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Posted on: April 5, 2008 3:59 AM, by Coturnix
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I'm pretty sure that Marcus Tullius Cicero is the originator of this saying. It was also picked up and used to good effect by Descartes.
Posted by: bob koepp | April 5, 2008 8:04 AM
Damn! Bob beat me to it. I was going to show my erudition unnecessarily!
David Hull has a variant: There is nothing so absurd that some organism or other doesn't have it.
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | April 5, 2008 9:59 AM
Hmmmm, so it is one of those ageless truisms that lots of people can claim, eh?
Posted by: Coturnix | April 6, 2008 1:42 PM