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;void(0)) . . . Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky] (1894-1974) American entertainer see "HUMOR" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links HOLDUP MAN: Your money or your life? Come on, hurry up! BENNY: I'm thinking it over. --Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky] (1894-1974) American entertainer {his signature joke} Jack Benny played Mendelsson last night. Mendelsson lost. --Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky] (1894-1974) American entertainer  . . see "DEATH" for related links Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. --Julie Burchill (1959- ) English journalist, _Independent_, London, [5 December 1989] The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon Earth -- The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity. --Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet, "The Bustle in a House" [c. 1866] Woman much missed, how do you call to me, call to me. Saying that now you are not as you were When you have changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. --Thomas Hardy (1840?-1928) English novelist and poet, "The Voice" [1914] Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer. --C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English literary scholar, "A Grief Observed" [1961] A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. --Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German novelist, _The Magic Mountain_ [1924] Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide. --Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet, "Time does not bring relief" I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral. --Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) British war hero, in Richard Hough _Mountbatten_ [1980] The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American writer and philanthropist, _Little Foxes_ [1865], ch. 3 He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him: liked it not, and died. --Henry Wotten (1568-1639) English poet and diplomat, "Upon the Death of Sir Albertus Moreton's Wife" [1651] Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. --Xenophon (c.430-352 B.C.) Athenian historian  BEST (DO YOUR) . . see "SUCCESS" for related links I had applied for the nuclear submarine program, and Admiral Rickover was interviewing me for the job. It was the first time I met Admiral Rickover, and we sat in a large room by ourselves for more than two hours, and he let me choose any subjects I wished to discuss. Very carefully, I chose those about which I knew most at the time current events, seamanship, music, literature, naval tactics, electronics, gunnery and he began to ask me a series of questions of increasing difficulty. In each instance, he soon proved that I knew relatively little about the subject I had chosen. He always looked right into my eyes, and he never smiled. I was saturated with cold sweat. Finally, he asked a question and I thought I could redeem myself. He said, 'How did you stand in your class at the Naval Academy?' Since I had completed my sophomore year at Georgia Tech before entering Annapolis as a plebe, I had done very well, and I swelled my chest with pride and answered, 'Sir, I stood fifty-ninth in a class of 820!' I sat back to wait for the congratulations, which never came. Instead, the question: 'Did you do your best?' I started to say, 'Yes, sir,' but I remembered who this was and recalled several of the many times at the Academy when I could have learned more about our allies, our enemies, weapons, strategy, and so forth. I was just human. I finally gulped and said, 'No, sir, I didn't always do my best.' He looked at me for a long time, and then turned his chair around to end the interview. He asked one final question, which I have never been able to forget or to answer. He said, 'Why not?' I sat there for a while, shaken, and then slowly left the room. --Jimmy Carter (1924- ) American Democratic stateman, President 1977-1981, _Why Not The Best?_ [1975] - Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus. (What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might.) --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator and statesman The *probability* that we may fall in the struggle *ought not* deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it *shall not* deter me. --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861-1865], "The Sub-Treasury" speech in the House of Representatives at Springfield, Illinois [26 December 1839] The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-1909], speech in New York City [11 November 1902] - The Declaration of Independence states unequivocally that all men are created equal. Yet every day I find reason to believe this to be untrue. I run in a race and half the field beats me. I attend a seminar and can't follow the reasoning of the speaker. I read a book and I am unable to understand what is evident to others. Daily I am instructed in my deficiencies. I do something, physical or mental, and realize how far I fall short of what other people accomplish. Despite the Declaration, we are apparently not born equal. I cannot aspire to win the Boston Marathon. I most certainly will not receive the Nobel Prize for literature. I am surrounded by people who know more, do more, and make more than I do. But, like many others, I identify myself with my performance. I become my marathon time. I become my latest book. I become the last lecture I gave. . . . But I am more than a body-mind complex. I am a soul as well. I share with everyone on this planet one power infinitely more important than talent: willpower. In this power of the soul, all of us are created equal. . . . The will considers the question, Will you or won't you have it so? And in that decision you can be the equal of anyone else. "Effort is the measure of a man," wrote [William] James. How well we know that. I am never content with contentment. I am uneasy when things go easy. "Don't take things easy," said a great physician, "take things hard." Doing one's absolute best becomes the criterion. --George Sheehan, M.D. (1918-1993) _Personal Best_ [1989], "The Many Levels of Motivation" Let others cheer the winning man, There's one I hold worth while; 'Tis he who does the best he can, Then loses with a smile. Beaten he is, but not to stay Down with the rank and file; That man will win some other day, Who loses with a smile. --anon. ----- quintessence (noun) [kwin-'tes-êns] The purest essence of something. 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