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- From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
- Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
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- References: <1992Dec30.135322.879@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <1992Dec31.163532.21610@osf.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:45:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.163532.21610@osf.org>, dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
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- > And an atheist philosopher, but I forget which (Descartes? Voltaire? Hegel?)
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- > "Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son mĪtier"
- > (God will forgive me. It's his profession)
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- Are you quite sure? My references tag this to be something the Empress
- Catherine the Great said (I don't think these were her last words, though):
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- "I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me:
- that's his."
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- There goes a secure person who's "happy-to-be-me." :-)
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- -- Rao Akella <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
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