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WASHINGTON (D.C.)
WASHINGTON (GEORGE)
WASTE --- WASTING TIME
WATERGATE --- WAYNE (JOHN) --- WEAK/WEAKNESS

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WASHINGTON (D.C.)

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Outside of the killings [Washington, D.C.] has
one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
--Marion Barry (b. 1936)
Mayor of Washington DC [1979—1991 & 1995—1999].
Quoted in "Chicago Tribune" [28 March 1989].

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First in war, first in peace, last
in the American League.
--Charles Dryden (1869—1931)
American sportswriter.
Quoted in "Washington Post" [27 June 1904].

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First in war, first in peace, first in the
hearts of his countrymen.
--Henry Lee [Light-Horse Harry Lee] (1756—1818)
American cavalry officer during the American
Revolution and father of Robert E. Lee.
In a eulogy for George Washington, in the
House of Representatives [26 December 1799].

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I've still got a lot to learn about Washington.
Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own
money.
--Fred Thompson (1942— )
American actor and politician.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes.
The real voice of the great people of America
sometimes sounds faint and distant in that
strange city. You hear politics until you wish
that both parties were smothered in their own
gas.
--Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924)
American Democratic statesman and President [1913—1921].
Speech in St. Louis, Missouri [5 September 1919].



WASHINGTON (GEORGE)

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George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].

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THE PAPERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON:


The father of his country.
--Francis Bailey (c. 1735—1815)
American printer and journalist.
Caption under the portrait of Washington,
in the "Nord Americanische Kalender"
Lancaster, Pennsylvania [1779].

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His memory will be adored while liberty shall
have votaries, his name will triumph over time
and will in future ages assume its just station
among the most celebrated worthies of the world.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
On George Washington, in _Notes on the State of Virginia_ [1784].


His mind was great and powerful, without being of
the very first order; his penetration strong, though
not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke;
and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder.
It was slow in operation, being little aided by
invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
[...] His integrity was most pure, his justice the
most inflexible l have ever known, no motives of
interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred
being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed,
in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and
a great man.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
In a letter to Walter Jones [2 January 1814].

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First in war, first in peace, first in the
hearts of his countrymen.
--Henry Lee [Light-Horse Harry Lee] (1756—1818)
American cavalry officer during the American
Revolution and father of Robert E. Lee.
In a eulogy in the House of Representatives [26 December 1799].

To add brightness to the sun or glory to the
name of Washington is alike impossible.
Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce
the name, and in its naked deathless spendour
leave it shining on.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
Speech [February 1842].

The character and services of this gentleman
are sufficient to put all those men called kings
to shame. While they are receiving from the
sweat and labors of mankind prodigality to
which neither their abilities nor their services
can entitle them, he is rendering every service
in his power, and refusing every precuniary
award. He accepted no pay as commander-
in-chief; he accepts none as President of
the United States.
--Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (1737—1809)
English-American writer and political pamphleteer.
_Rights of Man_ [1791]

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine
whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they
are to have any property they can call their own; whether their
houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and
themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which
no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions
will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice
of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We
have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
--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].
Address to the Continental Army before the battle
of Long Island [27 August 1776].



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Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. This world
in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969),
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953—1961].
Speech in Washington [16 April 1953],
in _Public Papers of Presidents_ "1953" [1960] p. 182.

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere
long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Autobiography_ "The Way to Wealth" [1798]

He was one of those men who possess almost every
gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
--Charles Kingsley (1819—1875)
English writer and clergyman.

The writings of the wise are the only
riches our posterity cannot squander.
--Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
English poet.

Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We
can't put it back in the cow, you know.
--Aunt 'Bee' Taylor, fictional character,
"The Andy Griffith Show" (1960—68);
portrayed by Frances Bavier (1902—1989).

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profligate (adj.)
1. wasteful: extremely extravagant or wasteful
2. with low morals: having or showing extremely low moral standards

wastrel [WAY-struhl], noun:
1. A person who wastes, especially one who
squanders money; a spendthrift.
2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.
Ex.: Was her father ... the brilliant, glamorous figure
she remembered, or the alcoholic wastrel his own
brother described?
--Jean Strouse, "Making the Facts Obey,"
_New York Times_, [24 May 1992]



WASTING TIME

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Stop the mindless wishing that things would be
different. Rather than wasting time and emotional
and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't
have what we want, we can start to pursue other
ways to get it.
--Greg Anderson (1964— )
American basketball player.

Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast
your pearls before swine, lest they trample
them under their feet, and turn and tear you
in pieces.
--Bible
"Matthew" 7:6 NKJV

Every improvement in communication
makes the bore more terrible.
--Frank Moore Colby (1865—1925)
American essayist and professor.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it
wastes your time and annoys the pig.
--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Time Enough for Love_ "Prelude II" [1973]

Don't waste any time mourning — organize!
--Joe Hill [Joel Hδgglund] (1879—1915)
Swedish-born American labor leader.
Letter to William D. Heywood [18 November 1915].
Hill was executed the next day for murdering a
Utah grocer.

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Epistles_ I, 18, 69

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Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions
running about a thing that cannot interest him.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the
trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or
watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means
waste of time.
--Sir John Lubbock (1834—1913)
The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a
British banker, politician, and archaeologist.
_The Use of Life_, ch. IV "Recreation" [1894]

The time you enjoy wasting is not
wasted time.
--attributed to Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill,
but which ends in killing him.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
"Definitions"

One evening at dinner, realizing that he had done
nobody any favor since the previous night, Titus
spoke these memorable words: 'My friends, I have
wasted a day.'
--Suetonius [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69—c. 122)
Roman biographer and antiquarian.
_"Titus"_ [c. 120]

One of the most time-consuming
things is to have an enemy.
--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.

To Herbert Westbrok, without whose never-failing advice,
help, and encouragement, this book would have been
finished in half the time.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_A Gentleman of Leisure_, "Dedication" [1910]

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dalliance DAL-ee-uhns, DAL-yuhns, noun:
1. Frivolous spending of time; dawdling.
2. Playful flirtation.



WATERGATE

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My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our
Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws,
not of men.
--Gerald R. Ford (1909—2006)
38th President of the United States [1974—1977].
Following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon and
his own succession to the Presidency, television
broadcast [9 August 1974].




WAYNE (JOHN)

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John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] (1907—1979)
American motion-picture actor.

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Everybody called him Duke, but I called him John.
He asked me why I never called him Duke. "Maybe
Prince or King — but Duke?" Too low — I'll call
you John."

I enjoyed working with John. In "The War Wagon,"
Wayne was getting bored by people telling him how
adept Douglas was with a horse. He was being
interviewed by a reporter who asked, "Is Kirk really
that good with a horse?" John scowled: "Bullsh**,
he can't even get on a horse without a trampoline!"

But in spite of that, we were always good friends,
and did three movies together.

--Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916— )
American film actor and producer.
_My Stroke of Luck_ [2002], "Don't Forget the Pooper-Scooper"

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He and his drinking buddy, actor Ward Bond,
frequently played practical jokes on each other.
In one incident, Bond bet Wayne that they could
stand on opposite sides of a newspaper and
Wayne wouldn't be able to hit him. Ward Bond
set a sheet of newspaper down in a doorway,
John Wayne stood on one end, and Bond
slammed the door in his face, shouting "Try
and hit me now!" Wayne responded by sending
his fist through the door, flooring Bond
(and winning the bet).

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The evening before a shoot he was trying to get
some sleep in a Las Vegas hotel. The suite
directly below his was that of Frank Sinatra
(never a good friend of Wayne), who was having
a party. The noise kept Wayne awake, and each
time he made a complaining phone call it quieted
temporarily but each time eventually grew louder.
Wayne at last appeared at Sinatra's door and told
Frank to stop the noise. A Sinatra bodyguard of
Wayne's size approached saying, "Nobody talks
to Mr. Sinatra that way." Wayne looked at the man,
turned as though to leave, then backhanded the
bodyguard, who fell to the floor, where Wayne
knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of
him. The party noise stopped.

Wayne's production company, Batjac, was originally
to be called Batjak, after the ship owned by his
character in the film "Reap the Wild Wind." A
secretary's typo while she was drawing up the
papers resulted in it being called Batjac, and
Wayne, not wanting to hurt her feelings, kept
her spelling of it.

I would like to be remembered, well...the Mexicans
have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means,
he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

--from a 1969 "Time" magazine interview
with John Wayne.

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WEAK/WEAKNESS

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A very weak-minded fellow, I am afraid, and,
like a feather pillow, bears the marks of the
last person who sat on him!
--Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861—1928)
British soldier and senior commander during World War I.
(Describing the 17th Earl of Derby.)

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced
mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better
men.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
_Aphorisms_ [1765—1799]

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated
stress on not changing one's mind.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_Of Human Bondage_, ch. 39 [1915]

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the
most unobjectionable one as a rule.
--Lady Sydney Morgan [Sydney Owenson] (1783—1859)
Irish novelist.

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels
too much, talks too much, takes too many chances,
wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control,
loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and
breaks promises, laughs and cries.
--Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923— )
American psychiatrist and author.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must
some time fight it out or perish; and if that
be so, why not now, and where you stand.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_The Amateur Emigrant_ [1879—1880, published 1895]

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A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself
is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To
take no account of oneself, but always to think well
and highly of others is the highest wisdom and
perfection.

Should you see another person openly doing evil,
or carrying out a wicked purpose, do not on that
account consider yourself better than him, for you
cannot tell how long you will remain in a state of
grace. We are all frail; consider none more frail
than yourself.

--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420], Book 1, Chapter 2, "On Personal Humility"

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Every man has an Achilles' Heel, located not
on his foot but in his crotch.
--Barbara G. Walker (1930— )
American author and feminist.
_The Skeptical Feminist: Discovering the Virgin, Mother, and Crone_ [1987]

There is a rank due to the United States, among
nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely
lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire
to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we
desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful
instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be
known that we are at all times ready for war.
--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].

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's
your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and
your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and
bring them into bad repute.
--Thornton Wilder (1897—1975)
American novelist and dramatist.
_The Matchmaker_, act 3 [1954]

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attenuate (verb) [κ-'ten-yu-weyt]
To make thinner-narrower, rarer, or weaker; to
reduce in strength, force, effect; to weaken.

enervate [EN-ur-vayt], transitive verb:
1. To deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to
render feeble; to weaken.
2. To reduce the moral or mental vigor of.
Ex.: The conquerors were enervated by luxury.
--Edward Gibbon,
_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_

etiolate [EE-tee-uh-layt], transitive verb:
1. (Botany) To bleach and alter the natural development
of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight.
2. To make pale or sickly.
3. To make weak by stunting the growth or development of.
Es.: [They] had feverish eyes, pale faces and gaunt, etiolated
bodies from spending all the hours of daylight shut up in cramped
and often humid spaces.
-- Hilary Spurling _The Unknown Matisse_

feckless (adj.) ['fek-lis]
Weak, ineffective, lacking vigor, energy.

frangible [FRAN-juh-buhl], adjective:
Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.

languid [LANG-gwid], adjective:
1. Drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion;
weak; weary; heavy.
2. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness.
3. Slow; lacking vigor or force.

languor (noun) ['lζng-gr]
Weakness, a sense of lassitude or inertia;
mild depression, listlessness.

milksop [MILK-sop], noun:
An effeminate or weak-minded person; an unmanly man.
Ex.: But though intelligent and 'good tempered', he was also
something of a milksop, unlike his younger brothers who
were 'full of courage'.
--Saul David, _Prince of Pleasure_

nebbish [NEB-ish], noun:
A weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person.

opportunistic (adj.) [ah-pκr-tyu-'nis-tik]
Exploiting opportunities presented by some weakness;
taking advantage of weaknesses in others.

pusillanimous (adj.) [pyu-si-'lζ-nκ-mκs]
Faint-hearted, lacking courage.

truckle [TRUHK-uhl], intransitive verb:
To yield or bend obsequiously to the will
of another; to act in a subservient manner.


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