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Originally posted by Mike Sisk
It's a good idea to remember the quote from Lord Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "Power tends to
corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." [/b]
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Mike - Actually, Lord Acton's famous dictum "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Historical Essays and Studies, 1907) is not an original thought at all but his expression of it is the most frequently quoted, or in your case, misquoted. It was actually Protagoras' idea origionally then later developed further by his pupil Plato (427 BC). Acton used it as a political commentary...
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/22900.html
Get your own material man...As far as Cobras being unsafe - they're only as unsafe as the moron behind the wheel...You gotta learn to walk before ya can run - forgot who said that one
