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It’s one of the most infamous misquotes of all time: Aristotle’s supposed assertion that, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
One blogger notes that the misquote appears to have first surfaced in Lowell Bennion’s 1959 book “Religion and the Pursuit of Truth” and that he “can only assume it is a rather radical paraphrase of the actual sentence that appears in Aristotle’s ‘Nicomachean Ethics.’”
Nevertheless, the thought itself — even if it is a “radical paraphrase” and doesn’t capture Aristotle’s real meaning — is not a bad one. It’s certainly a heck of a better sentiment than this anonymous quote about what happened to Vice President Kamala Harris when she was exposed to media where she wasn’t portrayed in a favorable light: “It got in her head and caused high anxiety.”
That quote comes from an Axios article published Friday, titled “Inside Biden’s obsession with ‘Morning Joe.’” Apparently, the president just can’t get enough of the MSNBC weekday morning show that generally praises his administration and the Democrats so effusively Biden literally couldn’t do a better job if he were doing it himself.
And I don’t mean that as in “figuratively, but in bolded italics” literally, but literally literally — considering this is what happens when America’s leader tries to sing his own praises:
What he said. Four more years! Four more years! Four more beers!
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