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Title	Author	Date
Hannah Arendt-quote	Krul, Jeffrey	Sep 21, 2008
Oh dear! Let's see.. 1. Klinghoffer quotes some reputed historians like Fest and Arendt (who is more a phlosopher than a historian, by the way) about biology. 2. Professor Bottaro walks to his office, finds the book of Fest and shows that the Fest-quote is a misquote. 3. Willing to give a contribution to the article, I search the internet, and find the original text of the Hannah Arendt-quote, which I present to the Talkreason- administration. As for I am a biologist, nor a native English-speaker, I will leave it to the Talkreason- administration to decide whether the Arendt-fragment is a misquote or not. 4. And because of this, I 'apparently' try to 'prove Bottaro wrong'? I guess something went wrong in understanding eachother.
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Title	Author	Date
Hannah Arendt-quote	TalkReason ,	Sep 21, 2008
Dear Mr. Krul: Thanks for the clarification. If we erroneously interpreted your intention, we apologize. As our justification, we perhaps may point out that it seemed hard to interpret your intention other than we did. If you did not try to somehow cast doubts upon Prof. Bottaro's article, what other reason did you have to point to the quote from Arendt's essay? Anyway, hopefully our apology will satisfy you and the matter may be thus solved. Best wishes, Talk Reason administration
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