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Subject: [Leica] Geesh - and we though camera people had it tough
From: daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed Oct 13 11:32:53 2004
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Fantastic! There's hope. Let's just hope parts of history keeps repeating
itself.

Thanks for that quote, B.D.

Daniel

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Very well put, Greg, you Newfie SOB! :-)
>
> As Carl Shurz quoth in an 1899 speech to an "Anti-Imperialistic
> Conference:"
>
> "I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves .
> too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the
> selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry
> of mock patriotism: 'Our country, right or wrong!' They will not fail to
> recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and
> welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only
> as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country-when right
> to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'"
>
> B. D.
>
>
>
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