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Shoulders to Greatness

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August 24th, 2008 by bornshouter

Not the words of the Gallagher brothers or straight from the National Mint (these word are on some £2 coins), but the words of Sir Isaac Newton (I love the original use of the word ye).

This is a great recognition that originality is an elusive and often unnecessary stop off on the way to greatness:

If I have seen further it is by standing on ye (the) shoulders of Giants.

Sir Isaac Newton