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Mediocrity

did the Greek philosopher Socrates ever have thoughts of his own mediocrity, did Buddha in meditation contemplate belly-button lint in his belly button sedate? maybe some Confucian spiritual medium pondered dust in minute trivial tedium. did Newton while conjuring Newtonian physics diverge integrals to converge sum to basics? who might think the relativity Einstein thunk of rusted tin-cans, rocks and other space junk the universal ideas of Hubble and Neils Bohr might spring from ordinariness, not much more did Jesus when building blocks of religion view a mud stain on his robe with derision? did Mohammed when thinking deep thoughts find his mind became distracted, distraught? did Edison surmise that he wasn't too bright at candled table where he invented the light? did Voltaire care what Michelangelo did know? do mediocre minds reap what deep minds sow? do great minds when thinking of great things see the law-of-averages that mediocrity brings? did Spinosa know that mundane goes a long way to get most'a us through an ordinary day my supposition is, yes, even great minds digress intrinsically, mediocrity, is part of all humanity © Goode Guy 2011-09-22

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