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To: wsringeorgia who wrote (44126)	12/5/2000 7:25:01 PM
From: Terry Whitman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Well put. Now take this Glue bong before you start making some kind of wild conclusions. >those at the bottom and those in the ranks have no idea what moves, antimates and propels those at the top (they may THINK they do) but those at the top, the sucessful ones anyway are VERY GOOD at understanding (and motivating) those below.< I suppose those at the top must have some inkling of how to motivate, or they wouldn't have gotten there. Now, back to my life of quiet desparation.... You bet on the ponies? starnews.com LOL

To: wsringeorgia who wrote (44126)	12/5/2000 10:20:58 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 436258

"[I]llusions endure because illusion is a need for almost all men, a need that they feel no less strongly than their material needs. A system of illusions, therefore, is not easily discredited until it can be replaced with a new system. As we often see, when that is not possible, not even a sequence of sufferings, of terrible trials born of experiences more terrible still, is enough to disenchant a people; or, more exactly, discouragement rather than disillusionment settles upon that people and endures as long as the generation that has personally suffered still lives. But after that, if there has been no change in the trend of ideas and in the education of sentiments, the moment social energies have somewhat revived, the same illusions produce new conflicts and new misfortunes over again. Moreover it is in the nature of men to retain favorable memories of the days during which they suffered, and of the individuals who caused their sufferings. That is the case especially when a certain length of time has elapsed. The masses always end by admiring and draping in poetic legend leaders like Napoleon, who have brought untold pain and misfortune upon them but who at the same time have satisfied their need for ennobling emotions and their fantastic craving for novelties and great things..." - Gaetono Mosca "We often encounter copies of significant men; and, as also in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals." - Friedrich Nietzsche