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I love this one Linville...While I don't have the patience or natural bent for philosophy, I'm a huge collector of quotes (which come in handily when replying to a customer or manager's emails making unreasonable demands...quoting someone else has probably saved me from being fired on innumerable occasions, as without the quotes to rely on, my temper would probably lead me to write a lengthy and impolite response).  Of course, when I find a quote that I decide is a keeper, I have to know who it came from (my sig line was the epitaph on Sulla's (now long gone) tomb, and it's now changed to David Crockett's famous speech to his constituents when he failed to win re-election to Congress - Fits in with my wife and my plans to retire home to Texas when retirement time comes around), and this one is a real bear to track down.  It is most often attributed to Heraclitus, but what Heraclitus actually said was that “Life is Flux” (Panta Rhei in Greek, meaning everything or all things change).  So someone had to put together the much more easy to understand "the only constant in life is change" formulation, and whoever it was, they were one smart cookie, so of course I'd like to see if that person has any other quotes I might want to add to my mental collection.  Ah well.  Some day I'll find the time to consult the great Google and figure it out.

Thanks for posting this - It can be adapted to be a great wallpaper for my PC desktop on Mondays!