[at-l] Taking care of business - Battling quotations.

[stephensadams@hotmail.com (Steve Adams)]

Sloetoe,

Reference your post, dated January 7, 2002.

Thank you for providing attribution for the quotation I made, that same 
date.

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Jan,

Reference your post, dated January 7, 2002, where you are uncertain, 
comparing the quotation, "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than 
outright exposure." with your observation, "(W)e get off the ridge in a 
thunder storm."

I believe Helen Keller (Thank you, Sloetoe) and you are talking about two 
different things.

Helen is speaking more generally, espousing a philosophy of how to design 
your life.  You are speaking more specifically.

Helen, I suspect, would agree we should act prudently, not carelessly.  She, 
too, would get off that ridge.  Helen's point, I think, is more along the 
lines of:  When you consistently select courses in school which you expect 
to be the easiest, choose the profession which promises you the greatest 
wealth regardless that it will ever bore you, select the spouse promising, 
the greatest security over all other considerations, your life will be 
(quoting Leonard Cohen) "... as dead as heaven on a Saturday night."

Besides, quoting Juan Manuel Fangio, "A dead lion is far nobler than a live 
mouse."  [You may notice, the mice are alive, and around to argue this 
point.  The lions, however, do not have a voice in this matter.]

Steve

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