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		jhncls on May 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All the best engineering advice I stole from non-t... It's a quote from Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) [0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle#Misattributed

ChrisMarshallNY on May 30, 2021 [–]

I did not know who did that. Thanks! I knew it was misattributed, but was really just a "cliff's notes" of a speech ARIS-stot-ly made.

I have never really cared who said it. It's a great quote.

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