>>>I seem to remember the problem of the Gordian knot was resolved with a sword ...
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>Yes. So all you need now is another Alexander the Great. Though the Greeks probably want him to do some Gordian slicing at home first. ;-)
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>BTW, why are you quoting GBS in your sig? ;-)
Always has been one of my favorite lines, but was precipitated by some of the reaction to the congratulations for Janis Booth.
I have always put a premium on distinguishing between the customs of the tribe and the laws of Nature. Not much of a tribe guy <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
