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English term or phrase:
he is the people and that wisdom will die with him
English answer:
a form of arrogance
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he is the people and that wisdom will die with him
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Once her aunt sent her a present of a pretty silk dress, for country clergymen's wives do not have many luxuries��don't you know that?��and Patrick Bronte cut the dress into strips before her eyes and then threw the pieces, and the little slippers to match, into the fireplace, to teach his wife humility. He used to practise with a pistol and shoot in the house to steady the lady's nerves, and occasionally he got plain drunk. A man like Bronte in a little town with a tired little wife, and with inferior people, is a despot. He busies himself with trifles, looks after foolish details, and the neighbors let him have his own way and his wife has to, and the result is that he becomes convinced in his own mind that he is the people and that wisdom will die with him.
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a form of arrogance
Hubbard is twisting the biblical phrase from Job 12:2
from the King James bible,
"No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
or in another version
"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-01-20 19:39:37 GMT)
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he is the people:
He arrogantly belives that he personifies the power of all human beings, and can thus exercise all people
and that wisdom will die with him:
and that all wisdom (or rightness) comes not from a higher source (accessible to all human beings), but he arrogantly believes that he is the source of all wisdom, and thus all wisdom (or rightness) will cease when he dies.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-01-20 19:43:06 GMT)
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the first part of the above should read:
he is the people:
He arrogantly believes that he personifies the power of all human beings, and can thus exercise power over all people
from the King James bible,
"No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
or in another version
"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-01-20 19:39:37 GMT)
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he is the people:
He arrogantly belives that he personifies the power of all human beings, and can thus exercise all people
and that wisdom will die with him:
and that all wisdom (or rightness) comes not from a higher source (accessible to all human beings), but he arrogantly believes that he is the source of all wisdom, and thus all wisdom (or rightness) will cease when he dies.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-01-20 19:43:06 GMT)
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the first part of the above should read:
he is the people:
He arrogantly believes that he personifies the power of all human beings, and can thus exercise power over all people
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "thanks for the biblical phrase !"
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he believes himself to be better than others so that when he dies all wisdom will go with him
There is no one better than him and that he is the only one who knows everything, so that when he dies he will take everything with him.
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Jack Doughty
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Thank you, Jack. :)
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Rolf Keiser
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Thank you, Goldcoaster. :)
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Paula Vaz-Carreiro
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Muchas gracias, Paula. :)
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