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GLOBALIZATION
GLORY --- GLUTTONY --- GOALS

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GLOBALIZATION

see "CAPITALISM" for related links


The recent quantum leap in the ability of trans-
national corporations to relocate their facilities
around the world in effect makes all workers,
communities and countries, competitors for these
corporations' favor. The consequence is a 'race to
the bottom' in which wages and social conditions
tend to fall to the level of the most desperate.
--Jeremy Brecher
"Global Village or Global Pillage?"
_The Nation_ [6 December 1993] pp.685-688.

The beauty of globalization is that it can free people from the
tyranny of geography. Just because someone was born in France
does not mean they can only aspire to speak French, eat French
food, read French books, visit museums in France, and so on. A
Frenchman — or an American, for that matter — can take holidays
in Spain or Florida, eat sushi or spaghetti for dinner, drink Coke or
Chilean wine, watch a Hollywood blockbuster or an Almodσvar,
listen to bhangra or rap, practice yoga or kickboxing, read _Elle_
or _The Economist_, and have friends from around the world.
That we are increasingly free to choose our cultural experiences
enriches our lives immeasurably. We could not always enjoy the
best the world has to offer.
--Philippe LeGrain
"Cultural Globalization Is Not Americanization"

A correspondent from Hamburg, speaking of the invasion of American
trade, says: "Incidentally, it may be remarked that the typewriting
machine with which this article is written, as well as the thousands
— nay, hundreds of thousands — of others that are in use throughout
the world, were made in America; that it stands on an American table,
in an office furnished with American desks, bookcases, and chairs,
which cannot be made in Europe of equal quality, so practical and
convenient, for a similar price."
--Jack London [John Griffith Chaney] (1876—1916)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The War of Classes_ [1905]



GLORY

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [1751]

Military glory — that attractive rainbow
that rises in showers of blood.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
--Napoleon I (1769—1821)
Emperor of France [1804—1815].

O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
[O, how quickly the world's glory passes away.]
--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_Imitation of Christ_ [c.1420]



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GLUTTONY

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see: "THE BODY"
see: "EXCESS"
see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links


Put a knife to thy throat, if thou
be a man given to appetite.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 23:2

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that
keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight,
I'll eat this planet.
--George Foreman (1949— )
American boxer, two-time heavyweight champion.
Quoted in London Times [1990].

The Glutton digs his grave with his owne teeth.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
"A Glasse for Gluttons"

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

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Broke again, gentlemen
I am ruined now;
Wall Street's not to blame,
Nor the racing game,
I have spent every cent
Let me tell you how —
Listen, one and all
To the cause of my downfall:

Hungry women! Hungry women!
I feed 'em and weep — They never eat cheap;
All those mealhounds eat like real hounds;
When they eat with me, they're out on a spree;
They have cute faces and cute figures
But the real question
Is where to find one who has got
Acute indigestion;
Hungry women! Hungry women!
I feed 'em and weep!

--"Hungry Women" (Yellen and Ager)

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I HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS

I took my girl to a fancy ball;
It was a social hop;
We waited till the folks got out,
And the music it did stop.
Then to a restaurant we went,
The best one on the street;
She said she wasn't hungry,
But this is what she eat:
A dozen raw, a plate of slaw,
A chicken and a roast,
Some applesass, and sparagrass,
And soft-shell crabs on toast.
A big box stew, and crackers too;
Her appetite was immense!
When she called for pie,
I thought I'd die,
For I had but fifty cents.

She said she wasn't hungry
And didn't care to eat,
But I've got money in my clothes
To bet she can't be beat;
She took it in so cozy,
She had an awful tank;
She said she wasn't thirsty,
But this is what she drank:
A whisky skin, a glass of gin,
Which made me shake with fear,
A ginger pop, with rum on top,
A schooner then of beer,
A glass of ale, a gin cocktail;
She should have had more sense;
When she called for more,
I fell on the floor,
For I had but fifty cents.

Of course I wasn't hungry,
And didn't care to eat,
Expecting every moment
To be kicked into the street;
She said she'd fetch her family round,
And some night we'd have fun;
When I gave the man the fifty cents,
This is what he done:
He tore my clothes,
He smashed my nose,
He hit me on the jaw,
He gave me a prize
Of a pair of black eyes
And with me swept the floor.
He took me where my pants hung loose,
And threw me over the fence;
Take my advice, don't try it twice
If you've got but fifty cents!

--Original version as published by
Sam Devere in 1885.

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He who stuffeth, puffeth.

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gourmand [goor-MAHND; GOOR-mahnd; GOOR-mund], 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]

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



GOALS

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see: "DESIRE"
see: "PLANS"
see "SUCCESS" for other related links


Here is a test to find whether your mission
on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
--Richard Bach (1936— )
American writer.
_Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_ [1977], Ch. 15

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee,
neither search the things that are above thy strength.
--Bible
The Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 3:21

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most
things it is unattainable. However, they who aim
at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it
than those whose despondency and laziness
make them give it up as unattainable.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to
a goal, not to people or objects.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
In A. P. French's _Einstein: A Centenary Volume_ [1979].

You have brains in your head. You have feet in
your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction
you choose.
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not
at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires
to.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.

Despair is the price one pays for setting
oneself an impossible aim.
--Graham Greene (1904—1991)
English novelist.
_Heart of the Matter_ [1948]

Rome was not built in one day.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

No man can ever rise above that that which he aims.
--Alexander Hodge (1823—1886)
American theologian.

Decide what you want, decide what you
are willing to exchange for it. Establish
your priorities and go to work.
--H. L. Hunt (1889—1974)
American oil tycoon.
In Wilbur M. Yegge _A Basic Guide for Buying
and Selling a Company_, p. 64 [1996].

The great end of life is not
knowledge but action.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}.
_Technical Education_ [1877]

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Nothing ... will ever be attempted, if all possible
objections must be first overcome.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Rasselas_ [1759]


It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what
he has done, compared to what he might have done.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].


Our aspirations are our possibilities.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

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The journey of a thousand miles must
begin with a single step.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
the first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power).
_The Way of Lao-tzu_ #64

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In youth, the years stretch before one so long that
it is hard to realize that they will ever pass, and
even in middle age, with the ordinary expectation of
life in these days, it is easy to find excuses for
delaying what one would like to do but does not want
to; but at last a time comes when death must be
considered.

Here and there one's contemporaries drop off. We
know that all men are mortal but it remains for us
little more than a logical premise till we are
forced to recognize that in the ordinary course of
things our end can no longer be remote.

An occasional glance at the obituary column of _The
Times_ has suggested to me that the sixties are very
unhealthy; I have long thought that it would
exasperate me to die before I had written this book,
and so it seemed to me that I had better set about
it at once. When I have finished it I can face the
future with serenity, for I shall have rounded off
my life's work.

--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_ [1938], Chapter III

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life
doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy
lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity
to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity
not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the
stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach
for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
--Benjamin E. Mays (1894—1984)
American educator and president of Morehead College.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they
have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Philosophe_

Winners compare their achievements with their goals,
while losers compare their achievements with those
of other people.
--Nido Qubein

I never satisfied that kid [referring to himself],
but I think he and I have made a deal now. It's
like climbing a mountain. I didn't take him up
Mount Everest, but I took him up Mount Whitney.
And I think that's not bad.
--Anthony Quinn [Antonio Quinones] (1915—2001)
Mexican-born American actor, author, and painter.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistles_, XXIII, 3, 4

Take care to get what you like or you
will be forced to like what you get.
--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.]
_Man and Superman_ [1905]

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get
what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the
wisest of mankind achieve the second.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_Afterthoughts_ [1931]

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the
middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach
all the shining goals we had set for ourselves. And in the end,
most of us reconcile ourselves, with what grace we can, to
living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of partial
failure, our less-than-ideal families—and even our politicians!
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
_Call to Greatness_ [1954]

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully
and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it?
If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man
try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there
was no advantage in them — that it was a vain endeavor?
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.

Every living creature that comes into the world has
something allotted to him to perform, therefore he
should not stand an idle spectator of what others
are doing.
--Sarah Kirby Trimmer (1741—1810)
English author of children's books, educational
works, and textbooks.
_Fabulous Histories_ [1821]

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THE WINDS OF FATE

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
'Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.

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quixotic [kwik-SAH-tik], adjective:
1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of
unreachable goals; foolishly impractical especially in the
pursuit of ideals.
2. Capricious; impulsive; unpredictable.
Ex.: He is buying up commercial buildings in his hometown of
Archer City and filling them with used books -- hundreds of
thousands of used books gathered from all over the country
-- as part of a quixotic scheme to turn this sleepy rural
community into a mecca for book lovers.
--Mark Horowitz, "Larry McMurtry's Dream Job,"
_New York Times_ [7 December 1997]
Quixotic refers to the eccentric, generous idealism of Don
Quixote, the hero of a satiric romance by Miguel de Cervantes.


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