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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Famous quotes
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- -From: 0001964967@mcimail.com (Daniel Burstein)
- -Subject: numerous/ 1:ASAT 2:Water 3:misquotes
- -Date: 23 Dec 92 15:53:19 GMT
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- -b) On a different topic, some people have given the
- -wrong attribution to the saying "because it's there."
- -As per Bartlett's sixteenth edition, p. 593, this quote
- -was -not- from "EH", but was by George Leigh Mallory, who
- -used it to explain why he wanted to climb Everest.
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- Don't forget the famous Far Side cartoon:
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- A group of climbers, poised at the edge of a deep gorge. The leader,
- apparently responding to a question from one of the other climbers:
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- "Because it's *not* there."
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- :-)
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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