Basque songs in California, 1940 - Basque songs from Navarre, recorded in 1940 in California to the Etcheverry family. Sound files put online by the Library of Congress.
The Basques and Saint Pierre et Miquelon - Marc Cormier'es page. These islands in the Canadian coast are, to this date, French territory. There is a rich Basque heritage there.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Diaspora I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Diaspora
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Diaspora A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Diaspora
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Diaspora Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Diaspora
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Diaspora "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Diaspora
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Diaspora "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Diaspora
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Diaspora "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Diaspora
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Diaspora A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Diaspora
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Diaspora Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Diaspora
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Diaspora Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Diaspora
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Diaspora There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Diaspora
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Diaspora If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Diaspora
