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. . . FATHERS see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links I can't tell you what sadness, what pain it is for me never to have known my father...If only I could look at him, touch his face, see if he had eyebrows! Maybe in having the male characters in my movies find each other, I'm expressing the longing I feel to find my father and be close to him. --Mel Brooks (1926- ) American actor, writer, and director, quoted in Maurice Yacowar, _The Comic Art of Mel Brooks_ [1981] The leader of the band Is tired and his eyes are growing old But his blood runs thru' my instrument And his song is in my soul My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man I'm just a living legacy To the leader of the band My brother's lives were different For they heard another call One went to Chicago and the other to St. Paul And I'm in Colorado When I'm not in some hotel Living out this life I've chose And come to know so well I thank you for the music And your stories of the road I thank you for the freedom When it came my time to go I thank you for the kindness And the times when you got tough And papa I don't think I said "I love you" near enough --Dan Fogelberg (1951- ) American singer, "Leader of the Band" One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. --George Herbert (1593-1633) English religious poet If I'm more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father. . . you've got to look at yourself as a parent. --Ice Cube (1970- ) American rap musician, in "Rolling Stone" [4 October 1990] ...we liked and respected each other with the guarded reserve of strangers thrown together on a train journey. Though he was half mad in one way and I in another, we instinctively turned toward each other our saner aspects. On the whole it was a more courteous and civilized relationship than I have ever had with anybody over so long a period of time. --Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) Novelist and social philosopher, of his father, in _Arrow in the Blue_ Are you lost daddy, I asked tenderly. Shut up, he explained. --Ring Lardner {Ringgold Wilmer Lardner} (1885-1933) American writer and satirist _The Young Immigrants, ch.10 [1920] My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. --Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918-2002) Novelist, poet, and comedian My dad took me to Paris for the weekend. We had the most amazing time. On the plane back to London, he asked me, "Do you know why I took you to Paris--only you and me?" And I said, "Why?" And he said, "Because I wanted you to see Paris for the first time with a man who would always love you." --Gwyneth Paltrow (1971- ) American film actress, _Parade Magazine_ [January 1999], "It Was a Real Awakening for Me" The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate, _Sceptical Essays_ [1928] "Freedom versus Authority in Education" It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. --Anne Sexton (1928-1974) American poet, diary [1 January 1972] As long as I have been in the White House, I can't help waking at 5 a.m. and hearing the old man at the foot of the stairs calling and telling me to get out and milk the cows. --Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945-1953]. (As quoted in Robert Donovan's _Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948_ [1977])  ;void(0)) FAULT(S) . . see: "BLAME" see: "DEFECTS" see: "EXCUSES" see: "FINDING FAULT" see: "FLAWS" see: "QUIRKS" Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. --Antisthenes (c. 445c. 365 BC) Greek philosopher. When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. --Berthold Auerbach (18121882) German novelist. If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. --Richard Bach (1936 ) American writer. _Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit_ [1994] Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" [1818], canto IV, st. 77 The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 2, ch. 4. Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. --Chinese Proverb How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. - Your main Fault is, you are good for nothing. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_, 6054 [1732] If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. _Introductio ad Prudentium_ [1731] - We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. --attributed to Edmund Gibson (16691748) English theologian and jurist. - Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Good-Natur'd Man_, act 1 [1768] - Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. --Margaret Halsey (19101997) American author. He who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "The Rambler" (English journal), Number 6 [7 April 1750] - If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 31 We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 327 Some people's faults are becoming, other people's virtues prove drawbacks. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_, 251 [1665] Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. - Heaven have mercy on us all Presbyterians and Pagans alike for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. --Herman Melville (18191891) American novelist and poet. _Moby Dick_ [1851] Ch. 17 "The Ramadan" - Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Measure for Measure_ [1604], act II, sc ii The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_ [1599], act 1, sc. 2, l. 138 - We hate those faults most in others which we are guilty of ourselves. --William Shenstone (17141763) English poet. _Of Mice and Manners_ Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. --Herbert Spencer (18201903) English philosopher. _First Principles_ [1861] The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. --John Wesley (17031791) English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. - We men have many faults: Poor women have but two There's nothing good they say, There's nothing good they do. --anon. "On Women's Faults" [1727] ----- captious [KAP-shuhs], adjective: 1. Marked by a disposition to find fault or raise objections. 2. Calculated to entrap or confuse, as in an argument. Ex.: The most common among those are captious individuals who can find nothing wrong with their own actions but everything wrong with the actions of everybody else. --"In-Closet Hypocrites," _Atlanta Inquirer_ [15 August 1998] cavil [KAV-uhl], intransitive verb: To raise trivial or frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. transitive verb: To raise trivial objections to. noun: A trivial or frivolous objection. Ex.: It may seem churlish, amid the selection of so much glory, to cavil at a single omission, but I do think a great opportunity has been missed. --Tom Rosenthal, "Rome Sweet Rome," "New Statesman," [5 February 2001] Synonyms: quibble, carp, nitpick. peccadillo [peck-uh-DIL-oh], noun: A slight offense; a petty fault. Ex.: Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly haunted 'Confessions,' in which infantile peccadilloes like stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated perfectionist. --Geoffrey Parker, "True Believers," _New York Times_ [29 June 1997] (Related to impeccable, "without flaw or fault.") querulous [KWER-uh-luhs]; adjective 1. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining. 2. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining. . . see "KINDNESS" for other related links He is base who receives favors and renders none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from who we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefits we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. Pay it away quickly in some sort. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet. _Journals_ [1836] Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, though the ungrateful subjects of their favors are barren in return. --Nicholas Rowe (16741718) English dramatist, writer, and poet. He will give the devil his due. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist. _Henry IV_ [1597] One evening at dinner, realizing that he had done nobody any favor since the previous night, Titus spoke these memorable words: 'My friends, I have wasted a day.' --Suetonius [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69-c. 122) Roman biographer and antiquarian. _"Titus"_ [c. 120] ;void(0)) FEAR . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Now a man talks frankly only with his wife, at night, with the blanket over his head. --Isaac Babel (18941940) Russian short-story writer. Remark, c.1937, in Solomon Volkov _St Petersburg_ [1996]. Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ [1625] "Of Death" I am not afraid of pain, nor of sorrow. But this loneliness, this futility, this emptinessI dare not face them. --Ruth Benedict (18871948) American anthropologist, teacher, and writer. Journal [October 1912] in: _An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict_ pt. 2 [1959]. We must travel in the direction of our fear. --John Berryman (19141972) American poet. "A Point of Age" [1942] Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. --Louis Boone (1941 ) American academic author. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. --Arthur Hugh Clough (18191861) English poet. "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" ^^ "Fear," Evans said. "Exactly. For fifty years, Western nations had maintained their citizens in a state of perpetual fear. Fear of the other side. Fear of nuclear war. The Communist menace. The Iron Curtain. The Evil Empire. And within the Communist countries, the same in reverse. Fear of us. Then, suddenly, in the fall of 1989, it was all finished. Gone, vanished. Over. The fall of the Berlin Wall created a vacuum of fear. Nature abhors a vacuum: Something had to fill it." Evans frowned. "You're saying that environmental crises took the place of the Cold War?" "That is what the evidence shows. Of course, now we have radical fundamentalism and post-9/11 terrorism to make us afraid, and those are certainly real reasons for fear, but that is not my point. My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before terrorism we feared the toxic environment. Before that we had the Communist menace. The point is, although the specific cause of our fear may change, we are never without the fear itself. Fear pervades society in all its aspects. Perpetually." He shifted on the concrete bench, turning away from the crowds. "Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing the culture of Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see-germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages. Everything is going to hell, and we must all live in fear. Amazing. "How has this world view been instilled in everybody? Because although we imagine we live in different nations - France, Germany, Japan, the US - in fact, we inhabit exactly the same state, the State of Fear. How has that been accomplished?" Evans said nothing. He knew it wasn't necessary. "Well, I shall tell you how," he said. "In the old days - before your time, Peter - citizens of the West believed their nation-states were dominated by something called the military-industrial complex. Eisenhower warned Americans against it in the 1960s, and after two world wars Europeans knew very well what it meant in their own countries. But the military-industrial complex is no longer the primary driver of society. In reality, for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And it is dedicated to promoting fear in the population - under the guise of promoting safety." "Safety is important." "Please. Western nations are fabulously safe. Yet people do not feel they are, because of the PLM. And the PLM is powerful and stable, precisely because it unites so many institutions of society. Politicians need fears to control the population. Lawyers need dangers to litigate, and make money. The media need scare stories to capture an audience. Together, these three estates are so compelling that they can go about their business even if the scare is totally groundless. If it has no basis in fact at all. For instance, consider silicon breast implants." Evans sighed, shaking his head. "Breast implants?" "Yes. You will recall that breast implants were claimed to cause cancer and autoimmune diseases. Despite statistical evidence that this was not true, we saw high-profile news stories, high-profile lawsuits, high-profile political hearings. The manufacturer, Dow Corning, was hounded out of the business after paying $3.2 billion, and juries awarded huge cash payments to plaintiffs and their lawyers. "Four years later, definitive epidemiological studies showed beyond a doubt that breast implants did not cause disease. But by then the crisis had already served its purpose, and the PLM had moved on, a ravenous machine seeking new fears, new terrors. I'm telling you, this is the way modern society works - by the constant creation of fear. And there is no countervailing force. There is no system of checks and balances, no restraint on the perpetual promotion of fear after fear after fear.... " "Because we have freedom of speech, freedom of the press." "That is the classic PLM answer. That's how they stay in business," Hoffman said. "But think. If it is not all right to falsely shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, why is it all right to shout 'Cancer!' in the pages of The New Yorker? When that statement is not true? We've spent more than twenty-five billion dollars to clear up the phony power-line cancer claim. 'So what?' you say. I can see it in your face. You're thinking, we're rich, we can afford it. It's only twenty-five billion dollars. But the fact is that twenty-five billion dollars is more than the total GDP of the poorest fifty nations of the world combined. Half the world's population lives on two dollars a day. So that twenty-five billion would be enough to support thirty-four million people for a year. Or we could have helped all the people dying of AIDS in Africa. Instead, we piss it away on a fantasy published by a magazine whose readers take it very seriously. Trust it. It is a stupendous waste of money. In another world, it would be a criminal waste. One could easily imagine another Nuremberg trial - this time for the relentless squandering of Western wealth on trivialities - and complete with pictures of the dead babies in Africa and Asia that result." He hardly paused for breath. "At the very least, we are talking about a moral outrage. Thus we can expect our religious leaders and our great humanitarian figures to cry out against this waste and the needless deaths around the world that result. But do any religious leaders speak out? No. Quite the contrary, they join the chorus. They promote 'What Would Jesus Drive?' As if they have forgotten that what Jesus would drive is the false prophets and fearmongers out of the temple." --Michael Crichton (1942 ) American author. _State Of Fear_ [2004] ^^ I wants to make your flesh creep. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _The Pickwick Papers_, Ch. 8 [1837] Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. Whom they fear they hate (Quem metuunt, oderunt). --Quintus Ennius (239169 BC) Roman poet, translator, and teacher. As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; But my face I don't mind it Because I'm behind it; It's the folks out in front that I jar. --Anthony Euwer (18771955) American author. In Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 102 [1989] Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. --Francis, St, de Sales (15671622) French bishop. In Jean-Pierre Camus, _The Spirit of Saint Frances de Sales_, 7.3 [1952] Better hazard once than always be in fear. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. There is no terror in a bang, only in the antiicipation of it. --attributed to Alfred Hitchcock (18991980) British-born film director. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. --Eric Hoffer (19021983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. _The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms_, 222 [1954] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] The thing we fear we bring to pass. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." In "The Philistine" magazine, published [1895-1915] Never take counsel of your fears. --Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (18241863) Confederate general in the American Civil War; nickname asssigned at the first battle of Bull Run [1861]. No greater hell than to be slave to fear. --Ben Jonson (c.15731637) English dramatist and poet. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_, 14, (Intro.) [1963] Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. --Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "Stanzas on Freedom" [1843] The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. --Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (3965) Roman poet and republican patriot. [Is it] better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. --Niccolς Machiavelli (14691527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. _The Prince_ [written 1513] ch. 8 It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. --Margaret Mead (19011978) American anthropologist. - The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _In Defense of Women_ [1920] The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fearfear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Prejudices: Second Series_ [1920] - The thing I fear most is fear. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. _Essais_ (Essays) {94 chapters written 1571-1580 & published 1580; the last 13 chapters were written 1585-1587 & published 1588 }. [1580] bk. 1, ch. 18. & see: This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. "First Inaugural Address" [4 March 1933]. - My heart was in my mouth. --Gaius Petronius Arbiter (?AD 66) Roman writer and senator. Almost all propaganda is designed to create fear. Heads of governments and their officials know that a frightened people is easier to govern, will forfeit rights it would otherwise defend, is less likely to demand a better life, and will agree to millions and millions being spend on "Defense." --Joseph Priestley (17331804) English clergyman, political theorist, and scientist. _Outcries And Asides_ [1974], "The Root Is Fear" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. [...] Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish_ That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. _The Life of Reason_ [1905], ch. 3, "Reason in Religion" According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. --Jerry Seinfeld (1954 ) American actor, writer, and comedian. - Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Macbeth_ [1606] GLOUCESTER: Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Henry VI_ [15901591] - It made our hair stand up in panic fear. --Sophocles (496?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Oedipus at Colonus_ l. 1625 Better be killed than frightened to death. --Robert Smith Surtees (18031864) English sporting journalist and novelist. _Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds_ [1865] Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [1906] "September 27, 1851" And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. "Night Thoughts" [1742-1745] ----- brontophobia (noun) [bran-tκ-'fo-bi-κ] The fear of thunder or thunderstorms. gorgonize (verb) To gorgonize someone means to give a great shock that makes him freeze -- figuratively, to turn into stone. In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were three sisters who had snakes for hair, and who could turn you into stone if you looked them in the eye. The best known of these is Medusa -- the other two were Euryale and Stheno. mardy (adj.) ['mahr-dee] (Dialectal, slang) Spoilt, sulky, whinging (['win-jing]-that's "whining" to North Americans). In the northern counties and Midlands of Great Britain, and in Australia and New Zealand, it is also used to refer to someone who's easily scared or upset. misoneism (noun) [mi-sκ-'nee-i-zκm] Fear of novelty, newness or innovation. misoneistic (adj.) pavid (adj.) ['pζv-id] Easily frightened, fearful, pusillanimous, timorous redoubtable ih-DOW-tuh-buhl, adjective: 1. Arousing fear or alarm; formidable. 2. Illustrious; eminent; worthy of respect or honor. timorous [TIM-uhr-uhs], adjective: 1. Full of apprehensiveness; timid; fearful. 2. Indicating, or caused by, fear. tremulous [TREM-yuh-luhs], adjective: 1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar. 2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling. trepidation [trep-uh-DAY-shuhn], noun: A state of dread or alarm; nervous agitation; apprehension; fright. triskaidekaphobia [tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh], noun: A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th. xenophobia EN-uh-FOE-bee-uh, noun: Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other countries, or of anything that is strange or foreign. . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. --Philip James Bailey (18161902) English poet. _Festus_ [1839] Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless. --Honorι de Balzac (17991850) French journalist and writer. _Le Pθre Goriot_ [1835], tr. Marion Ayton Crawford Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (18211881) Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach. --Martina Navratilova (1957 ) Czech-born American tennis player. _Being Myself_ [1985], Chapter 1 Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners no matter what fork you use. --Emily Post (18731960) American authority on social behavior. In Ruth Cullen _The Little Pink Book of Etiquette_, p. 33 [2005]. The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. --Horace Walpole (17171797) English writer and connoisseur. _Letters_ "To the Countess of Upper Ossory" [16 August 1776] ----- abase (transitive verb) Belittle somebody: to make somebody feel belittled or degraded (literary) impassible im-PASS-uh-buhl, adjective: 1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain. 2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling. insensate in-SEN-sayt; -sit, adjective: 1. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate. 2. Lacking human feeling or sensitivity; brutal; cruel. 3. Lacking sense; stupid; foolish. Ex.: The religion of primeval humans, he suggested, held that souls inhabited not only human beings but also animals, trees, plants--even rocks, rivers, and other natural features we regard as insensate. --Bill Strubbe, "The world as self, the self as world," _The World and I_, [1 June 1997] mawkish MOCK-ish, adjective: 1. Sickly or excessively sentimental. 2. Insipid in taste; nauseous; disgusting. Ex.: Philadelphia Inquirer dismissed it as 'a terrible play, a hopeless jumble of juvenile humor and mawkish sentimentality.' --Peter Applebome, "Blasphemy? Again? Somebody's Praying for a Hit." _New York Times_ [18 October 1998] palpable PAL-puh-buhl, adjective: 1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, "a palpable form." 2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily detected; as, "palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors." sentient (adj.) 1. Conscious: capable of feeling and perception 2. Responding with feeling: capable of responding emotionally rather than intellectually torpid TOR-pid, adjective: 1. Having lost motion or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed. 2. Dormant; hibernating or estivating. 3. Dull; sluggish; apathetic. 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