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Reflections on former AK boss as he is laid to rest today

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?” Quips Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist and poet in his book, Self Reliance.

He adds: “Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

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