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;void(0)) . . . DISAGREEMENT see "COMMUNICATION" for related links If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] {Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}. Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like, and others we don't. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don't work out. If you fight against this principle of life, you'll spend most of your life fighting battles. --R. Carlson, Ph.D. We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. Men often oppose a thing merely because they have no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. --Alexander Hamilton (1755or571804) 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 Federalist_ # 70 [1787-1788] The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, & Andrew Frothingham _And I Quote: The Definitive Collection..._, p. 466 [1992]. To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. "Notebook E", Aphorism 11 _Aphorisms_, 17651799 I cannot say that I don't disagree with you. --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. Dealing with burning issues without being rooted in a deep personal relationship with God easily leads to divisiveness because, before we know it our sense of self is caught up in our opinion about a given subject. But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative. --Henri Nouwen (19321996) Dutch Catholic priest and writer. _In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership_ Agreeing to differ. [Latin: Discors concordia.] --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. "Metamorphoses" I. 433 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. --Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926) Austro-German poet. ^ Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) British novelist. Michael Sadleir describes Trollope as one 'scarcely giving himself time to think, but spluttering and roaring out an instantly- formed opinion couched in the very strongest of terms.' At a meeting of surveyors, Trollope suddenly fired at the speaker who preceded him, 'I disagree with you entirely. What was it you said?' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ----- cavil (verb) ['kๆ-v๊l] To object on frivolous or petty grounds, to quibble.  . . A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_ [1889], Ch. 22 . . animadversion [an-uh-mad-VUHR-zhuhn], noun: 1. Harsh criticism or disapproval. 2. Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure -- often used with 'on'. Ex.: It is unfortunate, therefore, that Stephen Holmes mars his otherwise helpful Anatomy of Antiliberalism with a few stray animadversions on libertarianism. Steven Hayward "Political Liberalism", _Reason_ [1 February 1994] deprecate [DEP-rih-kayt], transitive verb: 1. [Archaic] To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer. 2. To disapprove of strongly. 3. To belittle; to depreciate. eschew (verb) [e-'shu] Shun, avoid, shy away from. excoriate [ek-SKOR-ee-ayt], transitive verb: 1. To express strong disapproval of; to denounce. 2. To tear or wear off the skin of. Ex.: For many months, he had excoriated historians who had "bullied their way into power positions in academia" in order to indoctrinate students with the message that "our country is inherently evil." --Gary B. Nash, _History on Trial_ objurgate [OB-juhr-gayt], transitive verb: To express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely. pejorative (adj.) Expressing criticism or disapproval (formal) . . see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links - And no bells tolled and nobody wept no matter what his loss because almost everyone expected death ... and people said and believed, 'This is the end of the world.' --Agnolo di Tura, chronicler of Siena in central Italy [1348] in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 285. The Black Death: http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/a-b/blackdeath.html http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/w%20civ%2002/plaguereadings.html & see: 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. - There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people don't extract some advantage from. --Fran็ois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. - Oh, the humanity! --Herbert Morrison (19051989) American broadcaster. The Hindenburg - ----- debacle (noun) [di-'bah-kl] A sudden rush of water and debris such as results from dam failure or the breaking up of river ice in the spring; any sudden total collapse or rout. ;void(0)) DISCIPLINE . . see: "SELF-IMPROVEMENT" see: "RULES" see "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. . . . If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. --Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (19081989) American actress. _The Lonely Life: An Autobiography_ [1962] Let thy child's first lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1739] Hold their noses to grindstone. --John Heywood (14971580) English playwright. _Proverbs_ [1546] - The sentry who is inattentive will be killed. The arrow-messenger who gets drunk will be killed. Anyone who harbors a fugitive will be killed. The warrior who unlawfully appropriates booty for himself will be killed. The leader who is incompetent will be killed. --Laws, late 12th and early 13th centuries; in Michael Hoang _Genghis Khan_ [1988] - We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. --Karl Marx (18181883) German political philosopher. ^ Terry Pratchett (1948 ) English science fiction writer, revisits Hansel and Gretel in this exerpt in _The Light Fantastic_: [begin snippet inside the Gingerbread house] "Have a bit more table," said Rincewind. "No thanks, I don't like marzipan," said Twoflower. "Anyway, I'm sure it's not right to eat other people's furniture." "Don't worry," said Swires. "The old witch hasn't been seen for years. They say she was done up good and proper by a couple of young tearaways." "Kids of today," commented Rincewind. "I blame the parents," said Twoflower. ^ The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them. --Samuel Smiles (18121904) Scottish author. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. --William W. Ward ----- cosset [KOSS-it], transitive verb: To treat as a pet; to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper. Ex.: "In these two years, Adolf lived a life of parasitic idleness -- funded, provided for, looked after, and cosseted by a doting mother, with his own room in the comfortable flat in the Humboldtstrasse in Linz, which the family had moved into in June 1905." --Ian Kershaw, _Hitler: 1889-1936_ "Hubris" Cosset comes from the noun cosset, "a pet lamb." martinet [mar-t'n-ET], noun: 1. A strict disciplinarian. 2. One who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of forms and methods. Ex.: He is an unmitigated tyrant, a martinet, the sort of man who disapproves of his son's eating the morning oatmeal with sugar -- instead of salt, which he himself prefers. --David Quammen, "Punishing Natty," _New York Times_, [14 April 1985] A martinet is so called after an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. mollycoddle (verb) ['mah-li-kah-d๊l] To pamper, unreasonably tolerate a lack of discipline, or overindulge. . . see: "COMPLAINING" see: "UNHAPPINESS" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links 'T is not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry smiles and sunshine in my face when discontent sits heavy at my heart. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common discontent. --Matthew Arnold (18221888) English Victorian poet and literary and social critic. Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations. --Berthold Auerbach (18121882) German novelist. When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. --J. P. Donleavy (1926 ) American dramatist and novelist. _The Ginger Man_ [1955] It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _Utilitarianism_ [1863] - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Richard III_ [15921593], I. i. 1 Past and to come seems best, things present, worst. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Henry IV_ [1597] - As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Overruled_ [1916] The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711] That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. --James Thomson (17001748) Scottish poet. ----- malaise [muh-LAYZ], noun: 1. A vague feeling of discomfort in the body, as at the onset of illness. 2. A general feeling of depression or unease. repine ih-PINE, intransitive verb: 1. To feel or express discontent. 2. To long for something. Ex.: Deserted at birth by his natural father, sentenced at the age of 11 to Colored Waif's Home in New Orleans, Armstrong did not repine; instead, he returned love for hatred and sought salvation through work. --Terry Teachout, "Top Brass," _New York Times_, [3 August 1997] . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ADVENTURE CHALLENGE COURAGE CREATIVITY CURIOSITY EXPERIMENT, EXPLORATION GENETIC ENGINEERING IMAGINATION INNOVATION INQUISITIVENESS INVENTION OBSERVATION ORIGINALITY QUESTIONS RESEARCH RISK ROBOTS SCIENCE SOUTH POLE STEM CELL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY, TELEPHONE VISION WONDER --- Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. It will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about. --Alexander Graham Bell (18471922) Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the telephone [1876]. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge. --Daniel J. Boorstin (19142004) American historian. In Carol Krucoff, "The 6 O'Clock Scholar" _Wahington Post_ [29 January 1984]. The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called 'Keep to-morrow dark,' [...] The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ [1904], ch. 1 "Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy" It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation, and of accident, rather than of design. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible. --Henry Ford (18631947) American car manufacturer. _My Life and Work_ [1922] One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --Andre Gide (18691951) French novelist and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. _The Counterfeiters_ [1925] Who never walks, save where he sees men's tracks, makes no discoveries. --Josiah Gilbert Holland (18191881) American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribners Magazine." - It is certain, says [Columbus], that this is the mainland, and that I am off Zayton and Quinsay [Shanghai and Hangchow, both Chinese ports] 100 leagues [about 300 miles] distant more or less from the one and the other, and this is shown by the sea, which looks different from what it has been until now. --Bartolom้ de Las Casas (14841566) Spanish priest and historian. _Diary_ [1530s], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 324. Cohan & Major explain: Thus on 1 Nov. 1492, coasting Cuba, [Columbus] decided he was off the Chinese mainland. A biography of Las Casas - People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. In J. P. Stern's _Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions_ [1959], "Further Excerpts from Lichtenberg's Notebooks". We were three months and twenty days without getting any kind of fresh food. We ate biscuit which was no longer biscuit but its powder; swarming with worms, for they had eaten what was good. It stank strongly of rats' urine. We drank yellow water already putrid for many days ... Rats were sold for half a ducat apiece ... The gums of both the lower and upper teeth of some of our men swelled, so that they could not eat under any circumstances and therefore died. --Antonio Pigafetta _Journal_ [1525], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 329. Cohan & Major note: An Italian gentleman, Pigafetta went along as a supernumerary and produced what is by far the most interesting account of [Magellan's] voyage. 19 men died of scurvy, and another 25 or 30 fell sick. An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. --Max Plank [Karl Ernst Ludwig] (18581947) German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory; winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. _The Philosophy of Physics_ [1936] The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust (18711922) French novelist. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. --Albert von Szent-Gy๖rgyi (18931992) Hungarian-born biochemist. winner of the 1937 Nobel prize for Medicine. _The Scientist Speculates_ [1962] ----- descry (transitive verb) 1. To see or make out, esp., something obscured or at a distance. Example: He descried the house through the thick vegetation. Syn.: discern, distinguish, sight 2: To find or detect by means of close study or observation. Example: She descried several errors in the manuscript. Syn.: detect, discover Related: find, notice, catch, see, observe Derived: descrier, n. serendipity (noun) 1. The accidental discovery of something pleasant, valuable, or useful 2. A natural gift for making pleasant, valuable, or useful discoveries by accident ;void(0)) DISCUSSION . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, & Andrew Frothingham _And I Quote: The Definitive Collection..._, p. 466 [1992]. Whoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth. --Thomas Watson (16201686) English Puritan preacher and author. ----- imply (verb) [im-'plI] To indicate by necessary entailment rather than a direct statement; to occur as a logical consequence, as a garage implies ownership of an automobile. Usage: Imply is the antonym of "infer," (The speaker implies, the listener infers.) germane (adj.) Suitably related to something, especially something being discussed interpolate [in-TUR-puh-layt], transitive verb: 1. To alter or corrupt (as a book or text) by the insertion of new or foreign matter. 2. To insert (material) into a text or conversation. 3. To insert between other elements or parts. 4. [Mathematics] to estimate a value of (a function) between two known values. 5. To make insertions. parley [PAR-lee], (noun) A conference or discussion, especially with an enemy, as with regard to a truce or other matters. tendentious (adjective) [ten-'den-ch๊s] Exhibiting a strong tendency or point of view, overbearingly didactic or partisan. Note: Not to be confused with "tendential" which means simply "relating to a tendency." "Tendential ideas" are those with a decided point of view but not an overbearing one. "Tendentious ideas" so strongly support a tendency as to become repulsive. tenebrific (adj) [te-n๊-'bri-fik] Causing darkness, darkening, obscuring, obfuscating. ;void(0)) DISGUISE . . see "DECEPTION" for related links Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. --Bible "Matthew" 7:15 We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. _Sketches and Essays_ [1839], "On Cant and Hypocrisy" Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all. --Fran็ois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. --W. 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