but I have not found it.
> Ah the Web data source...
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> 2016-07-07 3:40 GMT+02:00 Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>:
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>> On 07/06/2016 10:44 AM, Richmond wrote:
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>>> Not true; Albert Einstein [The man who knew a lot about Physics and
>>> Maths and not much else and
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>> Best to stick to things you know something about, yes?
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>> At any rate, the quote is variously ascribed to Einstein and to Benjamin
>> Franklin, but probably originated with Voltaire:
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>> Lorsque l'on effectue une action, atteint un mauvais résultat, puis répète
>> l'action plusieurs fois attendent un meilleur résultat, on est un peu fou
>> de singe, non?
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>>   -- Réflexions sur la jonque
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>> --
>>   Mark Wieder
>>   ahsoftware at gmail.com
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