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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >
> > The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > [recovered from the Bozo Bin, for once]
> > If you want me to reply you shouldn't crosspost.
> >
> > > J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > [-]
> > > > > > > "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
> > > > > > > expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
> > > > > > anything like this?
> > > > > > Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jan
> > > > > > (doubting it)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > He concludes his letter, ironically: "I am now completely ripe for the ins
> > ane
> > > > asylumâ•°
> > > > > https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol13-doc/38
> > > >
> > > > Certainly, but this is not the phrase wanted.
> > > > I Had the opportunity to look it up in the meantime.
> > > > It is in the 'ultimate quotable Einstein',
> > > > in the 'attributed to' part.
> > > > This is an error, it should be in the 'not by Einstein' section.
> > > >
> > > > ======
> > > >  *Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
> > > > again and expecting different results.
> > > > By Rita Mae Brown, in Sudden Death (New York: Bantam,
> > > > 1983), 68. Thanks to Barbara Wolff for the source.
> > > > =====
> > > > So an invention from well after Einstein's death,
> > > > by someone without any connection to either physics or Einstein.
> > > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown>
> > > >
> > > > And looking that up, in that book,
> > > > I find that there isn't any real Einstein in the book.
> > > > The phrase is there, in the dialogue,
> > > > but it is said by a character in the book who is nicknamed 'Einstein',
> > > > presumably because she is supposed to have brains.
> > > >
> > > > So it is all bunk, and it has nothing to do with the real Einstein,
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > >
> > >
> > > But it is not what you wrote. You wrote:
> > >
> > > "Do you have a real source for Einstein ever having said
> > > anything like this?
> > > Beyond the internet forever repeating itself?"
> > >
> > >
> > > ever having said
> > > anything like this?
> > >
> > > anything like this?
> > >
> > >
> > > "anything"
> > >
> > > in any degree; to any extent; in any way; at all:
> > > any thing whatever; something, no matter what:
> > > https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anything
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > You didn't say "exactly that", you said..."anything".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I posted anything.
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know what the 'year 1983' has to do with Einstein.
> > >
> > >
> > > Didn't he died before the year 1983???
> > >
> > > Why are yous people looking for quotes AFTER he died??? dats dumb.
> >
> > Pfft. Do read.
> > The quotation is correct, the source I found for it is correct,
> > and has nothing at all to do with Albert Einstein.
> >
> > It is a mis-attribution,
> >
> > Jan
> 
> "mis-attribution"????
> 
> You sure it is not a 1983..plagaraism?


 J. J. Lodder lives in a world where everytime Albert Einstein utters a word someone behind him is writing it down!






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to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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