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STANDING ALONE --- STARS --- STATISTICS
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STAGE

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


When Mr. Wilbur calls his play _Halfway
to Hell_ he underestimates the distance.
--Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)
American journalist and critic, in 1935

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On the first night of "The Kingdom of God" in Chicago, when I
went down to the Harris Theatre, I saw a lot of men and I couldn't
imagine what they were doing there...I was told that they were
detectives in plain clothes who were surrounding the theater
because there was going to be two gangs out in front...I looked
through a hole in the curtain and said to a stagehand, "I see
your friend Al Brown in front."

"What do you mean?" he said...

"I've heard that Al Capone calls himself Al Brown now and then."

As always I could see everything that went on in the audience,
and all through the play I could see Capone sitting there, holding
his wife's hand, with tears pouring down his face.

--Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)
American actress of the Barrymore family, _Memories_

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It was one of those plays in which the actors,
unfortunately, enunciated very clearly.
--Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
American humorist and newspaper columnist

He played the king as if afraid someone
else would play the ace.
--John Mason Brown,
drama critic

In other professions in which men engage
(Said I to myself--said I!).
The Army, the Navy, the Church, and the Stage
(Said I to myself--said I),
Professional licence, if carried too far,
Your chance of promotion will certainly mar--
And I fancy the rule might apply to the Bar
(Said I to myself--said I!).
--W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse

I saw the show under unfortunate
circumstances: the curtain was up.
--George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
American playwright, director, and producer

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Richard Paul Kiley (1922-1999)
American stage, television, and film actor,
speaking of an experience in the book
_It Happened on Broadway_:

The first musical Rogers did after Hammerstein died was
"No Strings", starring Diahann Carroll and myself. Dick
(Rogers) and I had a couple of run-ins because I had
the tendency to bend the notes a little bit, and he
didn't like that at all.

I had first met him years before, when I auditioned for a
part in chorus of the original company of "South Pacific."
There were about a hundred guys on the stage of the
Majestic Theater that day, and all of them seemed to know
Rogers and Hammerstein personally. They stepped up one
at a time, handed down their music, and sang in these
glorious voices. I waited and waited for my turn. Finally the
guy before me got up and sang "The Song of the Open
Road." That was the song I had prepared; it was the kind of
a rousing number that I thought I could do well. But this
guy sang it like Placido Domingo.

I have a choice, I thought. When they call my name, I can
look around like I don't know who that is and just sneak
out. Instead I stepped up, handed down my music, and said
in a very shaky voice, 'You've just heard the definitive
version of that song. Here is the comic version.' My knees
were knocking. I couldn't find the pitch. I sang off-key.
It was the most god-awful experience.

About fifteen years later, after I had done "Kismet," after
I had won the Tony for "Redhead," Dick Rogers asked to
see me. It was at the Majestic again, and there was the
great man sitting on the stage doodling on a pad under
a work light.

'We're putting together this musical,' he said to me. 'It
takes place in Paris, and it's about a black girl and a white
expatriate writer. Would you be interested in playing the
leading man?'

Of course I would be. He asked what key I was
comfortable in. I said F. He played some of the songs
for me; I sang a bit. We had a very pleasant exchange
about the role and how he was writing the songs at that
time. As I was leaving he said, 'I'm a big fan of yours.
It's really nice meeting you at last.'

I said, 'We've met before, Mr. Rogers.'

'When?'

I told him about my ill-fated "South Pacific" tryout.

'Jesus Christ,' he said, 'was that you?' Oscar and I would
often say to each other, ' 'Whatever happened to that
poor son of a bitch?'

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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it
under adverse conditions-- the curtain
was up.
--Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx (1895-1977)
American film comedian

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Redgrave, Sir Michael (1908-1985)
British stage actor.

During one play his scene called for him to be left
onstage with one attendant as he prepared to commit
suicide. His line was to be "Bring me a pint of port
and a pistol." With the audience in a high state of
tension, Redgrave called, "Bring me a pint of piss and
a portal." Trying to help the situation, the young actor
who played the attendant asked, "A pint of *piss,*
my lord? "Aye," responded a furious Redgrave,
"*and* a portal."

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

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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine is a sad one.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English dramatist,
_The Merchant of Venice_ [1596-1597],
Act 1, Sc.1, Ln. 77

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English dramatist,
_As You Like It_ [1599] II, vii,139.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English dramatist,
_Macbeth_ [1606]

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He always praises the first production of each
season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
--Walter Winchell (1897-1972)
American journalist

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Trivia about the theater:

(1) On the first night of the play "The Lady of Lyons" the safety
curtain jammed and would not open. The audience waited for an
hour, then left. There wasn't a second night.

(2) To add realism to the play "Ecarte" at the Globe Theatre, London,
in 1870, the cast had a real picnic on stage with real champagne. By
the end of the first act the cast was completely drunk and forgot
their lines, knocked over the scenery and fell asleep.

(3) In 1945, to add atmosphere to a play called "The French Touch",
the manager had French perfume wafted through the ventilating
system. The audience all left half-way through the performance,
feeling sick.

(4) In a melodrama Sir Donald Wolfit played the part of a cruel and
brutal father, who got his comeuppance at the end of the play by
being stabbed to death by his son. At one performance the
unfortunate actor playing the son forgot to bring the dagger on
stage. In desperation, he kicked Sir Donald's backside. Clearly
the great actor had not been expecting this attack from the rear,
but as he staggered towards the footlights, he managed as he fell,
"That boot! that boot! 'Twas poisoned."

(5) In 1709 the playwright John Dennis found a new way of
producing a thunder effect for his play, "Appius and Virginia".
Instead of rolling iron balls in a bowl, the normal method at
the time, he rolled the balls down a long wooden trough. The
play closed after a few performances. Later, he went to see
a performance of "Macbeth" and realised that his troughs were
being used for the thunder effects. He rose and shouted,
"That's my thunder. They won't play my play but they will
steal my thunder!". So arose an expression still in use - to
steal someone's thunder.

--anon.

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G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: "Go on writing plays, my boy.
One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say
to his secretary, 'Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when
she says 'No,' he will say, 'Well, then we'll have to start on the
rubbish.' And that's your chance, my boy."

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George Bernard Shaw once sent Churchill two tickets for the opening
of his new play, with the invitation: Bring a friend...if you have one.
Churchill regretted that he was engaged, and asked for tickets for
the second performance...If there was one.

--anon.

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critic: A man who gives the best
jeers of his life to the theater.
--anon.

I failed my audition as Romeo through a
misunderstanding over a stage direction.
In my script it clearly said "Enter Juliette
from the rear."
--anon.

Reporter: But what did _you_ think
of the play, Mrs Lincoln?
--anon.

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protagonist (noun)
1. The main character in a novel, play,
story, or other literary work.
2. The main character in ancient Greek drama;
the first actor who interacted with the chorus.




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STAGE COACH

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see "COWBOYS"
see "WEST (THE OLD/WILD)"
see "PRAIRIE"
see "TRAVEL" for related links



There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to
worse; as I have found travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often
a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
--Washington Irving (1783-1859)
American writer




STALIN (JOSEPH)

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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1879-1953),
Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from
the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death.

see "PEOPLE" for related links
see "COMMUNISM"
see "WORLD WAR II"


Could anyone have dreamed of telling Stalin that he didn't suit us
anymore and suggesting he retire? Not even a wet spot would have
remained where we had been standing. Now everything is different.
The fear is gone, and we can talk as equals. That is my
contribution.
--Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)
Soviet statesman, Premier [1958-1964],
on his 1964 ouster, in William Taubman
_Khrushchev: The Man and His Era_





STANDARDS

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see "MORALITY"
see "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links


To find a friend one must close one
eye. To keep him — two.
--Norman Douglas (1868—1952)
Austrian-born British novelist and essayist.
_Almanac_ [1941]

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept
anything but the best, you very often get it.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
In Richard A. Singer, Jr.,
_Your Daily Walk With the Great Minds_, p. 118 [2006].

A society like ours, which professes no one religion
and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges
freedom to the point of license and individualism to
the point of anarchy, needs all the support that
responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope
your generation will provide a firmer shelter for
civilized standards.
--Alan K. Simpson (1931— )
American politician. U.S. Senator
from Wyoming [1979-1997].
Commencement address at Vassar [1965].





STANDING ALONE

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see "INDIVIDUALITY" for related links


Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declareth all to be unfit
to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
"The Transcendentalist" lecture at the Boston Masonic Temple [December 1840]

Stength of numbers is the delight of the
timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting
alone.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
In "Young India" [17 June 1926].

The strongest man in the world
is he who stands most alone.
--Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906)
Norwegian playwright.
_An Enemy of the People_ [1882], Act V

Oh, cursed be that arrogant satisfaction in standing alone.
--Sören Kierkegaard (1813—1855)
Danish philosopher.
_Journal_ [8 May 1838]

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The flower which is single, need not
envy the thorns that are numerous.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, and painter who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature.


If no one responds to your call,
Walk alone, Walk alone.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, and painter who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature.
In Louis Fischer's _The Life of Mahatma Gandhi_ [1950], Ch. 49.

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Americans acquire the habit of always considering
themselves as standing alone, and they are apt
to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own
hands. Thus not only does democracy make every man
forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants, and
separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him
back upon himself alone, and threatens in the end
to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own
heart.
--Alexis de Tocqueville (1805—1859)
French historian and politician.
_Democracy in America_ [1835]

They attack the one man with their hate and their
shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which
stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to
the fury of the winds and beaten against by the
waves, endures all the violence and threats of
heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.

If you stand up and are counted, you may get
yourself knocked down. But remember this:
A man flattened by an opponent can get up
again. A man flattened by conformity stays
down for good.
--Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874—1956)
American industrialist and founder of IBM.




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STARS

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see: "UNIVERSE"


Silently one by one,
In the infinite meadows of Heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars,
The forget-me-nots of Angels.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American poet

Night hath a thousand eyes.
--John Lyly (1554?-1606)
English prose stylist and playwright.
_Maides Metamorphosis_

The evening star,
Love's harbinger.
--John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet.
"Paradise Lost" [1667]

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English dramatist,
_Julius Caesar_ [1599], act 1, sc. 2, l. 138

In the dark immensity of night
I stood upon a hill and watched the light
Of a star,
Soundless and beautiful and far.
A scientist standing there with me said,
"It is not the star you see,
But a glow
That left the star light years ago."
Men are like stars in a timeless sky:
The light of a good man's life shines high,
Golden and splendid
Long after his brief earth years are ended.
--Grace V. Watkins (1905-?)
American poet

Though my soul may set in darkness,
It shall rise in perfect light.
For I have loved the stars too fondly,
To be fearful of the night.
--Sarah Williams

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effulgent (adj.) [ê-'fêl-jênt ]
Shining brilliantly, resplendent,
emitting a brilliant light.

refulgent (adj.)
Shining brightly; radiant; brilliant; resplendent.
If Moore was not quite a burned-out case, his once
refulgent light flickered only dimly in his sad last years.
--Martin Filler, "The Spirit of '76,"
_New Republic_, [9 July 2001]

Stellate (stel`late): Resembling a star;
pointed or radiated, like the emblem of
a star.




STATISTICS

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see "MATHEMATICALLY SPEAKING"


[The War Office kept three sets of figures:] one to
mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet,
and the third to mislead itself.
--H(erbert) H(enry) Asquith (1852-1928)
Liberal prime minister of Great Britain [1908-1916],
in Alistair Horne _Price of Glory_ [1962]

There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies, and statistics.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
British Tory statesman and novelist,
Prime Minister [1868, 1874-1880];
attributed, in Mark Twain _Autobiography_ [1924]

From the fact that there are 400,000 species of
beatles on this planet, but only 8,000 species
of mammals, he [Haldane] concluded that the
Creator, if He exists, has a special preference
for beatles.
--J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964)
Scottish mathematical biologist,
report of lecture [7 April 1951]

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Harte, [Francis] Bret (1836-1902)
American writer.

Bret Harte once attended a lecture in Richmond, Virginia,
suffering from a miserable headache. Afterward, to clear
his head, he took a walk with a Richmond friend, who
expatiated on the city's wholesome air and location,
adding proudly that its mortality statistics reflected
only one death per day. Harte, still in agony with his
headache, exclaimed, 'Heavens, let's hope today's
candidate is already dead.'

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

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Statistics show that of those who contract
the habit of eating, very few survive.
--Wallace Irwin (1875-1959)
American editor and writer of sketches.

One-fifth of the people are against
everything all the time.
--Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
American Democratic politician.
Speech at the University of Pennsylvania [6 May 1964].

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses
lampposts--for support rather than illumination.
--Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
Scottish writer and poet; attributed

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal
is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
--Aaron Levenstein

You mean, your statistics are facts, but
my facts are just statistics.
--Jonathan Lynn (1943- ) & Antony Jay (1930- )
English writers,
_Yes Prime Minister_ [1986 British television show]

Statistics are like loose women, once you get
them you can do anything you want with them.
--Walt Michaels, of NY Jets, quoted in the
"New York Times" [17 December 1978]

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind
you look up and the kind you make up.
--Rex Stout (1896-1975)
Creator of fictional detective Nero Wolfe,
_Death of a Doxy: A Nero Wolfe Novel_ [1966], ch. 9

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot

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The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect
them, add them, raise them to the n-th power, take the cube root
and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that
every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the
village watchman, who just puts down what he damn well pleases.
--Comment of an English judge on statistics; Quoted in Sir Josiah
Stamp in _Some Economic Matters in Modern Life_, London: King and
Sons, 1929, pp. 258-259.

According to statisticians, if you live half the
year in New York, and half in California, on the
average, you live in Kansas.
--anon.

79.84% of all statistics are made up on the
spot. The other 42% are made up later on.
--anon.


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STAYING YOUNG

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see "AGE" for related links


The secret of staying young is to live
honestly, eat slowly, and lie about
your age.
--Lucille Ball (1911-1989)
American actress, producer, and star of "I Love Lucy."

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man
in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has
something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be
old in body, but can never be so in mind.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
In Jehiel Keeler Hoyt & Anna Lydia Ward
_The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations_, p. 3 [1882].

Clearly the trick in life is to die young as late as possible.
--William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006)
American clergyman and peace activist.
_Credo_ [2004], "Life In General"

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would
have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now
that I am 50, I read them openly. When I became a man,
I put away childish things--including the fear of
childishness and the desire to be grown-up.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898-1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Of This and Other Worlds_

1. Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
2. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
3. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
4. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society -- the social ramble ain't restful.
5. Avoid running at all times.
6. And don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
--Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906-1982)
American baseball pitcher in both the Negro
Leagues and the Major League; inducted in
the Hall of Fame in 1971.
_How to Stay Young_ [1953]

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All you would have to do is walk around the North Pole
in a counter clockwise direction, crossing back over the
International Dateline for every 360° rotation. Each of
these rotations would send you a day into the past. The
implications are limitless!
--"Time Travel for Dummies"





STEALING

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see: "IMMORALITY"
see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links


Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you
can always take something for it.
--Robert Benchley (1889—1945)
American humorist and newspaper columnist.

The secret to creativity is knowing
how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
--English Proverb

When a thing has been said and said well,
have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
--Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844—1924)
French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1921.

We stole it fair and square.
--S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (1906—1992)
English professor and academic; U.S. Senator
from California [1977—1983].
(Referring to the Panama Canal.)

They think they can make fuel from horse manure....
Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30
miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop
to siphoning.
--Billie Holliday [Eleanora Fagan] (1915—1959)
American jazz singer.

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Bennett Cerf tells about Fiorello La Guardia
presiding over the police court....

One bitter cold day they brought a trembling old
man before him, charged with stealing a loaf of
bread. His family, he said, was starving. 'I've
got to punish you,' declared La Guardia. 'The
law makes no exception. I can do nothing but
sentence you to a fine of ten dollars.'

But the Little Flower was reaching into his pocket
as he added, 'Well, here's the ten dollars to pay
our fine. And now I remit the fine.' He tossed a
ten-dollar bill into his famous sombrero. 'Futhermore,'
he declared, 'I'm going to fine everybody in this
courtroom fifty cents for living in a town where
a man has to steal bread in order to eat. Mr.
Bailiff, collect the fines and give them to this
defendant!' The hat was passed and an incredulous
old man, with a light of heaven in his eyes, left
the courtroom with a stake of forty-seven dollars
and fifty cents.

{Bennett Cerf (1898—1971)
American author, humorist, and publisher;
Fiorello La Guardia (1882—1947)
American politician who served three terms
as mayor of New York City [1933—1945]}.

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Plagiarize! Plagiarize!
Let no-one else's work evade your eyes.
--Tom Lehrer (1928— )
American songwriter and satirist.

For de little stealin' dey gits you in jail soon or late.
For de big stealin' dey makes you emperor and puts you in
de Hall o' Fame when you croaks.
--Eugene O'Neill (1888—1953)
American and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1936.
_The Emperor Jones_ [1920]

The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter;
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.
--Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866)
English satirist and author.
_The Misfortunes of Elphin_ [1829], ch. 11

A man who never graduated from school might
steal from a freight car. But a man who attends
college and graduates as a lawyer might steal
the whole railroad.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
(Attempting to persuade his son to become a lawyer.)

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For him that stealeth a book from this library,
let it change into a serpent in his hand and
rend him. Let him be struck by palsy and all
his members blasted. Let him languish in pain,
crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no
surcease for his agony until he sinks into
dissolution. Let book-worms gnaw his entrails
in token of the worm that dieth not, and when
at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the
flames of hell consume for ever and aye.
--The Librarian at the Monastery of
San Pedro, Barcelona.
In Nicolas A. Basbanes,
_A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes,
and the Eternal Passion for Books_ [1995].

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expropriate ek-SPROH-pree-ayt, transitive verb:
1. To deprive of possession.
2. To transfer (the property of another) to oneself.
Ex.: Very few voters, after all, really believe Europe's new
generation of social democratic leaders are wild Bolsheviks
plotting to expropriate their Toyotas.
--Fintan O'Toole, "The last gasp of social democracy,"
_Irish Times_, [19 March 1999]

peculate (verb) ['pe-kyu-leyt]
Embezzle, pilfer from public or private trust.

pelf /PELF/, noun:
Money; riches; gain; -- generally conveying the
idea of something ill-gotten.
Ex.: As so often happens, pelf is talking louder than
principle at the Colorado legislature.
--"Legislature Goes Belly Up,"
_Denver Rocky Mountain News_ [27 April 1997]

plagiarize (verb)
To copy and publish someone else’s ideas (text, art, music, software,
etc.) as one’s own; to attach one’s own name to something created
by someone else.




STERILIZATION

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It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring
for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who
are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . . . Three generations of imbeciles
are enough.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher,
writing the majority Supreme Court opinion upholding the
right of the state of Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck who
was deemed to be 'feeble-minded;' in _Buck v. Bell_ [1927]

The upper economic classes are presumably slightly better endowed with ability--
at least with ability to succeed in our social system--and yet are not reproducing
fast enough to replace themselves, either absolutely or as a percentage of the
total population. We may, therefore, try to remedy this state of affairs, by pious
exortation and appeals to patriotism, or by the more tangible methods of
family allowances, cheaper education, or income-tax rebates for children.
The lowest strata, allegedly less well-endowed genetically, are reproducing
relatively too fast. Therefore birth-control methods must be taught them; they
must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of
the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be
produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilization,
or at least relief should be contingent upon no further children being brought
into the world; and so on. That is to say, much of our eugenic program will
be curative and remedial merely, instead of preventive and constructive.
--Julian Huxley (1887-1975)
English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author,
"Eugenics and Society"
_Man Stands Alone_ [1941]


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