{"id":5589,"date":"2004-02-15T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T04:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/15\/names-mean-things-4.html"},"modified":"2004-02-15T21:49:31","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T04:49:31","slug":"names_mean_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/15\/names_mean_thin.html","title":{"rendered":"Names mean things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost up through the Ds in researching quote citations for my <a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\">WIST <\/a>site. I was going through quotes by Will Durant, the historian, of which I have several.  <\/p>\n<p>I discovered, to my dismay, that there was also a William Durant, industrialist and entrepreneur (founder of GM) who was the one who&#8217;d actually said, <\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. 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