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@ 2000-09-11 15:44 jhs
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From: jhs @ 2000-09-11 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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There's another variation of this:

"If I have not seen further than others, it by standing in the footsteps
of giants."

|> From: Doug Henderson <djhender@telusplanet.net>
|> It's about reinventing the wheel.
|> "If I have seen furthur it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" -
|
|From: Tom Duff
|There's a difference between standing on the shoulders of
|giants and standing in the disgorgement of giants.




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