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Wikiquote talk:Assume good faith

Call for endorsement
On the village pump, Aphaia has requested comments on and endorsement for this guideline. A very brief history, for those not already aware: That said, I agree with her suggestion that this be considered a guideline (as a recommendation for user behavior, rather than the more strict "policy" form), and endorse the current version for our first truly official version of this standard Wikimedia ethic. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Back in January 2006, Essjay copied this from Wikipedia, made some Wikiquote changes, and (prematurely) marked it as policy.
 * Aphaia recently changed it to a draft policy and updated it with material from the then-current version of w:WP:AGF.
 * I don't think that we need formal policies here in the way there is on WP. We're a small community and don't need the bureaucracy.  I endorse it as it stands.--Cato 21:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Support this draft.--Jusjih 14:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Now we can say "three users explicitly support this draft and hence this is now considered our official guideline"? --Aphaia 05:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I've posted a "last call for comments" at WQ:VP, so if we don't get any signficant objections, I plan to update the banner to declare this an official policy sometime after 18:00, 30 July 2007 (i.e., 7 days from now). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:01, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks good. This is one of the most important ideas on a wiki so I'm glad to see it now endorsed whether as an official policy or guideline. :-) FloNight 18:09, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Not that you need it, but I'll offer another support comment for this policy draft. ~ UDScott 18:31, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I've copied the follow votes from Village pump, with the edit links included for verification:

 * Agreed. :)  Cbrown1023   talk   16:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. When others never talk about it, they never care about it, so if no one opposes after allowing a lot of time, just interpret as a consensus. The same things also applies in Chinese Wiktionary, Wikisource, and Wikiquote where I administer with even fewer active users than this site.--Jusjih 17:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: Jusjih already gave his/her support above, but I included this post to be thorough.
 * Agreed. -- Herby talk thyme 18:12, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed, wholeheartedly. Phaed r i e l  - 20:25, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed Tyrenius 03:35, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Adding these to myself, Cato, Aphaia, FloNight, and UDScott above, InvisibleSun's support below, and no dissent, this is perhaps the most support we've ever had for a policy! I do believe we have ratification. I've updated the banner to reflect this. Thanks to everyone for participating. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks. But on the top of this discussion we agreed it should be a "guideline" instead of policy? Did you turn your mind? --Aphaia 19:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Oops! It did slip my mind that this was a guideline ratification. I just changed the policydraft tag to policy. I've fixed that by replacing it with guideline. Thanks for calling attention to my error, and sorry fot the confusion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't mind, we're assuming good faith, eh? :D --Aphaia 02:44, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Can willful ignorance be considered good faith?
I support this article as well, but I have a question in the matter of assuming good faith. Every day we get new articles which consist of only the article title and a quote. No intro. No formatting. No sourcing. No links. Just a quote or two dumped on a page, with no followup. There are two possible things that we can reasonably assume here: 1) that the person doesn't know the guidelines and isn't interested in finding them out; or 2) that the person knows the guidelines and couldn't care less. I don't think it would be reasonable to make a third possible assumption, which is that the person is unaware there might be guidelines. In either case, we have someone who is blissfully or willfully ignorant about following procedures. Faced with such an article, another editor will come along and do whatever needs to be done: intro, formatting, tags, etc. Although willing to do this, I am often nagged by the misgiving that I am rewarding someone for his laziness. Where, then, would the assumption of good faith figure into this? Isn't habitual ignorance, taking it for granted that others will clean up a mess, a probable sign of bad faith in a contributor? Or should we adopt a sort of maxim for these situations, a variation on Hanlon's law, which would say: "Never assume a contemptuous attitude when laziness will suffice?" But this, to my mind, still leaves the question unanswered: isn't the habit of lazy ignorance a form of bad faith? - InvisibleSun 00:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Partly I agree. There are editors who ignore the guideline and hence articles which don't follow the guideline, e.g. Warhammer 40,000. Some of those editors were noticed by our basic set of guidelines, but this articles hasn't been improved for months. I think we can consider their behavior as willful ignorance.
 * But I think not every such "ignorance" is willful ignorance. On other projects, specially on Japanese Wikipedia I have seen some people who have difficulties to understand policies. They break policies unintentionally and cause disruption consequently. But still on their parts they behave well following their common sense. Lack of maturity or understanding and their good faith can combine, so I would say "assume good faith" is not straightly means "hence their presence on the project should be welcome without reservation". Such troublesome editors were banned at last. --Aphaia 06:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the probable explanation for a lot of such cases is that some people have more enthusiasm than technical capability. I often find that a help page is needed to understand a help page.  A lot of such pages (I speak mainly of WP here) are technically impeccable and totally user-unfriendly.  I tended to look at a featured article and copy what had been done there. It would be good then to be able to point new users to a model article and say, "copy that".  Experienced users should not underestimate the labyrinthine complexity of negotiating wiki protocols.  This is not helped when established editors do not even necessarily agree on e.g. certain crucial points of formatting, as I discovered when I was first editing WQ! Tyrenius 14:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

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Michael A. Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole (born November 27, 1957) is a science fiction author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont.

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 * This, obviously, is a fallacious argument. That same negative evidence can used to "prove" that molemen from beneath the surface of the earth have perpetrated these murders. The fact that the molemen have left no evidence behind proves how good they are at remaining hidden. That no sewer or road building projects have ever cut across their tunnels proves that politicians and engineers and other professionals are in league with the molemen. Just as obviously, anyone who denies the molemen exist is either in league with them, or is a fool who cannot see the end coming.
 * Responding to fantasy-gaming opponent Patricia Pulling's suggestion that unsolved murders were likely the work of Satanists, as well as her general claims of how Satanists avoid detection

 * In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.

 * J. D. Salinger has suggested that authors should be known for their work, not themselves, and in this I concur. It’s not that I want to be a hermit, but I do want to maintain some privacy for myself and my sanity.
 * "Interview" at his official website

 * Most of the writers I know come from a variety of backgrounds: history, journalism, engineering, physics. The common element here is not what you study, but the fact that you learn how to study, to do research, and to synthesize new ideas out of old. The soul of science fiction, and perhaps even all fiction, is to look at a situation and ask, “what would happen if….” Change some variables and see how that makes people react to the situation. So, getting yourself a good grounding in any field of study will supply you with a great background wealth of material to use to build your stories. Then you really just need to start writing and keep writing. Writing is a skills-based endeavor and there is no easy way to become successful at it. Writers write.
 * "Interview" at his official website

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I have the same idea with all my books: an attempt to come close to the core of reality, the structure of reality, as opposed to the merely superficial. The realistic novel is remote from art. A novel should heighten life, should give one an illuminating experience; it shouldn't set out what you know already. I just muddle away at it. One gets flashes here and there, which help. I am not a philosopher or an intellectual. Practically anything I have done of any worth I feel I have done through my intuition, not my mind... ~ Patrick White

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I am the orange one. Fear me.
From Dumbledore. I'm taking it down as I can find no references, people can add it back if a reference turns up. Real or not? D=


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Teslascope

The Teslascope is a radio transceiver that was alleged to have been invented by Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla for the purpose of communicating with life on other planets. Even though Tesla talked about "interplanetary communication" on many occasions, it has never been confirmed that he built such a device.

1896

 * The possibility of beckoning Martians was the extreme application of [my] principle of propagation of electric waves. The same principle may be employed with good effects for the transmission of news to all parts of the earth....Every city on the globe could be on an immense circuit.  [Thus] a message sent from New York would be in England, Africa and Australia in an instant.  What a grand thing it would be. - Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla's statement during an interview, explaining his electric wave propagation method for communicating with alleged Martians.

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 * Early in December [of 1900], we received from Lowell Observatory in Arizona a telegram that a shaft of light had been seen to project from Mars (the Lowell observatory makes a specialty of Mars) lasting seventy minutes. I wired these facts to Europe and sent out neostyle copies through.  The observer there is a careful, reliable man and there is no reason to doubt that the light existed.  It was given as from a well-known geographical point on Mars.  That was all.  Now the story has gone the world over.  In Europe it is stated that I have been in communication with Mars, and all sorts of exaggerations have spring up.  Whatever the light was, we have no means of knowing.  Whether it had intelligence or not, no one can say.  It is absolutely inexplicable. - Professor Pickering
 * Professor Pickering at Harvard College Observatory writes about the mysterious light that was received from Mars, from which he developed the idea of building mirrors in Texas to communicate with the alleged Martians. In 1909, Tesla denounced Pickering's idea of building mirrors, and instead introduced his own method of communicating with the alleged Martians.

 * I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth. Even now, at times, I can vividly recall the incident, and see my apparatus as though it were actually before me. My first observations positively terrified me, as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night; but at that time the idea of these disturbances being intelligently controlled signals did not yet present itself to me. The changes I noted were taking place periodically, and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause then known to me. I was familiar, of course, with such electrical disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis and earth currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these variations were due to none of these causes. The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes being produced by atmospheric disturbances, as has been rashly asserted by some. It was some time afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. A purpose was behind these electrical signals; and it was with this conviction that I announced to the Red Cross Society, when it asked me to indicate one of the great possible achievements of the next hundred years, that it would probably be the confirmation and interpretation of this planetary challenge to us.  Since my return to New York more urgent work has consumed all my attention; but I have never ceased to think of those experiences and of the observations made in Colorado. I am constantly endeavoring to improve and perfect my apparatus, and just as soon as practicable I shall again take up the thread of my investigations at the point where I have been forced to lay it down for a time. -Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla explaining his experience with the mysterious signal he had received.

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 * The idea naturally presents itself that mirrors might be manufactured which will reflect sunlight in parallel beams. For the time being this is a task beyond human power, but no one can set a limit to the future achievement of man... But there is one method of putting ourselves in touch with other planets... This combination of apparatus is known as my wireless transmitter... It is evident, then, that in my experiments in 1899 and 1900, I have already produced disturbances on Mars incomparably more powerful than could be obtained by any light reflectors, however large. - Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla denouncing Professor Pickering's idea of creating a set of mirrors in Texas with the intention of signaling purported Martians, and also introducing his own idea on communicating with other planets.

 * To be sure, we do not have no absolute proof that mars is inhabited [...] Personally, I have my faith on the feeble planetary electrical disturbances which I discovered in the summer of 1899, and which according to my investigations, could not have originated from the Sun, the Moon, of Venus. Further study since has satisfied me they must have emanated from Mars. - Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla recounting his experiences in 1899 with the electrical disturbances he had received.

1921

 * Others may scoff at this suggestion...[of] communicat[ing] with one of our heavenly neighbors, as Mars...or treat it as a practical joke, but I have been in deep earnest about it every since I made my first observations in Colorado Springs... At the time, there existed no wireless plant other than mine that could produce a disturbance perceptible in a radius of more than a few miles. Furthermore, the conditions under which I operated were ideal, and I was well trained for the work.  The character of the disturbances recorded precluded the possibility of their being of terrestrial origin, and I also eliminated the influence of the sun, moon, and Venus.  As I then announced, the signals consisted in a regular repetition of numbers, and subsequent study convinced me that they must have emanated from Mars, the planet having just then been close to the earth. - Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla writing about his experiences with what he believed were signals from Mars, ruling out his 1901 prediction that the signals he received could have come from Venus instead of Mars.

1931

 * [I have conceived] a means that will make it possible for man to transmit energy in large amounts, thousands of horsepower, from one planet to another, absolutely regardless of distance. I think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary communication. It will certainly come some day. and the certitude that there are other human beings in the universe, working, suffering, struggling, like ourselves, will produce a magic effect on mankind and will form the foundation of a universal brotherhood that will last as long as humanity itself. - Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla's statement on the Teslascope, which was published by Time magazine in their July 20, 1931 issue celebrating Tesla's 75th birthday.

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 * You ever heard of a rattlesnake round up? What they do is these guys go and find around 30 to 40 rattlesnakes, which is like the third or fourth most deadliest snake in the world. They take these snakes and put them in a cage not smaller than this stage here. They send guys and girls to go into the cage and put the snakes in sacks. Well why don't we just jump out in front of trucks on the highway? [Pretends to jump] Yep! [Pretends to get hit by a truck; laughs] My bad.

-Album: Here's your sign Track: We've got a full house
 * I was watching the news and there was a report about this 30-foot python just livin' under some guy's house. How do you miss this? Wouldn't your first clue have been, "Honey have you seen the dog? Honey?"

 * I finally figured out what (Spam) stands for: Stuff Posing As Meat.

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Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Chris Collison
Notability contested. The first revision was posted at 22:02, 26 February 2005 by, this article is his or her sole contribution. Since then no one has expanded it. There is a consultant with around 10K Ghits, and amazon.com gives us only this book whose co-author he is. I don't think the quoted saying something impressive, but people could have other opinions.--Aphaia 08:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Move quote to Knowledge and Management, delete Chris Collison. Consensus is that this quote does belong in a theme article but its author does not need his own article. Owing to GFDL issues I will credit on the talk pages after moving. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 15:04, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Keep Sufficiently notable; properly sourced.--Cato 16:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: The quoted book is currently ranked #217,924 on Amazon.com, so while it's not a bestseller, it's not really obscure, either. (Most vanity-press and other obviously obscure works I've seen seem to rank in the millions.) I also found copies of the second edition (2004) at 10 branches of one of my local libraries and at the Library of Congress as well. It does seem to be Collison's only established work, and there's the additional complication of having a co-author, making it hard to say it's his quote specifically. While I was at it, I verified the quote using Amazon Online Reader. It's totally accurate. Part of me would hate to see such a well-structured, well-cited, accurate effort go to waste. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Thank you for your research, Jeff, always. I have been not sure if we could simply call it "vanity", and you assert me to some extent. One thing which has made confused was, perhaps the sourcing issue: how we can attribute a quote from co-authored book? (btw, it is always an argument if you cite from Marx-Engels-Werke). If the book is his sole work, and it is difficult to distinguish how they shared works, it could even be better to move it "& " or "book-name"? Just a thought. --Aphaia 18:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You've pointed out my exact discomfort. I'm not happy about having an article titled "Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell", especially if it's only going to include material from one book. I'm also not comfortable with moving this to a book article titled Learning to Fly - Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations, not only because it's horribly long, but also because the book isn't so prominent that it sounds like it should have its own article. It'd be hard to shorten it, as there are many better-known books and other creative works called Learning to Fly (just check out the Wikipedia disambiguation article for a small subset of them). On top of that, we've only got one quote, so could we expect to get more? About the only thing I can think of that doesn't push the envelope or cause problems (like keeping the author article when the only quote is co-authored) is to copy the quote (with editor credit!) to one or more appropriate theme articles and delete this article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Move quote to theme article(s) and delete. Having seen no suggestions to resolve the above dilemmas, I favor moving the quote (with proper credit to 213.78.132.162 and Rmhermen in the edit summary) to Knowledge and Management, then deleting this awkward article. My main problem is the inability to credit this quote specifically to Collison and not his/her co-author. While this is not a unique problem (per Aphaia's allusion to Marx-Engels-Werke), this work doesn't seem to be well-known enough to encourage the community to devote resources to untangling the problem. But I'm open to other suggestions. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge, per Jeffq's suggestion, with Knowledge and Management, followed by deletion of page. - InvisibleSun 15:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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Arthur Streeton

Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter. He was born in Mount Duneed, southwest of Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874.

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 * I sit here in the upper circle surrounded by copper and gold, and smile with joy under my fly net as all the light, glory and quivering brightness passes slowly and freely before my eyes. Nothing happier than this. I shout and laugh at my immense wealth, all free and without responsibility. Who could steal this from me? No one. Oh that I could roll some up— as at present.
 * Reported in Mollie Hetherington, Famous Australians (1983), p. 252.

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Pedro Albizu Campos

Pedro Albizu Campos (September 12, 1891 – April 21, 1965) was the leader and president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and avid advocate of Puerto Rican independence from the United States by whatever means necessary.

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 * ...Within international rights Puerto Rico was a sovereign nation on the date in which the Treaty of Paris was drawn up, and Spain could neither give away Puerto Rico nor could the US annex it, nor the entire world disown it. This sovereignty is irrevocable and when the United States, through its cannons, forced the Spanish plenipotentiaries to sign the so-called cession of Puerto Rico it was committing a typical North American stick-up.  And this co-action against the Spanish had no part of the Spanish American war, it was never a belligerent against the US or anyone else, and here the Yanquis have been at war for 52 years against the Puerto Rican nation, and have never acquired the right of anything in PR, nor is there any legal government in PR, and this is uncontestable, one would have to knock to pieces all the international rights of the world, all political rights, to validate the invasion of the US in PR and the present military occupation of our national territory.
 * 1950-09-23; source 1, source 2

Puerto Rican Nationalism" Speech (1936)
Translation by Roberto Santiago, in Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings--An Anthology

 * Influential, independent men have made a difference in our society. Men such as musician Morel Campos; intellectuals such as Eugenio Maria de Hostos, and poets like Gautier Benitez were among the great men who built and founded this nation.

 * The founders of our republic in 1868 held that our nation and its people would be sovereign-never belonging to another nation or people. This idea is not original, but is the basis of universal civilization, of international law. It is the basis of the family of free nations.

 * Military intervention is the most brutal and abusive act that can be committed against a nation and a people. We demanded then, as we do today, the retreat of United States armed forces from Puerto Rico in order to embrace the liberty we held all too briefly in 1868.

 * We stand today, docile and defenseless, because, since 1868, our political and economic power has been systematically stripped away by the United States for its own political and economic gain. We stand as a nation forced not only to demand our liberty, but to demand reparations for having our political and economic liberty taken away. We stand as a nation surrounded by industry, but with little of it belonging to our people. The business development in Puerto Rico since the United States intervention should have made the island one of the most prosperous islands in the world, but that is not the case.

 * The United States controls our economy, our commerce. Puerto Rico must determine a price for its products that is acceptable to the United States, while the United States issues their products to Puerto Rico at a rate that is comfortable to its own manufacturers and not the Puerto Rican consumer. The result is exploitation and abuses per petrated at will, resulting in poverty for our people and wealth for the United States.

 * Already United States government agencies, under the guise of Christian virtue and goodwill, are simply controlling our people, destroying its culture. By imposing its own culture and language, the United States destroys our own culture and language. What will we have when we have nothing but dependency on those who destroyed us?

 * This is why I am dismayed by the effort among our own people to defeat the spirit of those who struggle for our liberation. Our own people see Puerto Rican nationalism as nothing but a path of terrorism and murder; but they defeat our spirit in denouncing themselves. They defeat our spirit by ignoring the historical terrorism and murder of the United States. In the end, they help only the United States, its industry, its imperialistic objectives.

 * it stands to reason-it stands to common sense-that we must be a free nation in order to survive as a people. The future of those not yet bom depends on respecting the independence of Puerto Rico. That respect alone-the respecting of Puerto Rico's independence-is what Puerto Rican nationalism is all about.

"Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party" (1950)
In Borinquen; an anthology of Puerto Rican literature

 * It is not easy to give a speech when we have our mother lying in bed and an assassin waiting to take her life. Such is the present situation of our country, of our Puerto Rico; the assassin is the power of the United States of North America. One cannot give a speech while the newborn of our country are dying of hunger, while the adolescents of our homeland are being poisoned with the worst virus, slavery. While the adults of our homeland must leave Lares (their hometown) in fear and don't even have exit to foreign countries different from the enemy power that binds us. They must go to the United States to be slaves of the economic powers, of the tyrants of our country, they are the slaves who go to Michigan out of need, to be scorned and outraged and kicked. One cannot give a speech easily while this tyrant has the power to tear the sons right out of the hearts of Puerto Rican mothers to send to Korea, into hell to be killed, to be the murderers of innocent Koreans, to die covering a front for the yanqui enemies of our country, to return insane to their own people... it is not easy. Our blood boils and patience beats at our hearts and tells me that patience must end, must disappear, and that the day of Lares must be the day of Lares, that is, the day of the Puerto Rican Revolution.

 * sovereignty is irrevocable, and when the United States, through its cannons, forced the Spanish plenipotentiaries to sign the so-called cession of Puerto Rico, it was committing just a typical North American stickup.

 * one would have to knock to pieces all the international rights of the world, all the political rights of the world, to validate the invasion of the U.S. in Puerto Rico and the present military occupation of our national territory.

 * these pretended defenders of freedom of every nation of the world except Puerto Rico are mere bandits in the current history of mankind.

 * those who survive this policy of starvation become the cattle the United States needs to pick the crops in Michigan. These are the cattle the U.S. needs to be shipped as cannon fodder to Korea or to any other part of hell existing on this earth.

 * the United States, a badly called state, not that, because in the Senate of the United States, although they claim to represent brown and black peoples, no black can enter nor anyone suspect of having a black grandfather.

 * the mobilization in Puerto Rico for Korea has taken 8,000 men, and it is a vile act of the U.S. government to pretend to mobilize by force the Puerto Rican nation so that it can pick up a front for the U.S. in Korea.

 * if the United States feels obligated to intervene in Korea with all their weapons, let them mobilize themselves. Let them go fight for their interests, instead of taking advantage of Puerto Rico's defenselessness to make it go to defend the sordidness and the iniquity of their policy before the world, that is shamelessness.

 * If registrations were good for Puerto Rico, the yanquis would never have inscriptions and elections here, nor would we ever have them. Registrations in Puerto Rico and elections are the trap to make Puerto Ricans keep turning the millstone.

 * You pay taxes to maintain an educational system in which the Puerto Rican is no longer Puerto Rican, to tear the Puerto Rican heart out.

 * there's no money to bring a loaf of bread to Lares, but for a jail in Lares there will be money. So, lots of money for jails in Lares and all Puerto Rico-for schools, yes, because they are to destroy the heart and mind of the Puerto Rican, denaturalize him, prostitute him, corrupt him for that there will be money. There's money to have the Health Department in Puerto Rico inject the youth of Puerto Rico with any disease that the U.S. government desires, to kill them on a long-term basis, there's yes, money for that but to kill hunger in Lares, Jayuya, Utuado, in Comerío, in the whole nation there's not a penny because hunger is the policy of the United States. The yanqui believes that when a human being is deprived of his loaf of bread, he will surrender and humiliate himself to be kicked by anyone. He will turn in his mother, his wife, his own dignity, so as not to suffer hunger. That's the policy of the United States.

 * He who does not respect the truth does not respect his own mother.

 * The armed forces of the United States have a privilege here. They can't be tried by any judicial authority, not even the so-called Federal Court of the United States. A U.S. Marine can kill anyone in the streets of San Juan and he cannot be tried by the District Court of San Juan or by the Federal Court, no, he has to be tried by a U.S. Navy court-martial...and why this privilege? Because killers need immunity. When one hires somebody else to kill, the first thing is to guarantee to him that he won't lose his skin, in any case. Well, are the armed forces here to defend Puerto Ricans? To kill Puerto Ricans!! That's the only government here, the rest are scoundrels, and all that crowd of bootlickers say that this is a democracy-the yanquis laugh at them.

 * It makes me laugh when the yanquis talk about a police state in other governments. There's no police state like the yanqui system.

 * The Law of the Funnel, the agreement that Puerto Ricans accept that political slavery of the United States, that's the agreement

 * Today PIP members are caught in the trap of the century, their sons mobilized for the draft-the PIP members quiet, the Populares quiet, the Statehooders quiet, everybody is quiet but the Nationalist Party.

 * Why bring the viruses, the microbes of this disease to experiment here in Puerto Rico? Oh, it's because it can spread and if it spreads here, what's the difference-they're Puerto Ricans. Didn't they kill a few thousands in Korea?

 * no army is a charitable institution, armies are established to kill, and this is in the charge of the U.S. Army.

 * The master never trusts the slave.

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 * The Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico was the first party to raise Guanica, to protest the invasion of the gringos as should be. In these as in many of the struggles for freedom of our people, the Nationalist Party was at the vanguard of its time. The Young Lords Party follows the example of Don Pedro Albizu Campos and the Nationalist Party and declares that for us Guanica is a day of national protest, and will be a day of national protest until we drive the Puerto Rican lombrices like ferre, the Cuban gusanos, and yankee amerikkkans into the sea.
 * Juan González (journalist), "On Our Struggle" (August 1971)

 * The new slavery arrived with the amerikkkans and the only ones in this century who truly confronted that empire was the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, and for a time, the Socialist Party. Don Pedro was the defender of our nationality. Don Pedro assured with his struggle that at a later time in the future, men and women, poor and humble, capable of liberating Puerto Rico, would arise.
 * Juan González (journalist), "On Our Struggle" (August 1971)

 * We in the Young Lords Party also follow the teachings of Don Pedro. We know that since the amerikkkan invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, the united states has controlled the press, radio, television. They control the schools. Every day, our people are bombarded with more and more amerikkkan propaganda. More than 25,000 amerikkkan troops occupy our territory. With those forces of repression, it is impossible to talk of free elections. As the National Liberation Front of Vietnam says-first, the amerikkkans should get out, then we will be able to have free elections.
 * Juan González (journalist), "YLP on Elections" (December 1971)

 * We express our solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico and their great leader, Pedro Albizu Campos, who, in another act of hypocrisy, has been set free at the age of seventy-two, almost unable to speak, paralyzed, after spending a lifetime in jail. Albizu Campos is a symbol of the as yet unfree but indomitable Latin America. Years and years of prison, almost unbearable pressures in jail, mental torture, solitude, total isolation from his people and his family, the insolence of the conqueror and its lackeys in the land of his birth--nothing broke his will. The delegation of Cuba, on behalf of its people, pays a tribute of admiration and gratitude to a patriot who confers honor upon our America.
 * Che Guevara, in a speech given to the 19th General Assembly of the United Nations on December 11, 1964.

 * In looking at the Puerto Rican movement as a whole and the positive contributions that we made in the seventies and early eighties, first we need to point out that we built on our legacy of struggle. We stood on the shoulders of such Nationalists as Ramón Emeterio Betances, Pedro Albizu Campos, Lolita Lebrón, and such communists as Luisa Capetillo, Jesús Colón, Bernardo Vega, Julia de Burgos, Juana Colón, Evelina Antonetti, Antonio Corretjer, Genoveva Clemente, Gerena Valentín, and many others.
 * Esperanza Martell in The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices From the Diaspora, edited by Andrés Torres and José E. Velázquez (1998)

 * The U.S. government's surveillance and repression against the independence movement started with the invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898. For decades after, the government launched jailings and massacres of pro-independence activists, including the Nationalist Party and its leader, Don Pedro Albizu Campos.
 * Iris Morales "¡PALANTE, SIEMPRE PALANTE!: The Young Lords" in The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora (1998)

 * We must follow the examples of Lolita Lebron, Pedro Albizu Campos, Julio Roldan, C.A.L. and MIRA. We must struggle against the american pigs and Puerto Rican vendepatrias.
 * Denise Oliver-Velez, "Yanquis Own Puerto Rico" (1970)

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, literally the "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico"), is a self-governing commonwealth of the United States, an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean. Puerto Rico is an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands. The capital and largest city is San Juan. The island's official languages are Spanish, which is predominant, and English.

A

 * Now is when I understand that no matter what happens I will be Puerto Rican...the nation is in my blood...and this song is dedicated to that noble, little peasant (jibarito) Raphael and to my "Island of Enchantment". (translated from Spanish lyrics)
 * Marc Anthony's 1999 version of the song Preciosa, Puerto Rico's unofficial anthem. With jibarito (little peasant) he refers to Rafael Hernández, the song's original author, saying he is a true Puerto Rican. Island Songs: A Global Repertoire

B

 * Puerto Rico is a beautiful island, with a culture enriched by old, old stories gained from many people. Traces of this culture are everywhere. And there are still many more story seeds waiting to be planted.
 * Pura Belpré "I Wished to be Like Johnny Appleseed" in The Stories I Read to the Children: The Life and Writing of Pura Belpré by Lisa Sánchez González (2013)

 * Statehood will destroy Puerto Rico's national identity in short order, while the present Commonwealth system will destroy it as surely, though more slowly...I repeat now the words that I wrote to my distinguished friend Don Luis Ferré in a public letter, October 6, 1964: God save the children of Puerto Rico from the day when they have to be protected from discrimination practiced against them by people of alien origin in the schools of their own land.
 * Pura Belpré "Statehood/Commonwealth" in The Stories I Read to the Children: The Life and Writing of Pura Belpré by Lisa Sánchez González (2013)

 * Some of the folksongs and games have inspired the writing of outstanding Puerto Rican authors, especially in their books of poetry and memoirs. Some examples are Angeles Pastor, Carlos N. Carreras, and Evaristo Rivera Chevrement. As you see, the folklore has left a rich legacy in the life and literature of Puerto Rico.
 * Pura Belpré "The Folklore of the Puerto Rican Child" in The Stories I Read to the Children: The Life and Writing of Pura Belpré by Lisa Sánchez González (2013)

 * Puerto Rico will be the first half-and-half banana republic state incorporated that will secede from the union. Then will come Liberty Island, then Mississippi Burning, Texas BBQ, Kentucky Fried Chicken—all of them—New York Yankees, Jersey Devils-you name it—will want to break apart—and demand a separation—a divorce.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011). p. 53.

 * When I was a girl, my parents would say, "Puerto Rico can't be free because we would be poor like Haiti or Cuba." It turns out that out of the fear of being poor, we didn't dare to become free. Then Hurricane Maria comes, devastates everything, and maybe we are now as poor as Haiti and Cuba, and not free.
 * Giannina Braschi, El Nuevo Dia and Chiricu Interviews,(2018)

 * If I were Joan of Arc de Bonaparte I would become governor of Puerto Rico and make my island a state—and then become president of the United States of Banana—and head south to conquer all of Latin America and the Caribbean—and swoop back north to take over Canada. I could do all that—if only I could decide between three options: Wishy, Wishy-Washy, and Washy.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011). p. 53.

 * Soy boricua. In spite of my family and in spite of my country, I’m writing the process of the Puerto Rican mind—taking it out of context as a native and a foreigner-expressing it through Spanish, Spanglish, and English—Independencia, Estado Libre Asociado, and Estadidad—from the position of a nation, a colony, and a state—Wishy, Wishy-Washy, and Washy—not as one political party that is parted into piddley parts and partied out.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011). p.29.

 * I want the secession of Puerto Rico from the U. S. of Banana.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011). p.55.

 * ¡Puerto Rico es la espada/que detendrá el avance/del imperio sajón!/Sea su herida la última/que en tu suelo latino/haga el vil opresor.
 * Puerto Rico is the sword/that will delay the advance/of the saxon empire!/Let her wound be the last/that on its latin soil/the vile oppressor makes.
 * Julia de Burgos, Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

C

 * Everything is so new in Puerto Rico. I wanted to build something the way Puerto Rico started, something from the old land.
 * Roberto Clemente, discussing his recently opened restaurant, El Carretero (roughly translated as "one who leads the ox-drawn cart"), as quoted in "Roberto Clemente Baseball's Brightest Superstar" by Arnold Hano, in Boy's Life (March 1968), pp. 25 and 54

F

 * The Puerto Rican ethos, or character, is precisely defined by its undefinition. We are always trying to define ourselves and never get there; but it is part of our definition that we keep looking. It's like Diogenes, who was always looking for truth with his lamp; and although he never found what he was looking for, the important thing was that he kept on looking.
 * Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

 * This is very typical of Puerto Rican culture and of all Latin men. Women are either the Madonna or the whore. It's very difficult for them to have an idea of a woman who is neither, or perhaps both.
 * Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

 * When it really got bad in Puerto Rico was in the 1930s, when these big, absentee-owned corporations were dominating the scene. They weren't just Americans; some of them were Puerto Ricans. Sugar processing ceased to be under small ownership and became incorporated into mega-enterprises.
 * Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

 * In Puerto Rico the sixties arrived four years late-in a colony everything gets there a little late. So from 1968 to 1972 we were right in the middle of all that. Drugs, marijuana, rebellion. Everybody wore long hair.
 * Rosario Ferré interview in Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)

 * Puerto Rico, like all the countries of the Caribbean, is a nation where fantastic reality, the world of magic, is ever present. There are various sects of white magic, such as Santeria. It is a reality that is very palpable in our environment, and this is why there are no great differences between fantasy and reality...All Caribbean writers have this in common.
 * Rosario Ferré Interviews with Latin American Writers by Gazarian Gautier (1988)

G

 * From the U.S. standpoint, Puerto Ricans are not good enough to live in a country of their own but are good enough to die in Vietnam for a country which is not theirs.
 * Eduardo Galeano Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1997)

 * Until Puerto Rico is decolonized, American democracy will not be complete.
 * Juan González (journalist) Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (2000)

 * We begin today by looking at the fight in Congress over disaster aid for Puerto Rico since it was ravaged by Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017. On Monday, two competing disaster relief bills stalled in the Senate as Democrats and President Trump continue to fight over federal relief funds for Puerto Rico. A companion bill to a January package passed in the House failed after Republicans objected to the lack of relief funding for recent flooding in the Midwest. Another Senate bill, supported by Republicans, fell short of the 60 votes it needed. It contained just $600 million for Puerto Rico’s food stamp program, a number Democrats say is far too low as many Puerto Ricans are still recovering from the devastation of 2017’s Hurricane Maria. Democrats also say aid should cover rebuilding and other forms of disaster relief.
 * Juan Gonzalez in “This President Is Cruel”: Congresswoman Slams Trump for Fighting Against Puerto Rico Disaster Aid, Democracy Now! (2 April 2019)
 * One after another, countries such as Spain and Greece, states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Kansas, and American colonies such as Puerto Rico-are becoming laboratories for how much pain can be inflicted on a population for the purpose of satisfying creditors and ideologues.
 * Amy Goodman Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

 * Nearly a million people lost power last Thursday after a fire at an electrical substation in the capital San Juan. The massive blackout came just days after the private U.S. and Canadian company LUMA Energy formally took over management of the island’s electric grid from PREPA — that’s the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority — which was devastated by Hurricane Maria. LUMA said it also faced a cyberattack shortly before a fire. Many people are still without power, facing ongoing blackouts. The union for Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, for PREPA, fought to block the privatization. Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Control Board, the mechanism put in place by Congress to manage its public debt, has pushed an austerity agenda that includes privatization of public assets like the electrical grid.
 * Amy Goodman in Disaster Capitalism: Puerto Rico Plunged into Darkness After Privatization of Electric Utility, Democracy Now!, (15 June 2021)

 * The United States for many years has tried to convert Puerto Rico into a model of hybrid culture: the Spanish language with English inflections, the Spanish language with hinges on its backbone--the better to bow down before the Yankee soldier. Puerto Rican soldiers have been used as cannon fodder in imperialist wars, as in Korea, and have even been made to fire at their own brothers, as in the massacre perpetrated by the U.S. army a few months ago against the unarmed people of Panama--one of the most recent crimes carried out by Yankee imperialism. And yet, despite this assault on their will and their historical destiny, the people of Puerto Rico have preserved their culture, their Latin character, their national feelings, which in themselves give proof of the implacable desire for independence lying within the masses on that Latin American island.
 * Che Guevara, in a speech given to the 19th General Assembly of the United Nations on December 11, 1964.

H

 * Our Nation is proud of the progress made by the people of Porto Rico. Endowed with liberty, freedom, with self-government and individual opportunity through incorporation under the American flag, the island by the efforts of its citizens and the cooperation of the whole United States has in a single generation emerged from stagnation to a high place in the march of progress. Porto Rico is, indeed, a magnificent example of what a capable and intelligent people may accomplish under free institutions. You have, indeed, shown courage and initiative under these impulses of freedom and liberty. In proof of this progress I need but recall a few evidences. You have in this single generation since joining in our citizenship increased more than 60 percent in population, increased over 500 percent in material wealth and over 800 percent in attendance upon public schools. You have decreased illiteracy by almost 50 percent and the death rate has been diminished by more than 60 percent.
 * Herbert Hoover, 1931

J

 * The cause of justice and human dignity for which the people of the United States and the people of Puerto Rico share an equal dedication is embodied in our common citizenship. It has formed a strong foundation for our present association, and it gives us confidence that our future relationship will be even more rewarding to both island and mainland.
 * Lyndon B. Johnson; Message to the People of Puerto Rico on the 50th Anniversary of the Granting of United States Citizenship Online, The American Presidency Project; 2 March 1967

K

 * It's hard to imagine an energy system more vulnerable to climate change-amplified shocks than Puerto Rico's...If [Hurricane] Maria is a teacher, this emerging movement argues, the storm's overarching lesson is that now is not the moment for reconstruction of what was, but rather for transformation into what could be.
 * Naomi Klein The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018)

 * Puerto Rico has a deep history of popular resistance and some very radical trade unions.
 * Naomi Klein The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018)

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 * Our petition as women, amongst you free citizens of Pan America, is like the petition of my Puerto Rico in the community of American States. We have everything done for us and given us but sovereignty. We are treated with every consideration save the one great consideration of being regarded as responsible beings. We, like Puerto Rico, are dependents. We are anomalies before the law.
 * Muna Lee (writer) "In Behalf of the Equal Rights Treaty" (February 7, 1928), Address delivered before the Unofficial Plenary Session of the Sixth Pan-American Conference, Havana, Cuba. Included in A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee, edited and with biography by Jonathan Cohen

M

 * I'm talking trips to Puerto Rico; say the word and we go.
 * Bruno Mars, "That's What I Like", 24K Magic (2016), New York: Atlantic Records

 * Give us statehood and your glorious citizenship will be welcome to us and to our children. If you deny us statehood, we decline your citizenship, frankly, proudly, as befits a people who . . . will preserve their conception of honor, which none can take from them . ..
 * Luis Muñoz Rivera, as quoted in "Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession" (2018), by Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati, Yale Journal of International Law, pp. 229-271

O

 * I personally believe that regardless of the situation, the United States owes a reparative decolonial process, regardless of what the ultimate status is.
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview with Latino Rebels (June 2022)

 * We are here to finally end second-class citizenship of Puerto Ricans in the United States.
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May 19, 2022 at press conference for Puerto Rico Status Act

 * Even US citizens living ABROAD have the right to vote but US citizens in Puerto Rico cannot. It’s colonialism...
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 4/21/2022 on Twitter

R

 * It is now time to take stock of our own house and to resupply its strength. Part of that process involves taking stock of our relationship with Puerto Rico. I favor statehood for Puerto Rico and if the people of Puerto Rico vote for statehood in their coming referendum I would, as President, initiate the enabling legislation to make this a reality.
 * Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign announcement speech, November 13, 1979

 * Let's go, Puerto Ricans, let's go already,/for LIBERTY is waiting, ever so anxious!
 * Lola Rodriguez de Tió, Borinquen: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature (1974)

S

 * In view of that core purpose, denying benefits to hundreds of thousands of eligible Puerto Rico residents because they do not pay enough in taxes is utterly irrational. Congress’ decision to deny to the U. S. citizens of Puerto Rico a social safety net that it provides to almost all other U.S. citizens is especially cruel given those citizens’ dire need for aid,” she wrote. “Puerto Rico has a disproportionately large population of seniors and people with disabilities...Equal treatment of citizens should not be left to the vagaries of the political process...Because residents of Puerto Rico do not have voting representation in Congress, they cannot rely on their elected representatives to remedy the punishing disparities suffered by citizen residents of Puerto Rico under Congress’ unequal treatment.
 * Sonia Sotomayor from dissent on United States v. Vaello-Madero court case, quoted here (2022)

 * Puerto Rico will not only survive this. It will bloom once again.
 * part of statement after Hurricane Maria, translation from Spanish quoted here (2017)

V

 * When we talk about almost 3,000 lives that... were lost during Hurricane Irma, many of them happened in the aftermath of Maria because of the lack of power in Puerto Rico. So, in order to rebuild the economy, in order to make sure that people’s lives are protected, we need to restore the power grid. And so, for the president to compare oranges to the lives of Puerto Rico shows you that he doesn’t value the lives of the people in Puerto Rico. For him, brown people are not deserving of our commitment of the federal government to show up and assist and provide the resources.  For him to question the $600 million in food assistance is shameful. Sixty-five percent of the children in Puerto Rico lives in poverty. And, by the way, Puerto Rico, like any other state, was able to receive food assistance, like any other state, until 1984. So this is not something that is really out of the blue. That was the reality of Puerto Rico. And that is what I intend to do by introducing legislation that will restore the ability of Puerto Rico to compete for federal nutritional assistance like any other state, and, for that matter, to all of the territories. After all, they are American citizens.
 * Nydia Velázquez quoted in “This President Is Cruel”: Congresswoman Slams Trump for Fighting Against Puerto Rico Disaster Aid, Democracy Now! (2 April 2019)

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Robert Gordis

Robert Gordis (February 6, 1908– 1992) was an American rabbi. He was a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary from 1940 to 1992.

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 * Countless generations of students and general readers have been intrigued by this deeply human book, which half reveals and half conceals the fascinating yet enigmatic personality of its author.
 * "Koheleth - the Man and his World" (1955), preface, p. vii

 * it will never be outmoded as long as the systole and diastole of human life survives, and men fluctuate between progress and reaction, growth and decline, hope and illusion.
 * "Koheleth - the Man and his World", p. 3

 * It is human love, not that of a god, which is glorified in the Song, and that with a wealth of detail, which rules out an allegorical interpretation.
 * "The Song of Songs and Lamentations", p. 8

 * Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in obscurity their Herculean task of guarding the Biblical Text against loss or variation.
 * "The Biblical Text in the Making", p. 1

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User talk:Shyam sbh

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Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! --Cato 16:49, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
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Talk:Charles Peirce

I will be merging Charles Sanders Peirce into this article; this is its page history:

* (cur) (last) 18:20, 28 May 2007 Q (Talk | contribs) (1,791 bytes) (add an image) * (cur) (last) 14:38, 13 April 2007 Jm34harvey (Talk | contribs) (→Sourced - Experience is the best teacher) * (cur) (last) 20:00, 31 March 2007 BD2412 (Talk | contribs) m * (cur) (last) 02:06, 24 March 2007 BrownBot (Talk | contribs) (Robot - Removing lynx, now obsolete per changes made to the sidebar) * (cur) (last) 17:52, 2 March 2007 Poetlister (Talk | contribs) m (Better stub) * (cur) (last) 09:23, 28 November 2006 Jeffq (Talk | contribs) (wikipediapar tempalte -> wikipedia template using AWB) * (cur) (last) 03:25, 6 November 2006 121a0012 (Talk | contribs) m (WP says he was a chemist) * (cur) (last) 01:55, 9 April 2006 LrdChaos (Talk | contribs) (cleanup) * (cur) (last) 13:26, 4 December 2005 MosheZadka (Talk | contribs) (cleanup, add missing header) * (cur) (last) 13:03, 4 December 2005 213.227.67.165 (Talk) * (cur) (last) 21:04, 12 November 2005 MosheZadka (Talk | contribs) (stub) * (cur) (last) 01:24, 5 October 2005 CSN (Talk | contribs) (wikisource link) * (cur) (last) 01:21, 8 July 2005 MosheZadka (Talk | contribs) m (cat) * (cur) (last) 13:33, 2 May 2005 Eric.dane (Talk | contribs) * (cur) (last) 13:27, 2 May 2005 Eric.dane (Talk | contribs)

I have begun doing a task of doing some basic formatting and organizing work on many of the "People" pages. ~ Q 18:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Johnny English

"A good agent doesn't need gadgets. The only gadgets I've ever needed are a sharp eye, sensitive hearing and a whole bunch of bigger brains."

Just, what? Where in the movie is this line? I don't remember having heard it and I know the film pretty well. He does say something to the effect of:

"I'll never understand your fascination with gadgets Bough. I was once parachuted into the Kalahari Desert with nothing but a toothbrush and a packet of sherbert lemons... and I still made it to Bulawayo before Ramadan".

Is it not on the DVD release, perhaps?

82.13.83.244 20:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Uwe Boll

Uwe Boll (pronounced [ˈuːvə bɔl]; born June 22, 1965, in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a German director, producer and screenwriter of films often adapted from video games.

2000s

 * Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.

 * House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.

 * This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.
 * Referring to the non-stop television airing of the September 11, 2001 attacks..

 * As you see, the reactions were really reserved from the studios...
 * After screening the first trailer for Postal Uwe Boll - Transforming Games into Movies

 * We'll be sending a print to the MPAA, we say nothing about it and hope they sleep through the movie.
 * About getting Postal rated Uwe Boll - Transforming Games into Movies

 * There are directors that make one good movie their whole life, but this movie creates a buzz around the director, then they get like forever good reviews. Till someone 20 years later says, look, to be honest I liked only the one movie of that guy. In my case it’s exactly the opposite. I get trashed for whatever I do. They don’t see any difference in what I’m doing.

 * Postal is a politically incorrect movie, and also a politically incorrect game. I think if you have a game where you can use a cat as a silencer, you cannot make this as a serious movie. So it must be a funny movie. It should be an absurd comedy... So you see there is a difference between doing something professional, and only talking about it. And all that people there in the Internet, bashing or whatever, they cannot tell a fucking story for 5 minutes.
 * Interview with Uwe Boll.

2010s

 * I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.
 * interview (2010), Lopta Film, Lopta and Moist.

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Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!-- Aphaia 23:44, 28 May 2007 (UTC) Also look here Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film). Grievous is a robot like that monster Megatron.(66.121.167.14 18:34, 19 September 2008 (UTC))
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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 29, 2007

The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ G. K. Chesterton

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Town Called Dobson

Town Called Dobson is a liberal editorial cartoon in the form of a webcomic written and illustrated by storm Bear.

Quotes

 * Liberal means having to say "I told you so."
 * Rakarah, March 22, 2006 - Bush’s popularity flirts with 30 Percent

 * No one ever listens to me.
 * Satan, June 9, 2006 - Giving The Devil His Due

 * My third-eye jockstrap will protect me.
 * Frip-Nort, June 10, 2006 - Miracle Third Eye Jock Strap

 * Fiber protects, cheese endangers.
 * Cult Leader, June 14, 2006 - Gobo Saves

 * As Rumsfeld leaves DC, the GOP continues to throw each other under the bus. Foley, Hastert and now maybe Bolton. We are in the last throws of the Republican Majority.
 * News Babe, November 10, 2006 - Gay Pink Slips

 * That's the problem with San Francisco values, I never know if I am doing something gay.
 * Elwood Leroy Biblethumper, Sr., January 4, 2007 - I am a Nancy Boy!

 * The last time I saw snow, it was on the History Channel.
 * Herbal, January 19, 2007 - Snow - Urban Myth

 * Please do not staple your first born to Form 1040.
 * Patrick, April 12, 2007 - The Perils of Taxation

 * The only way to get Republicans to care about Iraq is to put it in my uterus!
 * Hillary Clinton (cartoon character), June 12, 2007 - Things We Wish Hillary Would Say

 * Cheney dropped the gay bomb, now I'm fabulous!
 * Strip Title, July 9, 2007 - Cheney dropped the gay bomb, now I'm fabulous!

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