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Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre is a troupe of "4 or 5 Crazee Guys", known for their series of comedy albums.

Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him (1968)

 * Speaking for the great white father in Washington and all the American people, let me say we respect you savages for your native ability to instantly adapt and survive in whatever Godforsaken wilderness we move you to. Out there. Sign here.
 * Oh my White Brother.
 * Hey man, don't let 'em bring you down now. There's a lot of young people in this country just like myself who really know where the Indian's at.  And don't worry, soon we're all gonna be out here on the reservation, living like Indians, and dressing like Indians, and doing all the simple, beautiful things that you Indians do.  You got any peyote?
 * Gentlemen, gentlemen! I won't take any more credit for this victory than necessary. Lord Kitschener did not - nay, will not - die in vain, grid willing. [Applause] Gentlemen, gentlemen - I, as leader, will use power like a drum, and leadership like a violin. Take out any idea. Compare ideas, with the one idea left we are left you have no doubt and without a doubt we have enthusiasm! Gentlemen, gentlemen, please, gentlemen - to make life whole, it's as easy as a bridge! Now, now, gentle- gentlemen, now that we have obtained control we must pull together as one - like a twin! Keeping the prophecy of power as enthusiasm! All for one!
 * All for one!
 * - and all for one!
 * All for one!
 * Let me hear it for me!
 * You're under arrest!

 * String him up!
 * Anyone got any string?
 * [Later] Lynch him!
 * Anybody got any lynch?

How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All (1969)

 * Happy motoring and back to the freeway which is already in progress.
 * Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain, he died in Washington D.C.
 * Oh, he's no fun, he fell right over.
 * The pyramid is opening!
 * Which one?
 * The one with the ever-widening hole in it!

 * The President of these United States is named "Schicklgruber".
 * Come on big fella - take this guitar! Put on this wide belt and work shirt and tell it like it was!
 * "Stop"! It wasn't always like that. No, first they had to come from little towns with strange names like: Smegma, Spasmodic, Frog, and the far flung Isles of Langerhans.
 * What do you think they took? "Oil from Canada, gold from Mexico, geese from the neighbor's backyard - boom boom. Corn from the Indians, tobacco from the Indians, Dakota from the Indians, New Jersey from the Indians, New Hampshire from the Indians, New England from the Indians, New Delhi from the Indians" - Indonesia for the Indonesians! Yes, and Veteran's Day.
 * One shining steel rail, from sea to mighty sea, from coast to mighty coast, from Bangor all the way to mighty Maine!
 * So how about that, Mr. Smarty Pants Communist? Mr. College Professor? Mr. Beatnik? Mr. Hippie? What have you done for me lately?
 * I'd like to order a pizza to go with no anchovies.
 * No anchovies? --- you've got the wrong man. I spell my name "Danger".

 * You can wait here in the sitting room, or sit here in the waiting room...
 * Catherwood: Let me introduce myself. I am Nick Danger.
 * Danger: No, let me introduce myself. i am Nick Danger.
 * Catherwood: If you're so smart, why don't you pick up your cues faster?
 * Danger: Are those my cues?
 * Catherwood: Yes, and they should be dry by now; why don't you pull them up out of the cellophane before they scorch! All rightcha. may I take your hat and goat? Ah.  I assume you've come to see my mistress, Mr. Danger.
 * Danger: I don't care about your private life, or what his name is.

 * Catherwood: Nancy! Who is that ugly dwarf with his hand down your throat?
 * Rococo: Rocky Rococo, at your cervix.

 * Danger: Well, it's like in the Army, you know? The great prince issues commands, founds states, vests families with fiefs -- Inferior people should not be employed.
 * Bradshaw: Nick, I can't knock success, but you still put me through too many changes!

Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers (1970)
Theme Song
 * Porgy Tirebiter!
 * He's a spy and a girl delighter,
 * Orgie Firefighter!
 * He's a student like you.
 * If you're looking for a Captain of the Ringball Team,
 * You can bet he won't be there.
 * You'll find him pa-popping off at Pop's Sodium Shoppe,
 * Tr-trailing a red, with red hair.
 * Doobie doo-wah...
 * Porgy Tirebiter!
 * He's a student like you!
 * (PORGY:) "Like me?!"
 * He's a student like you!
 * (Father:) "Stop singing and finish your homework !"
 * He's a student like you! ooooooooooo..."

 * Shoes for Industry!
 * Coming Mother!
 * 10-4, Eleanor
 * Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N
 * Don't eat with your hands son, use your entrenching tool!
 * I don't know why you people seem to think this is magic. It's just this little chromium switch here.
 * Your future insecurity is guaranteed by the Department of Redundancy Department and the Natural Guard.

I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus (1971)

 * Here comes another one, just like the other one
 * Well sure, Mr. President! Where can I get a job?!
 * Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?
 * Geez, I'm standing here like an idiot, talking to myself. Might as well stand on this line like an idiot, talking to myself.
 * When you clock the human race with the stopwatch of history, it's a new record every time!

The Giant Rat of Sumatra

 * Hemlock Stones: Aha!
 * Flotsam: What is it, Stones?
 * Hemlock Stones: I sat on my pipe!

The Case of the Missing Shoe

 * Danger: Pathetic! Either Acme was walking around with only one shoe, or there was something seriously wrong with our sound-effects man.
 * (off mic) Something wrong with you, Eddie?

Dear Friends

 * The reading today is from the book of Punter, Chapter 9, Verse 17: "All we have to fear is me."
 * And lo, there came unto them Philip called Punter. And he was Lilian Roth in his extremity. "Merrily, merrily," he says unto them saying, "Merrily, merrily for I am come." And he came, and he came unto the house of his mother's brother's servants saying, "Lo! Where am I?" and there was none there to answer him, not even no one saying, "Nowhere, yea, but in the land of reversible cups and sanitary pedestals." And he lay in that land a long time, like worms on a hot cheese log.
 * If you have kids like I KNOW I do...

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Talk:Henry David Thoreau

"Anyone in a free society..."
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." - does anyone know the source of this quote which is often attributed to Thoreau

 * This appears to be a distortion of Thoreau's statement: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." from Civil Disobedience. ~ Kalki 01:30, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Split the page?
This page has a lot of stuff on it-- should we create separate pages for "Civil Disobedience" and "Walden"? Personally I'd trim some of the longer quotes, although some of them do benefit from having some context around them.

I don't have a user account here (yet), but if nobody beats me to it (and nobody objects) I'll come back in a couple of weeks and do some real editing.

Don't pare down Thoreau quotes. They're all gorgeous. Leave them alone.

 * I think it's probably a good idea to create separate pages for Civil Disobedience and Walden, but preserving the quotes as they are. ~ UDScott 12:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Someone has now created a separate page for Walden. Since the Thoreau page is 80KB, it seems that the best thing would be to remove the Walden quotes from the Thoreau page and incorporate them into the Walden page. - InvisibleSun 12:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The quotes should be identical as of this writing, since I pretty much just copied them from here to there. I think some of the best Walden quotes should be left here, but the bulk of them should be kept on the Walden page. --Teabeard 14:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Normally, what I recommend when there are separate pages for works by an author is to have a clear link at the top, for the benefit of those who might be seeking quotes from that work, and to optionally retain just a very few quotes from that work on the body of the author's page, to provide a few choice samplings and further links. I have made an edit which does this, but others are welcome to weigh in on other choices than mine. ~ Kalki 14:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

"Go confidently ... dreams ..."
The following quote is, as far as i can determine, universally attributed to Thoreau (thousands of hits on the web) -- but not to any particular work/source. And i'm not seeing anything close to it on this page. Does anyone know if it's Thoreau? If not, where might it be from? But what most surprises me is to not have it addressed at all on this page -- eg, if only as an "attribution in question" (which invites research). Seems to me this page is incomplete so long as it does not even address such a popular attribution: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
 * It's a paraphrase of a section from Walden, cut down and converted to imperative mood:
 * "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Gordonofcartoon 13:18, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Findings
The above quote is an exerption from his book "Walden, A life in the Woods"

Popular quotes not in the page
I'm not sure of the exact quoting, but I don't see the following ones in the page:
 * "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
 * "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

Any reason for this? RichN 19:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The first is at the Walden page; the second probably just didn't come to anyone's attention. Gordonofcartoon 19:59, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

What about the exchange between Thoreau and Emerson when Thoreau was in jail for refusing to pay taxes:
 * "David, what are you doing in jail?"
 * "Ralph, what are you doing outside?"

It was cited by Emma Goldman in her 1917 address to the jury, so if it's not authentic, it has been in circulation for a long time. ABehrens (talk) 16:29, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Edit: It doesn't seem likely that Emerson visited Thoreau in jail. He was arrested close to sundown, and the jail was closed for the night shortly thereafter. I read somewhere that the above exchange originates from an anecdote one of Thoreau's relatives used to tell.

Unsourced
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Another one I can't find an original citation for:

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams" Jbgfour (talk) 19:49, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

The earliest usage, which is not a direct quotation, seems to be in the 1956 book The Organization Man. A quick search hasn't found earlier sourcing. --DeeJF (talk) 20:14, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The idea goes back to St. Bernard or Virgil: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." --IIBewegung (talk) 22:23, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

The quotation is found in the Economy chapter of Walden:

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done to me — some of its virus mingled with my blood."

Photos
Almost every photo on this page seems to violate the [|Wikiquote image policy on relevance], points 1-3. The photos and the attached quotations are more like trite calendar illustrations than "illustrating the subject of a page or a quote"... except for a few which are "expressing an opinion... by introducing ... comparisons". I plan to remove them all. --Macrakis (talk) 00:06, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

We are constantly invited to be who we are.
I find a lot of websites that say Thoreau wrote this. The source is given as either Walden or his journals. I've searched the online text of Walden and can't find it. Can't find the online text of his journals. Can anyone verify the source of this quote? DBlomgren (talk) 00:11, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Verified, here, p. 191. Journal, "Feb. 3. Wednesday." 1841. Cheers, DanielTom (talk) 00:20, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

The obedient must be slaves
I cannot find a print source for this quote, FYI. Apparently only some of Thoreau's journal from that year is extant; the two places I looked I saw didn't seem to have it.

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David O. McKay

David Oman McKay (September 8, 1873 – January 18, 1970) was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was an active general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history.

Quotes

 * An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind
 * Title of Valedictorian address (1897)

 * Prediction of the fall of Russian communism: "Russia enveloped with communism—a new religious freedom must come. God will overrule it, for that people must hear the truth, and truth in simplicity. Truly there is much for the church to do in the coming century."
 * At Brigham Young University, reported in Church News, May 28, 1960.

 * Every member a missionary!
 * Conference Report, Apr. 1959, p. 122.

 * No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
 * Quoted from J. E. McCullough, Home: The Savior of Civilization [1924], 42; Conference Report, Apr. 1935, p. 116.

 * Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
 * LDS General Conference Report (April 1950) page 32

 * Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and act is a God-given privilege.
 * Improvement Era (October 1958) pp 718-719

 * Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God’s greatest gift to man.... Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. It is inherent in the spirit of man. It is a divine gift to every normal being... Everyone has this most precious of all life’s endowments--the gift of free agency--man’s inherited and inalienable right.
 * Improvement Era (February 1962) p. 86

 * The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. It was for this purpose that Christ, the Son of righteousness, 'with healing in his wings,' came in the Meridian of Time. Through him wickedness shall be overcome, hatred, enmity, strife, poverty, and war abolished. This will be accomplished only by a slow but never-failing process of changing men's mental and spiritual attitude. The ways and habits of the world depend upon the thoughts and soul-convictions of men and women. If, therefore, we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts. Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
 * LDS General Conference (October 1964)

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David O. McKay
Welcome to Wikiquote, and thank you for your recent creation of a quote page for David O. McKay. Unfortunately, it does not contain any quotes. If you created this page based on the link from McKay's quote in Work, it is a good idea to copy the quote over to this page. Without quotes, this article is likely to be deleted for lack of quotation content. It would be even better if you could provide some additional quotes from McKay to make the page more robust. Thank you for your assistance. — Jeff Q (talk) 03:37, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Citrate

Eric Fulton
Welcome to Wikiquote! I hope you will find this site useful, and look forward to seeing your future contributions.

I am somewhat concerned, however, about your article on Eric Fulton. Wikiquote is a collection of quotes from notable people and creative works, but I could find no evidence of his notability. Could you describe who this person is, so we may judge whether his quotes are reasonable content for Wikiquote? I have nominated the article for deletion, which is our primary mechanism for reviewing controversial articles. If you can provide solid data on this person's notability, it will encourage people to support the article's preservation. If you have any questions or concerns about this, feel free to post a note to me on my Talk page. Thank you for your assistance. — Jeff Q (talk) 03:53, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Jeffq,
 * I'm quite new to the Wikiquote/Wiki idea, and so I guess I may have been a little misguided in my post, for I am Eric Fulton. After reading the rules (I admit, silly to read the rules after I post) it would lead some to think it was a "Vanity" page.  Well, the reason that I posted my quotes (yes, they are mine) is because my friends said that I should.  I am in Varsity Legislative Debate at my school (as you probably found if you googled my name) and a bit of a philosopher.  I constantly come up with good quotes (I think:D) and think they would be useful and/or fun to read to people who come across wikiquote.  If I am out of line posting new ones as they arise, or even quotes that I have come up with in the first place, then feel free to delete them, and I am sorry.

 * Sincerely,
 * Eric Fulton

In the MediaWiki world, a vanity page is generally defined as an article about oneself that doesn't fit the needs of the wiki project. It's considered bad form to create your article (outside of user pages), even if you are a famous person. The goal of most MediaWiki projects is unbiased accuracy, and self-editing can't help but appear to be biased.

The Wikiquote project uses articles for quotes from notable people and creative works. Although you may be well-known in your school and have many profound and amusing things to say, we're looking for quotes from famous folks, written works read widely throughout the English-speaking world, movies and TV shows that have some notability, and other such sources. As someone who has been listed in many school and professional directories for my accomplishments, is well known in my field of work, and has 100+ relevant Google hits himself, I can assure you that I'm far from notable enough to have my own article. It's nothing personal. ☺

If you wish to record your own quotes for posterity and public access, you are welcome to do so in your own user page (User:Citrate in your case). Users may post what they wish (with some limits and subject to community approval, which is mostly laissez-faire) on their user pages. You might take a look at some of the links in other users' signatures in their talk page postings, which go to the appropriate user pages, to see a variety of ideas for these pages. On mine, you'll find a personal quote section which may suit your own (and your friends') desires.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a cricket series played between England and Australia. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the Test series.

Quotes

 * In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.
 * N.B. – The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.
 * Reginald Shirley Brooks, The Sporting Times (printed in the obituary)

 * I've not travelled 6,000 miles to make friends. I'm here to win the Ashes.
 * Douglas Jardine, England cricket captain 1930s?

 * England have only three major problems. They can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field.
 * Journalist Martin Johnson describing England before the 1986/87 tour. England went on to win the Ashes.

 * A fart competing with thunder
 * Graham Gooch, on England's lack of success against Australia in the 1990s

 * I'm struggling now, I've not been to bed yet and behind these sunglasses is a thousand stories.
 * Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, 13th September 2005, The day after England reclaimed the ashes.

 * Matthew Hoggard called the Prime Minister a knob when we were celebrating winning the Ashes at a Downing Street function, and you know what? That's the first thing Hoggy's got right in a while. Blair is a knob.
 * Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff

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User talk:24.181.239.120

Hi! You removed the VfD tag from the "Modest Mouse" page. Please be aware that this is not the proper procedure here on Wikiquote. If you are against the deletion, please vote on WQ:VFD, possibly stating your reasons. Thank you for your attention! MosheZadka 15:49, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Golda Meir

golda meir..what an amazing woman!

Source problems
Many of the quotations in the "Sourced" section aren't. It would be good if an editor more familiar with the subject located the sources for these quotations, or else moved them to the "Unsourced" section if the source cannot be found. 121a0012 06:44, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * If you can provide a precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to.

 * A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

 * Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

 * As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

 * At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

 * Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

 * Being a grandmother, I'm certain we're going to have peace in the Middle East, for I know there are other grandmothers in Egypt, in Jordan and in Syria who also want their children to live.

 * Being seventy is not

 * Don't be humble. You aren't that great.
 * Variant: Don't be humble... you're not that great.

 * Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

 * I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

 * Quoted first-hand in Way of Valor: A Biography of Golda Myerson (Myerson was Meir's last name during 1917-1956). --Hughh (talk) 20:00, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

 * I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.

 * I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

 * In Israel, we read from right to left.
 * To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third'

 * Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

 * Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

 * One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

 * The dog that trots about finds a bone.

 * The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

 * There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

 * There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

 * To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

 * We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
 * To Anwar Sadat just before peace talks.

 * We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples...to be masters of our own fate.

 * Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse.
 * Variant: Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but they are certainly no worse.

 * You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

 * You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

 * Your holiness, do you know what my earliest memory is? It is waiting for a pogrom in Kiev. Let me assure you that my people know all about real "harshness" and also that we learned all about the real mercy when we were being led to the gas chambers of the Nazis.
 * To Pope Paul VI after he commented that the Jews were behaving very harshly in their country.

 * 'I asked this question multiple times like a parrot and no one has answered [about] when they say that if we move to the 67 lines things will be OK. Gentlemen, where were we situated in 67? Did we not stand behind the 67 [border] lines? why then was there a war. After 56 the "Kadesh Operation" following torments of 4.5 months in the UN, we behaved like good boys. We evacuated Sinai, we evacuated Sharam El Sheik, Gaza, everything, so? What happened? Why was there a war on the 67 border? So this formula of peace in exchange for land, it sounds pretty, I think people that say it surely believe in it, but it is not true. This isn't what it is about. It is very possible that we will still need to fight in the future, since I don't believe that you can buy peace with territories. You can buy peace when the Arabs, or the Arab leaders will reach the conclusion that we cannot be terminated and they need to live with us'
 * Reflecting on her time as Prime Minister (Eve of Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana)September 1974)

 * How can we return the held territories? There is nobody to return them to.
 * News reports (8 March 1969)

 * I have faced difficult problems in the past but nothing like the one I'm faced with now in leading the country.
 * Speech when elected as the first female prime minister of Israel (1969)

 * [The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world — no ideals.
 * Interview (7 October 1969)

 * The man of the Cross, who heads the church whose symbol is the Cross, under which Jews were killed for generations. I could not escape the feeling. It stuck with me. And he felt it — that a Jewess was sitting opposite him.
 * On an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican (20 Januar 1973)

 * I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
 * To Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat during his unprecedented visit to Israel (21 December 1977)

On assimilation?
Found this passage on the web:
 * “Golda Meir, who was Israel’s Prime Minister, said that any Jew who assimilates is essentially a partner to the Nazis’ work, since through assimilation you yourself are exterminating the continuation of the Jewish people.

Can this be verified? -Stevertigo (talk) 23:44, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Disputed quote with early photo
I deleted the quote since it's disputed. The photo (cropped from a photo taken in 1904 or 1905, not 1914) isn't directly related to it.

Mcljlm (talk) 14:31, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

 * @Mcljlm: Thank you! disputed quotes should never appear so prominently on a quote page imo.
 * Did anyone check to see whether the photo was added after it was disputed or before? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:06, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I didn't.
 * How can I inform whoever uploaded the photo of the date mentioned by https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/pgm/id/78/{the other date is from a news site}? Neither https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Golda_Meir-Y.jpg nor https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Golda_Meir#/media/File:Golda_Meir-Y.jpg indicate that. Alternatively could I add a reference to it? How would I do that? Mcljlm (talk) 15:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I see that this image appears on enwp as well. The caption there says: "Golda Mabovitch, before 1910". As far as changing any information on Commons, I don't know what procedures they use there, but there is a talk page associated with the file there, so maybe try that?
 * Looks like the quote was added to the disputed list on 18:27, 8 October 2023 by @IOHANNVSVERVS, who thankfully used the edit summary field with an appropriate comment that made it much easier to find. At that time the image was already in the article. Ottawahitech (talk) 03:19, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:Ira padow

hello my name is ira and i'm a sixty year old retired teacher who was forced to retire because ulitimately i refused to teach toward a test at a detention center where i worked. i'm pretty much down on President Shrub and all the crap that seems to pass as what i call selective morality. i tend to write every day and todays stuff might be usable by your show.

The Shrub Plan If we reduce the population that collects Social Security that would be the best case scenario of solving this huge problem for the future.That's why they are stumbling so slowly on creating a country wide health system, that's why they aren't prosecuting those corporations for stealing all those retirees investments, that's why they are letting companies change and mismanage pensions, that's why it's not that important to have quality air and tree preservation, no stem cell research, allowing the cut backs on public services to the needy, Allowed to go to war to kill mostly the have nots, also based on a lie to begin with. The plan needs a divne solution that gives those who know who they are the feeling that they don't need to be held responsible for their actions. Some might compare this to the definition of what a sociopath is. They've come up with the perfect plan, pray to God, that's the solutionit doesn't require any action, no one will question them both because we don't ask hard questions anymore especially in the news and legislature nor do we mess with anything Godly. God says we can abuse Gay people, God says we can't have modern birth control practices,and since he's allowing this plan to work so far, haven't heard to many churches bringing up anything slightly close to a complaint about what's going on in our country, bynot standing and defending their people that they ar supposed to be bound to they are showing that they are part of this conservative bandwagon sweeping our country. There can't be any otherr explanation. God is weeding out the weak an aged from the pack, sort of like the explanation of the book Never Cry Wolf.Letting them die of illness, lack of medications, worry of the future without their nest eggs, less clean are to breath, less jobs available, because outsourcing is really greed, your paying people a lot less money for their services. Which leads to the terrorist's complaintthat the ugly Americans don't respect them in their own countries, changing the culture an governments, sort of like what happened in the early development of our history to any town that had a company store controlling everything that happened there.I just don't just understand how the religious faction of our nation works, unless you see them not as a way for people to get fair treatment, but as another corporation themselves, more worried about their wealth and image then then the common good of humanity. i think the sins that are allowing today maybe the wors church actions in history. i beg them to start acting in a more humane and caring way; it's not too late.

As i said i write everyday and this is part of what came out of my messed up mind, if it's not over the top use it. i love you show and think that we need to not only laugh at what's going on, but get serious too. I believe the Shrub team does not reflect or have the best interests of our country, they are a greedy bunch of bastards that have conned those who vote for them. i also suggest an periodic segment called the Carl Rove update, now there's a real slime ball that has too much power.

i don't know how this works, but would appreciat some feedback if possible. thank you for your time

From ira the carer

Welcome
--Aphaia 21:43, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

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Ira,

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Team America: World Police

Team America: World Police a 2004 film by South Park and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (the latter being the pair's first major-non live-action film offering, and fourth overall) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They made the film using a variation of the supermarionation technique — which Stone jokingly calls supercrappymation — chiefly known from the 60s tv-show Thunderbirds.

Paris, France, 3635 miles east of America

 * [Paris is reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble.]
 * Joe: Bonjour, everyone! Don't worry. Everything is bon! We stopped the terrorists.

Recruiting Gary Johnston

 * Spottswoode: Gary, this is Lisa. She specializes in how the terrorists think.
 * Lisa: Usually a case of malignant narcissism brought on during childhood.

 * Spottswoode: We will disguise you as a terrorist and take you deep into the Middle East. If your acting is successful, you'll be able to get us all the information we need to stop this whole thing from happening. Of course, if you're not interested, there's the door.
 * Gary: All right, thanks. ''[walks out the door]
 * Spottswoode: Huh.

Hans Blix in Kim Jong-il's Palace

 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) Hans Blix? Oh, no!
 * Hans Blix: Let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind.
 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) Hans, you're breaking my balls here, Hans. You're breaking my balls!
 * Hans Blix: I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace, or else...
 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) Or else what?
 * Hans Blix: Or else we will be very, very angry with you. And we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.
 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) Ok, I show you around. First, move to your left a little.
 * [Blix moves]
 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) A little more.
 * [moves again]
 * Kim Jong-il: Good!
 * [opens trap door then walks to shark tank]
 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) There you go, Hans Blix! How do you like that, you fucking cock-sucker?
 * [watching a shark tear Blix apart]
 * Kim Jong-il: (in English) Do you have any idea how fucking busy I am, Hans Blix? Well, fuck you! You want inspection? Well, inspect that, you butt-fucking piece of shit! What, do you think I'm just a petty arms dealer? I'm planning the attack! Congratulations, Team America. You have stopped nothing!

The Empire Strikes Back

 * Spottswoode: Team, this is all my fault. I screwed up with Cairo... I let racism cloud my judgment... I was so sure the world's ultimate terrorist must be Middle Eastern that... I never suspected he was a God-damn gook. I'll never be racist again.

Original

 * Drunk in Bar: See, there are three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes. And all the assholes want is to shit all over everything. So pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes! And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!

Gary's rendition

 * Gary: We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong-ll is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes — assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate — and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes. I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!

Dialogue between Gary Johnson and terrorists

 * Terrorist 1: Durka Allah Muhammad jihad.
 * Gary is silent with fear
 * Terrorist 1: Bak Alaah, Muhammad jihad!
 * Gary is still silent
 * Terrorist 1: (swings his gun) BAK ALLAH! MUHAMMAD JIHAD ALLAH DURKA DURKA MUHAMMAD JIHAD!
 * Terrorist 2: (aims at Gary) MUHAMMAD JIHAD! MUHAMMAD JIHAD!
 * Chris: Oh, shit...
 * Spotswood: Come on, Gary! Act! You have the power...!”
 * Gary Johnston: Bak. Derk-derk-Allah. Durka durka Mohammed jihad. Haka sherpa sherpa bak Allah.
 * Terrorist 1: Ahhh! Durka durka durka!

Film Actor's Guild

 * Matt Damon: Matt Damon.

 * Janeane Garofalo: As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

I'm So Ronery

 * Kim Jong-il: And so, I'm ronery A rittle ronery Poor rittle me There's nobody I can rerate to Feewr rike a bird in a cage It's kinda sirry But, not rearry Because, it's fiwring my body with rage.

You Are Worthless
''Note: This song is played near the end of the credits on the DVD. This has been confirmed on the UK PAL and the US NTSC DVD. It was also present in the theatrical release.''

 * Kim Jong-il: You are worthress Arec Barrwin, You are worthress Arec Barrwin, You faired in evwy way and now my stock in you has farren, Your career is starrin' and, You're worthress Arec Barrwin, That's why I brew your head off and your chirdren are arr bawrin.'

I Got Balls
Gary: I Touched my balls hard. Twice. Voice of Cockroach: So long earth rings!!! [cockroach's spaceship blast off on galaxy]

About Team America: World Police

 * Team America is incredible in how deftly it recontextualizes blockbuster action flicks likeThe Rock or Bad Boys. Inside each scene, you may have goofy characters or silly voices, but the structure of the film is, pace-for-pace, a blockbuster film. The scene structure, the staging, the set pieces - it's all a take on Michael Bay and his ilk. Because that is done so cleverly, you hardly even notice it, which gives Team America a time-tested foundation to build upon. Every scene has been rigorously tested with audience after audience, summer after summer.
 * The whole movie has this sideways humor to it, almost begging you to think critically about it. It's as if Matt and Trey don't care at all, when every scene apathetically introduces more casual racism or ignorance ("Derka derka, Muhammad jihad", "Everyone has AIDS!", "So Ronery"), but the more you look at it, the more you realize just how much care it takes to SEEM that culturally insensitive. It's a lead; A trap. They want you to call the movie racist for X, so they can show you your own hypocrisy for not seeing, or being concerned with, Y. Which is exactly the point of the movie! Stop worrying so much about whatever YOUR hot-button issue is, and try to see how fucked up the whole of the issues are.
 * 10796 as quoted in "Why Team America Suceeds As Satire Where The Interview Fails" by Lauren Davis, IO9, 12/26/14

Opposing Team America is the Film Actors' Guild, or F.A.G., ho, ho, with puppets representing Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn (who has written an angry letter to Parker and Stone about their comments, in Rolling Stone, that there is “no shame” in not voting). No real point is made about the actors' activism; they exist in the movie essentially to be ridiculed for existing at all, I guess.
 * Their "Team America: World Police" is an equal opportunity offender, and waves of unease will flow over first one segment of their audience, and then another. Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, they don't have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible.
 * I wasn't offended by the movie's content so much as by its nihilism. At a time when the world is in crisis and the country faces an important election, the response of Parker, Stone and company is to sneer at both sides—indeed, at anyone who takes the current world situation seriously. They may be right that some of us are puppets, but they're wrong that all of us are fools, and dead wrong that it doesn't matter.
 * Roger Ebert, "Team America: World Police", Rogerebert.com, (October 14, 2004).

 * Like The Interview, Team America isn't an overtly political film as much as a riposte to the silliness of both sides of an argument. In Team America, that means a fictionalised Kim Jong Il who is privately masterminding all of the world's terror campaigns, and a bunch of patriots on both ends of the American political spectrum, who take it on themselves to pass judgement on the rest of the planet. Oh, and there's the added hilarity of the actors who starred in the film. The Motion Picture Association of America's rating still says it best- “Rated R for graphic crude and sexual humor, violent images, and strong language – all involving puppets.”
 * The puppets themselves were provided by the Chiodo brothers, who also worked on Critters and Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and shot by cinematographer Bill Pope. Throughout production, Parker and Stone also underwent extensive reshoots to get every shot just right, paying more attention to detail. The result is gorgeously designed and shot, but Parker and Stone credit this as the hardest thing they ever did, leading them to rule out ever working with puppets again.
 * Kim Jong-il was a noted cinephile who, according to CNN, amassed over 20,000 movies in his VHS collection, but he never commented on Team America publicly. It was naturally banned from North Korean cinemas and it was reported that they asked the Czech Repubic to do the same thing, to no avail. On the DVD extras for the film, Parker jokes that they would love to have him sing the character's theme if it got an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
 * The biggest controversy that the film caused at the time was with the MPAA, whose backwards rating system had previously been lampooned by Parker and Stone in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. The infamous puppet sex scene between Gary and team-mate Lisa had to be submitted nine times before it could be passed with an R rating, rather than the prohibitive NC-17.
 * In Kirby Dick's excellent documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Stone admitted: “We purposely left in stuff that we didn't even want in [the sex scene], cos you have to give them something to cut so they feel like they pissed on it somewhat. So, we put in every second we shot, a ridiculous 4 minute sex scene... just to push the line way back, so they'd cut to [where we want it]”
 * Mark Harrison America: World Police is Still Relevant", Den of Geek, (Feb 7, 2015).

 * On top of unfavourable reviews, the White House declared Team America unpatriotic and Sean Penn was so offended by his puppet's depiction as the head of the fictitious Film Actors Guild (FAG) that he sent the filmmakers an irate letter.
 * Staff and agencies, "Stone says Team America was 'lowest point'", The Guardian, (Fri 31 Dec 2004).
 * It was the worst time of my entire life - I never want to see a puppet again. It ruined all the serious relationships in my life. You just become a different person, get completely stressed out and don't pay attention to anything else. You work 20 hours a day, take sleeping pills to go to bed and drink coffee to stay up. You feel like a piece of s**t, none of your friends like you, your parents don't like you, but you have a movie at the end.
 * Matt Stone in "Stone says Team America was 'lowest point'", Staff and agencies, The Guardian, (Fri 31 Dec 2004).

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An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a play by English writer J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 at the New Theatre in London's West End. The first Broadway production opened at the Booth Theatre the following year. It is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night on 5 April 1912.

Dialogue

 * Inspector Goole: One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and million of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. (Act 3)

 * Inspector Goole:This girl killed herself- but each of you helped to kill her.

 * Eric: Oh - My God - This is all so stupid (act 3)

 * Inspector Goole: Isn't he used to drinking?

 * Sybil: No, of course not. He's only a boy.

 * Inspector Goole: No, he is a young man, and some young men drink far too much.

 * Sheila: And Eric's one of them.

 * Sheila: You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it'll be all the worse when he does. (Sheila recognises what the Inspector is trying to do to her family and in a way, sympathizes towards him. She starts questioning her family and helping the Inspector.)

 * Inspector Goole: (massively) Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

 * Sybil Birling: I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case.

 * Eric: I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her. It's still the same rotten story whether it's been told to a police inspector or to somebody else.

 * Inspector Goole: But after all, it is better to ask for the world than to take it.

 * Inspector Goole: (sternly) You see, we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt.

 * Inspector Goole: (grimly) Don't worry, Mrs Birling. I shall do my duty.

 * Sheila: (laughs rather hysterically) Why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. you'll see. You'll see.

 * Gerald: Well … you were right. There isn’t any such Inspector. We’ve been had.

 * Sheila: But these girls aren’t just cheap labour – they’re people!

 * Sheila: You're a bit squiffy.
 * Eric: I'm not.
 * Sybil: What an expression, Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!

 * Arthur Birling: (dubiously) I must say, Sybil, that when this comes out in the inquest, it isn't going to do us much good. The Press might easily take it up-

 * Mr Arthur Birling: I'm delighted about this engagement and hope it won't be too long until you're married. And I want to say this. There's a good deal of silly talk about these days - but - and I speak as a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he's about - I say, you ignore all this silly pessimistic talk. When you marry, you'll be marrying at a very good time. Last month, just because the miners came out on strike, there's a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble in the near future. Don't worry. We've passed the worst of it. We employers at last are coming together to see that our interests - and the interests of the Capital - are protected. And we're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity.
 * Gerald: I believe you're right, sir.
 * Eric: What about war?

 * Inspector Goole: Well, Eva Smith's gone now. You can't do her any more harm. And you can't do her any good either. You can't even say, "I'm sorry, Eva Smith."
 * Sheila: That's the worst of it.

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User talk:Corixidae

and thank you for your cleanin' up! --Aphaia 22:08, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

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