[lbo-talk] Difficult writing...

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 19 07:37:28 PST 2005



>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



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