[Ads-l] "There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea."

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, gee, if "you can kill a man but not an idea," then obviously there's
> no good way to kill a bad idea.
>

Well, if you look at it that way, the truth of the assertion is obvious.
That possibly explains why early instances of the saying are hard to find.
It's so obvious that it needs no expression.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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