If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Fred Shapiro's Freakonomics blog discusses the subject phrase here:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/05/26/if-you-cant-beat-them-join-them/
and takes it back to 13 Feb 1902.

_Puck_ 7/10/1901 vol 49 no. 1271 (6th unnum page of this issue) Google
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" "That will, and does, exceedingly well for publication," replied the
Successful Veteran, "but for private consumption, 'If you can't beat
'em, join 'em,' will always prove a great deal more lucrative." "
http://books.google.com/books?id=d-tCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PT388#v=onepage&q&f=fal
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