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. . . ACTUARIES see "WORK" for related links - 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. - 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."  ;void(0)) ADAPTABILITY . . 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 ^ 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 André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ 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]. I bend but do not break. --Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695) French poet. _Fables_, bk. I, Fable 22 [1668] 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] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Man and Superman_ [1905] Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. --Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.  ADIRONDACKS . . see: "LAKE GEORGE" see "NATURE" for other related links see "PLACES" for other 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]. -- - Hiking. Canoeing. Wilderness. These words define the great outdoors. And in many ways, the Adirondacks have defined these words. The Adirondacks was the first great preserved wilderness, and is still the one closest to home for New York's metropolitan hordes. The region was the wellspring of some of the country's first outdoor magazines, as well as hiking and paddling clubs. Even the rustic architecture of ranger stations and hunting lodges was first developed in the Adirondacks. A thin blue line on the map separates the Adirondacks from the world of madcap development. The park covers six million acres—an area larger than the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite combined. It is roughly the same size as the state of Vermont to the east. Still not impressed? Well, Adirondack State Park covers a fifth of New York State. 2,000 peaks lie within its folds, 100 taller than 3,000 feet. Two peaks, Marcy and Algonquin, are higher than 5,000 feet. Nearly half of the Park is forest preserve, land set aside to remain in its natural state. Spanning most of the park's lands are vast forests of pine, maple, and birch. The park supports 500,000 acres of true old growth forest. Out of this, 200,000 acres have never been logged. For many the High Peaks Region is synonymous with the Adirondacks. The High Peaks area offers an endless array of possibilities for hiking—from an afternoon santer with the family to a week of wilderness backpacking. This is the territory of the "46ers"—a (very) loosely organized club of those who've climbed the 46 highest peaks in the Adirondacks. Mount Marcy is the highest of the high. It is also a hugely popular destination and offers several routes to the summit. Many hikers in the know prefer Algonquin Peak, the Adirondacks' other 5,000+ peak. This is a challenging, though non-technical climb with amazing views of the High Peaks at the summit, and even before. Life doesn't get much better than hiking Algonquin in the autumn while the leaves are turning. While in the 'dacks, you should definitely seek out a "Great Camp" or two. These camps were the way robber barons roughed it. Built from massive logs and festooned with stuffed trophy heads from hunting expeditions all over the world, these compounds—that might include private bowling alleys, ballrooms, carriage houses, and libraries—are a far cry from the chilly, zip-flied tents the rest of us use to enjoy the outdoors. We recommend two great camps: Sagamore, designed by William Durant, and later purchased by the Vanderbilts, is kept open as a museum piece, with all of the facilities that you would expect at any other preserved historic site: guided tours, gift shops, interpretative displays, a parking lot. If your taste runs more towards the ghostly, we highly recommend heading to the deserted Santonini Preserve. Surrounded by 12,000 acres of forest, this compound includes a central lodge, a boathouse, guest cottages, and a studio—all built out of those typical massive logs. The compound is fenced off, but you can hike by before discovering one of the Adirondacks' best trails and some enchanted camping spots. From: http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/statepark/ny_adiro.htm - . . 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-Despréaux (1636—1711) French critic and poet. _L'art poétique_ [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. --Sébastien-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. We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims_, # 294 [1665] ^^ 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 André 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. You're the top! You're the Coliseum. You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum. You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss You're a Bendel bonnet, A Shakespeare's sonnet, You're Mickey Mouse. You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa, You're the smile on the Mona Lisa I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop, But if, baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top! --Cole Porter (1892—1964) American songwriter. "You're the Top!" [1934 song] 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]. ----- 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. . . 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. - Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery. --anon. . . 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. . . see: "CHANCE" see: "DANGER" see: "DISCOVERY" see: "TRAVEL" To die will be an awfully big adventure. --Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937) Scottish writer and dramatist. _Peter Pan_, act 3 [1928] 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 . . 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. In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Christian Science_, bk. 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