Try Telling That to Justices Thomas & Scalia
'What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.'
--the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Friday, July 20, 2007
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3 Comments:
I find the quote attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson here:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2160.html
My favorite Emerson quote, dedicated to Larry Flynt's research: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
Damn, that would blow my whole premise, wouldn't it? Thanks for your fact-checking anyway. I would go back and check my original source, if only I could remember what it was...
And what lies are within us...
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