Arrogance RE: American Attitudes (was Re: Hard working?)

[John D. Giorgis]

At 01:36 AM 5/24/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>There have been some truly great people in history, who accomplished great 
>things. People like Gandhi, Shakespeare, Einstein, Hawking. Did they 
>arrogantly boast about how great they were? AFAIK, they didn't. They didn't 
>need to.

And you know that Shakespeare wasn't arrogant, how? 

I assume by this logic, however, that Heisenberg, and Churchill, et al
weren't great?

Or perhaps the correalation you describe is not as solid as you think>?


JDG
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