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Simians

The simians (infraorder Simiiformes) are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and great apes, including humans, (together being the catarrhines), and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. Simians tend to be larger than the "lower primates" or prosimians.

General

 * A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top."
 * Nat King Cole, "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.

 * Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
 * Abraham Cowley, "Beauty," complete poem in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, (1810), Samuel Johnson ed., vol. 7, p. 115

 * Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's affection, if lavished on any other creature; and I have observed the same fact with monkeys.
 * Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871), volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", pp. 41-42

 * Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
 * Bernard DeVoto, Mark Twain in Eruption, (1940), "Introduction," p. xxvii

 * The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
 * Quintus Ennius, reported in Cicero, De Natura Deorum, Book I, Ch. 35

 * The anger of an ape—the threat of a flatterer:—these deserve equal regard.
 * Epictetus, (c. 55 - c. 135 AD), Fragments, f. xiii

 * The art does not belong to apes or angels, but to us. We deserve art that speaks to us as complete human beings. Why settle for anything less?
 * Dana Gioia, "Paradigms Lost," interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Spring 1995

 * Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.
 * Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, (1895), "Lusisti Satis"

 * I’ll take you apart. Look, we don’t deny that apes and monkeys learn. They are bright, and they learn continuously. As soon as a situation changes, or a new ability matures, learning is overlaid on innate qualities, and it becomes difficult to tell them apart. But the innate components are there.
 * in Deborah Blum, "Love According to Harry Harlow", Observer Vol.25, No.1 January, 2012

 * Cats and monkey, monkey and cats - all human life is there.
 * Henry James, The Madonna of the Future (1879)

 * Our road lay through the bazaar, close to a little temple of Hanuman, the Monkey-god, who is a leading divinity worthy of respect. All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people—the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
 * Rudyard Kipling, "The Mark of the Beast" (1891)

 * "Mein Gott! I would sooner collect life red devils than liddle monkey."
 * Rudyard Kipling, "Bertran and Bimi" (1891)
 * What one fool can do, another can.
 * (Ancient Simian Proverb.) Quoted by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, F. R. S. in "Calculus made easy" (1912). Also available at http://calculusmadeeasy.org

 * Ein Buch ist Spiegel, aus dem kein Apostel herausgucken kann, wenn ein Affe hineinguckt.
 * A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
 * Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms (1765-1799), "Notebook E (1775 - 1776)," 49

 * Ihr habt den Weg vom Wurme zum Menschen gemacht, und Vieles ist in euch noch Wurm. Einst wart ihr Affen, und auch jetzt ist der Mensch mehr Affe, als irgend ein Affe.
 * You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), "Prologue"

 * Seht sie klettern, diese geschwinden Affen! Sie klettern über einander hinweg und zerren sich also in den Schlamm und die Tiefe. Hin zum Throne wollen sie Alle: ihr Wahnsinn ist es, — als ob das Glück auf dem Throne sässe! Oft sitzt der Schlamm auf dem Thron — und oft auch der Thron auf dem Schlamme. Wahnsinnige sind sie mir Alle und kletternde Affen und Überheisse. Übel riecht mir ihr Götze, das kalte Unthier: übel riechen sie mir alle zusammen, diese Götzendiener.
 * Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeyss and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, (1885), Part I, Chapter 11, "Vom neuen Götzen," "On the New Idol"

 * The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
 * Cole Porter, Paris (musical), (1928), "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"

 * I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
 * Terry Pratchett, The Herald, (interview), October 4th, 2004

 * The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monster imitativeness.
 * William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man, (1872), "Liberty", p. 315

 * It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
 * Spider Robinson, God is an Iron and Other Stories, (2002) "God is an Iron," (1977)

 * Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
 * William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV.ii

 * The strain of man's bred out Into baboons and monkey.
 * William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I.i

 * Orangutans are skeptical Of changes in their cages, And the zookeeper is very fond of rum.
 * Paul Simon, Bookends, (1968), "At The Zoo"

 * Oh how the Vacancy Laughed at them rushing by. "Turn again, flesh and brain, Only yourselves again! How far above the ape Differing in each shape, You with your regular Meaningless circles are!"
 * Edith Sitwell, Façades, (1922), "Switchback"

 * Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
 * Osbert Sitwell, Left Hand, Right Hand!, "Introduction," (1945)

 * The monkey sat on a pile of stone And he stared at the broken bone in his hand Strains of a Viennese quartet rang out across the land The monster looked up at the stars And he thought to himself Memory is a stranger History is for fools And he cleaned his hands in a pool of holy writing Turned his back on the garden and set out for the nearest town"
 * Roger Waters, Amused to Death, (1992), "Perfect Sense"

Proverbs

 * 树 倒 猢 狲 散
 * Chinese proverb
 * Literally: When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.
 * Figuratively: When a leader loses power, his followers become disorganized.Often used to describe fair-weather friends.

 * Al draagt een aap een gouden ring, het is en blijft een lelijk ding.
 * Dutch proverb
 * Literally: Even if a monkey wears a gold ring, it is and remains an ugly creature.

 * القرد فى عين امه غزال
 * Egyptian proverb
 * Literally: A monkey is a gazelle in its mother’s eyes.

 * ياواخد القرد علي ماله يروح المال و يفضل القرد علي حاله
 * Egyptian proverb
 * Literally: If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is.

 * Ce n'est pas aux vieux singes qu'on apprend à faire des grimaces.
 * French proverb
 * Literally: You can't teach old monkeys how to make faces.
 * Figuratively: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

 * Jwe ak makak, men pa manyen ke-l.
 * Haitian proverb
 * Literally: [You may] play with the monkey, but don't play with its tail.

 * बंदर क्या जाने अदरक का स्वाद ।
 * Hindi proverb
 * Literally: What does a monkey know of the taste of ginger?
 * Figuratively: Someone who cannot understand cannot appreciate.

 * 猿も木から落ちる.
 * Japanese proverb
 * Literally: Even monkeys fall from trees.
 * Figuratively: Everyone makes mistakes.

 * Margur verður af aurum api.
 * Icelandic proverb
 * Literally: Money makes monkeys of men.

 * Kalo di hutan tak ada singa, beruk rabun bisa menjadi raja.
 * Indonesian proverb
 * Literally: If there were no lions in the jungle, a blind monkey could be king.

 * ಮಂಗನ ಪಾರುಪತ್ಯ ಮರದ ಟೊಂಗೆ ಮೇಲೆ
 * Kannada proverb
 * Literally: A monkey's authority is only on the tree top.

 * Em rio que tem piranha, macaco bebe água de canudinho.
 * Portuguese proverb
 * Literally: In a piranha infested river, monkeys drink water using a straw.

 * Siku ya kufa nyani miti yote huteleza.
 * Swahili proverb
 * Literally: The day a monkey is destined to die all trees become slippery.
 * Figuratively: You can't escape your fate.

Simians and mankind

 * We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted to battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
 * Robert Ardrey, African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man, (1961)

 * If you start putting very large numbers of human brain cells into primates, suddenly you might transform primates into something that has some of the capacities that we regard as distinctively human – speech or other ways of being able to manipulate or relate to a human. These possibilities, at the moment, are largely being explored in fiction but we need to start thinking about them now.
 * Tom Baldwin in "Medical research warning over human cells in animals", by Alok Jha, The Guardian, (21 July, 2011).

 * I seem to see only the strivings of an ape reft of his tail, and grown rusty at climbing, who has reeled blunderingly from mystery to mystery, with pathetic makeshifts, not understanding anything, greedy in all desires, and always honeycombed with poltroonery. So in a secret place his youth was put away in exchange for a prize that was hardly worth the having; and the fine geas which his mother laid upon him was exchanged for the common geas of what seems expected.
 * James Branch Cabell, Figures of Earth : A Comedy of Appearances, (1921), ch. XXXIX, "The Passing of Manuel"

 * The word 'apes' usually means chimpanzees, gorillas, orang utans, gibbons, and simangs. We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes – the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.
 * Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2003, p. 22

 * The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
 * Jane Goodall reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on EarthE eco money

 * I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
 * Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Warner Books: 2000, p. 2

 * You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.
 * Jane Goodall "Then & Now: Jane Goodall", CNN (June 19, 2005).

 * Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.
 * Jane Goodall in response to: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Discover Magazine interview with Virginia Morell (28 March 2007)

 * At the moment, money from Gombe tourism goes into one pot for Tanzania National Parks and it has to pay for the whole infrastructure of everything. But through our TACARE [community development] programme, we’ve benefited local people hugely. The thing is about tourism and research is that they can both focus attention on the place and help to preserve it. It’s tourism involvement with the mountain gorillas that saved them. During the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s, people on both sides were being told, “Don’t touch the gorillas”, as it was the second biggest foreign exchange earner after tea in the country. So both sides hoped to win and continue exploiting gorillas. So the government can see the value of tourism, but the danger is they over-exploit it. They say, “We’re getting all this money for [gorilla-tracking groups of] six people, now we’ll let it be 12”, and they get more money for tours, so they make it 20. That’s the danger; that they end up killing what people have come to see.
 * Jane Goodall "The lady and the chimps: an interview with Jane Goodall", Wanderlust (2009), No. 106

 * A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there was an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who not content with an equivocal success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them with aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, reported in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S, (1900), Leonard Huxley ed.
 * Many variants exist, see: Thomas Henry Huxley

 * There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
 * Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche, Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, (1951) p. 151

 * Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.
 * Richard Linklater, Waking Life, (2001)

 * People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely inspired, socially purposeful, or even self-serving, all of which they attribute to being human, but they masticate, fornicate, and procreate, much as chimps and apes do, so they should have little cause to get upset if they learn that they act like other primates when they politically agitate, debate, abdicate, placate, and administrate, too.
 * Arnold M. Ludwig, King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership, University Press of Kentucky: 2004, p. 4

 * Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.
 * Charles Mingus, reported in More Than A Fakebook: The Music Of Charles Mingus, (1991), Andrew Homzy

 * If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site … nevertheless, as I never tire of pointing out to my students in Cambridge, chimpanzees do not play the piano, drink dry martinis, or erect temples to glorify the Creator.
 * Simon Conway Morris, The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, Oxford University Press: 1999, p. 151

 * Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate.
 * Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion, (1918), "Introduction"

 * Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
 * Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times, (2004), "Cold Turkey"

 * The origin of man is still very obscure. It is commonly asserted that he is "descended" from some man-like ape such as the chimpanzee, the orang-utang, or the gorilla, but that of course is as reasonable as saying that I am "descended" from some Hottentot or Esquimau as young or younger than myself. Others, alive to this objection, say that man is descended from the common ancestor of the chimpanzee, the orang-utang, and the gorilla. Some "anthropologists" have even indulged in a speculation whether mankind may not have a double or treble origin; the negro being descended from a gorilla-like ancestor, the Chinese from a chimpanzee-like ancestor, and so on. These are very fanciful ideas, to be mentioned only to be dismissed. It was formerly assumed that the human ancestor was "probably arboreal", but the current idea among those who are qualified to form an opinion seems to be that he was a "ground ape", and that the existing apes have developed in the arboreal direction.
 * H. G. Wells, The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, (1920), "Man Descended From a Walking Ape"

 * Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
 * Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, (1937), p. 36

The Bonobo in All of Us (2007)

 * Frans de Waal quotes from a NOVA interview, "The Bonobo in All of Us" PBS (1 January 2007)

 * I first saw them in 1978. At the time, I knew a lot about chimps, because I had been studying them. I saw the bonobos at a zoo in Holland, and I thought immediately, they're totally different. The sense you get looking them in the eyes is that they're more sensitive, more sensual, not necessarily more intelligent, but there's a high emotional awareness, so to speak, of each other and also of people who look at them.
 * On his first encounter with bonobos

 * At the time, I was interested in reconciliation after fights, and I wanted to know how bonobos did it compared to chimpanzees. Very soon I discovered that they were much more sexual in everything they did, and that interested me — not so much for the sex part, even though that became a very hot topic, the peacemaking-through-sex thing — but much more how they have such a peaceful society, because they are much less violent than chimpanzees.

 * If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation. Indeed, among hunter-gatherers, peace is common 90 percent of the time, and war takes place only a small part of the time. Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.

 * It is true that the chimpanzee is dominance-oriented, violent, territorial. But it's also cooperative in many ways, and so that side is sometimes forgotten. The bonobo is sensual, sensitive, sexual, a peacemaker, but also can have a nasty side, and that's sometimes forgotten. So both species are sort of the ends of the spectrum, and we fall somewhere in between. Clearly, we have both of these sides in us, and that's why I sometimes call us "the bipolar apes."

 * I would say there are people in this world who like hierarchies, they like to keep people in their place, they like law enforcement, and they probably have a lot in common, let's say, with the chimpanzee. And then you have other people in this world who root for the underdog, they give to the poor, they feel the need to be good, and they maybe have more of this kinder bonobo side to them. Our societies are constructed around the interface between those two, so we need both actually.

 * Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are peaceful and female-dominated and that people would say that this is our only close relative. I think we would have totally different theories about ourselves and our background. But, of course, it didn't happen that way.

 * I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior. This completely changes the perspective, if you start thinking that actually we tap into our biological resources to become moral beings. That gives a completely different view of ourselves than this nasty selfish-gene type view that has been promoted for the last 25 years.

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This movie was made perfectly. It delivers on every standard.

== This movie is a work of fiction ==

I would like for somebody to post a prominent header to the pages regarding this movie stating that it is a work of fiction, My name is Daniel Vinyard and I have been accused of being a racist because stupid business' and schools seem to think google is a valid method to perform background checks. Dpvinyard 20:26, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Well apparently the people accusing you are as ignorant as they seem to think you are. Did they miss the part at the end where Danny Vinyard is shot to death in the bathroom at the high school? Or did they choose to ignore that detail of the story to suit their needs? I wouldn't take too much to heart what these people say and accuse you of, but I do agree that it is unfair for these assumptions to be made about you. Jeremy Burdett 12:55, 02 November 2010

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Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (born 11 September 1971), often known by his username and former military moniker "Kos", is the founder and main author of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on Democratic Party politics.

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 * ...I’ve moderated my hawkishness, but I’m still fairly much a military hawk. I mean, I thought Afghanistan was a perfectly justifiable war.

 * Well, there’s just no doubt [that fighting and winning the war on terror is in the top three priorities]. I mean, there’s a real disagreement about how to best do that obviously. I mean, this all sounds great and, and, and wonderful, and obviously we can all get to—you know, we can all come around inequalities and opportunity and, and energy independence and that sort of thing.

 * Tom, I'm a veteran. Okay? I did not get a deferment because I was too depressed to fight a war I supported in Vietnam. I'm a veteran. They want a more effective V.A.

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Dr. Duncan B. Black, born February 18, 1972 in Australia, known under his internet publishing pseudonym as Atrios, is the author of the liberal blog Eschaton.

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User talk:Heartbliss

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User talk:Bcoaks187

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User talk:Hilly333

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User talk:Topher515~enwikiquote

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User talk:Aditi~enwikiquote

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Talk:Goat

Shuffling of goat(s)
I did some shuffling of the "Goat" and "Goats" pages, based on the following: I forced-moved the old "Goat" stub into the canonically plural "Goats" and added a dab line for the webcomic. The original dab page did not contain anything that isn't in the two current articles, but for the record, here is the edit history of the old "Goats" page: — Jeff Q (talk) 18:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Goat was an article about the animal that should be under "Goats".
 * Goats had started out as an article about the webcomic, but was moved to Goats (webcomic).
 * "Goats" was then made into a dab page, but the word far more commonly refers to the animals than the webcomic.
 * (cur) (last) 12:46, 16 March 2006 (UTC) UDScott (fix link)
 * (cur) (last) 12:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC) UDScott m (Goats (disambiguation) moved to Goats: Better title)
 * (cur) (last) 12:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC) Anish7
 * (cur) (last) 12:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC) Anish7

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 * Unfortunately, I was dealing with a goat that was trying to eat an oil truck's fuel line, goats having this optimistic "Well, maybe it has become edible since they last time I tried this" worldview, and I missed seeing the explosions.
 * James Nicoll, 2004

 * Bring me a bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat.
 * Johann Sebastian Bach

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User talk:Yasukokoh@aol.com

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User talk:Cthorson

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User talk:Bcarver1

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User talk:Bookbots

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User talk:Ryunosuke~enwikiquote

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User talk:Taupinite~enwikiquote

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User talk:Amizrahi~enwikiquote

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User talk:Dratsab

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User talk:24.203.129.98

ISN reporter
An editor using this IP address recently changed the pronoun "her" to "him" in the following stage direction from Babylon 5 episode "Infection":
 * [An ISN reporter tries to press Sinclair for information, but Ivanova steps in front of her.]

I appreciate the diligence, but the ISN reporter is a female, so the pronoun is correct. (I've reverted the change.) I would have added the reporter's name, but I can't be sure what it is. The only actress I couldn't account for played someone named "Mary Ann Cramer", but neither TV.com nor IMDb identifies this character as the reporter, and I didn't her her name given during the show. Thanks anyhow for your effort. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:19, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Robert Hunter

I got to meet Robert in my hometown, Joliet, IL, when The Dead visited in 2003. It was one of the single most poignant moments in my life. He didn't even say a word. He just smiled, knowingly, as I stumbled for words (which is rare!).

Unsourced

 * Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, thenfor the love of God permit me to remain insane.

 * I see more of what leadership is about, in the absence of it. It's an instinct for good ideas. An aversion to bad ones. Compromise on indifferent ones. Power is another matter. Power is not leadership but coercion. People follow leaders because they want to.

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User talk:Remitrom~enwikiquote

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User talk:Wintallo~enwikiquote

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User talk:CoronaBoy949

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User talk:Terryeo

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User talk:Keshav~enwikiquote

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User talk:Nba zazo

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User talk:Haifen

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Broken Saints

Broken Saints is an award winning animated comic series.

Raimi Matthews

 * I don't understand. Not that I expect life to make sense - that's asking too much.

 * The scent of urine is doing wonders for my mood. I guess alleys aren't posh enough to piss in, christ!

 * Work work, work, work, die. You'd think I was a protestant.

 * Now I don't know much of anything, except that I'm being watched 24/7. Like the TV show. Without the chickens...or the stripper. Not that I care. We're all voyeurs. Let them watch.

 * Maybe you fell charm to my one-two of dazzling charm and boyish good looks. Makes all the closet pedophiles go wibbly.

Oran

 * You give your life to God...all of it. If I die today, I die in bliss. For I believe.

 * My brain floats like a dumpling, swollen in a soup of adrenaline. And my faith abandons me.

Kamimura

 * Life is illusion. The only real thing is compassion - the bonds we share with others. Without them, we suffer alone.

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Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek (30 April 1883 – 3 January 1923) Czech humorist and satirist

The Good Soldier Švejk (1921)
Švejk is also spelled Schweik or Schwejk in some editions.

 * Great times call for great men. There are unknown heroes who are modest, with none of the historical glamour of a Napoleon. If you analysed their character you would find that it eclipsed even the glory of Alexander the Great. Today you can meet in the streets of Prague a shabbily dressed man who is not even himself aware of his significance in the history of the great new era. He goes modestly on his way, without bothering anyone. Nor is he bothered by journalists asking for an interview. If you asked him his name he would answer you simply and unassumingly: 'I am Švejk….'
 * Preface

 *  'And so they've killed our Ferdinand,' said the charwoman to Mr Švejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs — ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged. Apart from this occupation he suffered from rheumatism and was at this very moment rubbing his knees with Elliman's embrocation. 'Which Ferdinand, Mrs Müller?' he asked, going on with the massaging. 'I know two Ferdinands. One is a messenger at Průša's, the chemist's, and once by mistake he drank a bottle of hair oil there. And the other is Ferdinand Kokoška who collects dog manure. Neither of them is any loss.' 'Oh no, sir, it's his Imperial highness, the Archduke Ferdinand, from Konopiště, the fat churchy one.'
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Volunteering

Volunteering is generally considered an altrustic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain "to benefit another person, group or organization". Volunteering is also renowned for skill development and is often intended to promote goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering often has positive benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served. Benefits can include character development, gaining work experience, and making social & professional contacts.

Volunteering and Volunteers

 * There's something gratifying about volunteering. Whenever I work a charity event—which I try to do with some regularity—I often get more out of it than I give. I already knew about the mental health benefits of volunteering. Studies have shown that volunteering helps people who donate their time feel more socially connected, thus warding off loneliness and depression. But I was surprised to learn that volunteering has positive implications that go beyond mental health. A growing body of evidence suggests that people who give their time to others might also be rewarded with better physical health—including lower blood pressure and a longer lifespan. Evidence of volunteerism's physical effects can be found in a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University, published this month in Psychology and Aging. Adults over age 50 who volunteered on a regular basis were less likely to develop high blood pressure than non-volunteers. High blood pressure is an important indicator of health because it contributes to heart disease, stroke, and premature death. It's impossible for this study to prove that volunteering was directly responsible for the lower blood pressure readings. People who volunteer may be more likely to do other things, like eat a healthy diet or exercise, that lower blood pressure. But the results are in line with other findings on the topic.
 * Anonymous, Volunteering may be good for body and mind, Harvard Health Blog, Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

 * How might volunteering contribute to lower blood pressure? Performing volunteer work could increase physical activity among people who aren't otherwise very active, says lead study author Rodlescia Sneed, a doctoral candidate in social and health psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. It may also reduce stress. "Many people find volunteer work to be helpful with respect to stress reduction, and we know that stress is very strongly linked to health outcomes," she says. As with any activity thought to improve health, researchers are trying to identify the specific characteristics of volunteering that provide the greatest benefit. For example, how much time would you need to put into volunteer work to lower your blood pressure or live longer? In the Carnegie Mellon study, 200 hours of volunteering per year correlated to lower blood pressure. Other studies have found a health benefit from as little as 100 hours of volunteering a year. Which types of volunteer activities improve health the most? No one really knows. Sneed speculates that mentally stimulating activities, like tutoring or reading, might be helpful for maintaining memory and thinking skills, while "activities that promote physical activity would be helpful with respect to cardiovascular health, but no studies have really explored this."
 * Anonymous, Volunteering may be good for body and mind, Harvard Health Blog, Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

 * One key for deriving health benefits from volunteering is to do it for the right reasons. A 2012 study in the journal Health Psychology found that participants who volunteered with some regularity lived longer, but only if their intentions were truly altruistic. In other words, they had to be volunteering to help others—not to make themselves feel better. The Greek philosopher Aristotle once surmised that the essence of life is "To serve others and do good." If recent research is any indication, serving others might also be the essence of good health.
 * Anonymous, Volunteering may be good for body and mind, Harvard Health Blog, Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

 * Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me."
 * Isaiah 6:8-13, The Bible

 * Well before a global pandemic tore us away from our loved ones, and the Omicron variant threatened to upend holiday plans, experts were warning of “an epidemic of loneliness” in the United States. Three in five Americans surveyed in 2019 reported feeling lonely, which the researchers attributed to a variety of factors, including a lack of social support, infrequent meaningful social interactions, poor physical and mental health and an imbalance in daily activities. In addition, nearly one quarter of those 65 and older are considered socially isolated, according to the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Loneliness often stems from unwanted solitude. But it is also driven by a discrepancy between how you perceive your relationships versus what you want (or expect) from them. That disconnect is why you can be surrounded by family at Christmas and still feel like an outsider. A potential cure? Kindness toward others. Something as simple as volunteering can improve our health, ease feelings of loneliness and broaden our social networks, studies suggest. Opportunities to give back — both in person and virtually — are more commonplace than they were last year, and the need for volunteers hasn’t let up, especially at food pantries. “Volunteering is one of the best, most certain ways we can find a purpose and meaning in our life,” said Val Walker, the author of “400 Friends and No One to Call: Breaking Through Isolation and Building Community.”
 * Christina Caron, An Overlooked Cure for Loneliness, New York Times, published 21 December 2021, updated 22 June 2023

 * Among older adults, social isolation and loneliness are associated with higher rates of mortality, depression and cognitive decline. Experts say that volunteering not only helps people feel less lonely, it can also improve physical well-being. A five-year study of more than 800 people in Detroit found that helping others who don’t live with you can act as a buffer against the negative effects of stress. Although the study participants encountered stressful life events like illness, job loss or financial difficulties, those who spent time doing tasks for others — like errands, child care and housework — were less likely to die than those who had not helped others. AARP Foundation Experience Corps, an intergenerational tutoring program, found numerous benefits to volunteering: More than 85 percent of volunteers felt that their lives had improved because of their involvement with the program and 98 percent reported that the program helped them stay physically and mentally active, said Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of AARP Foundation, the charitable affiliate of AARP. “People want to matter and to be valued across their life,” Ms. Ryerson said.
 * Christina Caron, An Overlooked Cure for Loneliness, New York Times, published 21 December 2021, updated 22 June 2023

 * Gary Bagley, executive director of New York Cares, the largest volunteer organization in New York City, suggested setting a small goal at first, like volunteering once a week or even once a month, and building from there. “One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to decide ‘I will volunteer twice everyday for the next year’ because you’ll burn yourself out on it,” he said. “So think of something that’s manageable for you — not frightening in its scope of commitment — and just take the first step.” Research suggests that volunteering consistently is what appears to reap the most benefits. In one study, widowers ages 51 and above who volunteered two or more hours a week felt less lonely — and were no lonelier than the married volunteers. Meg Goble, 68, a real estate lawyer who lives in Brooklyn, began volunteering with New York Cares 17 years ago. “In my other life, I’m a lawyer,” she said. “I like my job,” she added, but “it’s not as fulfilling as it used to be.” Ms. Goble lives alone, but in her work as a volunteer — helping elementary school students with their homework and arranging flowers with BloomAgainBklyn — she is continually socializing. During the pandemic, she also found ways to volunteer from a distance by doing virtual mock interviews with immigrants preparing to take the U.S. citizenship test and writing over 400 letters to seniors in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
 * Christina Caron, An Overlooked Cure for Loneliness, New York Times, published 21 December 2021, updated 22 June 2023

 * Some volunteers are driven to heal others — and themselves. Robyn Houston-Bean, 52, said when her 20-year-old son Nick died of an accidental overdose in 2015 after participating in a drug-treatment program, she went from being “a real go-getter always doing a million things” to sitting numb on the couch for months. “The last thing I expected was for him to die,” she said. Her friends and extended family were also in shock, she said, and she found it hard to process her grief with them, largely because this kind of loss was not something any of them had ever experienced. Several months after his death, Ms. Houston-Bean discovered a volunteer organization that distributed clothing, food and other supplies to drug users living on the streets. She was intrigued. Her sister urged her to check it out in person. When she finally did, she found a nonjudgmental space full of volunteers whose loved ones had also been touched by addiction. Soon, she was heading out once a month to help those in need. “I felt like I could give my mothering to them that I couldn’t give to Nick anymore,” Ms. Houston-Bean said. Later that year she started a peer grief support group for those who have lost someone they love to substance abuse — the first of its kind in Braintree, Mass., her hometown. It became so popular that she created a nonprofit and found enough volunteer facilitators to run 13 groups in different parts of the state. “It takes the focus off of my grief and puts it somewhere else,” she said. “I have this whole real purpose now.”
 * Christina Caron, An Overlooked Cure for Loneliness, New York Times, published 21 December 2021, updated 22 June 2023

 * Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.
 * Patrick Dixon, Building a Better Business (2005), p. 247.

 * You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team.
 * Patrick Dixon, Building a Better Business (2005), p. 3

 * Volunteering is a universal feature of human society, independent of wealth, status, language or culture.
 * E.R.

 * Be aware that volunteer time is different from paid time. Staff need to begin their public work as soon as they possibly can (sooner!), and to build in lots of elapsed time for community discussion. Community members have other priorities: school, jobs, families. You can’t expect them to make your work their top priority, so you need to give them the biggest-possible window in which to contribute.
 * Sue Gardner, A little guide to working with online communities March 21, 2016

 * Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit de corps of my Ranger Regiment.
 * Command Sergeant Major Neal R. Gentry, first line of the "Ranger Creed," finalized and adopted at Fort Stewart, Georgia in 1974. Today, it is memorized by all aspiring and serving members of the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment and at the U.S. Army's Ranger School; neither institution has ever accepted anyone but a volunteer.

 * One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
 * Dick Gregory

 * Combat was getting closer, and I took it upon myself to learn every gun that I could get my hands on. Taking initiative is part of what makes a person a little better. No one tells you to do it, but you do it.
 * William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story (2007) by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron with Robyn Post. New York: Berkley Caliber, hardcover, p. 36

 * I drove trucks. I drove Jeeps. I tried to be versatile. I didn't say a word to nobody. I just did it. If I told them, they'd have me all over the damn place. So I played dumb like a fox. Keep your mouth shut, never volunteer. You got to learn that real fast. When you first come in everybody volunteers. Once you volunteer, you think, What the hell did I do that for? I said to myself, Keep your mouth shut, you dummy. You don't know what the hell they're going to throw at you. It's usually the worst thing in the world. Never volunteer. Turn your back and run the other way. Say you didn't hear it.
 * William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story (2007) by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron with Robyn Post. New York: Berkley Caliber, hardcover, p. 37

 * The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others.
 * DeAnn Hollis.

 * The power of volunteering has been documented for the last 2,500+ years, however a slew of recent research is shedding even more light onto its surprising benefits. Science now proves what great leaders and philosophers have known for years: “One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” - Gordon Hinckle
 * Mark Horoszowski, 5 Surprising Benefits Of Volunteering, Forbes, 19 March 2015

 * Volunteering your experience helps build your experience. We consistently see this with highly skilled professionals like investment bankers and business consultants. Also, volunteering in a new industry will give you knowledge to help you switch fields. And if you want to move from the corporate world to the nonprofit sector, volunteering first can help prove your commitment.
 * Mark Horoszowski, 5 Surprising Benefits Of Volunteering, Forbes, 19 March 2015

 * Volunteering your love makes you feel more love. Admittedly, love is a hard thing to measure. But when researchers at the London School of Economics examined the relationship between volunteering and measures of happiness, they found the more people volunteered, the happier they were. Volunteering builds empathy, strengthens social bonds and makes you smile — all factors that increase the feeling of love.
 * Mark Horoszowski, 5 Surprising Benefits Of Volunteering, Forbes, 19 March 2015

 * I am a recipient of unconditional love, I am a volunteer
 * Shanterra McBride.

 * We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.
 * Winston Churchill

 * With busy lives, it can be hard to find time to volunteer. However, the benefits of volunteering can be enormous. Volunteering offers vital help to people in need, worthwhile causes, and the community, but the benefits can be even greater for you, the volunteer. The right match can help you to find friends, connect with the community, learn new skills, and even advance your career. Giving to others can also help protect your mental and physical health. It can reduce stress, combat depression, keep you mentally stimulated, and provide a sense of purpose. While it’s true that the more you volunteer, the more benefits you’ll experience, volunteering doesn’t have to involve a long-term commitment or take a huge amount of time out of your busy day. Giving in even simple ways can help those in need and improve your health and happiness.
 * Jeanne Seagal & Lawrence Robinson, Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits, helpguide.org, 27 February 2023

 * One of the more well-known benefits of volunteering is the impact on the community. Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and make it a better place. Even helping out with the smallest tasks can make a real difference to the lives of people, animals, and organizations in need. And volunteering is a two-way street: It can benefit you and your family as much as the cause you choose to help. Dedicating your time as a volunteer helps you make new friends, expand your network, and boost your social skills. One of the best ways to make new friends and strengthen existing relationships is to commit to a shared activity together. Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, especially if you are new to an area. It strengthens your ties to the community and broadens your support network, exposing you to people with common interests, neighborhood resources, and fun and fulfilling activities. While some people are naturally outgoing, others are shy and have a hard time meeting new people. Volunteering gives you the opportunity to practice and develop your social skills, since you are meeting regularly with a group of people with common interests. Once you have momentum, it's easier to branch out and make more friends and contacts. Children watch everything you do. By giving back to the community, you'll show them firsthand how volunteering makes a difference and how good it feels to help other people and animals and enact change. It's also a valuable way for you to get to know organizations in the community and find resources and activities for your children and family.
 * Jeanne Seagal & Lawrence Robinson, Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits, helpguide.org, 27 February 2023

 * Volunteering provides many benefits to both mental and physical health. Volunteering helps counteract the effects of stress, anger, and anxiety. The social contact aspect of helping and working with others can have a profound effect on your overall psychological well-being. Nothing relieves stress better than a meaningful connection to another person. Working with pets and other animals has also been shown to improve mood and reduce stress and anxiety. Volunteering combats depression. Volunteering keeps you in regular contact with others and helps you develop a solid support system, which in turn protects you against depression. Volunteering makes you happy. By measuring hormones and brain activity, researchers have discovered that being helpful to others delivers immense pleasure. Human beings are hard-wired to give to others. The more we give, the happier we feel.
 * Jeanne Seagal & Lawrence Robinson, Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits, helpguide.org, 27 February 2023

 * Volunteering increases self-confidence. You are doing good for others and the community, which provides a natural sense of accomplishment. Your role as a volunteer can also give you a sense of pride and identity. And the better you feel about yourself, the more likely you are to have a positive view of your life and future goals. Volunteering provides a sense of purpose. Older adults, especially those who have retired or lost a spouse, can find new meaning and direction in their lives by helping others. Whatever your age or life situation, volunteering can help take your mind off your own worries, keep you mentally stimulated, and add more zest to your life. Volunteering helps you stay physically healthy. Studies have found that those who volunteer have a lower mortality rate than those who do not. Older volunteers tend to walk more, find it easier to cope with everyday tasks, are less likely to develop high blood pressure, and have better thinking skills. Volunteering can also lessen symptoms of chronic pain and reduce the risk of heart disease.
 * Jeanne Seagal & Lawrence Robinson, Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits, helpguide.org, 27 February 2023

 * Volunteers are not paid not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
 * Unknown.

 * There are few things as rewarding as working toward a purpose that is greater than one person. Virginia State Parks unite people in a common effort to supports its mission: To conserve the natural, scenic, historic and cultural resources of the Commonwealth, and provide recreational and educational opportunities consistent with the good stewardship of these lands, water and facilities that leave them unimpaired for future generations. You can play an important role in advancing the mission.
 * Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Volunteer Opportunities: Benefits, 24 April 2023 website revision

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Purpose

Purpose is a term having various meanings involving intentions, targets, aims, goals, and objects or results which are desired. Most involve conceptions of an individual's voluntary behavior or active awareness, and have had significant histories of involvement in religion, philosophy, science, technology, politics, war and forms of art and magic.

A - F

 * A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.
 * Sri Aurobindo, The Uttarpara Address (1909)

 * I am working in everybody and whatever men may think or do, they can do nothing but help in my purpose.
 * Sri Aurobindo, The Uttarpara Address (1909)

 * Not result is the purpose of action, but God's eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.
 * Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)

 * The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose.
 * Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000).

 * All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
 * Jorge Luis Borges, in Twenty Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981–1983 (1984)

 * Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word “useful” an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free. Doubtless an oppressive regime can achieve constructions which will serve man: they will serve him only from the day that he is free to use them; as long as the reign of the oppressor lasts, none of the benefits of oppression is a real benefit. Neither in the past nor in the future can one prefer a thing to man, who alone can establish the reason for all things.
 * Simone de Beauvoir, Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity

 * Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct.
 * John Dewey, in  (1916), Section 7: The Democratic Conception in Education

 * Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
 * John Dewey, in  (1916), Section 18: Educational Values

 * I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.
 * Patrick Dixon, in Building a Better Business (2005), p. 14

 * There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
 * Peter Drucker (1954) The Practice of Management p. 37

 * We look upon this shaken Earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose — the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard.
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his Second Inaugural address (21 January 1957)

 * I need to have a purpose in life and for that I might sacrifice some of the luxuries that I enjoy; fortunately I am fairly adaptable. I try to be aware, flexible and unbiased in my thinking. If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
 * Margot Fonteyn, in Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography (1975), p. 272

 * I, too, believed it was impossible to change the existing society into one that would be for the benefit of all; neither could I espouse any given ideal for society. But [...] I felt that even if one did not have an ideal vision of society, one could have one’s work to do. Whether it was successful or not was not our concern; it was enough that we believed it to be a valid work. The accomplishment of that work, I believed, was what our real life was about. Yes. I want to carry out a work of my own; for I feel that by so doing our lives are rooted in the here and now, not in some far-off ideal goal.
 * Kaneko Fumiko, Translated by Jean Inglis

G - L

 * Even flies, parasites and microbes have their purpose to fulfil, and there is nothing superfluous in creation.
 * Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport,  10, (1907), p. 65

 * The final goal of the human race is independence and mutual aid, the realization of freedom, equality, and fraternity. If we look at the evolution of politics, law, religion, and ethics, they have been developing from heteronomy toward autonomy; thus after attaining self-governance the people will use their eventual individual surpluses to compensate for other’s inefficiencies. This is natural evolution, and this is also the ultimate ideal of life. Everyone should fight and strive toward this goal.
 * Uchiyama Gudō, Common Consciousness (1991), translated by in

 * Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
 * Joel Hawes, as quoted in You're Born an Original - Don't Die a Copy (1993) by John Mason.

 * Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.
 * George Kubler , 1982, p. 8

 * The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
 * Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Eliza Gurney (4 September 1864); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (1953), p. 535.

 * Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
 * Abraham Lincoln, in letter to Thurlow Weed (15 March 1865), published in Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (1916), by Lord Charnwood

M - R

 * Every nation, like every individual, has received a mission that it must fulfil.
 * Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France (1796), Ch. II

 * Everyone has a goal which appears to be great, at least to himself, and is great when deepest conviction, the innermost voice of the heart, pronounces it great. ... This voice, however, is easily drowned out, and what we thought to be inspiration may have been created by the fleeting moment and again perhaps destroyed by it. ... We must seriously ask ourselves, therefore, whether we are really inspired about a vocation, whether an inner voice approves of it, or whether the inspiration was a deception, whether that which we took as the Deity’s calling to us was self-deceit. But how else could we recognize this except by searching for the source of our inspiration?
 * Karl Marx, Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36.

 * Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
 * Curtis Mayfield, as quoted in The Sociology of Rock (1978) by Simon Frith

 * Purposes are deduced from behaviour, not from rhetoric or stated goals.
 * Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 14 (ISBN 9781603580557).

 * We all engage in purposeful activity, and we judge ourselves and others in terms of success in achieving the purposes that we set before ourselves. Yet we accept as the final product of this purposeful activity a picture of the world from which purpose has been eliminated. Purpose is a meaningful concept in relation to our own consciousness of ourselves, but it is allowed no place in our understanding of the world of facts.
 * Lesslie Newbigin, in Foolishness to the Greeks : Gospel and Western Culture (1986)

 * The hypothesis will lead to our thinking of features of each Universe as purposed; and this will stand or fall with the hypothesis. Yet a purpose essentially involves growth, and so cannot be attributed to God. Still it will, according to the hypothesis, be less false to speak so than to represent God as purposeless.
 * Charles Sanders Peirce, on the God hypothesis, in "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" (1908), § II

 * There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, in his Inaugural Address (1905)

 * A union of indomitable resolution in the achievement of a given purpose, with patience and moderation in the policy pursued, and with kindly charity and consideration and friendliness to those of opposite belief, marks the very spirit in which we of to-day should approach the pressing problems of the present.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, in "The Progressives, Past and Present" in: The Outlook, Vol. 96, No. 1 (3 September 1910)

S - Z

 * There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose, for as we both know, without purpose we would not exist. It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us; it is purpose that defines us, purpose that binds us.
 * to Neo in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), written by.

 * There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. [...] Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
 * Yamamoto Tsunetomo,  (c. 1716)

 * I take great satisfaction in seeing people and organizations achieve goals they might have originally believed to be beyond their reach.
 * Don W. Wilson as quoted in e-Study Guide for: American Government and Politics Today Google Books

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