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- From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
- Subject: Re: Who said THIS one?
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:38:56 GMT
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- 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."
-
- Well, this one isn't in my Bartlett's 14th, but there is one by
- the 18th Century German poet Heinrich Heine:
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- "No talent, but a character." From Atta Troll, 1843, chapter 24.
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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- Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
- - Heinrich Heine
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