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Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (23 May 1810 – 19 June 1850) was an American author, journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She, her husband, and their child all died at the end of a five week voyage from Europe in a shipwreck just off of Fire Island.

Quotes

 * There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them...
 * Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838); published in The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I, p. 327,, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (1983)

 * Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
 * Letter to her brother, (20 December 1840) as quoted in The Feminist Papers (1973) by Alice Rossi

 * Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
 * "Recipe to prevent the cold of January from utterly destroying life" (30 January 1841), quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 97

 * Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
 * Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112

 * It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
 * Notes from Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 1842) published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. II, p. 64

 * How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
 * Letter to Rev. W. H. Channing (31 December 1843) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 184

 * Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
 * Summer On The Lakes, in 1843 (1844)

 * Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
 * Article, The New York Daily Tribune (22 February 1845), p. 19; quoted in Brilliant Bylines (1986) by Barbara Belford

 * Were the destiny of woman thus exactly marked out, did she invariably retain the shelter of a parent’s or guardian’s roof till she married, did marriage give her a sure home and a protector, were she never liable to be made a widow, or, if so, sure of finding immediate protection from a brother or new husband, so that she might never be forced to stand alone one moment, and were her mind given for this world only, with no faculties capable of eternal growth and infinite improvement, we would still demand of her a far wider and more generous culture than is proposed by those who so anxiously define her sphere.
 * Article, The New York Daily Tribune (30 September 1845); quoted in Brilliant Bylines (1986) by Barbara Belford

 * Women are the best helpers of one another. Let them think; let them act; till they know what they need. But if you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. Let them be sea-captains if you will.
 * (1845) Attributed in Gerda Lerner, The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History’’ (1979)

 * The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
 * "A Short Essay on Critics" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 5

 * Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
 * "Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50

 * Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
 * Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. I, p. 132

 * It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.
 * "American Literature" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 122

 * Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
 * "A Short Essay on Critics" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858)

 * There are two modes of criticism. One which … crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drouth. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
 * "Poets of the People" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858)

 * It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
 * "The Modern Drama" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858)

 * We doubt not the destiny of our country — that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
 * "American Facts" in Life Without and Life Within (1860) edited by Arthur Buckminster Fuller, p. 108

 * For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
 * As quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 289

 * Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
 * As quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 289-91

 * I accept the universe.
 * As quoted in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James
 * Gad! She'd better. - response of Thomas Carlyle

 * I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
 * As reported by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884) Vol. 1, Pt. 4.
 * Of this comment Perry Miller states "the fact is that at Emerson's table she was speaking the truth." "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957)

 * I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
 * As quoted by Joseph Jay Deiss in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972)

 * Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
 * To Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972)

 * You are intellect, I am life!
 * To Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972)

, in 1843 (1844)

 * Full text online

 * To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
 * p. 10

 * All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.
 * "Good Sense" in a dialogue between Free Hope, Old Church, Good Sense, and Self -Poise. p. 127

 * Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field? The ploughman who does not look beyond its boundaries and does not raise his eyes from the ground ? No — but the poet who sees that field in its relations with the universe, and looks oftener to the sky than on the ground. Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!
 * "Free Hope" p. 127

 * I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of hidden causes, and the presence, sometimes the communion, of unseen powers. It needs not that I should ask the clairvoyant whether "a spirit-world projects into ours." As to the specific evidence, I would not tarnish my mind by hasty reception. The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open. Yet it were sin, if indolence or coldness excluded what had a claim to enter; and I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.
 * "Free Hope" p. 128

 * The better part of wisdom is a sublime prudence, a pure and patient truth that will receive nothing it is not sure it can permanently lay to heart. Of our study there should be in proportion two-thirds of rejection to one of acceptance. And, amid the manifold infatuations and illusions of this world of emotion, a being capable of clear intelligence can do no better service than to hold himself upright, avoid nonsense, and do what chores lie in his way, acknowledging every moment that primal truth, which no fact exhibits, nor, if pressed by too warm a hope, will even indicate. I think, indeed, it is part of our lesson to give a formal consent to what is farcical, and to pick up our living and our virtue amid what is so ridiculous, hardly deigning a smile, and certainly not vexed. The work is done through all, if not by every one.
 * "Self-Poise" p. 130

 * Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
 * "Free Hope" p. 131

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

 * Full text online - This work was based on her earlier essay "The Great Lawsuit — Man versus Men: Woman versus Women" in The Dial IV, (July 1843)

 * There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

 * We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. Were this done, and a slight temporary fermentation allowed to subside, we should see crystallizations more pure and of more various beauty. We believe the divine energy would pervade nature to a degree unknown in the history of former ages, and that no discordant collision, but a ravishing harmony of the spheres, would ensue. Yet, then and only then will mankind be ripe for this, when inward and outward freedom for Woman as much as for Man shall be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession.

 * Let it not be said, wherever there is energy or creative genius, 'She has a masculine mind.' This by no means argues a willing want of generosity toward Woman. Man is as generous towards her as he knows how to be. Wherever she has herself arisen in national or private history, and nobly shone forth in any form of excellence, men have received her, not only willingly, but with triumph.

 * The electrical, the magnetic element in Woman has not been fairly brought out at any period. Everything might be expected from it; she has far more of it than Man. This is commonly expressed by saying that her intuitions are more rapid and more correct. You will often see men of high intellect absolutely stupid in regard to the atmospheric changes, the fine invisible links which connect the forms of life around them, while common women, if pure and modest, so that a vulgar self do not overshadow the mental eye, will seize and delineate these with unerring discrimination. Women who combine this organization with creative genius are very commonly unhappy at present. They see too much to act in conformity with those around them, and their quick impulses seem folly to those who do not discern the motives. This is an usual effect of the apparition of genius, whether in Man or Woman, but is more frequent with regard to the latter, because a harmony, an obvious order and self-restraining decorum, is most expected from her. Then women of genius, even more than men, are likely to be enslaved by an impassioned sensibility. The world repels them more rudely, and they are of weaker bodily frame. Those who seem overladen with electricity frighten those around them.

 * The especial genius of Woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

 * It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

 * Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother.

 * What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. … and should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.

 * Heroes have filled the zodiac of beneficent labors, and then given up their mortal part to the fire without a murmur. Sages and lawgivers have bent their whole nature to the search for truth, and thought themselves happy if they could buy, with the sacrifice of all temporal ease and pleasure, one seed for the future Eden. Poets and priests have strung the lyre with heart-strings, poured out their best blood upon the altar which, reare'd anew from age to age, shall at last sustain the flame which rises to highest heaven. What shall we say of those who, if not so directly, or so consciously, in connection with the central truth, yet, led and fashioned by a divine instinct, serve no less to develop and interpret the open secret of love passing into life, the divine energy creating for the purpose of happiness; — of the artist, whose hand, drawn by a preexistent harmony to a certain medium, moulds it to expressions of life more highly and completely organized than are seen elsewhere, and, by carrying out the intention of nature, reveals her meaning to those who are not yet sufficiently matured to divine it; of the philosopher, who listens steadily for causes, and, from those obvious, infers those yet unknown; of the historian, who, in faith that all events must have their reason and their aim, records them, and lays up archives from which the youth of prophets may be fed. The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose·

 * Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

 * Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.

 * What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.

 * Those who are not intimately and permanently linked with others, are thrown upon themselves; and, if they do not there find peace and incessant life, there is none to flatter them that they are not very poor, and very mean. A position which so constantly admonishes, may be of inestimable benefit. The person may gain, undistracted by other relationships, a closer communion with the one. Such a use is made of it by saints and sibyls.

 * The position I early was enabled to take was one of self-reliance. And were all women as sure of their wants as I was, the result would be the same. But they are so overloaded with precepts and guardians who think that nothing is so much to be dreaded for a woman as originality of thought or character, that their minds are impeded with doubts till they lose their chance of fair, free proportions. The difficulty is to get them to the point from which they shall naturally develop self-respect, and learn self-help.

 * Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation it would be only an experience to her as to man. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

 * I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening. Every spot is seen, every chasm revealed. Climbing the dusty hill, some fair effigies that once stood for symbols of human destiny have been broken; those I still have with me show defects in this broad light. Yet enough is left, even by experience, to point distinctly to the glories of that destiny; faint, but not to be mistaken streaks of the future day. I can say with the bard, "Though many have suffered shipwreck, still beat noble hearts." Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action. Such shall be the effectual fervent means to their fulfilment.
 * Though "the Bard" is often reference to William Shakespeare, Fuller here probably uses the term in a generic sense, and in tribute to the poet-philosopher she considered in some ways her mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who may have made such a statement, which she elsewhere quotes as "I have witnessed many a shipwreck, yet still beat noble hearts".

 * Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul.  If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only becured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. With a society it is the same.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

 * There is a Polish countess here, who likes me much. She has been very handsome, still is, in the style of the full-blown rose. She is a widow, very rich, one of the emancipated women, naturally vivacious, and with talent. This woman envies me; she says, "How happy you are; so free, so serene, so attractive, so self-possessed!" I say not a word, but I do not look on myself as particularly enviable. A little money would have made me much more so; a little money would have enabled me to come here long ago, and find those that belong to me, or at least try my experiments; then my health would never have sunk, nor the best years of my life been wasted in useless friction. Had I money now, — could I only remain, take a faithful servant, and live alone, and still see those I love when it is best, that would suit me. It seems to me, very soon I shall be calmed, and begin to enjoy.
 * Letter (17 November 1847)

 * Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight. I shall embark more composedly in our merchant-ship, praying fervently, indeed, that it may not be my lot to lose my boy at sea, either by unsolaced illness, or amid the howling waves; or, if so, that Ossoli, Angelo, and I may go together, and that the anguish may be brief.
 * Letter (21 April 1850)

 * I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling. I am become indeed a miserable coward, for the sake of Angelino. I fear heat and cold, fear the voyage, fear biting poverty. I hope I shall not be forced to be as brave for him, as I have been for myself, and that, if I succeed to rear him, he will be neither a weak nor a bad man. But I love him too much! In case of mishap, however, I shall perish with my husband and my child, and we may be transferred to some happier state.
 * Letter (Spring 1850)
 * I am absurdly fearful about this voyage. Various little omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.... Perhaps we shall live to laugh at these. But in case of mishap I should perish with my husband and child, perhaps to be transferred to some happier state.
 * Letter to Marchioness Visconti Arconati (6 April 1850) as quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 274, the differences could be from differing translations or from omissions, as Emerson is said to have highly edited many of the letters as published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

 * I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
 * Letter (Spring 1850)

 * I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what. But it has long seemed, that, in the year 1850, I should stand on a plateau in the ascent of life, where I should be allowed to pause for a while, and take more clear and commanding views than ever before. Yet my life proceeds as regularly as the fates of a Greek tragedy, and I can but accept the pages as they turn.
 * Letter (Spring 1850)

 * I long so much to see you! Should anything hinder our meeting upon earth, think of your daughter, as one who always wished, at least, to do her duty, and who always cherished you, according as her mind opened to discover excellence. … I hope we shall be able to pass some time together yet, in this world. But, if God decrees otherwise, — here and HEREAFTER, — my dearest mother, "Your loving child, MARGARET."
 * Last letter to her mother, (14 May 1850)

At Home And Abroad (1856)

 * Full text online

 * Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
 * Part II, Things and Thoughts of Europe, p. 198

 * My friends write to urge my return the talk of our country as the land of the future. It is so, but that spirit which made it all it is of value in my eyes, which gave me all hope with which I can sympathize for that future, is more alive here at present than in America. My country is at present spoiled by prosperity, stupid with the lust of gain, soiled by crime in its willing perpetuation of slavery, shamed by an unjust war, noble sentiment much forgotten even by individuals, the aims of politicians selfish or petty, the literature frivolous and venal. In Europe, amid the teachings of adversity, a nobler spirit is struggling — a spirit which cheers and animates mine. I hear earnest words of pure faith and love. I see deeds of brotherhood. This is what makes my America. I do not deeply distrust my country. She is not dead, but in my time she sleepeth, and the spirits of our fathers flame no more, but lies hid beneath the ashes. It will not be so long; bodies cannot live when the soul gets too overgrown with gluttony and falsehood.
 * Letter XXIV (19 April 1848), ** Part II, Things and Thoughts of Europe, p. 326

Life Without and Life Within (1859)

 * Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems by Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1895 edition) (Downloadable PDF at Google Books Search)

Freedom and Truth

 * The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.

Sub Rosa, Crux

 * In times of old, as we are told, When men more child-like at the feet Of Jesus sat, than now, A chivalry was known more bold Than ours, and yet of stricter vow, Of worship more complete.

 * Knights of the Rosy Cross, they bore Its weight within the heart, but wore Without, devotion's sign in glistening ruby bright; The gall and vinegar they drank alone, But to the world at large would only own The wine of faith, sparkling with rosy light.

 * The pass-word now is lost To that initiation full and free; Daily we pay the cost Of our slow schooling for divine degree. We know no means to feed an undying lamp; Our lights go out in every wind or damp.

 * Though deepest dark our efforts should enfold, Unwearied mine to find the vein of gold; Forget not oft to lift the hope on high; The rosy dawn again shall fill the sky. And by that lovely light, all truth-revealed, The cherished forms which sad distrust concealed, Transfigured, yet the same, will round us stand, The kindred angels of a faithful band; Ruby and ebon cross both cast aside, No lamp is needed, for the night has died.

 * Be to the best thou knowest ever true, Is all the creed; Then, by thy talisman of rosy hue, Or fenced with thorns that wearing thou must bleed, Or gentle pledge of Love's prophetic view, The faithful steps it will securely lead. Happy are all who reach that shore, And bathe in heavenly day, Happiest are those who high the banner bore, To marshal others on the way; Or waited for them, fainting and way-worn, By burdens overborne.

Flaxman

 * This is said to have been written in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 * We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone — A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.

 * A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.

My Seal-Ring

 * Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive? Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.

 * Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.

The Captured Wild Horse

 * On the boundless plain careering By an unseen compass steering, Wildly flying, reappearing, — With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing In every step a grand pride showing, Of no servile moment knowing, — Happy as the trees and flowers, In their instinct cradled hours, Happier in fuller powers, —  See the wild herd nobly ranging, Nature varying, not changing, Lawful in their lawless ranging.

 * Wouldst have the princely spirit bowed? Whisper only, speak not loud, Mark and leave him in the crowd. Thou need'st not spies  nor jailers have; The free will serve thee like the slave, Coward shrinking from the brave.

The Thankful and the Thankless

 * With equal sweetness the commissioned hours Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers. The weeds unthankful raise their vile heads high, Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky; While the dear flowers, wht fond humility, Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye In speechless homage, and, from grateful hearts, Perfume that homage all around imparts.

Prophecy and Fulfilment

 * The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.

The One In All

 * There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.

 * Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the "I am"" cannot forbear to be; But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.

 * And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.

 * There are to whom each symbol is a mask; The life of love is a mysterious task; They want no answer, for they would not ask.

 * A single thought transfuses every form; The sunny day is changed into the storm, For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm. One presence fill and floods the whole serene; Nothing can be, nothing has ever been, Except the one truth that creates the scene.

 * You ask a faith, — they are content with faith; You ask to have, — but they reply "IT hath." There is no end, there need be no path.

 * The day wears heavily, — why, then, ignore it; Peace is the soul's desire, — such thoughts restore it; The truth thou art, — it needs not implore it.

 *  The Presence all thy fancies supersedes, All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds,  The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.

 * To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit Born of an ever-generating root...

 * I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know. In the one Truth, each separate fact is true; Eternally in one I many view, And destinies through destiny pursue.

 * This is my tendency; but can I say That this my thought leads the true, only way? I only know it constant leads, and I obey.

 * I only know one prayer — "Give me the truth, Give me that colored whiteness, ancient youth, Complex and simple, seen in joy and ruth. Let me not by vain wishes bar my claim, Nor soothe my hunger by an empty name, Nor crucify the Son of man by hasty blame.  But in the earth and fire, water and air, Live earnestly by turns without despair, Nor seek a home till home be every where!"

A Greeting

 * Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all Neither flower nor fruit, Yielding no root For plant, shrub, or tree.

 * I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.

Sistrum

 * A musical instrument of the ancients, employed by the Egyptians in the worship of Isis. It was to be kept in constant motion, and, according to Plutarch, was intended to indicate the necessity of constant motion on the part of men — the need of being often shaken by fierce trials and agitations when they become morbid or indolent. — Editor's note on the sistrum by Arthur Buckminster Fuller

 * Triune, shaping, restless power, Life-flow from life's natal hour, No music chords are in thy sound; By some thou'rt but a rattle found; Yet, without thy ceaseless motion, To ice would turn their dead devotion.

 * Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power, Till in the changes of thy sound A chord's three parts distinct are found. I will faithful move with thee, God-ordered, self-fed energy, Nature in eternity.

Dryad Song (1900)

 * Published in An American Anthology 1787-1900: Selections, Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (1900) by Edmund Clarence Stedman, p. 772

 * I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling, Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling, Hope is the day-star of might!

 * It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.
 * Probably derived from "Make me immortal with a kiss" in Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

 * Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might!

 * Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, Hope, and Longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath, — naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life!

The Love Letters Of Margaret Fuller (1903)

 * PDF online at Google Book Search

 * We will worship by impromptu symbols, till the religion is framed for all Humanity. The beauty grows around us daily, the trees are now all in blossom and some of the vines; there is a Crown Imperial just in perfection, to which I paid my evening worship by the light of the fire, which reached to us, and there are flashes of lightning too. But I do not like the lightning so well as once, having been in too great danger. Yet just now a noble flash falls upon my paper, it ought to have noble thoughts to illumine, instead of these little nothings, but indeed to-night I write only to say: thou dear, dear friend, and we must must meet soon.
 * Letter IV to James Nathan (March 1845).

 * To feel that there is so quick a bound to intercourse, makes us prize the moment, but then also makes it so difficult to use. Yet this one thing I wish to say, where so many must be left unsaid. You tell me, that I may, probably never know you wholly. Indeed the obstacles of time and space may prevent my understanding the workings of character; many pages of my new book may be shut against me, better than to yourself. Perhaps? I believe in Ahnungen beyond anything.
 * Ahnungen means "Premonitions"; letter XIII to James Nathan (31 March 1845).

Misattributed

 * Be what you would seem to be.
 * English proverb, used by many authors, including some prior to Margaret Fuller's time; Thomas Fuller expresses related thoughts in his "Panegyric" on Charles II, Section 21" in The History of the Worthies of England (1662):
 * Be you above your ancestors renown'd, Whose goodness wisely doth your greatness bound; And, knowing that you may be what you would, Are pleased to be only what you should.

 * When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
 * Libby Houston, in the poem "Gold" in Necessity (1988).

 * When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
 * Margaret Chase Smith, quoted in More Than Petticoats : Remarkable Maine Women (2005) by Kate Kennedy

Quotes about Fuller

 * She possessed more influence on the thought of American women than any woman previous to her time.
 * Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage.

 * In American literature she will remain a remarkable biographic phenomenon, while the tragic death of this Lycidas of women, a most painful personal story of shipwreck, was intensified by so many melancholy incidents that whoever, long years hence, may read them, will wonder how the gods could have been so pitiless, and why the life of new happiness and larger intellectual achievement which was before her should so suddenly have ended upon that savage and inhospitable shore.
 * Charles T. Congdon, in Reminiscences of a Journalist (1880), p. 121.

 * Without doubt Margaret Fuller stood first among women of the nineteenth century. … Though today almost forgotten, Margaret Fuller still probably holds more firsts than any other American woman who ever lived. As editor of the transcendentalist Dial, she was the first woman editor of an important intellectual magazine. She was the first woman to write a book about the West and such experiences as sleeping in a barroom, shooting rapids in an Indian canoe, and witnessing maltreatment of the red man by the white man. She was the first woman to break the taboo against the female sex in the Harvard College Library. As columnist for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, she was the first U.S. woman journalist and and the first professional literary critic of cither sex in the United States.
 * Joseph Jay Deiss in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).

 * I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism, and I found something profane in the hours of amusing gossip into which she drew me...
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), p. 202.

 * She wore this circle of friends, when I first knew her, as a necklace of diamonds about her neck. They were so much to each other that Margaret seemed to represent them all, and to know her was to acquire a place with them. The confidences given her were their best, and she held them to them. She was an active, inspiring companion and correspondent, and all the art, the thought, the nobleness in New England seemed at that moment related to her and she to it. She was everywhere a welcome guest.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), p 213.

 * Coincidences, good and bad, contretemps, seals, ciphers, mottoes, omens, anniversaries, names, dreams, are all of a certain importance to her. Her letters are often dated on some marked anniversary of her own, or of her correspondent's calendar. She signalized saints' days, "All-Souls," and "All-Saints," by poems, which had for her a mystical value.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), p. 220.

 * She chose the Sistrum for her emblem, and had it carefully drawn with a view to its being engraved on a gem. And I know not how many verses and legends came recommended to her by this symbolism. Her dreams, of course, partook of this symmetry. The same dream returns to her periodically, annually, and punctual to its night. One dream she marks in her journal as repeated for the fourth time: "In C., I at last distinctly recognized the figure of the early vision, whom I found after I had left A., who led me, on the bridge, towards the city, glittering in sunset, but, midway, the bridge went under water. I have often seen in her face that it was she, but refused to believe it."
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), p. 221.

 * Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models. Margaret Fuller and Sarah Orne Jewett acknowledged their indebtedness to Madame de Staël, the author of Corinne...The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors.
 * Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1993)

 * It is more than fifty years since Margaret Fuller, standing, as she said, “in the sunny noon of life,” wrote a little book, which she launched on the current of thought and society. It was entitled “Women in the Nineteenth Century”; and as the truths it proclaimed and the reforms it advocated were far in advance of public acceptance, its appearance was the signal for an immediate widespread newspaper controversy, that raged with great violence. I was young then, and as I took the book from the hands of the bookseller, wondering what the contents of the thin little volume could be, to provoke so wordy a strife, I opened the first page. My attention was immediately arrested, and a train of thought started
 * Mary Livermore, The story of my life(1897)

 * Because if the anarchist-feminists' rejection of a belief in inherent differences between the sexes automatically barred their use of feminist arguments that relied on the reinterpretation of conventional feminine stereotypes in the interests of equality, they were forced to revert to a simpler polemical position. Deriving their analytic framework from the work of an earlier generation of feminists, particularly such singular rebels as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sarah Grimké, the anarchist women insisted that the humanity of women was all the justification their cause required. For them the issue was uncomplicated: "Woman's emancipation means freedom, liberty. ...pure and simple." And when the Individualist Marie Louise announced that what women needed was "Liberty to act Liberty to live, Liberty to feel that our own acquired emancipation and happiness are not soiled by the aid of jealous proxies," her words were strikingly similar to the appeals to a common humanity voiced earlier by the Grimké sisters and Margaret Fuller.
 * Margaret S. Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920 (1981)

 * Just before the forecastle sunk, the remaining sailors determined to leave. The steward, with whom the child had always been a great favorite, took it, almost by main force, and plunged with it into the sea; neither reached the shore alive. The Marquis Ossoli was soon afterwards washed away, but his wife remained in ignorance of his fate. The cook, who was the last person that reached the shore alive, said that the last words he heard her speak were: "I see nothing but death before me, — I shall never reach the shore." It was between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, and after lingering for about ten hours, exposed to the mountainous surf that swept over the vessel, with the contemplation of death constantly forced upon her mind, she was finally overwhelmed as the foremast fell.
 * Bayard Taylor, in a letter (23 July 1850) published in The New York Tribune, republished in At Home And Abroad Part IV "Homeward Voyage, and Memorials" (1859) by Arthur Buckminster Fuller.

 * Only her presence can give you the meaning of the name Margaret Fuller.
 * Elizabeth Sherman Hoar, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" by Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).

 * "I accept the universe" is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: "Gad! she'd better!" At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether? Shall our protests against certain things in it be radical and unforgiving, or shall we think that, even with evil, there are ways of living that must lead to good? If we accept the whole, shall we do so as if stunned into submission — as Carlyle would have us — "Gad! we'd better!" — or shall we do so with enthusiastic assent? Morality pure and simple accepts the law of the whole which it finds reigning, so far as to acknowledge and obey it, but it may obey it with the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke. But for religion, in its strong and fully developed manifestations, the service of the highest never is felt as a yoke. Dull submission is left far behind, and a mood of welcome, which may fill any place on the scale between cheerful serenity and enthusiastic gladness, has taken its place.
 * William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).

 * After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, ‘I too am beautiful!’ … In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
 * Adam Mickiewicz, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" by Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).

 * The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
 * Adam Mickiewicz, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" by Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972).

 * Margaret had done her strenuous work under fire while her husband stood in daily peril of death and while she herself was cut off from all communication with her baby. Only after it was all over might Emerson even begin to measure the depth of the distress out of which she wrote him from Rome, “Let me feel, that, amid the fearful agitations of the world, there are pure hands, with healthful, even pulse, stretched out toward me, if I claim their grasp.” In fact, we do not know whether the heart that beat with this healthful, even pulse ever did comprehend.
 * Perry Miller in "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957).

 * If our imagination is challenged to picture what Margaret Fuller would have been like had she remained in Boston, it is positively staggered at trying to conceive what would have been the career of the Marchioness Ossoli in America. The wreck of the Elizabeth deprived the cultural history of this country of what would surely have been an exciting chapter.
 * Perry Miller in "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957).

 * Her specter haunted all who knew her, and many who did not. Henry James, born in New York in 1843, stood beside his father on a Hudson River excursion boat and heard Washington Irving tell that Margaret Fuller had been drowned the day before. Even at the age of seven this small boy was resolved to be one on whom nothing is lost, and he knew, if nobody else did, that a heroine had gone to a heroic death.
 * Perry Miller in "I find no intellect comparable to my own" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (February 1957).

 * The ship struck at ten minutes after four A.M., and all hands, being mostly in their nightclothes, made haste to the forecastle, the water coming in at once. There they remained; the passengers in the forecastle, the crew above it, doing what they could. Every wave lifted the forecastle roof and washed over those within. The first man got ashore at nine; many from nine to noon. At flood-tide, about half past three o'clock, when the ship broke up entirely, they came out of the forecastle, and Margaret sat with her back to the foremast, with her hands on her knees, her husband and child already drowned. A great wave came and washed her aft. The steward had just before taken her child and started for shore. Both were drowned.
 * Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 July 1850), published in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906), Vol. 6, p. 183-184.

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Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Aladdin and the King of Thieves is a 1996 Disney direct-to-video animated film. It is the second sequel to Aladdin, following The Return of Jafar; and the last of the Aladdin films and the animated series.

Dialogue

 * [first scene]
 * Genie: [disguised as an elderly man] Ooh, in all my years, never have I seen the streets so full of bustle and hustle and assorted commotion!
 * Razoul: Our princess is to wed.
 * Genie: Oh, wonderful! And who's the lucky prince?
 * Razoul: Not a prince at all. Just a no-account street rat.
 * Genie: [reverts to his true form] NO WAY! [grabs Razoul] Try it phonetically. It's... ALADDIN! [a neon lit "Aladdin" sign appears, then blinks out] Aww. Some of you don't believe. [the main title appears as fireworks explode] [as Tinker Bell] In color! [giggles]

 * Genie: And your name is...?
 * Thor: [lispy voice] I'm Thor.
 * Genie: You're Thor?
 * Thor: Well, it hurts.
 * Genie: Once again, this whole broadcast has been brought to you by sand! It's everywhere! Get used to it!

 * Iago: Meet your match, Zorro!
 * Cassim: Good birdie. Polly want a little...
 * Iago: Say "cracker" and I'll let you have it on principle!

 * Genie: Hmmm, maybe you, you could elope! No, you cantelope, [pulls a cantaloupe from nowhere] But oh Honeydew! [slaps fruit into view, it turns into a Cinderella carriage] I dunno if I should put it in Props or Produce! Please, don't squeeze the tires, they're not quite ripe!

 * Aladdin: What's the ultimate treasure?
 * Cassim: The big one, boy. The Hand of Midas.
 * Aladdin: It's just a myth.
 * Cassim: It's not a myth, boy! It was once right here. Look, there's your proof! From stern to stem, every piece of rigging, every peg and board, all of it...solid gold!
 * Abu: Ooooh brother!
 * Iago: Adopt me, daddy-o!
 * Cassim: Touched by the Hand of Midas.
 * Aladdin: And sunk by it.

 * Razoul: This is the spot, men.
 * Fazal: But there is nothing here.
 * Razoul: No, but watch. Open caraway!
 * [The cave doesn't open]
 * Hakim: There is still nothing here.
 * Razoul: [mutters] When I get a hold of that no good...
 * Fazal: But I thought you said it was "open sesame".
 * [The ground vibrates as the cave opens up, Razoul grins wickedly]

 * Genie: Security's tight. No big crowd. Immediate family only.
 * Aladdin: Perfect. Because this is my...
 * Genie: No lowlifes this time. Other than the parrot, of course. Observe! [pushes a button on the remote control]
 * Robo-Genie: [appears] You have violated the perimeter of the Aladdin and Jasmine wedding! [arms his lasers] Prepare to be vaporized. Thank you! [opens fire; Genie, Aladdin, Cassim, and Iago duck]
 * Genie: Armed and dangerous! I'd like to see one of those 40 Thieves get within an inch of your wedding.
 * Iago: Ahem! Allow me to introduce...
 * Cassim: [laughs] The King of Thieves.
 * Genie: [shrieks; to his walkie talkie] All units, we have a Code Red! [then transforms into dozens of S.W.A.T. troopers, who take up positions around the room, at the same time the area is locked up by sealed doors; as multiple S.W.A.T. troopers] Code Red! Code Red! [as Scottish men] Come on, boys! Follow me! [all play bagpipes; as the Lone Ranger] Cavalry, FORWARD! [all Lone Rangers follow him; as paratroopers jumping out of a plane] Geronimo! Arapaho! Navajo! [as Pocahontas] Pocahontas! [all the Genies surround Cassim at gunpoint on all sides] Do not attempt to move or we'll be shooting ourselves!
 * Aladdin: [tries to push through the Genies] Genie!
 * Genie: Back off, Al! This creep's got a yellow sheet as long as my arm.
 * Aladdin: Genie, meet my dad.
 * [All the Genies stare wide-eyed at Cassim, who glares]
 * Genie: Stand down, men. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. [the other Genies disappear; to Cassim, threateningly] If you're Al's dad and the King of Thieves, I just wanna know one thing.
 * Cassim: Yeah?
 * Genie: [turns into a waiter] Will you be havin' the chicken or the sea bass?

 * Aladdin: Where is he?
 * Genie: [turns into Pumbaa from The Lion King] Hakuna Matata! [turns back, looks scared] Whoa. I was having an out-of-movie experience.

 * Aladdin: Genie, I need my father's clothes.
 * Genie: Al, c'mon! Why you gonna try on the King of Thieves get-up? Might I suggest something that doesn't actually say "ARREST ME"?! [in black and white prisoner clothes]

 * Cassim: Who-?
 * Aladdin: I've come to say "goodbye".
 * Cassim: Why are you-?
 * Aladdin: We don't have much time. While the guards chase me, you get out.
 * Cassim: I can't let you-
 * Aladdin: Forget it! They can't catch me. [tosses Cassim the keys]
 * Cassim: [to himself] He even sounds like me.

 * Sultan: Frankly my boy, your actions were most disappointing.
 * Razoul: It is tragic, Your Highness, but the street rat has obviously followed in his father's footsteps. Aladdin is a criminal.
 * Genie: [as an attorney] I object, Your Honor! (turns Razoul into a bailiff and the Sultan into the judge) I object to that outrageous statement. And I object to a tertiary character having any lines during my big courtroom scene. (Hands him a suitcase and blasts him out of sight) Take this to a higher court, ciao!

 * Thief: It is a good day to die.
 * Sa'luk: Or to come back from the dead.

 * Aladdin: [on the Hand of Midas] After all these years, you finally have your treasure.
 * Cassim: This thing? No. This wretched thing almost cost me the ultimate treasure. [hugs Aladdin] It's you, son. You are my ultimate treasure. I'm just sorry it took me this long to realize it.

 * Cassim: So, you little turkey, come to say goodbye?
 * Iago: Nah, I already said my goodbyes. [tears up suddenly] Of course, the monkey had to cry, and that got me going... [lets out a sob as he thinks of having to leave Abu, once his enemy and now his dearest friend]

Cast

 * Scott Weinger as Aladdin
 * Brad Kane (singing)
 * Robin Williams as Genie/The Narrator
 * Bruce Adler (singing)
 * John Rhys-Davies as Cassim
 * Merwin Foard (singing)
 * Linda Larkin as Princess Jasmine
 * Liz Callaway (singing)
 * Gilbert Gottfried as Iago
 * Jerry Orbach as Sa'luk
 * Frank Welker as Abu, Rajah and Fazal
 * Val Bettin as Sultan
 * CCH Pounder as The Oracle
 * Jim Cummings as Razoul
 * Jeff Bennett as Zagoolien/Additional voices
 * Corey Burton as Hakim/Additional Voices
 * Jess Harnell as Fat Thief
 * Clyde Kusatsu as Asian Thief
 * Rob Paulsen as Additional voices

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Taito Waradi

Taito Waradi has served as the President of the Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Unless otherwise stated, all quotes on this page have been gleaned from the Fiji Times Online.

Comments on the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission

 * There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily. (15 May 2000)

 * No amount of legislation can guarantee lasting peace and stability if the people it is supposed to serve are not spiritually and emotionally prepared to live by them (moral values) and where necessary defend them with their lives when it is breached. (18 May 2000)

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These quotes defeat themselves; "Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed." ~ Irene Peter

"If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." ~ Giuseppe di Lamedosa

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 * We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost.  And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained.  The loss demands attention, not denial.
 * Christopher Alexander

 * For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
 * Ingrid Bengis

 * To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 * Henri Louis Bergeson

 * It is not a matter of exposing one's unchanging identity, the true self that has always been, but a way of exposing one's ceaseless growth, the dynamic self that has yet to be.
 * James Carse

 * You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
 * Mahatma Gandhi

 * If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
 * Hazel Henderson

 * In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
 * Eric Hoffer

 * It can change as much as it likes. As long as it stays the same
 * Adrian Mourby

 * Change is not a matter of not doing something. It is a matter of doing something else — something that is inherently right, free, and pleasurable. Therefore, the key is insight and the freedom to feel and participate in ways of functioning that are right and new.
 * Adi Da Samraj

 * In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
 * Albert Schweitzer

 * Cambia, todo cambia.
 * Changing, everything is changing.
 * Mercedes Sosa

 * Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
 * Leo Tolstoy''

 * History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
 * Mark Twain

 * Of the forces which are imperceptible forces, none is greater than that of change... all things are ever in the state of change... therefore the I of the past is no longer the I of today.
 * Zhuangzi

 * All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
 * Ellen Glasgow

 * Growth is the only evidence of life.
 * John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

 * Adapting change is the foundation of success.
 * Jackson Mansfield

 * Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
 * Bikram Choudhury

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 * All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.
 * Buddhist chant

 * It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
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Alcuin

Alcuin (Latinised: Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; circa 735 – 19 May 804) was a Northumbrian scholar, theologian and catholic educator who taught for the court of Charlemagne.

Quotes

 * I, your Flaccus, am busy carrying out your wishes and instructions at St. Martin's, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning.
 * Letter to Charlemagne (796)

 * Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
 * And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
 * Variant translation: We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
 * Works, Epistle 127 to Charlemagne (800)

 * What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
 * Disputation of Pepin with Albinus

 * Quapropter potius animam curare memento, quam carnem, quoniam haec manet, illa perit
 * Therefore remember to care rather for the soul than the flesh, for this remains and that perishes.
 * Epitaph at St. Martin of Tours abbey

Quotes about Alcuin

 * The Northmen are often said to have burst out of their coastal settlements in what is now Sweden, Norway, and Denmark at the end of the eighth century. The most famous account of their arrival into the Christian realms of the west comes from Britain. In 793 warriors appeared off the coast of Northumbria, leaped from their ships, and robbed the island of Lindisfarne, desecrating the monastery and murdering its brothers. This ferocious raid sent shock waves rippling out from Britain. When the news reached Charlemagne’s court in Aachen, Alcuin of York wrote to the king of Northumbria, deploring the fact that “the church of St Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God, stripped of all its furnishing, exposed to the plundering of pagans.” He suggested to the king that he and his noblemen might mend their ways, starting by adopting more Christian haircuts and clothing styles. But it was too late for any of that. The Northmen had announced themselves as a major power in the western world. The next year, 794, raiders appeared on the other side of the British Isles, in the Hebrides. In 799 Vikings raided the monastery of Saint-Philibert at Noirmoutier, just to the south of the river Loire.
 * Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (2021).

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Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (June 22 1887 – February 14 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures. He was the elder brother of Aldous Huxley.

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 * In the actual duration of his life, the individual ranges from the bacterium's hour to the the big tree's five thousand years. Man in this again stands at the pinnacle of individuality — not in mere length of days, but in having found a means to perpetuate a part of himself in spite of death. By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power. Once more the upward progress of terrestrial life towards individuality has found apparently insurmountable obstacles, gross material difficulties before it, but once more through consciousness it finds wings, and, laughing at matter, flies over lightly where it could not climb. To such an individuality, one that can thus transcend the limits of its substance, the name Personality is commonly given. Man alone possesses true personality, though there is as it were an aspiration towards it visible among the higher vertebrates, stirring their placid automatism with airs of consciousness.
 * "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" (1912); quoted in From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences (1992) by Connie Barlow, Ch. 6 "Blurred Bounds of Individuality"

 * In man, personality is usually defined with reference to self-consciousness rather than to individuality; but the power of reflection and self-knowledge is linked up, in our type of personality at least, with the new flight of individuality — conscious memory seems necessarily to imply a vast increase of independence, so that it is all one whether we define the possessor of personality as a self-conscious individual, or as an individual whose individuality is more extensive both in space and time than the material substance of his body. Personality, as we know it, is free compared with the individuality of the lower animals; but it is still weighted down with the body. There may be personalities which have not merely transcended substance, but are rid of it altogether: in all ages the theologian and the mystic have told of such "disembodied spirits," postulated by the one, felt by the other, and now the psychical investigator with his automatic writing and his cross-correspondences is seeking to give us rigorous demonstration of them. If such exist, they crown Life's progress...
 * "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" (1912); quoted in From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences (1992) by Connie Barlow, Ch. 6 "Blurred Bounds of Individuality"

To populate that crystal cabinet.''' Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things turned thoughts did propagate their kind. For, once within, corporeal fact could find A spirit. Fact and you in mutual debt Built there your little microcosm—which yet Had hugest tasks to its small self assigned. Dead men can live there, and converse with stars: Equator speaks with Pole, and Night with Day: Spirit dissolves the world's material bars— A million isolations burn away. The Universe can live and work and plan, At last made God within the mind of man.
 * '''The world of things entered your infant mind
 * Poem in Essays of a Biologist (1923), quoted by Richard Dawkins in A Devil's Chaplain (2003).

 * Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.
 * "Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week" The New York Times (17 November 1930) p. 42

 * We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.
 * "Philosophic Ants" in The Borzoi Reader (1936) edited by Carl Van Doren, p. 548

 * Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
 * "Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles" in the Traveller's Library (1933) edited by William Somerset Maugham. p. 1248

 * The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe the earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated... or that death is always due to witchcraft... The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
 * Religion without Revelation (1957) p. 58

 * In the evolutionary pattern of thought, there is neither need nor room for the supernatural. The earth was not created; it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body. So did religion.
 * The Humanist Frame (1961) p. 18

 * If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.
 * Memories (1970)

Transhumanism (1957)

 * "Transhumanism" in New Bottles for New Wine (1957) p. 13 - 17

 * As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before.

 * The new understanding of the universe has come about through the new knowledge amassed in the last hundred years — by psychologists, biologists, and other scientists, by archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians. It has defined man's responsibility and destiny — to be an agent for the rest of the world in the job of realizing its inherent potentialities as fully as possible. It is as if man had been suddenly appointed managing director of the biggest business of all, the business of evolution — appointed without being asked if he wanted it, and without proper warning and preparation. What is more, he can't refuse the job. Whether he wants to or not, whether he is conscious of what he is doing or not, he is in point of fact determining the future direction of evolution on this earth. That is his inescapable destiny, and the sooner he realizes it and starts believing in it, the better for all concerned.

 * What the job really boils down to is this — the fullest realization of man's possibilities, whether by the individual, by the community, or by the species in its processional adventure along the corridors of time. Every man-jack of us begins as a mere speck of potentiality, a spherical and microscopic egg-cell. During the nine months before birth, this automatically unfolds into a truly miraculous range of organization: after birth, in addition to continuing automatic growth and development, the individual begins to realize his mental possibilities — by building up a personality, by developing special talents, by acquiring knowledge and skills of various kinds, by playing his part in keeping society going.

 * The personality may grievously fail in attaining any real wholeness. One thing is certain, that the well-developed, well-integrated personality is the highest product of evolution, the fullest realization we know of in the universe.

 * The first thing that the human species has to do to prepare itself for the cosmic office to which it finds itself appointed is to explore human nature, to find out what are the possibilities open to it (including, of course, its limitations, whether inherent or imposed by the facts of external nature)... The great men of the past have given us glimpses of what is possible in the way of personality, of intellectual understanding, of spiritual achievement, of artistic creation. But these are scarcely more than Pisgah glimpses. We need to explore and map the whole realm of human possibility, as the realm of physical geography has been explored and mapped. How to create new possibilities for ordinary living? What can be done to bring out the latent capacities of the ordinary man and woman for understanding and enjoyment; to teach people the techniques of achieving spiritual experience (after all, one can acquire the technique of dancing or tennis, so why not of mystical ecstasy or spiritual peace?); to develop native talent and intelligence in the growing child, Instead of frustrating or distorting them?

 * We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.

 * Thanks to science, the under-privileged are coming to believe that no one need be underfed or chronically diseased, or deprived of the benefits of its technical and practical applications. The world's unrest is largely due to this new belief. People are determined not to put up with a subnormal standard of physical health and material living now that science has revealed the possibility of raising it. The unrest will produce some unpleasant consequences before it is dissipated; but it is in essence a beneficent unrest, a dynamic force which will not be stilled until it has laid the physiological foundations of human destiny.

 * Up till now human life has generally been, as Hobbes described it, "nasty, brutish and short"; the great majority of human beings (if they have not already died young) have been afflicted with misery in one form or another — poverty, disease, ill-health, over-work, cruelty, or oppression. They have attempted to lighten their misery by means of their hopes and their ideals. The trouble has been that the hopes have generally been unjustified, the ideals have generally failed to correspond with reality. The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable.

 * We are already justified in the conviction that human life as we know it in history is a wretched makeshift, rooted in ignorance; and that it could be transcended by a state of existence based on the illumination of knowledge and comprehension, just as our modern control of physical nature based on science transcends the tentative fumblings of our ancestors, that were rooted in superstition and professional secrecy. To do this, we must study the possibilities of creating a more favourable social environment, as we have already done in large measure with our physical environment.

 * We shall start from new premises. … The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself — not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature. "I believe in transhumanism": once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.

The New Divinity (1964)

 * "The New Divinity" in Essays of a Humanist (1964)

 * The entire cosmos is made out of one and the same world-stuff, operated by the same energy as we ourselves. "Mind" and "matter" appears as two aspects of our unitary mind-bodies. There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion; they are both organs of evolving humanity.

 * This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.

 * Man emerged as the dominant type on earth about a million years ago, but has only been really effective as a psychosocial organism for under ten thousand years. In that mere second of cosmic time, he has produced astonishing achievements — but has also been guilty of unprecedented horrors and follies. And looked at in the long perspective of evolution he is singularly imperfect, still incapable of carrying out his planetary responsibilities in a satisfactory manner...

 * Religion in some form is a universal function of man in society, the organ for dealing with the problems of destiny, the destiny of individual men and women, of societies and nations, and of the human species as a whole. Religions always have some intellectual or ideological framework, whether myth or theological doctrine; some morality or code of behaviour, whether barbaric or ethically rationalized; and some mode of ritualized or symbolic expression, in the form of ceremonial or celebration, collective devotion or thanksgiving, or religious art...

 * Eventually the old ideas will no longer serve, the old ideological framework can no longer be tinkered up to bear the weight of the facts, and a radical reconstruction becomes necessary, leading eventually to the emergence of a quite new organisation of thought and belief, just as the emergence of new types of bodily organization was necessary to achieve biological advance. Such major organizations of thought may be necessary in science as much as in religion. The classical example, of course, was the re-patterning of cosmological thought which demoted the earth from its central position and led to the replacement of the geocentric pattern of thought by a heliocentric one. I believe that an equally drastic reorganization of our pattern of religious thought is now becoming necessary, from a god-centered to an evolutionary-centered pattern.

 * The last two thousand years have seen the development of elaborate monotheistic theologies; but in the process their single God has broken into many, or at least has assumed a number of distinct and indeed sometimes actively hostile forms; and their nominal universalism has degenerated into competition for the possession of absolute truth.

 * God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.... To say that God is ultimate reality is just semantic cheating, as well as being so vague as to become effectively meaningless... Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place.

 * Let me remind my readers that the term divine did not originally imply the existence of gods: on the contrary, gods were constructed to interpret man's experiences of this quality.

 * Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents. There is no finality about the process, and no automatic or unified progress; but much improvement has occurred in the past, and there could be much further improvement in the future (though there is also the possibility of future failure and regression). Thus the central long-term concern of religion must be to promote further evolutionary improvement and to realise new possibilities; and this means greater fulfilment by more human individuals and fuller achievement by more human societies.

 * Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource, but at the moment only a tiny fraction of them is being realized. The possibility of tapping and directing these vast resources of human possibility provide the religion of the future with a powerful long-term motive. An equally powerful short-term motive is to ensure the fullest possible development and flowering of individual personalities. In developing a full, deep and rich personality the individual ceases to be a mere cog or cipher, and makes his own particular contribution to evolutionary fulfilment.

 * A religion of fulfilment must provide bustling secular man with contacts with all that is permanent and enduring, with the deeper and higher aspects of existence; indeed, with every possible opportunity of transcending the limitations not only of his day-by-day existence in the equivalents of shared worship, but of his little secular self in acts of meditation and self-examination and in retreats from the secular world of affairs.

 * Christianity is a universalist and monotheist religion of salvation. Its long consolidation and explosive spread, achieved through a long period of discussion and zealous ferment, released vast human forces which have largely shaped the western world as we know it. An evolutionary and humanist religion of fulfilment could be more truly universal and could release even vaster human forces, which could in large measure shape the development of the entire world...

 * What we now need is a multitude of participants to take part in the great discussion and to join in the search for the larger truth and the more fruitful patterns of belief which we confidently believe is waiting to be elicited.

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Vulcan proverbs

Proverbs by the fictional race Vulcans from Star Trek.
 * Live long and prosper.
 * Leonard Nimoy, "Amok Time", (1967)
 * Said on many occasions, normally accompanied by salute. Standard reply: Peace and long life.

 * Nothing that is is unimportant.
 * From the novel Strangers From The Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno

 * Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you.
 * Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 1 Episode 4, "Strange New World"

 * Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
 * Concept introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"

 * Your mind to my mind... your thoughts to my thoughts...
 * Chant used during Vulcan mind melds; a similar expression was used in The X-Men # 3 (January 1964) by Professor Charles Francis Xavier. Xavier said, "My thoughts are YOUR thoughts, Blob! My will is YOUR will." (pg. 24)

 * Only Nixon can go to China.
 * Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

 * May your journey be free of incident.
 * Saavik, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

 * In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace.
 * Tuvok, Star Trek Voyager: "Once Upon a Time"

 * Nothing unreal exists.
 * Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

 * Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide.
 * T'Plana-Hath, Matron of Vulcan Philosophy, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

 * After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
 * Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Amok Time"

 * We are here to serve.

 * The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
 * Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

 * Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.
 * An echo of Proverbs 9.10: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
 * Perhaps influenced by George Illes (1852 - 1942): "Doubt is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom."
 * Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

 * A Vulcan never bluffs.
 * Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Doomsday Machine"

 * One man can summon the future.
 * T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise, "United"

 * One man cannot summon the future.
 * The inverse of the Vulcan proverb, quoted by the Mirror Universe Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Mirror Mirror"

 * Kaiidth. ("What is, is.")
 * From the novel Dwellers in the Crucible by Margaret Wander Bonanno
 * Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it.
 * Spock, Star Trek (2009)

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M-dashes
This is a small grievance of mine, but is it not more grammatically proper to not place any space between words and m-dashes? Example: ' * "Wipe them out &mdash ; all of them." ' ("&mdash ;" really being a —) should really be ' * "Wipe them out—all of them." '

Also, is it proper to place space after the m-dash when the speaker text is more than just a person, a whole explanation? Example: Should ' "Hello world." — qrc speaking to self ' really be ' "Hello world." — qrc speaking to self ' ?

—qrc 01:06, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * "Em dash." ;) The em and the en are each a unit of typographical measurement. The em dash (—) and the en dash (-) are an em and an en wide, respectively. :)

 * I'm not sure about the space thing, though. As I've heard it taught, the space thing is more-or-less optional. I definitely prefer no spaces, too, though. :/ -DTM 03:08, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Technically, it could also be written as a separate sentence (fragment): "Wipe them out. All of them.". Personally I think that best matches the sound of it. 68.44.13.236 05:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

"The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities..."
Is it "consider" or "considered"? "Consider" seems to be the more popular version according to Google, but I like "considered" better, so I want to be sure. What do the captions on the DVD say? What about the novelisation and the comic adaptation? 68.44.13.236 05:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the story of the relationship of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. It is commonly assumed that the plot is modeled on the author's own life and his relationship with his wife Zelda, who struggled with mental illness throughout their marriage.

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 * To be included in Dick Diver’s world for a while was a remarkable experience: people believed he made special reservations about them, recognizing the proud uniqueness of their destinies, buried under the compromises of how many years. He won everyone quickly with an exquisite consideration and a politeness that moved so fast and intuitively that it could be examined only in its effect. Then, without caution, lest the first bloom of the relation wither, he opened the gate to his amusing world. So long as they subscribed to it completely, their happiness was his preoccupation, but at the first flicker of doubt as to its all-inclusiveness he evaporated before their eyes, leaving little communicable memory of what he had said or done.
 * Book I, Ch. 7

 * Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil. For her sake trains began their run at Chicago and traversed the round belly of the continent to California; chicle factories fumed and link belts grew link by link in factories; men mixed toothpaste in vats and drew mouthwash out of copper hogsheads; girls canned tomatoes quickly in August or worked rudely at Five-and-Tens on Christmas Eve; half-breed Indians toiled on Brazilian coffee plantations and dreamers were muscled out of patent rights in new tractors — these were some of the people who gave a tithe to Nicole, and as the whole system swayed and thundered onward it lent a feverish bloom to such processes of hers as wholesale buying, like a flush of a fireman’s face holding his post before a spreading blaze. She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure, and presently Rosemary would try to imitate it.
 * Book I, Ch. 12

 * All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love.
 * Book I, Ch. 13

 * I like France, where everybody thinks he’s Napoleon — down here everybody thinks he’s Christ.
 * Dick on Italy, in Book IV, Ch. 10

 * An overwhelming desire to help, or to be admired, came over him.
 * Book II, Ch. 19

 * One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
 * Book III, Ch. 13

 * "Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night."
 * Nicole

 * "The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing," he said. "Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged."
 * Dick Diver

 * Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

 * Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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Talk:Revolutionary Girl Utena

Revolutionary Girl Utena is one of better Shoujo anime series. It is a deeply nuanced psycological story that is a modern retelling of the classical fairy tale. It does have some gender bending in the traditional rolls, but it is very well written and holds up to repeat viewings. It is a coming of age story that also mixes in the power of friendship. Even though they may have some sexual content.

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I want to tell

Guy something wrong with him is wrong.

Chuck and Chalk is totally different.

Dinner is good rest are bad.

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