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January 17

January 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. ~ Benjamin Franklin (born 17 January 1706)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Those who would give up E ssential L iberty to purchase a little T emporary S afety, deserve neither L iberty nor S afety . ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend. ~ Anne Brontë (born 17 January 1820)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear — think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, — transform — this country in a fundamental way. This chance won’t come around again. ~ Michelle Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral. I'm my only friend of mine, And love is just a piece of time In the world In the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again. ~ Zooey Deschanel ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as that would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them. Do not, however mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed. ~ Zooey Deschanel
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

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 * 2015

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 * 2016

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 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

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 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Battle of Cowpens (1781)
 * DOB: Muhammad Ali · Pedro Calderón de la Barca · Anne Brontë · Al Capone · Zooey Deschanel · Benjamin Franklin · David Lloyd George · Michelle Obama

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 3 Kalki 14:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams. ~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca (born January 17, 1600)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 12:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ~ David Lloyd George (born January 17, 1863)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 12:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 01:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them. ~ David Lloyd George
 * 3 InvisibleSun 12:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 01:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. I have a very strong liking for this, but a much stronger liking for something else this year.
 * 3 because this is a great quote. If you're going to do something, do not hesitate to do it, for you may not have the chance to do it always. Very enigmatic and charming. Zarbon 18:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone. ~ Muhammad Ali
 * 3 Kalki 18:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first. ~ Muhammad Ali
 * 3 Kalki 18:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night’s arms. ~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 * 3 Zarbon 05:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream. ~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 * 4 magnificent, beautiful sadness depicted here. I love the verbalization of nothing lasts forever, or the denounciation of anything lasting forever, hence the ceasing of happiness in the end, which is an illusion in itself. Beautiful and majestic. Zarbon 05:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 * 2 eh, green's my favorite color. Zarbon 05:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality. ~ Al Capone
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 05:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ~ Al Capone
 * 3 Zarbon 05:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership. ~ Michelle Obama
 * 2 Zarbon 05:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I have not brought you freedom, I found it here among you. ~ Skanderbeg (birth unknown, date of death)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:17, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud.~ Michelle Obama
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 16 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:30, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 19:26, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Change is hard, I should know. I should know. ~ Zooey Deschanel ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC) this quote was one I had actually intended to prefer here with a 4 for this year, until I realized it was also Michelle Obama's birthday as well as Zooey's, so for this year, with her husband's inauguration days away, Michelle clearly had much greater status of social interest.

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest. ~ Zooey Deschanel ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects, and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous; which I hope is the case with me. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation. ~ August Comte, born 17 January 1798.
 * 3 Gavin.collins 10:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:39, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 14:38, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:00, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:00, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:29, 16 January 2021 (UTC)w

 * 3 (about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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February 17

February 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. ~ Anonymous
 * selected by Sasha

 * 2005
 * There is one simple Divinity found in all things, everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. ~ Giordano Bruno (died 17 February 1600)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ Michael Jordan (born 17 February 1963)
 * proposed by User:Sir John Alexander Macdonald

 * 2007
 * Even to have come forth is something, since I see that being able to conquer is placed in the hands of fate. However, there was in me, whatever I was able to do, that which no future century will deny to be mine, that which a victor could have for his own: Not to have feared to die, not to have yielded to any equal in firmness of nature, and to have preferred a courageous death to a noncombatant life. ~ Giordano Bruno (executed 17 February 1600)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A voiceless song in an ageless light Sings at the coming dawn Birds in flight are calling there Where the heart moves the stones It's there that my heart is calling All for the love of you. ~ Loreena McKennitt ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I … what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by JessRek6

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the reported death of her husband, Alexei Navalny.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
'''Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. ''' ~ Alexander Pope
 * proposed by Adriboy6

 * 1 bystander 05:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Nice quote but I don't see the connection to this day.

Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over which it is exercised. It gives the former control over certain actions of the latter through the influence which the former exert over the latter's minds. That influence may be exerted through orders, threats, persuasion, or a combination of any of those. ~ Hans Morgenthau (born 1904 Feb 17)
 * 3 bystander 05:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Bruno stood at the stake in solitary and awful grandeur. There was not a friendly face in the vast crowd around him. It was one man against the world. Surely the knight of Liberty, the champion of Freethought, who lived such a life and died such a death, without hope of reward on earth or in heaven, sustained only by his indomitable manhood, is worthy to be accounted the supreme martyr of all time. ~ George William Foote
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. ~ Giordano Bruno
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:14, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

The important thing is not to suppress ideas. Freedom of thought is the life blood of science. That’s why {Giordano} Bruno’s story is important. ~ Astrophysicist Steven Soter, a co-writer with Carl Sagan for Cosmos:A Personal Voyage (1980) and a co-writer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), in a March 13, 2014 written discussion about Giordano Bruno with the editor of Discover Magazine.
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 20:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC) with a lean towards 2, for now. I like the statement, but in most years would probably prefer to use a quote of Bruno.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC) but I am not aware of any relation to this date.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC) but I am not aware of any relation to this date.

Hello! This is New York calling. ~ With these words the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) began its first radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union on February 17, 1947.
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC) with a lean toward 2. I have a very strong preference for quotes of or about Bruno on this day.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:48, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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March 17

March 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you. ~ Margaret Cho
 * proposed by IP 172.169.22.135

 * 2005
 * I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. ~ Saint Patrick (died 17 March 1493; St. Patrick's Day)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. ~ "V" in V for Vendetta (opened 17 March 2006)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Straighten up and fly right Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top. ~ Nat King Cole ~ (born 17 March 1919)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time. ~ Saint Patrick
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known For lack of listeners are not said. ~ Jean Ingelow ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. ~ Saint Patrick ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * That truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that's something peculiar to our time. I don't think our grandparents had to live with that. ~ William Gibson (17 March 1948)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2012
 * If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me. ~ Saint Patrick
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki, for Saint Patrick's day, and the eternal struggles of humanity and the holy against the powers of darkness, ignorance, confusion and delusions.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki — Boucicault's version of traditional Irish song, for St. Patrick's Day.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire Our only greatness is that we aspire. ~ Jean Ingelow
 * 2 Zarbon 20:16, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful! ~ Jean Ingelow
 * 2 Zarbon 20:16, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Just A Regular New Yorker 01:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe. ~ Philip Massinger (date of death/birth unknown)
 * 3 Zarbon 20:16, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn. ~ Philip Massinger
 * 2 Zarbon 20:16, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:19, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:26, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:23, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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User talk:AeternusSolitas

--Aphaia 06:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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Misanthropy

Misanthropy is a hatred or distrust of the human race, or a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people.

Quotes
Burial of your one final dream. Only ingratitude - The Panther - Was your inseparable companion! Get used to the mud that awaits you! Man, on this miserable earth, Lives amidst beasts, and sees an inevitable Necessity to also turn into a beast. Take a match. Light your cigarrete! The kiss, friend, is the eve of the spit. The hand that cuddles also stones. If somebody still pities your suffering, stone this vile hand that cuddles you, Spit on the mouth that kisses you!
 * Look! Nobody witnessed the formidable
 * , Versos Íntimos, 1912

 * I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
 * Giuseppe Baretti, February 13, 1766. The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page, retrieved 24 October 2018

 * Humans may exceed other animals in their sapient capacities, but we also surpass other species on our destructiveness. Many animals cause harm, but we are the most lethal species ever to have inhabited our planet. It is revealing that we do not refer to this superlative property in identifying ourselves. There is ample evidence that we are Homo pernicious – the dangerous, destructive human.
 * David Benatar, The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism, 2015, p. 38

 * Few prospective procreators consider the asthetic impact of their potential children. But how many more producers of excrement and urine, flatulence, menstrual blood and semen, sweat, mucus, vomit, and pus do we really need? How much more human waste do we need to process? How many more corpses do we need to dispose of? It would be an aesthetic improvement if there were fewer people.
 * David Benatar, The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism, 2015, p. 58

 * In an era of catastrophe and crisis, the continuation of the human species in a viable or desirable form, is obviously contingent and not a given or necessary good. But considered from the standpoint of animals and the earth, the demise of humanity would be the best imaginable event possible, and the sooner the better. The extinction of Homo sapiens would remove the malignancy ravaging the planet, destroy a parasite consuming its host, shut down the killing machines, and allow the earth to regenerate while permitting new species to evolve.
 * Steven Best, The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century (2014) p. 165

 * He who converses little with men is rarely a misanthrope. Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not at all philosophy, which produces hatred of mankind. A misanthrope who retires from the world loses his misanthropy in solitude.
 * Giacomo Leopardi, trans. James Thomson, Essays, Dialogues, and Thoughts (Operette Morali and Pensieri) of Giacomo Leopardi (1978), text LXXXIX, p. 377 ISBN 9780883555644

 * I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
 * Mr. Lockwood in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (Ch. III).

Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked, Refusing them the active vigorous scorn Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.
 * My hate is general, I detest all men;
 * Molière, in The Misanthrope (1666)

 * Human life is nothing but a perpetual illusion; there is nothing but mutual deception and flattery. No one talks about us in our presence as he would in our absence. Human relations are only based on this mutual deception; and few friendships would survive if everyone knew what his friend said about him behind his back, even though he spoke sincerely and dispassionately. Man is therefore nothing but disguise, falsehood and hypocrisy, both in himself and with regard to others. He does not want to be told the truth. He avoids telling it to others, and all these tendencies, so remote from justice and reason, are naturally rooted in his heart.
 * Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1995), [978] ISBN 9780141915647

 * ...but first there is a certain experience we must be careful to avoid...we must not become misologues, as people become misanthropes. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. Misology and misanthropy arise in the same way. Misanthropy comes when a man without knowledge or skill has placed great trust in someone and believes him to be altogether truthful, sound and trustworthy; then, a short time afterwards he finds him to be wicked and unreliable, and then this happens in another case; when one has frequently had that experience, especially with those whom one believed to be one's closest friends, then, in the end, after many blows, one comes to hate all men and to believe that no one is sound in any way at all...This is a shameful state of affairs... and obviously due to an attempt to have human relations without any skill in human affairs.
 * Plato, Phaedo 89d–e

For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog That I might love thee something.
 * I am misanthropos, and hate mankind
 * William Shakespeare, in Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene III, Timon to Alcibiades

 * Timon will to the woods; where he shall find The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind. The gods confound — hear me, you good gods all — The Athenians both within and out that wall! And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow To the whole race of mankind, high and low!  Amen.
 * William Shakespeare, in Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene I

 * The world belongs to those who don’t feel. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of sensibility. The chief requisite for the practical expression of life is will, since this leads to action. Two things can thwart action – sensibility and analytic thought, the latter of which is just thought with sensibility. All action is by nature the projection of our personality on to the external world, and since the external world is largely and firstly made up of human beings, it follows that this projection of personality is basically a matter of crossing other people’s path, of hindering, hurting or overpowering them, depending on the form our action takes. To act, then, requires a certain incapacity for imagining the personalities of others, their joys and sufferings. Sympathy leads to paralysis. The man of action regards the external world as composed exclusively of inert matter – either intrinsically inert, like a stone he walks on or kicks out of his path, or inert like a human being who couldn’t resist him and thus might as well be a stone as a man since, like a stone, he was walked on or kicked out of the way. The best example of the practical man is the military strategist, in whom extreme concentration of action is joined to its extreme importance. All life is war, and the battle is life’s synthesis. The strategist is a man who plays with lives like the chess player with chess pieces. What would become of the strategist if he thought about how each of his moves brings night to a thousand homes and grief to three thousand hearts? What would become of the world if we were human? If man really felt, there would be no civilization. Art gives shelter to the sensibility that action was obliged to forget. Art is Cinderella, who stayed at home because that’s how it had to be.
 * Fernando Pessoa, trans. Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet (2002), text 303, ISBN 978-0141183046

 * Because the world is perfidious, I am going into mourning
 * Inscryption from by, trans "Om dat de werelt is soe ongetru / Daer om gha ic in den ru"

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 * I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone equally.
 * Attributed to H. L. Mencken, in The Mammoth Book of Jokes (2006) edited by Geoff Tibbals; no earlier citation yet located.

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Robbie Williams

Robert Peter Williams (born February 13, 1974) is a British songwriter, singer and performer.

Quotes

 * I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"… so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'...
 * Interview with Chris Moyles, Radio One (2005)

Life Thru a Lens (1997)

 * The world could change in a second, so I find the sunshine beckons me, to open up the gate and dream.
 * Lazy Days

 * I look above, and I know I'll always be blessed with love.
 * Angels

 * Well tonight I'm gonna live for today, so come along for the ride, I hope I'm old before I die.
 * Old Before I Die

 * There'll be the same old faces, in the same old places, where my youth was well misspent, but I toe the line and move in time, to a town called no regrets.
 * South of the Border

 * Hell is gone and heaven's here, there’s nothing left for you to fear.
 * Let Me Entertain You

Escapology (2002)

 * I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.
 * Feel

 * I'm not scared of dying, I just don't want to. If I stop lying, I'll just disappoint you.
 * Come Undone

 * I'm contemplating thinking about thinking… but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!
 * Come Undone

 * All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...
 * Something Beautiful

 * Screw you, I didn't like your taste anyway, I chose you, That's all gone to waste, It's Saturday, I'll go out and find another you.
 * Sexed Up

 * I've sung some songs that were lame, I've slept with girls on the game.
 * Monsoon

 * I'm here to make money and get laid, Yeah I'm a star but I'll fade.
 * Monsoon

 * I'm glad that spending a night with me, Guaranteed you celebrity.
 * Monsoon

 * Oh I haven't got a clue what to do with you, Jesus all the things my head is going through.
 * How Peculiar

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Kevin Keegan

Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is a former English football player and ex-manager of the English national team.

Quotes

 * I don't think there is anyone bigger or smaller than Diego Maradona!
 * [Referring to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson ] When you do that with footballers like he said about Leeds, and when you do things like that about a man like Stuart Pearce - I've kept really quiet, but I'll tell you something, he went down in my estimation when he said that - we have not resorted to that. But I'll tell ya - you can tell him now if you're watching it - we're still fighting for this title, and he's got to go to Middlesbrough and get something, and... and I tell you honestly, I will love it if we beat them, love it!

Kevin Keegan: Yes
 * Brian Moore: Quickly Kevin, you know him best, will he score?
 * (about his wife) in Jean I think I've found the ideal partner... I think... I abuse her.
 * Our current financial situation means that if we want to buy, we have to spend.
 * Collection of Kevin Keegan quotes
 * The Premier League is in danger of becoming one of the most boring, but great, leagues in the world.
 * "Has the Premier League's Big Four become a Big Two?", BBC Sport: Football (13 August 2010)

But if I see an England lady footballer saying about England against Scotland at Wembley and she's saying, "If I would have been in that position I would have done this," I don’t think it's quite the same. I don't think it crosses over that much.
 * I'm not as keen, I've got to be honest, and it may not be a view shared. I don't like to listen to ladies talking about the England men's team at the match because I don't think it's the same experience. I have a problem with that.
 * The presenters we have now, some of the girls are so good, they are better than the guys. It's a great time for the ladies.
 * Comments at An Evening With Kevin Keegan OBE, an event in Bristol, as cited in "Kevin Keegan criticises ‘lady footballers’ talking about England men", The Times (4 October 2023)
 * Women In Football commented on X (formerly known as Twitter): "There is more than one reason why Keegan is seen as an icon of the 1970s."

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User talk:Timeshifter

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User talk:80.233.198.160

Hi, welcome to the Wikiquote. I read your contributions and wonder if you submitted your own quote to Wikiquote. We accept only notable sources - well known people, books or films and if your articles don't reach our criteria, it will be removed.

However you can keep them under your user page, if you get an account. After you log on English Wikiquote, then you can rename a page, in this case User:(your preferred name and keep it.

Thank you for your consideration, --Aphaia 11:00, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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User:Alex2005

Framments of my life...

Poets

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Tom Shadyac

Tom Shadyac (born 11 December 1958) is an American comedian, producer, director and writer.

Quotes

 * Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
 * Director's commentary for Dragonfly.

 * In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.
 * Director's commentary for Dragonfly.

authors: An aggressive and ambiguous amphibian's absurd and adaptable anagram alarmed all ants

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User talk:82.198.250.82

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User talk:82.198.250.7

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User talk:82.73.81.21

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Once again, incidents of deliberate vandalism have resulted in this IP address being temporarily blocked from editing. ~ UDScott 12:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:MY POOP TASTES GOOD

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User:MY POOP TASTES GOOD

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User:Mi nombre es Heraldo

Agrego cotizaciones españolas porque hay demasiado de una mayoría inglesa y necesitamos diversidad

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Veo que has corregido recientemente. ¿Cómo me consigo el espaciamiento apropiado en la versión española del artículo de George Bush tener hecho? Mi nombre es Heraldo 18:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

NE PABLO ESPANOL

PABLO INGLES?

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User talk:Mi nombre es Heraldo

El Wikiquote español se encuentra aquí.

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User:Uncle J~enwikiquote

Quotes from Uncle J:

 * Old enough to drive old enough to be driven (An argument for raising the age of consent to 16 rather than 14)
 * Straight until proven gay (a play on innocent until proven guilty)
 * Are you staying at the Rico Suave (Rocco Forte)
 * We've been in Queer all night (cue)
 * I want a fucking Cyrus radio (Sirius)
 * I don't like staying at the Paris Hilton, its too small and there isn't enough ball room

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User talk:Jdh 24~enwikiquote

~ Kalki 20:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

The Benjamin Franklin quote is disputed not only because it uses the word "lunch", of which some pre-cursor forms are known to occur prior to Franklin's death, but because it is nowhere found in Franklins writings, and because printed variants of it, by another author occur before any definitely known attribution of Franklin. ~ Kalki 20:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

The "Lunch" statement is not "fictitious." I don't have all the material immediately on hand, but from what I recall of some rather extensive research: the Oxford English Dictionary sites precursor forms from which lunch is assumed to derive dating to the 16th century, but the earliest definite written citation for "lunch" rather than "luncheon" is after Franklin's death. ~ Kalki 20:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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Anthony Crosland

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 – 19 February 1977), born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England, was a British politician and Labour member of Parliament - as well as being a socialist theorist. He held many posts in the Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan before his sudden death in 1977.

Quotes

 * The trend of employment is towards a high level, and a recurrence of chronic mass unemployment is most unlikely. The Keynesian techniques are now well understood, and there is no reason to fear a repetition of the New Deal experience of a government with the will to spend its way out of a recession, but frustrated in doing so by faulty knowledge. The political pressure for full employment is stronger than ever before; the experience of the inter-war years bit so deeply into the political psychology of the nation that full employment, if threatened, would always constitute the dominant issue at any election, and no right-wing party could now survive a year in office if it permitted the figures of unemployment which were previously quite normal.
 * 'The Transition from Capitalism' in Richard Crossman (ed.), New Fabian Essays (1952), pp. 39–40

 * I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.
 * The Conservative Enemy (1962), p. 103

 * If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.
 * Crosland is so quoted by his wife Susan Crosland in her biography, Tony Crosland (1982), p. 148. Some of his political allies dispute that he believed the sentiments conveyed by the quote and therefore cast doubt on whether he actually said it.

 * To say that we must attend meticulously to the environmental case does not mean that we must go to the other extreme and wholly neglect the economic case. Here we must beware of some of our friends. For parts of the conservationist lobby would do precisely this. Their approach is hostile to growth in principle and indifferent to the needs of ordinary people. It has a manifest class bias, and reflects a set of middle and upper class value judgements. Its champions are often kindly and dedicated people. But they are affluent and fundamentally, though of course not consciously, they want to kick the ladder down behind them. They are highly selective in their concern, being militant mainly about threats to rural peace and wildlife and well loved beauty spots: they are little concerned with the far more desperate problem of the urban environment in which 80 per cent of our fellow citizens live ... As I wrote many years ago, those enjoying an above average standard of living should be chary of admonishing those less fortunate on the perils of material riches. Since we have many less fortunate citizens, we cannot accept a view of the environment which is essentially elitist, protectionist and anti-growth. We must make our own value judgement based on socialist objectives: and that judgement must...be that growth is vital, and that its benefits far outweigh its costs.
 * 'Class hypocrisy of the conservationists', The Times (8 January 1971), p. 10
 * An extract from the Fabian pamphlet A Social Democratic Britain.

 * The great service of Keynes to recent history is that we now know, in the way that governments did not know in the 1930s, how full employment can be maintained.
 * Address to the Trade Union Public Services International in Copenhagen ('Government and Industry') (September 1971), quoted in Socialism Now (1974), p. 274

 * Nationalisation ... does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.
 * Speech in Rotherham (9 June 1973).

 * Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.
 * Anthony Crosland, Socialism Now (1974), p. 44

 * As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (Hansard, 6 November 1974, Cols. 1076–7).

 * For the next few years times will not be normal. Perhaps people have used the words 'economic crisis' too often in the past. They have shouted 'wolf, wolf' when the animal was more akin to a rather disagreeable Yorkshire terrier. But not now. The crisis that faces us is infinitely more serious than any of the crises we have faced over the past 20 years...With its usual spirit of patriotism and its tradition of service to the community's needs, it is coming to realize that, for the time being at least, the party is over...We are not calling for a headlong retreat. But we are calling for a standstill.
 * Speech in Manchester Town Hall (9 May 1975), quoted in Christopher Warman, 'Councils are told to curb rise in spending', The Times (10 May 1975), p. 1

 * [T]o withdraw now would create in this country a mood of poor man's inchoate chauvinism, reviving old dreams of Empire and special relationships that have had such disastrous effects on British policy-making since 1945.
 * Remarks during the European Communities membership referendum campaign (c. May 1975), quoted in Susan Crosland, Tony Crosland (1982), p. 292

 * I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.
 * Speech in Eastbourne (20 November 1975).

 * Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.
 * Speech to the UN General Assembly (5 October 1976).

 * We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.
 * Letter published in Tribune (1976).

 * We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.
 * The Times (8 September 1977).

The Future of Socialism (1956)

 * I am sure that a definite limit exists to the degree of equality which is desirable. We do not want complete equality of incomes, since extra responsibility and exceptional talent require and deserve a differential reward. We are not hostile, as our opponents sometimes foolishly suggest, to 'detached residences in Bournemouth where some elderly woman has obviously more than a thousand a year'. I do not myself want to see all private education disappear; nor the Prime Minister denied an official car, as in one Scandinavian country; nor the Queen riding a bicycle; nor the House of Lords instantly abolished; nor the manufacture of Rolls-Royces banned; nor the Brigade of Guards, nor Oxford and Cambridge, nor Boodle's nor (more doubtfully) the Royal Yacht Squadron, nor even, on a rather lower level, the Milroy Room, lose their present distinctive character; nor anything so dull and colourless as this.
 * p. 149
 * The remark about 'detached residences in Bournemouth' refers to an article in catholic newspaper The Tablet titled "The Old Fabians and the New" (31 May 1952, p. 4) in which Roy Jenkins is presumed to be seeking to deprive their residents of their capital.

 * We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

 * Militant leftism in politics appears to have its roots in broadly analogous sentiments. Every labour politician has observed that the most indignant members of his local Party are not usually the poorest, or the slum-dwellers, or those with most to gain from further economic change, but the younger, more self-conscious element, earning good incomes and living comfortably in neat new council houses: skilled engineering workers, electrical workers, draughtsmen, technicians, and the lower clerical grades. (Similarly the most militant local parties are not in the old industrial areas, but either in the newer high-wage engineering areas or in middle-class towns; Coventry or Margate are the characteristic strongholds.) Now it is people such as these who naturally resent the fact that despite their high economic status, often so much higher than their parents’, and their undoubted skill at work, they have no right to participate in the decisions of their firm, no influence over policy, and far fewer non-pecuniary privileges than the managerial grades; and outside their work they are conscious of a conspicuous educational handicap, of a style of life which is still looked down on by middle-class people often earning little if any more, of differences in accent, and generally of an inferior class position.”

 * Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person’s social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from  the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

 * (The) pattern of consumption is markedly more equal than in Britain. ‘Prestige-goods’ are widely distributed, and there is less conspicuous contrast between the standard of living of different income-groups. To take the most obvious example, almost every family owns a car; and this is significant not only because a car is the most conspicuous of all consumption goods, but also because universal car-ownership leads to the universal consumption of other conspicuous or semi-luxury goods – holidays, hotels, middle-class habits of shopping, etc. But the lack of external class-distinctions can be observed in many other spheres: e.g. clothes, eating-habits, drug-stores, the ownership of consumer durables, and so on.

 * A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the ‘luxuries’ which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.

Quotes about Crosland

 * Your proposals are in fact far more revolutionary in their effects than an electoral promise to nationalise ICI and most of engineering. If I was perverse, I would say that they are diabolically and cunningly left-wing and Nye [Bevan] should have been clever enough to think them up. But you put them forward as ways of ensuring a calm evolution towards higher living standards and more personal freedom.
 * Richard Crossman to Anthony Crosland on his book The Future of Socialism (23 October 1956), quoted in Martin Francis, ‘Mr Gaitskell's Ganymede? Re‐assessing Crosland's The Future of Socialism’, Contemporary British History, Volume 11, Issue 2 (1997), p. 62

 * Crosland died in February 1977, not living to see the disproof of all his doom-laden economic prophecies. He had never appreciated that an economy increasingly open to the world was inconsistent with the comfortable message of The Future of Socialism. The ideas that had provided the background to The Future of Socialism, that a high rate of growth could be relied on and that the problem of unemployment had been solved, were already at a discount. Contrary to The Future of Socialism, the economic problem had not been solved. The Keynesian techniques in which Crosland had deposited so much confidence had failed. It had proved impossible to reconcile full employment with stable prices.
 * Edmund Dell, A Strange Eventful History: Democratic Socialism in Britain (1999), p. 462

 * He had a mind of high perspective, yet cared little in a personal, as opposed to an aesthetic sense, about the past. He had practically no sense of nostalgia. He believed in applying highly rational standards to decision-making (he always thought me hopelessly intuitive) but he was full of strong emotions.
 * Roy Jenkins, The Sunday Times (20 February 1977), quoted in John Campbell, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (2014), p. 37

 * Our friendship persisted on an intense but fluctuating basis for nearly four decades. Not only was his character engaging, his personality was dazzling and his intellect was of very high quality. He had maddening streaks of perversity, was in my view not at his best as a minister, but was the most exciting friend of my life.
 * Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre (1991), p. 30

 * Each term we had a lively debate with the other political clubs at the Oxford Union, particularly the Labour Club, which at the time was very left wing and included some famous names like Anthony Crosland – who even in those days could condescend to a Duchess – and Tony Benn.
 * Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power (1995), p. 49

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Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) is a British trade unionist. He was the President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2002 and has served as leader of the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded, since 1996. He led successful unofficial strikes in 1969, 1972, and 1974 which contributed to the downfall of Prime Minister Edward Heath. However, he also led an unsuccessful strike in 1984–85 that was defeated by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government, substantially weakening both the British mining industry and trade union movement.

1967–1980

 * I can honestly say that I never heard flannel like we got from the Minister... he said that we have nuclear power stations with us, whether we like it or not. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us... but they did something about this problem: they closed them down.  This was a complete reversal of the policy... that was promised by the Labour Government before it was put into office... this represents a betrayal of the mining industry.
 * Speaking after a Labour Party conference speech on energy policy by Richard March (July 1967), quoted in Andrew Taylor, The Politics of the Yorkshire Miner (London: Croom Helm, 1984), p. 60

 * It is impossible to have workers' control within a capitalist society. Capitalism, by its very nature, produces contradictions which cannot be resolved until and unless we change the system of society...The unions could only have class collaboration and compromise with the mixed economy, and those who advanced the theory of workers' control in present-day society were putting forward an intellectual, Utopian dream, idealistic, unworkable and unattainable.
 * The Miner (5 December 1977), quoted in Paul Routledge, "Scargill attack on idea of worker directors", The Times (5 December 1977), p. 17

 * I believe this judgment should firmly convince any trade unionist that it is useless hoping for justice in the courts of this land. The only way we are going to obtain justice in my view is by fighting for democracy as our forefathers did in establishing the trade union and Labour movements.
 * Speech (21 December 1977), quoted in Paul Routledge and Ronald Kershaw, "Judge stops attempt to ban pit bonus plan", The Times (22 December 1977), p. 1

1981–1988

 * My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.
 * The Sunday Times (10 January 1982)

 * Legislation is introduced by Parliament, but we should remember that all our advances, freedom and liberties are due to men and women who, when their conscience compelled them, have been prepared to defy the law. If legislation is introduced which erodes our basic freedom and democracy or threatens our right to combine, we should oppose it with the same vigour and determination of our forefathers. I believe it will be necessary to use all measures, including industrial action, to defy [Norman] Tebbit's law and defend our movement.
 * Speech in Yorkshire (15 March 1982), quoted in Paul Routledge "Scargill urges strike against Tebbit Bill", The Times (16 March 1982), p. 2

 * We need action not words. For the first time we are facing the prospect of seeing legislation introduced which denies the right of trade unionists to come to the assistance of other unionists and denies the right of trade unionists to seek the support of others in their disputes. There is only one response. Faced with this legislation we should say we will defy the law. It is the only action we can take and it is the only response this movement can give. If there is an attempt to use this legislation then you defy it not as an individual union but as a movement.
 * Speech to the Trades Union Congress at Brighton on the Employment Act 1982 (7 September 1982), quoted in Alan Wood, John Winder and Gordon Wellman "Overwhelming vote to defy 'anti-union laws'", The Times (8 September 1982), p. 4.

 * I am convinced there will be unanimous support for the current action and for the fight against pit closures and I shall be calling upon every miner to support the actions that have been taken in the areas. This is a fight for the survival of British mining industry and I am not prepared to accept the imposition of a pensioner from the United States whose mandate is to destroy this industry as he destroyed the British steel industry. I give warning to the board and to the Government that they must now give very serious reconsideration to the policies and the proposals they are trying to implement in pit closures and the reduction in manpower levels. I am convinced that the mineworkers have now reached the point where enough is enough.
 * Speech (2 March 1983), quoted in Ronald Kershaw, "Scargill demands strike solidarity", The Times (3 March 1983), p. 2
 * Ian MacGregor was Chairman of the National Coal Board from 1983 to 1986. A strike had begun at the Ty Mawr/Lewis Merthyr Colliery in South Wales, which was threatened with closure, and balloting had begun in other areas.

 * Waiting in the wings, wishing to chop us to pieces, is Yankee steel butcher MacGregor [...] This 70-year-old multi-millionaire import, who massacred half the steel workforce in less than three years, is almost certainly brought in to wield the axe on pits. [...] It's now or never for Britain's mineworkers. This is the final chance – while we still have the strength – to save our industry.
 * The Miner, quoted in Paul Routledge, "Pit strike would last 'very long time' warns NCB", The Times (8 March 1983), p. 1

 * My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it...[I will oppose a second-term Thatcher government] as vigorously as I possibly can.
 * Interview (12 May 1983), quoted in Paul Routledge "Tories likened to Nazis", The Times (13 May 1983), p. 2

 * The miners of this country will now have to seriously consider their position and recognise that at some stage they are going to have to stand and fight in defence of our industry, in defence of our jobs and above all to retain a dignity and respect.
 * Interview (15 June 1983) quoted in David Felton, "65 thousand pit jobs to go, says Siddall", The Times (16 June 1983), p. 1

 * Mr Murray would be well advised to direct his attacks towards the Tory Government, who have been devastating our industry and smashing down British industry as a whole. I would remind Mr Murray that the TUC at Congress two years ago voted for extra-Parliamentary action – and in essence political strike action – when it decided to oppose Government laws against the miners...I believe that the miners will recognise, sooner or later, that they will have to stand and defend this industry, their jobs, dignity and self-respect.
 * Speech in Perth (1 July 1983), quoted in Paul Routledge, "Scargill rejects Murray call on political strikes", The Times (2 July 1983), p. 1

 * A fight back against this Government's policies will inevitably take place outside rather than inside Parliament. When I talk about 'extra-parliamentary action' there is a great outcry in the press and from leading Tories about my refusal to accept the democratic will of the people. I am not prepared to accept policies elected by a minority of the British electorate. I am not prepared quietly to accept the destruction of the coal industry, nor am I willing to see our social services decimated. This totally undemocratic Government can now easily push through whatever laws it chooses. Faced with possible parliamentary destruction of all that is good and compassionate in our society, extra-parliamentary action will be the only course open to the working class and the Labour movement.
 * Speech in Perth (4 July 1983), quoted in Paul Routledge, "Pit leaders seek backing for big pay increases", The Times (5 July 1983), p. 1

 * I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.
 * Letter to left-wing newspaper Newsline (7 September 1983), as quoted in the "Scargill angers unions with Solidarity attack", Glasgow Herald (8 September 1983), p. 1

 * I did not join this Party to have a yuppy-land approach, to run capitalism better than the Tories. I joined this party to change this society and create a socialist alternative.
 * Speech to the Labour Party Conference (3 October 1988), quoted in "Scargill in furious attack on reform", The Times (4 October 1988), p. 9

Quotes about Scargill

 * [A]s Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao perceived, the basic concept of war as a continuation of politics by other means can be applied to any form of rivalry between human groups, be they class, racial or ideological. In these contexts "war", or the use of force to compel an opponent to fulfil one's will, has far broader meanings than a traditional punch-up between nation states or alliances, or the kind of "absolute" or "total" war which Clausewitz saw as conceptually the purest form and which we have witnessed twice this century. Thus we saw anti-nuclear protesters employ force at military installations in pursuit of the political aim of persuading Western governments into unilateral nuclear disarmament. We saw Greenpeace employ force against Shell plc over the disposal of the Brent Spar platform. We saw Arthur Scargill's troops attempt by coercion to bring down an elected government, only to be defeated in, quite literally, pitched battles. We may note in these encounters and, for that matter, in the street brawls during the World Cup, another fundamental factor that is unlikely to change in the future – the dark well of aggressiveness that lies within human nature and finds release in the pleasurable adrenalin surge that comes from violence, risk and danger.
 * Correlli Barnett, 'Home front, front line', The Spectator (4 July 1998)

 * A quarter of a century on, the Grunwick dispute remains one of the most significant in modern industrial history. In a sense, the strike was typical of a pattern of similar disputes before and since: a factory with a few hundred workers, a slowly building sense of injustice and a long standoff between employer and worker. But even then, Grunwick seemed a different kind of battle. This was a historic meeting between a traditional trade unionism, still relatively sure of its power, and a growing band of black and Asian workers who were beginning to find an industrial and political voice. Arthur Scargill bought down his Yorkshire miners in a bus - there was even fighting talk of shutting the pits. Grunwick workers travelled to more than 2,000 workplaces over 40 weeks to enlist support. The strike seemed to draw in every progressive movement of the day. "Black and white unite and fight" demanded the banners in Chapter road. Socialist feminists did their picket duty and wrote sternly of the military tactics of their trade union brothers. Jayaben Desai, in her sari and white cardigan, handbag crooked over her arm, was a feminist heroine of the age. Yet perhaps the most lasting consequence of Grunwick and other mass disputes during the 1970s were some of the anti-union laws of the 1980s, particularly those outlawing mass pickets. Today, it is possible to see more clearly the fraud that lay at the heart of the argument advanced by what was then called the "new right", particularly over Grunwick. A few hundred Asian men and women asking for the right to join a union and negotiate from within it was hardly the best example of an overweening and arrogant union movement it claimed was running the country. By any reckoning, Grunwick was a just cause, whose supporters included moderates such as Shirley Williams. In 1977, an independent court of inquiry chaired by Lord Scarman criticised mass picketing but upheld the workers' claim to union recognition. But it was a lost cause: George Ward, the Grunwick owner, refused to give in. This, despite a last-ditch hunger strike by Mrs Desai and four colleagues on the steps of the TUC. The strike fizzled out in early 1978. No walkout since, bar the miners' strike of 1984-5, has quite achieved Grunwick's fame or progressive significance. In the early 1980s, I went to a small factory near Birmingham to cover a similar dispute, led by a group of Asian workers protesting about pay and conditions and the right to union recognition. This time, the streets were empty. As union power declined, so did media coverage - if there's no punch-up, so what?
 * Melissa Benn, "The heroine of Dollis Hill" The Guardian (31 October 2001)

 * That man told the truth, and truth still has value in the politics of our society when all the lies, half truths and half promises about independent reviews are dismissed. ... Arthur Scargill has been rehabilitated more quickly than any man I have known. Within 24 hours, everyone knew that he was right. The miners certainly did.
 * Tony Benn, speech in the House of Commons (21 October 1992) after the government announced pit closures
 * In Britain, Thatcher was comfortably re-elected in 1983 and 1987, and the radical left-wing challenge of a coal miners’ strike designed in effect to bring down the government was defeated in 1984–5. This strike had its own dynamic very much located in British industrial and labour politics, but can also be placed within the Cold War. The leadership of the British NUM (National Union of Mineworkers), was very left-wing and was ready to take money from both the Soviet Union and Libya. Faced by a national dock strike in support of the miners, the government, in July 1984, drew up plans for troops to move coal and food around the country. Thatcher’s closest aides saw the struggle as one to maintain effective government. In the end, the dock strike petered out in 1984. As another link with Cold War tensions, Thatcher survived an IRA bomb attack in 1984. The provision of arms to the IRA in part came from American sympathisers of Irish origin, but Eastern Bloc supplies were also significant, notably from Libya and Czechoslovakia. The IRA endorsed radical Marxist positions.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2015)

 * Personally I think that [Margaret Thatcher] has the qualities of a very great politician. I believe she has tremendous conviction, she has drive, she has commitment, she is totally genuine. On the other side I think she has a certain tunnel vision, she is uncompromising, she goes over the top too much – she did over the miners, she tried to make out that Arthur Scargill was Galtieri and that the miners were the Argies. I think that view does not go down well in the country. And I think she's deeply lacking in compassion and sensitivity.
 * Michael Meacher, quoted in Hugo Young and Anne Sloman, The Thatcher Phenomenon (1986), p. 79

 * Oh I detest him! I did then, I do now, and it's mutual. He hates me as well. And I'd much prefer to have his savage hatred than even the merest hint of friendship from that man.
 * Neil Kinnock, quoted in '"Kinnock 'detests' Scargill", BBC Press Release (27 February 2004)

 * The greatest division this nation has ever seen were the conflicts of trade unions towards the end of a Labour Government...That trade union movement...used their power against their members. They made them come out on strike when they didn't want to. They loved secondary picketing. They went and demonstrated outside companies where there was no dispute whatsoever, and sometimes closed them down. They were acting as they were later in the coal strike, before my whole trade union laws were through of this Government. They were out to use their power to hold the nation to ransom, to stop power from getting to the whole of manufacturing industry to damage people's jobs, to stop power from getting to every house in the country, power, heat and light to every housewife, every child, every school, every pensioner. You want division; you want conflict; you want hatred. There it was. It was that which Thatcherism—if you call it that—tried to stop. Not by arrogance, but by giving power to the ordinary, decent, honourable, trade union member who didn’t want to go on strike. By giving power to him over the Scargills of this world.
 * Margaret Thatcher, TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (8 June 1987)

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User:Koweja/Guidelines

Formatting
Articles about television shows should adhere to the standard formatting scheme used by the vast majority of television show-related articles on Wikiquote. See Guide to layout and Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Format for more details. A basic template is available (Templates/TV shows) as well.

The standard layout is
 * 1) Introductory paragraph
 * 2) Table of contents
 * 3) Quotes
 * 4) Cast list
 * 5) External links
 * 6) Categories

Note: do not make subpages for any section - keep everything on one page. (Ignore the warning you get when editing that tells you the page may be too long. It isn't.)

Quotes

 * Seasons should be a level two header ( ==Season #== ). Include the airdates (or just the years) if you want.

 * Each episode should be under a seperate level three header. Make a it link to wikipedia if applicable (see below).
 * According to the Guide to layout you should italic the episode name and include the season and episode number in the form of === Name [s.e] ===, however it is fairly common to see see ===Name=== as well, using only the episode name (as well as part number for multi-part episodes). In any case, do not include the airdate, production number, or put the name in quotes (though these are somtimes included in the table of contents).

 * Indent every part of the quote with a colon, including scene context. Only the  should not be indented.

 * Scene content (location, time, event being discussed, etc. not who the character is addressing) is added in braces ([]) before the quote and is a full sentence in italics (i.e. [The four women are eating at a Burger King.]).

 * Use the most commonly used name of the characters. For many shows, first and last name will be appropriate. For many other shows (usually shows with fewer main characters), first name only is fine. For political and military shows using rank, first, and last name is probably best. In any case, use the name they generally go by (e.g. Bender of Futurama should be listed as "Bender", not "Bender Bending Rodriguez" since his full name is used only once or twice durring the entire series).
 * If the speaker is not identified, describe the character in a word or two, using Title Case (e.g. Unknown Alien:, not Unknown alien with green skin and holding a laser weapon:)

 * Bold the name of the speaker by Name: to make "Name: ".

 * Only add Wikipedia links to the characters and episodes that have specific articles. In other words, do not link every episode to the complete episode list article/section (though you may want to link each season header to the season in the episode list, if each season has a separate header). The same applies for the characters. It is also recommended that you only link to articles that have actual content (aren't stubs).
 * If the articles are there, DO add the links.
 * Only add links for the first occurance of each character per episode.

 * Inline context (stage directions) (i.e. Karen: [to Charlotte] Hi) should be in italic, in braces, and after the colon (':').

 * Do not put the quote itself in italic or surround by quotation marks ("").

 * For explanatory context within the quote itself (i.e. Sandra: He [Robert] went over there.) uses braces ([]) and no itallics.

 * End each quoted line with punctuation. Use elipses (...) if the speaker trails off without a hard stop a dash (-) if they are interrupted or stop in the middle of the sentence.

 * Keep the order of the quotes in the order that they are spoken on the show if possible.

 * Separate quotes with a horizontal rule (  ).

tag after each line. The colon used to indent forces a line break.
 * You do not need to add a

Introduction
At the very beginning, include a short description of the show. Include things such as:
 * Title (in bold and italic, link to Wikipedia)
 * Genre
 * Airdates
 * Premise
 * Original broadcasting network (or syndicated)
 * Country of origin
 * If it's been released on DVD
 * What makes the show unique
 * Taglines

Airdates and country of origin are especially importaint for shows with the same name that made simultaneously in different countries (e.g. both the US and UK have their own versions of The Office) or shows that are remade (e.g. there are two shows called Battlestar Galactica).

Basically, don't assume that the person looking at the article knows anything about the show. Give them the basic information so they get the general gist of the show, and to help them distinguish it between shows with similar names. Wiki the dates as well, so they can be reformatted based on user preferences.

Do not include excessive amounts of information or series/season/episode summaries. That is what the Wikipedia articles are for. Anything from one sentence to a paragraph will usually do nicely.

Custom table of contents
HTML tables are often used to replace the standard table of contents due to the fact that each episode gets a subheader. This makes the table of contents into one list that stretches on for pages. Instead, a multicolumn table is used to condense everything.

Note: It is recommended that you only do custom TOCs for series that have ended, that way you know how many seasons and episodes there are and can format the table appropriately. Otherwise you will have to reformat the table everytime new shows are announced.

First, get rid of the old table of contents by adding   somewhere in the beginning of the article.

Now create your table, placing it between the introduction and the first header.

Standard table format

 * Open the table with   and add your table parameters ( border="#", align="#", width="#%", style="" ).
 *  |-  is a row break. Whenever used, the next cell will start at the left one row below.
 *  ! |  is a column header. Put parameters (width, align, etc.) between the ! and |, and the text to be displayed (as well as any formating or links) after the |. For the next column, start a new line and begin with a !. Repeat for each column.
 * If you're going to set the width of the columns, do so here.
 * Put a line break ( |- )after the last column header.
 * Normal cells are denoted with a ||. Parameters for the cell go between the two bars, formatted text goes after the second one.
 * To start a new cell, simply start a new line and begin with a bar.
 * Cells are placed left to right until a row break is encountered.
 * If you've set the column width with the header cells, you do not need to do so again.
 * To start a new row, you must use a row break ( |- ). Your table can be more cells wide that you have column headers if you don't.
 * After the last cell, put a row break and then close the table with  |} .

Notes on tables

 * Columns should (usually) be the same width, except the title bar (simply place a normal row with one cell that spans the table above the column headers) and non-episode links, which can span multiple columns and rows to fill in empty space.
 * Seasons are divided by columm, with episodes listed in order top-down, not left-right.
 * If possible keep one season to a column, though this guideline shouldn't be followed if it would take up too much space.
 * Episodes are listed one per cell.
 * Non-episode sections (cast, links, etc) should be listed at the end, usually spanning rows near or below the last episode of the longest season, or in the final season's column. As a rule of thumb, non-episode links should either be touching the bottom of the table (or another non-episode link at the bottom), or be listed in their own column.
 * You can usually fit six columns to a table without things becoming cramped.
 * It is standard practice to make the background colors of the column headers different colors to distinguish between seasons.
 * Consult an HTML and CSS guide, such as HTMLdog, for tutorials on table parameters and styles.

Cast list
It is customary to have a cast list right after the quotes. This should not necessarily include every named character on the show, just the ones significant to the overall story. Guest stars and cameos are frequently listed as well.
 * Descriptions should be short - leave the details for the Wikipedia article.
 * Generally speaking they should be listed as performer/character, not character/performer.

Categories
Categories are an importaint way of grouping related articles together. The main category for TV shows is Category:Television shows and there are numerous subcategories. To add a category, simply add  .
 * If the show names begins with an article (The, A, An) you should put the article after the show name. For example, The Daily Show would be listed as Daily Show, The. Do this by adding a | and letter before the closing brackets (e.g instead of
 * If the show has a more appropriate subcategory, use it instead of the higher level one. For example Spongebob could fit into Category:Animated TV shows, however there is a subcategory Category:Nickelodeon animated TV shows.
 * If you use a subcategory, do not use the higher level ones as well. It is already implied and easy to navigate through the Category hierarchy.
 * If the article covers other materials such as films, comics/magnas, etc., include those categories as well.
 * If the article covers both the show and other sections extensively, and the materials aren't related, consider splitting the page into mutliple articles.

Standard categories
Some categories to include (if applicable):
 * Genre (all of which can be found on the main Television show category page.
 * Category:Television series on DVD if one or more seasons have been released. Don't use this category for shows that have only had a limited number of episodes release (Fan picks, classics, etc) - only put it in if one or more seasons have been released.
 * Category:Current shows if the series is current or Category:Cancelled shows if it has been cancelled.
 * Network (or syndication), a list can be found at Category:Shows by network

If the article needs improvement, then you can add any or all of these templates (which automatically add the appropriate category):
 * - add at the beginning to request that the article be rewriten to conform to the guideines mentioned above.
 * - add at the beginning (or after tv-cleanup) if there is no introduction.
 * - add at the end to request that others add more content.

Creating categories
If there is no category, than you can add one easily.
 * 1) Put the category that you are going to create in the article the same way you would an existing category and save (or preview) the article.
 * 2) Scroll to the bottom to see all of the categories. Your new category will be in red.
 * 3) Click it to go to the page creation window.
 * 4) Add a description, with links to Wikipedia if possible. Don't add links to individual shows, these will be added automatically.
 * 5) To make your category a subcategory of an existing category, simply add <tt>  </tt> to the bottom of the page.

Notes on creating categories

 * If the Category is a broadcaster, it goes under Category:Shows by network.
 * Standard format for the name is to use the acronym followed by "shows" (e.g. Category:NBC shows instead of "National Broadcasting Company shows").
 * Include the full name if it is more well know than the abbriviation (e.g. Cartoon Network shows instead of CN shows) or if the acrnym is already take by another category (as was done with Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows.
 * If the Category is a genre it goes under the main TV category, Category:Television shows, unless it is a subgenre such as Category:Military drama TV shows, in which case it is a subcategory of the genre (in this case Category:Drama TV shows).
 * Always put the category as far down as it can be and still make sense.
 * Every category should be a subcategory of at least one category.
 * If it doesn't belong under Television shows, it probabably belongs in the next one up - Category:Main page, or one Main Page's subcategories.
 * The highest level category is Category:Categories.

Cleaning up
Category:TV cleanup contains a list of shows that have been flagged for clean up. If you decide to clean one up, typical things to do include:

 * Make sure the introduction is descriptive enough, and that the title is bolded, in italics, and links to wikipedia.
 * Quotes should be identified (have a speaker) and under the correct [sub]heading.
 * Quotes that don't belong with a specific episode (such as catch phrases or credits voice-overs) should be collected in a level 2 heading called something like "Repeated lines", or "Catch phrases".
 * Quotes that repeated in each episode over the course of one season go between the season's heading and the first episode heading. An example of this is the Babylon 5 credit voice overs, which changed every season.
 * Put the speaker before the quote, they are often incorrectly put afterwards.
 * Make sure the quote itself is not in italics, has punctuation, and is not in quotes.
 * All contexts (scene, stage directions, and explanatory phrases should be brackets.
 * Make sure all scene contexts are on their own line, in italics, and indented.
 * Stage directions should placed after the colon and in italics.
 * Inline explanatory phrases should not be in italics
 * Check for duplicates, especially if there are some quotes that are properly organized and a pile of unorganized ones at the end.
 * Add wikipedia quotes where ever applicable (first time each character speaks in an episode, episode names, occationally season headers). It depends on how the Wikipedia articles are structured.
 * Words within the quote generally do not need wiki links, unless it is a phrase or technical term that a reader might be unfamilar with.
 * Links to characters that are mentioned but aren't a speaker for any of the episode's quotes should be linked as well.
 * Add a character lists after the quotes. Usually you can just copy an abridged version over from the Wikipedia pages.
 * Add external links - almost every article can have, , and links. Check any existing links to make sure they are correct and don't link to disambiguation pages or stubs on wikipedia.
 * Make sure all external links are still working, don't link to something unrelated, provide useful information, and aren't just spam.
 * Add and replace categories.
 * Current/Cancelled, genre, broadcaster, and DVD availabilty should be added for almost all articles.
 * Create new genere and network categories if needed.
 * Remove the Category:Television shows link if it is there, as all of the other categories listed are subcategories of it.
 * Remove the tag if everything is fixed.

Finding quotes
This is wiki[w:Some sources are better than others. A lot better.

From best to worst:

 * 1) Audio tracks of the DVD releases - DVD releases are (usually) uncut. This is what you are quoting, so go directly to the source if possible.
 * 2) Television audio - A pretty reliable source, but occationally words get subbed (especially if something is obscene) or conversations get cut off.
 * 3) Official scripts - Hard to find, but arguably more accurate than what was said on screen. If an actor doesn't recite the line exactly, which is the "correct" version? Is it what the screenwriter wanted to be said, or what was actually said? Since these are quotations from TV shows, not scripts, go with what was said on screen since that is what most readers will be looking for.
 * 4) Official site - they have the scripts, so they tend to be accurate
 * 5) Subtitles and close captioning. - Ever watch a show with subtitles on? Sometimes you can't even tell that it's the same show that was captioned. Babylon 5 is a good (bad?) example of this, though some shows are subbed almost perfectly. The people who put in the subtitles/captioning don't transcribe the audio, they use the scripts, so if an actor doesn't recite the line exactly the text may be a little off.
 * 6) Fansites - quoting what you read on another site is basically hersay and not guarrenteed to be accurate. If possible, verify it from an official souce. If you can't, add it, but then mention it on the Talk page so someone else can check it. Don't assume that a quote is accurate if you can find the exact wording on multiple sites. Many of these sites copy text from one another, so inaccuracies spread quickly.
 * 7) IMDB and TV.com - Yes, almost all pages link to them, but only because they provide a lot of information and images about the show. They are notorious for misquoting shows and should never be relied on for exact quotations.

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User talk:Superjew~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Superjew. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Superjew~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Marcstirbl

Welcome
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User talk:Sandra24~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Sandra24. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sandra24~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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