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EXERCISE
EXPECTATION
EXPERIENCE -- EXPERIMENT
EXPERTS -- EXPLANATION -- EXPLORATION -- EYES

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EXERCISE

see: "JOGGING"
see: "WALKING"
see: "THE BODY"
see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links
see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links


I like long walks, especially when they
are taken by people who annoy me.
--Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (1894—1956)
American humorist.

I only use my body to carry my brain around.
--Thomas Alva Edison (1847—1931)
American inventor.
When asked if he ever got any exercise.

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and
shake for hours upon arising. It was the
only exercise I got.
--W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield]
(1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy,
you don't need it: if you are sick you
shouldn't take it.
--attributed to Henry Ford (1863—1947)
American car manufacturer.

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Give about two [hours] every day to exercise; for
health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong
body makes the mind strong.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Peter Carr [19 August 1785].


The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise,
and of all the exercises, walking is best.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [27 August 1786].

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The only exercise I take is walking
behind the coffins of friends who
took exercise.
--Peter O'Toole (1932— )
British actor.

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Exercising in Las Vegas - kap writes to USENET in 1997:

Increasing our walk was good, because in addition to the added exercise,
we now get improved scenery. As we walk west and slightly uphill, the
sun is breaking on the Spring Mountains. These start as hills and gradually
give way to the higher peaks, one of which is Mt. Charleston at 13,000 feet.
From the smaller hills to Mt. Charleston the expanse probably covers 20-30
miles. Somewhere in the middle, you can see the flaming rocks of Red
Rock Canyon. As the sun breaks over different parts of the panorama, the
various hues are quite breathtaking. Most times the mountains out here
seem drab. At daybreak they are spectacular. Heading back east is ok too.
We can see the entire Strip. And can therefore plan where next we should
lose our money. Did you know that the Mormons settled Las Vegas?
They'd be mortified.

--kap

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Exercise!! I never heard that he used any: he might, for aught I
know, walk to the alehouse; but I believe he was always carried
home again.
--Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741—1821)
_Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson_ [4th ed. 1786]

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping
and resting, and I never intend to take any.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

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Researchers have found that physical exercise
confers benefits upon the mind as well as the body.
At Washington University in St. Louis, 32 subjects
were given a battery of tests of mental function and
personality traits.

After they took part in a ten-week program of jogging,
calisthenics, and physical recreation, they were tested
again. In "Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise"
(vol. 10, 1978), the researchers noted significant
improvements in intelligence, speed of performance,
learning, and brain function.

--Roger B. Yepsen, Jr.
_How To Boost Your Brain Power_ [1987]


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The Fauna
Of an Urban Gym:
A Field Guide
By TUNKU VARADARAJAN
April 23, 2004
The Wall Street Journal

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Noticeable, too, is a category to which this writer has attached himself, that of the Readers. These are gym-users who come only to walk on the treadmill, and they do that only at a speed slow enough to allow them to pore over the printed word. This group is not as homogeneous as you'd imagine: Many an Atlantic Monthly treadmiller has tut-tutted on finding himself next to a reader of Family Circle. And once, yours truly treadmilled next to a man reading the Torah, who held his head unnaturally erect so as not to sweat on the sacred text.

Most unpleasant of all, however, are the Cacophonists, who, as their name suggests, are incapable of going about their perspiration without bellowing, grunting or exhorting themselves loudly to ever higher levels of achievement. Their exhalations can be as emphatic as the airbrakes of an 18-wheeler; and if you ever hear someone shouting "Go girl! Go! You can do it!" do not turn around in search of the object of her encouragement — in all likelihood, she is addressing herself. (A lethal combination, here, is the Narcissist-Cacophonist, the sort of creature who makes one yearn to restore blessed silence with that oh-so-handy 50-pound weight.)

Part of the gym fauna, of course, are the Personal Trainers, who attend to every whim of the Great Unfit, all for a fee — about $70 an hour in New York City. Naturally, the gym (aka the exercise/industrial complex) takes most of that money, so spare a thought for these indentured exertionists. Besides, elderly people and lonely city-dwellers often purchase sessions with PTs not to work out but to have someone to talk to for an hour. Freud? No, deltoid.

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Calories can be burned by the hundreds by engaging in strenuous activities that do not require physical exercise.

Exercise Calories burned per hour

Beating around
the bush............................75

Jumping to
conclusions.........................100

Climbing the
walls...............................150

Swallowing your
pride................................50

Passing the
buck.................................25

Throwing your weight around
(depending on your weight).......50-300

Dragging your
heels...............................100

Pushing your
luck................................250

Making Mountains out of
molehills...........................500

Hitting the nail on the head.........50

Wading through paperwork............300

Bending over
backwards............................75

Jumping on the
bandwagon...........................200

Balancing the
books................................25

Running around in
circles.............................350

Eating
crow................................225

Tooting your own
horn.................................25

Climbing the ladder of
success.............................750

Pulling out all the
stops................................75

Adding fuel to the
fire................................160

Wrapping it up at the day's
end..................................12

Opening a can of worms ..............50

Putting your foot in your mouth.....300

Starting the ball
rolling..............................90

Going over the
edge.................................25

Picking up the pieces...............350

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I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my
doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I
decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted,
gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But,
by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.
--anon.

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constitutional [kon-stih-TOO-shuhn-uhl]; noun:
A walk taken for one's health.

fartlek (noun) ['fah(r)t-lek]
An athletic training technique developed in Sweden in the 1930s,
comprising alternating periods of intense exercise with periods
of less strenuous effort or any workout based on this technique.

pandiculation (noun) [pζn-di-kyκ-'ley-shun]
Stretching the body and extremities when drowsy or tired,
usually accompanied by yawning, especially when going to
bed or waking.



EXPECTATION

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see: "BELIEF"
see: "FUTURE"
see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a
series of disappointments, grumbling, and complaints. If, on the
contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the
inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised
by having them perform better than you had hoped.
--Bruce Barton (1886—1967)
American advertising executive, religious writer, and Congressman.

The greatest difficulties lie where
we are not looking for them.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
In _The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries_
[Pub. by the German Publication Society, 1913] p. 379.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
--Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle (1657—1757)
French author.

We have none.
--Fabio Morandini, Italy Nordic combined coach,
asked about his expectations for winning
metals during the 2006 Winter Olympics.

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of
others the image we long for, need, love or desire,
often against reality, against their benefit, and
always, in the end, a disappointment, because it
does not fit them.
--Anaοs Nin (1903—1977)
French-born American writer.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me
not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but
to leave the result to God.
--Alan Stewart Paton (1903—1988)
South African author.
"The Challenge of Fear,"
"Saturday Review" [9 September 1967]

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Letter to Fortescue_ [1725]

Too many people expect wonders from
democracy, when the most wonderful
thing of all is just having it.
--Walter Winchell (1897—1972)
American journalist.



EXPERIENCE

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see: "EXAMPLE"
see: "OBSERVATION"
see: "WISDOM"
see "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links


Human beings, who are almost unique in having
the ability to learn from the experience of
others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so.
--Douglas Adams (1952—2001)
British comic radio dramatist and author.
"Last Chance to See"

Experience is a good teacher, but
she sends in terrific bills.
--Minna Thomas Antrim (1861—1950)
American writer and epigrammist.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
--Roger Ascham (1515—1568)
English scholar, writer, and courtier.
_The Schoolmaster_ [1570]

This is one of the sad conditions of life, that
experience is not transmissible. No man will
learn from the suffering of another; he must
suffer himself.
--James H. Aughey (1828—1911)
American clergyman.

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FROM THE NY TIMES MAGAZINE [9 March 1997] p.65:

Here's a story. A man went to a rabbi and asked,
"Rabbi, you're a wise man, how is it that you're wise?"

And the rabbi replied, "Study and hard work."

Then the man asked, "What made you study and work hard?"

And the Rabbi replied, "A lot of experience."

"And how'd you get a lot of experience?"

And the rabbi answered, "I had good judgment."

And the man then asked, "What gave you good judgment?"

And the Rabbi said, "A lot of bad experiences."

--Daniel Bell, 77, Sociologist

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It's a wise man who profits by his own
experience, but it's a good deal wiser
one who lets the rattlesnake bite the
other fellow.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.

I learned. . . that one can never go back, that one
should not ever try to go back — that the essence
of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way
Street.
--Agatha Christie (1890—1976)
British crime fiction writer.
_At Bertram's Hotel_ [1965]

The light which experience gives is a lantern
on the stern, which shines only on the waves
behind us!
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
_Table Talk_ [1835] "18 December 1831"

Too high an appreciation of our own talents
is the chief cause why experience preaches
to us all in vain.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words;
Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our
current proverbial sayings — they are so trite, so threadbare, that we
can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody
the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders
his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy
that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever
attained to inner harmony by pondering the experiences of others?
Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.
--Norman Douglas (1868—1952)
Austrian-born British novelist and essayist.
_South Wind_ [1917], ch.13

The years teach much which
the days never know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays. Second Series_ [1844] "Experience"

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools
will learn in no other.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1743], "December"

What experience and history teach us is this — that peoples
and governments have never learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it.
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770—1831)
German philosopher.
_Philosophy of History_ [1832], v. 10 Introduction

Nobody will use other people's experience,
nor have any of his own till it is too late to
use it.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_American Note-Books_ [25 October 1836]

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is
the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future
but by the past.
--Patrick Henry (1736—1799)
American statesman, instrumental in the adoption of The Bill of Rights.

Experience is the name every one
gives his mistakes.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is
what a man does with what happens to him.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}.
In "Forbes", p. 56 [1917].

Cautious age suspects the flattering form,
and only credits what experience tells.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a
proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
--John Keats (1795—1821)
English poet.
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats [19 March 1819] in
_The Letters of John Keats_ [1958], ed. Hyder Edward Rollins.

Experience does not err; it is only your
judgement that errs in expecting from her
what is not in her power.
--Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519)
Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist.

[Proverbs are] the ready money
of human experience.
--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.
_My Study Windows_ [1871]

There are many truths of which the full meaning
cannot be realised until personal experience has
brought it home.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.

The old — like children — talk to themselves, for they
have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience
which knows that though one were to cry it in the
streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to
one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear
one's secret are one's own.
--Eugene O'Neill (1888—1953)
American and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1936.
_Lazarus Laughed_ [1927]

That experience which does not make
us better makes us worse.
--Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (1792—1870)
French-Swiss lyric poet.
In Julia B. Hoitt
_Excellent Quotations for Home and School_, p. 150 [1888].

To some purpose is that man wise who gains
his wisdom at another's expense.
--Titus Maccius Plautus (254—184 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.
In _A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and
Modern Languages_, p. 164 [pub. 1869 by J.B. Lippincott].

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends
on retentiveness when experience is not retained,
as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it .... This is the condition of children
and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned
nothing from experience.
--George Santayana (1863—1952)
Spanish-born philosopher and critic.
_Life of Reason_ vol. 1, chap. 12, p. 284 [1905]

Education is when you read the fine print;
experience is what you get when you don't.
--Pete Seeger (1919— )
American folk singer and songwriter.
In L. Botts _Loose Talk_ [1980].

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a
very good judge of omelettes.
--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.]

There are those among us that live in rooms of
experience that you and I can never enter.
--John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into
your young lives, to give you at once the key to that
treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me
tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work
for these inward treasures yourselves.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
Letter to her twin daughters.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that
is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that
is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897],
ch. 11 epigram: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

Experto credite.
Trust one who has gone through it.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_Lady Windermere's Fan_ [1892], act III

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When a man with experience meets a man with
money, the man with money gets the experience,
and the man with experience gets the money.
--anon.

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doyen [DOY-en], noun:
1. The senior member of a body or group.
2. One who is knowledgeable or uniquely skilled as a
result of long experience in some field of endeavor.
doyenne doy-(Y)EN; dwah-YEN, noun:
A woman who is a doyen.
Ex.: Two dozen reporters, led by Helen Thomas of
United Press International, the seventy-six-year-old
doyenne of the press corps, filed into the room.
--Howard Kurtz
_Spin Cycle_




EXPERIMENT

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see "DISCOVERY" for related links


There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural
phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will
remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing
the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory,
and man may set up business as a creator on his own account.
The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly
probable.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Treatise on the Gods_ [1930], ch. 5 "Its State Today"

Where observation is concerned, chance
favors only the prepared mind.
--Louis Pasteur (1822—1895)
French chemist and bacteriologist.
Address given on the inaguration of the
Faculty of Science, University of Lille [7 December 1854].



EXPERTS

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see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links


An expert is a man who has made all the
mistakes, which can be made, in a very
narrow field.
--Niels Bohr (1885—1962)
Danish physicist.
In Robert Andrews
_The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 100 [1989].

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An expert is one who knows more and
more about less and less until he
knows absolutely everything about
nothing.
--attributed to Nicholas Murray Butler (1862—1947)
President of Columbia University.
In Peter McDonald
_Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations_ [2004], p. 18.

& note:

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he
must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist
knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything
about nothing.
--Konrad Lorenz (1903—1989)
Austrian zoologist.
In Larry Collins
_Physical Hazards of the Workplace_ [2001], p. 107.

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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 (1863—1947)
American car manufacturer.
_My Life and Work_ [1922]

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life
as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors,
nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is
innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all
require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture
of insipid common sense.
--Lord Salisbury (1830—1903)
British Conservative statesman.
Prime Minister [1886—1892, 1895—1901]
Letter to Lord Lytton [15 June 1877].

If the world should blow itself up, the last
audible voice would be that of an expert
saying it can't be done.
--Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [1921—2004]
British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian.
In James W. McElhan _McElhaney's Litigation_, p. 217 [1995].

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Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs
built the Ark.
--anon.

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maven (noun) [ 'mey-vn]
An expert or connoisseur; someone with
profound knowledge of a subject.



EXPLANATION

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see: "TEACHING"


Never Explain — your friends do not need it and
your enemies will not believe you anyway.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Motto Book_ [1907]



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EXPLORATION

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see "DISCOVERY" for related links
see "TRAVEL" for related links


That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
--Neil Armstrong (1930— )
American astronaut.
After stepping onto the Moon [21 July 1969];
interference in the transmission obliterated
_a_ between "for" and "man."

The old people said 'Yes, it is so: these people are
goblins; their eyes are at the back of their heads;
they pull on shore with their backs to the land to
which they are going.'
--in J. C. Beaglehole _The Discovery of New Zealand_ [1961] p.89.
(Referring to the Maori peoples' first sight of the English oarsmen
at Coromandel on the North Island of New Zealand in 1852.)

A good cheese for the whole voyage; three pounds
of biscuit, half a pound of butter, and a quatern
[quarter pint?] of vinegar per week; about a pint of
fresh water per diem; every Sunday three-quarters
of a pound of flesh; six ounces of salted cod every
Monday and Wednesday; a quarter of a pound of
stock-fish for every Tuesday and Saturday; grey
pease and three-quarters of a pound of bacon, for
Thursday and Friday: Besides this, as much oatmeal
boiled in water as they could eat.
--Buccaneers' rations on the Dutch group of ships
captained by Hendrick Brouwer of Amsterdam [1643],
in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 391.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and
most isolated way of having a bad time which
has been devised.
--Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1882?—1959)
British polar explorer.
_The Worst Journey in the World_ [1922]

I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving
the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man
on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Address to joint session of Congress [25 May 1961].

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This little fleet although not so respectable as those
of Columbus or Captain Cook were still viewed by
us with as much pleasure as those deservedly famed
adventurers ever beheld theirs ... we were now
about to penetrate a country at least two thousand
miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man
had never trodden; the good or evil it had in store
for us was for experiment yet to determine.

--Meriwether Lewis (1774—1809)
American explorer.
_Journal_ v. 1 p. 285,
in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 578.
Cohan & Major add:
President Thomas Jefferson bought the huge tract of Louisiana
from France, doubling the size of the United States. The following
year he commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to
explore a passage through the territory and beyond it to the
Pacific. The central purpose was to discover 'a North American
route to India' for the trade of the United States. The expedition
set off in the spring of 1804 and reached the Pacific coast
on 7 Nov. 1805.

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There are people who make things happen, there
are people who watch things happen, and there
are people who wonder what happened. To be
successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen.
--James Lovell (1928— )
American NASA astronaut.
In a speech.

Because it's there.
--George Leigh Mallory (1886—1924)
British mountaineer.
On being asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest,
in "New York Times" [18 March 1923].

We will find in the lives of men who have done anything,
of those whom we call great men, that it is this spirit of
adventure, the call of the unknown, that has lured and
urged them along on their course ... All of us are explorers
in life, whatever trail we follow ... It is the explorers with
the true spirit of adventure we now need if humanity
shall really overcome the present difficulties ... Ah, youth.
What a glorious word! Unknown realms ahead of you,
hidden behind the mists of the morning. As you move
on, new islands appear, mountain summits shoot up
through the peering mists, one behind another, waiting
for you to climb; dense new forests unfold for you to
explore, free boundless plains for you to traverse.
--Fridtjof Nansen (1861—1930)
Norwegian polar explorer.
Speech on being installed as Rector of the
University of Aberdeen [November 1926].
In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006].

These [Maori] are the only people who kill their
fellow creatures purely for the meat, which we are
well assured they do by laying in wait for one
another as a sportsman would for his game ... carrying
in their ears the thumbs of those unhappy sufferers.
--Journal of Richard Pickersgill [January 1770] in
J.C. Beaglehole (ed.) _The Journals of Captain James Cook :
The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771_ [1955]

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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.

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Great God! This is an awful place.
{of the South Pole}
--Robert Falcon Scott (1868—1912)
English polar explorer.
Diary [17 January 1912].


Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood,
endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred
the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead
bodies must tell the tale.
--Robert Falcon Scott (1868—1912)
English polar explorer.

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Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages,
bitter cold, long months of complete darkness,
constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor
and recognition is case of success.
--Ernest Shackleton (1874—1922)
British Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole.
Newspaper announcement before his Endurance Expedition.

Go West, young man, go West!
--John L.B. Soule (1815—1891)
American journalist,
in "Terra Haute (Indiana) Express" [1851].

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And the reason why the general's men stood in
better health than the men of other ships was this; he
[James Lancaster, the commander of the East India
Company's first fleet] brought to sea with him certain
bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to
each one, as long as it would last, three spoonfuls
every morning, fasting; not suffering them to eat
anything after it till noon ... by this means the general
cured many of his men and preserved the rest.
--anon., in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
... diarist aboard the Red Dragon, the flagship of this
first company voyage to the Spice Islands, explaining
the diet not shared by the other ships. This effective
cure for scurvy seems to have been forgotten until
Captain Cook rediscoved it 170 years later.

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doughty [DOW-tee], adjective:
Marked by fearless resolution; valiant; brave.
Ex.: He was obsessed with the Arctic, his imagination stoked by
epic accounts of the doughty pioneers who had led wooden
ships into uncharted waters and northern mists.
--Sara Wheeler, "In Cold Blood?"
_New York Times_ [25 February 2001]



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I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very
straightforward and trustworthy. [. . .] I was able
to get a sense of his soul. [. . . ]
--George W. Bush (1946— )
The 43rd President of the United States
and a former Governor of Texas.
(Of President Vladimir Putin of Russia,)
at a press conference [16 June 2001.]

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,
'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
--Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
Russian dramatist and short-story wrriter.
_Uncle Vanya_ [1897], Act 3

The love light in her eye.
--Hartley Coleridge (1796—1849)
English poet.
"She is not Fair to Outward View"
In William Hone _The Table Book_, p. 283 [1828].

Men are born with two eyes, but with one
tongue, in order that they should see twice
as much as they say.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words;
Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they
are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy
the souls of the living by blinding their eyes.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_Fragments_ XCVIII

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
--Desiderius Erasmus (1469—1536)
Dutch humanist and theologian.
_Adagia_ [1500], III, IV, 96

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Oliver St John Gogarty (1878—1957)
Irish poet.

Entering a tavern one day, Gogarty caught sight
of a friend wearing a patch over one eye. He
greeted him: 'Drink to me with thine only eye.'

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

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Her eyes, oh her eyes!
In all her beauty, and sunlight to it is a pit, den, darkness,
Foam-falling is not fresh to it, rainbow by it not beaming,
In all her body, I say, no place was like her eyes,
No piece matched those eyes kept most part much cast down
But, being lifted, immortal, of immortal brightness.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844—1889)
British Victorian poet.
"St. Winefred's Well"

Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are
set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy.
Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic
of their eyes.
--Dr. Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith (1800—1879)
American doctor, editor, author, and mayor of Boston.
_The Ways of Women in their Physical,
Moral and Intellectual Relations_, p. 19 [1875]

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738]

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"His eye bothers me."
"Which one?"
"The middle one."
--"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"

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abacinate (verb) [κ-'bζ-sκ-neyt]
To blind with a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.

ocular (adjective) ['ah-kyκ-lκr]
(1) Pertaining to or seen by the eye or eyes;
(2) visual, related to vision.

ogle (verb) ['o-gκl]
To stare at in an obvious fashion with eyes wide open,
especially out of salacious interest.

scotopia (noun)
normal vision in dim light.
Derived: scotopic, adj.


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