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;void(0)) . . . TEAMWORK see: "COOPERATION" see: "HELPING" see: "UNITY" see: "SPORTS" for other related links A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together decide that nothing can be done. --Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (1894—1956) American humorist. Letter to William McChesney Martin Jr. [25 January 1940]. In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenseless, is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part. --Robert Boyle (1627—1691) British natural philosopher and theological writer. Then join Hand in Hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. --John Dickinson (1732—1808) American politician. "A Song for American Freedom," called The Liberty Song, first published in _The Boston Gazette_ [18 July 1768]. We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Attributed remark at signing of the Declaration of Independence [4 July 1776]. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. --George W. Henry _Tell Tale Rag_ [1861] Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead (1901—1978) American anthropologist. In Mindi K. McKenna _Physicians as Leaders: Who, How, and Why Now?_, p. 180 [2006]. Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. --Casey Stengel (1891—1975) American Major League baseball player and manager; inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1966.  ;void(0)) TEARS . . see: "CRYING" see: "EYES" see: "FEELINGS" see: "SYMPATHY" see: "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose. --Jean [Marie-Lucien-Pierre] Anouilh (1910—1987) French playwright. _Cecile_ [1949] It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ "Of Wisdom for a Man's Self" [1625] Tears fell from my eyes — yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed. --Marguerite Blessington (1789—1849) Irish novelist and poet. _The Confessions of an Elderly Lady_ [1838] - Oh! too convincing—dangerously dear— In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness, she can wield, To save, subdue—at once her spear and shield. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _The Corsair, A Tale_, canto II, st. 15 [1814] The busy have no time for tears. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _The Two Foscari_, IV, I [1821] - I'm just as blue as the sky, Since love is gone, Can't pull myself together. Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry. --Sammy Cahn (1913—1993) American songwriter. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" [1944 song] The soul would have no rainbow Had the eyes no tears. --John Vance Cheney (1848—1922) American poet. "Tears" [1892] - I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' --Winston Churchill (1874—1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955]. Speech in House of Commons [13 May 1940]. & note: Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909]. Address as Assistant Secretary of the Navy before the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., [June 1897]. & note: Mollify it with thy tears, or sweat, or blood. --John Donne (1572—1631) English poet and dean of St. Paul's [1621—1631]. "An Anatomy of the World", l. 430 [1611] - Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. --Euripides (485?—406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. "Alexander", fragment 44 In John Bartlett _Familiar Quotations_ [1891]. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. --William Hazlitt (1778—1830) English essayist. _Lectures on the English Comic Writers_ [1819] "On Wit and Humor" You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down Complain about the present and blame it on the past I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass. Get over it. --Don Henley (1947— ) American rock musician. Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. _The Iliad_, bk. XIX [c. 800 B.C.] When Nature Gave tears to mankind, she proclaimed that tenderness was endemic In the human heart: of all impulses, this Is the highest and best. --Juvenal (c. 55—130) Roman satirist. He who walks through a great city to find subjects for weeping, may, God knows, find plenty at every corner to wring his heart; but let such a man walk on his course, and enjoy his grief alone — we are not of those who would accompany him. The miseries of us poor earthdwellers gain no alleviation from the sympathy of those who merely hunt them out to be pathetic over them. The weeping philosopher too often impairs his eyesight by his woe, and becomes unable from his tears to see the remedies for the evils which he deplores. Thus it will often be found that the man of no tears is the truest philanthropist, as he is the best physician who wears a cheerful face, even in the worst of cases. --Charles Mackay (1814—1889) Scottish poet and newspaperman. _Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_ [1841] Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears. --Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears. --Joseph Roux (1834—1886) French parish priest and writer. _Meditations of a Parish Priest_; tr. from the third French edition by Isabel F. Hapgood [1886]. - How much better it is to weep at joy than to joy at weeping. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Much Ado About Nothing_, act I, sc. 1 [1598—1599] Eye-offending brine. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Twelfth Night, or What You Will_, act I. sc. 2 [1601—1602] When we are born we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _King Lear_, act 4, sc. 6, l. 178 [1605—1606] - My heart today smiles at its past night of tears like a wet tree glistening in the sun after the rain is over. --Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Fireflies_ p. 52 [1928] Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept—and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all the years. --Frederick Tennyson (1807—1898) English poet. "The Golden City", pt. I, in _Poems of the Day and Year_ [1895] Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919) American author and poet. "Solitiude" [1883] - Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. --anon. ----- lachrymose [LAK-ruh-mohs], adjective: 1. Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. 2. Causing or tending to cause tears. . . see: "COMPUTERS" see: "INTERNET" see: "SCIENCE" see: "TELEVISION" see: "DISCOVERY" for other related links Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major catagories — those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. --Russell Baker (1925— ) American journalist and columnist. In "New York Times" [18 June 1968]. I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch. --Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "On a Sundial" [1938] Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917—2008) English science-fiction writer. _Profiles of the Future_ [1962] (Clarke's Third Law) - I have tried at various times in my life to grasp the rudiments of such inventions as the telephone, the camera, wireless telegraphy and even the ordinary motor car, but without success. Television, of course, and radar and atomic energy are so far beyond my comprehension that my brain shudders at the thought of them and scurries for cover like a primitive tribesman confronted for the first time with a Dunhill cigarette lighter. --Noël Coward (1899—1973) English playwright, actor, and composer. - [When asked to describe how radio works:] You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. --attributed to Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist. - One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." "The Philistine" magazine, published [1895—1915], v. 18, no. 1 [December 1903] What hath God wrought! --Samuel F. B. Morse (1791—1872) American painter and inventor who developed an electric telegraph. Message transmitted from Baltimore to Washington when he opened the first telegraph line [June 1844]. By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. --Lewis Mumford (1895—1990) American architectural critic, urban planner, and historian. _The Conduct of Life_ [1951], "The Challenge of Renewal" [When Robert Fulton explained the concept of his steamboat:] What, sir, you would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray you excuse me. I have no time for such nonsense. --Napoleon I (1769—1821) Emperor of France [1804-15]. c. 1807, quoted in William Earl Parrish, Charles T. Jones & Lawrence O. Christensen _Missouri: The Heart of the Nation_ [1980]. When you had to carve things in stone, you got the Ten Commandments. When things had to be written with a goose quill and you had to boil blood or whatever to make ink, you got Shakespeare. When you went over to the steel pen and manufactured inks, you got Henry James. You get to the typewriter, you get Jack Kerouac. When you get down to the word processor — you get me. So improvement in the technology of writing hasn't improved writing itself, as far as I can tell. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947— ) American political satirist. In _Wired_ [January 1998]. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. --attributed to Carl Sagan (1934—1996) American astronomer and author. Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900—1944) French novelist. _The Little Prince_ (Le Petit Prince) [1943] [Of Winser's proposal to light cities with gaslight:] There is a madman proposing to light the London streets with smoke. --Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832) Scottish novelist and poet. Quoted in Charles John Smith _Parnell, or Ireland and America_ [2nd ed., 1880]. Electric typewriters are intelligent, warm, sexy and they hum soothingly — unlike wives. --Charles Woods, The Unkindest Cut, in the Anti-Book List [1981] - Jean Harlow: I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession. Marie Dressler: Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about. - Seniors On Technology In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot. In the winter we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for traction. (Bill Flavin) In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated. (Jon Patrick Smith) In my day, we didn't have fancy high numbers. We had "nothing," "one," "twain" and "multitudes." (Elden Carnahan, Laurel) In my day, we didn't get that disembodied, slightly ticked-off voice saying `Doors closing.' We got on the train, the doors closed, and if your hand was sticking out it scraped along the tunnel all the darn way to the next station. (Russell Beland) In my day, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one-eyed razorback barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him. (Sarah M. Wolford) Back in the 1970s we didn't have the space shuttle to get all excited about. We had to settle for men walking on the crummy moon. (Russell Beland) In my day, we didn't have days. There was only "time for work," "time for prayer" and "time for sleep." The sheriff would go around and tell everyone when to change. (Elden Carnahan) In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes drenched in melted fat from those animals. And we're all as strong as AAGGKK-GAAK Urrgh. Thud. (Tom Witte) In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms. (Diana Hugue) Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the back of a giant tortoise. (Jonathan Paul) In the old days, nobody asked you to sign petitions. The sheriff just came to your house and told you you was part of a posse. (Barry Blyveis) - How Stuff Works ----- digerati [dij-uh-RAH-tee], plural noun: Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology. Ex.: "As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look at the digerati and their view of the world." --Michiko Kakutani, "Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest," _New York Times_, [25 July 2000] misoneism (noun) [mi-sê-'nee-i-zêm] Fear of novelty, newness or innovation. misoneistic (adj.)  TEENAGERS . . see: "AGE" for related links see: "HOME & FAMILY" for related links People are, in general, what they are made, by education and company, from fifteen to five-and-twenty; consider well, therefore, the importance of your next eight or nine years; your whole depends upon them. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773) Letter to his son [1 April 1748]. The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. --Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (1908—1999) English writer. _The Naked Civil Servant_, ch. 19 [1968] Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. --attributed to Doug Larson (1902—1981) American journalist. Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you. --Fran Lebowitz (b. 1946) American humorist. _Social Studies_ "Tips for Teens" [1981] [Concerning a group of friends, all in their late teens:] The future held little interest for us back then. [. . . ] We were arrogant enough to ignore the future. And young enough to be certain that the present was something that would never change. --Barry Levinson (b. 1942) American screenwriter and film director. _Sixty-Six_, ch. 2 [2003] - Has society become so, like, totally . . . I mean absolutely . . . You know? That we've just gotten to the point where it's just, like . . . whatever! And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness is just a clever sort of . . . thing to disguise the fact that we've become the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since . . . you know, a long, long time ago! --Taylor Mali (b. 1965) American teacher and poet. "Totally like whatever, you know?" - The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes — naturally, no one wants to live any other way. --Judith "Miss Manners" Martin (1938— ) American newspaper columnist. Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones [...] run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. --Camille Paglia (b. 1947) American writer and social critic. "Homosexuality at the Fin de Siècle" _Esquire_ [October 1991] I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _The Winter's Tale_, III, iii [First pub. 1623] Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946) American-born man of letters. _All Trivia: Trivia, More Trivia, Afterthoughts, Last Words_ [1945] When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. --Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [September 1937]. However, Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of Quotations_, p. 782 [2006] notes that the quotation is "obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven years old." - Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike. --anon. ----- oligophagous (adj.) [ah-li-GAH-fuh-gus] Feeding on few substances; usually used for insects who feed on only a small number of plants. ;void(0)) TELEPHONE . . see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links see: "DISCOVERY" for related links Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Mr. Thomas A. Watson, Bell's assistant, relates that it was on March 10, 1876, over a line extending between two rooms in a building at No. 5 Exeter Place, Boston, that the first complete sentence was ever spoken by Bell and heard by Watson, who recorded it in his notebook at the time. It consisted of these words: 'Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.' Thus the telephone was born. --John J. Carty, in _The Smithsonian Report for 1922_. ^ Everyone was in agreement that the cell phones had to be banned [at the 2001 U.S. Open]. Warnings had been sent out with all tickets telling people not to bring cell phones. Still, they brought them. There were reports coming back from Jones Beach [where spectators took buses to Bethpage] that people who were discovered with cell phones during pat-downs were just tossing them into bushes rather than going back to their cars and then lining up again. At the end of the day, some people were spotted getting off buses, walking to the bushes where they and many others had tossed cell phones. They would pick up the first phone they found and dial their own cell-phone number, then follow the ringing until they found their own. --John Feinstein _Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black_ [2003] ^ An amazing invention — but who would ever want to use one? --Rutherford B. Hayes (1822—1893) 19th President of the U.S. [1877—1881]. Makes a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented [7 March 1876]. Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you. --Fran Lebowitz (1946— ) American humorist. _Social Studies_ "Tips for Teens" [1981] ^ The first telephones were connected in New York City in 1878. Americans have generally been enthralled by new devices, but the telephone did not make particularly rapid progress. Twenty years later, in 1897, the New York Telephone Company still had only fifteen thousand subscribers. The subscription rate was ten dollars per month. Calls could be placed to a distance of thirty miles. --Jerry E. Patterson _Fifth Avenue: The Best Address_ [1998] ^ Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? --James Thurber (1894—1961) American humorist and cartoonist. Cartoon caption, "New Yorker" [5 June 1937]. - There used to be a listing in the Portland phone book for Elmer Fudd. If you called it, no matter the time of day, the person answered, "Is that you, you waskally wabbit?" --Saint Séimí mac Liam AFPF, Usenet newsgroup [2011] - ...Today, party lines are all but extinct, and eavesdropping has become more technologically sophisticated. But despite the lack of privacy on party lines, some people enjoyed their sense of community. Michèle Martin, author of the 1991 book "Hello, Central?" told of a Canadian woman who cut her finger and called a friend on her party line to ask for help. "Before the friend could answer someone else piped up, 'Bind it up in salt pork.' " --Cynthia Crossen "When Eavesdropping Meant That You Had Some Nosy Neighbors" _The Wall Street Journal_ [5 June 2006] and see: Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring, --Hank Williams (1923—1953) American songwriter and singer of country music. "Mind Your Own Business." [1949 song] - . . see: "RELIGION" for related links - . . . Philip McPeake is another donor for whom God's economy of giving did not deliver. Out of work and out of luck in November 1998, McPeake heard the Rev. R.W. Schambach make an impassioned plea for donations on TBN's Kansas City television station, KTAJ. Schambach promised that if viewers sent $200 as a down payment on a $2,000 pledge, God would give them the rest within 90 days — with a bonus to follow. McPeake sent in his money and waited for his luck to change. When it didn't, he complained to the Missouri state attorney general's office and the Federal Communications Commission. TBN refunded his donation. --William Lobdell _Los Angeles Times_ [20 September 2004] "TBN's Promise: Send Money And See Riches" - - Woke up this mornin’, turned on my TV set. There in living color was something I can’t forget. This man was preachin’ at me. Yeah, laying on the charm, asking me for $20 with $10,000 on his arm. He wore designer clothing, big smile on his face, selling me salvation while they sang ‘Amazing Grace,’ asking me for money when he had all the signs of wealth. You know, I almost wrote a check out. But then I asked myself: Would He wear a pinkie ring? Would He drive a fancy car? Would His wife wear furs and diamonds? Would His dressing room have a star? If He came back tomorrow, now, there’s something I’d like to know. Tell me. Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his television show? --Ray Stevens [Harold Ray Ragsdale] (1939— ) American county-music singer and songwriter. (lyrics), music written by Chet Atkins and Margaret Archer. - end page | TABLOIDS - TALENT | TALK - TAYLOR (ELIZABETH) | TAXATION | TEACHERS / TEACHING | TEAMWORK - TELEVANGELISTS | TELEVISION - TELEVISION SHOWS | TEMPER - THANKSGIVING | TERRORISM | THATCHER - THINKING | THOUGHT POLICE - THRIFT | TIME | TIME TRAVEL - TODAY | TOLERANCE - TOYS | TRADITION - TRANSIENCE | TRAVEL | TREACHERY - TRIVIA | TROUBLE - TRUST | TRUTH | TRYING - TYRANNY | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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