You might say that I plagiarized the first two lines although it is said that if you steal from one source it is plagiarism but if you seal from many it is research. I do claim sole responsibility for the last - it shows that the wheel just goes round. It is interesting to watch many of my associates who feel that their success is directly related to the wealth they accumulate and to watch it gradually dawn upon them that they will never achieve the 'monetary' success they dreamed of and see their self-esteem diminish as their dreams of wealth evaporate. By the time they realize that they have been living in a fools paradise the whole time the depression seems to have pervaded their entire being and they seem unable to rise out of their misery - a sort of reactive depression to the realization that they have wasted their life.
Sad really, because it is not about money at all. Success has very little to do with the size of your wallet. Amazing to watch all these public servants with huge superannuation who are unable to enjoy it and are completely miserable in all areas of their life. This cloning is a worry to the Pollies because the they are worried that they might be cloned themselves and what a complete tragedy that might be. Back to the Popes and the queens and Galileo. Nothing really changes. David de Bhál www.v-practice.com ________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Churches Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:55 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Re: Row over regulation of alternative drugs deepens Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Monday 24 July 2006 23:13, David de Bhál wrote: >> Back to the old idea that if you are not a socialist when you are 20 you >> have no heart and if you are not a capitalist by the time you are 40 you >> have no brains. >> IF you are not a socialist again by the time you are 65 you have dementia. >> >> David de Bhál > David, I've only ever heard you quote this. could you supply me with the name > of the philosopher? A few minutes googling, including triangulation across several web pages which do not link to each other in order to increase confidence in the veracity of the following factoids, reveals that David is misquoting Guisot, a French monarchist statesman under Louis Philippe: Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head. ~Francois Guisot (1787-1874) One commentator wondered about the fate of M. Guisot's own head during the French Revolution... apparently Guisot was the politician behind the deportation of Karl Marx from France in the mid-1840's. Marx found refuge in Brussels. A young Fred Engels in the spring of 1845 also settled in Brussels and, according to Marx, "we resolved to work out in common the opposition of our view to the ideological view of German philosophy, in fact, to settle accounts with our erstwhile philosophical conscience." Thus Guisot helped to bring those two together. The rest is history (except that according to Francis Fukuyama, we reached the end of [dialectic] history in the early 1990s). However, David is forgiven as the quote, which in various forms has been wrongly attributed to George Bernard Shaw, Disraeli and Churchill over the years. Apparently our national role models (i.e. citizens of the US of A) like to tone it down and refer to "liberal" and "republican" in place of "socialist" and "capitalist". Main references: http://lalaland.msu.edu/~vanhoose/quotes/0018.html http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=20&t=001692 Tim C Who is completely without brains but who looks forward to a dementia-free retirement. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
