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BLAME
BLESSINGS
BLINDNESS --- BLOGGING

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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 (1685—1753)
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 (1904—1971)
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 (1913—1960)
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 (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615]

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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.

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Things that are done, it is needless to speak
about. . . things that are past, it is needless
to blame.
--Confucius (551—479 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.

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 (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_The Encheiridion_, 5, tr. George Long [1890?]

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [February 1734]

Those see nothing but faults that seek
for nothing else.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
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 (1809—1852)
Russian writer.
_The Inspector-General_ [1836]

The search for someone to blame
is always successful.
--Robert Half

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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"

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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 (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
_Education of the People_

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 (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] 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 deserts. 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 (1880—1956)
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 at himself.
--Louis Nizer (1902—1994)
English-born American lawyer.

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.
--George Santayana (1863—1952)
Spanish-born philosopher and critic.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming,
which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
--Lionel Trilling (1905—1975)
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) (1694—1778)
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 (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

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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 (1895—1990)
_The Conduct of Life_, 6.3 [1951]

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censure [SEN-shur], noun:
The act of blaming or finding fault.




BLESSINGS

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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 (1812—1870)
English novelist.
In Richard Alan Krieger
_Civilization's Quotations: Life's Idea_, p. 171 [2002].

Fall silently like dew on roses.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
--Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907—1972)
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 (1902—1983)
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 (1809—1885)
English Victorian poet and man of letters.
_The Men of Old_ st. 7

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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

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For those to whom much is given, much is required.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].

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 (1616—1704)
English journalist and pamphleteer.

Men understand the worth of blessings only
when they have lost them.
--Titus Maccius Plautus (254—184 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.
_The Captives_ [3rd century BC)

May you live all the days of your life.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
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 (1683—1765)
English poet.
"Night Thoughts" [1742-1745] II, l. 589

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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].

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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.

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BLINDNESS

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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

Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee,
That wilfully will nother hear nor see?
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
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 (1613—1680)
French classical author.




BLOGGING

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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

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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.

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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. The collective
mind also turns out to be a corrective one.
--Andrew Sullivan (1963— )
Anglo-American journalist.
"A Blogger's Creed", _TIME_ [27 September 2004]

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It remains the policy of this blog to answer all correspondence
that does not recommend anatomical impossibilities.
--Terry Treachout (1956— )
American critic.


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