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RE: [TCLUG:2829] run program for a while, then kill
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Ben Luey wrote:
> > > > I am not a vegetarian because I love animals, I am a vegetarian
> > > because I hate
> > > > plants. -- Unknown
> >
> > "Unknown"?! Good grief, that quote is one of A. Whitney Brown's classic
> > lines. He performed at the ACME Comedy Club in Minneapolis last year, which
> > is where I heard it.
>
>
> Are you sure that Brown originally said it and didn't just reuse it. I've
> seen the quote in a book and twice in the newspaper -- both times
> attributed to unknown. I think the saying it pretty old nobody knows who
> said it first because so many people have heard it.
>
According to this "Quotable Quotes" page
(http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/quotes/index_fr.shtml) it was A.
Whitney Brown (Near the bottom, number 31, "The Best of Quotations
Digest"). Still, this doesn't really prove anything. I'd like to see it in
a book to make a real determination.
Still, that is one of my favorite quotes :) I know this is off topic, but
here's some irony for you all:
It is of the utmost importance that there should not emerge in
the Republic a single man...assembling in his hands total power; who,
when he has it, will employ it in the destruction of any who refuse to
march under his banner.
--Maximilien Robespierre
Well, back to work...
Luke