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. . . IMMORTALITY see "AGE" for related links To live in the hearts we leave Is not to die. --Thomas Campbell (1777—1844) Scottish poet. "Hallowed Ground" [1825] If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. --Albert Camus (1913—1960) French novelist, dramatist, and essayist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. "Summer in Algiers" [1936] in _The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays_ [1955]. If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881), Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. _The Brothers Karamazov_ [1879-1880], bk. II, ch. 6 If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. --John Kenneth Galbraith (1908—2006) American economist. No young man believes he shall ever die. --William Hazlitt (1778—1830) English essayist. "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth" _Table Talk_ [1821—1822] ----- ambrosia (noun) 1. in classical mythology, the food of the deities, which was supposed to make those who ate it immortal 2. something delicious: a substance that tastes or smells delicious (literary)  . . see "INDIFFERENCE" for related links I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire. (replying to complaints of his bias in editing the British Gazette during the General Strike ODTQ) --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955], speech, House of Commons [7 July 1926] When people feel deeply, impartiality is bias. --Lord Reith (1889-1971) British administrator and politician, _Into the Wind_ [1945] Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (1928- ) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. (accepting the Prize) . . see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links see also: "FOREIGN POLICY" Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. --Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist, _The Modern Traveller_ [1909]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 693; Cohan & Major note: A succinct verdict by the British writer on the balance of power between imperialism and its subjects in the closing decade of this period. The Maxim gun was the machine-gun invented by the American arms manufacturer Hiram Maxim in 1883. The old century is very nearly out, and leaves the world in a pretty pass, and the British Empire is playing the devil in it as never an empire before on so large a scale. We may live to see its fall. All the nations of Europe are making the same hell upon earth in China, massacring and pillaging and raping in the captured cities as outrageously as in the Middle Ages. The Emperor of Germany gives the word for slaughter and the Pope looks on and approves. In South Africa our troops are burning farms under Kitchener's command, and the Queen and the two Houses of Parliament, and the bench of bishops, thank God publicly and vote money for the work. The Americans are spending fifty millions a year on slaughtering the Filipinos; the King of the Belgians has invested his whole fortune on the Congo, where he is brutalizing the Negroes to fill his pockets. The French and Italians for the moment are playing a less prominent part in the slaughter, but their inactivity grieves them. The whole white race is revelling openly in violence, as though it had never pretended to be Christian. God's curse be on them all! So ends the famous nineteenth century in which we were so proud to have been born! --Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) English poet and publicist, diary entry, [22 December 1900] in _My Diaries_ [1932 edn.] pp.375-376 Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal. We may look to the wide extent of the Americas, Polynesia, the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and we find the same result. --Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist, _The Voyage of the Beagle_ [1839] ch. 19 We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square. --S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (1906-1992) English professor and academic. U.S. Senator from California [1977-1983], while negotiations between Panama and the United States over the Canal's future were underway; in Erwin Knoll, ed. _Language in Action_ [1984], "No Comment" A Western civilization cannot be imposed on an Eastern or a Temperate upon a Tropical, people. We can no more send our civilization to central Africa than we can send our climate there. --Independent Labor Party [Eng.] pamphlet _Imperialism: Its Meaning and Its Tendency_ [May 1900] I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake. --Leopold II (1835-1909) King of the Belgians [1865-1909], to Henri Solvyns. Belgian ambassador to London [1876]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 691 Some gentlemen may, indeed, object to the slave trade as inhuman and impious; let us consider that if our colonies are to be maintained and cultivated, which can only be done by African Negroes, it is surely better to supply ourselves with those labourers in British bottoms, than purchase them through the medium of French, Dutch or Danish factors. --Temple Luttrell, speech in House of Commons [23 May 1777] in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 396 Eleanor Roosevelt once subjected Winston Churchill to a diatribe on the subject of British imperialism. 'The Indians have suffered for years under British oppression,' she declared. 'Are we talking about the brown-skinned Indians in India who have multiplied under benevolent British rule,' Churchill retorted, 'or are we speaking about the red-skinned Indians in America who, I understand, are now almost extinct?' --during a WWII visit to the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955]. - The English and Dutch administrators of Malaysia have done admirable work; but the profit to the Europeans in those States has always been one of the chief elements considered; whereas in the Philippines our whole attention was concentrated upon the welfare of the Filipinos themselves, if anything to the neglect of our own interests. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-1909], _An Autobiography_ [1913], ch. 14 Read it @ : http://www.bartleby.com/55/14.html There is nothing even remotely resembling 'imperialism' or 'militarism' involved in the present development of that policy of expansion which has been part of the history of America from the day when she became a nation. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) {in 1901} American Republican statesman and President [1901-1909], in Christopher Thorne _Allies of a Kind_ [1979] pp. 21-22 - All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897] - Imperialism: The aims of your neighbor; opposite to your own aims, which is called Foreign Policy. --Leo Rosten (1908-1997) American writer and social scientist, "Political Lexicon" in _New Republic_ [3 July 1935] - We assert that no nation can long endure half republic and half empire, and we warn the American people that imperialism abroad will lead quickly and inevitably to despotism at home. --The Democratic National Platform of 1900 . . Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. --Susan B(rownwell) Anthony (1820-1906) American crusader for the woman suffrage movement ^^ Once when Noël Coward was crossing from Britain to the United States by ocean liner, the company in the cocktail lounge included a rather pompous English gentleman who was complaining bitterly of a recent occasion on which he had not been treated with the respect he clearly felt he deserved. "They didn't seem to know who I was!' he protested. 'And who *were* you?' enquired Coward politely. _The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Actors and the Theatre" ^^ From a 1984 edition of 'The Wall Street Journal.' HOW TO GAIN STATUS AND INTIMIDATE PEOPLE Are you losing the race to keep up with the Joneses? Or worse, do you feel as if it just isn'tworth the effort anymore? Don't be discouraged. Confidence is the key to success in any endeavor, but achieving just the right balance of competitive desire and cool self-assurance can be tricky. So is projecting an image that will awe your subordinates and mystify your rivals. It's especially difficult when your personal budget demands that you exist on a diet of baked beans and generic cola. We think we've solved the problem with a list of tips that will get your confidence level back up to par, at minimum personal expense. Just remember that moxie can be as important as money when it comes to looking good. 1. Carry a foreign-language newspaper in your briefcase. When sitting at a bar, take out the paper and scan the pages with a serious expression. It's important to pick a difficult language for the gambit, something other than French, German or Spanish. Those could get you in trouble if some exchange student calls your bluff. 2. Keep an old telephone in your car under the front seat. When driving, hold the receiver up to your ear and act as if you were talking to someone on the other end. if stopped at a busy intersection, roll down your window so pedestrians can hear the conversation. Then, in a loud, demanding voice, say things such as, "Tell Harris we need that building! Tell him to offer 50 million, straight cash, whatever it takes!" 3. Use expensive containers to dispose of household trash. When you visit a store such as Neiman-Marcus (we buy all of our pencils there) pick up a couple of extra shopping bags. Several times a month you should fill one with garbage and place it on the curb with your other household rubbish. Make sure the name of the store is clearly visible from the street. 4. Wear T-shirts commemorating fantastic events of physical endurance. Most towns now have these stores where you can print messages on shirts. Simply order one up with the inscription, "Snow Madness Run, Butte-Great Falls December 1981." When people ask why they've never heard about such a grueling race, say, "Oh, we only ran it once, 12 of us got together and just went for it. Never could get any sane group to sanction it." 5. Mount extra clocks on your office walls. Label each one with the name of an international capital (Lima, Bonn, Canberra) and check them periodically when talking with a client. 6. Keep mysterious items in the glove compartment of your car. Instead of the usual mess of tissues, loose change and old sunglasses, you should have at least two of the following articles: a slide rule, a map of the London subway system, an English-Swahili dictionary, a small jar of litmus paper or a prism. When a passenger discovers the items, shrug and say something like, "Oh, just some things for this project I'm thinking about..." and then close the compartment smartly, to show the conversation is not going any further. 7. Print your own wine labels. This is fairly risky and is a ploy that should only be used when you really want to play hardball. ...Grab a few bottles of your favorite generic vintage from the local Econo-Mart, soak the labels off and paste on your own. Getting them designed shouldn't be difficult. Chances are that you know of a graphic artist who's struggling to the same degree as yourself. For a small fee or a large lasagna, he or she can come up with a private reserve label just for you, from folksy wine cellar to expensive foreign vineyards, to suit any occasion. ----- exigent EK-suh-juhnt, adjective: 1. Requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. 2. Requiring much effort or expense; demanding; exacting. Ex.: An exception to the warrant rule was established when exigent circumstances required officials to act immediately. --Warren Richey, "Of merchant ships and crack-sellers' cars," _Christian Science Monitor_, [20 May 1999] nabob (noun) ['ney-bahb] 1.A governor or deputy governor of a town or district in India under the Mogul Empire (also nawab); 2. A person of wealth, influence and prominence. ". . . nattering nabobs of negativism." --Spiro Agnew nabobery: a place frequented by nabobs, nabobical : the adjective meaning "pertaining to a nabob," nabobish: "rather like a nabob," nabobishly: adv. Nabobism: great wealth and luxury An exclusive neighborhood in San Francisco is known as Nob Hill. panjandrum pan-JAN-druhm, noun: An important personage or pretentious official. Ex.: And so I have appointed myself the chairman, High Panjandrum, Grand Inquisitor--and sole member--of a grievance committee of my own making. --Alan K. Simpson, _Right in the Old Gazoo_ Panjandrum was coined by Samuel Foote (1720-1777) in a piece of nonsense writing: "So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. "What! No soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber: and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots." It was composed on the spot to challenge actor Charles Macklin's claim that he could memorize anything. Macklin is said to have refused to repeat a word of it. redoubtable ih-DOW-tuh-buhl, adjective: 1. Arousing fear or alarm; formidable. 2. Illustrious; eminent; worthy of respect or honor. Ex.: At the head of the table, as committee chair, sat the redoubtable Howard Mumford Jones--a teacher famed even at Harvard for his fierce authority, his wide-ranging erudition, and his intolerant exacting preciseness. --Nicholas Delbanco, _The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life_ sine qua non sin-ih-kwah-NON; -NOHN; sy-nih-kway-, noun: An essential condition or element; an indispensable thing. Ex.: "Women's enfranchisement was crucial to them -- indeed, a sine qua non, since all other progress for which they worked, such as higher education and entrance into the professions, would be meaningless if women continued to be second-class citizens." --Lillian Faderman American author, "To Believe in Women" . . All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. --Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American author noted for her novels of life in China; winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. 'One can't believe impossible things.' said Alice. 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed many as six impossible things before breakfast.' --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) English writer and logician. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. --Arthur C. Clarke (1917- ) English science-fiction writer. A Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is a strategic impossibility. --George Fielding Eliot (1894-1971). "The Impossible War with Japan" _American Mercury_ [September 1938] Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have its place. --The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.) ----- Sisyphean (adj.) [si-sê-'fee-ên] Endlessly laborious and futile; also, related to Sisyphus, as "the Sisyphean story" ;void(0)) IMPOSTORS . . see "DECEPTION" for related links All the characters in this book are entirely fictitious, and any person claiming to be any one of them will be prosecuted. --anonymous author's note in a book end page | IDAHO - IDIOTS | IDLENESS - IMMATURITY | IMMIGRATION & IMMORALITY | IMMORTALITY - IMPOSTORS | IMPRESSIONABLE - INDECISION | INDEPENDENCE - INDIANA | INDIFFERENCE - INDIVIDUALITY | INDOCTRINATION - INFORMATION | INGRATITUDE - INNOVATION | INNUENDO - INSPIRATION | INSULTS - INTENTIONS | INTERESTED(ING) - INTUITION | INVENTIONS - ITCHING | JACKSON - JOGGING | JOHNSON (LYNDON) - JOY | JOURNALISM | JUDGE (TO) - JUSTICE | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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