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EARS

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[Of Clark Gable:]
That man's ears make him look like
a taxi-cab with both doors open.
--Howard Hughes Jr. (1905—1976)
American industrialist, aviator, and film producer.
Quoted in Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg _Celluloid Muse_ [1969].

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German physicist and satirist.

One day a person not noted for his tact made a
slighting remark to Lichtenberg about his notably
large ears. Lichtenberg replied: 'Well, just think
of it — with my ears and your brains we'd make
a perfectly splendid ass, wouldn't we?'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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gynotikolobomassophile: One who likes to nibble on a woman's earlobes.



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EARTH (THE)

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see: "ENVIRONMENT"
see: "FARMING"
see: "UNIVERSE"
see: "WORLD"


All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
--Cecil Frances Alexander (1818—1895)
English hymnwriter.
"All Things Bright and Beautiful", st. 1 [1848]

[Of the planet Earth:]
The lunatic asylum of the solar system.
--Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864—1936)
American clergyman and author.
Speech in New York City [17 November 1935].

How inappropriate to call this planet
Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
--Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917—2008)
English science-fiction writer.
Quoted in "Nature" [8 March 1990].

The new electronic interdependence recreates
the world in the image of a global village.
--H. (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (1911—1980)
Canadian professor and author.
_The Gutenberg Galaxy_ [1962].

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to
forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.
In the Introduction to _Silent Spring_ [1962] by Rachel Carson.

The longer I live the more I am inclined to the
belief that this sphere is used by other planets
as a lunatic asylum.
--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.]
Quoted in _The Birth Control Review_ [December 1919].

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.
--John H. Vincent (1832—1920)
American bishop.
_The Lesson Commentary on the International Sunday-School Lessons for 1880_

Oh earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to
realize you. . . . Do any human beings ever
realize life while they live it? — every, every
minute?
--Thornton Wilder (1897—1975)
American novelist and dramatist.
"Our Town", act 3 [1938]

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We do not inherit the Earth from our
parents, we borrow it from our children.
--anon.



EASTERNERS

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Something of the code of the Southern gentleman has
survived and differentiates us. . . . Southerners can be
insulted. With some Easterners, it's impossible.
--attributed to Shelby Foote (1916—2005)
American author.

Sometimes I think this country would be better off
if we could just saw off the Eastern Seaboard and
let it float out to sea.
--Barry Goldwater (1909—1998)
American conservative politician.
In _Washington Star_ [3 December 1961].




EATING

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see: "FOOD & DRINK" for related links


We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love, —what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
_Lucile_ [1860]

Some have meat and cannot eat,
Some cannot eat that want it;
But we have meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.
"The Kirkudbright Grace" [1790] aka "The Selkirk Grace"

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, ch. XXIV [1605]

The only time to eat diet food is while
you're waiting for the steak to cook.
--attributed to Julia Child (1912—2004)
American chef, television personality, and author.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
[Latin:, Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
"Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium", IV, 7

Subdue your appetites my dears, and
you've conquered human nature.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Nicholas Nickleby_, ch. 5 [1839]

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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [June 1733]


I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating, 100000.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1736]

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I do wish we could chat longer, but
I'm having an old friend for dinner.
--Thomas Harris (b. 1940) & Ted Tally (b. 1952)
"The Silence of the Lambs" [1991 film]

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
[French: Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]
--Henri IV [Henry of Naverre] (1553—1610)
King of France [1589—1610].
In Hardouin de Pιrιfixe _Histoire de Henry le Grand_ [1681].

To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten.
--Inscription on Victor Hugo's study

Statistics show that of those who contract
the habit of eating, very few survive.
--attributed to Wallace Irwin (1875—1959)
American editor and writer of sketches.

The only way to eat well in England
is to have breakfast three times a day.
--attributed to W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.

I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of You,
my dearest love. I never touch even pudding.
--Horatio Nelson (1758—1805)
British naval commander.
Letter to Lady Emma Hamilton [1800].

If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is
not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine,
the Cantonese will eat it.
--Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
Consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
1986 remark quoted in
"Long line of princely gaffes", BBC [1 March 2002].

He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath
put all of my substance into that fat belly of his.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV, Part 2_, II, i, 74 [1597]

We each day dig our graves with our teeth.
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.
_Duty_ [1880]

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
Quoted in Diogenes Laertius _Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers_.

Put not another bite into your mouth till the
former be swallowed; let not your morsels be
too big [for the mouth].
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
(At age 16, in his copybook "Rules of Civility and Decent
Behavior in Company and Conversation," Rule # 97.)

My wife is a light eater; as soon
as it's light, she starts eating.
--Henny Youngman (1906—1998)
English-born American stand-up comedian.
_Take My Jokes- Please_ [1983]

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I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
--Alka-Seltzer advertising slogan


Mama Mia, that's a spicy meatball!
--Alka-Seltzer advertising slogan

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abstemious [ab-STEE-mee-uhs], adjective:
1. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent.
2. Sparingly used or consumed; used with temperance
or moderation.
3. Marked by or spent in abstinence.
Synonyms: abstinent, teetotal, temperate.

borborygm (noun) [bor-bκ-'rig-κm]
The gurgling sounds made by the stomach after eating.

cloy (verb) ['kloy]
1/ To oversatiate with rich food, to overfeed, to cause
nausea by overfeeding with delicious, rich food;
2/ To oversatiate with anything otherwise pleasant
to the point it becomes unpleasant.

crapulence (noun) ['krζp-yκ-lκns]
Sickness from immoderate eating or drinking; indulgence
of one's appetites to the point of nausea.

dyspepsia (noun)
Disturbed digestion; indigestion.
Synonyms: indigestion, upset stomach

edacious [i-DAY-shus], adj.:
Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

epicure [EP-ih-kyur], noun:
1. a person who enjoys eating and drinking and who is
very particular in choosing fine foods and beverages;
gourmet.
2. a person who is fond of luxury and pleasure.

esculent (adj.) ['es-kyκ-lκnt]
Edible, eatable, able to be eaten.

gourmand [goor-MAHND], noun:
1. One who eats to excess.
2. A lover of good food.
Ex.: A gourmand who zealously avoids all exercise as
'seriously damaging to one's health,' he had caviar for
breakfast and was now having oysters for lunch, whetted
with wine, as he fueled himself for a postprandial reading
at the Montauk Club in Brooklyn.
--"The Man Who Put Horace Rumpole on the Case,"
_New York Times_ [12 April 1995]

ingurgitate (verb) [in-'gκr-jκ-teyt]
To gulp, gobble, eat greedily in excessive amounts.

masticate (verb) ['mζs-tκ-keyt]
To chew or to grind to a pulp.

oligophagous (adj.) [ah-li-GAH-fuh-gus]
Feeding on few substances; usually used for insects
who feed on only a small number of plants.

orthorexia (noun) [or-thκ-'rek-si-yκ]
An uncontrolable obsession with eating the right food,
especially health food. From orthorexia nervosa "right-
appetite neurosis," parallel to "anorexia nervosa" or
"no-appetite neurosis."

postprandial [post-PRAN-dee-uhl], adjective:
Happening or done after a meal.

repletion [ih-PLEE-shun], noun:
1. The condition of being completely filled or supplied.
2. Excessive fullness, as from overeating.
Ex.: With distended belly and bursting waistcoat, his
eyes glazed with repletion, he picks listlessly at his
teeth with a fork.
--Kenneth Rose,
"Madness of King George's son,"
_Daily Telegraph_, [14 November 1998]

trencherman (noun)
A hearty eater.
Synonyms: glutton, gourmand

voracity (noun) [vo-'rζ-sκ-ti]
An enormous appetite, uncontrollable hunger, ravenousness.
voracious: adj.
voraciously: adv.



ECONOMICS / ECONOMY (THE)
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I define a recession as when your neighbor loses his
job, but a depression is when you lose your own.
--Dave Beck (1894—1993)
American labor leader.
Quoted in "Time" [22 February 1954].

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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his
job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945—1953].
In "Observer" [13 April 1958].

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
--Aneurin Bevan (1897—1960)
British Labour politician.
In Michael Foot _Aneurin Bevan_, vol. 1, ch. 3 [1962].

1/ You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2/ You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3/ You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
4/ You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
5/ You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer
down.
6/ You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your
income.
7/ You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class
hatred.
9/ You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's
initiative and independence.
8/ You cannot establish social security on borrowed money.
10/ You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what
they could and should do for themselves.
--Rev. William John Henry Boetcker (1873—1962)
German-born American minister and author.
"The Industrial Decalogue" [1916]

There are those who believe that if you will only
legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous,
their prosperity will leak through on those below.
The Democratic idea, however, has been that if
you make the masses prosperous, their prosperity
will find its way up through every class which
rests upon them.
--William Jennings Bryan (1860—1925)
American Democratic and Populist politician who
ran for the presidency three times without success.
In his "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic
Party National Convention, Chicago [8 July 1896].

The multitudes remained plunged in ignorance of the
simplest economic facts, and their leaders, seeking
their votes, did not dare to undeceive them.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
_The Gathering Storm_ [1948]

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I believe that it is only the abundance of money in a
state which makes a difference to its greatness and its
power. It is certain that by means of manufactures, a
million people who languish in idleness will gain
their livelihood.
--Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619—1683)
Controller general of finance and secretary of state
for the navy under Louis XIV of France.
_Memoir on Commerce, A Document Presented to the King_ [3 August 1664]


Your Majesty thinks of war ten times more than he
thinks of his finances ... [but if war occurs] it will
oblige us to begin using the revenues of coming
years.
--Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619—1683)
Controller general of finance and secretary of
state for the navy under Louis XIV of France.
(Memorandum to the King) [1670].

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When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent
in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that
it is an economic support of every human right we possess
and that without it, all rights would soon disappear. Their
demagoguery, unless combated by truth, can become as
great a danger to freedom as exists in any other threat.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969),
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953—1961].
Inaugural Address, Columbia University [12 October 1948].

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the
ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars
when you had hair.
--attributed to Sam Ewing (1920—2001)
American writer and humorist.

Necessity never made a good bargain.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1735]

To bring monetary policy to bear against inflation, the Federal
Reserve [Board] discourages the lending of money by the banks.
This is accomplished by raising interest rates and by increasing
the banks' reserve requirements — the cash they must hold in
reserve — so that they have less money to lend.
--John Kenneth Galbraith (1908—2006)
American economist.
_A Life in Our Times: Memoirs_, ch. 22 [1981]

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven.
Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants
to do what you have to do to get there.
--Phil Gramm (b. 1942)
American Republican politician.
In a television interview [16 September 1990].

You ought to shoot all the economists
and elect a couple of historians.
--Ernest Hollings (b. 1922)
American politician and Democratic Senator [1966-2005].
"New York Times" [8 June 1983]

The merchants will manage the better, the more
they are left free to manage themselves.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to Gideon Granger [13 August 1800].

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American politician, 35th President of
the United States [1961—1963]

Shortly after Kennedy blocked the hike in steel
prices in 1961, he was visited by a businessman
who expressed wariness about the national
economy. 'Things look great,' said JFK. 'Why,
if I wasn't President, I'd be buying stock myself.'

'If you weren't President,' said the businessman,
'so would I.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer
means of overturning the existing basis of society than
to debauch the currency. The process engages all the
hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction,
and does it in a manner which not one man in a million
is able to diagnose.
--John Maynard Keynes (1883—1946)
English economist.
_The Economic Consequences of the Peace_ ch. 6 [1919]

Economic independence is the foundation
of the only sort of freedom worth a damn.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
Quoted in Guy J. Forgue (ed.) _Letters of H. L. Mencken_ [1961].

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
--Dwight Morrow (1873—1931)
American lawyer, banker, and diplomat.
"San Francisco News" [1 June 1949]

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_The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00_

There's a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum
wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the minimum wage
by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of
the job market.

--editorial in the _New York Times_ [14 January 1987]

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Expenditure rises to meet income.
--C. Northcote Parkinson (1909—1993)
English writer.
_The Law and the Profits_ [1960]

A 'mixed economy' disintegrates a country into
an institutionalized civil war of pressure groups,
each fighting for legislative favors and special
privileges at the expense of one another.
--Ayn Rand (1905—1982)
Russian-born American writer.
_Global Balkanization_ [1977]

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In this present crisis, government is not the
solution to our problem. Government is the
problem.
--Ronald Reagan (1911—2004)
American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor.
Speaking of inflation and unemployment, in
his first inaugural address [20 January 1981].


Government's view of the economy* could be summed
up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize
it.
--Ronald Reagan (1911—2004)
American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor.
Remarks to State Chairperson at the White House
Conference on Small Busines [15 August 1986].
*Before he was elected

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Any government, like any family, can for a year
spend a little more than it earns. But you and
I know that a continuance of that habit means
the poorhouse.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
In a radio speech [30 July 1932].


If a nation is living within its income, its credit is good.
If in some crisis it lives beyond its income for a year
or two it can usually borrow temporarily on reasonable
terms. But if, like the spendthrift, it throws discretion
to the winds, is willing to make no sacrifice at all in
spending, extends its taxing to the limit of the people's
power to pay, and continues to pile up deficits, it is
on the road to bankruptcy.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
In a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [19 October 1932].


I believe, I have always believed, and I will always
believe in private enterprise as the backbone of
economic well-being in America.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
In a speech in Chicago [14 October 1936].


The first theory is that if we make the rich richer,
somehow they will let a part of their prosperity
trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory
... was the theory that if we make the average of
mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity
will rise upward ... through the ranks.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
[2 October 1932] in _Public Papers_ v. 1, p. 772 [1938].

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If we are brought face to face with the naked
issue of either keeping or totally destroying a
prosperity in which the majority share, but in
which some share improperly, why, as sensible
men, we must decide that it is a great deal
better that some people should prosper too
much than that no one should prosper enough.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
In a speech in Fitchburg, Massachusetts [2 September 1902].

Wall Street indexes predicted nine
out of the last five recessions.
--Paul Samuelson (1915—2009)
American economist,winner of the 1970 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
Column in "Newsweek" [19 September 1966].

Entrepreneurial profit . . . is the expression of the value of
what the entrepreneur contributes to production in exactly
the same sense that wages are the value expression of what
the worker 'produces.' It is not a profit of exploitation any
more than are wages.
--Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883—1950)
Morovian-born American economist and sociologist.
_The Theory of Economic Development_ [1934] "Entrepreneurial Profit"

Wall Street Lays an Egg.
--Sime Silverman (1873—1933)
Founder and editor of "Variety."
News headline in _Variety_ following the stock market crash [October 1929].

The only function of economic forecasting
is to make astrology look respectable.
--Ezra Solomon (1920—2002)
American economist and professor.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1985].

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In Canada there is a small radical group that refuses to speak English
and no one can understand them. They are called separatists. ln this
country we have the same kind of group. They are called Economists.
--anon., as quoted in Charles Henning
_The Wit & Wisdom of Politics_ [1989].

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Washington, D. C.
A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, D. C.
The guide pointed out the place where George Washington
supposedly threw a dollar across the Potomac River. "That's
impossible," said the tourist. "No one could throw a coin
that far!" "You have to remember," answered the guide.
"A dollar went a lot farther in those days."

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These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not
facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate
these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies,
the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
--Rep. Barney Frank (b. 1940)
American politician.
[11 September 2003]

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Through nearly a dozen hearings, we were frankly trying to fix
something that wasn’t broke. Mr. Chairman, we do not have a
crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae, under
the outstanding leadership of Franklin Raines.
--Rep. Maxine Waters (b. 1938)
American politician.
At a 2004 Congressional hearing about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Four years later:

September 7, 2008
_U.S. seizes Fannie and Freddie_
"Treasury chief Paulson unveils historic government takeover
of twin mortgage buyers. Top executives are out."

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