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From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Date: 31 Dec 92 02:27:05 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>One of my favourites, supposedly attributable to the late great Ms.
>Parker, is:

>"If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be
>surprised."

The girls who were to be laid end-to-end were the feminine attendees
of the Yale Prom.  (The quote [as well as D.P.] antedates coeducation
on the East Coast by considerable.)  I think the attribution is via
another member of the Algonquin Round Table.

ObPCStatement: references to "girls," and the "r" in the courtesy
title, follow Mrs. Parker's usage.

Bertram Walsh                   | Men don't make passes
Dep't of Mathematics            | At girls who wear glasses.
Rutgers University              | 
New Brunswick NJ 08903-2101 USA |           	     -- D.P.
From: Catherine.Collingwood@launchpad.unc.edu (Catherine Collingwood)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:25:09 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

yes, Bush did say something like that, even though I don't believe that
was the exact quote.  Someone sent it to me some time ago (to examine
since I am agnostic), and I seem to remember it being almost a paragraph
long.  If I can get ahold of the person who sent it to me I will repost it.

Lady Firebird

ps. with a "Family Values and tradition" attitude like that,
   I"m not surprised he lost the election!  America is more diverse than in
the fifties.
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From: riouxp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Pierre Rioux)
Subject: Re: War and Politics (Was Re: Slick Willie)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:58:41 GMT

	How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?
		-- Charles De Gaulle
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From: steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Jan Steinman - Bytesmiths, 3946)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
Reply-To: steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:42:54 GMT

In article 29559@athena.mit.edu, ttonchev@athena.mit.edu (Theodore G Tonchev) writes:
>In article <1992Dec26.043014.21315@news.stolaf.edu>, zimmer@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Wiseguy) writes:
>|> Anybody else seen any good graphiti?

"Nothing is better than sex.
 Masturbation is better than nothing.
 Therefore, masturbation is better than sex."

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From: twlh6@isuvax.iastate.edu (randy kennedy)
Subject: pencils
Reply-To: twlh6@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:13:03 GMT

"To err is human.  To use up the eraser before the end is ridiculous"

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From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: _A Canticle For Liebowitz_ (was Re: Ignorance is king ...)
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:16:00 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: morlan@afit.af.mil's message of 31 Dec 92 19:07:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.190723.11550@afit.af.mil> morlan@afit.af.mil (Bruce W. Morlan) writes:

>"Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."
>
>  From "A Canticle for Leibowitz".

"For neither infinite wisdom nor infinite love could bestow godhood upon men.
For that there would have to be infinite love as well."

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -SNL
From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Simple one
Date: 25 Dec 92 19:02:07 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Rich Isaacman posts, in response to the query

>>Does anyone know the quotation to the effect that explanations
>>should be made as simple as possible but no simpler?

that

>It is not a "quotation" per se, but rather a deductive principle
>commonly known as "Occam's Razor" (sometimes spelled Ockham) stating
>that a hypothesis should embody the minimum possible number of
>assumptions.  (Note that this is NOT the same as being "as simple as
>possible", which is the usual misapplication of the tenet.)  The
>individual Occam I vaguely recall to have been an Englishman around
>Isaac Newton's era, but I could be totally off base about that.

Well, yes; the _Venerabilis Inceptor_ died in 1349, aged about 70,
while Newton was born in 1642 (today's his birthday too!).  Ockham's
razor seems to have been stated as

	Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

-- loosely, "multiplicity is not to be asserted when it is unneces-
sary."

BTW, you could compare the original statement about simplicity to the
(probably apocryphal) statement attributed to Mozart when the Austrian
emperor told him there were too many notes in the opera Die Entfuehr-
ung aus dem Serail: "Exactly as many notes as are necessary, your ma-
jesty." 

Bertram Walsh  Mathematics Dep't  Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ 08903
  Combien pale et exsangue est le _shit_ anglo-saxon en face de notre
  _merde_ omnipresant et triomphant!   -- Pierre Guiraud in _Les Gros Mots_
From: bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu (Bertram Walsh)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: a pesky quote
Date: 25 Dec 92 19:15:28 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>>Who said: "An unexamined life is not worth living." ???

>Attributed by Plato to Socrates.

In Plato's _Apology,_ the story of the death of Socrates. BTW, it's
"Ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi" which is more like "The
unexamined life is not worth living to a human."  Note the definite
article.

Bertram Walsh  Mathematics Dep't  Rutgers University New Brunswick NJ 08903
  Combien pale et exsangue est le _shit_ anglo-saxon en face de notre
  _merde_ omnipresant et triomphant!   -- Pierre Guiraud in _Les Gros Mots_
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From: pcrayne@halcyon.com (Peter C. Crayne)
Subject: Re: Fortune Cookie
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:20:12 GMT

In article <1h7v2aINNkit@transfer.stratus.com> dennist@sw.stratus.com (Dennis Tetreault) writes:
>My favorite was found on a fortune cookie:
>
>             " Psychics will lead dogs to your grave. "
>

One of my favorites was a combination of fortunes from different
resterants. 
First one:
"You are the center of every group's attention."

Second one:
"You are the conter of every group's attention. Please wear some
clothing."

-Pete (probably from the same cookie factory, but a cool coincidence
nonethless)

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From: rmc@wang.com (rmc)
Subject: Takahashi-sensei says:
Organization: Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:54:11 GMT

From the opening song to Ranma Nibunnoichi:

"Cheerful love is just a carp in the pond"
(hashagu koi ha ikeno koi)

R Mark Chilenskas
rmc@wang.com
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: quotation quotations - was This should have been...
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:47:55 GMT

mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur) writes:
>rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
>>"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
>>		-- Winston Churchill, "My Early Life" (1930), ch.9


>"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
>            --Simeon Strunsky

"Only fools are quoted." 
	-- Anonymous

-- 
Todays subliminal message is "        ".
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Capitalism and Socialism
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:50:50 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

In article <1993Jan2.122207@IASTATE.EDU>, scindia@IASTATE.EDU (Shekhar K Scindia) writes:
|> 
|>          SOCIALISM IS CAPITALISM OF FEW !

Who's few?
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From: rrandolp@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Rich Randolph)
Subject: Ironic Last Words
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:23:52 GMT


   Pistol Pete Maravitch died a few years back during a pickup basketball
 game. About a minute before he collapsed, lost consciousness and died, he
 reportedly said

               "I feel great!"


  
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From: kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: Anomaly ?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:16:47 GMT

Hi,

I have often heard "There are TWO sides of a coin". I never understood
why :-) Afterall, THERE IS a finite probability that it will land on 
the 3rd. side.

Perhaps, that axiom can help formulate another _Murphy's law_ :

Murphy's law on Comedy Films :

If a coin is tossed, it will land on its 3rd. side.

Comments ?

\gdeepak
--
Everything changes, looking through the eyes of the Kenchammana-Hosekotan.
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From: shaltbj2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (DJ)
Subject: Now who made up this quote?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:19:35 GMT

 I don't know where I got this quotation from, but would like to know
the source to attribute it to...

'Patience comes to those that wait'

I like to use this quotation because of its take-off of two
traditional quotations.

Thanx,
Brandon


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From: sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide)
Subject: Re: Who said this?
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:01:43 GMT

In article <OLSON.92Dec26110420@husc8.harvard.edu> olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) writes:
>In article <1hgnikINNcaj@mirror.digex.com> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
>
>>> "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
>>> Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown
>>
>>Dave Barry wrote that.
>
>Thanks!
>
Don't say thanks yet.  That's from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey.

Steve 

"A man doesn't automatically get my respect.  He has to get down in the dirt
   and beg for it."
                    Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
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From: beegle@ftp.phy.uab.edu (BadSpeller!)
Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:52:53 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.135322.879@gdr.bath.ac.uk> enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
>Can anyone recommend to me a good (and accurate)
>source of "famous last words" quotes? Is there
>such a thing as a book on the subject??
>
>Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>Nicky Thorne
> 

This says it all:
-- 
Luke

	"I don't feel so good."	
				Last words of Luther Burbank
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From: egburr@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Edward Glen Burr)
Subject:  test
Summary:  test
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:59:28 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Keywords: test

Just testing
--
From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: some personal favorites
Date: 22 Dec 92 01:24:27 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon Univ, Nectar Project

"You just can't fillet a twinkie."
				--Michael MacDonald,
				  breeder of Golden Retrievers

Hey, it works for me...
From: Dale@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Dale Gee)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: British Parliament quote
Date: 27 Dec 92 20:38:07 GMT
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.

In article <TED.92Dec27105400@lole.nmsu.edu> ted@nmsu.edu writes:
>
>
>or the famous exchange between lady astor (i think) and churchill:
>
>la: If you were my husband, i would feed you poison.
>
>wc: If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!
>



Another exchange between Sir Winston and I belive it was Lady Astor.

"Winston your quite drunk!  Madame your quite ugly.  In the morning I will be
sober where as you will still be ugly"
From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Quotations regardin The Devil
Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:54:50 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: whirlwind.berkeley.edu

Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?


Chua
+==+
"Pleased to meet you, I hope you guessed my name."
						- Rolling Stones
From: haavardf@boson.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:35:28 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway

In article <1h7k8dINNrij@travis.csd.harris.com> kbeal@amber (Ken Beal) writes:

   I'd like to take exception to this, as well as Asimov's quote from his
   _Foundation_ series that:

	   "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

   While they >sound< great, they are both grammatically incorrect (or, I am
   reading the wrong thing into them, which could be the case but I doubt it).

   If X was the "last refuge" of Y, then wouldn't it make sense that Y would
   try >everything else< before trying X?  I.e. it is their "last resort," as
   it were?  This would be giving Y much more credit than Y deserves (i.e.
   the quotes are trying to show that Y is wrong/a fool/an idiot, and my
   grammatical interpretation of them shows that Y will exhaust all options
   before trying X).

   It would be much better worded "X is the first refuge of Y", would it not?

   Just a thought.

I seem to remember that Amborce Bierce said something along the lines of:

According to dr. Johnson, patriotism is the last refuge of the scoudrel.
With all due respect to an earlier bu inferior lexicographer, I beg to 
submit that it is the first.


H}vard Fosseng
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From: csmith@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (craig edward smith)
Subject: Re: Communism
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:29:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.075311.6471@westford.ccur.com> hank@westford.ccur.com (Hank Cohen) writes:
>Is anyone certain of the attribution for this one?
>
>	Anyone who was not a Communist at twenty has no heart,
>	Anyone who is still a Communist at thirty has no brain.
>
>I seem to remember it being attributed to Sommerset Maughm but that's
>just hearsay.  Someone on the net once attributed it to Churchill but
>that seems highly unlikely to me.
>-- 
>Hank Cohen
>Concurrent Nippon Corp.  	Shuwa yanagibashi Bldg. 5F
>Yanagibashi 2-19-6 Taito-ku 	Tokyo 111, Japan
>Denwa: 03-3864-5714 	Fax: 03-3864-0898

They way I heard it was:

	Anyone who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart.
	Anyone who is not a conservative at 40 has no brain.
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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Summary: Glasses
Date: 1 Jan 93 07:07:19 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

She is also the originator of the phrase "men seldom make passes with
girls who wear glasses."


-- 
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PDP-10, 36-bits forever!    Humorous disclaimer: "My Amiga 3000 speaks for me."
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From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
Subject: Things mechanical
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:34:36 GMT

   Tighten it until it strips, then back off a quarter turn...

   If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough.

on the wall at a racing mechanics shop...

<dp>
From: slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
Date: 2 Jan 1993 23:15:43 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

> stoesser@i31s17.ira.uka.de (Achim Stoesser) writes:
># Subject: George Bush on atheism and patriotism
>#  GB: "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens,
>#       nor should they be considered patriots.  This is one nation under
>#       God."

"There's no such thing as an non-practicing atheist." 
	-Unknown...

"I hate believing in something where you can't damn someone to burn in 
 hell forever."
	-Myself

>"... A socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to
> leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
> capitalism and become lesbians." -- Pat Robertson on Feminism

Actually, he said this concerning an equal rights amendment which is even 
more distressing.

>I'm an anarchist, atheist, pacifist, and vegetarian.  This does _not_
>mean that I'd bomb kings, worship Satan, let soldiers bleed to death,
>or eat fish.

"I like to mug anarchists and wonder if they'll call the cops."
	-Unknown

-Shelley Louie
My other account is on a Cray....
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From: kenneth@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kunal Saurov Bagchi)
Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305 USA
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 12:44:40 GMT



"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to
thank her." - W.C. Fields


Ken
From: prichard@devon.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:51:39
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
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In-reply-to: shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:24:51 GMT


 shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anne P. Mitchell, JD) writes:

   "If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be
   surprised."

a similar one is, 

   "If all the cars in the country were put bumper-to-bumper, it
    must be Labor Day."






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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Button quotation
Date: 2 Jan 1993 02:56:10 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


Once when in the airport in Boston I found an abandoned button with the
message
    "Function Points - The Mother of All Metrics"

Now aside from the obvious relation to Saddam Hussein does anybody have
the foggiest idea what the slogan means?
-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
        Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"

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From: jaw@magoo.uucp (Jeff Weisberg)
Subject: Churchill
Reply-To: jaw@magoo.UUCP (Jeff Weisberg)
Organization: A maze of twisty little postings, all unread
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:32:39 GMT


Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory there is no survival.
		--Churchill


The truth is incontrovertable. Panic may resent it;
ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it;
but there it is.
		--Churchill


-jeff
From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Who said THIS one?
Date: 1 Jan 1993 23:07:21 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
NNTP-Posting-Host: quasar.meaddata.com

In article <1hpvjfINNqth@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer) writes:
|> 
|>    This may be old, but I'd like to know who said the following (and have
|> some evidence to back up the assertion):
|> 
|>    "There are no failures of talent, only failures of character."
|> 

The Toronto Star reports that Neil Peart, the drummer for the rock group
Rush, is fond of this quotation, "whose author he's tried in vain to
hunt down for 10 years."  (13 Dec. 1991, p.D3)


===========================================================================
Timothy Klein                 "Mellow yellow" is slang for "really groovy".
timk@meaddata.com                                         -- Jimi Hendrix
From: mshort@heisenberg.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Short)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: SOURCE Wanted: "In the Future, ..."
Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:51:01 GMT
Organization: ERL, University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: heisenberg.berkeley.edu

We've all heard the quote attributed to Andy Warhol, something
along the lines of

	"In the future, everyone will be famous 
	 for fifteen minutes."

Well, I'm just _positive_ that in high-school I read this
in a poem by an early-20th-century poet (I keep thinking
it was T.S. Eliot), but there it was fame for only ten
minutes. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find it since.

Anybody know?

-- 
Michael Short
mshort@cs.berkeley.edu


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From: mt@media.mit.edu (Michael Travers)
Subject: Capitalism and Socialism
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
	<1992Dec25.142911.19478@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:37:02 GMT

Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under socialism, it's just the opposite.

 (old joke)
--

Michael Travers / MIT Media Lab / mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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From: wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman)
Subject: Victory quote
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:31:23 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In the 1984 Summer Olympics, a runner (maybe in the 10000 Km?) had
trouble with dehydration and was nearly disabled during the race.
The runner finished anyway, far behind everyone and was lauded for
their courage, etc.  The PA announcer read a quote as the runner was 
near the finish line; I believe he said it was of Greek origin.  It
went something like, "Ask not for victory but for courage, for with
courage you not only bring honor to yourself, but to us all."

Is anyone able to provide accurate information about the quote, the
race or anything else my memory couldn't?  Thanks.

Jeff               wayman@lamar.colostate.edu
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From: kudzu@tfs.com (Michael Sierchio)
Subject: Re: Wide Unclasp The Table Of Their Thoughts
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:13:12 GMT

In article <Bzp4wH.AoM@oryx.com> 
	xslkkk@oryx.com (kenneth k konvicka) writes:

>'Wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts,
>these same thoughts people this little world.'
>
>Seen on stained glass window, Winchester House, San Jose, Calif.
>Any idea of the author?

Nope, but sounds Blakean.
-- 
Michael Sierchio                               TRW Financial Systems
kudzu@tfs.com                                     1947 Center Street
                                             Berkeley, CA 94704-1105
(MKS2)                                               +1 510 704 3380
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