Pygmies

Another shareholder, John Harrington, just said, to light applause, "comparing Yahoo to moral pygmies is unfair to pygmies." ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Memoires de l’Acad.tom. vii.p. 321, &c.)] 130 The fable of the pygmies is as old as Homer, (Iliad. iii. ❋ Unknown (1206)

This thrice-married and admitted adulterer who now proclaims himself as paragon of virtue and the rest of the GOP field as a pack of pygmies is just dying to enter the race so he can vanquish the last vestiges of the Clinton era, a task he failed at miserably in his last attempt in 1998 when, among other things, he tripped over his own self-righteousness, lost House seats, and provoked the raging ire of his own House leadership to the point that they not only forced him out of power as Speaker of the House, they ran him out of Congress. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“as some children always remain pygmies, whose infant limbs have been too closely confined, thus our tender minds, fettered by the prejudices and habits of a just servitude, are unable to expand themselves, or to attain that well-proportioned greatness which we admire in the ancients; who, living under a popular government, wrote with the same freedom as they acted.” ❋ Unknown (1206)

In the forested interior most people are from the BaAka, BaKa, BaKola, and some smaller groups of traditional forest peoples, usually referred to as pygmies; there are also Bantu cultivators who associate closely with them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The pygmies were a nation of dwarfs always at war with the cranes of Scythia. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

The indigenous communities, sometimes called pygmies, often lack access to basic social services. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am inclined to the supposition that the obvious outward signs, the round head, bombous forehead, furry skin, and diminutive size of the pygmies are the outcome of an inward physiological condition peculiar to them, which has enabled them to resist disease or to eat certain kinds of food, or possibly to develop great mental acuteness, and so has led to the establishment of these peculiar small people as a race, without their smallness itself having anything to do with their selection and preservation. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Armand J. Matherne Jr. Kenner, LA. Anna Quindlen sees Hillary Rodham Clinton as a giant -- too intelligent, eloquent and well positioned to serve with the "pygmies" and "retail politicians" in the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Why is Newt Gingrich comparing the Republican presidential field to "pygmies" and trained seals? ❋ News From Mad Plato (2007)

BLITZER: Because Newt Gingrich implied that the Republican field right now, in his words, were a bunch of "pygmies," "trained seals," he didn't say that directly but he gave that analogy, and some suggesting that there's still an opening for him if he wants to jump in. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As of this writing, I'm looking into the possibility that "pygmies" reportedly captured by the Japanese during WWII were later used as fodder for medical research. ❋ Mac (2006)

He could understand exactly what had happened, except that he had not prevailed over the "pygmies" who had attacked him. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)

Possibly the "pygmies" owe their preservation to this tendency. ❋ Unknown (1888)

At first sight it seems to many people quite simple to account for "pygmies"; they will tell you that the poor creatures are half-starved and so unable to grow to full size. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Even before Homer these stories existed, and the little people were called "pygmies," which means "of the length of the forearm" (Greek, pugmé). ❋ Unknown (1888)

A year later, at a Congressional hearing following disclosure that Yahoo had given the Chinese police information that helped jail a dissident who had used Yahoo e-mail, Lantos called Yahoo executives moral "pygmies" for cooperating with Beijing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(12 / 10 / 2007) The small body size of forest-dwelling "pygmies" evolved as a life history consequence of early death, not as an adaptation to their environment or endurance against starvation, argues a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). ❋ Unknown (2009)