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To: Metacomet who wrote (239541)	12/7/2013 8:02:28 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542233

Totally different. It is a given, a truism you cannot say any one person is better than the rest. We should all know that. So when I say he was the greatest man of the last century, or that speaking well of him can never be hyperbole, I am presenting a sort of poetic opinion of just how great a man he was. It is simply a way of expressing admiration way beyond the norm. It is not meant to be taken literally or quantified. I would say the same thing of Gandhi or MLK. <<Just commenting on the similarities in expression.. "When speaking well of Nelson Mandela hyperbole is impossible!" "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice....." ...totally different...just sorta similar