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. . . KARMA see: "ACTIONS" for related links People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. --James Baldwin (1924—1987) American author and playwright. _No Name in the Street_ [1972] Those who believe in Karma have to believe in destiny, which, from birth to death, every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb; and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral, or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. ... When the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this self-made destiny. It then either fixes him like the inert shell against the immovable rock, or carries him away like a feather in a whirlwind raised by his own actions, and this is — KARMA. --Helena Blavatsky, _Secret Doctrine_, vol 1, p. 639 [1888] Ramo's history proved she was surrounded by extraordinary karma — which is not some mystical force but the everyday processes whereby seeds sown in the past bear fruit in the present. Karma simply means that the choices you made yesterday affect the options you have today. It's common sense. Nothing is inevitable or predetermined ... yet your actions and the actions of others can sometimes produce a cumulative momentum almost impossible to resist. That's what karma is: the momentum of cause and effect that drives you forward, occasionally into bottlenecks or booby traps. --James Alan Gardner (b. 1955) Canadian science fiction author. _Radiant_ [2004] We ourselves are the cause of this world and the conditions within it. Chaos comes because we have built it into our consciousness. The magnetic atmosphere gives back only that which is put into it by conscious thought. --Paul Twitchell (c. 1908—1971) American spiritual writer and author. _The Flute of God_ [1971]  . . see: "ENVY" see: "JEALOUSY" Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor. --William Cobbett (1763—1835) English politician, agriculturist, and journalist. _Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women_ [1831] "Letter II: To a Young Man" Never try to keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper that way. --Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (1908—1999) English writer. _The Times_ [22 November 1999] If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist. Attributed in _Presbyterian Outlook_, vol 143, issue 4 [1961]. - But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. In a 1784 letter to Benjamin Vaughan as quoted in _The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin_ [1839]. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Autobiography_ "The Way to Wealth" [1798] Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Quoted in _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_ [1836], edited by Jared Sparks. - Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. --attributed to anon., Lily Tomlin, & William Sloane Coffin, Jr.. 'I think, my dear,' said Willie Mae Finn, 'that you ought to find out who the Joneses are trying to keep up with before you try to keep up with the Joneses.' --anon. In "Collier's" [1952].  KELLY (GENE) . . see: "DANCING" see: "ACTORS" for other related links see: "PEOPLE" for other related links We still think of Gene Kelly as a guy in loafers and a tight T-shirt, tap-dancing up a storm all by his lonesome. --John Updike (1932—2009) American novelist and short-story writer. [August 1994] Quoted in Sheridan Morley & Ruth Leon _Gene Kelly: A Celebration_ [1996].  JFK . . see: "POLITICS" for related links see: "PEOPLE" for related links - In Texas, Kennedy's 46,000-vote margin was the closest statewide race there since 1948, when Kennedy's running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, won a Senate seat by 87 votes (the origin of the nickname "Landslide Lyndon"). Morton's operatives, aided by local Republicans, uncovered plenty of political chicanery. For instance: In Fannin County, which had 4,895 registered voters, 6,138 votes were cast, three-quarters of them for Kennedy. In one precinct of Angelia County, 86 people voted and the final tally was 147 for Kennedy, 24 for Nixon. On and on it went. The Republicans demanded a recount, claiming that it would give them 100,000 votes and victory. John Connally, the state Democratic chairman, said the Republicans were just "haggling for headlines" and predicted that a recount would give Kennedy another 50,000 votes. But there was no recount. The Texas Election Board, composed entirely of Democrats, had already certified Kennedy as the winner. In Chicago, where Kennedy won by more than 450,000 votes, local reporters uncovered so many stories of electoral shenanigans — including voting by the dead — that the Chicago Tribune concluded that "the election of November 8 was characterized by such gross and palpable fraud as to justify the conclusion that [Nixon] was deprived of victory." --Peter Carlson, "Another Race To the Finish" _Washington Post_ [17 November 2000] - - It's incredible! ... They have a man that was ... instructed by the CIA and the Attorney General [Robert Kennedy] to assassinate Castro after the Bay of Pigs ... so he [Castro] tortured [them] and they told him all about it. [Castro] called Oswald and a group in and told them ... Go ... get the job done. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969]. Telephone call to the attorney general, Ramsey Clark, 1967; in Gus Russo _Live by the Sword_ [1998] p. 395. & see: You can imagine what the reaction of the country would have been if this information [about Cuban involvement] came out. I was afraid of war. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969]. To the columnist Drew Pearson, quoted in _Washington Post_ [14 November 1993]. If you looked at my record, you would know that I am a Roosevelt New Dealer. As a matter of fact, to tell the truth, John F. Kennedy was a little too conservative to suit my taste. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969]. [23 Nov. 1963]; in William E. Leuchtenburg _In the Shadow of FDR_, p. 137 [1993 edn.]. All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969]. (First address to Congress as President [27 November 1963].) - - We now have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963]. (Remark made to New York Times columnist James Reston following the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna in June 1961.) Nellie Connally: You sure can't say Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President. John F. Kennedy: (smiling) No, you can't. Apparently Kennedy's last words, spoken moments before being assassinated on November 22, 1963, as recorded in William Manchester _The Death of a President_, ch. 2 [1967]. - All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963]. Address at City Hall, West Berlin [26 June 1963]. & note: What [Kennedy's speech writers] did not know, but could easily have found out, was that such citizens never refer to themselves as 'Berliners.' They reserve that term for a favorite confection, often munched at breakfast. So while they understood and appreciated the sentiments behind the President's impassioned declaration, the residents tittered among themselves when he exclaimed, literally, 'I am a jelly-filled donut.' --_New York Times_ [30 April 1988] - I think I made his back feel better. --Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (1926—1962) American actress. Referring to her relationship with JFK; recalled in "Time" [29 December 1975]. - I was sitting in the airport in Nashville, Tennessee, thumbing through a magazine while waiting for an afternoon flight to Birmingham, when I noticed people clustering around a TV set in the lounge, staring in a strange silence. The date was November 22 [1963]. Three weeks before, I had been in Vietnam on the day that that country's president had been assassinated and the government overturned. This afternoon, the President of my country had been murdered. And while I had been off fighting for the freedom of foreigners, four little black girls had been killed by a bomb planted in Birmingham's 16th street Baptist Church. I had returned home, it seemed, to a world turned upside down. --Colin L. Powell (b. 1937) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989—1993] and Secretary of State [2001—2005]. _My American Journey_ [1995], "It'll Take Half A Million Men To Succeed" - Operation Mongoose was the secret effort approved by President Kennedy, and spurred by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to make Fidel Castro disappear. The Kennedys were "operating a damned Murder, Inc. in the Caribbean," in the indelicate words of President Lyndon B. Johnson. --Tim Wiener _New York Times_ [23 November 1997] "The Trouble With Assassinations" ;void(0)) KENT STATE . . see: "VIETNAM WAR" Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you. --Dr. Paul Williamson (Father of a Kent State student, [circa May 1970]) ;void(0)) KENTUCKY . . see: "PLACES" for related links She was bred in old Kentucky, Where the meadow grass is blue, There's the sunshine of the country In her face and manner, too; She was bred in old Kentucky, Take her lad, you're mighty lucky, When you marry a girl like Sue. --Harry Braisted American songwriter, "She Was Bred in Old Kentucky" [1898] When I was introduced [to Abraham Lincoln], he said, 'Oh Mr. Emerson, I once heard you say in a lecture that a Kentuckian seems to say by his air and manners, 'Here I am; if you don't like me, the worse for you.' --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. Referring to his recent meeting in Washington with the Kentucky-born president; in _Journal_ [31 January 1862]. Oh, the sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, . . . Chorus: Weep no more, my lady, Oh, weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, For the old Kentucky home, far away. --Stephen Collins Foster (1826—1864) American composer. "My Old Kentucky Home" [1853] Here's a health to old Kentucky, Where the fathers, through the years, Hand down the courtly graces To the sons of cavaliers; Where the golden age is regnant, And each succeeding morn Finds 'the corn is full of kernels, And the Colonel's full of corn.' --William J. Lampton (c. 1850—1917) American journalist and author. "To Old Kentucky" - [Of home:] ... I miss the hills of Kentucky SO MUCH. Luckily, I will be leaving for home by next Thursday. I will take pictures. We have so many beautiful State Parks right around the area where I lived - at least 4. I can't wait to see the mist over the mountains in the morning - hear the jar flies buzzing in the trees at night - see lightnin' bugs again :-) I want to sit on Papaw's breezeway during a gully-warshin' thunderstorm. I just want to experience the place I love so much - to charge my batteries so I can come back to Florida and stand it until the next time I can go home. I'm going to gorge myself on beefsteak tomatoes (something, no matter how much they want to call tomatoes here, you just can't find in Florida). I want to have fresh half-runner green beans everyday I'm home. Fried sweet corn (not really fried but cooked in a skillet with butter and milk). I wish you could come to the reunion with us - you would love my family and you would definitely love the food - chicken and dumplins', fried potatoes, half-runners with new potatoes, lots of every kind of vegetable casserole you can imagine................'nana puddin'................There will be a huge water balloon fight - there is every year. I will be taken back to a time when I was a very young girl and the whole family congregated at my great-grandparents house - just up the street from mine. Because I was the first grandchild in the Loar family, I was fortunate enough to get to experience what family life was like before everyone got so successful and busy (There was a house and yard full of Loar descendants every single evening - Granddaddy Loar sitting out under the apple tree with his suspenders and straw hat - with his shoe and sock off, rubbing his feet ... --Leighann, a friend from a USENET newsgroup, reprinted with her permission. - end page | KARMA - KENTUCKY | KINDNESS | KILL - KU KLUX KLAN | KNOWLEDGE | LABELS - LAS VEGAS | LANGUAGE | LATIN - LAUGHTER | LAW (THE) - LAWYERS | LAZINESS - LEGACY | LEARNING | LEISURE - LIBERALS | LIBERTY - LIBRARY | LIES / LIARS / LYING | LIFE - PAGE 1 (A-L) | LIFE - PAGE 2 (M-Z) | LIFESTYLE - LIMITATIONS | LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) - LITTERING | LIVE - LONDON | LONELINESS - LOUISIANA | LOVE - PAGE 1 (A-L) | LOVE - PAGE 2 (M-Z) | LOVE & MARRIAGE - LYNCHING | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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