"don't think zebras"

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Sometimes you need to think zebras. One was captured yesterday clopping around in downtown Atlanta.
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From: Joel S. Berson
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At 2/19/2010 07:56 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>Of course, the saying is a figurative statement of the so-called
>"principle of parsimony," a correlary of "Ockham's razor."

Has anyone looked for it in Latin?

Joel

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