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RIGHTS

see "FREEDOM" for related links


The fears of one class of men are not
the measure of the rights of another.
--George Bancroft (1800—1891)
American historian and public official.

[The makers of the Constitution] conferred, as against the government,
the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the
right most valued by civilized man.
--Louis Brandeis (1856—1941)
American lawyer and associate justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court [1916—1939].
In "Olmstead et al. vs. United States,"
277 U.S. 438, 478 [1928].

Attack another's rights and you
destroy your own.
--John Jay Chapman (1862—1933)
American author and critic.

Ultimately, property rights and personal rights
are the same thing. The one cannot be preserved
if the other be violated. Each man is entitled
to his rights and the rewards of his service be
they never so large or never so small.
--Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933)
American Republican statesman and President [1923—1929].
Massachusetts Senate President Acceptance Speech [7 Jan. 1914].

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not
the right to do wrong.
--John G. Diefenbaker (1895—1979)
Canadian prime minister.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of
anybody to go to hell in his own way.
--Robert Frost (1874—1963)
American poet.
Address, Berkeley, California [1935].

People tend to forget their duties but remember
their rights.
--Indira Gandhi (1917—1984)
Prime Minister of India [1966—1977]
and [1980-1984]. She was assasinated
by Sikh extremists.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given
rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the
sex or complexion.
--William Lloyd Garrison (1805—1879)
American abolitionist and reformer.
_Life_ Vol. III

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The most stringent protection of free speech would not
protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and
causing a panic.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
In Schenck v. United States [1919].


We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some
criminals should escape than that the government should play an
ignoble part.... If the existing code does not permit district attorneys
to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not
permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
In "Olmstead v. United States" [1928].

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Do not speak of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve
everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the
dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful
of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved?
Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of
starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man
earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of
earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
--Ursula K. Le Guin (1929— )
American writer.
_The Dispossessed_ [1974]

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is
what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab
a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An
entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how
free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list
of rights — the `right' to education, the `'right'
to health care, the `right' to food and housing.
That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't
rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and
a barn for human cattle. There's only one basic
human right, the right to do as you damn well
please. And with it comes the only basic human
duty, the duty to take the consequences.
--P.J. O'Rourke (1947— )
American political satirist.

I believe that every right implies
a responsibility; every opportunity,
an obligation; every possession,
a duty.
--John D(avison) Rockefeller Jr. (1874—1960)
American philanthropist.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important
individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which,
united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the
growth of civilization than any other institution established by the
human race.
--William Howard Taft (1857—1930)
27th President of the United States [1909—1913]
and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [1921—1930].
_Popular Government_ [1913], ch. 3



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RISE & SHINE!

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see: "MORNING"
see "LIFE" for other related links


Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy,
as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only
laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both
unwholesome and stupefying.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life,
but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion
of fifty years in forty — let him rise early, that he may
have the day before him, and let him make the most
of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts
of acquaintance only — those by whom something
may be got, and those from whom something may
be learnt.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock
in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing
a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly
equivalent to ten additional years to a man's life.
--Philip Doddridge (1702—1751)
English theologian.

He that riseth late must tread all day, and shall
scarce overtake his business at night.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

Early risers are conceited in the morning
and stupid in the afternoon.
--Rose Henniker Heaton,
_The Perfect Hostess_ [1931]

To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten.
--Inscription on Victor Hugo's study

I have, all my life long, been lying till noon;
yet I tell all young men, and tell them with
great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise
early will ever do any good.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In Boswell _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1785].

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I
hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.
--Jean Kerr (1923—2003)
American writer, [wife of Walter Kerr].
"Mary, Mary" [1963]

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From _The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus_:

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let
this thought be present — I am rising to the work
of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if
I am going to do the things for which I exist and
for which I was brought into the world? Or have
I been made for this, to lie in the bed-clothes
and keep myself warm? -- But this is more
pleasant — Dost thou exist then to take thy
pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion?
Dost thou not see the little plants, the little birds,
the ants, the spiders, the bees working together
to put in order their several parts of the universe?
And art thou unwilling to do the work of a human
being, and dost thou not make haste to do do
that which is according to thy nature?

It is a good plan to print this well-known
exhortation in large letters and hang it
on the wall opposite your bed. And if
that fails, as I am told it sometimes does,
another good plan is to buy the loudest
alarm clock you can get and place it in
such a position that you have to get out
of bed and go round several pieces of
furniture in order to silence it.

--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.

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He instantly despised all his guests for being
still asleep, in a rush of superiority which afflicts
all those who are astir earlier than other people.
--Vita Sackville-West (1892—1962)
English writer and landscape gardener.
_The Edwardians_ [1930]

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late;
look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to
a certain extent sacred.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Counsels and Maxims_, ch. 2

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which
you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once!
--Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832)
Scottish novelist and poet.

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slugabed [SLUHG-uh-bed], noun:
One who stays in bed until a late hour; a sluggard.



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RISK

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see: "ADVENTURE"
see: "CAUTION"
see: "CHALLENGE"
see: "COURAGE"
see: "DANGER"
see "SUCCESS" for other related links


The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
--Alfred Adler (1870—1937)
Austrian psychologist.

The intent and not the deed
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly.
--John Brown (1715—1766)
English clergyman and author.

The girls in Canadian lap dancing bars are allowed to remove
all their clothes and touch the customers, but while this
is undoubtedly a Good Thing, we should remember that Canada
is home to 87% of all the world's mosquitoes.
--Jeremy Clarkson (1960— )
British journalist and broadcaster.
In "Sunday Times" [18 July 1999].

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only
when he sticks his neck out.
--James Bryant Conant (1893—1978)
American chemist, educational administrator, and professor.
In Connie Robertson
_The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 90 [1998].

My inclination to go by Air Express
is confirmed by the crash they had
yesterday, which will make them
careful in the immediate future.
--A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (1859—1936)
English classical scholar and poet.
Letter [17 August 1920].

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily;
to not dare is to lose one's self entirely.
--Sφren Kierkegaard (1813—1855)
Danish philosopher.
In Larry Chang
_Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of
Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing_, p. 190 [2006].

Where there is no risk there can be no
pride in achievement and consequently
no happiness.
--Ray Kroc (1902—1984)
American businessman, founder of McDonalds.
_Grinding It Out_ [1977]

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action, without incurring
danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do
great and noble deeds though he risks everything.
--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure … than
to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
In Lynn Anderson
_Longing for a Homeland_, p. 119 [2004].

We took risks, we knew we took them; things
have come out against us, and therefore we
have no cause for complaint.
--Robert Falcon Scott (1868—1912)
English polar explorer.
"The Last Message" in Scott's _Last Expedition_ [1913]

Take risks. I mean, if you like this person and you
don't know if they like you, ask them out and see
what happens. I liked this girl and I asked her out.
She said no and she hates me now, but I took that
risk.
--Bruce Wagner, age 13

The nanny state has decreed that tobacco is so dangerous
it can only be advertised on vehicles travelling at over
150 mph.
(On the exemption of Formula One from a ban on cigarette advertising.)
--Ann Widdecombe (1947— )
British Conservative politician.
At the Conservative Party Conference, Bournemouth [6 October 1998].

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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
--anon.




RIVALRY

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Henry Clay (1777—1852) American statesman
and orator, nicknamed 'The Great Compromiser.'

Clay was sitting outside the old National Hotel
in Washington with Daniel Webster, then US
senator from Massachusetts. Watching a man
walk by with a pack of mules, Webster remarked,
'Clay, there goes a number of your Kentucky
constituents.'

'They must be going up to Massachusetts to
teach school,' commented Clay.

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

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RIVERS

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see "NATURE" for related links


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There was no way to cross the remaining five or six
canals, which were a good twelve feet wide and full
of deep water, except that our Lord provided us with
Indian men and women who carried our baggage.
As these entered the first canal they drowned, and the
heap made a bridge for those on horseback to pass
over. In this way we kept pushing the loaded bearers
ahead of us, reaching the other side over the bodies
of the drowned, until we had crossed the rest of
the canals. And in the confusion of drowning Indians
some Spaniards also were lost.

--Francisco de Aguilar [1520s]
in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 329.
Cohan & Major explain:
Aguilar, a common soldier repenting his past, entered
the Dominican order in 1529, when he was 50 years
old. He is describing the long-lamented noche triste
(sad night) in which Cortes and his men were driven
out of Tenochtitlαn. Francisco Lopez de Gomara, in
another account, states that during the night of 1 July
1520 '450 Spaniards died, 4,000 Indian friends, 46
horses and, I believe, all the prisoners.'

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The Thames is liquid history.
(To an American who had compared the
Thames disparingly with the Mississippi.)
--John Burns (1858—1943)
British Liberal politician.
In "Daily Mail" [25 January 1943].

We ourselves saw these women, who were there
fighting in front of all the Indian men as women
captains ... so courageously that the Indian men did
not dare turn their backs, and anyone who did they
killed with clubs right there before us ... These
women are very white and tall and have hair very
long and braided and they are very robust and go
about naked [but] with their privy parts covered.
--Gaspar de Carvajal (1500—1584)
Spanish Dominican missionary.
In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 332.
Cohan & Major note:
Carvajal dubbed these ladies 'Amazons', thereby
earning for himself some derision and for the great
river a name that stuck.

But what words shall describe the Mississippi,
great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven)
has no young children like him! An enormous
ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide,
running liquid mud, six miles an hour: its
strong and frothy current choked and obstructed
everywhere.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_American Notes_ [1842]

Ol' man river, dat ol' man river,
He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin',
He jus' keeps rollin',
He jus' keeps rollin' along.
--Oscar Hammerstein II (1895—1960)
American songwriter.
"Ol' Man River" {song} in the musical
_Showboat_ [1927].

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If I have seemed to love my subject, it is no surprising
thing, for I have loved the profession far better than any
I have followed since, and I took a measurless pride in
it. The reason is plain: a pilot, in those days, was the
only unfettered and entirely independent human being
that lived in the earth.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Life on the Mississippi_ [1883]


After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now,
just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine
of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so;
one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores,
with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the wall,
chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep. . . .
the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi,
rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense
forest away on the other side.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Life on the Mississippi_ [1883]

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The Father of Waters.
--Popular nickname for the Mississippi. The
word comes from the Algonquian words for
'great river.'

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confluence (noun) ['kahn-flu-κns]
The point at which two or more streams flow
together; a coming together, congress, or
gathering of anything.

riparian (adj.) [ri-'pζ-ri-yκn]
Pertaining to the banks of a river or stream, on a riverbank.

rivulet [RIV-yuh-lut], noun:
A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
Ex.: After two minutes in the steam chamber, sweat
began to flow in rivulets from every pore in my body,
dripping steadily from my fingertips.
--Fen Montaigne, "Reeling in Russia"

sinuous (adj.)
Characterized by many curves or turns; winding.
Synonyms: wiggly.



ROBOTS

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see "DISCOVERY" for related links


To some scientists, robots are the answer to caring for
aging societies in Japan and other nations where the
young are destined to be overwhelmed by a surging
elderly population. These advocates see robots serving
not just as helpers — carrying out simple chores and
reminding patients to take their medication — but also
as companions, even if the machines can carry on only
a semblance of a real dialogue. The ideal results: huge
savings in medical costs, reduced burdens on family and
caretakers, and old and sick people kept in better health.
--Yuri Kageyama,
"Robots Seen As Companions for Elderly,"
Associated Press [10 April 2004]



ROCK 'n' ROLL

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see "MUSIC" for related links


Rock 'n roll is a means of pulling down the white
man to the level of the 'Negro'. It is part of the
plot to undermine the morals of the youth of our
nation. It is sexualistic, unmoralistic, and the
best way to bring the people of both races together.
--Asa Carter, of the North Alabama White Citizen's
Council, quoted in "Melody Maker" [1956].

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or
a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has
rocks in the head.
--Alan Freed (1922—1965)
American disc-jockey.
(In Raymond Obstfeld's _Jabberrock_ [1997], "Rock 'n' Roll")

Rock and roll was music to get pregnant by.
Rap is music to get dead by.
--Lewis Grizzard (1946—1994)
American author and commentator
on the American South.
[Mid-1980s.]

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The good thing about them [The Spice Girls] is
that you can look at them with the sound turned
down. You know what irritates me about modern
music, it's all based on ego.

Look at a group like U2. Bono and his band are
so egocentric — the more you jump around, the
bigger your hat is, the more people listen to
your music.

The only important thing is to sell and make
money. It's nothing to do with talent. Today
there are groups who sell lots of records and
then disappear. Will we remember U2 in 30
years? Or the Spice Girls? I doubt it.

--George Harrison (1943—2001)
English rock singer and pop guitarist
and a member of The Beatles.

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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].

[Rock 'n' roll] is sung and written for the most
part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost
imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd — in plain fact,
dirty — lyrics, it manages to be the martial music of
every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore.
--Frank Sinatra (1915—1998)
American singer and actor.
In Raymond Obstfeld's _Jabberrock_ [1997], "Rock 'n' Roll."

Remember when you used to watch TV in the '60s and you'd
see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what
rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
--Neil Young (1945— )
In Raymond Obstfeld's _Jabberrock_ [1997], "Shake, Rattle, & Roll."

Rock journalism is people who can't
write interviewing people who can't
talk for people who can't read.
--Frank Zappa (1940—1993)
American rock musician and songwriter.



ROLLER COASTERS

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see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links


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My heart was in my mouth.
--Gaius Petronius Arbiter (?—AD 66)
Roman writer and senator.

William C. Waterhouse of Penn State comments:

This attribution is found in several places, but it's
wrong. The reason is fairly interesting.

What Petronius (in par. LXII) has his character say is

"Mihi anima in naso esse; stabam tanquam mortuus."

This literally means

"My breath was in my nose; I was standing like someone dead."

The first part thus probably means "I felt I was about to
breathe my last."

But of course we don't use that metaphor in English. What
translators do in such cases is (usually) to look for some
English idiom of similar meaning and tone; and that's what
happened here.

The translations available on-line were written in the 1900s.
A search for "My heart was in my mouth" turns up
an example in an obscure play in 1791 (J. Banks, _The Albion
Queens_). There are many examples from the 1800s.

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I feel like my brain was run over by
a lawnmower. That was really excellent.
--rider getting off a roller coaster,
as seen on The Learning Channel.

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Trivia: The Serpentine Railway, built in 1885 at Coney Island,
was the first gravity roller coaster to tie the track end
together and return passengers to their starting point without
them needing to disembark while the car was placed on the
return track. Passengers were seated sideways on the
slow-moving train.

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vertiginous [vur-TIJ-uh-nuhs], adjective:
1. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
2. Causing or tending to cause dizziness.
3. Turning round; whirling; revolving.


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