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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> It is often bad to be the first penguin. It assumes all
> the risks for the same number of fish. It is safer
> to be the last penguin, but the risk is that all of the fish
> will be eaten. Better to be the third penguin. Little
> risk and no guilt for pushing the first penguin in. The
> second penguin can't eat all the fish that fast.
Be not the first by whom the new is tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
--Alexander Pope, _Essay on Man_
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
--
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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