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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 02:58 PM
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Schopenhauer quote about the 3 stages of truth:
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Doesn't this so perfectly describe the DSM situation???

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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 03:01 PM
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1. beautiful...thanks
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 03:05 PM
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2. there's also Gandhi's version

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win."
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 03:09 PM
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3. Andrea Mitchell self-evident
Edited on Sat Jun-18-05 03:15 PM by seemslikeadream
Exact quote from an MSNBC interview of Andrea Mitchell and her thoughts on the DSM the morning of Wednesday June 15


You would have had to be brain dead not to know what the president was up too.
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