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by Jodie44 on May 18th, 2006
First, I wrote, "Albert Einstein.", and hit the submit button. About thirty seconds later, I discovered the author was Ben Franklin. And then I found out editing answers had just become impossible, Furthermore, things would be like that for a while.
There's nothing like staring at the absence of "edit this answer" to make you wish the federal government was spending billions of dollars on time travel instead of arrogance. Or, more realistically, to make me wish I'd verified the information before answering. Thanks to Bob for being so cool about the whole thing. Very decent of you, considering my answer was wrong and stayed that way for a while. Live and learn:)
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oh yeah.
by Yarnlady is happy every day on November 8th, 2007
Well, it's very widely attributed to both of them, but both are wrong. It's actually Rita Mae Brown, in the novel Sudden Death
by DavidC on May 27th, 2009
How can it be attributed to both, since they since Ben Franklin said it and lived 0ver 100 years before Einstein?????
by thomas.tavelli on September 2nd, 2010
Thomas Tavelli It means that some people say Ben Franklin said it first, and other people say no he didn't say it, Einstein said it, not that they both said it first.
by Yarnlady is happy every day on September 3rd, 2010
The quote appears in the Basic Text of Narcotics Anonymous which was copyrighted in 1982 and later published in 1983. It is found on page 11 of the final "Review Form" which was distributed to the fellowship in November of 1981. It is found on page 23 of the current sixth edition.
It's not in the dictionary, it wasn't said by Franklin or Einstein - or even George Carlin. Those are urban legends.
The Narcotics Anonymous document predates Rita Mae Brown's book by two years.
by sutester01@gmail.com on July 11th, 2011