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POPEYE --- POPULAR(ITY) --- PORNOGRAPHY
PORTER (COLE)
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
POSSESSIONS ---POST OFFICE --- POTENTIAL

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POPEYE

see: "CARTOON CHARACTERS"


I'm Popeye the sailor man
I'm Popeye the sailor man
I'm strong to the finach
"Cause I eats me spinach
I'm Popeye the sailor man.
I'm one tough Gazookus
Which hates all Palookas
Wot ain't on the up and square
I biffs 'em and buffs 'em
An' always out-roughs 'em
An' none of 'em gits no-where.
If anyone dasses to risk
My Fisk it's Boff an'
It's Wham un'erstan?
So keep Good Behavor
That's your one lifesaver
With Popeye the Sailor Man.
--Sammy Lerner (1903—1989)
Romanian-born American songwriter.
"I'm Popeye The Sailor Man" [1933]

[Popeye speaking:]
I yam what I yam, an' that's all I yam!
--Elzie Crisler Segar (1894—1938)
American cartoonist and creator of _Popeye_.
"Thimble Theatre" (comic strip) [21 June 1931]



POPULAR(ITY)

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see: "APPLAUSE"
see: "FAME"
see: "PRAISE"
see: "REPUTATION"
see: "SUCCESS"
see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links
see: "INDIVIDUALITY" for other related links


Do not be surprised, my brothers, if
the world hates you.
--Bible
1 "John" 3:13 NIV

In a Nutshell: Six ways to Make People Like You —
Principle 1: Become generally interested in other people.
Principle 2: Smile.
Principle 3: Remember that a person's name is to
that person the sweetest and most important sound
in any language.
Principle 4: Be a good listener. Encourage others to
talk about themselves.
Principle 5: Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
Principle 6: Make the other person feel important — and
do it sincerely.
--Dale Carnegie (1888—1955)
American writer and lecturer.
_How to Win Friends and Influence People_ [1936]

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Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem,
not because they are known, but because they are
not.
--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 367 [1882].


The success of many works is found in the relation between
the mediocrity of the authors' ideas and that of the ideas of
the public.
--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.
Quoted in James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient
and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 456 [1893].

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I am know in parts of the world by people
who have never heard of Jesus Christ.
--Charlie Chaplin (1889—1977)
English film actor and director.
Qioted in Lita Grey Chaplin _My Life with Chaplin_ [1966]

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Great merit, or great failings, will make you be
respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,
mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make
you either liked or disliked, in the general run of
the world.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [20 January 1749].


Those whom you can make like themselves
will, I promise you, like you very well.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [6 August 1750].


Fools and low people . . . take civility and a little
attention as a favor; remember and acknowledge
it: this, in my mind, is buying them cheap; and
therefore they are worth buying.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [14 February 1752].

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[Americans] no sooner set up an idol firmly than [they] are sure
to pull it down and dash it into fragments. ... Any man, who
attains a high place among you, from the President downward,
may date his downfall from that moment.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
(In the 1840s.)

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[Responding to his wife Marilyn Monroe's statement
after returning from entertaining troops in Korea,
'You never heard such cheering!':]
Yes, I have.
--Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999)
American professional baseball player.
Quoted in "Esquire" [July 1966].

In cinema theatres up & down the United Kingdom newsreels
showing Adolf Hitler's troops rupturing the Treaty of Versailles
and the Locarno Pact by marching into the Rhineland were
received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers
as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to
defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received
by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook
stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the
French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in
London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference,
24% preferred the French and 55% preferred the Germans.
--"Germans Preferred"
_Time_ [23 March 1936]

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches
take wings, those who cheer today will curse
tomorrow; only one thing endures — character.
--Horace Greeley (1811—1872)
American newspaper editor.
Attributed in John Barnett Donaldson _The Two Talents, with
Other Papers, Sermons, Leaders_ [1900] "Through Thorns to a Throne".

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Many Germans, women in particular, used to
descant to me upon the radiance of [Hitler's] expression
and his remarkable eyes. I must confess he never gave
me any impression of greatness. He was a spellbinder
for his own people. To the last, I continued to ask
myself how he had risen to what he was and how he
maintained his ascendance over the German people.
--Sir Nevile Henderson (1882—1942)
British ambassador in Berlin [1937—1939].
Adapated from an article in _Life_ [25 March 1940] in which
Henderson declares himself baffled by the appeal of the Fόhrer.

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Herbert Hoover (1874—1964)
American statesman; 31st President of the United States [1929—1933].

An autograph collector sent a request to President
Hoover asking for three signatures; he explained
he wanted one for himself and two to trade for one
of Babe Ruth's since 'it takes two of yours to get
one of Babe Ruth's.' Hoover, amused, obliged with
three signatures.

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

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Ostracism was one of the ways in which Athenian democracy was
expressed, and involved banishing for ten years any prominent citizen
who had become unpopular. On a day appointed for the vote, the Agora
was enclosed by a fence and all those citizens who wanted to take part
were admitted by one of ten entrances. They handed to an official a pot-
sherd with the name of a man they wished to see banished written on it.
When all the potsherds had been collected, they were counted and, pro-
vided there were over six thousand of them, the man whose name
appeared most was ostracised. He had to leave the city within ten days;
but, after the ten years of his exile were over, he could return without
either disgrace or curtailment of his rights as a citizen.

--Christopher Hibbert _Cities and Civilizations_ [2003 ed.]
Ch. 2 "Athens in the Days of Pericles 480-404 BC"

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The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are
slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles
and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors
on those who least deserve them.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 424 [1908 ed.].

It was one of the rules which, above all others,
made Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin the most
amiable of men in society: never to contradict
anybody.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In Dixon Wecter _The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship_ [1941].

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest
and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number
not voices, but weigh them.
--Immanuel Kant (1724—1804)
Prussian philosopher.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 404 [15th ed. 1894].

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American politician, 35th President of the United States [1961—1963].

After the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba, the American people rallied around their
President. Kennedy's popularity rating was
never higher, with 82 percent expressing their
approval of him. Kennedy was dumbfounded.
'My God! It's as bad as Eisenhower. The worse
I do, the more popular I get.'

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

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[Evaluating The Beatles:]
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first —
rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
--John Lennon (1940—1980)
English pop singer and songwriter.
Interview in "Evening Standard" [4 March 1966].

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none
themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those
attainments which command it.
--George Henry Lewes (1817—1878)
English philosopher and literary critic.
_The Spanish Drama_, ch. III [1846]

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates
that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
--Mary McCarthy (1912—1989)
American novelist.
"American the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub" [1947]

They were talking about a certain hangout and Johnny
said, 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.'
--John McNulty (1895—1956)
American writer.
_New Yorker_ [10 February 1943]

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588] "Of Repentance"

Do what you think is right and to hell with your popularity.
--attributed to Brian Mulroney (b. 1939—)
Canadian prime minister [1984—1993].

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed
after, but the popularity which follows after.
--William Murray (Lord Mansfield) (1705—1793)
Scottish barrister and judge.

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem,
and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the
ocean — the pearl is in its depths, the sea-weed swims.
--"Oriental Maxim" according to _The New-York Mirror_ of [13 November 1830].

The people always have some champion whom they set over them
and nurse into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which
a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.
--Plato (427?—347 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_The Republic_, bk. VIII

Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of
excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue
important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at
opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
_Power: A New Social Analysis_ [1938], ch. 2

Tell me who admires you and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are.
--attributed to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804—1869)
French critic and literary historian.

The love of popularity seems little else than the
love of being beloved; and is only blamable when
a person aims at the affections of a people by
means in appearance honest, but in the end
pernicious and destructive.
--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.

Good humor and generosity carry the day with
the popular heart all the world over.
--Alexander Smith (1830—1867)
Scottish poet.

My definition of a free society is a society
where it is safe to be unpopular.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
In a speech in Detroit, Michigan [7 October 1952].

Being prime minister is a lonely job
. . . You cannot lead from the crowd.
--Margaret Thatcher (1925— )
British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990].
_The Downing Street Years_, ch. I [1993]

Though I prize, as I ought, the good opinion of my fellow
citizens; yet, if I know myself, I would not seek popularity
at the expense of one social duty, or moral value.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American
Revolution [1775—1783] and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
Quoted in Aaron Bancroft _An Essay on the Life of George Washington_ [1807].

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ascendant (noun) [ζ-'sen-dκnt]
A dominant or rising idea or position; an ancestor

claque (noun) ['klζk]
People at the theatre paid to applaud or react in the way
the producers want the audience to react, a kind of crowd
seeding; a clique of subservient supporters.
A "clique" is an exclusive group of people united by a common
interest. A "claque" is an exclusive group whose interest is
provided by those who rent them.

cynosure [SY-nuh-shoor; SIN-uh-shoor], noun:
1. Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
2. That which serves to guide or direct.
Ex.: Lucy is very pretty and becomes the cynosure not only of the
aforementioned characters, but also of several faceless and epicene
young men who also loiter about.
--John Simon, "Stealing Beauty,"
_National Review_ [15 July 1996]

ostracize (verb) ['o-strκ-sIz]
To exclude from a group; to banish or exile.



PORNOGRAPHY

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see: "IMMORALITY"


They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or
eye of modesty any of the indecencies, are pests of
society.
--James Beattie (1735—1803)
Scottish poet and essayist.

I have always wanted to write a pornographic book
but I get so excited doing the research that I can
never get around to the book.
--Art Buchwald (1925—2007)
American journalist and humorist who won the
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary.
Quoted in William Safire _Lend Me Your Ears_ [1997].

Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not.
Sex is not a crime. Describing sex *is*.
--Gershon Legman (1917—1999)
American folklorist.
_Love & Death_ "A Study in Censorship" [1949]

Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf;
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"Invocation", l. 23 [1931]

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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
--Gloria Steinem (1934— )
American feminist, jounalist, and founder of "Ms." magazine.
_Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions_
"Erotica vs. Pornography" [1983]

compare:

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
--attributed to Gloria Leonard (b. 1940)
American pornographic actress.

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I shall not today attempt further to define the
kinds of material I understand to be embraced
within that shorthand description [of obscenity];
and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly
doing so. But I know it when I see it . . . ."
--Potter Stewart (1915—1985)
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1958—1981].
_Jacobellis vs. Ohio_ [1964]




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PORTER (COLE)

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Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.

see "MUSIC" for related links
see "PEOPLE" for related links


When the musical theater started in this country
about 1919 or '20, when Jerome Kern led the break
from the European operetta. . . you could follow
a progression from Jerome Kern to Dick Rogers to
Gershwin, but Cole seemed to spring like Jupiter
from Minerva's head — all made. What he did was
so special and so unaccountable and unexplainable
that he is really of them all, in a strange way,
the most irreplaceable.
--Alan Jay Lerner (1918—1986)
American playwright and lyricist.
On Cole Porter, in _Cole Porter a Biography_ [1998]
by William McBrien, p. 70.

Overall, I find Rodgers warmer, Arlen more hip,
Gershwin more direct, Vernon Duke more touchable,
Berlin more practical. But no one can deny that
Porter added a certain theatrical elegance, as
well as interest and sophistication, wit, and
musical complexity to the popular song form.
--Alec Wilder,
_American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950_



POSITIVE ATTITUDE

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see: "CONFIDENCE"
see: "MAKING THE BEST"
see: "OPTIMISM"
see: "THE MIND" for other related links


A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people
to make it worth the effort.
--Herm Albright (1876—1944)
German-born American painter and lithographer.
Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [1995].

"And the King wanted an inscription good for a thousand years
and after that to the end of the world?"
"Yes, precisely so."
"Something so true and awful that no matter what happened it
would stand?"
"Yes, exactly that."
"Something no matter who spit on it or laughed at it there it
would stand and nothing would change it?"
"Yes, that was what the king ordered his wise men to write."
"And what did they write?"
"Five words: THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY."
--Carl Sandburg (1878—1967)
American poet.
_The People, Yes_ [1936]

They are able because they think they are able.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_The Aeneid_, v. 231




POSSESSIONS

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see: "LUXURY"
see: "WEALTH"
see: "MONEY" for other related links
see: "SUCCESS" for other related links
see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links


A man should always consider how much he has more
than he wants; and secondly, how much more unhappy
he might be than he really is.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
"The Spectator" [30 July 1714]

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Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
"Don Quixote de la Mancha" [1605], pt. I, bk. I, ch. 6


There are only two families in the world,
as a grandmother of mine used to say:
the haves and the have-nots.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 2, ch. 20 [1615]

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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest;
as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it
than those who have inherited one.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

The moon belongs to everyone,
The best things in life are free.
--B.G. DeSylva (1895—1950) & Lew Brown (1893—1958),
"The Best Things in Life are Free" [1927 song]

Well! some people talk of morality, and some of
religion, but give me a little snug property.
--Maria Edgeworth (1767—1849)
Irish novelist.
_The Absentee_ [1812]

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Silas Marner_, ch. 18 [1861]

All my possessions for a moment of time.
--Elizabeth I (1533—1603)
Queen of England and Ireland [1558—1603].
Last words, attributed in "Littell's Living Age" [8 November 1856].

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which
he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_Fragment_ #129, tr. George Long [1890]

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He who multiplies his possessions multiplies his cares.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [September 1744]


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]

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Character is property — it is the noblest of possessions.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot
have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania".
_The Philistine_ (mag.), v. 14, #1 [1 December 1901]

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Our desires always increase with our possessions.
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed
impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
[26 June 1753] issue of _The Adventurer_ (pub. 1752-59).


It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist,
'that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it,
to be in sorrow.'
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_The Rambler_ # 131 [18 June 1751]
(English twice-weekly journal 1750—1752)


The desires of men increase with his acquisitions; every step
which he advances brings something into view, which he did
not see before, and which, as soon as he sees it, he begins
to want. Where necessity ends curiosity begins, and no
sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can
demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_The Idler_ [1758—1760] {essays in the newspaper
"The Universal Chronicle"}, # 30 [11 November 1758].

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To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it;
and to know a thing is nothing, unless others know you
know it.
--Charles Neaves (1800—1876)
Scottish theologian, judge and writer.
Attributed in Rev. John Booth _Epigrams, Ancient and Modern_ [1865].

Possessions are generally diminished by possession.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_The Gay Science_ (Die frφhliche Wissenschaft) [1882]

An object in possession seldom retains the
same charms that it had in pursuit.
--Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115)
Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters.
_Letters_ bk. 2, letter 15.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_The Eagle's Nest_, ch. 5 [1872]

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
--attributed to Jerry Seinfeld (b. 1954)
American actor, writer, and comedian.

Character is property — it is the noblest of possessions.
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.
_Character_ [1871]

The constant desire to have more things and a still
better life, and the struggle to this end imprints
many Western faces with worry and even depression,
though it is customary to carefully conceal such
feelings.
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918—2008)
Russian novelist.
Speech in Cambridge, Massachusetts [8 June 1978].

If men are to respect each other for what they are,
they must cease to respect each other for what
they own.
--A.J.P. Taylor (1906—1990)
British historian.
_Politicians, Socialism, and Historians_ [1980]

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
--attributed to Steven Wright (b. 1955)
American writer and actor.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which
we can say, 'I have enough,' is the highest attainment
of philosophy.
--Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728—1795)
Swiss philosophical writer and physician.
_An Examination Of The Advantages Of Solitude_ [2 vols., 1808]

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bibelot [BEE-buh-loh], noun:
A small decorative object without practical utility; a trinket.

curio [KYOOR-ee-oh], noun:
A valued, novel object; an object valued
as a curiosity, often a collectible.
Ex.: Her latest addition, a fake yellow canary that she
affixed to the front door, simply canΥt be ignored. With
any luck, the cat will soon mistake the curio for a real
bird and that will be the end of it.
--Ada Brunstein, The House of No Personal Pronouns,
_New York Times_ 7/22/2007

paraphernalia (noun) [pζ-rκ-fκ(r)-'ney-lyκ]
1/ Personal belongings.
2/ Historically, a married woman's legal property that she
may pass to her children (not her dowry, which traditionally
goes to her husband for keeps).
3/ Equipment used by a particular organization or profession,
as football or sound paraphernalia.

tchotchke [CHOCH-kuh], noun:
A trinket; a knickknack.
Ex.: I'm going nuts with my mother's accumulation of
tchotchkes -- it's bad enough she never parted with one
she got as a gift — but why did she have to buy more?
--"Artifacts of Life" _Newsday_, [9 December 1996]



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POST OFFICE

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see: "LETTERS"
see: "OCCUPATIONS" for other related links
see: "PLACES" for other related links


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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays
these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed
rounds.
--inscription on General Post Office,
New York City, 8th Avenue and 33rd Street:

This inscription was supplied by William Mitchell Kendall
of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, the architects who
designed the New York General Post Office. Kendall said
the sentence appears in the works of Herodotus and describes
the expedition of the Greeks against the Persians under
Cyrus, about 500 B.C. The Persians operated a system of
mounted postal couriers, and the sentence describes the
fidelity with which their work was done.

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The mail must go through.
--Motto of Pony Express [1860—1861]



POTENTIAL

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see: "SUCCESS" for related links


That there should one Man die ignorant who had
capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufeldrockh_, III, iv [1835]

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of
the universe, a moment that will never be again. And
what do we teach our children in school? We teach
them that two and two make four and that Paris is the
capital of France. When will we also teach them what
they are? We should say to them: Do you know what
you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the
years that have passed, there has never been another
child like you. And look at your body — what a
wonder it is! Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers,
the ways you move. You may become a Shakespeare,
a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity
for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you
grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you,
a marvel? You must work — we must all work — to
make the world worthy of its children.
--Pablo Casals (1876—1973)
Spanish-born cellist and conductor.
_Joys and Sorrows: Reflections_ [1970]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men [...] for
whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after
much and careful inquiry, we never happen to hear another
word. [...] Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they
show finely in their first newness, but cannot stand the sun
and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The House of the Seven Gables_, ch. XII [1851]

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what
he has done, compared to what he might have done.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

He was one of those men who possess almost every
gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
--Charles Kingsley (1819—1875)
English writer and clergyman.
_Westward Ho!_ [1855]

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or
experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way
and deteriorated.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1887]

There is no heavier burden than a great potential.
--Charles Schulz (1922—2000)
American cartoonist.
Attributed to a "Peanuts" cartoon with line spoken
by either Linus or Charley Brown.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment,
I *am* living up to my full potential?
--attributed to Jane Wagner (b. 1935)
American writer, director and producer.


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