From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2003 - 23:16:17 EST
Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
> But jeez, louise, you'd think that people on this list would
> be sophisticated enough about writing systems and scripts to
> not have to have long, dragged-out arguments attempting to
> clarify the obvious.
Sir Peter Medawar, the biologist, once addressed a roomful of other
biologists debating the definition of life as follows:
I think all of us know the difference between a live horse and
a dead one, so let us cease to beat the latter.
-- Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, John Cowan is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901) jcowan@reutershealth.com
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