This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C11A8A.C2BF23C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Friends; " The Word is the mother of the thought, not its maid." = Johannes Nestroy When I read some observations of the Chinese sage = Mencius(379B.C.-289B.C) he reminded me of the life of Ernst Juenger. = Mencius wrote:" When heaven is about to confer a great office on any = man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and = bones with toil." Opti =20 ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C11A8A.C2BF23C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3616.1301"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" size=3D2>Dear Friends; " The = Word is the=20 mother of the thought, not its maid." Johannes Nestroy</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" size=3D2>When I read some = observations of the=20 Chinese sage Mencius(379B.C.-289B.C) he reminded me of the life of Ernst = Juenger. Mencius wrote:" When heaven is about to confer a great = office on=20 any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and = bones=20 with toil."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Bookman Old Style" size=3D2>Opti =20 </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C11A8A.C2BF23C0--
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