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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: ges ✧✺  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Small minds
Date: 07/18/26 6:53 PM
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Socrates did not say this. It is a popular misattribution.

The earliest known version of the idea comes from the English historian Henry Thomas Buckle in the 19th century. In an 1901 autobiography citing Buckle, he stated: "You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas."

The quote in its modern, snappy form is most widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
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