[lbo-talk] Difficult writing...

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>
>Anybody remember this one?
>
>"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion 
>that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to 
>be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of 
>the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
>
>...or,
>
>"I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor 
>the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to 
>men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance 
>happeneth to them all."

Point taken.  But any mention of Ecclesiastes 9:11 should include a citation 
of Damon Runyon's equally forthright corollary:  ""It may be that the race 
is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ... but that is the 
way to bet."

Carl