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+  From: Darlene Sybert <engds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 14:31:02 -0500 (CDT)
On Fri, 24 May 1996 ccw94@xxxxxxxxxx (Colin Wight) wrote:
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> "What I try to achieve is the history of the relations which
> thought maintains with truth; the history of thought insofar as it is the
> thought of truth. All those who say truth does not exist for me are
> simple minded."
> (Foucault)

Do you recall the source of this quote?
I'd like to use it in a paper I'm writing, but I would like
to read the context first.

Thanks
Darlene Sybert, Instructor
http://www.missouri.edu/~engds/index.html
University of Missouri, Columbia (English Department)
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
-Lord Byron
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