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;void(0)) . . . see: "FAULT" see "FAILURE" for other related links When you blame others, you give up your power to change. --Dr. Robert Anthony (1916 ) American writer. Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character. --Orlando A. Battista (1917 ) Canadian-American chemist and author. We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. --George Berkeley (16851753) Anglo-Irish philosopher. _A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_ [1710] He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. --Bible "John" 8:7 Blame is for God and small children. --Ralph Bunche (19041971) American political scientist, diplomat and winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize. We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself. --Albert Camus (19131960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. _The Fall_, p.81, tr. Justin O'Brien [1956] There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 2, ch. 4. Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Biographia Literaria_ [1817] - Balavignus, a Jewish physician, inhabitant of Thonon, was arrested at Chillon, since he had been found in the neighborhood. He was put on the rack for a short time and when taken down confessed after much hesitation that about ten weeks before Rabbi Jacob of Toledo ... sent him by a Jewish boy ... a powder sewn into a thin leather pouch accompanied by a letter, commanding him, on pain of excommunication, and by requiring his obedience to the law, to throw this poison into the larger and more frequented wells of the town of Thonon. --Confession [15 September 1348], in the Castle of Chillon, Savoy, southeast France, by Jews arrested in Neustadt, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 286. Cohan & Major explain: The blame for the plague was thus attached to the Jews, and Balavignuswas one of ten who confessed 'his design of destroying and extirpating all Christians'. Later centuries would use the word pogrom for just such violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism. - Things that are done, it is needless to speak about . . . things that are past, it is needless to blame. --Confucius (551479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. _The Confucian Analects_ bk. 3:21 Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately. --Stephen Covey (1932 ) American author. This is an old saying, Atula, it is not a saying of today. 'They blame the man who is silent, they blame the man who speaks too much, and they blame the man who speaks too little.' No man can escape blame in the world. --_The Dhammapada_, Buddhist scripture. ...And you can't really place blame, 'cuz blame is much too messy. Some is bound to get on you while you're placing it on me. --Ani DiFranco Singer and lyricist. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. Address to the French Philosophical Society, Paris [6 April 1922]. It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another nor himself. --Epictetus (55135) Greek philosopher. _The Encheiridion_, 5, tr. George Long [1890?] Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [February 1734] Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. --Nikolai Gogol (18091852) Russian writer. _The Inspector-General_ [1836] The search for someone to blame is always successful. --Robert Half Attributed in Bob Kelly _Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes_, p. 30 [2003]. - Mister Marvin Middle Class is really in a stew Wond'rin' what the younger generation's coming to And the taste of his martini doesn't please his bitter tongue Blame it on the Rolling Stones. Blame it on the Stones; blame it on the Stones You'll feel so much better, knowing you don't stand alone Join the accusation; save the bleeding nation Get it off your shoulders; blame it on the Stones --Kris Kristofferson (1936 ) American country music singer and songwriter. w/Bucky Wilkin, "Blame It On The Stones" - What is wrong then? The system. But when you've said that you've said nothing. The system, after all, is only the outcome of the human psyche, the human desires. We shout and blame the machine. But who on earth makes the machine, if we don't? And any alterations in the system are only modifications in the machine. The system is in us, it is not something external to us. The machine is in us, or it would never come out of us. Well then, there's nothing to blame but ourselves, and there's nothing to change except inside ourselves. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. "Education of the People" (essay) pub. in _Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine_ [1925] A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. --Elmer G. Letterman If a man makes a slip, admonish him gently and show him his mistake. If you fail to convince him, blame yourself, or else blame nobody. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_ Book X, Number 4 The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true desserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy. If these villains could be put down, he holds, he would at once become rich, powerful and eminent. Nine politicians out of every ten, of whatever party, live and have their being by promising to perform this putting down. In brief, they are knaves who maintain themselves by preying on the idiotic vanities and pathetic hopes of half-wits. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. Baltimore "Evening Sun" [15 June 1936] When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself. --Louis Nizer (19021994) English-born American lawyer. _My Life in Court_, ch. I [1961] One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more than it's society. When you put blame on the society, then you end up turning to society for the solution. Just like those poor neurotics at the Care Fest. There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and tread them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the f*cking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. --Tom Robbins (1936 ) American author. _Still Life with Woodpecker_ [1980] When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. --I.F. Stone [Isidor Feinstein] (19071989) American investigative journalist. "International Herald Tribune" [16 March 1988]; quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 25 [1993]. ^ I had been keen to hear what people thought politically. Those whom I had met did not talk about the subject, didn't seem to want to talk about it. It seemed to me partly caution and partly a lack of interest, but strong opinions were just not stated. One storekeeper did admit to me that he had to do business with both sides and could not permit himself the luxury of an opinion. He was a graying man in a little gray store, a crossroads place where I stopped for a box of dog biscuits and a can of pipe tobacco. This man, this store, might have been anywhere in the nation, but actually it was back in Minnesota. The man had a kind of gray wistful twinkle in his eyes as though he remembered humor when it was not against the law, so that I dared go out on a limb. I said, 'It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don't believe that. It'll just take another channel. Can you think, sir, of what that channel might be?' 'You mean where will they bust out?' 'Where do they bust out?' I was not wrong, the twinkle was there, the precious, humorous twinkle. 'Well, sir,' he said, 'we've got a murder now and then, or we can read about them. Then we've got the World Series. You can raise a wind any time over the Pirates or the Yankees, but I guess the best of all is we've got the Russians.' 'Feelings pretty strong there?' 'Oh, sure! Hardly a day goes by somebody doesn't take a belt at the Russians.' For some reason he was getting a little easier, even permitted himself a chuckle that could have turned to throat-clearing if he saw a bad reaction from me. I asked, 'Anybody know any Russians around here?' And now he went all out and laughed. 'Course not. That's why they're valuable. Nobody can find fault with you if you take out after the Russians.' 'Because we're not doing business with them?' He picked up a cheese knife from the counter and carefully ran his thumb along the edge and laid the knife down. 'Maybe that's it. By George, maybe that's it. We're not doing business.' 'You think then we might be using the Russians as an outlet for something else, for other things.' 'I didn't think that at all, sir, but I bet I'm going to. Why, I remember when people took everything out on Mr Roosevelt. Andy Larsen got red in the face about Roosevelt one time when his hens got the croup. Yes, sir,' he said with growing enthusiasm, 'those Russians got quite a load to carry. Man has a fight with his wife, he belts the Russians.' 'Maybe everybody needs Russians. I'll bet even in Russia they need Russians. Maybe they call it Americans.' --John Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] ^ Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. --Lionel Trilling (19051975) American critic and author. _The Liberal Imagination_ [1950] He slandered the world in revenge for his complete lack of success in it. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Zadig_ [1747], tr. H.I. Woolf [1949] There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. - He who accuses too many, accuses himself. --anon. People in our culture have a morbid tendency to avoid blame, because they do not wish to take the trouble to change their conduct in any way: blame-avoidance and blame-transference are therefore endemic amongst us. These are substitutes for repentance and renewal. --Behavior Research Project (Texas). In Lewis Mumford (18951990) _The Conduct of Life_, 6.3 [1951] ----- censure [SEN-shur], noun: The act of blaming or finding fault. impute (verb) [im-'pyoot] To ascribe, to attribute (especially blame or fault).  . . BLESSINGS see "HAPPINESS" for related links Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. Attributed in _Indianapolis Medical Journal_, vol XXII, p. 628 [1919] Fall silently like dew on roses. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. --Abraham Joshua Heschel (19071972) Jewish theologian and philosopher. In Walter J Burghardt _Preaching the Just Word_, p. 68 [1998]. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. --Eric Hoffer (19021983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. --Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (18091885) English Victorian poet and man of letters. _The Men of Old_ st. 7 - May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back, The sun shine warm upon your face, The rain fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again May God hold you in the hollow of his hand. --Irish blessing May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, quick to make friends. But rich or poor, quick or slow, may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward. --Irish blessing May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door. --Irish blessing - For those to whom much is given, much is required. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, are those of the mind. --Sir Roger L'Estrange (16161704) English journalist and pamphleteer. Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254184 BC) Roman comic dramatist. _The Captives_ [3rd century BC) May you live all the days of your life. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_, 2, [1738] Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold; How blessings brighten as they take their flight. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. "Night Thoughts" [1742-1745] II, l. 589 - I do count my blessings, but then I end up counting those of others who have more and better blessings, and that pisses me off. --Cartoon caption of a man talking to his psychiatrist in _The New Yorker_ [26 November 2007]. - I never made a fortune and it's probably too late now, But it don't matter, I'm happy anyhow. And, as I go along life's journey, I'm reaping better than I've sowed. I'm drinking from a saucer, cause my cup overflowed. I ain't got a lot of riches and sometimes the going is tough, But I got friends and kids that love me, and that makes me rich enough. I just thank God for the mercies and the blessings He's bestowed. I'm drinking from a saucer, cause my cup is overflowed. Oh, there were rimes when things went wrong and my faith got a little thin, But then, all at once, the dark clouds broke and the old sun peaked through again. So, Lord, help me not to complain about rough rows I've hoed. I"m drinking from a saucer, cause my cup is overflowed. And if God gives me strength and courage when my way grows steep and rough, I'll not ask for other blessings; I've already been blessed enough. And may I never be too busy to help others bear their load, And I'll just keep on drinking from a saucer, cause my cup is overflowed --anon. - ----- benison [BEN-uh-suhn; -zuhn], noun: Blessing; benediction. Ex.: In the beginning, Gibran's small estate was worth some $50,000, benison enough for a village of ten thousand souls. --Stefan Kanfer, "But is it not strange that elephants will yield -- and that The Prophet is still popular?", _New York Times_, June 25, 1972 . . see: "EYES" see: "SEEING" They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. --Bible "Matthew" 15:14 Love is blind. --Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13431400) English poet. _The Canterbury Tales_ [c. 1387] Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother hear nor see? --John Heywood (14971580) English playwright. _Dialogue of Proverbs_ [1546] The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. . . see "JOURNALISM" for related links I must say that I have had my doubts about the capacity of the Blogosphere to impact upon the wider world but perhaps I have underestimated it. When a handful of bloggers can force the editor of a publication as august as the _New York Times_ out of his job, you know that the game has changed. The once-untouchable are now touchable and they know it. That, of itself, is hugely significant. I don't believe that British or European bloggers are yet having the tangible impact on this side of the Atlantic that US bloggers are clearly starting to have on that side but, then, orthodox opinions are far more hegemonic here. Still, I do not believe that the _Guardian_ would have been forced to issue a shame-faced apology for its woeful distortion of the Paul Wolfowitz statement even a year ago. Maybe they feel that they cannot get away with that kind of thing anymore. If so, good. The watchers are being watched. They probably don't like it. I expect that, in due course, they will respond by lobbying the government to bring bloggers under 'democratic control' which is the widely accepted procedure for laying low the competition. When that happens, we will all know that we have truly arrived. --David Carr, http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/003626.html#003626 - When liberal pundits began hailing the emergence of left-wing blogging as a counterweight to conservative talk-radio ... they did so because they hoped to find in the left blogs a substitute for the fading dominance of the old-line liberal media. But that was never going to happen. For conservatives, the advent of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Fox News and the blogosphere is all good news. But for liberals, the move from a world dominated by three big liberal networks, two big liberal newsmagazines, and two great liberal newspapers to a world in which bloggers can bring down a network anchor and the Times' own executive editor is an absolute and utter catastrophe, even if some of those bloggers happen to be liberal themselves. --David Frum (1960 ) Canadian-born Conservative author. - The critics of blogs cite their lack of professionalism. Piffle. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it isn't really a profession. It's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience, and you're all set. You get better at it merely by doing it which is why fancy journalism schools are, to my mind, such a waste of time. --Andrew Sullivan (1963 ) Anglo-American journalist. "A Blogger's Creed", _TIME_ [27 September 2004] Take the CBS document story. The clues to the alleged forgery were not discovered by the bloggers themselves but by their readers. While CBS had a handful of experts look at the dubious memos (and failed to heed their concerns), the blogosphere enlisted hundreds within hours. Debates ensued, with different blogs challenging others over various abstruse points. Yes, some of this was fueled by raw partisanship and bias. The blogosphere is not morally pure. But the result was that the facts were flushed out more effectively and swiftly than the old media could ever have hoped. 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