[OS X TeX] OT: Pages format definitions

Alain Schremmer schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 13:51:52 EDT 2007


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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.

> apparently followed a third phrase:
>
> 	Great men are almost always bad men.
>
> How very true.

Very much so, particularly when they are "leaders".

> BTW: the original dictum refers to papal power.

How very true.

But, being a mathematician, I tend to generalize. :-)

Regards
--schremmer


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