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Mohamed ElBaradei

Mohamed ElBaradei [Arabic: محمد البرادعي] (born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian diplomat, and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2005.

Breaking the Cycle (2003)

 * An interview in the Cairo Times (23 October 2003)

 * My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. He was president of the bar association and was preaching civil liberties and human rights during some of the most repressive years of the Nasser era. He was the focus of a lot of pressure and intimidation, but he stood by his principles. And I think that's a lesson I remember from him — that you stand up for what you believe in.

 * Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... [It] brings us into very dangerous territory and it could be used and abused by any other country. We need to continue to base our security on multilateralism, and on the Security Council.

 * I think we need to continue working hard on developing a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East... unfortunately things are not going in the right direction right now. We need to understand that without comprehensive peace in the Middle East, we have no security.

 * You remember that book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? … Well that's very much true. I find a lot in common in the way I manage things and the way she manages three-year olds. We humans are the same when we are three years old and when we are 50!
 * Comparing his work as an international diplomat to that of his wife, Aida Elkachef, a kindergarten teacher, with a mention of the book by Robert Fulghum.

 * I very much believe that we share the same human values... If you scan through all the religions — monotheistic and others — they all preach the same... I think all our fights, our wars, and all our disagreements are just expressions of frustration at our human condition at a particular time. I don't think it has to do with us believing in different values.

 * I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.

Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction (2004)

 * Op-Ed essay published in The New York Times (12 February 2004)

 * Nuclear proliferation is on the rise. Equipment, material and training were once largely inaccessible. Today, however, there is a sophisticated worldwide network that can deliver systems for producing material usable in weapons. The demand clearly exists: countries remain interested in the illicit acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. If we sit idly by, this trend will continue. Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability — and in some cases they will pursue clandestine weapons programs. The supply network will grow, making it easier to acquire nuclear weapon expertise and materials. Eventually, inevitably, terrorists will gain access to such materials and technology, if not actual weapons. If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

 * A fundamental part of the non-proliferation bargain is the commitment of the five nuclear States recognized under the non-proliferation treaty — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — to move toward disarmament. Recent agreements between Russia and the United States are commendable, but they should be verifiable and irreversible. A clear road map for nuclear disarmament should be established — starting with a major reduction in the 30,000 nuclear warheads still in existence, and bringing into force the long-awaited Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

 * We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security — and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. Similarly, we must abandon the traditional approach of defining security in terms of boundaries — city walls, border patrols, racial and religious groupings. The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources. In such a world, we must combat terrorism with an infectious security culture that crosses borders — an inclusive approach to security based on solidarity and the value of human life. In such a world, weapons of mass destruction have no place.

Nobel lecture (2005)

 * Address in Oslo, Norway (10 December 2005)

 * The International Atomic Energy Agency and I are humbled, proud, delighted and above all strengthened in our resolve by this most worthy of honours.

 * My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them and teach them to read. At the International Atomic Energy Agency, my colleagues and I work to keep nuclear materials out of the reach of extremist groups. We inspect nuclear facilities all over the world, to be sure that peaceful nuclear activities are not being used as a cloak for weapons programmes. My sister-in-law and I are working towards the same goal, through different paths: the security of the human family.

 * Why has this security so far eluded us? I believe it is because our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

 * A recent United Nations High-Level Panel identified five categories of threats that we face: 1. Poverty, Infectious Disease, and Environmental Degradation; 2. Armed Conflict — both within and among states; 3. Organized Crime; 4. Terrorism; and 5. Weapons of Mass Destruction. These are all 'threats without borders' — where traditional notions of national security have become obsolete. We cannot respond to these threats by building more walls, developing bigger weapons, or dispatching more troops. Quite to the contrary. By their very nature, these security threats require primarily multinational cooperation.

 * What is more important is that these are not separate or distinct threats. When we scratch the surface, we find them closely connected and interrelated. We are 1,000 people here today in this august hall. Imagine for a moment that we represent the world's population. These 200 people on my left would be the wealthy of the world, who consume 80 per cent of the available resources. And these 400 people on my right would be living on an income of less than $2 per day. This underprivileged group of people on my right is no less intelligent or less worthy than their fellow human beings on the other side of the aisle. They were simply born into this fate. In the real world, this imbalance in living conditions inevitably leads to inequality of opportunity, and in many cases loss of hope. And what is worse, all too often the plight of the poor is compounded by and results in human rights abuses, a lack of good governance, and a deep sense of injustice. This combination naturally creates a most fertile breeding ground for civil wars, organized crime, and extremism in its different forms. In regions where conflicts have been left to fester for decades, countries continue to look for ways to offset their insecurities or project their 'power'. In some cases, they may be tempted to seek their own weapons of mass destruction, like others who have preceded them.

 * Fifteen years ago, when the Cold War ended, many of us hoped for a new world order to emerge. A world order rooted in human solidarity — a world order that would be equitable, inclusive and effective. But today we are nowhere near that goal. We may have torn down the walls between East and West, but we have yet to build the bridges between North and South — the rich and the poor.

 * Consider our development aid record. Last year, the nations of the world spent over $1 trillion on armaments. But we contributed less than 10 per cent of that amount — a mere $80 billion — as official development assistance to the developing parts of the world, where 850 million people suffer from hunger.

 * My friend James Morris heads the World Food Programme, whose task it is to feed the hungry. He recently told me, "If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry."

 * It should not be a surprise then that poverty continues to breed conflict. Of the 13 million deaths due to armed conflict in the last ten years, 9 million occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, where the poorest of the poor live.

 * Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life. In the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, we all grieved deeply, and expressed outrage at this heinous crime — and rightly so. But many people today are unaware that, as the result of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3.8 million people have lost their lives since 1998. Are we to conclude that our priorities are skewed, and our approaches uneven?

 * There are three main features to this changing landscape: the emergence of an extensive black market in nuclear material and equipment; the proliferation of nuclear weapons and sensitive nuclear technology; and the stagnation in nuclear disarmament. Today, with globalization bringing us ever closer together, if we choose to ignore the insecurities of some, they will soon become the insecurities of all.

 * As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. I have no doubt that, if we hope to escape self-destruction, then nuclear weapons should have no place in our collective conscience, and no role in our security. To that end, we must ensure — absolutely — that no more countries acquire these deadly weapons. We must see to it that nuclear-weapon states take concrete steps towards nuclear disarmament. And we must put in place a security system that does not rely on nuclear deterrence.

 * Are these goals realistic and within reach? I do believe they are. But then three steps are urgently required. First, keep nuclear and radiological material out of the hands of extremist groups. … we are in a race against time. Second, tighten control over the operations for producing the nuclear material that could be used in weapons. Under the current system, any country has the right to master these operations for civilian uses. But in doing so, it also masters the most difficult steps in making a nuclear bomb. To overcome this, I am hoping that we can make these operations multinational — so that no one country can have exclusive control over any such operation.... Third, accelerate disarmament efforts. We still have eight or nine countries who possess nuclear weapons. We still have 27,000 warheads in existence. I believe this is 27,000 too many.

 * A good start would be if the nuclear-weapon states reduced the strategic role given to these weapons. More than 15 years after the end of the Cold War, it is incomprehensible to many that the major nuclear-weapon states operate with their arsenals on hair-trigger alert — such that, in the case of a possible launch of a nuclear attack, their leaders could have only 30 minutes to decide whether to retaliate, risking the devastation of entire nations in a matter of minutes.

 * These are three concrete steps that, I believe, can readily be taken. Protect the material and strengthen verification. Control the fuel cycle. Accelerate disarmament efforts. But that is not enough. The hard part is: how do we create an environment in which nuclear weapons — like slavery or genocide — are regarded as a taboo and a historical anomaly?

 * Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. We seem to agree today that we can share modern technology, but we still refuse to acknowledge that our values — at their very core — are shared values.

 * I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. Shakespeare speaks of every single member of that family in The Merchant of Venice, when he asks: "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" And lest we forget: There is no religion that was founded on intolerance — and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life. Judaism asks that we value the beauty and joy of human existence. Christianity says we should treat our neighbours as we would be treated. Islam declares that killing one person unjustly is the same as killing all of humanity. Hinduism recognizes the entire universe as one family. Buddhism calls on us to cherish the oneness of all creation. Some would say that it is too idealistic to believe in a society based on tolerance and the sanctity of human life, where borders, nationalities and ideologies are of marginal importance. To those I say, this is not idealism, but rather realism, because history has taught us that war rarely resolves our differences. Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones.

 * I have talked about our efforts to combat the misuse of nuclear energy. Let me now tell you how this very same energy is used for the benefit of humankind. At the IAEA, we work daily on every continent to put nuclear and radiation techniques in the service of humankind. In Vietnam, farmers plant rice with greater nutritional value that was developed with IAEA assistance. Throughout Latin America, nuclear technology is being used to map underground aquifers, so that water supplies can be managed sustainably. In Ghana, a new radiotherapy machine is offering cancer treatment to thousands of patients. In the South Pacific, Japanese scientists are using nuclear techniques to study climate change. In India, eight new nuclear plants are under construction, to provide clean electricity for a growing nation — a case in point of the rising expectation for a surge in the use of nuclear energy worldwide. These projects, and a thousand others, exemplify the IAEA ideal: Atoms for Peace. But the expanding use of nuclear energy and technology also makes it crucial that nuclear safety and security are maintained at the highest level.

 * Since the Chernobyl accident, we have worked all over the globe to raise nuclear safety performance. And since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, we have worked with even greater intensity on nuclear security. On both fronts, we have built an international network of legal norms and performance standards. But our most tangible impact has been on the ground. Hundreds of missions, in every part of the world, with international experts making sure nuclear activities are safe and secure. I am very proud of the 2,300 hard working men and women that make up the IAEA staff — the colleagues with whom I share this honour. Some of them are here with me today. We come from over 90 countries. We bring many different perspectives to our work. Our diversity is our strength. We are limited in our authority. We have a very modest budget. And we have no armies. But armed with the strength of our convictions, we will continue to speak truth to power. And we will continue to carry out our mandate with independence and objectivity.

 * The picture I have painted today may have seemed somewhat grim. Let me conclude by telling you why I have hope. I have hope because the positive aspects of globalization are enabling nations and peoples to become politically, economically and socially interdependent, making war an increasingly unacceptable option. Among the 25 members of the European Union, the degree of economic and socio-political dependencies has made the prospect of the use of force to resolve differences almost absurd. The same is emerging with regard to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, with some 55 member countries from Europe, Central Asia and North America. Could these models be expanded to a world model, through the same creative multilateral engagement and active international cooperation, where the strong are just and the weak secure?

 * I have hope because civil society is becoming better informed and more engaged. They are pressing their governments for change — to create democratic societies based on diversity, tolerance and equality. They are proposing creative solutions. They are raising awareness, donating funds, working to transform civic spirit from the local to the global. Working to bring the human family closer together.

 * What is required is a new mindset and a change of heart, to be able to see the person across the ocean as our neighbour. Finally, I have hope because of what I see in my children, and some of their generation. I took my first trip abroad at the age of 19. My children were even more fortunate than I. They had their first exposure to foreign culture as infants, and they were raised in a multicultural environment. And I can say absolutely that my son and daughter are oblivious to colour and race and nationality. They see no difference between their friends Noriko, Mafupo, Justin, Saulo and Hussam; to them, they are only fellow human beings and good friends. Globalization, through travel, media and communication, can also help us — as it has with my children and many of their peers — to see each other simply as human beings.

 * Imagine what would happen if the nations of the world spent as much on development as on building the machines of war. Imagine a world where every human being would live in freedom and dignity. Imagine a world in which we would shed the same tears when a child dies in Darfur or Vancouver. Imagine a world where we would settle our differences through diplomacy and dialogue and not through bombs or bullets. Imagine if the only nuclear weapons remaining were the relics in our museums. Imagine the legacy we could leave to our children. Imagine that such a world is within our grasp.

2009

 * Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon – and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank – and Gaza in particular.
 * Speaking to reporters, October 7, 2009.

Quotes about ElBaradei

 * At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its director general. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the director general has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.
 * Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

 * The overt message is that preventing nuclear proliferation is important...but I think there is a covert message as well: that it is a good idea to have ElBaradei at the IAEA because he was right about Iraq and the administration was wrong... It cannot escape people's attention that this was the man who stood up against the United States and said that Iraq was not reconstituting its nuclear program.
 * Ivo Daalder, of the Brookings Institution, The Washington Post (12 December 2004)

 * If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.
 * Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister, on previous US opposition to ElBaradei. The Washington Post (12 December 2004)

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Leonidas I did not say the quote "Good, then we'll have our battle in the shade," in response to the scouts statement, Dienekes did. The full quote is as follows:

It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh,

"Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade."

-Herodotus, The Histories

Is the "This is Sparta!" quote really historical? I'm pretty sure it was just made up for 300, so it should probably be deleted from this page, awesome though it is. 97.81.248.226 17:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I have now removed it and properly sourced Molon labe! ~ Kalki 17:53, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Taking out the following two quotes:

* Madness? This is Sparta! * Ready your breakfast and eat hearty. For tonight we dine in hell!

Although who ever put it did say it was taken out of the film, these two quotes should be put on the appropriate session: Quotes from the film. Not on the part about the historical character.

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 * If you knew what is good in life, you would abstain from wishing for foreign things. For me it is better to die for Greece than to be monarch over my compatriots.
 * In response to Xerxes' offer of Kingship over all Greece in return for a Spartan surrender at Thermoyplae.

 * Upon being told that the persians were so numerous that their campfires shone like stars in the night. Leonidas replied:
 * "Good, for when i was a young boy, i had always dreamed of reaching the stars with my spear!"

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Talk:Conor Oberst

Maybe put some lyric excerpts in it like the Modest MousePage

The favorite page of indie girls who consulted this for nicks and sigs. I mean, seriously. --201.47.76.122 07:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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I noticed that this page was starting to resemble a page from SongMeanings.net, with multiple lyrics for each song, I counted six on one of them. I have chopped this article down a lot, leaving a maximum of one quote per song, however I may have been a bit too merciless, so if you know more about the artist in question, or the significance of the words to the songs, please feel free to restore certain lyrics. Thanks. Teenagelicks 17:40, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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 * I'd also like to say that you guys produced a really fucked-up president who I despise with all my soul... I think they're evil men doing evil things, dragging us closer to the apocalypse. So fuck them... Fuck it all, because they don't care about us.
 * Before playing Road to Joy in Dallas, Texas, April 16, 2003.

 * Alright this is a love song; I don't know if you guys are into love around here or what but.. I don't know, it's pretty rad.
 * Introducing "First day of my life" in Paris, November 2004

 * Do you guys consider yourselves to live in the country? [audience reaction]... I heard half "yes"es and have "no"s, so I guess you're confused.
 * Live in Fargo, North Dakota November 3, 2007.

 * Don't listen, just leave.
 * A response to an audience member who cried out, "Don't play, just drink." at a concert in New Hampshire, November 2005.

 * I can almost listen to a whole Justin Timberlake song without cringing. I do get a bit bummed out when it comes to Ashlee Simpson though.
 * When asked his opinion on current popular music artists

 * I feel like we've got a lot of good karma stored up here in Columbus. A few years ago we played here and got kicked out of this club because we started a riot while we were playing, a cop threw Mike over a bike, and like, I pushed a cop, so we drove off in our van, playing our song, and wecome back the next day to load all our stuff, we realized left this unmarked, black bag. It's got all our contracts from the shows we played, $12,000 cash, half a bottle of wine, a bottle of vodka, and a joint. And we realize we left it on the sidewalk. We go back to get it, and of course its gone, so I feel like we've got all this good karma here because we probably made someones day. I'd like to think that a single mom picked it up..and.. sent her kids to.. the doctor or something. But uh..probably not. Probably someone just had a big fuckin' party.
 * May 20,2007 Columbus, Ohio

 * I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone
 * A scripted quote from Todd Fink (of The Faint) playing Conor Oberst in a fake interview on the album Fevers & Mirrors

 * I'd rather put a fucking gun to my head than live in your state
 * To concert goers,after finishing a show in Texas

 * Craig Ferguson: See, I love your work, and I-I'm reading that they're comparing you- saying you're the new Bob Dylan and all that, how does that stuff kinda get you, do you like that? Do you not like it? Conor Oberst: Uh, I mean... There's certainly worse things to be called.

 * Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

 * The whole ideology of indie rock doesn't hold any water anymore; it's not that clear-cut. Every time we sell a record, Time Warner gets a dime from our distributor. I already give a ridiculous amount of my income to the United States government, which is probably the most evil organization on the planet as far as killing people; I don't know how many bombs I've purchased with my tax dollars. Unless you're gonna live on a mountain somewhere, you're not gonna be free of the modern world and all the evils that go with it. What you can do is operate with intelligence and be compassionate, help people when you can. Do things not just for money, but for the craft of it.
 * From an interview in "Spin" (April 2007)

 * This next song is about train hopping. I don't know if there are any hobos in the audience...
 * Before singing "If the Brakeman Turns My Way", live in Ferrara, Italy, 17th July 2007.

 * This one goes out to Dick Cheney and his army of satan.
 * In Iowa City before singing "Lets not shit ourselves"

 * This song is about waking up from a really, really long nightmare
 * Before Singing "First day of my life" in London July 2007

 * We're all a little broken. We're all a little twisted. We're all less than we could be or want to be.
 * From an interview in "Filter" (February 2005)

 * Well, I mean...there are certainly worse things to be called
 * When asked by Craig Ferguson about the comparison between him and Bob Dylan.

 * When it rains it pours, they say. My guess is that its those damned English terrorists with their weather machine, trying to ruin our fun.
 * After the roof of the tent collapsed and Oberst was drenched with the collected rainwater. Oxegen Festival, Dublin, July 2007.

 * Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
 * When asked "How drunk is too drunk?"

 * I don't know where those hippies went.
 * Said by him in the new documentary One of My Kind

 * You don't even know me.
 * In response to an audience member who screamed, "I love you, Conor!" at a concert in Philadelphia, 2002.

 * I think your Mom is out front to pick you up.
 * A reply to a young girl who asked 'Is Kirsten Dunst in the audience?'. At a show that Kirsten Dunst was attending.

 * You're a pretty sweet son of a bitch London. I'm talking about the queen.
 * London, November 2009.

 * Is that the library...where they do the Geneology? I just wanna know where to get baptized after I'm dead.
 * at a show in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2009

 * Listen to your parents. Sex... just makes you sad most the time.
 * before singing "Ten Women" in Pioneertown, CA. Sept. 28, 2010.

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Talk:Forgiveness

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I moved the following quote here, because it seems to have been made by someone unnotable:

 * "Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it." - George Roemisch (I think this was Mark Twain)

 * "To give and receive love; to give and receive forgiveness. Love and Forgiveness. They can release you from your pain far beyond what you could ever imagine." - Hanoochi

If anyone can find evidence of notability, please put it here and add the quote back. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:46, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

However, please do not re-add the quotes as "anonymous". Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:40, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission." - This is usually attributed to Grace Hopper, rather than Colin Powell. Is there any evidence for either attribution? All I could find were other quotation lists, most of which attribute it to Hopper. --195.8.190.39 13:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm quite sure that "It is easier to get forgiveness than permission." is older than the Grace Hopper quote. At least in danish ("Tit er det bedre at bede om tilgivelse end om tilladelse."). Some sources attribute it to Immanuel Kant, but it might be a loose rephrasing of some more complicated statement. -- 83.221.146.177 10:24, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Michael L McCune

Always forgive your enemies. This relieves them and causes them to relieve themselves all over you. - Unknown

"Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it." - George Roemisch (I think this was Mark Twain) NOT Twain...it is Roemisch. Entire poem: Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the wind blown bud which blooms in placid beauty at Verdun. Forgiveness is the tiny slate gray sparrow which has built it's nest of twigs and string among the shards of glass upon the wall of shame. Forgiveness is the child who laughs in merry ecstasy beneath the toothed fence that closes in DaNang. Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it. Forgiveness is the broken dream which hides itself within the corner of the mind called forgetfulness, so that it will not bring pain to the dreamer. Forgiveness is the reed which stands up straight and green, when nature's mighty rampage halts, full spent. Forgiveness is a God, who will not leave us after all we've done.

George Roemisch

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 * "Assuming you're not pregnant, in jail, and there's no body in your basement, I don't think I'll mind." - Alex Keyes
 * "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean." - Dag Hammarskjold
 * "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it" - George Roemisch
 * "Forgiveness is the last resort, after victory seems impossible, or trivial" - Anonymous
 * "He who forgives ends the quarrel." - Anonymous
 * "If one knows thee not or a blind man scolds thee, do not become angry." - Anonymous (claimed to be an African proverb by The Journal of Negro History, Volume I. Jan. 1916)
 * "To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love." - Walter Lippmann
 * Forgiveness is the best form of revenge. - Italian Proverb.
 * "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

Excellent source on violets and forgiveness quote
This site called "Quote Investigator" explains several sources for the violet quote. Note, none of them are Mark Twain. The first citation is from Sir William Jones in his "The Philosophy of the Asiatics" in 1794:

…the beautiful Aryá couplet, which was written at least three centuries before our era, and which pronounces the duty of a good man, even in the moment of his destruction to consist not only in forgiving, but even in a desire of benefiting, his destroyer, as the Sandal-tree, in the instant of its overthrow, sheds perfume on the axe, which fells it…

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 * Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
 * Buddha

 * Among the Protestant Reformers, John Wesley stated that forgiveness is an "...act of God the Father, hereby, for the sake of the propitiation made by the blood of his Son, he 'showeth forth his righteousness (or mercy)..."

 * The Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter1, verse 2 states that ”To be free shun the experiences of the senses like poison. Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, simplicity, truth.” Another thing to be understood is that karma basically means the cycle of cause and effect. If you forgive someone who harms you, you are nullifying the effect and there by the cause. By forgiving and not reacting, not only are you freeing yourself from bad karma, but through forgiving your enemy you are freeing him of his karma. In chapter 5, verse 26 of the Bhagwad Gita, Lord Krishna states that the peace of God is there for those who are free from desires and wrath(hatred).

 * Hindus believe in the philosophy of karma. God in the Veda (Yayur-Veda 7:48) states that each and every act good or bad has a consequence. Man is free to do good or bad, sins or pious deeds but result is always rewarded by God. One has to face the result as sorrow or happiness, respectively for a bad deed or good deed. The concept of performing atonement from one's wrongdoing (Prayaschittha — Sanskrit: Penance), and asking for forgiveness is very much a part of the practice of Hinduism.

Always forgive your enemies ...
I deleted "Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde, quoted in The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958) by Fritz Heider, p. 269" based on "The linkage to Wilde appears to be spurious. The true originator of the quotation remains unknown." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/06/11/annoy/. If reinserted it would need to be with something along the lines misattributed to Wilde, author unknown (talk) 15:46, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

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Lucy Lawless

Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan on 29 March 1968) is a New Zealand actress and singer best known for playing the title character of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess and for her role as Number Three on the series Battlestar Galactica.

Quotes

 * My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.
 * Jamie Sotonoff (October 5, 2007) "The soulful side of a warrior princess", Daily Herald, p. 18.

 * So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.
 * On her acting roles after the completion of Xena — reported in Rob Salem (October 30, 2005) "Xena vs. Mother Nature - Locusts, mutant bats, a vast flood these are the terrors that torment Lucy Lawless, writes Rob Salem", The Toronto Star, p. C05.

 * They either overcompensate for the way they feel and are incredibly sycophantic or incredibly brusque in order to prove they don't think you're superior.
 * Discussing the differences between her fans in the United States and those in New Zealand— reported in Sarah Stuart (January 12, 2003) "Superstars in our midst", Sunday Star Times, p. A1.

 * The role was very physically challenging and I am not athletic and have never wanted to be. I hate it in fact. I don't go to gyms and for me to have to stay in shape for the role became mind over matter.
 * On finishing the last episode of Xena — reported in Kylie Keogh (May 31, 2001) "Xena shoots back", The Daily Telegraph, p. T05.

 * I'm gonna walk off wearing the outfit and I'm going to drive home in it.
 * Describing what she will do with her Xena costume after the last day of filming — reported in Raymond A. Edel and Virginia Rohan (February 8, 2001) "People", The Record, p. A2.

 * What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
 * Remarking on who would win in a fight, in a pair-up between her character Xena and Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer — reported in San Antonio Express-News staff (May 16, 2000) San Antonio Express-News, "'Dirty Dancing' sequel set", p. 4D.

 * When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
 * On her decision not to pursue a career in grand opera, in favor of acting roles in television and film — reported in Times wires (April 11, 1998) "Television Q&A", St. Petersburg Times, p. 13D.

 * At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.
 * Robin Eggar (July 27, 1997) "Is it a bird? - Interview", The Sunday Times, p. Style 8.

 * They're also surprised I'm only 6 feet tall. They expect someone much bigger. They say I'm younger and prettier in person, which I like.
 * On Xena fans' impression of Lawless when they encounter her in person — reported in Larry Bonko (March 10, 1997) "Hero Worship: Hercules. Xena. They're Tough. They're Sexy. And in the World of TV Syndication, They're Muscling Out the Competition", The Virginian-Pilot, p. E1.

 * Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
 * Benjamin Morrison (January 14, 1997) "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE", The Times-Picayune, p. F1.

 * Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.
 * Christy Slewinski, New York Daily News (September 29, 1996) "Lucy Lawless is a Star on the Strength of 'Xena'", The Seattle Times, p. 21.

 * Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.
 * Mike O'Neill (July 26, 1996) "Someone strong", The Tampa Tribune, p. 2.

 * I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.
 * Walt Belcher (May 25, 1996) "'Reformed villain' cuts men to size", The Tampa Tribune, p. 1.

 * It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.
 * On balancing work and family-life — reported in Barbara Yost, The Arizona Republic (April 15, 1996) "Actress Easily Conquers Role in 'Xena: Warrior Princess'", Chicago Tribune, p. 5.

About

 * Lucy's got two feet on the ground; she's very, very strong and yet has a wonderful soft side that she reveals here. She's a dream to work with.
 * Frank von Zerneck, on her work in the CBS movie Vampire Bats — reported in Associated Press (October 28, 2005) "Lawless takes on 'Vampire Bats'", Chicago Tribune, p. 48.

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Hi. I have reverted your changes to Che Guevara. The quote you added already appears -- under "misattributions". Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:26, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) is a direct-to-DVD and Internet downloadable parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5, part of a series of Finnish Star Wreck parody digital animations and movies. It tells the story of how P-Fleet Captain James B. Pirk, trapped in Earth's past, establishes himself as Emperor, recreates P-Fleet, and accidentally runs across Babel-13, a parallel universe's Earth-run space station, while trying to conquer new worlds. It mocks not only general themes within the two television series, but also recognizable scenes and storylines from specific episodes of the shows (not to mention other films, shows, and current cultural phenomena).

Dialogue

 * [Russian President Ulyanov looks at the Earth on the viewscreen of the CPP Kickstart.]
 * Ulyanov: I don't think I'm in Moscow anymore.

 * [On Babel-13, Garybrandy tells Sherrypie that Lt. Kefir's Star Flurry is missing.]
 * Garybrandy: In the morning, I sent a patrol out. This is all they found.
 * [He shows Sherrypie a small crystal.]
 * Sherrypie: Oh my God.
 * Garybrandy: What?
 * Sherrypie: Aliens have crystallized Kefir!
 * Garybrandy: Jonny, this is a data crystal. From Kefir's flight recorder.
 * [Sherrypie and Garybrandy watch the recording of the CPP Kalinka attacking Kefir.]
 * Sherrypie: The prophecies of the Minibar are coming true. A great darkness will come, and we're all going to die.
 * Garybrandy: Jonny, you're scaring me. "The One to rule them all and in the darkness bind them", I've read it.
 * Garybrandy: Jonny, you're scaring me. "The One to rule them all and in the darkness bind them", I've read it.

 * powerplant worker: Fukov! where did you say you worked before coming here?
 * Fukov: Chernobyl, sir!
 * powerplant worker: ok! (to another worker) chernobyl...why does that ring a bell? chernobyl...cherno...(suddenly remembering th chernobyl incident) CHERNOBYL! FUKOV!

 * [As the P-Fleet ships approach, Ivanovitsa interrupts Sherrypie's long talk of keeping the peace.]
 * Ivanovitsa: Captain, this is hardly the time.
 * Sherrypie: This is a question of principle. It is my right to make speeches, and I swear that no one will deny me it.

 * [Preface advertisement each time a B-13 communication begins…]
 * Baabcom Voice: Baabcom — Cybercool Connections with Pride.

 * Ivanovitsa: The Backgammon is being overpowered… and we can't last long, either.
 * Sherrypie: Damn, this doesn't look good. I'm afraid we have only one recourse.
 * Ivanovitsa: You don't mean…?
 * Sherrypie: Yes. We have to stall for time. I'm giving a speech!

 * [On the way to B-13, Kickstart security man Lt. Twinklemagnet turns to a colleague.]
 * Twinklemagnet: Hey kid, is your insurance in order?

 * [Ivanovitsa greets Pirk in the landing bay.]
 * Pirk: Where's Sherrypie?
 * Ivanovitsa: He couldn't stand defeat. He shot himself in the head… three times.
 * [Anticipating a rendezvous with Ivanovitsa, Pirk gives shore leave orders to his crew.]
 * Pirk: Oh, and nobody disturb me for the next fift— hour!
 * Pirk: Oh, and nobody disturb me for the next fift— hour!

 * [In the B-13 C&C, the monitors suddenly flash a warning showing hyperspace arrivals.]
 * P-Fleet Soldier: Wait a minute! What's that?
 * B-13 Bridge Officer: Nothing. Just a screen-saver.

 * [Captain Sherrypie's holographic image appears over a group of lounging P-Fleet soldiers.]
 * Sherrypie: To all P-Fleet personnel who surrender without resistance, I promise a fair court-martial and a swift execution.
 * [As the men run, a holographic page is handed to the image of Sherrypie.]
 * Sherrypie: There is a ship, registration ZEX-514, parked aft of the station in a handicap space. Will the owner move it ASAP.

 * [With Pirk on B-13, the Kickstart faces the Sherrypie's reinforced fleet.]
 * Commander Info: Our losses should not exceed 68.4 percent.
 * Dwarf: [sighs] I guess it's a passable day to die.

 * Dwarf: I've had it with you, binary brains!
 * [Dwarf pulls out a small black device and pokes it repeatedly in Commander Info's direction, without effect.]
 * Info: Whatever you may think, the VCR remote stop button doesn't harm me.
 * Info: Whatever you may think, the VCR remote stop button doesn't harm me.

 * [Excavator fires its massive main gun, disintegrating a ship and barely missing Kickstart.]
 * Pirk: Jefferson's jellies! Retreat, fast!
 * [As Excavator's power returns, the targeting computer shows a reboot screen.]
 * [As Excavator's power returns, the targeting computer shows a reboot screen.]

 * Festerbester: The Corps is Momma and Granny.

 * [Excavator finally scores a hit on Kickstart.]
 * Dwarf: Massive damage taken!
 * Info: One twist drive destroyed!
 * Dwarf: Lost connections for twinkle banks 3 through 11!
 * Info: Computer helpdesk went bankrupt!
 * Dwarf: Halludeck going offline!
 * Info: Coffee-o-Matic damaged beyond repair!

 * [A mad Pirk strikes a very Khan-like pose on Kalinka's bridge as he fires at Excavator.]
 * Pirk: See you in Reykjavik!

Partial cast

 * Commander Info — Antti Satama
 * Emperor Pirk — Samuli Torssonen
 * Commander Dwarf — Timo Vuorensola
 * Festerbester — Janos Honkonen
 * President Ulyanov — Kari Väänänen
 * Lieutenant Twinklemagnet — Timo Pekurinen
 * Captain Jonny K. Sherrypie — Atte Joutsen
 * Security Chief Mikhail Garybrandy — Jari Ahola
 * Commander Susannah Ivanovitsa — Satu Heliö

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Bombing of Guernica

The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths during the Spanish Civil War. The raid by planes of the Nazi German Luftwaffe "Condor Legion" and the Italian Fascist Aviazione Legionaria was called Operation Rügen. The bombing is considered one of the first raids in the history of modern military aviation on a defenseless civilian population.

Quotes

 * Último aviso: he decidido terminar rápidamente la guerra en el Norte de España. Quienes no sean autores de asesinatos y depongan las armas o se entreguen serán respetados en vidas y haciendas. Si vuestra sumisión no es inmediata arrasaré Vizcaya empezando por las industrias de guerra. Tengo medios sobrados para ello.
 * Last warning: I have decided to end the war in the North of Spain quickly. Those who have not committed murders and who lay down their arms or turn themselves in will see their lives and property respected. If your submission is not immediate, I will wipe out Vizcaya, beginning with the industries of war. I have more than enough means to do it.
 * General Emilio Mola

 * Guernica fue Punto Hoy no es más que brasa cenizas Punto En este momento arde todavía pueblo tres horas bombardeo intensísimo bombas incendiarias lo han destrozado totalmente Punto Aldasoro, Torre, yo llegamos allí espantados Punto Diez mil mujeres niños huyen carreteras temiendo ser ametrallados por aviación mañana al amanecer como lo fueron esta tarde Punto Ante esta catástrofe con amenaza hecha hoy mismo destrozar incendiar Bilbao esta semana sólo suplicamos háganse cargo situación angustiosa
 * Guernica was Stop Today it is no more than embers ashes Stop In this moment town still burning three hours intense bombardment incendiary bombs have totally destroyed it Stop Aldasoro, Torre, I arrived there horrified Stop Ten thousand women children fleeing highways fearing being machine-gunned by aircraft tomorrow at dawn as they were this afternoon Stop Before this catastrophe with threat made just today to destroy burn Bilbao this week we entreat only take charge dreadful situation
 * Telesforo Monzón, telegram to the President of the Council of Ministers, 27 April 1937

 * Ante Dios y ante la Historia que a todos nos ha de juzgar, afirmo que durante tres horas y media los aviones alemanes bombardearon con saña desconocida la población civil indefensa de la histórica villa de Gernika reduciéndola a cenizas, persiguiendo con el fuego de ametralladora a mujeres y niños, que han perecido en gran número huyendo los demás alocados por el terror.
 * Before God and before History which must judge us all, I affirm that for three and one-half hours, German planes bombarded with unheard-of fury the defenceless civilian population of the historic city of Gernika, reducing it to ashes, chasing with machine-gun fire women and children who perished in great number, fleeing the stampede of others driven mad by panic.
 * José Antonio Aguirre, lehendakari of the Basque Country

 * Aguirre miente. Nosotros hemos respetado Guernica, como respetamos todo lo español.
 * Aguirre is lying. We have respected Guernica, as we respect everything Spanish.
 * Francisco Franco

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User talk:Pnagy~enwikiquote

"In researching the world's religions and ideologies, I have found one maxim useful: Distrust any good that needs evil to justify it."

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User talk:24.184.173.23

Deliberate vandalism can result in IP addresses being blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 19:44, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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Helen Hayes

 Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; 10 October 1900 – 17 March 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years. She eventually received the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was one of 16 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (an EGOT). She was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting; as of December 2020, the only other person to have accomplished both is Rita Moreno. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986.

Quotes

 * The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
 * Guideposts (January 1960)

 * One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
 * A Gift of Joy (with Lewis Funke, 1965), p. 11

 * Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
 * Showcase (1966) by Roy Newquist

 * An actress always knows when she’s hit it and mostly you haven’t; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that’s good enough for one life.
 * The Times (19 December 1984)

 * People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach "retirement" age seem very admirable to me.
 * My Life in Three Acts (1990) Ch. 19

 * If you rest, you rust.
 * My Life in Three Acts (1990) Ch. 19

On Reflection (1968)

 * Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
 * Ch. 1

 * We are indeed a strange lot! There are times we doubt that we have any emotions we can honestly call our own. I have approached every dynamic scene change in my life the same way. When I married Charlie MacArthur, I sat down and wondered how I could play the best wife that ever was.... My love for him was the truest thing in my life; but it was still important that I love him with proper effect, that I act loving him with great style, that I achieve the ultimate in wifedom.
 * Thoughts on actors, Ch. 1

 * The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn’t learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.
 * Ch. 3

 * Actors work and slave — and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
 * Ch. 4

 * The flattering, if arbitrary, label, First Lady of the Theatre, takes its toll. The demands are great, not only in energy but eventually in dramatic focus. It is difficult, if not impossible, for a star to occupy an inch of space without bursting seams, cramping everyone else’s style and unbalancing a play. No matter how self-effacing a famous player may be, he makes an entrance as a casual neighbor and the audience interest shifts to the house next door.
 * Ch. 4

 * The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo’s Camille pale.
 * Ch. 6

 * Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.
 * Ch. 10

 * Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition.
 * Ch. 12

 * The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
 * Ch. 14

I cry out for order and find it only in art.
 * The good die young — but not always. The wicked prevail — but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. O'Neil's dramas are slapstick farces, Albee's riddles are simple explanations, Pinter's threatening and threatened anti-heroes are innocent babes — next to life and the living.
 * Ch. 14

 * Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
 * Ch. 14

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Tom Carroll (surfer)

Tom Carroll (born 29 November 1961 in Newport, New South Wales) is a former Australian surfer. He won the Australian Junior Title in 1978, the Pro Juniors in 1977 and 1980, the 1983 and 1984 ASP World Title, and the 1987 Pipe Masters. He was the first surfing millionaire after signing a contract with Quiksilver in 1989.

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 * Now I have no idea how this has come about - probably a rumour spread by my enemies - but apparently there's a general belief among some sections of the surf community that I am a bit of a drop-in artist.
 * Carroll's "bronzed emperor" column in Australia's Surfing Life magazine (edition unknown, the column about drop-ins).

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Just for Fun

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary is an autobiography of Linus Torvalds, the Finnish software developer who created Linux and (later) Git. The book was published in 2001. Torvalds wrote it with journalist David Diamond, who had interviewed him in 1999 for the San Jose Mercury News.

In print editions of the text, Diamond's sections appear in italics. Diamond and Torvalds both write in the first person, but in editions of the abridged audiobook, Diamond reads Torvalds' parts in the third person.

Quotes

 * You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
 * Linus Torvalds, as paraphrased by his mother, Anna "Mikke" Torvalds, in her essay "On Raising Linus from a Very Small Nerd". David Diamond quotes the essay in Chapter IV of "Birth of an Operating System". Anna tells the anecdote to illustrate Linus's respect for his sister, despite their arguments.
 * I'm personally convinced that computer science has a lot in common with physics. Both are about how the world works at a rather fundamental level. The difference, of course, is that while in physics you're supposed to figure out how the world is made up, in computer science you create the world. Within the confines of the computer, you're the creator. You get to ultimately control everything that happens. If you're good enough, you can be God. On a small scale.
 * Linus Torvalds. "Birth of an Operating System", Chapter V: "The Beauty of Programming"
 * The course was so basic—this was the fall of 1993, before the popularity of the Internet—my homework assignment for the class one day was to send me email. It sounds absurd today, but I said: “For homework, send me email.” Other students’ emails contained simple test messages, or unmemorable notes about the class. Tove asked me out for a date. I married the first woman to approach me electronically.
 * Linus Torvalds. "Birth of an Operating System", Chapter XII
 * Jobs made a big point of the fact that Mach’s low-level kernel is open source. He sort of played down the flaw in the setup: Who cares if the basic operating system, the real low-core stuff, is open source if you then have the Mac layer on top, which is not open source? He had no way of knowing that my personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, I think it’s a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and managed to even make up a few of its own."
 * Linus Torvalds. "King of the Ball", Chapter IV
 * Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.
 * Linus Torvalds. "King of the Ball", Chapter VII
 * I wanted to introduce him to surfing, but it made sense to start out with boogie-boarding. We drove over to Half Moon Bay one afternoon in early May, rented wet suits and boards, and Linus protested heavily at the thought of wading into the chilly waters of the Pacific, even in a wet suit. But within minutes something amazing happened: He delighted in riding the waves. “This is great,” he enthused like a five-year old at one point, slapping me a high five. Of course, about fifteen minutes later he developed a nasty leg cramp—from being so out of shape, he reasoned—and had to stop. (When the cramp hit, he just sat there in the white water, apparently unable to get up, as waves washed over him. My first thought was: “Oh fuck. If I kill this guy, I’ll have millions of nerds on my case.”)
 * David Diamond. "King of the Ball", "Fame and Fortune"

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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

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 * ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
 * Laboratory journal entry #10,040 (19 March 1849); published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones, p. 248. This has sometimes been quoted partially as "Nothing is too wonderful to be true," and can be seen engraved above the doorway of the south entrance to the Humanities Building at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.

 * It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.
 * Experimental Researches in Electricity, Vol. 2 (1834) p. 257

 * I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it — and I therefore hope and am fully persuaded that you are working. Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us (as a reward for our humility in being reproved) an absolute advancement in knowledge.
 * Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851); letter 2411, edited by

 * A man who makes assertions, or draws conclusions, regarding any given case, ought to be competent to investigate it. He has no right to throw the  onus on  others, declaring it their duly to prove him   right or wrong. His duty is to demonstrate the truth of that which he asserts, or to cease from asserting. The men he calls upon to consider and judge have enough to do with themselves, in the examination, correction, or verification of their own views. The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized.
 * "Observations on Mental Education" (May 6, 1854) a lecture before His Royal Highness The  Prince Consort and the  Members of the Royal Institution, Lectures on Education (1855) as quoted in Faraday's Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (1859) p. 486.

 * I was at first almost frightened when I saw such mathematical force made to bear upon the subject, and then wondered to see that the subject stood it so well.
 * Letter to James Clerk Maxwell (25 March 1857), commenting on Maxwell's paper titled "On Faraday's Lines of Force"; letter published in The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence (1884), edited by Lewis Campbell and William Garnett, p. 200; also in Coming of Age in the Milky Way (2003) by Timothy Ferris, p. 186

 * But still try, for who knows what is possible...
 * As quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones, p. 483; also engraved above the doorways of the Pfahler Hall of Science at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania (see photo).

 * If you would cause your view … to be acknowledged by scientific men; you would do a great service to science. If you would even get them to say yes or no to your conclusions it would help to clear the future progress. I believe some hesitate because they do not like their thoughts disturbed.
 * Life and Letters, 2:389.

 * Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover, difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires. It is impossible for any one who has not been constrained, by the course of his occupation and thoughts, to a habit of continual self-correction, to be aware of the amount of error in relation to judgment arising from this tendency. The force of the temptation which urges us to seek for such evidence and appearances as are in favour of our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them, is wonderfully great. In this respect we are all, more or less, active promoters of error. In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
 * Royal Institution Lecture On Mental Education (6 May 1854), as reprinted in Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, by Michael Faraday, 1859, pp 474-475, emphasis verbatim.

 * I have not been at work except in turning the tables upon table turners – nor should I have done that but that so many enquiries poured in upon me that I thought it better to stop the inpouring flood by letting all know at once what my views and thoughts were. What a weak credulous, incredulous, unbelieving superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me (and apart from that spirit which God has placed in each) and accepting for a moment that average as a standard, I should far prefer the obedience affections and instinct of a dog before it. Do not whisper this however to others. There is one above who worketh in all things and who governs even in the midst of that misrule to which the tendencies and powers of man are so easily perverted.
 * The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862, p.214-215. 1899

 * I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
 * Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403

 * We learn by such results as these, what is the kind of education that science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing, not to despise the small beginnings — they precede of necessity all great things. Vesicles make clouds; they are trifles light as air, but then they make drops, and drops make showers, rain makes torrents and rivers, and these can alter the face of a country, and even keep the ocean to its proper fulness and use. It teaches a continual comparison of the small and great, and that under differences almost approaching the infinite, for the small as often contains the great in principle, as the great does the small; and thus the mind becomes comprehensive. It teaches to deduce principles carefully, to hold them firmly, or to suspend the judgment, to discover and obey law, and by it to be bold in applying to the greatest what we know of the smallest. It teaches us first by tutors and books, to learn that which is already known to others, and then by the light and methods which belong to science to learn for ourselves and for others; so making a fruitful return to man in the future for that which we have obtained from the men of the past.
 * Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403

 * Bacon in his instruction tells us that the scientific student ought not to be as the ant, who gathers merely, nor as the spider who spins from her own bowels, but rather as the bee who both gathers and produces. All this is true of the teaching afforded by any part of physical science. Electricity is often called wonderful, beautiful; but it is so only in common with the other forces of nature. The beauty of electricity or of any other force is not that the power is mysterious, and unexpected, touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under law, and that the taught intellect can even now govern it largely. The human mind is placed above, and not beneath it, and it is in such a point of view that the mental education afforded by science is rendered super-eminent in dignity, in practical application and utility; for by enabling the mind to apply the natural power through law, it conveys the gifts of God to man.
 * Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 404

 * There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
 * The Chemical History of a Candle (1860)

 * No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); — and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.
 * Letter of Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schönbein (19 September 1861); see also The Letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862 (1899), edited by Georg W. A. Kahlbaum and Francis V. Darbishire, p. 349

 * I am, I hope, very thankful that in the withdrawal of the powers and things of life, the good hope is left with me, which makes the contemplation of death a comfort — not a fear. Such peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope, and there is the rest for those who )like you and me) are drawing near the latter end of our terms here below. I do not know, however why I should join you with me in years. I forget your age, but this I know (and feel as well) that next Sabbath day (the 22nd) I shall complete my 70th year. 'I can hardly think myself so old as I write to you — so much of cheerful spirit, ease and general health is left to me, and if my memory fails, why it causes that I forget troubles'' as well as pleasure and the end is, I am happy and content.
 * Letter to Auguste de la Rive (1861), as quoted in The Philosopher's Tree : A Selection of Michael Faraday's Writings (1999) edited by Peter Day, p. 199

 * The secret is comprised in three words — Work, Finish, Publish.
 * His well-known advice to the young William Crookes, who had asked him the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, as quoted in Michael Faraday (1874) by John Hall Gladstone, Section IV : His Method of Working, p. 123; this is also often rendered: "Work. Finish. Publish."

 * Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
 * When asked about his speculations on life beyond death, as quoted in The Homiletic Review (April 1896), p. 442

 * The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
 * As quoted in Treasury of the Christian Faith : An Encyclopedic Handbook of the Range and Witness of Christianity (1949) by Stanley Irving Stuber and Thomas Curtis Clark, p. 807

 * The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
 * As quoted in A Random Walk in Science (1973) by Robert L. Weber, p. 76

 * As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around — so sits and scribbles Mike.
 * Of himself and his writing abilities, as quoted in A Random Walk in Science (1973) by Robert L. Weber, p. 76

 * Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.
 * Penciled note on a scrap of paper in the early 1840's following a physical and mental breakdown, possibly due to mercury poisoning.
 * Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Michael Faraday: His Life and Work (1898)

 * I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
 * Last words, answering the question "Have you ever pondered by yourself what will be your occupation in the next world?", as quoted in The Speaker's QuoteBook (1997) edited by Roy B. Zuck, p. 108

Disputed

 * An intimate friend of Faraday once described to me how, when Faraday was endeavouring to explain to Gladstone and several others an important new discovery in science Gladstone's only commentary was “but, after all, what use is it?” “Why, sir,” replied Faraday, “there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!”
 * By William Edward Hartpole Lecky, in Democracy and Liberty (1899, p. xxxi). Lecky's account is then subsequently quoted by R. A. Gregory in Discovery Or The Spirit And Service Of Science (1918, p. 3). Note that Lecky's account makes no reference to electricity. Subsequently, Alan Mackay (in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye : A Selection of Scientific Quotations, 1977, p. 56) gives the variant, "One day, sir, you may tax it", and adds the embellishment that the discovery is electricity. Mackay claims his source is Gregory (Discovery), but Gregory's quote differs and and makes no mention of electricity. Oxford Essential Quotations correctly refers to Lecky but also incorrectly adds the embellishment that the discovery was electricity. According to Snopes in "Long Ago and Faraday", it is most likely an invented quotation, but that Snopes article doesn't seem to be aware of Lecky's account.

Quotes about Faraday

 * Faraday found no conflict between his religious beliefs and his activities as a scientist and philosopher. He viewed his discoveries of nature's laws as part of the continual process of "reading the book of nature", no different in principle from the process of reading the Bible to discover God's laws. A strong sense of the unity of God and nature pervaded Faraday's life and work.
 * Jim Baggot, in "The myth of Michael Faraday: Michael Faraday was not just one of Britain's greatest experimenters. A closer look at the man and his work reveals that he was also a clever theoretician" in New Scientist No. 1787 (21 September 1991)

 * Faraday was the first scientist to realise the enormous importance of the electromagnetic field. He saw in it a reality of a new category differing from matter. It was capable of transmitting effects from place to place, and was not to be likened to a mere mathematical fiction such as the gravitational field was then assumed to be. In his opinion, the phenomena of electricity and magnetism should be approached via the field rather than via the charged bodies and currents. In other words, according to Faraday, when a current was flowing along a wire, the most important aspect of the phenomenon lay not in the current itself but in the fields of electric and magnetic force distributed throughout space in the current's vicinity. It is this elevation of the field to a position of preeminence that is often called the pure physics of the field. Faraday was not a mathematician and was unable to co-ordinate the phenomena he foresaw in a mathematical way, and derive the full benefit from his ideas. Before dying, however, he entrusted this task to his colleague Maxwell; and one of the most astonishing theories of science, eclipsed only in recent years by Einstein's theory of relativity, was the outcome.
 * A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927) p. 126

 * If the idea of physical reality had ceased to be purely atomic, it still remained for the time being purely mechanistic; people still tried to explain all events as the motion of inert masses; indeed no other way of looking at things seemed conceivable. Then came the great change, which will be associated for all time with the names of Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, and Hertz.
 * Albert Einstein, "Clerk Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality" in Essays in Science (1934)

 * Would Faraday have discovered the law of electromagnetic induction if he had received a regular college education?
 * Albert Einstein, "On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation," Scientific American 182, no. 4 (April 1950): 14.

 * With the realization that electric currents make magnetic fields, people immediately suggested that, somehow or other, magnets might also make electric fields. Various experiments were tried. For example, two wires were placed parallel to each other and a current was passed through one of them in the hope of finding a current in the other. The thought was that the magnetic field might in some way drag the electrons along in the second wire, giving some such law as "likes prefer to move alike." With the largest available current and the most sensitive galvanometer to detect any current, the result was negative. Large magnets next to wires also produced no observed effects. Finally, Faraday discovered in 1840 the essential feature that had been missed—that electric effects exist only when there is something changing. If one of a pair of wires has a changing current, a current is induced in the other, or if a magnet is moved near an electric circuit, there is a current. We say that currents are induced. This was the induction effect discovered by Faraday. It transformed the rather dull subject of static fields into a very exciting dynamic subject with an enormous range of wonderful phenomena.
 * Richard Feynman: (1964). 16–1. Motors and generators in Chapter 16. Induced Currents, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II, Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

 * When his faculties were fading fast, he would sit long at the western window, watching the glories of the sunset; and one day, when his wife drew his attention to a beautiful rainbow that spanned the sky, he looked beyond the falling shower and the many-colored arch, and observed, "He hath set his testimony in the heavens." On August 25, 1867, quietly, almost imperceptively, came the release. There was a philosopher less on earth, and a saint more in heaven.
 * John Hall Gladstone, in Michael Faraday (1873), p. 58

It was the quantitative relationship between electrochemical change and current which interested Faraday''' and enabled him to correlate the mass of experimental data that had accumulated since 1800. '''Faraday's laws of electrolysis, which were published in 1833, state: (1) that the amount of chemical decomposition produced by an electric current (that is, the mass of substance deposited or dissolved at an electrode) is proportional to the quantity of electricity passed. (2) that the amounts of different substances released or dissolved at electrodes by the same quantity of electricity are proportional to their chemical equivalents.''' From the second law, it follows that the amount of electricity required to liberate or dissolve one equivalent weight of any substance by electrolysis is constant. It was not until after Faraday's death that the significance of his laws of electrolysis for atomic theory was realized. In 1881 von Helmholtz pointed out that if elementary substances are composed of atoms, it follows from Faraday's laws of electrolysis that electricity also is composed of elementary portions which behave like atoms of electricity. Investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases led to the identification of the electron as the fundamental unit of electricity at the end of the century. Faraday's positive and negative ions are therefore atoms (or groups of atoms or radicals)) with a deficiency or an excess of an integral number of electrons, where the integral number is the valency of the atom. The ions move in opposite directions through the solution to the electrodes where their charges are neutralised, causing them to be discharged to neutral atoms or radicals. These are the primary electrode reactions, of which the deposition of silver on a platinum cathode in the silver coulometer is a typical example.
 * Study of the conduction of electricity in liquids became possible at the beginning of the nineteenth century, following the discovery of the electrolytic cell by Volta in 1800, which provided the first continuous source of electric current. It was soon discovered that the conduction of electricity by solutions is accompanied by chemical reactions at the electrodes which serve to conduct the current into and out of the solution. Nicholson and Carlisle demonstrated the decomposition of water into hydrogen and oxygen by a current in 1801. Davy's discovery of sodium and potassium metals by electrolysis of moist soda and [caustic] potash was a striking example of the novelty of electrochemical decomposition. '''Many of the phenomena of electrolysis were already known when Michael Faraday began his researches.
 * A. Horsfield, "The Faraday and Its Significance in Determining the Fundamental Constants," in Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants; Proceedings (1971) Issue 343, U.S. National Bureau of Standards

 * He was little interested mathematics or theory; for example, when his ideas on magnetic fields were extensively developed later by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Faraday was little concerned with the results. His own scientific career was characterized by simple ideas and simple experiments.
 * Aaron J. Ihde, The Development of Modern Chemistry, Chapter V, p. 136

 * In 1831 his original researches began to center about the relation of electricity and magnetism. ...Even as early as 1824 he had noticed the effects of a current of electricity upon a magnet. Now he found that this electrical action could be increased if the wire carrying the current was made into a coil. From that point he went on to study the push or pulling action of the coil upon the magnet, the effect of having a coil of more turns, and a way by which the coil and magnet, if free to move, could be made to move around each other. He was working out the principles that operate in today's electric motors. By 1831 he had reversed the problem... He had shown that the mere motion of the magnet within a closed-end coil was enough to set moving through the coil a small current that had not been there before. He called this new current an "induced" one and proceeded to study how the current could be increased in its quantity and intensity. The experimental results were revolutionary. The principles of induction discovered by Faraday are used today in telephones, induction coils, electric generators, transformers, the motors of electric clocks, and dozens of other pieces of electrical equipment.
 * Keith Gordon Irwin, "Michael Faraday and His Work," (Nov, 1959) Introduction to the Explorer Edition, The Chemical HIstory of a Candle (1960) by Michael Faraday

 * As a philosopher, his first great characteristic was the trust which he put in facts. He said of himself, "In early life I was a very lively imaginative person, who could believe in the Arabian Nights as easily as in the Encyclopedia, but facts were important to me, and saved me. I could trust a fact." Over and over again he showed his love of experiments in his writings and lectures: "Without experiment I am nothing." "But still try, for who knows what is possible?" "All our theories are fixed upon uncertain data, and all of them want alteration and support from facts." "One thing, however, is fortunate, which is, that whatever our opinions, they do not alter nor derange the laws of nature." His second great characteristic was his imagination. It rose sometimes to divination, or scientific second sight, and led him to anticipate results that he or others afterwards proved to be true.
 * Henry Bence Jones, in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, p. 483

 * I have been favoured by a sight of the forthcoming series of Dr. Faraday's admirable "Researches;" in which that assiduous and successful philosopher labours to prove by experiment that electrical induction is transmitted to distant bodies by intervening matter.
 * Richard Laming, On the Primary Forces of Electricity (1838) p. 24

 * Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electro-magnetism.
 * James Clerk Maxwell, in Scientific Worthies I. - Faraday, Nature 8 (1873), p. 398

 * To estimate the intensity of Faraday's scientific power, we cannot do better than read the first and second series of his Researches and compare them...with the whole course of electro-magnetic science since, which has added no new idea to those set forth, but has only verified the truth and scientific value of every one of them.
 * James Clerk Maxwell, in Scientific Worthies I. - Faraday, Nature 8 (1873), p. 400

 * It is not till we attempt to bring the theoretical part of our training into contact with the practical that we begin to experience the full effect of what Faraday has called "mental inertia"—not only the difficulty of recognising, among the concrete objects before us, the abstract relation which we have learned from books, but the distracting pain of wrenching the mind away from the symbols to the objects, and from the objects back to the symbols. This however is the price we have to pay for new ideas.
 * James Clerk Maxwell, "Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics," The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1890) Vol.2

 * His health [was] probably affected by mercury poisoning. This was a then unrealized health hazard that undoubtedly affected many nineteenth-century scientists who worked in the laboratory, where spilled mercury often accumulated between and beneath floorboards and generated a permanent atmosphere of mercury vapor.
 * Brian L. Silver, The Ascent of Science (1998)

 * Faraday carried on experimenting until he was over 70. He died in 1867, the year that Das Kapital was published, and he was buried in Highgate cemetery... where Marx was to join him later.
 * Brian L. Silver, The Ascent of Science (1998)

This was favoured by the purely mathematical transformation (which can be compared in a sense with that from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican system), '''replacing Newton's finite equations by the differential equations, the potential becoming the primary concept, instead of the force, which is only the gradient of the potential. These ideas, of course, arose first in the theory of electricity and magnetism or perhaps one should say in the brain of Faraday.'''
 * Gradually... during the second half of the nineteenth century, the uncomfortable feeling of dislike of the action at a distance, which had been so strong in Huygens and other contemporaries of Newton, but had subsided during the eighteenth century, began to emerge again, and gained strength rapidly.
 * Willem de Sitter, Kosmos (1932)

 * A point highly illustrative of the character of Faraday now comes into view. He gave an account of his discovery of Magneto-electricity in a letter to his friend M. Hachette, of Paris, who communicated the letter to the Academy of Sciences. The letter was translated and published ; and immediately afterwards two distinguished Italian philosophers took up the subject, made numerous experiments, and published their results before the complete memoirs of Faraday had met the public eye. This evidently irritated him. He reprinted the paper of the learned Italians in the Philosophical Magazine accompanied by sharp critical notes from himself. He also wrote a letter dated Dec. 1,1832, to Gay Lussac, who was then one of the editors of the Annales de Chimie in which he analysed the results of the Italian philosophers, pointing out their errors, and' defending himself from what he regarded as imputations on his character. The style of this letter is unexceptionable, for Faraday could not write otherwise than as a gentleman; but the letter shows that had he willed it he could have hit hard. We have heard much of Faraday's gentleness and sweetness and tenderness. It is all true, but it is very incomplete. You cannot resolve a powerful nature into these elements, and Faraday's character would have been less admirable than it was had it not embraced forces and tendencies to which the silky adjectives "gentle" and "tender" would by no means apply. Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in useless passion. "He that is slow to anger" saith the sage, "is greater than the mighty, and he that ruleth his own spirit than he that taketh a city." Faraday was not slow to anger, but he completely ruled his own spirit, and thus, though he took no cities, he captivated all hearts.
 * John Tyndall, in Faraday as a Discoverer (1868) "Points of Character", p. 37

 * The experimental researches of Faraday are so voluminous, their descriptions are so detailed, and their wealth of illustration is so great, as to render it a heavy labour to master them. The multiplication of proofs, necessary and interesting when the new truths had to be established, are however less needful now when these truths have become household words in science.
 * John Tyndall, in Faraday as a Discoverer (1868), Preface to the Second Edition (December 1869)

The idea of tubes of force has been introduced to make the method of Faraday metrical rather than merely descriptive. A tube of force is obtained by drawing a number of lines of force through the boundary of any small closed curve. The lines then form a tubular surface, which, it can be proved, will never be cut by any lines of force, and the extremities of which enclose equal and opposite charges. By properly choosing the area of the surface enclosed by the curve through which the lines are drawn the extremities of the tube can be made to enclose unit charge. Such a unit tube is called a Faraday tube. Maxwell and J. J. Thomson have made an exhaustive study of these tubes of force and expressed their properties in mathematical terms. The result that interests us here is that a tube of force behaves as though it had inertia, so that in order to move a tube work must be done. This explains why a charge behaves as if it had mass. It must be remarked that the conception of tubes of forces is used here merely to aid in understanding the phenomena. Whether or not tubes of force, or even the ether, possess any physical significance is a question. Modern developments seem to indicate that this question must be answered in the negative.
 * The conception of lines of force was introduced by Faraday to form a mental picture of the processes going on in the electric field. To him these lines were not mere mathematical abstractions. He ascribed to them properties that gave them a real physical significance. They terminate on opposite charges, are always in a state of tension, tending to shorten themselves, and are mutually repellent. The direction of a line of force at any point gives the direction of the field at that point. With the help of these properties of lines of force it is possible to obtain an idea of the distribution of the intensity of the field surrounding electrically charged bodies.
 * Hendrik Johannes Van der Bijl, The Thermionic Vacuum Tube and Its Applications (1920) pp. 3-4.

Biographies

 * Biography at The Royal Institution of Great Britain
 * Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall, Project Gutenberg (downloads)
 * The Christian Character of Michael Faraday
 * Michael Faraday on the British twenty-pound banknote
 * The Life and Discoveries of Michael Faraday by J. A. Crowther, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920

Others

 * Interactive Java Tutorial on Faraday's 1821 Motor National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
 * Interactive Java Tutorial on Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
 * "Michael Faraday" at 1911 Britannica Encyclopedia
 * (downloads)
 * "Experimental Researches in Electricity" by Michael Faraday Original text with Biographical Introduction by Professor John Tyndall, 1914, Everyman edition.
 * Video Podcast with Sir John Cadogan talking about Benzene since Faraday
 * The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862. With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters (1899) full download PDF
 * The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862. With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters (1899) full download PDF

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 * "He was a loser, you know. Every high school has to have at least two: it's like a national law. One male, one female. Everyone's dumping ground."
 * Christine, narration, Prologue, by Stephen King

 * If the whole world were a party, Jeremy would not have ended up in the kitchen. He envied the people who had made it as far as the kitchen. There might be food in the kitchen, and even some wine if you could fish the cigarette butts out of the bottle. There might even be a girl in the kitchen, although Jeremy knew the limits of his imagination. But Jeremy would never even get an invite.
 * "Thief of Time", Terry Pratchett

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