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Old 04-10-2007, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by nawbut";p=&quot View Post
I have a fondness for Einstein, Socrates and more that are not on the list, but there are different types of 'clever'.....
A Platonic type of clever.

Great fun though.

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"Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?"
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html

Newton was pretty clever. Quite nasty by most accounts but definitely clever.
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