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HUMILIATION
HUMILITY --- HUNGER
HUNTING --- HURRICANES --- HURT

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HUMILIATION

see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for related links


It has always been a mystery to me how men can
feel themselves honored by the humiliation of
their fellow beings.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on
something from which you expect great appreciation,
and then fail to get it.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
_Ventures in Common Sense_ [1919]




HUMILITY

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see "CHARACTER" for related links


Be wiser than other people, if you can;
but do not tell them so.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [19 November 1745].

Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things
from the valley; only small things from the peak.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_The Innocence of Father Brown_ [1911]
"The Hammer of God"

One has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be
able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence
is when confronted with what exists. If such humility could
be conveyed to everybody, the world of human activities
would be more appealing.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
In Mark Winokur _Einstein, A Portrait_ [1984].

This is the deepest degree of humility: to rejoice when one is
humiliated and jeered at, just as the vain person takes pride
in great honors; and to feel hurt when honored and esteemed,
as the proud person suffers when taunted and ridiculed.
--Francis, St, de Sales (1567—1622)
French bishop.
In "Humility" _Spiritual Diary: Selected Sayings and Examples of Saints_ [1775]
St. Paul Editions [1962].

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Lyricist Ira Gershwin's shy and self-effacing nature
is perfectly illustrated by a story conductor-composer
John Green, an old Gershwin friend, tells:

We were six couples having cocktails with Ira and his
wife, Leonore. Ira phones a posh Hollywood restaurant
for dinner reservations. Then he returned to the group.
"No luck," Ira said resignedly. "They're all filled up."
At this point one of the men slipped out. He returned
minutes later. "I got the reservations," he reported.
Ira was astonished. "But I just called and there were
no tables!" he exclaimed. "How did you do it?" The
other man grinned. "It was easy, Ira," he said.
"I just used your name."

--Don Freeman (1908—1978)
American artist.

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Humility is not my forte, and 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
startling defects in other people's characters.
--Margaret Halsey (1910—1997)
American author.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
--Jack Kerouac 1922—1969)
American author and member of the
"Beat Generation."
_On the Road_, 2.3 [1957]

Pride . . . is never so well disguised and able to
take people in as when masquerading as humility.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_, 254, [1665], tr. Leonard Tancock [1959]

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
--Fran Lebowitz (1946— )
American humorist.
_Metropolitan Life_ [1978]

In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was
a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge,
been superseded.
--Lord Longford (1905—2001) [Francis Aungier Pakenham, (7th Earl of Longford)]
British Labour politician and philanthropist.
In "Tablet" [22 January 1994].

What I have learned bears no other fruit than to
make me realize how much I still have to learn.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
"Of Experience", _Essays_ [1588]

Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_The Loves of the Angels_ "The Third Angel's Story"

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth
may not perhaps be entirely with us.
--Jawaharlal Nehru (1889—1964)
Indian statesman.

I yam what I yam, an' that's all I yam!
--Elzie Crisler Segar (1894—1938)
American cartoonist and creator of _Popeye_.
"Thimble Theatre" [c. 1932], Popeye speaking

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make
their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.

If you are humble, nothing will touch you; neither
praise nor disgrace, because you know what
you are.
--Mother Teresa (1910—1997)
Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminister Collection
of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Humility"

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
--Ted Turner (1938— )
American broadcasting entrepreneur and sportsman.
_New York Times_ "A Brash Captain Courageous" [19 September 1977]

Early in life I had to choose between honest
arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose
the former and have seen no reason to change.
--Frank Lloyd Wright (1867—1959)
American architect.




HUNGER

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see: "FAMINE"
see: "POVERTY"


Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
--Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973)
American author noted for her novels of life in China;
winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_The Good Earth_ [1931], Chapter 15

Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. This
world in arms is not spending money alone. It
is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969),
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953—1961].
Speech in Washington [16 April 1953],
in _Public Papers of Presidents_ "1953" [1960] p. 182.

The children who go to bed hungry in a Harlem slum
or a West Virgina mining town are not being deprived
because no food can be found to give them; they are
going to bed hungry because, despite all our miracles
of invention and production, we have not yet found a
way to make the necessities of life available to all
of our citizens — including those whose failure is not
a lack of personal industry or initiative, but only an
unwise choice of parents.
--J. William Fulbright (1905—1995)
American politician.
_Old Myths and New Realities_ [1964]

We went over a great hye mountain as strait as stair
steps in snow up to our knees ... the Bears took the
provision the men had cashed and we had but very
little to eat ... Some of the compana was eating them
that died ... 3 died and the rest eat them. Thay was
11 day without any thing to eat but the Dead ... O Mary
I have not rote you half of the truble we have had but
I have rote you anuf to let you now that you don't now
what truble is but thank god we have all got throw and
the only family that did not eat human flesh.
--Virginia Reed, aged 12, to Mary Keyes [16 May 1847],
in George R. Street _Ordeal by Hunger_ [1960 ed.] pp.360-61.
In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p.578.
Cohan & Major note:
The child describes the ordeal of the Donner Party in its
westward crossing of the Rocky Mountains between Nov.
1846 and April 1847.

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There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here
that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our
successes. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and
the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit
cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate —
died of malnutrition — because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. . . .

In the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry
there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath
are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

--John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.
_The Grapes of Wrath_ [1939]


The line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
--John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.
_The Grapes of Wrath_ [1939]

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in
London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a Year old a most
delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food, whether stewed, roasted,
baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a
Fricassee, or a Ragout.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People
from Being a Burden to Their Parents or the Country, and for
Making Them Beneficial to the Public" [1729]


TOPICAL

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Going With the Grain
By Ronald Bailey
_The Wall Street Journal_
September 5, 2006

Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970? You may be forgiven for not remembering, given some of the prize's dubious recipients over the years (e.g., Yasser Arafat). Well, then: Who has saved perhaps more lives than anyone else in history? The answer to both questions is, of course, Norman Borlaug.

Who? Norman Borlaug, 92, is the father of the "Green Revolution," the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. He is now the subject of an admiring biography by Leon Hesser, a former State Department official who first met Mr. Borlaug 40 years ago in Pakistan, where they worked together to boost that country's grain production. "The Man Who Fed the World" describes, in a workmanlike way, how a poor Iowa farm boy trained in forestry and plant pathology came to be one of humanity's greatest benefactors.

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It was an achievement that made Mexico self-sufficient in wheat by the late 1950s and, when later deployed throughout much of the developing world, forestalled the mass starvation predicted by neo-Malthusians. In the late 1960s, lest we forget, most experts were speaking of imminent global famines in which billions of people would perish. "The battle to feed all of humanity is over," biologist Paul Ehrlich famously wrote in "The Population Bomb," his 1968 best seller. "In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."

As Mr. Ehrlich was making his dark predictions, Mr. Borlaug was embarking on just such a crash program. Working with scientists and administrators in India and Pakistan, he succeeded in getting his highly productive dwarf wheat varieties to hundreds of thousands of South Asian peasant farmers. These varieties resisted a wide spectrum of plant pests and diseases and produced two to three times more grain than traditional varieties.

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Hence the Nobel Prize. The chairman of the Nobel committee explained why it had chosen Mr. Borlaug in this way: "More than any other single person of this age, [he] has helped to provide bread for a hungry world. We have made this choice in the hope that providing bread will also give the world peace."

Whether bread induces peace is a question for another day. It certainly kills hunger and saves lives. Contrary to Mr. Ehrlich's bold pronouncement, hundreds of millions of people did not die for lack of food. Far from it. Despite occasional local famines caused by armed conflicts or political mischief, food is more abundant and cheaper today than ever before in history. It is an absurd travesty that Mr. Ehrlich is still much better known than Mr. Borlaug, but perhaps Mr. Hesser's biography can begin to right the balance.

Mr. Borlaug is still tirelessly working to keep hunger at bay. He remains a consultant to the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico and president of a private Japanese foundation working to spread the Green Revolution to sub-Saharan Africa. He believes that biotechnology will be crucial to boosting world food supplies in the coming decades and decries the underfunding of the world's network of nonprofit agricultural research centers.

He also laments the unnecessary suspicion with which biotech is treated these days. "Activists have resisted research," he notes, "and governments have overregulated it." They both miss the point. "Responsible biotechnology is not the enemy: starvation is."

Mr. Bailey is the science correspondent for Reason magazine and the author of "Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution."

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A hungry young fellow named Marvin
Sat dreaming of turkeys and carvin'.
So a lady brought Spam,
But he said, 'Thank you, ma'am;
I prefer the alternative: starvin'.'
--anon.



HUNTING
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see "ANIMALS" for related links
see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links
see "SPORTS" for related links


Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs
do not die in sport, but in earnest.
--Bion the Borysthenite (325?—255? B.C.)
Greek popular philosopher.

Find some other way of proving your manhood than by
shooting defenseless animals and birds.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940— )
American author.
_Life's Little Instruction Book_ [1991], Maxim #290

Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain;
That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks
Of harmless nature.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
"The Task", 3.326 [1785]

The dusky night rides down the sky
And ushers in the morn:
The hounds all join in glorious cry,
The huntsman winds his horn;
And a-hunting we will go.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
_And a-Hunting We Will Go_

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom
the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
--James A. Froude (1818—1894)
English historian.
_Oceana_ [1886], ch. 5

If killing foxes is necessary for the safety and
survival of other species, I — and several million
others — will vote for it to continue. But the
slaughter ought not to be fun.
--Roy Hattersley (1932— )
British Labour politician.
In "Guardian" [21 April 1990].

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity
of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call
hunting one of them.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In Piozzi _Anecdotes of Johnson_ [1786].

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him
a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we
call him a sportsman.
--Joseph Wood Krutch (1893—1970)
American critic and naturalist.
_Great Chain of Life_ [1957]

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to
get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't
hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.
_My Remarkable Uncle, and Other Sketches_ p. 73 [1942]

There are only two things that ever make the
front page in Maine papers. One is a forest
fire and the other is when a New Yorker shoots
a moose instead of the game warden.
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.
In a letter to "Variety" [23 August 1934],
quoted in his _The Groucho Phile_ [1976].

When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport:
when the tiger wants to kill him, he calls it ferocity.
--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_ [1903]
"Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment"

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
British poet, poet laureate [1850—1892].

Tennyson was entertaining a Russian nobleman
on his house on the Isle of Wight. One morning
the Russian set off on a shooting expedition,
returning later that day with the proud news
that he had shot two peasants. Tennyson
politely corrected his guest's pronunciation:
'You mean two pheasants,' he said. 'No,'
replied the Russian,' 'two peasants. They
were insolent, so I shot them.'

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

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The English country gentleman galloping after a
fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_A Woman of No Importance_ [1893]

The fascination of shooting as a sport
depends almost wholly on whether you
are at the right or wrong end of a
gun.
--attributed to P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.

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nimrod (noun) ['nim-rahd]
A great hunter, someone with a passion for hunting.



HURRICANES

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see "NATURE" for related links


The 2006 hurricane season is here, and if you're a resident of
Florida, you know what that means: It means you have the IQ
of bean dip.
--Dave Barry (1947— )
American humorist.
"A tip for the hurricane season: Try to have some kind of a clue"
_Miami Herald_ [28 May 2006]

We tell our children and grandchildren there are no
such things as monsters and evil, one-eyed giants.
We tell them such things are the stuff of fairy tales
and fictional legend. We tell them not to worry. But
perhaps we tell them as much to reassure ourselves
as them . . . because we are not really so certain.
A hurricane . . . a true one-eyed monster, can rattle
our firm beliefs that evil giants do not exist in
our world.
--Buzz Bernard, Sr. Meteorologist
"No such things as monsters?"
The Weather Channel [13 September 1999]

It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place.
The roaring of the sea and wind, fiery meteors flying about it
[sic] in the air, the prodigious glare of almost perpetual
lightning, the crash of falling houses, and the ear-piercing
shrieks of the distressed, were sufficient to strike
astonishment into angels.
--Alexander Hamilton (1755or57—1804)
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first
secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789—1795].
After witnessing what the local press called the "most
dreadful hurricane known in the memory of man."




HURT

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see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links
see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links


If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others.
--Dalai Lama [Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub]
(1935— ) spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.
(Dalai Lama is Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom")

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment
between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and
look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say,
"Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing
when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt
others.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.

The turning point in the process of growing
up is when you discover the core of strength
within you that survives all hurt.
--Max Lerner (1902—1992)
American educator, author, and syndicated columnist.
_The Unfinished Century_ [1959]

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard
words bruise the heart of a child.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"Table-Talk", Driftwood [1857]

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or
annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries,
but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that
we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his
vengeance.
--Niccolς Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.
_The Prince_ [written 1513]

The hearts of small children are delicate organs.
A cruel beginning in this world can twist them
into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child
can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard
and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or, again,
the heart of such a child may fester and swell
until it is misery to carry within the body,
easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary
things.
--Carson Smith McCullers (1917—1967)
American author.

It is the insult and not the injury
that makes the deeper wounds.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
"The Politician" _Prejudices: Fourth Series_ [1924]

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal
a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and
over again.
--Rosa Parks (1913—2005)
Figure in the American civil rights movement.

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There was an old man of Darjeeling
Who hung by his feet from the ceiling;
He fell on his head
But felt nothing, he said,
For he'd lost all sensation of feeling.
--anon.

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Our Lips And Ears

If you your lips would keep from slips.
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where.

If you your ears would save from jeers,
These things keep meekly hid:
Myself and I, and mine and my,
And how I do and did.

--anon.

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