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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=shmage@pipeline.com href="mailto:shmage@pipeline.com">Shane Mage</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Allies and opponents of US
fall silent</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite"> What's that old Arabic</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">heretical saying that Dostoevsky was fond of
stating `if god does not</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>exist everything is permitted'?<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">Ian Murray</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Joan Robinson, in<I> Economic Philosophy</I>, had the last word on
this:</DIV>
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<DIV>"This has to be one of the most stupid things ever written.</DIV>
<DIV> Whether or not god exists, it still would not be permitted</DIV>
<DIV> to drive on the right in London or to drive on the left</DIV>
<DIV> in Paris."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>=============</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Methinks she'd reconsider her position --not on
the path dependency of driving standards, but on US militarism and how to stop
it under current geopolitics-- on the statement.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ian</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>