"John" wrote in message
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> Who was it that said "give me a big enough lever and I,ll move the
> world"?.

Close. But a lever isn't any good without a fulcrum. Or, put another way,
without a fulcrum a lever isn't a lever.

One translation of the quote goes like this:

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall
move the world."
- Archimedes

I've seen others. For example "...and a fulcrum to rest it on..."

- Bill