[Rhodes22-list] Answer to genius or stupid for Josef. (Political Statement by Rummy)

Tootle ekroposki at charter.net
Tue Feb 13 09:29:31 EST 2007


Captain Rummy:

       Calvin Coolidge was a  Republican governor of Massachusetts.  Does
this mean you are supporting Mitt Romney?

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA




R22RumRunner wrote:
> 
>  
> Genius, like any intellectual capacity is by definition, by  genetics, by 
> measurement - delimited, or circumscribed within each  individual. 
> However, the 
> human heart, the soul, the spirit,  character, will, - or any grouping of 
> words you might use to  describe each unique individual human being - is
> not 
> limited.  It  may be "stupid" to think, but the limits on human beings
> have nothing 
> to do  with intellect; the limits are self proscribed, the chains, self 
> imposed.   In reality, those chains can, in fact, as so many life's
> stories in this 
> country  illustrate, be broken.  I vote for the man or woman who, despite 
> all, be it  suffering, hardship, poverty, lack of education or any of the
> limits 
> life  can and does impose on us; in other words the lack of what I have in  
> abundance, believes the limits everyone else sees, are  opportunities.
>  
> As Calvin Coolidge said:
>  
>                          Nothing in the world can take the  place of 
> persistence.
>                          Talent will not: nothing is more common than 
> unsuccessful men with  talent.
>                          Genius will not: unrewarded genius is  almost a 
> proverb.
>                          Education will not: the world is full  of
> educated 
> derelicts.
>                          Persistence and determination alone  are
> omnipotent.
>  
> I  think I will go with stupid.
>  
> Rummy
> 
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