[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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