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Started by Dimocritus, October 12, 2009, 06:50:30 PM

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October 12, 2009, 06:50:30 PM Last Edit: October 12, 2009, 06:52:18 PM by Dimo1138
I want to include a quote in a paper I'm writing, but I can't find the author anywhere and it's driving me nuts. The paper's due today so any help would be greatly appreciated. The quote goes more or less like this:

"One does not achieve greatness by touching one extreme or the other, but by touching both at once"

Edit: Never mind. Found it.
Episkopos of GABCab ~ "caecus plumbum caecus"

The Good Reverend Roger

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October 12, 2009, 06:59:57 PM
Adolf Hitler, April 1945.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Pariah

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October 12, 2009, 09:27:00 PM
Alfred P. Southwick, 1887
Play safe! Ski only in a clockwise direction! Let's all have fun together!

bds

#3
October 12, 2009, 09:39:07 PM
Quote from: Dimo1138 on October 12, 2009, 06:50:30 PM
Edit: Never mind. Found it.

Enlighten us, please?

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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October 12, 2009, 10:18:47 PM
"We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between." --Blaise Pascal
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

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October 12, 2009, 10:23:40 PM
Quote from: Nigel on October 12, 2009, 10:18:47 PM
"We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between." --Blaise Pascal

A Frenchman.  Okay, so I was close.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#6
October 12, 2009, 10:36:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 10:23:40 PM
Quote from: Nigel on October 12, 2009, 10:18:47 PM
"We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between." --Blaise Pascal

A Frenchman.  Okay, so I was close.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Dimocritus

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October 13, 2009, 01:26:49 AM
Quote from: Nigel on October 12, 2009, 10:18:47 PM
"We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between." --Blaise Pascal

:wink:
Thanks for supplying the real quote. You should have seen how bad it was butchered (not just by me) at a few places I saw it. I'm not even sure where I heard it, it just popped in my head while I was writing.
Episkopos of GABCab ~ "caecus plumbum caecus"

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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October 13, 2009, 07:35:59 AM
You're welcome.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

AFK

#9
October 13, 2009, 10:55:06 AM
Rev. Uncle BadTouch!  No, wait, I thought it said "touching pre-teen"  nevermind. 
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