Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:06:24 04/12/02
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On April 11, 2002 at 18:34:59, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >BTW, I wonder what "prouds" really means. It is not one of my favourite words. >Tends to be a good, accepted, civil way of meaning "arrogance". Frankly it is >difficult to me to find just one reason why a GM chess player or a writer or a >poet or a musician should be proud of being good or even excellent in his craft. >That's nothing. Just a matter of skill, dedication or any other secondary >virtue. But of course is a human trait. You can see it even in the case of the >most insignificant perfomances. There are also people "proud" of being of this >or that origen. Or of being like they are. At last, another way of saying "I am >special because I am such and such". I tend to agree with Mark Twain, who used >to say this: >"I never ask to nobody which is his national, religious, ethnic or professional >origen; all are human beings and there is nothing worst than that..." >OK, I should had posted this in the other place... >fernando You should be proud for being so well-read and open-minded! ;-)
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