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To: longnshort who wrote (786430)	5/27/2014 3:31:11 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1575187

Hi longnshort; I forgot the ten that "shouldn't be there", LOL. Wine and surfing... Here's an attribution of the quote from a US military website: il.ngb.army.mil But Heraclitus was not a military man. He was a philosopher. He's the guy who said that you can't step in the same river twice because the water is moving (LOL). Furthermore, none of his books have survived: Heraclitus (540 BCE - 480 BCE) is certainly the most important and influential pre-Socratic philosopher. His significance is undisputable even though all we have of his work is a few more than a hundred sentences. This relative scarcity and fragmentation of material in no way consigns his thoughts to a mere collection of unconnected and tangent ideas. Heraclitus’ philosophy has a clear essence and focus. That ‘everything is flux’, that ‘all things are one’, and the ‘unification of opposites’, are the fundamental and lasting ideas of Heraclitus, as well as the very heart of his philosophy of dynamic equilibrium. egs.edu Here's the complete list of Heraclitus writing: community.middlebury.edu The closest quote I found is "One man is worth ten thousand if he is first rate." Now did the US military find a Heraclitus quote that the people who study philosophy somehow missed? I don't think so. It's pretty common to attribute statements to a famous person. In this case, it's quite easy to debunk. Whoever made the original attribution was a liar. It's not surprising, I see worse on Facebook every day. The US military should remove the attribution but on the other hand, it really doesn't matter. In some ways it's a good attitude to take. Every real soldier should expect himself to be in the "nine" if they're not good enough to compete for the "one". A favorite real quote is "England expects that every man will do his duty". -- Carl