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 . . . ASHAMED see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. --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], act I I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. --Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711]  . . see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links The attempted assassination of Sukarno last week had all the earmarks of a CIA operation. Everyone in the room was killed except Sukarno. --William F. Buckley Jr. (1925—2008) American author and journalist. Editorial _National Review_ [1957] Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood . . . will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic. --Indira Gandhi (1917—1984) Prime Minister of India [1966—1977] and [1980-1984]. She was assasinated by Sikh extremists. (Speech at Delhi on October 30, 1984, the eve of her assassination by Sikh militants.) When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage. This convinced Matthew That there was still hope for America. --Christopher Morley (1890—1957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. _Points of View_ - As I stepped out onto the porch I noticed two trucks in the lot next door. I was building two more A-frames for rental units. The block masons I hired had arrived to continue working on the concrete block foundations. They were sitting on the stack of blocks crying. . . . They were really crying! All three of them were quietly sobbing. As I got closer, their sadness, the first human emotions besides my own I had encountered in my new consciousness, swept over me like a wave. My mood instantly went from excited glee to deep despair, even though I didn't understand the reasons for either. I was a total empath--absorbing the emotions of those around me. "What's the matter?" I asked. . . Hearing my question, the man closest to me took his head from his hands and turned toward me. His face was beautifully textured--the face of a black middle-aged Southern working man. He seemed to radiate wisdom and kindness, and, at the same time, intense pain. His leathered face was contorted with grief, tears streaming down his cheeks, leaving dark tracks on his brown skin. The effect was incredibly powerful. His emotions seemed to stream into me. "They just shot Bobby Kennedy," he said, and then he returned to his sobbing. His words hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt instantly initiated into their club of sadness and pain. I turned and headed back toward the haven of my home. It was as if we all understood who "they" were. The same "they" who had killed Dr. King only two months before and President Kennedy three years earlier. Now they had killed his brother, Robert Kennedy. As I settled back into my overstuffed chair, my world had been turned upside down. No longer did it seem like the safe and warm place it had been only minutes before. I turned on the TV, tears now rolling down my cheeks too. Deja-vu. Another grotesque image of a fallen hero, non-stop news reports, the country in shock and mourning. Our best had been taken away. Three leaders-- youthful, charismatic, with good hearts and a deep concern for mankind--all gunned down. There were no inspiring leaders left. We were alone. --Robert Allen Roskind _Memoirs Of An Ex-Hippie_ [2001], Chapter 1 - - A Shot Heard Round the World By Christopher Hill in _The Wall Street Journal_ April 5, 2006 In the 1580s, the Catholic king of Spain, fed up with challenges to his sovereignty over the Netherlands, called for volunteers to assassinate his chief antagonist in the region, Prince William of Orange, a Protestant who had been dubbed "the Silent" for his reluctance to take a public stand on religious issues. The king's request brought a response from a Frenchman named Balthasar Gérard, a former student who took his Catholicism very seriously. Gérard infiltrated William's entourage and saw his chance on July 10, 1584. The prince had just finished dining at his residence in Delft and was heading off to his private quarters when Gérard pulled out a new-fangled handgun called a wheel-lock pistol and fired into William's chest. The prince was dead within minutes, and thus 25-year-old Balthasar Gérard earned a grim distinction as the first person ever to assassinate a head of state with a handgun. This event is the focus of "The Awful End of Prince William the Silent," by Lisa Jardine, a professor of Renaissance history at the University of London. . . . - . . see: "PHYSICS" see: "UNIVERSE" One of the brightest people I know is Shirley Maclaine, and Shirley is, of course, a firm believer in astrology. And in her defense I'll say this — that I have known Shirley Maclaine ever since she was a cocker spaniel and I . . . --Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) (1921—2000) American musician, comedian, writer, and first host of the Tonight Show. ^ Girolamo Cardano (1501—1576) Italian mathematician and astrologer. Cardano was renowned throughout Europe as an astrologer, even visiting England to cast a horoscope of the young king, Edward VI. A steadfast believer in the accuracy of his so-called science, Cardano constructed a horoscope predicting the hour of his own death. When the day dawned, it found him in good health and safe from harm. Rather than have his prediction falsified, Cardano killed himself. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. In Edmund Clarence Stedman _A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present_ [1888], p. 160. Astrology is a disease, not a science. --Moses Maimonides (1135—1204) Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. _Laws of Repentance_ [1170-1180] - "Excuse me, Doctor, did you say that the Sun will burn up the Earth in 5 billion years?" "Yes, more or less." "Thank God. For a moment I thought you had said 5 _million_." --Carl Sagan (1934—1996) American astronomer and author. - A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. --Jeremy Taylor (1613—1667) English Anglican clergyman and writer. [Calvin:] Do you believe our destinies are determined by the stars? [Hobbes:] Nah. [Calvin:] Oh, _I_ do. [Hobbes:] Really? How come? [Calvin:] Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions. --Bill Waterson II (1958— ) American cartoonist, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes." _Weirdos From Another Planet_, 1990, p. 25 If on the first day of the month of nisan [April] the sun looks sprinkled with blood and the light is cool: the king will die and there will be mourning in the country. --Babylonian tablet (BM40085) in M.J. Cohan and John Major {ed.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] citing Wilfred H. van Soldt _Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil_ [1995], p.94. Cohan & Major explain: "The Babylonians were interested in natural phenomena, particularly eclipses. Close observations were made of the movements of the sun and moon and, of course, the stars. This is an omen based on observation of the sun at a certain time of year." -- A famous astrologer was entranced by the baby in the pram. "Beautiful," she said. "absolutely beautiful. Do you happen to know what sign she was conceived under?" "Yes," blushed the young mum. 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