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# Consensus reality

Consensus reality is the agreed-upon concepts of reality which people in the world, or a culture or group, either believe are real, or treat as real.

## Quotes

* Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?
** Stephen Colbert AV Club interview, (25 January 2006)
* Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
** Orwell, George. 1984. .
* The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
** Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine (October 17, 2004). The unidentified aide is widely said to be Karl Rove, as reported in Danner, Mark. "Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power". in András Szántó. What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics. Philadelphia, PA: PublicAffairs Reports. pp. 17. "... the unnamed official speaking to Suskind is widely known to be none other than the self-same architect of the aircraft-carrier moment, Karl Rove ..." .
* You must remember, once more, that expectations are the blocks with which you build your reality. There are no exceptions to this rule.
** Jane Roberts in The Early Sessions: Book 9, Session 485, Page 308.
# Edmund Sears

Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876) was a Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants. Sears is known today primarily as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in 1849.

## Quotes

* Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 177.
* Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven’s melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
** Christmas Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold; "Peace on the earth, good will to man From Heaven’s all gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.
** The Angels' Song ("It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", 1849).
* For lo! the days are hastening on, By prophet-bards foretold, When with the ever-circling years, Comes round the age of gold; When Peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing.
** The Angels' Song ("It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", 1849).
# Edmund Whalen

Edmund Whalen (July 6, 1958–) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New York.

## Quotes

* Despite everything else that's facing us, and despite all the bleak news about people not believing and everything, it's obvious that people do believe. The people of the archdiocese are people of wonderful faith.
** Bishop-elect Edmund J. Whalen Fluently Reaches the Faithful (December 4, 2019)
* You are here for the love of your family and friends. You need to keep speaking. Don't stop. Don’t give up. Don't give up on the love. Don't give up on your loved ones.
** ‘Don’t give up,’ NY bishop urges survivors of Hamas attack, families of hostages (27 December 2023) Our Sunday Visitor
# Edmund Vance Cooke

Edmund Vance Cooke (June 5, 1866 – December 18, 1932) was a Canadian poet.

## Quotes

* Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it?You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there—that's disgrace. The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce; Be proud of your blackened eye! It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts, It's how did you fight—and why?And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call it good. Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce, And whether he's slow or spry, It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, But only how did you die?
** "How Did You Die?" in Impertinent Poems (New York: Dodge, 1907)
* The man who fears to go his way alone, But follows where the greater number tread, Should hasten to his rest beneath a stone; The great majority of men are dead.
** "Requiescat in Pace" in A Patch of Pansies (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894)

### A Triplet of Quatrains

* To deftly do what many dimly think; To fund a feeling for the world to borrow; To turn a tear to printer’s ink; To make a sonnet of a sorrow.
** I. Poetry
* This trouble seems to be Chief in theology: Each thinks the hymn should be,— Nearer, my God, to Thee.
** II. Ego-Theism
* The rake upon a wanton wastes the wiles Which dazzle innocence. The nettle guards itself; the lily smiles Unheedful of defence.
** III. The Mystery of Evil
# Edmund de Waal

Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter, and author.

## Quotes
### The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (2010)

All quotes from the hardcover first American edition, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-10597-6, 1st printing Spelling as in the book. Ellipses either represent brief elisions of examples, or are used for the sake of continuity
* Melancholy, I think, is a sort of default vagueness, a get-out clause, a smothering lack of focus.
** Prologue (p. 16)
* I have been working long enough as a potter to know that being commissioned is an extremely delicate business. You are grateful, of course, but gratitude is different from feeling indebted. It is an interesting question for any artist: how long must you go on feeling grateful once someone has bought your work?
** Chapter 9, “Even Ephrussi fell for it” (p. 82)
* ‘All quite openly, publicly and legally’ were words that Elisabeth was to hear repeated back to her. She discovered that on the list of priorities in a shattered society, the restitution of property to those from whom it had been sequestered came near the bottom. Many of those who had appropriated Jewish property were now respected citizens of the new Austrian Republic. This was also a government that rejected reparations, because in their view Austria had been an occupied country between 1938 and 1945; Austria had become the ‘first victim’, rather than an agent in the war.
** Chapter 29, “All quite openly, publicly and legally” (p. 285)
* In the 1960s, my grandmother Elisabeth, so assiduous in her letter-writing, such an advocate for the letter (‘write again, write more fully’), burnt the hundreds of letters and notes she had received from her poetic grandmother Evelina. Not ‘Who would be interested?’ But ‘Don’t come near this. This is private.’… There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be brought into the light? Why keep things, archive your intimacies? Why not let thirty years of shared conversation go spiralling in ash up into the air of Tunbridge Wells? Just because you have it does not mean you have to pass it on. Losing things can sometimes gain you a space in which to live…. The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. I think of a library carefully sorted into boxes. I think of all those careful burnings by others, the systematic erasing of stories, the separations between people and their possessions, and then of people from their families and families from their neighbourhoods. And then from their country.
** Chapter 37, “Yellow/Gold/Red” (pp. 347-348)
* ‘Don’t you think those netsuke should stay in Japan?’ said a stern neighbour of mine in London. And I find I am shaking as I answer, because this matters…. No I answer. Objects have always been carried, sold, bartered, stolen, retrieved and lost. People have always given gifts. It is how you tell their stories that matters.
** Chapter 37, “Yellow/Gold/Red” (p. 348)
# Delegation

Delegation in organizations is the assignment of any responsibility or authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities, such as starting on proper tires during a wet race. It is one of the core concepts of management leadership.

## Quotes

* Delegation is the dynamics of management; it is the process a manager follows in dividing the work assigned to him so that he performs that part which only he, because of his unique organizational placement, can perform effectively, and so that he can get others to help him with what remains. How can he best share his burden? First, he must entrust to others the performance of part of the work he would otherwise have to do himself; secondly, he must provide a means of checking up on the work that is done for him to ensure that it is done as he wishes.
    If he wants to get others to help him, the manager must first divide his work. If he requires his subordinate to perform the work as he would do it himself, the manager must entrust him with part of the rights and powers he otherwise would have to exercise himself to get that work done. If the subordinate needs to spend money, hire people, use materials or equipment, the manager must permit him to do so or the subordinate cannot perform the work.
   * Louis A. Allen. Management and organization, McGraw-Hill, 1958. p. 116
* DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* Delegation means that he will concern himself with the results of their activities and not with the details of their day-to-day performance. This requires a degree of confidence in them which enables him to accept certain risks. Unless he takes these risks there will be no delegation.
** Douglas McGregor (1960.2006), The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition p. 220
* If a man divides the whole of his work into two branches and delegates his responsibility, freely and properly, to two experienced heads of branches he will not have enough to do. The occasions when they would have to refer to him would be too few to keep him fully occupied. If he delegates to three heads he will be kept fairly busy whilst six heads of branches will give most bosses a ten hours' day. Those data are the results of centuries of the experiences of soldiers.
** Sir Ian Hamilton, The Soul and Body of an Army, 1921
* Failure to delegate causes managers to be crushed and fail under the weight of accumulated duties that they do not know and have not learned to delegate.
** James D. Mooney (1931), cited in: Guy Kimberley Hutt (1990), Organizational decentralization and delegation in large New York. p. 1

## See also

* Span of control
# Delbert Black

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert D. Black (11 July 1922 – 5 March 2000) was a senior sailor in the United States Navy who served as the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy from 13 January 1967 to 1 April 1971.

## Quotes

* The Chief can, and should, take the responsibility of keeping every Sailor under their leadership informed. If one of their Sailors has a problem, they have a problem. There should be no excuses. There is a solution to every problem, and it should be pursued until their Sailor is satisfied that every means has been exhausted in the effort to find a solution.
** As quoted in History of the Chief: Legacy of Excellence (Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, 2014) by Pamela Koch (Senior Editor) and United States Navy Memorial, p. 67

## Quotes about Black

* Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert D. Black was born on July 11, 1922, in Orr, Oklahoma, graduating from high school in 1940. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on March 14, 1941. Upon completion of recruit training in San Diego, he was assigned to USS Maryland (BB 46) and was aboard in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He then served aboard eight ships and six shore commands. On January 13, 1967, the Secretary of the Navy announced Master Chief Black as the first MCPON. As such, he was the highest-ranking enlisted man in the Navy, and served as the enlisted representative to the Chief of Naval Operations. He counseled the highest Navy councils on problems associated with enlisted guidance, leadership, and policy. MCPON Black was the first Navy enlisted man to receive the Distinguished Service Medal. His other awards included the Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Good Conduct (seven stars), American Defense (one star), American Campaign, Asiatic Pacific (eight stars), World War II Victory, China Service, Navy Occupation, National Defense (one star), Korean Service, Vietnam Service (three stars), Antarctica Service, United Nations, Philippine Liberation (two stars), Philippine PUC, Vietnam Campaign with device, and Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Meritorious Unit Citation (Gallantry Cross).
** Pamela Koch (Senior Editor), History of the Chief: Legacy of Excellence (Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, 2014) by Pamela Koch (Senior Editor) and United States Navy Memorial, p. 67
# Delcy Rodríguez

Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez (born 18 May 1969) is a Venezuelan politician. She is currently the Vice President of Venezuela since 14 June 2018. She previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2014–2017 and Minister of Communication and Information in 2013–2014.

## Quotes

* Today the private sector of Venezuela is becoming less dependent on oil income. It's becoming a sector that invests, produces and finds in Venezuela a space where it can develop its potential.
** Delcy Rodríguez (2021) cited in: "Can Maduro’s reluctant reforms halt Venezuela’s economic freefall?" in BA Times, 25 June 2021.
# Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron (born July 12, 1944) is a scriptwriter and producer.

## Sourced

* Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be — they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
** The Quotable Mom, ed. Kate Rowinski, page 76
* And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?
** Hanging Up, Delia Ephron
* With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
** Funny Sauce (1986), Delia Ephron
* Doyouwantogoona--Who is this? Oh, I have the wrong number.
** Teenage Romance (Viking, 1981)
** Quoted in Girls: 10 Gutsy, God-Centered Sessions on Issues That Matter to Girls By Helen Musick, Dan Jessup, Crystal Kirgiss
# Estonians

Estonians are a Finnic ethnic group native to Estonia who speak the Estonian language.

## Quotes

* Never in the course of centuries have the Estonian people lost their ardent desire for Independence. From generation to generation Estonians have kept alive the secret hope that in spite of enslavement and oppression by other nations the time will come in Estonia "when all splinters, at both end, will burst forth into flames" and when "Kalev will come home to bring his children happiness."
** Estonian Declaration of Independence (1918)
* Estonians don't do "in a cold panic". Phlegmatic, slow, non-reactive, yes. Panic, no.
** Toomas Hendrik Ilves, as quoted in "Smaller Countries, Far Away" (24 October 2016), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review

## Quotes

* Encyclopedic article on Estonians on Wikipedia
# Estimates

Estimates are calculated approximations of a result which is usable even if input data may be incomplete or uncertain.

## Quotes

* We like to picture to ourselves the field of law as accurately mapped and plotted. We draw our little lines, and they are hardly down before we blur them. As in time and space, so here. Divisions are working hypotheses, adopted for convenience. … So also the duty of a judge becomes itself a question of degree, and he is a useful judge or a poor one as he estimates the measure accurately or loosely. He must balance all his ingredients, his philosophy, his logic, his analogies, his history, his customs, his sense of right, and all the rest, and adding a little here and taking out a little there, must determine, as wisely as he can, which weight shall tip the scales.
** Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921), p. 161.
* God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
** Tryon Edwards, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.
* An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
** Lord Mansfield, Fisher v. Prince (1762), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 86.
* But in our waking hours we must, if we are rational, make our decisions on the basis of the most objective and cold-blooded estimates that we can make: estimates of the forces and tendencies in the world about us; estimates of the realities with which we must deal; remembering always that nothing is likely to happen just because we think it's good, or unlikely to happen just because we think it's evil.
** Revilo P. Oliver, "What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995).
* Our leaders attempt to blame their failures on circumstances beyond their control, on false estimates by unknown, unidentifiable experts who rewrite modern history in an attempt to convince us our high standard of living, the result of thrift and hard work, is somehow selfish extravagance which we must renounce as we join in sharing scarcity.
** Ronald Reagan, Official Announcement of being a candidate for U.S. President (1979-11-13).
* Our estimates vary with our moods; the time may be much longer than our hopes and much shorter than our fears.
** H. G. Wells, "The Possible Unification of Men's Wills in Political Matters", The Outline of History (1920).
* James T. Kirk: How much refit time before we can take her out again? Montgomery Scott: Eight weeks, Sir, [Kirk opens his mouth] but ya don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for ya in two. James T. Kirk: Mr.Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four? Montgomery Scott: Certainly, Sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? James T. Kirk: [over the intercom] Your reputation is secure, Scotty.
** Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
# Esther Williams

Esther Jane Williams (8 August 1921 – 6 June 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress.

## Quotes

* You can work out in a pool and sweat, but you don't smell. In the water you are weightless. You are ageless. It feels exhilarating to get wet. And you know the water is a very sexy medium. Why do you think people always get in a hot tub?
* Just make the point we come from the water. It's the most natural medium in the world. It's the only sport you can do from your first bath to your last without hurting yourself.
** Tale of a Mermaid: Swimmimg regimen still suits Ester Williams at age 75 (July 23, 1997)
* I'll bet if I compare notes with Junie Allyson and Debbie Reynolds and anyone else who's had more than one marriage, the fact is that you fall in love and it's so wonderful to think about something other than yourself and whether the script's right for you and who's going to be your leading man, that you don't really ask yourself questions about the fellow. He's just wonderful looking and he dances well and you have a wonderful time and it's fun to go out, and all of a sudden you're in a lifelong marriage.
** At Home With: Esther Williams; Swimming Upstream (September 2, 1999)

## External links

* Official website
# Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, headquartered in New York City, is an eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

## Quotes

* Another consequence of laws designed principally to secure the wealth of the wealthy is, of course, the frequent reduction of labor to a commodity, and of laborers to a condition that it is not unfair to describe as “wage slavery.” This is especially true in industrialized nations whose laws make it excessively easy for large employers to increase their profit margins at the expense of their employees, by withholding benefits, by failing to provide a living wage, by managing workers’ hours in ways that deny them the true privileges of full employment, and above all by making cheap labor into a kind of natural resource to be exploited, particularly in labor markets where basic workers’ protections do not exist. Often enough, business practices of this sort are permitted under the shelter of free trade accords, even though the connection of such practices to the larger economics of international free trade is tenuous at best.
** For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, compiled by Special Commission of the Ecumenical Patriarch, January 2020, Section 36