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What a wonderful input there's been about that quote, PEtc at its shiny finest I'd say, it deserves an Oscar (pun intended) Here's another one (and a non anglo-centric one to boot) who was said on first reading Shakespeare something to the effect that 'I'm not impressed: he just strings together all these quotes'? Best Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edmund Hardy" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:29 AM Subject: Re: Snap/3-15-06--"The God Thing" so it's Oscar! It seems to be one of those catchy phrases that afterwards other people say & it gets attributed all over the place - this from an article googled on anti-Americanism: Recall how French statesman Georges Clemenceau echoed Linguet's slur in the early 20th century by sneering, "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."