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;void(0)) . . . EARS see: "THE BODY" That man's ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open. --Howard Hughes Jr. (19051976) American industrialist, aviator, and film producer. (Of Clark Gable.) ^ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) 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.] ^  ;void(0)) EARTH (THE) . . 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 (18181895) English hymnwriter. "All Things Bright and Beautiful" [1848] st. 1 The lunatic asylum of the solar system. --Samuel Parkes Cadman (18641936) American clergyman and author. (On the planet Earth, in a speech in New York City [17 November 1935].) How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke (19172008) English science-fiction writer. Attributed in "Nature" [1990]. The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. --H. (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (19111980) Canadian professor and author. In _The Gutenberg Galaxy_ [1962]. We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children. --Antoine de Saint-Exupιry (19001944) French novelist. Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. --Albert Schweitzer (18751965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. In the Introduction to _Silent Spring_ [1962] by Rachel Carson. If other worlds are inhabited, this world must be their lunatic asylum. --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.] We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. --John H. Vincent (18321920) American bishop. 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 (18971975) American novelist and dramatist. "Our Town" [1938], act III . . see "PEOPLE" for related links Something of the code of the Southern gentleman has survived and differentiates us...Southerners can be insulted. With some Easterners, it's impossible. --Shelby Foote (19162005) American author.  EATING . . 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 (18031873) British novelist and politician. 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 (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "The Kirkudbright Grace" [1790] aka "The Selkirk Grace" The proof of the pudding is in the eating. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615], ch. XXIV The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. --Julia Child (19122004) 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 (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. --Fanny Fern [Sarah Willis] (18111872) American newspaper columnist. I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating, 100000. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1736] I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. --Thomas Harris (1940 ) & Ted Tally (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] (15531610) King of France [15891610]. The eyes are bigger than the belly. --George Herbert (15931633) English religious poet. 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. --Wallace Irwin (18751959) American editor and writer of sketches. The only way to eat well in England is to have breakfast three times a day. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. - To eat ravenously as I do is not only unseemly: it is bad for your health, and indeed for your pleasure. In my haste I often bite my tongue and occasionally bite my fingers. When Diogenes came across a boy who was eating like that he slapped his tutor. There were instructors in Rome who taught how to masticate and perambulate graciously. By eating thus I lose an occasion for talking, which is such a fine seasoning at the table provided that both the meal and the topics are pleasant and brief. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. _Essays_, Book III [1580], Ch.13 - He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly of his. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Henry IV_ [1597] We each day dig our graves with our teeth. --Samuel Smiles (18121904) Scottish author. _Duty_ [1880] Put not another bite into your mouth till the former be swallowed; let not your morsels be too big [for the mouth]. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. (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 (19061998) English-born American stand-up comedian. ----- 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] 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. 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." --Mel Gussow, "The Man Who Put Horace Rumpole on the Case," _New York Times_ [12 April 1995] 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. ;void(0)) . . see "CAPITALISM" for related links see "MONEY" for related links Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. --Aneurin Bevan (18971960) British Labour politician. In Michael Foot _Aneurin Bevan_ [1962], vol. 1, ch. 3. 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 (18601925) 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]. - Your Majesty knows that his finances were reduced to 23 million livres in 1661 ... [but] within two years increased to 58 and then 70 million livres. During those nine years of abundance, administration and expenditure were based on this ... This year I find that abundance has disappeared because of the increased expenditure and problems in getting money out of the provinces ... 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 (16191683) Controller general of finance and secretary of state for the navy under Louis XIV of France. (Memorandum to the King) [1670]. 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 (16191683) 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] - 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 (19202001) American writer and humorist. Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1735] There's no such thing as a free lunch. --attributed to Milton Friedman [1974] - The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. --John Galbraith (19082006) American economist. 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 (19082006) American economist. _A Life in Our Times: Memoirs_ [1981], ch. 22 - 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 (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 (1922 ) American politician and Democratic Senator [1966-2005]. The merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage themselves. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a letter to Gideon Granger [13 August 1800]. ^ John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American politician, 35th President of the United States [19611963] 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.] ^ Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debaunch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, Governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. --John Maynard Keynes (18831946) English economist. "Inflation" [1919] in _Essays in Persuasion_ [1931] - I heard an author on C-SPAN-2 Saturday [in 2003] afternoon talking about this very thing: "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." His general point: It isn't actually true, you know. The poor also get richer. Consider: A century or so ago, the rich man had a horsedrawn carriage, the poor man walked. Big difference in how far and how fast one traveled. Today, the rich man may drive a Rolls, while the poor man drives a Ford. Not as much difference, they both get where they need to go just as fast. A century ago, the rich man lived to 65 or so, the poor man died at 45. Today, the rich man lives to 80, the poor man to 75. Not such a big difference. A century ago, the rich man had servants running to bring him hot and cold water, and remove his thundermug, while the poor man went to the well himself, and the outhouse. Today, the only difference is in the cost of the fixtures at the end of the plumbing, and the kind of decor in the room around the plumbing. Not such a difference. Then, a rich man was patron to professionals who entertained him when he wished, while the poor either stood outside and listened, or entertained themselves. Today, we all listen to the same professional entertainment over the same electronic media, and if the rich have a bigger room with more powerful speakers and a bigger screen, it is still not such a big difference. This was much paraphrased from memory, since I couldn't transcribe his talk, and I didn't write down his name.... This comparison could be extended many other places, the exercise is left to the student. Yes, there are differences in income between people. There always will be. Get over it! If you really want it bad enough to do WHATEVER IS NECESSARY, you can place yourself anywhere you wish along that line. Those people at the upper end of that line did so. Whether you are so willing, or not, stop asking me to contribute part of my effort to reduce your effort. My effort is directed at placing myself where I want on that line. --David C Kifer, alt.quotations - - 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] - Expenditure rises to meet income. --C. Northcote Parkinson (19091993) 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 (19051982) Russian-born American writer. _Global Balkanization_ - In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] 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 (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. In 1986. - - 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 (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. 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 (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. 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 (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. [2 October 1932] _Public Papers_ v. 1 [1938] p. 772 - 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 (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In a speech in Fitchburg, Massachusetts [2 September 1902]. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions. --Paul Samuelson (1915 ) 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 (18831950) Morovian-born American economist and sociologist. Wall Street Lays an Egg. --Sime Silverman (18731933) Founder and editor of "Variety." News headline in _Variety_ following the stock market crash [October 1929]. It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. In "Observer" [13 April 1958]. - 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." - TOPICAL Here's my question: If millions of high-paying jobs are leaving the country only to be replaced by millions of low-paying jobs, what prediction would you make about the trend in our standard of living? It would have to be in steep decline, but the facts don't square with that. Per capita GDP, the population divided into the value of goods and services produced, is one of the methods used to gauge the standard of living. The historical trend, including today, is a rising American standard of living. In fact, our per capita GDP in 1980 was $21,500 and, as of 2002, it was $36,000 - a 59 percent increase. So how can it be that we're becoming a nation of low-pay hamburger flippers? How about this pronouncement: The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer? The Census Bureau just came out with a report saying that 35 million Americans are living in poverty. Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson addressed this figure in their recent publication "Understanding Poverty in America," produced by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation. From various government reports they find that: 46 percent of poor households actually own their homes; 76 percent have air conditioning; the typical poor American has more living space than the average non-poor individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens and other cities in Europe; nearly 75 percent of poor households own one car, and 30 percent own two or more cars; 97 percent have at least one color television; 62 percent have cable or satellite reception; and 25 percent have cell phones. [. . . ] How many times have we heard that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer? Contrary to that nonsense, the fact of the matter is that some of the rich are getting poorer, and many of the poorer are getting richer. According to the 1995 Annual Report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, only 5 percent of those in the bottom 20 percent category of income earners in 1975 were still there in 1991. What happened to them? A majority made it to the top 60 percent of the income distribution middle class or better over that 16-year span. Almost 29 percent of them rose to the top 20 percent. --Walter E. Williams (1936 ) American Professor of economics and journalist. "How Can It Be" [2004] [Dr. Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.] - - To the editor: I am so happy our country has finally seen the light and turned socialist. Now we can all reap the benefits of our collective labors. We are even rewarding deserving people for their failures. We have started with the CEOs of the banking industry and now are working with the failing auto industry. I just know that eventually we will get around to helping out working folks who may have fallen on hard times through their own misdeeds, just as we have for the bankers and brokers. I need just one thing. I made a small error. Nothing big like a banker or auto executive. My friend Vinnie gave me $1,000 to hold for him. I decided to invest the money in chip derivatives at the local casino. It seems the gaming table had a meltdown in value and I lost the money. Now Vinnie is angry with me and wants to do something to my kneecaps. Can I please have my bailout money before the new year? 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