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Subject: [Leica] Totally OT: Is this our B. D. Colen?
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Aug 17 13:46:05 2005

No, it's not at all. But it is always described as such - "May you live in
interesting times." And it turns out that Robert Kennedy was the ancient
Chinese philosopher who coined it.


On 8/17/05 3:37 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:

> While I don't remember all the thousands Chinese proverbs that I read when
> I was growing up, this line is definitely not a Chinese Proverb, and there
> is no such thing as "Confucious says..."
> 
> At 11:30 AM 8/17/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Thanks. It is certainly, uh, 'interesting.' Remember the Chinese proverb
>> that is apparently not a Chinese proverb - but rather is a line Bobby
>> Kennedy threw out as a 'Chinese proverb?' About living in interesting 
>> times?
>> ;-)
>> 
> 
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
> 
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