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PEACE

see: "CALM"
see: "CONTENTED"
see: "QUIET"
see: "REST"
see: "SILENCE"
see: "WAR & PEACE" for other related links


No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace
unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
--Menachem Begin (1913—1992)
Zionist leader and prime minister of Israel [1977-83].
On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty,
Washington, D.C. [26 March 1979].

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of
cheating between two periods of fighting.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Devil's Dictionary_ [1911]

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This is the second time in our history that there has come
back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour.
I believe it is peace for our time.
--Neville Chamberlain (1869—1940)
British Conservative politician, Prime Minister [1937-40].
Speech from 10 Downing Street [30 September 1938].

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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back
peace - but a peace, I hope, with honour.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874-80].
In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.)
_History in Quotations_, p. 696 [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
Disraeli returned from Berlin having signed a treaty
that detached some of the Balkans from Turkey but
kept Russia out of Constantinople.

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In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In
victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
_The Second World War_, vol. I [1948]

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
"Adapted from Cicero", as quoted in Kate Louise Roberts
_Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_ [1922].

If all of us imagined violence as violence against
ourselves, perhaps we would have peace.
--J.M. [John Maxwell] Coetzee (b. 1940)
South-African professor and author; won
the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Interview, in David Attwel, _John Coetzee: Doubling the Point_ [1992].

If you want to make peace, you don't talk
to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
--Moshe Dayan (1915—1981)
Israeli military leader and politician.
Quoted in Barbara Rowes _The Book of Quotes_ [1979].

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must
take chances in war ... The ability to get to the verge
without getting into the war is the necessary art. If
you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go
to the brink, you are lost.
--John Foster Dulles (1888—1959)
American diplomat and Secretary of State [1953-59].
Quoted by James Shepley in "Life" [16 January 1956].

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember
what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible
without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid
loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the
spirit.
--Max Ehrmann (1872—1945)
American lawyer.
"Desiderata" [1927]

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can
only be achieved by understanding.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist.
_Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms_ [1931]

I say we are going to have peace
even if we have to fight for it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969)
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953-61].
In a speech at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany [10 June 1945].

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, First Series [1841] "Self-Reliance"

[On the Treaty of Vesailles, 1919:]
This is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years.
--Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851—1929)
French general in WW I.
Quoted in Paul Reynaud _Mιmoires_ [1963].

I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness,
I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy
us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I
look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come
right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and
tranquillity will return again. In the meantime, I must
uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when
I shall be able to carry them out.
--Anne Frank (1929—1945)
German-born Jewish diarist.
_Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl_ [1952]

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
--attributed to Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

No two countries that both have a McDonald's
have ever fought a war against each other.
--Thomas Friedman (b. 1953)
American journalist.
In _N.Y. Times_ [8 December 1996].

This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans,
introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire.
The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level,
the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit
evaporated.
--Edward Gibbon (1737—1794)
English historian.
_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, ch. 2 [1776-88]

'Peace among earth!' was said. We sing it
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
--Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)
English novelist and poet.
"Christmas: 1924" [1928]

The German people has the solemn intention of living in
peace and friendship with all civilized nations and powers
... And I regard the maintenance of peace in Europe as
especially desirable ... The young Germany, that is led by
me and that finds its expression in the National Socialist
Movement, has only the most heartfelt desire for an
understanding with other European nations.
--Adolf Hitler (1889—1945)
German dictator.
Letter to Hervι, published in the Nazi "Vφlkischer Beobachter" [26 October 1930].

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A wise man in time of peace prepares for war.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Satires_, ii, 2, 111, as quoted in William S. Walsh _The International
Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations_, p. 562 [1908].

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
--Vegetius [Flavius Vegetius Renatus] (fl. c. 375)
Roman military expert.
_De Re Militari_ 3, prologue

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure
peace only by preparing for war.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-63].
Campaign address in Seattle, Washington [6 September 1960].

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There are some nooks and summits in the Adirondack region
where one can really 'recline on one's divine composure' and
... seem for awhile to enjoy one's birthright of freedom and
relief from every fever and falsity.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
Letter to Mrs. Henry Whitman [16 June 1895].

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than
war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets.
--Douglas Jerrold (1803—1857)
English playwright and journalist.
Blanchard Jerrold (ed) _Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit_ [1858]

In this age where there can be no losers in peace
and no victors in war, we must recognize the
obligation to match national strength with
national restraint.
--Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973)
American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969].
Addressing a joint session of Congress [27 November 1963].

Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can
demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible
even with those with whom we most deeply disagree,
and this must someday be the basis of world peace
and world law.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-63].
"State of the Union" [30 January 1961]

We must either learn to live together as brothers
or we are going to perish together as fools.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_The Trumpet of Conscience_ [1967]

I prefer killing to being killed. One may talk of
peace only with those who are peaceful. To talk
of peace with him who holds a drawn sword is
foolish unless one is unarmed, then one must
talk very fast, indeed.
--Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988)
American author of Western fiction.
_The Walking Drum_ [1984]

Give peace a chance.
--John Lennon (1940—1980) & Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
English pop singers and songwriters.
[Title of 1969 song.]

You can't separate peace from freedom because no
one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
--Malcolm X (1925—1965)
American civil rights campaigner.
Speech in New York City [7 January 1965].

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace
is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
--attributed to George C. (Catlett) Marshall (1880—1959)
American general and statesman.

Any rich man does more for society than all the jerks
pasting VISUALIZE WORLD PEACE bumper stickers
on their cars. The worst leech of a merger and acquisitions
lawyer making $500,000 a year will, even he cheats on
his taxes, put $100,000 into the public coffers. That's
$100,000 worth of education, charity or U.S. Marines.
And the Marine Corps does more to promote world
peace than all the Ben & Jerry's ice cream ever made.
--P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947)
American political satirist.
_Give War A Chance_ [1992]

We are destined to live together on the same soil in
the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned
from the battle stained with blood ... we who have
fought against you, the Palestinians — we say today
to you in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood
and tears! Enough!
--Yitzhak Rabin (1922—1995)
Israeli statesman, soldier, and prime minister [1974-77, 1992-95].
He received the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace in 1994 and was
assasinated by a Jewish extremist in 1995.
At signing of peace agreement at White House [13 September 1993].

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We have learned that we cannot live alone,
in peace; that our own well-being is dependent
on the well-being of other nations far away …
We have learned to be citizens of the world,
members of the human community.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933-45].
4th Inaugural Address [1945].


The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end
of this war — an end to the beginnings of all wars.
---Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933-45].
Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, [13 April 1945]
the day after Roosevelt died - ODTQ.

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Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never
the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if
it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth,
or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism
or anarchy.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
Nobel Peace Prize Speech [5 May 1910]

You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by
resistance to evil; buy it by compromise with evil.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_The Two Paths_ [1859], lecture 5

There are two means of refuge from
the misery of life: music and cats.
--attributed to Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.

I'd like to go away alone
Where there are other, nicer people,
Somewhere into the far unknown,
There, where no one kills another.
Maybe more of us,
A thousand strong,
Will reach this goal
Before too long.
--Alena Synkova, teenage prisoner in the Theresienstadt holding
camp in Bohemia [1943]. Quoted in Hana Volavkova (ed.)
_I Never Saw Another Butterfly_ [1978].

The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes
is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.
--William Howard Taft (1857—1930)
27th President of the United States [1909-13]
and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [1921-30].
In _The Dawn of World Peace_ [1911].

I want peace and I'm willing to fight for it.
--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945-53].
Diary [22 May 1945] quoted in Robert
H. Ferrell _Off the Record_ [1980].

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There is nothing so likely to produce peace
as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775-83]
and first president of the United States [1789-97].
In a letter to Elbridge Gerry [29 January 1780].


If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to
repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the
most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity,
it must be known, that we are at all times ready
for war.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775-83]
and first president of the United States [1789-97].
Fifth Annual Address to Congress [3 December 1793]

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A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained
except by a partnership of democratic nations.
--Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924)
American Democratic statesman and President [1913-21].
In his war message to Congress [2 April 1917].

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armistice (noun) ['ah(r)-mκ-stis]
A limited cease-fire or the document containing the terms of a limited
cease-fire; a temporary truce put in place until a permanent agreement
can be reached between two hostile parties.

halcyon [HAL-see-uhn], noun:
1. Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
2. Marked by peace and prosperity.

irenic (adj.) [eye-REN-ik; -REE-nik]:
Tending to promote peace; conciliatory.

sanctum [SANK-tum], noun;
plural sanctums or sancta::
1. A sacred place.
2. A place of retreat where one is free from intrusion.




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PEACE (OF MIND)

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
And remember what peace there may be in silence.
--Max Ehrmann (1872—1945)
American lawyer.
"Desiderata" [1927]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
And make allowance for their doubting too.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
"If " Written 1895 & published in _Rewards and Fairies_ [1910].

Nothing is more conducive to peace of
mind than not having any opinions at all.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
_Aphorisms_ [1765-99], "Notebook E", Aphorism 11

Part of the happiness of life consists not
in fighting battles but in avoiding them.
A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
In Samuel Longfellow (ed.) _Final Memorials of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow_, ch. XIX "Table-Talk" [1887].

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice,
ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were
to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy
perpetual peace.
--Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca] (1304—1374)
Italian scholar, poet, and humanist.
In Rene Cartry _The Millenium Book of Cryptograms_, p. 57 [2003].

The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond
the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears.
If it did, the human race would be off there
in a body.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistles_, 1st C.




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PEARL HARBOR

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see: "WAR & PEACE"
see: "WORLD WAR II"
see: "PLACES"


A Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is a strategic impossibility.
--George Fielding Eliot (1894—1971)
"The Impossible War with Japan" in _American Mercury_ [September 1938].

[Remark while moving along a line of sailors passing
ammunition, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 December 1941:]
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
--Howell Forgy (1908—1972)
American naval chaplain.
Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [1 November 1942].

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One day S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa was dismayed
to learn that a large American fast-food chain had opened
its one hundredth restaurant in Japan, his ancestral home.
'It seems,' Hayakawa declared, 'a terrible price to pay for
Pearl Harbor!'
--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_,
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000].

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Whatever happens, the United States Navy
is not going to be caught napping.
--Frank Knox (1874—1944)
American Secretary of the Navy 1940-44.
Attributed comment of 4 December 1941.





PEDANTRY

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see: "BORES"
see: "KNOW-IT-ALL"
see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links
see: "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links


Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people
you are with. Wear your learning like your watch, in
a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it,
merely to show that you have one. If you are asked
what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it
hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
"Letter to His Son" [22 February 1748]

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable
to the time, place, and company.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
_Biographia Literaria_ [1817]

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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance
than pedantry by her learning.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XLVIII [1820]


Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber,
and takes out our brains to make room for it.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XX [1821 ed.]


A man who knows the world will not only make the most of
every thing he does know, but of many things that he does
not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of
hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward
attempt to exhibit his erudition.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CLXVI [1824 ed.]

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Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_Paradise Regained_, bk. IV [1671]

I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!"
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"The Purist"

The joy of the pedant who has
found out some useless fact.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949]

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what
he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
--Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (1792—1870)
French-Swiss lyric poet.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 386 [10th ed. 1884].

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_An Essay on Criticism_, pt. III, l. 53 [1711]

The scholars learn, not for the sake of knowledge
and insight, but to be able to chatter and give
themselves airs.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
"The Art of Literature: On Men of Learning" in
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders

Pedantry proceeds from much reading and little understanding.
--Sir Richard Steele (1672—1729)
Irish-born essayist and dramatist.
"The Tattler" [31 October 1710]

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inkhorn [INK-horn], adjective:
Affectedly or ostentatiously learned; pedantic.
noun:
A small bottle of horn or other material formerly
used for holding ink.




PEN (THE)

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
_Richelieu_, II, ii [1839]

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet.
(The pen worse than the sword.)
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_, pt. II, sec. 2 [1621-51]

Let none presume to tell me that
the pen is preferable to the sword.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
"Don Quixote de la Mancha", pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 10 [1605]

I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
_Fables_, pt. 1 [1727], "The Poet and the Rose"

As through this world I've wandered,
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
--Woody Guthrie (1912—1967)
American folksinger and songwriter.
"The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd" [1939 song]

The ink of the scholar is more sacred
than the blood of the martyr.
--Muhammad (A.D. 570?—632)
Prophet to whom the religion of Islam was revealed.
Attributed in "The Index" (weekly paper) [Boston, Mass., 2 April 1874].

The pen is mightier than the sword if
the sword is very short, and the pen
is very sharp.
--Terry Pratchett (b. 1948)
English science fiction writer.
_The Light Fantastic_ [1986]

I am inordinately proud these days of the quill, for
it has shown itself, historically, to be the hypodermic
which inoculates men and keeps the germ of freedom
always in circulation, so that there are individuals
in every time in every land who are the carriers, the
Typhoid Mary's, capable of infecting others by mere
contact and example. These persons are feared by
every tyrant—who shows his fear by burning the
books and destroying the individuals.
--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.
"Freedom" written in July 1940, in _One Man's Meat_ [1944].




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PENGUIN

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I find penguins at present the only comfort in life.
One feels everything in the world so sympathetically
ridiculous; one can't be angry when one looks at a
penguin.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
Letter to Charles Eliot Norton [4 November 1860].

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"For Family Survival, Penguins Play a Game Of 'Name That Tune'"
by Sharon Begley
_The Wall Street Journal_ [9 September 2005]

... Penguins may look pretty much alike even to other penguins,
but they don't sound alike. To generate their unique calls,
scientists have discovered, the birds use two voice boxes.
That lets them emit different calls simultaneously, modulating
frequency, amplitude and beat, write Thierry Aubin of the
Universitι Paris-Sud, Orsay, and Pierre Jouventin of the
Center for Functional Ecology and Evolution, Montpellier,
France.

The interaction of two frequencies generates beats that penetrate
solid objects such as, oh, huddled penguin bodies as dense as 10
birds per square meter. In addition, the system creates a huge
variety of "vocal signatures."

Adults emit highly individual calls of four to eight syllables. A
chick, which memorizes dad's call during the five weeks it spends
sitting atop his feet, plays a life-or-death game of "name that tune,"
identifying him as he waddles through the colony like a bowling
pin with feet and calls at regular intervals.

Playing recorded calls for king penguin chicks, Prof. Aubin and
Prof. Jouventin find that even a syllable or two is enough for most
hatchlings to recognize mom or dad (though they usually wait
for at least four before leaving the crθche, apparently wanting to
be sure). From acoustics alone, the chicks should not be able to
distinguish their parents' call from more than about 25 feet,
beyond which the signal-to-noise ratio drops below 1. Yet, just
like humans in the din of a cocktail party, they can pick out their
partner's voice across the room (especially if the voice says
something like, "Wow, you look terrific; have you been working
out?"). Penguins can recognize a mate's or parent's call despite
background noise and acoustic jamming by other calls.

"Chicks have an exceptional capacity to discriminate the correct
call from extraneous calls," conclude the scientists.

Adult penguins even factor in wind conditions. In blustery weather,
they increase their call's length and number of syllables, so that at
25 mph both are double what they were at 18 mph. This increases
the signal-to-noise ratio, leading Prof. Aubin and Prof. Jouventin to
conclude, only half in jest, that the birds "apply the mathematical
theory of communication" to adjust their calls to prevailing
conditions. [ . . . ]

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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force
pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised
what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that
the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered
and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps
ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching
the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly
back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction,
like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the
paper reports, "the pilots fly out to sea and directly to
the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up,
and ten thousand penguins fall gently onto their backs."
--Audobon Society Magazine [1980s?]

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Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the
ice in Antarctica - where do they go?

It is a well known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird
which lives an extremely ordered and complex life.

The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life,
as well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its
offspring throughout its life.

If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of
the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the
ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep
enough for the dead bird to be rolled into and buried.

The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave
and sing: "Freeze a jolly good fellow."

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On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
--W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (1880—1946)
American vaudeville star and film actor.
Attributed, proposed inscription for his tombstone.

Six months residence here would justify suicide.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
During a visit to Pittsburgh with Andrew Carnegie [18-19 September 1882].
Quoted in "Light, Heat and Power" (weekly journal) [2 May 1889].




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see: "ANIMALS" for related links


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Our children are brutalized and insensitized if they are
made to pull the spinal cord from a living frog: it will
be that much easier, subsequently, to harm a dog, a
chimpanzee — a human.

Thus a more humane ethic — a respect for all living things
— is desirable not only for the well-being of non-human
animals, but for our own spiritual development as well.

--Jane Goodall (b. 1934)
English primatologist who studied chimpanzee
social and family life for forty years.
"Respect for Life", in Clifton Fadiman, ed., _Living Philosophies_ [1990].

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PERCENTAGES

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see: "MATHEMATICALLY SPEAKING"
see: "STATISTICS"


Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent
don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad
you have them.
--attributed to Lou Holtz (b. 1937)
American football coach.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-
fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't
understand either men or percentages.
--Florynce R. Kennedy (1916—2001)
American lawyer, feminist, and author.
Quoted in Gloria Kaufman & Mary Kay Blakely (eds.)
_Pulling Our Own Strings_ [1980].

One fifth of the people are against
everything all the time.
--Robert F. Kennedy (1925—1968)
American Democratic politician.
Attributed in Robert Andrews
_The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 213 [1987].

Eighty percent of married men cheat in
America. The rest cheat in Europe.
--Jackie Mason [Yacov Moshe Moaza] (b. 1931)
American ordained rabbi and stand-up comedian.
Quoted in Robert Byrne _1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said_ [1988].

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth
watch them run it, and the other eighty percent
don't know what the hell's going on.
--attributed to Jake Simmons (1901—1981)
American industrialist.


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