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;void(0)) . . . INNUENDO see "COMMUNICATION" for related links It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. --Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968) American actress. Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it. --Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) English conductor. To a lady cellist during a rehearsal. Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini? --attributed to Robert Benchley (1889-1945) American humorist and newspaper columnist {spoken by him in the 1942 movie _The Major and the Minor_} ^^ Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American critic and humorist: At a Halloween party she saw a group of people standing around a tub of water and asked what they were doing. When she was told they were ducking for apples, she noted sadly, "There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life." --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard ^^  ;void(0)) INQUISITIVENESS . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links see "DISCOVERY" for related links see also: "CURIOSITY" Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? --Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925) American essayist and professor, _Essays_, Volume 1 . . see "THE MIND" for related links Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. --Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. The lunatic asylum of the solar system. --Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936) American clergyman and author. {On the planet Earth, in a speech in New York City [17 November 1935].} Materialists and madmen never have doubts. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874-1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. --Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet. Of Savoye, appointed ambassador to Frankfurt by Lamartine [1848]. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858] Insanity is hereditary--you get it from your children. --Sam Levenson (1911-1980) American humorist. In "Diner's Club Magazine" [November 1963]. - Insanity is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, and nations, it is the rule. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Beyond Good and Evil_ [1885-1886], pt. 4 "Maxims and Interludes" And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. - One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. If other worlds are inhabited, this world must be their lunatic asylum. --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.] We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. --John Updike (1932 - ) American novelist and short-story writer. In "Christian Science Monitor" [5 March 1979]. --- A man took his car to a garage to have the tires rotated. He had left and driven a few blocks when one of his wheels fell off. The garageman had forgotten to put the nuts back on after remounting it. He had recovered the wheel and was considering the situation when somebody shouted "Hey!" from a second-story window just above him. He looked, and saw that the building was an insane asylum. The inmate shouted "Take one nut off each of the other three wheels". The driver raised his eyebrows and shouted back "Thanks!". Then, wanting to be nice, he added "Say, you're not so crazy after all". To which, of course, the inmate replied, "Sure, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid." ----- bedlam (noun) ['bed-lêm] A mental hospital; a state of total social chaos, a wild uproar involving people or animals. Etymology: One of the most renowned of the original institutions for the mentally ill was St. Mary of Bethlehem, better known as Bedlam (from Bedlem), located outside London. Mental patients were first accepted in 1403 and by 1547 it was totally devoted to the care of the insane. Bedlam was so famous, its name became the term referring to any asylum. As in the United States, British mental patients were placed on public display every Sunday for the curious to view. . . see "NATURE" for related links From the fact that there are 400,000 species of beatles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he [Haldane] concluded that the Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beatles. --J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) Scottish mathematical biologist, report of lecture [7 April 1951] - Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. --anon. ----- apterous (adj.) Lacking wings: describes an insect that has no wings  INSECURITY . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. --Fulton Oursler (1893–1952) American writer and editor . . see: "INTUITION" see: "PERCEPTIONS" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American physician, poet, and essayist, _The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ [1860], ch. 10 We love to see through others, but we dislike being seen through. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French educator and social reformer, _Maxims_ [1665] #632 Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. --Margaret Millar [née Sturm] (1915-1994) Canadian-born mystery writer _The Soft Talkers_ [1957] Often you get the best insights by considering extremes--by thinking of the opposite of that with which you are directly concerned. --C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) American sociologist You must look into people, as well as at them. --Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield English statesman and author The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are not worth understanding. --Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian novelist, poet, and playwright, _Rudin_ [1856] ----- perspicacity pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee, noun: Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment. purblind PUR-blynd, adjective: 1. Having greatly reduced vision. 2. Lacking in insight or discernment. Ex.: But something is fundamentally wrong at Leeds, something that even the most ardent supporters -- and other purblind apologists -- must surely come to recognise. --Kevin Mitchell, "How Leeds lost it," _The Observer_, [10 March 2002] ;void(0)) INSPIRATION . . see "TEACHERS" see "SUCCESS" for other related links I have now for more than a year, I believe, ceased to write in my journal, in which I formerly wrote almost daily. I see few intellectual persons, and even those to no purpose, and sometimes believe that I have no new thoughts, and that my life is quite at an end. But the magnet that lies in my drawer, for years, may believe it has no magnetism, and, on touching it with steel, it knows the old virtue; and, this morning, came by a man with knowledge and interests like mine, in his head, and suddenly I had thoughts again. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. _Journal_ [April 1859] Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward. --Thomas Leonard, Scottish poet - Here is some good advice written by a reporter for the "Chicago Tribune," : Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Savor the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year- olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chances. So are everybody else's. Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. 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