Quotes, Words, Quotes, Quotes
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Quotes of the Day for August 22, 2005
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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
-- Unknown
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is
reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
-- Albert Einstein
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is
thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to
be always part of unanimity.
-- Christopher Morley
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet,
because you're being had.
-- Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
Word of the Day for Monday August 22, 2005
schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of
others.
That the report of Sebastian Imhof's grave illness might
also have been tinged with Schadenfreude appears not to
have crossed Lucas's mind.
--Steven Ozment, [1]Flesh and Spirit
He died three years after me -- cancer too -- and at that
time I was still naive enough to imagine that what the
afterlife chiefly provided were unrivalled opportunities
for unbeatable gloating, unbelievable schadenfreude.
--Will Self, [2]How The Dead Live
Somewhere out there, Pi supposed, some UC Berkeley grad
students must be shivering with a little Schadenfreude of
their own about what had happened to her.
--Sylvia Brownrigg, [3]The Metaphysical Touch
The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a
Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose
coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that
it "can be one of the great joys of life."
--Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin,"
[4]New York Times, February 5, 2000
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Schadenfreude comes from the German, from Schaden, "damage" +
Freude, "joy." It is often capitalized, as it is in German.
References
1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0140291989/ref=nosim/lexico
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0802138489/ref=nosim/lexico
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0312263570/ref=nosim/lexico
4. http://www.nytimes.com/
Dictionary.com
the worthless word for the day is: wabbit
[origin uncertain]
Scot. tired out, exhausted; slightly ill
"Been feeling a bit wabbit lately? Blaming it
on the heat and the close, thundery weather?"
- Sunday Post, 5 Aug. 1973
"Siobhan stopped to rest, sitting down with her
knees up, heels digging in. She took a swig of
water.
'Is that you wabbit already?' Hood said..."
- Ian Rankin, The Falls [2000]
nothing at all to do with Elmer Fudd..
"Be vewwy, wewwy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."
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Quotes of the Day for August 21, 2005
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
-- Chuck Reid
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
-- Erica Jong
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Quotes of the Day for August 20, 2005
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The
Lone Ranger.
-- Dan Rather
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
-- John Dewey