[OS X TeX] OT: Pages format definitions

Daniel Culver danielculver at mac.com
Wed Apr 4 03:37:02 CEST 2007


You must mean blogs.
Dan

On Apr 3, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

>> WARNING:  OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT
>
> On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>
>>> WARNING:  OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT = OT
>>>
>>> On Apr 3, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3 Apr 2007, at 19:10, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>>>>> Of course: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts  
>>>>> absolutely. (Lord Acton.)
>>>> From   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg- 
>>>> Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
>>>> Actually it is
>>>>
>>>> 	Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the correction but it's too bad: I like the short  
>>> version better.
>>
>> It is not a correction, just another story. The shorter version  
>> (which is closer, if not equivalent to the reality) is the last  
>> item in the list of Famous Sayings of Lord Acton given on the page  
>> accessible from the above link.
>
> Now, that one I really like. In extenso, it is
>
> “And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few  
> hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get  
> control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute  
> power corrupts absolutely.”
>
> So relevant these days in which the concentration of power is  
> historically unprecedented …
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
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