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Subject:Re: Re[2]: slamming From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:28:35 -0800
At 08:44 AM 3/27/97 -0500, Arlen wrote:
>Debbie, some advice: One of the many things I learned from my dear departed
>grandmother is that if you're afraid of being wrong, you'll never be right.
>If you'll pardon the gender-specificity: The reasonable man accepts his
>surroundings and adapts himself to them; therefore all progress depends
>upon the unreasonable man.
>
A friend of mine used to say, "A gentleman never argues over matters of
fact" (again pardon the gender-specificity).
Was Mickey Mantle a lifetime .300 hitter? No. End of discussion.
--Wayne Douglass
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