NA Confidential: Hangman

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Hangman

...but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved...

Who said it? In what book?

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Guess one letter and only one letter per commenter. No cheating. No Internet searches. First one to guess the author and the book completely and correctly wins "Blogger o' the Day."

Like anyone won't go to ask.com and punch in the text string!

8 comments:

All4Word said...: Blogger o' the Month goes to whoever can tell us in what new book this passage serves as the introduction to Chapter 1. Any takers?; 8:19 PM
jon faith said...: hazarding a guess, what about Cobra II?; 8:40 PM
All4Word said...: Nope, Jon. It's certainly appropriate to that subject matter, but no WEO on that guess.; 10:00 AM
Matt Nash said...: Mein Kompf, never read it, just a guess.; 12:31 PM
All4Word said...: Herr Hitler's magnum opus is not the correct book. Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is mostly a historical curiosity, but the writer of the relevant quote-out is often reviled, as was Mr. Schicklgruber. Guess again!; 4:40 PM
Anonymous said...: Is the authors initials C.D. and people touting his claims in opposition to what most bloggers know I believe?; 9:06 AM
All4Word said...: The initials HB provides are the biggest clue yet. Go ahead and take your guess, Doc. We'll wait for anyone who might want to take on Blogger o' the Month, even though we're into a new lunar cycle.; 3:58 PM
All4Word said...: Charles Darwin wrote the quote in The Descent of Man.

Nicholas Wade borrowed to open his new book, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors.

NA Confidential thanks you for playing.; 5:39 PM