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Godfrey Higgins

Godfrey Higgins (January 30, 1772 – August 9, 1833) was an archaeologist, Freemason, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, humanist, social reformer, and author of various now-esoteric and rare books, most famously the religious study, the Anacalypsis.

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 * [A]lthough you have a right to appoint me to the office... yet you have no right to expect me either to spend money to forward the election or to cheat any man's vote, and I shall do neither... a seat in the House can never bring me either honours or emoluments, nothing, in short, but labour and trouble - you cannot expect from me, so will not, in fact, receive from me, either flatteries, treats or bribes.
 * Letter circulated to various officials who wished to appoint Higgins to Parliament, 14 December 1832.

 * This led me to extend my inquiry into the origin of all religions, and this again led to an enquiry into the origin of nations and languages; and ultimately I came to a resolution to devote six hours a day to this pursuit for ten years. Instead of six hours daily for ten years, I believe I have, upon the average, applied myself to it for nearly ten hours daily for almost twenty years. In the first ten years of my search I may fairly say, I found nothing which I sought for; in the latter part of the twenty, the quantity of matter has so crowded in upon me, that I scarcely know how to dispose of it.
 * Undated letter at Godfrey Higgins biography.

 * It is curious to observe how the Cross is regaining its old place in this country. A hundred years ago our Protestant females would have been shocked at the idea of wearing a cross. Now they all have crosses dangling from their necks; and our priests generally prevail to have it elevated on the tops of our new churches. They say it is not an object of adoration. True : but all in its proper time. It will not be elevated on the church and the altar for nothing. A prudent Pope, availing himself of the powers given to him by the Council of Trent, would not find it difficult to effect a reconciliation between the Papal See and the Protestant Church of England. The extremes are beginning to bend to the circular form.
 * Celtic Druids (1827), p. 131.

 * “The peninsula of India would be one of the first peopled countries, and its inhabitants would have all the habits of the progenitors of man before the flood in as much perfection or more than any other nation… In short, whatever learning man possessed before his dispersion may be expected to be found here, and of this, Hindustan affords innumerable traces… notwithstanding … the fruitless efforts of our priests to disguise it.”
 * Higgins, The Celtic Druids. (quoted in Niranjan Shah, India: The Birthplace of Human Speech, International Vedic Vision, Sands Point, N.Y., 2013, p. 66. Quoted from Stephen Knapp, Mysteries of the Ancient Vedic Empire

Anacalypsis (published 1833)

 * Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
 * Full title of the work.

 * I think it right to warn my reader, that there are more passages than one in the book, which are of that nature, which will be perfectly understood by my Masonic friends, but which my engagements prevent me explaining to the world at large. My Masonic friends will find their craft very often referred to. I believe, however that they will not find any of their secrets betrayed; but I trust they will find it proved, that their art is the remains of a very fine ancient system, or, perhaps, more properly, a branch of the fine and beautiful system of WISDOM which, in this work, I have developed.
 * Preface to Vol. I.

 * In all the Romish [Catholic] countries of Europe, France, Italy, Germany, etc., the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures and statues to be black. The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black. If the reader doubts my word he may go to the Cathedral at Moulins—to the famous Chapel of the Virgin at Loretto—to the Church of the Annunciata—the Church at St. Lazaro or the Church of St. Stephen at Genoa—to St. Francisco at Pisa—to the Church at Brixen in Tyrol and to that at Padua—to the Church of St. Theodore at Munich—to a church and to the Cathedral at Augsburg, where a black virgin and child as large as life—to Rome and the Borghese chapel of Maria Maggiore—to the Pantheon—to a small chapel of St. Peters on the right hand side on entering, near the door; and in fact, to almost innumerable other churches in countries professing the Romish religion.
 * Vol. I., p. 138.

 * We have found the Black complexion or something relating to it whenever we have approached the origin of nations. The Alma Mater, the Goddess Multimammia, the founders of the Oracles, the Memnon of first idols, were always Black. Venus, Jupiter, Apollo, Bacchus, Hercules, Asteroth, Adonis, Horus, Apis, Osiris, and Amen: in short all the... deities were black. They remained as they were first... in very ancient times.
 * Vol. I., p. 286.

 * When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun—Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun—Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus — surely all this is very mythological — an historical parable!
 * Vol. I., p. 439.

 * I think Pandeism was system; — and that when I say the country or kingdom of Pandæa, I express myself in a manner similar to what I should do, if I said the Popish kingdom or the kingdoms of Popery; or again, the Greeks have many idle ceremonies in their church, meaning the Greeks of all nations: or, the countries of the Pope are superstitions, &c. At the same time, I beg to be understood as not denying that there was such a kingdom as that of Pandae, the daughter of Cristna, any more than I would deny that there was a Kingdom of France ruled by the eldest son of the church, or the eldest son of the Pope.''
 * Vol. I., p. 439.

 * — We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.
 * Vol. I., p. 439.

 * Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time...
 * Vol. I., p. 443.

About

 * [A] less conventional member of the squirearchy... a political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions.
 * Yas Parish Registers of All Saint's, Owston.

 * His indefatigable exertions in the detection and correction of the great abuses then existing in the management of the York Lunatic asylum, and the formation of another and very extensive establishment for the care and protection of pauper lunatics at Wakefield, will be monuments of his humble spirit and perseverance and philanthropy.
 * Obituary of Godfrey Higgins, Doncaster Gazette, 16 August 1833.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine developed by Samuel Hahnemann, first published in 1796 and based on a "law of similars" where "like cures like". The system's efficacy is controversial. One of the most controversial aspects is the dilution of medicines to a point where less than one molecule of active ingredient would remain.

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 * [I]f another citizen preferred to toy with death, and buy health in small parcels, to bribe death with a sugar pill to stay away, or go to the grave with all the original sweetners undrenched out of him, then the individual adopted the "like cures like" system, and called in a homeopath physician as being a pleasant friend of death's.
 * Mark Twain, Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1852-1890, New York: The Library of America; 1992:228-30 Official Physic April 21, 1867.

 * HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911), p. 139,

 * I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
 * Paul McCartney, cited in goodreads.com Although this is often quoted, the actual link can never be found.

 * HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911), p. 139,

 * I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.
 * Cindy Crawford, cited in goodreads.com

 * As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.
 * David Deutsch, Israeli physicist, A post on David Deutsch's weblog, August 8, 2004.

 * The NHS recently spent £10m refurbishing the London Homeopathic Hospital. The equivalent of 500 nurses' wages, blown on a handful of magic beans. That was your tax money. It was meant for saving lives.

 * I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
 * James Randi, magician and opponent of pseudoscience, Interview with James Randy on the BBC's website

 * [Homeopathy] is a subject which makes me more wrath, even than does Clair-voyance: clairvoyance so transcends belief, that one’s ordinary faculties are put out of question, but in Homœopathy common sense & common observation come into play, & both these must go to the Dogs, if the infinetesimal doses have any effect whatever. How true is a remark I saw the other day by Quetelet, in respect to evidence of curative processes, viz that no one knows in disease what is the simple result of nothing being done, as a standard with which to compare Homœopathy & all other such things.
 * Charles Darwin, in a letter to William Fox, September 4, 1850

 * There are no longer two types of medicine, orthodox and complementary, ... There is only good medicine and bad medicine.
 * Peter Fisher, of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, cited in Awake! magazine, 2000, 10/22, article: Better Health—A New Direction?

 * The powers of the placebo are so strong that it may be morally wrong to call homeopathy a lie because the moment you say it then a placebo falls to pieces and loses its power.
 * Stephen Fry (2010) In: "Last Chance to Think" Interview by Kylie Sturgess in Skeptical Inquirer. Vol 34 (1).

 * Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical.
 * Mahatma Gandhi, cited in goodreads.com

 * Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years.
 * Yehudi Menuhin, cited in goodreads.com

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James Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905), Christian missionary to China in the Methodist tradition, and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International in 1964). He served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country resulting in 18,000 Chinese converts to Christianity. He was famous for his commitment to cultural sensitivity, wearing Chinese dress even though this was rare among missionaries of that time.

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 * All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them
 * (1875) Source:Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission; The Growth of a Work of God, Chapter 19

 * A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
 * Source:(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 154).

 * After proving God’s faithfulness for many years, I can testify that times of want have ever been times of spiritual blessing, or have led to them.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 406).

 * Brighton, 25 June 1965: “All at once came the thought – If you are simply obeying the LORD, all the responsibility will rest on Him, not on you! What a relief!! Well, I cried to God – You shall be responsible for them, and for me too!”
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 454).

 * All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 29).

 * An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 310).

 * And he who in all things recognises himself as the servant of GOD may count on a sufficiency from GOD for all manner of need, and look with confident expectation to GOD to really prosper him in whatever he does.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).

 * At home you can never know what it is to be alone – absolutely alone, amidst thousands, as you can in a Chinese city, without one friend, one companion, everyone looking on you with curiosity, with contempt, with suspicion or with dislike. Thus to learn what it is to be despised and rejected of men – of those you wish to benefit, your motives not understood . . . and then to have the love of Jesus applied to your heart by the Holy Spirit . . . this is worth coming for.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 363).

 * But God makes no mistakes; according to their service He divides the help, and those who are called to the holiest service are those who can have least assistance.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 105).

 * China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 57).

 * Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord at all.
 * (Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 34).

 * Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 230).

 * Devotion to GOD is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.”
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 13).

 * For our Master’s sake, may He make us willing to do or suffer all His will.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 78).

 * God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.
 * (Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 37).

 * He that sanctifieth and those who are sanctified, find their full satisfaction in [Christ], and in Him alone.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 41-42).

 * How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 15).

 * How sadly possible it is to delight in the rest of faith while forgetful to fight the good fight; to dwell upon the cleansing and the purity effected by faith, but to have little thought for the poor souls struggling in the mire of sin.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 71).

 * I almost wish I had a hundred bodies; they should all be devoted to my Savior in the missionary cause.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 45).

 * I am in great straits for funds. I am happy about it. The Lord may take away all our troublesome people through it and give us true-hearted ones instead.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 296).

 * I believe we are all in danger of accumulating – it may be from thoughtlessness, or from pressure of occupation – things which would be useful to others, while not needed by ourselves, and the retention of which entails loss of blessing.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 14).

 * I besought Him to give me some work for Him, as an outlet for love and gratitude; some self-denying service, no matter what it might be, however trying or however trivial
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book One: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1981, 354).

 * I could not think that GOD was poor, that He was short of resources, or unwilling to supply any want of whatever work was really His. It seemed to me that if there were lack of funds to carry on work, then to that degree, in that special development, or at that time, it could not be the work of GOD.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 90).

 * I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.
 * (Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 5).

 * I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 192).

 * I . . . know how much easier it is to lean on an arm of flesh than on the Lord; but I have learned too how much less safe it is.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).

 * I said, ‘You are now placed in a position to help the Chinese as you have never been before. They see that your being a foreigner is now no protection, but increases your danger. Let them see that you are rejoicing in God . . . that you do not need any other protection and that you do not go away, although you might; that you put your trust in God, and are prepared either to suffer or be delivered as He sees best, will learn that there is something in the Gospel worth risking life for.’ What was the result? In almost every place where there were native Christians they grew (in spiritual maturity) as never before.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 257).

 * I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 362).

 * If God try our faith it is to show His faithfulness, and we shall lose the blessing by appeals etc.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 407).

 * If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 88).

 * If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?
 * A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 6).

 * If there was more true abiding in Christ, there would be less selfish abiding at home.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 7).

 * If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 189).

 * If we are faithful to GOD in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 20).

 * If we could offer to the ungodly a worldly plan which would ensure their prospering in all that they undertake, how eagerly they would embrace it! And yet when GOD Himself reveals an effectual plan to His people how few avail themselves of it!.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 41).

 * If you want blessing, make room for it.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 309).

 * It is not lost time to wait upon God!
 * (Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 68).

 * It needs the presence of special difficulties to manifest to all the workings of God’s mighty power, and for such difficulties we may and should be grateful, and not cast down.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).

 * It was no vain or unintelligent act when, knowing the land, its people and climate, I laid my dear wife and the darling children with myself on the altar for this service.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 363).

 * It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
 * (1865) Source:Hudson Taylor; China's Spiritual Need and Claims

 * Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 58).

 * Let there be no reservation; give yourselves up fully and wholly to Him whose you are and whom you wish to serve in this work; and then there can be no disappointment.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 358).

 * Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 52).

 * Many there are who fail to see that there can be but one lord, and that those who do not make GOD Lord of all do not make Him Lord at all.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 47).

 * My work is a very peculiar [unique] one; in many respects it has, and can have no precedent. It may be called an experiment; to a certain extent it is so. And by God’s help it shall be, as it is being, faithfully made.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 297).

 * Nearness to GOD calls for tenderness of conscience, thoughtfulness in service, and implicit obedience.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 26).

 * Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 95).

 * One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 250).

 * Our eyes must be upon the Lord, not upon His people. His means – not ours, not theirs, but His means are large; and to a faithful steward He will prove a faithful master.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 382).

 * Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).

 * “Pray for those you send, shield them by prayer.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 294).

 * Real trust in God cannot be confounded.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).

 * Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 13).

 * Self-denial surely means somethings far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).

 * Some are jealous of being successors of the Apostles. I would rather be a successor of the Samaritan woman, who, while the Apostles went for meat and forgot souls, forgot her water pot in her zeal to spread the good tidings.
 * (Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 69).

 * The Apostolic plan was not to raise ways and means, but to go and do the work.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 41).

 * The highest service demands the greatest sacrifice, but it secures the fullest blessing and the greatest fruitfulness.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 15-16).

 * The missionaries should be men of apostolic zeal, patience, endurance, willing to be all things to all men. May the Lord raise up suitable instruments, and fit me for this work.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 23).

 * The more we rest on this fact, – that we do not know the way we are going, but that we have a GUIDE who does know; that we do not know how to accomplish our service, but that He never leaves us to devise our own service; – the more restful does our life become.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 102).

 * The sin of neglected communion may be forgiven, and yet the effect remains permanently.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Union and Communion: Or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 17).

 * The use of means ought not to lessen our faith in GOD; and our faith in GOD ought not to hinder our using whatever means He has given us for the accomplishment of His own purposes.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 41).

 * The work . . . is steadily growing and spreading – especially in that most important department, native help. . . . The future hope of China doubtless lies in them. I look on all us foreign missionaries as platform work round a rising building; the sooner it can be dispensed with the better; or rather, the sooner it can be transferred to other places, to serve the same temporary purpose, the better for the work sufficiently forward to dispense with it, and the better for the places yet to be evangelized.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 373).

 * The work of a true missionary is work indeed, often very monotonous, apparently not very successful, and carried on through great and varied but unceasing difficulties.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 350).

 * There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 322).

 * There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 131).

 * Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all
 * (1898) Source:Separation and Service, Part II.

 * To know and to do His will – this is our safety; this is our rest.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 122).

 * True devotion will rather ask to be allowed to give, and will count as loss all which may not be given up for the Lord’s sake.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Union and Communion: Or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 68).

 * Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 285).

 * We are taking our four little children, and I never need anyone to remind me that they need their breakfast . . . dinner . . . supper. And I cannot imagine that our heavenly Father is less able or less willing to remember His children’s needs, when He sends them forth to the end of the earth about His business.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 156).

 * We believe that the time has come for doing more fully what He has commanded us; and by His grace we intend to do it. Not to try, for we see no Scriptural authority for trying. Try is a word constantly in the mouth of unbelievers, . . . far too often taken up by believers. In our experience, ‘to try’ has usually meant ‘to fail’. (The Lord’s) command is not ‘Do your best,’ but ‘DO IT’.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 47).

 * We have so often been disappointed that we must not be too sure of anything, save of God’s help and presence which He will never withhold.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 78).

 * On September 13, 1888, Jonathan Goforth, famed Canadian pioneer Presbyterian missionary to China, made his first exploration tour of North Honan. Honan was considered one of the most anti-foreign and dangerous parts of China. Yet God had called Goforth to it. Hudson Taylor wrote him, “We have been trying, unsuccessfully, for ten years, to get into Honan. We’ve been beaten, stoned, and turned back time and again. Brother, if you would enter that province, you must go forward on your knees!
 * (from Bill Fietje letter).

 * We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 175).

 * We shall find that Separation to GOD is followed by Blessing from GOD; and that those who receive large blessing from Him, in turn render to Him acceptable Service; service in which GOD takes delight, and which He places in everlasting remembrance.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 10).

 * We wish to see churches and Christian Chinese presided over by pastors and officers of their own countrymen, worshipping the true God in the land of their fathers, in the costume of their fathers, in their own tongue wherein they were born, and in edifices of a thoroughly Chinese style of architecture.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 356).

 * What I have to watch against is impatience at waiting His time.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 408).

 * When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Union and Communion: Or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 13).

 * When you need it, rest in body; rest always in spirit.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Dwelling in Him. Worthing: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).

 * Where the need is greatest let us be found gladly obeying the MASTER’S command. For it is in the harvest-field, it is among the reapers, that we shall find Him.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 94).

 * While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 62).

 * With GOD all things are possible, and no conviction ever takes place save by the almighty power of the HOLY GHOST. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know GOD.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 35).

 * Work is the outcome of effort; fruit, of life.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 45).

 * You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself.
 * (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 258).

 * You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
 * (Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 51).

 * The vine . . . is not the root merely, but all - root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: and Jesus is not only that: He is soil and sunshine, air and showers, and ten thousand times more than we ever dreamed, wished for, or needed.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Dwelling in Him. Robesonia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).

 * Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. We know how the Lord Jesus became fruitful – not by bearing His Cross merely, but by dying on it. Do we know much of fellowship with Him in this?
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).

 * Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. Great Is Thy Faithfulness. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).

 * I so want you to realise this principle of working with God and asking Him for everything. If the work is at the command of God, then we can go to Him in full confidence for workers; and when God gives the workers, we can go to Him for means to supply their needs.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. God's Fellow Workers. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).

 * Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it amont them.
 * (J. Hudson Taylor. God's Fellow Workers. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship.).

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Nipsey Russell

Julius "Nipsey" Russell (15 September 1918 – 2 October 2005) was a comedian best known for his appearances as a guest panelist on many game shows in the 1970s and 80s, and for his performance as the Tin Man in the film The Wiz. He is often referred to as "the poet laureate of television" because of his signature saucy 4-line rhymes.

Quotes

 * As we remember Abbott and Costello, As Laurel and Hardy can never die, Rowan and Martin will not be forgotten, But baby, we sure gonna try.
 * Dean Martin Celebrity Roast for Rowan and Martin (1974)

 * They found an orangutan suffering from a hernia, Fed him poison from a rattlesnake bite, Gave him the soothing voice of a wild hyena, And he's 'Man of the Week' tonight!"
 * Dean Martin Celebrity Roast for Don Rickles

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Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis (March, between 38 and 41 CE–between 102 and 104 CE) was born at Bilbilis, a small town in the north-east of Spain (Hispania). He is commonly known in the English speaking world as Martial. He was a scathing satirist, often writing highly derogatory poems of his acquaintances — including his patrons — which he published under the title of Epigrammata. Though not the first Roman poet to write in an epigrammatic style he is widely considered to have brought the epigram to its acme as a literary genre; thus he is rightly considered the 'Father of the Epigram.'

Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

 * Epigrammata, twelve books of short poems.

 * Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.
 * My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
 * I, 4.

Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.'' 'Twill be too late to-morrow—live to-day. Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
 * ''Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
 * Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
 * I, 15.
 * Variant translations:
 * 'I'll live to-morrow', 'tis not wise to say:
 * Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say;

 * Cineri gloria sera venit.
 * Glory paid to ashes comes too late.
 * I, 25, line 8.

 * Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.
 * I, 91.

 * You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
 * I, 110.

et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.''
 * ''Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
 * You invite no man to dinner, Cotta, but your bath-companion; the baths alone provide you with a guest. I was wondering why you had never asked me; now I understand that when naked I displeased you.
 * I, 23 (Loeb translation).

 * I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.
 * I, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Doctor Fell", Tom Brown, Laconics.

 * Ride, si sapis.
 * Laugh if you are wise.
 * II, 41.

Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.''
 * ''Turpe est difficiles habere nugas,
 * 'Tis degrading to undertake difficult trifles; and foolish is the labour spent on puerilities.
 * II, 86 (Loeb translation).

Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.''
 * ''Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
 * Let me have a plump home-born slave, have a wife not too lettered, have night with sleep, have day without a lawsuit.
 * II, 90 (Loeb translation).

Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum'' A fault concealed is presumed to be great.
 * ''Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum:
 * Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised.
 * Variant translation: Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
 * III, 42.

Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.''
 * ''Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
 * You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.
 * V, 81 (Loeb translation).

Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.'' And while he thrives, and they their thunder spare, His daring tenet to the world seems fair. Anon. 1695.
 * ''Nullos esse deos, inane caelum
 * Selius affirms, in heav'n no gods there are:
 * IV, 21.

Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
 * The bee enclosed and through the amber shown
 * IV, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. experiment 100.

 * Laudant illa sed ista legunt.
 * They praise those works, but read these.
 * IV, 49.

 * You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
 * IV, 71.

 * Divisum sic breve fiet opus.
 * Divided the work will thus become brief.
 * IV, 83 (Loeb translation).

 * Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.
 * If glory comes after death, I hurry not.
 * V, 10 (trans. Zachariah Rush).

 * Nobis pereunt et imputantur.
 * They [the hours] pass by, and are put to our account.
 * V, 20, line 13; this phrase is often found as an inscription on sundials.

 * Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.
 * Life is not living, but living in health.
 * VI, 70.
 * Variant translations:
 * It is not life to live, but to be well.
 * Life's not just being alive, but being well.

Odd types into your bed you tuck, You take on blacks and Asian forces, And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses. Yet you, voracious Roman chick, Have never known a Roman dick.
 * Barbarian hordes en masse you fuck,
 * VII, 30.

 * Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
 * A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
 * VII, 73.

 * Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri.
 * Take while you can; brief is the moment of profit.
 * VIII, 9.

Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.''
 * ''Laudas balnea versibus trecentis
 * You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
 * IX, 19.

Vivere bis vita posse priore frui.''
 * ''Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est
 * Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
 * X, 23. Alternatively translated as "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and e'en the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.

 * Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
 * X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or short permit to heaven", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book xi, line 553.

 * Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.
 * 'Tis a hard task this, not to sacrifice manners to wealth.
 * XI, 5 (Loeb translation).

 * Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.
 * It is not poverty, Nestor, to have nothing at all.
 * XI, 32 (Loeb translation).

 * The mode of death is sadder than death itself.
 * XI, 91.

 * Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
 * Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.
 * XII, 10.

Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te.''
 * ''Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem:
 * Difficult and easy-going, pleasant and churlish, you are at the same time: I can neither live with you nor without you.
 * XII, 46
 * Variant translation: Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same you: I cannot live with you—or without you.
 * Compare: "Thus I can neither live with you nor without you", Ovid, Amores, Book III, xib, 39

 * He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse.
 * XII, 79.

Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.''
 * ''Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis;
 * Although the words run speedily, the hand is swifter than they; the tongue has not yet, the hand has already, completed its work.
 * XIV, 208.

Quotes about Martial
To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
 * And then what proper person can be partial
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, st. 43, ll. 343–344

 * The greatest of epigrammatists, and the father of the epigram as we understand it.
 * Walter C. A. Ker, trans., Martial: Epigrams, Loeb Classical Library (London, 1919), Vol. I, Introduction, p. viii

 * I have now gone through the first seven books of Martial, and have learned about 360 of the best lines. His merit seems to me to lie, not in wit, but in the rapid succession of vivid images. I wish he were less nauseous. ... Besides his indecency, his servility and his mendicancy disgust me.
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, in The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, ed. G. Otto Trevelyan, Vol. I (1875), p. 378

 * Audio Valerium Martialem decessisse et moleste fero. Erat homo ingeniosus acutus acer, et qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus. ... At non erunt aeterna, quae scripsit; non erunt fortasse, ille tamen scripsit, tamquam essent futura.
 * I have just heard of the death of poor Martial, which much concerns me. He was a man of an acute and lively genius, and his writings abound in both wit and satire, combined with equal candour. ... And though it should be granted, that his poems will not be immortal, still, no doubt, he composed them upon the contrary supposition.
 * Pliny the Younger, Letters, 3.21 (trans. William Melmoth)

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User talk:Megan the Phantom Girlie

The "quotes" you added to Richard III do not seem to be by a notable person or from a notable work. ~ Kalki 21:31, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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The Killing Fields (film)

The Killing Fields is a 1984 film about the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia, during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.
 * Directed by Roland Joffé. Written by Bruce Robinson, based on the book The Death and Life of Dith Pran by Sydney Schanberg.

Every so often, there is a film that is destined to be talked about and remembered for years to come.

Dith Pran

 * [in his journal while imprisoned] The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive.
 * We must be like the ox, and have no thought, except for the Party. And have no love, but for the Angkar. People starve, but we must not grow food. We must honor the comrade children, whose minds are not corrupted by the past.

Sydney Schanberg

 * They brought in the whole fucking press corps. They want to sanitize the story. Bastards!

Al Rockoff

 * I can't eat eggs, someone told me they shrink with fright when you cook them.
 * Anything I eat's gotta be absolutely dead. That is why I can never eat an oyster. I read somewhere that they put that lemon juice on them just to stun them. What's the difference?

Consul

 * What pisses me off is that this country has a lot of faults and a lot of strengths and we have done nothing but play to the faults. I'll tell you Sid I will be damned glad to get out of here. This thing has dragged on too long for it to end in all sweetness and light and after what the Khmer Rouge have been through I don't think they're going to be exactly affectionate toward westerners.
 * [reading] Dear sir, My family and I are planning a touring vacation of southeast Asia and anticipate, uh 2 weeks in Cambodia touring the country. Would you please send tour information and brochures? Thanking you in advance, Wendal Payne. Wendal lives in Wisacky, South Carolina.
 * I know Sid but what can we do? It could be a bloodbath here. Look, excuse the pun but we're either staying or we're living.

Others

 * Not Sydney Schanberg: Well, it's just too goddamn late, Alan, this country's split apart. We put this ship to sea and it breaks my heart not to help it back to a port, any port.

Dialogue

 * [listening to BBC reporter Hugh Elder's broadcast on the radio]
 * Jon Swain: Where do they get this crap?
 * Al Rockoff: That guy across the gate there. The little guy. Could we all not look at once, please? I have it on reliable sources that that's none other than Hugh Elder.
 * Jon Swain: You're kidding . ..
 * Al Rockoff: He's disguised, but I got a little suspicious about it, you know what I mean?
 * Dith Pran: How does he get his copy out?
 * Al Rockoff: How does he get his copy out? Specially trained hens. Yeah, the BBC has commissioned them to walk past the Khmer Rouge like they're regular fowl, and then they've been crossing the border into Thailand every day and every night.

 * Major Reeves: [to reporters visiting bombed city] Get in the chopper now. [to Sydney] No, Schanberg, you came on a boat you go back on a boat.
 * Sydney: That won't stop my story! [to Consul] What the hell is this, Donald?
 * Consul: Now listen Sydney, if you weren't down here, I wouldn't be down here, and I don't want to be down here. What good is it doing?
 * Sydney: Because if anybody ever gets to read about this you won't be able to look 'em in the face.

 * Morgan: [referring to Dith Pran leaving the French Embassy] Now does Sid know how fucking serious this is?
 * Jon Swain: Of course he bloody well knows
 * Morgan: Because we can't just let him fucking walk out of here.

 * [Dith Pran is forced to leave the French Embassy]
 * Morgan: For chrissakes, Sydney, why didn't you get him out then you had the chance? You had no right to keep him here! Funny sense of priorities.
 * Dith Pran: I'm a reporter too, Morgan! I know his heart. I love him like my brother, and I'd do anything for him! Anything!

 * Al Rockoff: It bothers me that you let Pran stay in Cambodia because you wanted to win that fucking award and you knew you needed him.
 * Sydney Schanberg: I had no idea that-
 * Al Rockoff: The fuck you didn't! The fuck you didn't!

 * [at their reunion, with warm smiles]
 * Sydney Schanberg: You forgive me?
 * Dith Pran: Nothing to forgive Sydney. Nothing.

Cast

 * Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg
 * Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran
 * John Malkovich - Alan 'Al' Rockoff, Photographer
 * Julian Sands - Jon Swain
 * Craig T. Nelson - Major Reeves, Military Attache
 * Spalding Gray - United States consul
 * Bill Paterson - Dr. MacEntire
 * Athol Fugard - Dr. Sundesval
 * Graham Kennedy - Dougal
 * Patrick Malahide - Morgan
 * Nell Campbell - Beth
 * Joanna Merlin - Schanberg's Sister

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Living is the real RPG. The more you do things. The more you get Experience!!

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Talk:Frank Herbert

From DUNE (Page 433 of an Ace Book, paperback, copyright 1965) "The Harkonnens control it!" Gurney protested. "The people who can destroy a thing, they control it," Paul said. --submitted by bjg 2005.09.01

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 * A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing. for example. or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two.

 * I think science fiction does help, and it points in very interesting directions. It points in relativistic directions. It says that we have the imagination for these other opportunities, these other choices. We tend to tie ourselves down to limited choices. We say, 'Well, the only answer is. . .' or, 'If you would just. . .' Whatever follows these two statements narrows the choices right there. It gets the vision right down close to the ground so that you don't see anything happening outside. Humans tend not to see over a long range. Now we are required, in these generations, to have a longer range view of what we inflict on the world around us. This is where, I think, science fiction is helping. I don't think that the mere writing of such a book as Brave New World or 1984 prevents those things which are portrayed in those books from happening. But I do think they alert us to that possibility and make that possibility less likely. They make us aware that we may be going in that direction. We may be contriving a strictly controlled police culture. B. F. Skinner worries the hell out of me. He is right out of Huxley. He is standing there like a small boy saying, 'Please let me have a world like this because I feel safe in it!' He is saying, 'I want to control it.' He may be very accurate in his assessment that our total society is going in that direction and that maybe he is opting for the lesser of numerous evils, in his view. But what kind of a society would that produce?

 * It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich....

 * Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

 * Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

 * The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

 * The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

 * To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

 * Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

 * The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

 * The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

 * All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

 * All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

 * If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

 * To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.

 * Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

 * Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

 * Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

 * Bureaucracy destroys initiative.
 * This is sourced in the Dune article, and also listed at Bureaucracy. ~ Ningauble 17:26, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

 * Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

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I personally think that we don't need to include "Dune" in the "See Also" section, as it is linked to multiple times in the article, and there's also a note in the "Dune" subsection ("These are just a couple sample quotes, for more quotes from this novel see Dune") which directs the reader to it. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 17:46, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Notwithstanding any redundancies, I believe that when an author page has a "See also" section it ought to list all pages that we have on works by that author (even in a case like William Shakespeare where they are quite numerous and are redundant with a category). ~ Ningauble (talk) 18:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, would it be appropriate to remove the note under the "Dune" subsection then ? -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 18:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It is customary and useful to include a link at the point where one or two quotes are excerpted from an article on the author's work. I would not fret about these redundancies – the act of quotation itself is redundant. ~ Ningauble (talk) 14:37, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

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James Randi

James Randi (7 August 1928 - 20 October 2020), born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge and also known as The Amazing Randi, was a Canadian-American stage magician, skeptic, and an opponent of pseudoscience. He was also editor and primary author of Swift, the James Randi Educational Foundation's weekly online publication.

Quotes

 * I suggest that we might want to depose this incumbent God and start dealing with The Real World. He's proven — time and again — to be cruel, capricious, and vindictive. He drowns, crushes, burns, and starves millions of us every day. He created cancer, viruses, and germs to invade and destroy our bodies as He sees fit, and uses them very effectively. In His wisdom, He directed those in charge to impede stem cell research so that such a powerful approach would not be available to us and He wouldn't have to strain the Divine Intellect to disarm that defense. We amuse Him as we flail about vainly trying to appease Him. I vote that we dump Him.
 * Swift, 2 September 2005, "Off-Subject But Necessary"; in response to efforts to deflect Hurricane Katrina by prayer.

 * … it's time for the opening lecture in Test Design 101: Consider: a woman claims to be a musician. You seat her at a piano and demand that she prove her claim. She cannot play the piano, and you conclude that her claim has been invalidated. Hardly. You see, the lady is a cellist…. You cannot challenge a claimant to do something they've never claimed they can do. That's why, at the JREF, we design a protocol only after the applicant has clearly stated (a) what they can do, (b) under what conditions, and (c) with what expected degree of success. And, the applicant must find the protocol appropriate, fair, agreeable, and adequate to prove their claim.
 * Swift, 21 October 2005, "Good Intentions"; about testing paranormal claims.

 * Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
 * An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

 * Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
 * Swift, 30 December 2005,. "McGill University Featuring Pseudoscience"
 * http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/17126222.htm April 24, 2007.

 * The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data.  Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.
 * Swift, 2 September 2005, "Another New Fan"

 * To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision. I accuse the Christian god of murder by allowing the Holocaust to take place -- not to mention the "ethnic cleansing" presently being performed by Christians in our world -- and I condemn and vilify this mythical deity for encouraging racial prejudice and commanding the degradation of women.  (This comprehensive statement was arrived at by examining the statutes of those seven states that have remained in the Dark Ages, so that I might satisfy their definitions of blasphemy.)
 * Skeptic Magazine, 1995 (Volume 3, No. 4), stated in an unsuccessful effort to be officially charged with blasphemy.

 * There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized… the U.S. Patent Office handles an endless succession of inventors who still produce perpetual-motion machines that don't work, but no number of idle flywheels will convince these zealots of their folly; dozens of these patent applications flow in every year. In ashrams all over the world, hopping devotees of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will never abandon their goal of blissful levitation of their bodies by mind power, despite bruises and sprains aplenty suffered as they bounce about on gym mats like demented (though smiling) frogs, trying to get airborne. Absolutely nothing will discourage them.
 * The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer, p. 140–142.

 * Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.
 * Documentary An honest liar

Quotes about Randi

 * I regard Randi as a national treasure, and perhaps one of the remaining antidotes that may prevent the rotting of the American mind.
 * Arthur C. Clarke

 * Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.
 * Richard Dawkins

 * We may disagree with Randi on certain points, but we ignore him at our peril.
 * Carl Sagan

 * I found Randi likable and plausible; the only thing that bothered me was the sweeping and intense nature of his skepticism. He was obviously working from the premise that all paranormal phenomena, without exception, are fakes or delusions. He seemed to take it for granted that all of us — there were also two women present — shared his opinions, and he made jovial, disparaging remarks about psychics and other such weirdos. I began to get the uncomfortable feeling of a Jew who has accidentally walked into a Nazi meeting, or a Jehovah's Witness at a convention of militant atheists. As a supposedly scientific psychic investigator, Randi struck me as being oddly fixed in his opinions.
 * Colin Wilson, The Geller Phenomenon (1976), pp. 39-40

Misattributed

 * Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
 * Swift, 15 March 2002, closing line
 * Randi has stated (in an email dated July 11, 2006) that he did not coin this phrase, and he doesn't know who did
 * Earlier attribution: "How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand."
 * Emo Philips, from his live stand-up comedy album E=MO², 1985
 * Earlier attribution: "All of you out there who believe in telepathy, raise your hand. All right. Now, everyone who believes in telekinesis...raise MY hand."
 * Dennis Owens, morning host of WGMS-FM radio, "Material from the one-liner file", USENET: rec.humor.funny, 17 September 1992

 * Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
 * Swift, 13 January 2006.
 * This quote is often attributed to Randi. While he quoted it with approval in Swift, the coinage is of an "anonymous reader".

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Super Metroid

Super Metroid is the third installment in the of. Considered one of the greatest video games in history, it was developed by 's team, and released for the  in. With its 24- cartridge size, it was the largest game available for the console at the time. In it, the bounty hunter Samus Aran has recovered a Metroid larva from her recent expedition to the planet SR388 and brought it to a space colony to be studied, but receives a distress call. Returning to find the scientists dead and the larva stolen by space pirates, she follows them in her powered exoskeleton to the planet Zebes.

Quotes

 * Narrator: The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace…

Instruction booklet

 * On a routine survey mission of the planet SR388, the crew of a Galactic Federation vessel discovered a new airborne life form and gave it the name "Metroid". These creatures, which could engulf other living beings and take away their energy, proved to be strong and prolific. After just a few seconds of Beta-Ray bombardmen, a single Metroid became two Metroids, and then four.
 * "Super Metroid Instruction Booklet", Nintendo, (1994), p.2
 * Bounty hunter Samus Aran was commissioned by the Galactic Federation to eliminate the space pirates and do away with the dangerous Metroids. Samus landed on Zebes alone and carried out her mission with speed and precision.
 * Ibid, p.3

 * When the queen was defeated, Samus discovered a Metroid egg which hatched before her eyes. Even this hardened bounty hunter could not destroy the Metroid larva. When the larva sense Samus' presence, it clung to her as though it had found its mother.
 * Ibid, p.4

 * When Samus made her way to the research facility, she found the building in ruins and the Metroid larva was nowhere to be found. Out from the darkness came a group of Zebesian space pirates and their leader, Ridley, who had the Metroid larva in tow. The pirates fled to a rebuilt planet Zebes and Samus followed them, resolving to finish them off and save the hatchling.
 * Ibid, p.5

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Jürgen Trittin

Jürgen Trittin (born 25 July 1954) is a German Green politician, and a former Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Germany.

Quotes

 * There is only one possible route of action, Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced and it has to happen worldwide. Until now, the US has kept its eyes shut to this emergency. (Americans) make up a mere 4 percent of the population, but are responsible for close to a quarter of emissions.
 * SPIEGEL ONLINE (30 August 2005).

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Battlefield Earth

Battlefield Earth (also referred to as Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000) is a 2000 American dystopian science fiction action film about an Earth that has been under the rule of the alien Psychlos for 1,000 years and tells the story of the rebellion that develops when the Psychlos attempt to use the surviving humans as gold miners. The film is considered one of the worst movies of all time.
 * Directed by Roger Christian. Written by Corey Mandell and J. D. Shapiro, based on the first half of L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel of the same name.

Prepare For Battle (taglines)

Terl

 * While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies!
 * Crap-lousy ceiling! I thought I told you to get some man-animals in here and fix it.
 * A man-animal getting leverage over a Psychlo? That'll be the day.
 * [Taking Jonnie to a library] When we attacked your planet, all your soldiers and all their advanced technology could only put up a measly nine-minute fight before they were exterminated, which is why man is an endangered species. Everything you humans knew is here, and you can look at anything you want, because there is nothing that will help you.
 * Stupid humans!
 * Never underestimate what a little leverage can do, rat-brain!
 * Attention. This is Terl, your chief of security. Exterminate all man-animals at will, and happy hunting!
 * You have been quite a challenge, rat-brain, and you're going to make a hell of a conversation piece when you're stuffed and hanging on the wall at the academy!

Chirk

 * I am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango.

Ker

 * I'm going to fire all my wives and buy new ones! Maybe pretty ones this time.
 * Look at the bright side! You may not be wallowing in luxury on Psychlo, but at least you finally got your gold. [laughs]

Dialogue

 * Terl: [holding Jonnie] Who is responsible for allowing this man-animal to run around unsupervised?
 * Processing Clerk: The man-animal shot the wrangler, sir.
 * Terl: I'm a little pressed for time. Why don't you save the going-away jokes for later?
 * Clerk: No joke, sir. I swear. The man-animal somehow got hold of his gun.
 * Terl: Really? Show me. [switches the clerk's gun to "kill" and hands it to Jonnie] Reach for the gun.
 * Clerk: Sir, I might get shot.
 * Terl: Sure, you might, and I might suddenly grow a third arm!
 * Clerk: Sir, I swear it shot the wrangler!
 * Terl: Any report filed still has my name on it, and you are out of your skull-bone if you think I am going to write on a report, "shot by man-animal," as the cause of death unless I see it!
 * Clerk: If I obey your command I may get killed.
 * Terl: And if you don't, it's a certainty that you will be killed. Reach for the gun. [The clerk reaches for the gun; Jonnie shoots him.] Well now, I'll be damned. [laughs]

 * Terl: It is a pleasure to see you, Your Excellency, and I would be honored to expedite your clearance through security.
 * Zete: Please, call me Zete. Does all of Earth look like this?
 * Terl: Oh, I'm afraid so, sir.
 * Zete: Pathetic. All the green and the blue sky. They told me this planet was ugly, but this has got to be one of the ugliest crap holes in the entire universe.
 * Terl: I couldn't agree with you more.
 * Zete: I hate these puny undersized planets. The gravity is so ... different.
 * Terl: Well, one does get used to it.
 * Zete: And the human animals, grossly undersized.
 * Ker: They don't make very good eating, Your Excellency.

 * Zete: [Looking at an overhead photo of a car] What is this species?
 * Terl: Well, according to the Clinko historians, the species is called "dog."
 * Zete: Dog?
 * Terl: Yes.
 * Zete: Obviously the superior race, having the man-animal chauffeur it around.

 * Zete: Home Office is well aware of your academic achievements and obvious talents. That's why we've decided not to keep you here for another five cycles.
 * Ker: It's a joke!
 * Terl: Oh, thank you sir. I don't know if I could have kept my sanity to be here another five cycles!
 * Zete: We've decided to keep you here another fifty cycles, with endless options for renewal! [laughs maniacally] Those options, of course, being at Home Office's discretion, not yours. The senator has a lot of friends!

 * Terl: Ker, I'd like you to meet Chirk.
 * [Ker grunts appreciatively]
 * Terl: She's, um ... she's, um ...
 * Chirk: His soon-to-be newly acquired secretary.
 * Terl: Yes.
 * Ker: [Eagerly] Really?
 * Terl: [Quietly, to Ker] She's stupid enough not to be a menace, good-looking enough to be decorative; she gets drunk with economical speed ... and has other advantages.
 * [Chirk extends her very long tongue]
 * Ker: Ooh. I can see that.

 * Chrissy: What if he's not dead?
 * Parson Staffer: Hope is an admirable quality, but foolish isn't.

 * Terl: Why don't you vaporize me?
 * Jonnie Goodboy Tyler: Leverage.

Critical reaction

 * Battlefield Earth has the feel of a movie made by a precocious 8-year-old with access to too many leftover costumes from Clan of the Cave Bear and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
 * Arne Johnson, Citysearch
 * The plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race.
 * Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 * ...a picture that will be hailed without controversy as the worst of its kind ever made.
 * David Edelstein, Slate
 * ...like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time... something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.
 * Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
 * ...breathtakingly awful in concept and execution... trite, befogged and dorky... glowering, humorless, clumsily rendered.
 * Rita Kempley, Washington Post
 * ...an authentic howler of the Big Dumb and Loud school...
 * Ron Weiskind, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 * ...the greatest White Zombie-GWAR music video ever ... If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it.
 * Wesley Morris, San Francisco Examiner
 * ...even by Hollywood's titanic standards, Battlefield Earth stands out as an example of blind hubris and folly ... how could such a movie happen?
 * Sharon Waxman, Washington Post

Taglines

 * Prepare for battle
 * Take back the planet
 * Prepare to go Psychlo
 * On May 12, we fight back.

Cast

 * John Travolta - Terl
 * Barry Pepper - Jonnie Goodboy Tyler
 * Forest Whitaker as Ker
 * Kim Coates - Carlo
 * Sabine Karesenti - Chrissy
 * Richard Tyson - Robert the Fox
 * Kelly Preston - Chirk
 * Michael MacRae - District Manager Zete
 * Shaun Austin-Olsen - Planetship Numph
 * Tim Post - the Assistant Planetship
 * Michael Byrne - Parson staffer
 * Christian Tessier as Mickey
 * Sylvain Landry as Sammy
 * Earl Paskto as the Bartender
 * Noël Burton - the Clinko Learning instructor

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Ray Nagin

Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. (born June 11, 1956) previously served as the 60th mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana from 2002 to 2010. A Democrat, Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

2005

 * There's way too many frickin' -- excuse me -- cooks in the kitchen.
 * Interview with WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, August 31, 2005

 * I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses. Get every dog-gone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans … This is a major, major, major deal. I can't emphasize that enough."
 * Television Interview, September 2, 2005

 * I just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.
 * Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden

 * You know, I'm sure I could have done a lot of things much better, but I will tell you this, Tim: I was there.
 * Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden

 * I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.
 * Transcript for September 11, Ray Nagin, Arlen Specter, John Barry & Ivor van Heerden

Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL (2005)
Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL, September 1, 2005

 * They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.
 * I don't know whether it's the governor's problem, or it's the president's problem, but somebody needs to get … on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out right now.
 * They thinking small, man, and this is a major, major deal.
 * Get off your asses and let's do something.

2006

 * As we think about rebuilding New Orleans, surely, God is mad at America. He's sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroying and putting stress on this country. Surely, he's not approval [sic] of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But, surely, he is upset at black America, also.
 * Speech at a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial service, quoted in Hurricanes May Be God's Punishment, Mayor Says, ''Los Angeles Times, 17 January 2007

 * I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day...This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be.
 * Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service

 * You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about.
 * Explaining the previous remarks.

 * New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive?
 * Further explaining the previous remarks.

 * This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.
 * Speech after making into run off for mayor, April 23, 2006.

 * It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.
 * Response to a reporters question addressing the length of the Katrina rebuilding efforts (August 2006)

2007

 * Do I worry about it? Somewhat. It's not good for us, but it also keeps the New Orleans brand out there, and it keeps people thinking about our needs and what we need to bring this community back. So it is kind of a two-edged sword.
 * Responding to a TV reporter's question about the murder rate (August 2007)

 * Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.
 * Discussing two brothers suspected in 14 murders who were found shot to death, quoted in Mayor: Crime Part of New Orleans `brand', Washington Post, 10 August 2007

Attributed

 * The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.
 * Attributed by Mayors Climate Protection Agreement site

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetic on 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, actor and opera director.

Quotes

 * You are all wrong.
 * Responding to booing crowds at the Berlin Film Festival, who disapproved of his Lessons of Darkness (1992)

 * You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
 * Promoting the English-language release of Heart of Glass in the New York Times, 11 September 1977
 * Often misquoted as: "Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates"

 * Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.
 * About chickens, on the Signs of Life (1968) DVD audio commentary (2005).

 * I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
 * 31 May 1981 diary entry (pg. 248 of Herzog's book Conquest of the Useless)

 * I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
 * "Grizzly Man" (2006)

 * '''James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] … an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
 * Conversation with Paul Holdengräber, in “Was the 20th Century a Mistake?”, The Richard B. Saloman Distinguished Lectures & LIVE from the NYPL, Celeste Bartos Forum, New York (2007)

 * Together, I said, we shall boil fire and stop fish.
 * To Lotte Eisner in Paris after walking from Munich to meet her, Of Walking in Ice ISBN 978-0-9796121-0-7.

 * There are dignified stupidities, and there are heroic stupidities, and there is such a thing as stupid stupidities, and that would be a stupid stupidity not to have a camera on board.
 * "The White Diamond" (2004)

 * I'm completely aware and utterly aware that Russia [the Soviet Union] lost 25 million people for winning the war, and I know that Russian troops whether ones who liberated concentration camps, Auschwitz and others, and I'm aware that there's an incredible sacrifice on the side of Russia and I do believe that it's ignored because of course of political interests. It's very much the question what other facts, maybe 600 or so thousand American soldiers lost their lives in the Second World War, 25-26 million Russian those effects, that cannot be ignored, and today it's not that really important what really happend, it's more than question who owns the narrative, who owns the narrative, and occupying the narrative has created some sort of lopsided ideologies in lopsided information, that we see every day.
 * From an interview (2020)

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

 * If you switch on television it's just ridiculous and its destructive. It kills us. And talk shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television. Commercials and — I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk shows, real war against "Bonanza" and "Rawhide", or all these things.

 * If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

 * As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone — just look at Orson Welles or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.

Burden of Dreams (1982)

 * Of course we are challenging nature itself and it hits back. It just hits back. That's all, and that's "grandiose" about it, and we have to accept that it's much stronger than we are.

 * Kinski always says [the jungle is] full of erotic elements. I don't see it so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just— and nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course there's a lot of misery, but it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.

 * It's an unfinished country. It's still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape, and whoever goes too deep into this has his share of that curse, so we are cursed with what we are doing here. It's a land that God, if he exists, has created in anger. It's the only land where creation is unfinished yet.
 * Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle — we in comparison to that enormous articulation — we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle, it is not that I hate it. I love it. I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment.

Minnesota declaration (1999)

 * "Minnesota declaration: truth and fact in documentary cinema", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (30 April 1999)

 * By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.

 * Cinema Verité confounds fact and truth, and thus plows only stones. And yet, facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

 * Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

 * There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

 * Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.

 * Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

 * Each year at springtime scores of people on snowmobiles crash through the melting ice on the lakes of Minnesota and drown. Pressure is mounting on the new governor to pass a protective law. He, the former wrestler and bodyguard, has the only sage answer to this: "You can´t legislate stupidity."

 * We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

 * Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

 * I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
 * Said while making Fitzcarraldo

 * If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.
 * Said while making Fitzcarraldo

 * I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness

 * It is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

 * I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

 * The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films...exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.

 * Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

 * Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

 * Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

 * Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix... If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

 * Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

 * We comprehend... that nuclear power is a real danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory. What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

 * You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

 * I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

 * I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

 * I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

 * May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

 * It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal— be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever— human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

 * To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the mediaeval knights who travelled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then... I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I particularly hate this old pseudo-adventurism where the mountain climb becomes about confronting the extremes of humanity.

 * If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

 * Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let's say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometres. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

 * Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

On Klaus Kinski

 * People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

 * Incredible. I didn't know how to calm him down, and then I had an inspiration. I went to my hut, where, for months I had hidden a piece of chocolate. We would almost have killed one another for something like that. I went back to him, going right into his face and ate the chocolate. All of a sudden he was quiet. This was utterly beyond him.

 * Often he was a joy, and you know, he was one of the few people I ever learned anything from.

Quotes about Herzog

 * Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time.
 * Klaus Kinski, in 1988, as quoted in My Best Fiend (1999) by Werner Herzog

 * His speech is clumsy, with a toadlike indolence, long winded, pedantic, choppy. The words tumble from his mouth in sentence fragments, which he holds back as much as possible, as if they were earning interest. It takes forever and a day for him to push out a clump of hardened brain snot. Then he writhes in painful ecstasy, as if he had sugar on his rotten teeth. A very slow blab machine. An obsolete model with a non-working switch — it can't be turned off unless you cut off the electric power altogether. So I'd have to smash him in the kisser. No, I'd have to knock him unconscious. But even if he were unconscious he'd keep talking. Even if his vocal cords were sliced through, he'd keep talking like a ventriloquist. Even if his throat were cut and his head were chopped off, speech balloons would still dangle from his mouth like gases emitted by internal decay.
 * Klaus Kinski, in Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 213

 * He should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No — panther claws should rip open his throat — that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.
 * Klaus Kinski, in Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 220-21

 * Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep. His so-called "talent" consists of nothing but tormenting helpless creatures and, if necessary, torturing them to death or simply murdering them. He doesn't care about anyone or anything except his career as a so-called filmmaker. Driven by a pathological addiction to sensationalism, he creates the most sensless difficulties and dangers, risking other people's safety and even their lives — just so he can eventually say that he, Herzog, has beaten seemingly unbeatable odds. For his movies he hires retards and amateurs whom he can push around (and alledgedly hypnotize!), and he pays them starvation wages or zilch. He also uses freaks and cripples of every conceivable size and shape, merely to look interesting. He doesn't have the foggiest inkling of how to make movies. He doesn't even try to direct the actors anymore. Long ago, when I ordered him to keep his trap shut, he gave up asking me whether I'm willing to carry out his stupid and boring ideas.
 * Klaus Kinski, in Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 222

 * [Kinski and Herzog] were both ridiculous, flaming egomaniacs of only slightly different stripes — Kinski’s ugliness was flailing, external; a flash fire that burned itself, and himself, out. Herzog’s rage was of the passive-aggressive, festering sort, and therefore more dangerous... Herzog was an inverted sociopath; Kinski threw loud vocal fits, repressing nothing. Who was more sick? Werner Herzog was the visual version of Kinski’s extremity. Kinski exploited hearts; Herzog exploited landscapes and native peoples.
 * Cintra Wilson, in "Devoured by Demons", Slate (22 April 2004)

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