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;void(0)) . . . PROBLEMS see: "SOLUTIONS" see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher]. They shall be as thorns in your sides. --Bible "The Book of Judges" 2:3 The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella. --Lord Bowen (1835—1894) English judge. What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. --[Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver (1935—1998) American black militant. Speech in San Francisco, California [1968]. - I think of a family who started a farm on rocky soil in Kentucky: a dim, shiftless, rolling stone of a husband married to an illegitimate girl from the Virginia mountains. He tried five or six farms and kept moving on, a man afflicted, we'd say today, with a character neurosis who thought that by picking a new place, like a movie actress who keeps picking a new husband, he would somehow change the plot. He didn't, of course. They plodded into Indiana and did a little better. In time, they had a barn and a few animals, a little corral, a rail fence, and they planted corn and flax and beans. But then the neighbors went down with "the milk sickness," picked up from cows that chewed on snakeroot. Our farmer's wife died. So the vagabond father and his dour son moved on to a new state and new ground. the son passing from an almost animal boyhood into a bleak manhood. Yet, out of that frail women and her listless husband and the poorest ground, there came something strange and wholly admirable: the slow-moving son who seized the Republic and held it through its first cataclysm—Abraham Lincoln. --Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908—2004) British-born American broadcater and journalist. _America_ [1973] - But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death. --J. P. Donleavy (1926— ) American dramatist and novelist. O'Keefe, in _The Ginger Man_, ch. 5 (1955) Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. --Lou Holtz (1937— ) American football coach. Another nice mess you've gotten me into. --Stan Laurel (1890—1965) American film comedian, born in Britain. _Another Fine Mess_ [1930 film] and many other Laurel & Hardy films; spoken by Oliver Hardy. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. --Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923— ) American psychiatrist and author. In Sy Safransky _Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations_, p. 106 [1990]. Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell. --Bettina von Hutten (1874—1957) _The Halo_ [1907] ----- quagmire KWAG-myr; KWOG-, noun: 1. Soft, wet, miry land that shakes or yields under the feet. 2. A difficult or precarious position or situation; a predicament.   PROCRASTINATION . . see: "DELAY" see: "INDECISION" see: "IDLENESS" see: "INACTIVITY" see: "LAZINESS" see: "REST" see: "WAITING" see "FAILURE" for other related links By the streets of "by and by", one arrives at the house of "never". --Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist. It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it all; whereas those who have a great deal of business, must (to use a vulgar expression) buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it in. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694-1773) British writer and politician. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. --William Congreve (1670-1729) English dramatist. Letter to Cobham. We are always getting ready to live, but never living. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet. _Journals_ [13 April 1834] Tomorrow, every Fault to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [July 1756] What may be done at any Time will be done at no time. --Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. --T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley} Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy doing it today, you can do it again tomorrow. --Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx (1895-1977) American film comedian I figured I'd better get it in before we waited another ten years. Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing. --Robert Nuranen, {returning an overdue library book after forty-seven years} [January 2007] To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. --Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus] (34-64 A.D.) Stoic poet Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. --Preston's Axiom, in John Peers, comp. _1,001 Logical Laws_, p.64 [1979] Never do today what you can Put off till tomorrow. --William Brighty Rands (1823-1882) English poet and writer of children's literature, "Lilliput Levee" - Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot Hartford June 14/76. I am a long time answering your letter, my dear Miss Harriet, but then you must remember that it is an equally long time since I received it--so that makes us even, & nobody to blame on either side. Truly Yrs S.L.Clemens. Mark Twain - In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. --H.G. Wells (1866-1946) English novelist, _The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind_, [1934] Procrastination is the thief of time. --Edward Young (1683-1765) English poet, "Night Thoughts" [1742-1745], l. 393 ----- dilatory DIL-uh-tor-ee, adjective: 1. Tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to procrastination. 2. Marked by procrastination or delay; intended to cause delay; --said of actions or measures.  PRODUCTIVITY . . Madame would make her toilette at dawn, seated in her bedroom. Her hundred serfs, young and old, male and female, would all come to report on what they had been doing. Madame would pick out the laziest and have them given a flogging. For those who had toiled diligently she would prepare a goblet of wine with her own hand and mix in marrow to make it ready for drinking. Those who tasted this wine would leave flushed with happiness, and compete with each other to work hard, unmindful of their burdens. Those who had been beaten would blame themselves and say, 'What point is there in not making every effort for her ladyship, and being rewarded with a beaker of wine?' In this way everyone whom Madame employed proved himself capable; her lands supported cattle by the hundred, her streams bred fish and turtles by the picul, and her gardeners tended fruit, melon, mustard, and vegetables by the tens of acres. --Wang Shizhen (16th century); in M.J. Cohan and John Major {ed.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan and Major note: A not untypical estate owned by a family of the official class in mid-Ming times (1450-1600). 'Madame' was the aunt of Wang Shizhen, a well-known bureaucrat and the author of these lines. He gained the highest degree in the official examinations between 1522 and 1566. According to the law, only official families were allowed to own serfs, but various subterfuges (such as fictive 'adoption') were used to get round this, and it is hard to know how widespread the practice was. A picul was a traditional measure of capacity, about a tenth of a cubic yard. ----- fecund (adjective) Marked by intellectual productivity. Synonyms: prolific, fertile fructuous FRUHK-choo-uhs, adjective: Fruitful; productive. . . see: "CURSING" see: "SWEARING" see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links The day of the jewelled epigram is passed and, whether one likes it or not, one is moving into the stern puritanical era of the four-letter word. --Noël Annan (1916—2000) English historian and writer. In the House of Lords [1966]; quoted in George Greenfield _Scribblers for Bread_ [1989]. - Hear and understand: not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man. --Bible "Matthew" 15:10-11 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. --Bible "Ephesians" 4:29 NIV - Tonight thousands of people on this earth will die of starvation. Most of you will not give a a shit. And most of you will be more upset with the fact that I said, 'shit' than that thousands of people will die tonight. --Tony Campolo (1935— ) American pastor and author. If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap? --George Carlin (1937— ) American stand-up comedian and author. - TRIVIA: "Catcher in the Rye" contained 237 "goddams," 58 "bastards," 31 "Chrissakes," and 1 "fart." - Swearing is....learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb. --Mary Collyer (c. 1716—1762) English translator and novelist. _Felicia to Charlotte_ [1744] Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. --George W. Crane - Profane language was being used once every six minutes on network TV shows, every two minutes on premium cable shows, and every three minutes in major motion pictures, according to a study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs released in March 2000. The study examined 284 TV series episodes, 50 TV movies, and 189 MTV music videos that aired during the 1998-99 season, as well as the 50 top-grossing feature films released during 1998. Researchers identified 4,249 scenes with profane or crude language, including 966 scenes with "hard-core" profanity, such as the "f-word" and the "s-word," as the study delicately put it. --Haynes Johnson (1931— ) American journalist; winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. _The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years_ [2001] p. 207 - Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women? --Margaret Mead (1901—1978) American anthropologist. Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose.... Anything goes. --Cole Porter (1892—1964) American songwriter. "Anything Goes," [1934 song] - In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] - The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. --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]. . . see "TERRORISM" It's great to be color blind, and ethnic blind, and religious blind--but blind is blind. It means you can't see. I'd rather see and then judge, as opposed to cutting off the cognitive process quite so early. Why suppress what separates us from the lower forms of life that can't think and replace it with modes of non-reason, like political correctness, term limits or "zero tolerance?" Look at the World War II posters: we used to be able to trust our citizens to be our eyes and ears. But then again, we used to have common sense, and hold it in some esteem. Political correctness is almost always the opposite of common sense. It's what has us pretending at the airport that Ray Charles is just as likely to blow up the plane as the guy with the bin Laden lunchbox. I'm not saying turn in everyone with an accent and a bad attitude-- we'd have no cab drivers. And I'm not suggesting that the government monitor our every move and habit. That's already being done by the credit card industry. I'm just saying that it takes neighbors looking out for neighbors, and a postman passing along the fact that at 180 Maplewood, the seven addressees all named Mohammed are building "something" in their living room. If it turns out to be just a pole for strippers they get back to the house (the 72 virgins is more likely), then at least we know they're just perverts, and not terrorists. Like the lady said: it takes a village. --Bill Maher (1956- ) American comedian and author, _When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden_ [2002], "Neighbors Looking Out For Neighbors" ;void(0)) PROFOUND . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means. --Jean Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673) French comic dramatist, Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it. --Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-born American writer, _The Fountainhead_, [1943] Part Two, "Ellsworth M. Toohey" Chapter 4 [Georg Hegel] set [his philosophy] out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate ----- recondite REK-un-dyt, adjective: 1. Difficult to understand; abstruse. 2. Concerned with obscure subject matter. And his fondness for stopping his readers short in their tracks with evidence of his recondite vocabulary is wonderfully irritating. --"Books of the Times," _New York Times_, [23 February 1951] . . see "POLITICS" for related links A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous. --H.L. 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