07-22-2004, 11:26 PM
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| Guest | Re: TDF Crowd Math
>"Mike Kruger" MikeKr@mouse-potato.com
wrote:
>I entered just the rest of the quote, i.e. "doesn't guarantee happiness,
>only the pursuit of it." into Google, and it responded with several screens
>which all specified "U.S. Constitution" and "Ben Franklin".
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>So, if this is not the correct quote, at least there are lots of other
>people who are wrong.
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>Mike Kruger
>The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.
>You have to catch up with it yourself.
> [Benjamin Franklin]
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From what I've read, that quote supposedly was a reply to someone complaining
to Ben that the Constitution guaranteed happiness yet he had not gotten his
share. In that context, its understandable, even clever.
Ben may or may not have said it. He never wrote it and CNN wasn't around then
to record it if he did so it could well be a fabrication, rather like David
Millar's original statements about his EPO doping. (Cycling content rule
satisfied.)
Regards,
Bob Hunt
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