[Ads-l] Quote: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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Garson investigated this in 2011

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113145.html
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113165.html

His QI page
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/
has Nov 1981 as an earliest date.

_Knoxville [TN] News-Sentinel_ 11 Oct 1981 p F-17 col 2  genealogybank.com
"But another remarks, 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' "

The article is about Al-Anon, and quotes a woman at an Al-Anon meeting.  I'd suspect the woman had seen this in some earlier 12-step literature.


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