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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MSI who wrote (228835)2/20/2002 9:37:40 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
>>I've never been called "invicible" before !

And for good reason. Invincible.

Though "invici" is the past tense of the Latin "invincere" - unable to conquer.

Invictus, what a great poem - though it was somewhat defamed by McVeigh's invocation and its association with secular humanism:

...The poem represents secular humanism, the spirit of the Victorian age, you could say, the rise of Darwin and the sciences as a challenge to traditional thought and creationism. Really Matthew Arnold, a contemporary of Henley's, wrote of the same spirit....
cnn.com

You should read it sometime.
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