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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.
--Words and music by Sam Lerner




POPULAR(ITY)

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see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links
see "INDIVIDUALITY" for 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]

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.

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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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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]

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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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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].

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

Do what you think is right and to hell
with your popularity.
--Brian Mulroney (1939— )
Canadian prime minister.

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.

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

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.

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_ [1993], ch. 1

Though I prize, as I ought, the good opinion of my
fellow citizens; yet, if I know myself, I would not
seek or retain 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].

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

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_.

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 theatre 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_
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, 1900-50_




POSITIVE ATTITUDE

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see "THE MIND" for 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





POSSESSIONS

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see "HOME & FAMILY" for 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.

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_ [1605—1615]

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]

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]

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.

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.

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.

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— )
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]

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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 "WORK" for related links
see "PLACES" for related links


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.




POTENTIAL

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see "SUCCESS" for related links


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.
_From Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life_ [1879]

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment,
I *am* living up to my full potential?
--Lily Tomlin (1936?- )
American actress and comedian.


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