Dexter Broadhurst (The Naughty Nineties)
Quotes·Quotation by Dexter Broadhurst
Bud Abbott as Dexter Broadhurst from The Naughty Nineties (1945)
¶ Who's on first.
Dexter Broadhurst (The Naughty Nineties)
Dexter Broadhurst (The Naughty Nineties)
Quotes·Quotation by Dexter Broadhurst
Bud Abbott as Dexter Broadhurst from The Naughty Nineties (1945)
¶ Who's on first.
Newt Gingrich (1943- )
Newt Gingrich (1943- )
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich ( /ˈnjuːt ˈɡɪŋɡrɪtʃ/; born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician, author, and political consultant. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
In the 1970s, Gingrich taught history and geography at the University of West Georgia. During this period he ran twice (1974 and 1976)[3] for the United States House of Representatives before winning in November 1978. He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995.
A co-author and architect of the "Contract with America", Gingrich was a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election. In 1995, Time named him "Man of the Year" for "his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House".[4] While he was House speaker, the House enacted welfare reform, passed a capital gains tax cut in 1997, and in 1998 passed the first balanced budget since 1969. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional election and pressure from Republican colleagues caused Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 5, 1998, and then the House on January 3, 1999.
Since leaving the House, Gingrich has remained active in public policy debates and worked as a political consultant. He founded and chaired several policy think tanks, including American Solutions for Winning the Future and the Center for Health Transformation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[5] He has written or co-authored 27 books. In May 2011, he announced his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Gingrich converted to Roman Catholicism in 2009 with the help of Father C. John McCloskey[6], after being raised Lutheran and spending most of his adult life as a Southern Baptist. He has been married three times, with the first two marriages ending in divorce. He has two children from his first marriage and has been married to Callista (Bisek) Gingrich since 2000.
Quotes·Quotation by Newt Gingrich
Finance
¶ (If elected president in 2012) I’d fire him tomorrow. I think he’s been the most inflationary, dangerous and power-centered chairman of the Fed in the history of the Fed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_GingrichNewt Gingrich (1943- )
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 28, 1466 – July 12, 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, early proponent of religious toleration, and theologian.
Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists." He has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists." Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.
Erasmus lived through the Reformation period, but while he was critical of the Church, he could not bring himself to join the cause of the Reformers. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road approach disappointed and even angered scholars in both camps. He died in Basel in 1536 and was buried in the formerly Catholic cathedral there, which had been converted to a Reformed church in 1529.
Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. Desiderius was a self-adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The Roterodamus in his scholarly name is the Latinized adjectival form for the city of Rotterdam.
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus
Denmark and Danes
Denmark and Danes
Denmark
Denmark (i/ˈdɛnmɑrk/; Danish: Danmark, pronounced [ˈd̥ɛnmɑɡ̊]), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark, [ˈkɔŋəʁiːəð ˈd̥ɛnmɑɡ̊]), is a state in the Scandinavian region of Northern Europe with the two autonomous constituent countries in the north Atlantic Ocean, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, located southwest of Sweden, south of Norway and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and the Danish archipelago of 407 islands, which includes Zealand, Vendsyssel-Thy, Funen, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm.[9] The national language, Danish, is closely related to Swedish and Norwegian.
Home of the Vikings, Denmark emerged as a unified kingdom in the 8th century as a proficient seafaring nation to be the centre of the mutual struggle for the control of the Baltic Sea. Establishing the personal Kalmar Union in 1397, it ended with Swedish secession in 1523; one year later, Denmark entered union with Norway until its dissolution in 1814. Several cessions of Danish territory had begun in the 17th century caused a surge of nationalist movements that gained momentum in the 1830s, concluded with a defeat in the 1864 Second Schleswig War. Hereafter, a new European outlook was sought, resulting in adjustment and cooperation. Denmark remained neutral during World War I and the German invasion in April 1940 saw brief, military skirmishes while the Danish resistance movement remained active until the German surrender in May 1945.
An industrialized exporter of agricultural produce in the second half of the 19th century, Denmark introduced social and labour-market reforms in the early decades of the 20th century, making the basis for the present welfare state with a highly developed mixed market economy. The Danish krone has been pegged to the euro since since 1 January 1999. Denmark ranks as having the world's highest level of income equality,[10] and has one of the world's highest per capita income. For 2013, Denmark is listed 15th on the Human Development Index[11] and 9th on the inequality-adjusted HDI. Denmark ranks highly positive on the Corruption Perceptions Index and the Legatum Prosperity Index, and as a full democracy on the Democracy Index.[12][13][14] It is frequently ranked as the happiest country in the world.[15][16][17][18]
Denmark is among the founding members of the NATO, Nordic Council, OECD, OSCE and the United Nations. There are three Danish heritage sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in Northern Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark
The terms Danes (Danish: danskere) and Danish people refer to the nation and ethnic group that is native to Denmark, and who speak Danish.
The first mention of Danes within the Danish territory is on the Jelling Rune Stone which mentions how Harald Bluetooth converted the Danes to Christianity in the 10th century.[21] Denmark has been continuously inhabited since this period and although much cultural and ethnic influence and immigration from all over the world has entered Denmark since then, Danes tend to see themselves as ethnic descendents of the early Danes mentioned in the sources.
Since the formulation of a Danish national identity in the 19th century the defining criteria for being Danish has been speaking the Danish language and identifying with Denmark as a homeland. Danish national identity was built on a basis of peasant culture and Lutheran theology, theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig and his popular movement played a prominent part in the process.[22]
Today the main criterion for being considered a Dane is having Danish citizenship, although also people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity, living outside of Denmark such as emigrants, descendants of emigrants or members of the Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, can be considered Danes under a wider definition taking into consideration cultural self-identification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_people
Danish language
Danish (dansk, pronounced [d̥anˀsɡ̊]; dansk sprog, [ˈd̥anˀsɡ̊ ˈsb̥ʁɔʊ̯ˀ]) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it holds minority language status.[2] There are also significant Danish-speaking communities in USA, Canada and Argentina. Due to immigration and language shift in urban areas around 15-20% of the population of Greenland speaks Danish as their home language.
Danish is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Swedish. Proficient speakers of any of the three languages can understand the others, though studies have shown that speakers of Norwegian generally understand both Danish and Swedish far better than Swedes or Danes understand each other. Both Swedes and Danes also understand Norwegian better than they understand each other's languages.[3]
Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the Old Norwegian dialects before the influence of Danish and Norwegian Bokmål is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into a Mainland Scandinavian group while Icelandic and Faroese are placed in a separate category labelled Insular Scandinavian.
Danish has a relatively large vowel inventory consisting of 16 phonemes and is distinguished by the many pharyngealized sounds, including both vowels and consonants. Written Danish and Norwegian Bokmål are particularly close, though the phonology (that is, the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of the language) and the prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation) differ somewhat.
Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish dependencies of the Faroe Islands (where it is also an official language after Faroese) and Greenland (where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut and the language[clarification needed] is now spoken as lingua franca), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language
Danish proverbs
Beginning
¶ Af god begyndelse haabes god endelse.
Idiomatic translation: A good beginning makes a good ending.
References
Denmark
[10]^ "1997–2001". GINI index. The World Bank. 1997. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
[11]^ "Denmark Country Profile: Human Development Indicators". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
[12]^ Burnett, Stephy. "Denmark". Transparency International. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
[13]^ Scandinavian countries top the list of world's most prosperous nations... but U.S. drops out of top ten for the first time. Daily Mail. 3 November 2012
[14]^ Kavitha A. Davidson. Democracy Index 2013: Global Democracy At A Standstill, The Economist Intelligence Unit's Annual Report Shows. The Huffington Post. March 21, 2013.
[15]^ Francesca Levy, "The World's Happiest Countries", Forbes 14 July 2010
[16]^ Francesca Levy, "Table: The World's Happiest Countries", Forbes 14 July 2010
[17]^ Michael B. Sauter The Happiest Countries in the World. Yahoo! Finance. May 22, 2012.
[18]^ Happiest place on earth. 20/20, ABC. 16 September 2008 (on YouTube).
Danes
[21]^ a b http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_historie/Danmark_f%C3%B8r_Reformationen/daner?highlight=Daner
[22]^ Ostergard, Uffe , Peasants and Danes: The Danish National Identity and Political Culture. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan., 1992), pp. 3-27
Danish language
[2]^ The Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany and Minorities in Germany
[3]^ "> Nordmenn forstår nabospråkene best". forskning.no. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure. Starting from comparatively humble origins, he served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Although his father had him baptised to Anglicanism at age 12, he was nonetheless Britain's first and thus far only Prime Minister who was born into a Jewish family—originally from Italy. He played an instrumental role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846.
Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained. Not until the 1860s would Derby and Disraeli be on easy terms, and the latter's succession of the former assured. From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party. In this feud, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone during the latter's first premiership in the 1870s. In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.
Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon. He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today. He is exceptional among British Prime Ministers for having gained equal social and political renown. He was twice successful as the Glasgow University Conservative Association's candidate for Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.
Quotes·Quotations by Benjamin Disraeli
Experience
¶ Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books. [Vivian Grey (1826) Book V, Chapter 1.]
***
@ The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. [Love]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
Dennis Weaver (1924-2006)
Dennis Weaver (1924-2006)
Billy Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including his role as Matt Dillon's trusty helper Chester Goode on the long-running western series Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and in the 1971 TV movie Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg.
Quotes·Quotations by Dennis Weaver
Environment
¶ When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Weaver
Denis Waitley (1933- )
Denis Waitley (1933- )
Denis E. Waitley (born 1933), is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author.
Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and claims to have counseled leaders in many fields: Apollo astronauts, Fortune 500 top executives, Olympic gold medalists, Super Bowl champions, returning POWs. He was a founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.
He has authored 16 books and has released hundreds of audio lectures.
Quotes·Quotation
Attitude
¶ The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Belief
¶ It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Waitley
Demetri Martin (1973- )
Demetri Martin (1973- )
Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin.
Quotes·Quotation
Food·Dieting
¶ A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetri_Martin
Delphine Wespiser (1992- )
Delphine Wespiser (1992- )
Delphine Wespiser (born January 3, 1992) is a French beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2012.
Miss France
Delphine Wespiser, Miss Alsace 2011 has been crowned Miss France 2012 by Laury Thilleman (Miss France 2011) on Saturday night 3 December 2011 in Brest.
Miss World
Delphine Wespiser has represented France in Miss World 2012 in Mongolia. She was eliminated in the first round.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Wespiser
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Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 – July 28, 1667) was an English metaphysical poet. In his own time he was widely considered the greatest poet of the age.
Eternity
@ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Davideis, book i, line 25; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 – July 28, 1667) was an English metaphysical poet. In his own time he was widely considered the greatest poet of the age.
Eternity
@ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.
Davideis, book i, line 25; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Cowley
Dee Hock (1929- )
Dee Hock (1929- )
Dee Ward Hock (born 1929) is the founder and former CEO of the VISA credit card association. In 1968, Hock convinced Bank of America to give up ownership and control of their BankAmericard credit card program. The new company, called National BankAmerica, was a non-stock membership corporation equally owned by its member banks. The name was changed to VISA in 1976.
In May 1984, Hock resigned his management role with Visa, retiring to spend almost 10 years in relative isolation working a 200-acre (0.81 km2) parcel of land to the west of Silicon Valley. He was inducted into Junior Achievement's U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1991, and the Money magazine hall of fame in 1992.
In his 1991 Business Hall of Fame acceptance speech Hock explained: "Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper -- Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment -- that the beasts were securely caged."
On March 13, 1993, Hock gave a dinner speech at the Santa Fe Institute where based on his experiences founding and operating Visa International he described systems that are both chaotic and ordered, and used for the first time the term chaordic, a portmanteau combining the words chaotic and ordered.
In February 1994, Hock accepted a grant from the Joyce Foundation for his travel expenses to study the possibilities of implementing chaordic organizations for a year and to report back.
As a result the non-profit Alliance for Community Liberty was formed in 1994 by Hock to develop, disseminate and implement these new concepts of organization, and was renamed The Chaordic Alliance in 1996.
In spring 2001 The Chaordic Commons - a 501c3 nonprofit organization - was formed to supersede the Chaordic Alliance.
Quotes·Quotations by Dee Hock
Advice
¶ Make a short list of things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to others. Ever! Make another list of other things done to you that you loved. Do them to others. Always!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Hock
Dean Acheson (1893-1971)
Dean Acheson (1893-1971)
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and played a central role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Acheson's most famous decision was convincing President Truman to intervene in the Korean War in June 1950. He also persuaded Truman to dispatch aid and advisors to French forces in Indochina, though in 1968 he finally counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee (ExComm), a strategic advisory group.
In the late 1940s Acheson came under heavy attack over Truman's policy toward China, and for Acheson's defense of State Department employees (such as Alger Hiss) accused during the anti-Communist Red Scare investigations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others.
Quotes·Quotation
Bureaucracy
¶ A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Acheson
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