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Re: Buy a painting of your team number!
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Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds
"That's where you're wrong," he said. "It's only worth what someone will pay for it."
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This principle is often quoted in Latin: Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest - A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.
Back in the day (and probably even today in someone's Latin classroom) this was one of the quotes that students memorized. It is still a favorite of financial advisors, and many fathers.
The "res tantum" principle is closely related to my grandmother's favorite adage: A fool and his money are soon parted. Purchasers of the subject paintings certainly prove that one.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
Last edited by Richard Wallace : 31-05-2006 at 18:58.
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