Attributing to Divine intervention that which is achieved through one's own gumption (or even perhaps by a deterministic fate, a highly speculative position in itself) may indicate a certain false modesty; but I fail to see how the term "cop out" has any applicability to the statement at all.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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The mother of all cop-outs !
Attributing to Divine intervention that which is achieved through one's own gumption (or even perhaps by a deterministic fate, a highly speculative position in itself) may indicate a certain false modesty; but I fail to see how the term "cop out" has any applicability to the statement at all.
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