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		<title>Kerr, Jean -- Mary, Mary, Act 3 (1961)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARY: I don&#8217;t grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can&#8217;t pick out the verbs.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">MARY: I don&#8217;t grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can&#8217;t pick out the verbs.</p>
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<br><b>Jean Kerr</b> (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]<br><i>Mary, Mary</i>, Act 3 (1961) 
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		<title>Propertius -- Elegies, Book 1, Elegy  2, l.   1ff (1.2.1-8) [tr. Carrier (1963)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear love, dear life, you do not need adorning &#8212; hair curled, silk rustling down your slender side. Not by that heavy scent, those foreign bangles, is this your natural beauty magnified. No. Let that beauty shine in its own brilliance, your charm, your grace, transcend what gold can buy. Believe me, art is needless. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear love, dear life, you do not need adorning &#8212;<br />
<span class="tab">hair curled, silk rustling down your slender side.<br />
Not by that heavy scent, those foreign bangles,<br />
<span class="tab">is this your natural beauty magnified.<br />
No. Let that beauty shine in its own brilliance,<br />
<span class="tab">your charm, your grace, transcend what gold can buy.<br />
Believe me, art is needless. You are lovely,<br />
<span class="tab">and love goes naked nor would trick the eye.</p>
<p><em>[Quid iuvat ornato procedere, vita, capillo<br />
<span class="tab">et tenuis Coa veste movere sinus,<br />
aut quid Orontea crines perfundere murra,<br />
<span class="tab">teque peregrinis vendere muneribus,<br />
naturaeque decus mercato perdere cultu,<br />
<span class="tab">nec sinere in propriis membra nitere bonis?<br />
Crede mihi, non ulla tuaest medicina figurae:<br />
<span class="tab">nudus Amor formam non amat artificem.]</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Propertius</b> (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]<br><i>Elegies</i>, Book 1, Elegy  2, l.   1ff (1.2.1-8) [tr. Carrier (1963)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/poemsofpropertiu0000unse_a4j4/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22dear+love%2C+dear+life%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/propertius1.html#:~:text=Quid%20iuvat%20ornato,non%20amat%20artificem.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>Why walk, my love, with locks bedeck'd with gold?<br>
And rustle Coan robes with silken fold?<br>
Ah, why with Syrian unguents drench thy hair,<br>
Trick'd out for sale with artificial ware?<br>
Why scorn to please by nature's simple grace,<br>
And seek th' allurements of a borrw'd face?<br>
From tricks like these thy charms no fairer prove,<br>
For artificial beauty wins not love.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_elegies_of_Propertius_tr_into_Engl_v/3GQCAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover">Moore</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Why wear, my Life, when thou abroad dost stir, <br>
<span class="tab">A head trimmed up to fashion's latest laws? <br>
<span class="tab">A Coan vestment of transparent gauze,<br> 
And hair perfumed with Orontean myrrh?<br>
Why deck thyself with gems and costly dress? <br>
<span class="tab">Why mar with trinkets Nature's form divine, <br>
<span class="tab">And not allow thy beauties forth to shine <br>
In all their own, their matchless loveliness?<br>
To thee such aids can add no charms -- ah, no! <br>
<span class="tab">True love will aye disdain the artist's care.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044010369999&seq=96&q1=%22aye+disdain%22">Cranstoun</a> (1875)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Why delight, my life, in walking delicately with hair elaborately decked, and in fluttering the transparent folds of a Coan vesture? Why drench your hair with Syrian myrrh? Why set yourself off by artificial means, to spoil the grace of nature by purchased adornment, and not suffer your limbs to shine in their own loveliness. Believe me, there is no improving beauty like yours by adventitious aid: geniuine Love likes not a disguised form.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/elegies00prop/page/n19/mode/2up?q=%22why+delight+my%22">Gantillon</a> (1884)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Why to walk forth, sweet life, thy tresses braid?<br>
Why in the Coan garb’s thin folds array’d?<br>
Why with Orontes’ myrrh thy locks imbue?<br>
Thy beauty’s price enhance by foreign show?<br>
Why Nature’s charms with purchas’d lustre hide,<br>
Nor let thy limbs disclose their genuine pride?<br>
Trust me thy face wants no cosmetic’s aid;<br>
Love’s naked god abhors the dressing trade.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/elegies00prop/page/142/mode/2up?q=%22why+to+walk%22">Nott</a>, ed. Gantillon (1884)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What does it profit, sweet life, to walk abroad with bedizened hair and play off the delicate folds in a muslin of Cos? Or to steep your locks in a perfume from the Orontes, and make a market of yourself by these outlandish dowries, using purchased braveries to spoil the grace of nature instead of letting the bodily form dazzle by its proper excellences? Take my word for it, all this leechcraft of yours to mend the looks is naught: Master Love is naked and loves not one that makes a craft of beauty.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t83j3gr9k&seq=18&q1=%22what+does+it+profit+sweet%22%22">Phillimore</a> (1906)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What boots it, light of my life, to go forth with locks adorned, and to rustle in slender folds of Coan silk? Or avails it aught to steep thy tresses in the myrrh of Orontes, to parade thyself in the gifts that aliens bring, to spoil the grace of nature by the charms that gold can buy nor allow thy limbs to shine in the glory that is their own? Believe me, thou hast no art can make thy form more fair; Love himself goes naked and hates those that make a craft of beauty.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/LoebClassicalLibraryL018/page/n25/mode/2up?q=%22what+boots+it+light%22">Butler</a> (Loeb) (1912)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Why, dear, do you love to go out with your hair arranged<br>
In the latest style and besprinkled with Eastern perfumes?<br>
To parade in filmy ripples of Coān silk<br>
And set yourself off with exotic adornments?<br>
Such purchased graces ruin the charms of nature<br>
And let no part of you glow with its own true light.<br>
Believe me, they're futile -- these arts for improving your looks;<br>
Love goes naked and has no time<br>
For contrivers of beauty.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/propertius-elegies-musker.txt/page/47/mode/2up?q=%22why+dear+do+you%22">Musker</a> (1972)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What avails it, my love, to step out with coiffured hair and flutter the sheer folds of a Coan dress? What avails it to drench your locks with Syrian perfume and to vaunt yourself in foreign finery, to destroy your natural charm with purchased ornament, preventing your figure from displaying its own true merits? Believe me, there is no improving your appearance. Love is naked, and loves not beauty gained by artifice.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/elegiespropertiu0000prop/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22what+avails+it+my%22">Goold</a> (Loeb) (1990)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Why choose, my life, to step out with styled hair<br>
<span class="tab">And move sheer curves in Coan costume?<br>
Or why to drench your tresses in Orontes' myrrh<br>
<span class="tab">And sell yourself with foreign gifts<br>
And lose the charm of Nature for bought elegance,<br>
<span class="tab">Not letting limibs shine with their own attraction?<br>
This doctoring of your looks is pointless, believe me;<br>
<span class="tab">Love, being naked, does not love beauticians.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/poems0000prop_b2d5/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22why+choose+my+life%22">Lee</a> (1992)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What need is there, <i>mea vita,</i> to come with your hair adorned, and slither about in a thin silk dress from Cos? Why drench your tresses in myrrh of Orontes, betray yourself with gifts from strangers, ruin nature’s beauty with traded refinements, nor allow your limbs to gleam to true advantage? Believe me nothing could enhance your shape: naked Amor ever hates lying forms. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PropertiusBkOne.php#anchor_Toc201112141:~:text=need%20is%20there%2C-,mea%20vita,-%2C%20to%20come%20with">Kline</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Who can be pleased, my love, by such a hairdo, float<br>
<span class="tab">of contours through a Cōan dress?<br>
Or curls so wetted with Orontean myrrh they frame<br>
<span class="tab">a face sold out to foreign ways?<br>
You have a natural beauty with unblemished limbs<br>
<span class="tab">that need not trade in cultivation.<br>
Your figure, trust me, is its own revival: how<br>
<span class="tab">can naked looks need artifice?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.ocasopress.com/pdf/sextus_propertius_elegies_translation.pdf#page=23">Holcombe</a> (2009)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.<br>
[<a href="https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-ECA-361/page/370/mode/2up?q=%22Cupid+is+naked+and+does+not%22">E.g.</a>]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Shakespeare, William -- Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l.   7 (2.4.7) (1601)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORSINO: These most brisk and giddy-pacèd times.]]></description>
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<br><b>William Shakespeare</b> (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet<br><i>Twelfth Night</i>, Act 2, sc. 4, l.   7 (2.4.7) (1601) 
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		<title>Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George -- Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions, Book 3, ch. 12 [Kenelm] (1873)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Sometimes given as “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires rather than instructs.”]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.</p>
<br><b>Edward George Bulwer-Lytton</b> (1803-1873) English novelist and politician<br><i>Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions</i>, Book 3, ch. 12 [Kenelm] (1873) 
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Sometimes given as “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires rather than instructs.”


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		<description><![CDATA[The senate has a standing rule never to discuss a matter on the same day when it was first introduced; all new business is deferred to the next meeting. They do this so that a man will not blurt out the first thought that occurs to him, and then devote all his energies to defending [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The senate has a standing rule never to discuss a matter on the same day when it was first introduced; all new business is deferred to the next meeting. They do this so that a man will not blurt out the first thought that occurs to him, and then devote all his energies to defending those foolish impulses, instead of considering impartially the public good. They know that some men would rather jeopardize the welfare of the state than admit to having been heedless and shortsighted &#8212; so perverse and preposterous is their sense of pride. They should have had enough foresight at the beginning to speak with prudence rather than haste.</p>
<p><em>[Quin id quoque moris habet senatus, ut nihil, quo die primum proponitur, eodem disputetur. sed in sequentem senatum differatur, ne quis ubi quod in buccam primum uenerit, temere effutierit, ea potius excogitet postea, quibus decreta tueatur sua, quam quae ex reipublicae usu sint. malitque salutis publicae, quam opinionis de se iacturam facere, peruerso quodam ac praepostero pudore, ne initio parum prospexisse uideatur. Cui prospiciendum initio fuit, ut consulto potius, quam cito loqueretur.]</em></p>
<br><b>Thomas More</b> (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr<br><i>Utopia</i>, Book 2, ch. 3 &#8220;Of Their Magistrates&#8221;  (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/utopiarevisedtra00more/page/36/mode/2up?q=%22standing+rule%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Utopia/Liber_II/De_magistratibus#:~:text=Quin%20id%20quoque,quam%20cito%20loqueretur.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>Furthermore this custome also the counsel useth, to dispute or reason of no matter the same daye that it is firste proposed or put furthe, but to defferre it to the nexte syttinge of the counsell. Because that no man when he hath rashely there spoken that commeth to his tonges ende, shall then afterwarde rather studye for reasons wherwith to defende and mainteine his first folish sentence, than for the commoditie of the common welath: as one rather willing the harme or hindraunce of the weale publike then any losse or diminution of his owne existimation. And as one that would be ashamed (which is a verie folishe shame) to be counted anye thing at the first oversene in the matter.  Who at the first ought to have spoken rather wyselye, then hastely, or rashlye.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/moresutopiatrby00ropegoog/page/n152/mode/2up?q=%22Furthermore+this+custome%22">Robynson</a> (1551)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>One Rule observed in their Council, is, never to debate a thing on the same day in which it is first proposed; for that is always referred to the next meeting, that so Men may not rashly, and in the heat of Discourse, engage themselves too soon, which may bias them so much, that instead of considering the Good of the Publick, they will rather study to maintain their own Notions; and by a perverse and preposterous sort of shame, hazard their Country, rather than endanger their own Reputation, or venture the being suspected to have wanted foresight in the Expedients that they proposed at first. and therefore to prevent this, they take care that they may rather be deliberate, than sudden in their motions.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/utopia1684more/page/76/mode/2up?q=%22one+rule%22">Burnet</a> (1684)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>One rule observed in their council is, never to debate a, subject on the day on which it is proposed. It is ever referred to the next meeting, for fear of rashness and the heat of argument; which might lead them, instead of consulting the public good, to support their first opinions, and hazard their country rather than endanger their own reputation. To prevent this, they are made deliberate rather than expeditious.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsirthom02cayluoft/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22one+rule+observed%22">Cayley</a> (1808)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>One rule observed in their council is, never to debate a thing on the same day in which it is first proposed; for that is always referred to the next meeting, that so men may not rashly and in the heat of discourse engage themselves too soon, which might bias them so much that, instead of consulting the good of the public, they might rather study to support their first opinions, and by a perverse and preposterous sort of shame hazard their country rather than endanger their own reputation, or venture the being suspected to have wanted foresight in the expedients that they at first proposed; and therefore, to prevent this, they take care that they may rather be deliberate than sudden in their motions.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2130/pg2130-images.html#chap04:~:text=One%20rule%20observed,in%20their%20motions.">Burnet/Morley</a> (1901)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Furthermore this custom also the council useth, to dispute or reason of no matter the same day that it is first proposed or put forth, but to defer it to the next sitting of the council. Because that no man when he hath rashly there spoken that cometh first to his tongue’s end, shall then afterward rather study for reasons wherewith to defend and confirm his first foolish sentence, than for the commodity of the commonwealth: as one rather willing the harm or hindrance of the weal public than any loss or diminution of his own existimation. And as one that would not for shame (which is a very foolish shame) be counted anything overseen in the matter at the first. Who at the first ought to have spoken rather wisely, than hastily, or rashly.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/MachiavelliMoreAndLuther/page/n195/mode/2up?q=%22custom+also+the+council%22">Robinson</a> (1909 ed)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Moreover the Senate has this custom, that nothing is decided on the same day on which it is first propounded, but that it is put off till the next meeting, and this lest anyone after hastily uttering the idea that first came into his mouth, should afterwards think more of how to defend his opinion than of supporting what is for the good of the commonwealth, and should prefer to jeopardise the public weal rather than risk his reputation through a wrongheaded and misplaced shame, fearing he may be thought to have shown too little foresight at the first, though he should have taken care to speak with wisdom rather than with haste in the first instance.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021935831&seq=78&q1=%22senate+has+this+custom%22">Richards</a> (1923)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There's also a rule in the Council that no resolution can be debated on the day that it's first proposed. All discussion is posponed until the next well-attended meeting. Otherwise someone’s liable to say the first thing that comes into his head, -- and then start thinking up arguments to justify what he has said, instead of trying to decide what’s best for the community. That type of person is quite prepared to sacrifice the public to his own prestige, just because, absurd as it may sound, he’s ashamed to admit that his first idea might have been wrong -- when his first idea should have been to think before he spoke. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/utopia0000thom_f6q8/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22also+a+rule%22">Turner (1965 ed.)</a>; <a href="https://archive.org/details/utopia00more_0/page/54/mode/2up?q=%22also+a+rule%22">(2003 ed.)</a>]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>In addition, the senate has the custom of debating nothing on the same day on which it is first proposed but of putting it off till the next meeting. This is their rule lest anyone, after hastily blurting out the first thought that popped into his head, should afterwards give more thought to defending his opinion than to supporting what is for the good of the commonwealth, and should prefer to jeopardize the public welfare rather than to risk his reputation through a wrongheaded and misplaced shame, fearing he might be thought to have shown too little foresight at the first -- though he should have been enough foresighted at the first to speak with prudence rather than with haste!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/utopia0000unse/page/68/mode/2up?q=%22in+addition+the+senate%22">Richards/Surtz</a> (1964)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The Council of Tranibors also follows the practice of never debating a proposition on the day it’s first put forward, but of deferring it to the next meeting. Otherwise someone who has heedlessly blurted out the first idea to come into their mouth may later give more thought to defending their own position than to the country’s interests. Indeed, they may choose to sacrifice the public well-being to their own reputation out of a mistaken and misplaced sense of embarrassment at not having been clear-minded enough at the start — though being clear-minded at the start should have meant speaking thoughtfully rather than in haste.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/utopia0000more/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22follows+the+practice%22">Clarke</a> (2017)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-15)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CALVIN: (building a snowman) I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I&#8217;m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life. HOBBES: Such as? CALVIN: Procrastinating and rationalizing.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">CALVIN: <i>(building a snowman)</i> I should be doing my homework now. But the way <i>I</i> look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I&#8217;m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.</p>
<p class="hangingindent">HOBBES: Such as?</p>
<p class="hangingindent">CALVIN: Procrastinating and rationalizing.</p>
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<br><b>Bill Watterson</b> (b. 1958) American cartoonist<br><i>Calvin and Hobbes</i> (1993-02-15) 
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		<title>Bierce, Ambrose -- &#8220;Err,&#8221; &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Dictionary&#8221; column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-05-24)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">ERR, <i>v.i.</i> To believe or act in a way contrary to my beliefs and actions.</p>
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<br><b>Ambrose Bierce</b> (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist<br>&#8220;Err,&#8221; &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Dictionary&#8221; column, San Francisco <i>Wasp</i> (1884-05-24) 
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/unabridgeddevils00bier/page/360/mode/2up?q=%22err%2C+erudition%22">Not collected</a> in later books.
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		<title>Stevenson, Adlai -- Speech (1965-07-09), &#8220;Strengthening the International Development Institutions,&#8221; sec.  3, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: We are nowhere near conquering world poverty. None of us &#8212; neither the weak nor the strong, the poor nor the rich, the new nations nor the old &#8212; have yet taken seriously enough the contrast between the abundance of our opportunities and the scarcity of our actions to grasp them. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s face it: We are nowhere near conquering world poverty. None of us &#8212; neither the weak nor the strong, the poor nor the rich, the new nations nor the old &#8212; have yet taken seriously enough the contrast between the abundance of our opportunities and the scarcity of our actions to grasp them.  It is good that the rich are getting richer &#8212; that is what economic development is for. But it is bad that despite our considerable efforts in the first half of this decade, the poor are still poor &#8212; and progressing more slowly than present-day society can tolerate.</p>
<br><b>Adlai Stevenson II</b> (1900–1965) American politician, diplomat, statesman<br>Speech (1965-07-09), &#8220;Strengthening the International Development Institutions,&#8221; sec.  3, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/us_congress_89/congressional-record-1965-pt12/page/17054/mode/2up?q=%22rich+the+new+nations%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Stevenson was serving as UN Ambassador from the United States. He died of a heart attack on 1965-07-14, while in London after this trip. This was his last public address, and was read into the Congressional Record for the House of Representatives, 89th US Congress (1965-07-15) by Rep. Abraham Multer of New York.

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		<title>Bear, Elizabeth -- Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch.  4 [Bijou] (2010)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We claim the dignity of age, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all.</p>
<br><b>Elizabeth Bear</b> (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]<br><i>Bone and Jewel Creatures</i>, ch.  4 [Bijou] (2010) 
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		<title>Twain, Mark -- Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court, Part 3 &#8220;The Tale of the Lost Land,&#8221; ch.  9 &#8220;The Tournament&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years&#8217; cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years&#8217; cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don&#8217;t think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. You see, it was just the Northwest Passage of that day, as you may say; that was all. Every year expeditions went out holy grailing, and next year relief expeditions went out to hunt for them. There was worlds of reputation in it, but no money.</p>
<br><b>Mark Twain</b> (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]<br>Novel (1889), <i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court</i>, Part 3 &#8220;The Tale of the Lost Land,&#8221; ch.  9 &#8220;The Tournament&#8221; 
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		<title>La Rochefoucauld, Francois -- Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims],    ¶305 (1665-1678) [tr. Stanhope (1694)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interest, upon which we commonly lay the Blame of all our ill Actions, oftentimes deserves the commendation due to our Good ones. [L’intérêt, que l’on accuse de tous nos crimes, mérite souvent d’être loué de nos bonnes actions.] This first appeared in the 3rd (1671) edition. See also ¶187, ¶253. (Source (French)). Other translations: Interest, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interest, upon which we commonly lay the Blame of all our ill Actions, oftentimes deserves the commendation due to our Good ones.</p>
<p><em>[L’intérêt, que l’on accuse de tous nos crimes, mérite souvent d’être loué de nos bonnes actions.]</em></p>
<br><b>François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld</b> (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble<br><i>Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]</i>,    ¶305 (1665-1678) [tr. Stanhope (1694)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A49601.0001.001/1:6.305?rgn=div2;view=fulltext" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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This first appeared in the <a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C5%92uvres_de_La_Rochefoucauld_-_T.1/R%C3%A9flexions_ou_sentences_et_maximes_morales#cite_ref-494:~:text=484%5D.%20(-,%C3%A9d.%203,-.)">3rd (1671) edition</a>. See also ¶<a href="https://thomaswhichello.com/a-translation-of-reflections-or-sentences-and-moral-maxims-by-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/#:~:text=The%20name%C2%A0of%20virtue%20is%20as%20useful%20to%20self%2Dinterest%C2%A0as%20vice%20itself.">187</a>, ¶<a href="https://wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-francois/82585/">253</a>.<br><br>

(<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C5%92uvres_de_La_Rochefoucauld_-_T.1/R%C3%A9flexions_ou_sentences_et_maximes_morales#:~:text=L%E2%80%99int%C3%A9r%C3%AAt%2C%20que%20l%E2%80%99on%20accuse%20de%20tous%20nos%20crimes%2C%20m%C3%A9rite%20souvent%20d%E2%80%99%C3%AAtre%20lou%C3%A9%20de%20nos%20bonnes%20actions">Source (French)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Interest, which is accused of all our crimes, often deserves to be praised for our good actions.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075829600&view=2up&seq=138&skin=2021&q1=interest">Gowens</a> (1851), ¶315] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Interest, which is accused of all our misdeeds, often should be praised for our good deeds.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm#:~:text=Interest%20which%20is%20accused%20of%20all%20our%20misdeeds%20often%20should%20be%20praised%20for%20our%20good%20deeds.">Bund/Friswell</a> (1871), ¶305]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Self-interest, to which are ascribed all our crimes, should frequently be given the credit for our good deeds.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsofducdelar0000laro/page/92/mode/2up?q=305">FitzGibbon</a> (1957), ¶305]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Selfishness, which we blame for all our crimes, often deserves to be praised for our good deeds.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsoflarochef00laro/page/90/mode/2up">Kronenberger</a> (1959), ¶305] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Self-interest, blamed for all our misdeeds, often deserves credit for our good actions.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maxims0000laro/page/72/mode/2up?q=%22self-interest%2C+blamed%22">Tancock</a> (1959), ¶305]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Self-interest, which commonly takes the blame for all our crimes, often deserves praise for producing our good actions.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://thomaswhichello.com/a-translation-of-reflections-or-sentences-and-moral-maxims-by-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/#:~:text=Self%2Dinterest%2C%20which%C2%A0commonly%20takes%20the%20blame%20for%20all%20our%20crimes%2C%20often%20deserves%20praise%C2%A0for%20producing%20our%20good%20actions.">Whichello</a> (2016) ¶305]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No.  3, Equal Rites (1987)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,&#8221; said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,&#8221; said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.</p>
<br><b>Terry Pratchett</b> (1948-2015) English author<br>Discworld No.  3, <i>Equal Rites</i> (1987) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/equalritesdiscwo0000prat/page/26/mode/2up?q=%22into+aphorisms%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1946-11-29), &#8220;As I Please&#8221; column, Tribune Newspaper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for granted as a natural instinct, equally prevalent in all ages, like the desire for food. Actually it is no more natural, in the sense of being biologically necessary, than drunkenness or gambling. And if it has reached new levels of lunacy in our own age, as I think it has, then the question becomes: What is the special quality in modern life that makes a major human motive out of the impulse to bully others? If we could answer that question &#8212; seldom asked, never followed up &#8212; there might occasionally be a bit of good news on the front page of your morning paper.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1946-11-29), &#8220;As I Please&#8221; column, <i>Tribune</i> Newspaper 
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		<title>Doctor Who (1963) -- 14&#215;06 &#8220;The Talons of Weng-Chiang,&#8221; Part 5 (1977-03-26) [w. Robert Holmes]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOCTOR: Ah! (shows her an odd device) Eureka! Do you know what that is? LEELA: You ask me so that you can tell me. DOCTOR: That&#8217;s right. (Source (Video); dialogue confirmed)]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">DOCTOR: Ah! <i>(shows her an odd device)</i> Eureka! Do you know what that is?</p>
<p class="hangingindent">LEELA: You <em>ask</em> me so that you can <em>tell</em> me.</p>
<p class="hangingindent">DOCTOR: That&#8217;s right. </p>
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<br><b>Doctor Who</b> (1963-1989) British science fiction television series, original run (BBC)<br>14&#215;06 &#8220;The Talons of Weng-Chiang,&#8221; Part 5 (1977-03-26) [w. Robert Holmes] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/14-6.htm#:~:text=DOCTOR%3A%20Ah!%20Eureka!%20Do%20you%20know%20what%20that%20is%3F%0ALEELA%3A%20You%20ask%20me%20so%20that%20you%20can%20tell%20me.%0ADOCTOR%3A%20That%27s%20right." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://youtu.be/Hq8o9i1S0Ls?si=4ZuRpzHODi8B4xbi&t=6867">Source (Video)</a>; dialogue confirmed)

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		<title>Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 12 (1.12) / sec. 27 (1.27) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCUS: Death is no annihilation, carrying off and blotting out everything, but rather, if I may so describe it, a change of abode, and an alteration in our manner of life. [Mortem non interitum esse omnia tollentem atque delentem, sed quandam quasi migrationem commutationemque vitae.] On the belief, from antiquity, in the soul and survival [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">MARCUS: Death is no annihilation, carrying off and blotting out everything, but rather, if I may so describe it, a change of abode, and an alteration in our manner of life.  </p>
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<p><em>[Mortem non interitum esse omnia tollentem atque delentem, sed quandam quasi migrationem commutationemque vitae.]</em></p>
<br><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes]</i>, Book 1, ch. 12 (1.12) / sec. 27 (1.27) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)] 
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On the belief, from antiquity, in the soul and survival of it beyond death.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0044%3Abook%3D1%3Asection%3D27#:~:text=mortem%20non%20interitum%20esse%20omnia%20tollentem%20atque%20delentem%2C%20sed%20quandam%20quasi%20migrationem%20commutationemque%20vitae">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Death was not an Annihilation, but a removal and change only of Life.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A33161.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext#:~:text=death%20was%20not%20an%20Annihilation%2C%20but%20a%20removal%20and%20change%20only%20of%20Life">Wase</a> (1643)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Death was not so entire a destruction as to leave nothing remining, but a certain transmigration, as it were, and change of life.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002010497y&view=2up&seq=28&q1=%22not+so+entire%22">Main</a> (1824)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Death was not a destruction, involving a total and absolute demolition, but rather a certain migration and change of life.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044085192730&view=2up&seq=36&q1=%22not+a+destruction%22">Otis</a> (1839)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Death was not so entire a destruction as wholly to abolish and destroy everything, but rather a kind of transmigration, as it were, and change of life.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29247/29247-h/29247-h.html#:~:text=death%20was%20not%20so%20entire%20a%20destruction%20as%20wholly%20to%20abolish%20and%20destroy%20everything%2C%20but%20rather%20a%20kind%20of%20transmigration%2C%20as%20it%20were%2C%20and%20change%20of%20life">Yonge</a> (1853)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Death is not a catastrophe that takes away and blots out everything, but is, so to speak, a migration and a change of life.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerostusculand00ciceiala/page/20/mode/2up?q=%22not+a+catastrophe%22">Peabody</a> (1886)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Death was not a destruction which removed and obliterated everything, but only a migration, as it were, and an exchange of one life for another.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081621009&view=2up&seq=38&q1=%22not+a+destruction%22">Black</a> (1889)] </blockquote><br>						</span>
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