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ACTUARIES

see "WORK" for related links


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Q: What's the difference between an American actuary
and a Sicilian actuary?

A: The American actuary knows how many people will
die in a given year. The Sicilian actuary knows
their names.

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A tour group is visiting the Grand Canyon, and
the tour guide asks if anyone knows the age of
the canyon. Everybody is mumbling but nobody
answers. An actuary raises his hand and says,
"one million and three years old!" The guide
is amazed and asks the actuary how he knows
this so exactly. The actuary answers, "Three
years ago I visited the Grand Canyon, and one
of your guides said the canyon was one million
years old."



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ADAPTABILITY

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see: "CHANGE"
see: "REALISM, REALITY"


They that will not apply new remedies
must expect new evils.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some
cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best
alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work
for it with all your might.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand;
but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her
ways.
--Clarence Day (1874—1935)
American author.

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
--German proverb

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Samuel Goldwyn (1882—1974)
American film producer.

Goldwyn is said to have been eagar to buy the
film rights Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Lonliness,"
a controversial novel dealing with lesbianism. 'You
can't film that,' a studio adviser said. 'It's about
lesbians.'

'All right,' said Goldwyn, 'where they got lesbians,
we'll use Austrians.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
--Alexander Hamilton (1755or57—1804)
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first
secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789—1795].

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would
soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble
art of turning to every wind.
--Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)
German poet.

If you live in the river you should
make friends with the crocodile.
--Indian proverb

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and
adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
--William Ralph Inge (1860—1954)
English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934].

Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
Th' acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_Lalla Rookh_ [1817]

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.




ADIRONDACKS

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see "NATURE" for related links
see "PLACES" for related links


There are some nooks and summits in the
Adirondack region where one can really
'recline on one's divine composure' and
...seem for awhile to enjoy one's birthright
of freedom and relief from every fever
and falsity.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
Letter to Mrs. Henry Whitman [16 June 1895].

Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful
water I ever saw; formed by a a contour of mountains
into a basin thirty-five miles long and from two to
four miles broad, finely interspersed with islands,
its water limpid as crystal and the mountainsides
covered with rich groves of silver fir, white pine,
aspen and paper birch down to the water, here and
there precipices of rock to checker the scene and
save it from monotony. An abundance of speckled
trout, salmon trout, bass, and other fish with
which it is stored, have added to our other
amusements the sport of taking them.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].



ADMIRATION

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see: "APPLAUSE", "APPRECIATION"
see: "PRAISE"
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links


Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately
decays upon growing familiar with its object.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition
of another's resemblance to ourselves.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

Admiration is a youthful fancy which
scarcely ever survives to mature years.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.

However big the fool, there is always a
bigger fool to admire him.
--Nicolas Boileau-Desprιaux (1636—1711)
French critic and poet.
_L'art poιtique_ [1674], canto 1

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History_ [1841]

Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem,
not because they are known, but because they are
not.
--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
Is the only method that I know,
To make men happy, and to keep them so.
--Thomas Creech (1659—1700)
English classical scholar and translator.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
--Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
French writer and philosopher.

Admiration is the Daughter of Ignorance.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1736]

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom
you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any
gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more
tolerant than love.
--Sir Arthur Helps (1813—1875)
English writer and clerk of the Privy Council.

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Amedeo Modigliani (1884—1920)
Italian painter and sculptor:

Modigliani's admiration of Utrillo was reciprocated. On the
occasion of their first meeting, they began by paying each
other extravagant compliments. 'You are the world's
greatest painter,' said one.

'No, *you* are the world's greatest painter,'
said the other.

'I forbid you to contradict me.'

'I forbid you to forbid me.'

The argument became heated. 'If you say that again,
I'll hit you.'

'You are the greatest —' and they fell to blows.

Later, they made up over several bottles of wine at
a nearby bistro. As they went out into the street, one
said, 'You are the world's greatest painter.'

'No, you are.'

And so the fight broke out again, until both combatants
were down in the gutter, where they went to sleep. In
the early dawn they woke up to discover that they had
been robbed.

_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000]

^^

Few men are admired by their servants.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.

We esteem in the world those who do not merit
our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth;
but the world is like the ocean — the pearl is in
its depths, the seaweed swims.
--George Pope Morris (1802—1864)
American poet.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended
much to lessen both my admiration and my contempt
of others.
--Joseph Priestley (1733—1804)
English clergyman, political theorist, and scientist.
In Isaac Disraeli _Curiosities of Literature_, p. 422 [1859]

Tell me who admires you and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are.
--Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804—1869)
French critic and literary historian.
In Mark Goulston
_The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship_, p. 111 [2002].

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adulation (noun)
Excessively admiring behavior:
excessive flattery or admiration

aficionado [uh-fish-ee-uh-NAH-doh], noun:
An enthusiastic admirer; a fan.

lionize [LY-uh-nyz], transitive verb:
To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance.



ADOLESCENCE

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see "AGE" for related links


Adolescence begins when children stop
asking questions — because they know
all the answers.
--Evan Esar (1899—1995)
American humorist.
_20,000 Quips and Quotes_ [1968]

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs
like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating
liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
--Camille Paglia (1947— )
American writer and social critic.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that
youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but
getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only
trying on one face after another till he finds his own.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.

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Adolescence: a stage between infancy
and adultery.
--anon.




ADULTS

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see "AGE" for related links


Adults are just obsolete children,
and the hell with them.
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.



ADVENTURE

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see: "CHANCE"
see: "DANGER"
see: "DISCOVERY"
see: "TRAVEL"


An adventure is only an inconvenience
rightly considered. An inconvenience is
only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_All Things Considered_ [1908] "On Running After Ones Hat"

Ship me somewheres east of Suez,
where the best is like the worst, ,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments,
an' a man can raise a thirst.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads [1892, 1893] "Mandalay," st. 6

We will find in the lives of men who have done anything,
of those whom we call great men, that it is this spirit of
adventure, the call of the unknown, that has lured and
urged them along on their course ... All of us are explorers
in life, whatever trail we follow ... It is the explorers with
the true spirit of adventure we now need if humanity
shall really overcome the present difficulties ... Ah, youth.
What a glorious word! Unknown realms ahead of you,
hidden behind the mists of the morning. As you move
on, new islands appear, mountain summits shoot up
through the peering mists, one behind another, waiting
for you to climb; dense new forests unfold for you to
explore, free boundless plains for you to traverse.
--Fridtjof Nansen (1861—1930)
Norwegian polar explorer.
Speech on being installed as Rector of the
University of Aberdeen [November 1926];
In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006].

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
_Don Carlos_ [1787 play]




ADVERSARIES

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see: "ENEMIES"
see "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links


I've labored long and hard for bread
For honor and for riches
But on my corns too long you've tred,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.
--Charles E. Bolton [Charles Earl Bolles, aka Black Bart] (1829—1917?)
American outlaw.
In a note he left after robbing a Wells Fargo stagecoach;
in Joseph H. Jackson _Bad Company_ [1949].

Choosing weaker adversaries has always
struck me as a sensible policy.
--James Follett (1939— )
English author.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him
an advantage to which he is not entitled.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Quoted in James Boswell, _The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1786],
entry of 15 August 1773.


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