Eskimo
Eskimo
Eskimos (or Esquimaux) or Inuit–Yupik (for Alaska: Inupiat–Yupik) peoples are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States), Canada, and Greenland.
There are two main groups that are referred to as Eskimo: Yupik and Inuit. A third group, the Aleut, is related. The Yupik language dialects and cultures in Alaska and eastern Siberia have evolved in place beginning with the original (pre-Dorset) Eskimo culture that developed in Alaska. Approximately 4,000 years ago the Unangan (also known as Aleut) culture became distinctly separate, and evolved into a non-Eskimo culture. Approximately 1,500–2,000 years ago, apparently in Northwestern Alaska, two other distinct variations appeared. The Inuit language branch became distinct and in only several hundred years spread across northern Alaska, Canada and into Greenland. At about the same time, the technology of the Thule people developed in northwestern Alaska and very quickly spread over the entire area occupied by Eskimo people, though it was not necessarily adopted by all of them.
The earliest known Eskimo cultures (pre-Dorset) date to 5,000 years ago. They appear to have evolved in Alaska from people using the Arctic small tool tradition who probably had migrated to Alaska from Siberia at least 2,000 to 3,000 years earlier, though they might have been in Alaska as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years or more. There are similar artifacts found in Siberia going back perhaps 18,000 years.
Today, the two main groups of Eskimos are the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and the Yupik of Central Alaska. The Yupik comprises speakers of four distinct Yupik languages originated from the western Alaska, in South Central Alaska along the Gulf of Alaska coast, and the Russian Far East.
The term Eskimo is commonly used by those in the lower 48 and in Alaska to include both Yupik and Inupiat. No universal term other than Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, exists for the Inuit and Yupik peoples. In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit. The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982, sections 25 and 35 recognized the Inuit as a distinctive group of aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Eskimo Proverb
Attitude
¶ Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo
Eva Green (1980- )
Eva Green (1980- )
Eva Gaëlle Green (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈgʁeːn]; born 5 July 1980) is a French actress and model. Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film, The Dreamers. Green quickly achieved greater fame by appearing in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and as Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). In 2006, Green was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Since 2006, Green has starred in many independent films, including Womb, Perfect Sense, and Cracks. She has more recently appeared in the television series Camelot, and played Angelique Bouchard in Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Dark Shadows.
Quotes·Quotations by Eva Green from Casino Royale
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale (2006)
¶ I don't believe you. You've got a choice, you know. Just because you've done something doesn't mean you have to keep doing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Green
Evan Esar (1899-1995)
Evan Esar (1899-1995)
Evan Esar (1899–1995) was an American humorist who wrote "Esar's Comic Dictionary" in 1943, "Humorous English" in 1961, and "20,000 Quips and Quotes" in 1968. He is known for quotes like "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." He also wrote The Legend of Joe Miller, which was privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press in 1957.
His quotes are commonly found in Crossword puzzles
Quotes·Quotations by Evan Esar
Education
¶ America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Esar
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.[1]
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.
After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris.
Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
Quotes·Quotation by Ernest Hemingway
¶ Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. [The Old Man and the Sea]
¶ We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. [New York Journal-American]
¶ We do not find the deep truths of life; they find us. [Advice to a young man ‘Playboy']
¶ The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. [“A Farewell to Arms” Ch. 34]
¶ This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. [“The Sun Also Rises” in Book 1, Ch. 7]
¶ Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. [“The Garden of Eden” Ch. 11]
¶ If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. [“For Whom the Bell Tolls ” Ch 43]
¶ Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
¶ They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Writing·Reading
¶ A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. [Nobel Prize Speech]
Images
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Hemingway working on For Whom the Bell Tolls at the Sun Valley Lodge, 1939 |
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)
Erma Louise Bombeck (1927-1996)
Erma Louise Bombeck (born Erma Fiste; February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.
From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife with broad, and sometimes eloquent humor. By the 1970s, her columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of the 900 newspapers of the U.S. and Canada.
Quotes·Quotation
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. [Advice]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erma_Bombeck
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a Jewish German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
Quotes·Quotations by Erich Fromm
Love
¶ Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." [The Art of Loving (1956)]
Solitude·Self-reliance
¶ Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm
Eric Delko (CSI: Miami)
Eric Delko
Detective Eric Delko (né Delektorsky)[1] is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by Adam Rodríguez.
Quotes·Quotations by Eric Delko
Adam Rodriguez as Eric Delko from CSI: Miami
¶ Natalia: I'm late!
Eric: For what?!
Natalia: I'm late!
Eric: What we gonna do?
Natalia: [laughs]
Eric: WHAT?
Natalia: It's just nice. You said 'we'.
Eric: It takes two to tango.
References
[1]^ http://www.aetv.com/csi_miami/csi_cast_and_crew.jsp?index=1&type=character
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Delko
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen,[1] although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.[2] In 2001, the Eric Hoffer Award was established in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005.
Quotes·Quotations by Eric Hoffer
Awareness
¶ To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
References
[1]^ "Hoffer, Eric". Encyclopædia Britannica, from Encyclopaedia Britannica 2003 Ultimate Reference Suite CD-ROM. Copyright 1994–2002 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. May 30, 2002.
[2]^ According to longtime companion Lili Fabilli Osborne executrix of the Hoffer Estate; also noted in personal archives stored at the Hoover Institute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer
Epictetus (AD55-AD135)
Epictetus (AD55-AD135)
Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; AD 55 – AD 135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty to care for all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness and peace of mind.
Quotes·Quotation by Epictetus
Attitude
¶ Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus