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- From: batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988)
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- Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
- Summary: Paradoxical quote pairs
- Keywords: paradox quote
- Message-ID: <30DEC199214424692@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:42:00 GMT
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- In article <C030o8.CJB@ecf.toronto.edu>, deviass@ecf.toronto.edu (Deviasse Robert) writes...
- >How about this quotation, with a decidedly Newtonian flavour:
- > "For every quote there is an equal and opposite anti-quote". - UNKNOWN
- >
- >It certainly seems true. For example, compare:
- > "He who hesitates is lost."
- >and
- >Good things come to those who wait."
- >
- >I suppose that's why quotes are complete (in the Godel sense), since they're
- >inconsistent!:-)
- >
- >
- >Take care
- > Robert
- >
- >--
- >/-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------\
- >| Robert N. Deviasse |"The things that are not easily attained, |
- >| EMAIL: g2devi@cdf.utoronto.ca | are the things we cherish the most." |
- >+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------/
- "Never look a gift horse in the mouth."
- - proverb
- "Never buy a pig in a poke."
- _ proverb
- (In case "poke" is unfamiliar to you, it is a southern US term for a sack or
- bag.)
-
- These have demonstrated the original poster's observation to me, some years
- ago. I have also heard this principle expressed as:
- For each profound true statement, there is a corresponding opposite profound
- statement, which is also true.
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