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Arndt Pekurinen

Arndt Pekurinen (August 29, 1905 – November 5, 1941) was a Finnish pacifist.

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 * Kun ihmisiä ei syödä, on niitä turha teurastaa.
 * Translation: As people are not eaten, butchering them is of no use.
 * Personal motto. Quoted in "Amoral America" by Robert Fearn - Page 715

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 * We talked of the casuistical question, Whether it was allowable at any time to depart from Truth? J OHNSON . 'The general rule is, that Truth should never be violated, because it is of the utmost importance to the comfort of life, that we should have a full security by mutual faith; and occasional inconveniences should be willingly suffered that we may preserve it. There must, however, be some exceptions. If, for instance, a murderer should ask you which way a man is gone, you may tell him what is not true, because you are under a previous obligation not to betray a man to a murderer.' B OSWELL . 'Supposing the person who wrote Junius were asked whether he was the authour, might he deny it?' J OHNSON . 'I don't know what to say to this. If you were sure that he wrote Junius, would you, if he denied it, think as well of him afterwards? Yet it may be urged, that what a man has no right to ask, you may refuse to communicate; and there is no other effectual mode of preserving a secret and an important secret, the discovery of which may be very hurtful to you, but a flat denial; for if you are silent, or hesitate, or evade, it will be held equivalent to a confession. But stay, Sir; here is another case. Supposing the authour had told me confidentially that he had written Junius, and I were asked if he had, I should hold myself at liberty to deny it, as being under a previous promise, express or implied, to conceal it. Now what I ought to do for the authour, may I not do for myself? But I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him. You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth. Besides, you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger may have. It may bring his distemper to a crisis, and that may cure him. Of all lying, I have the greatest abhorrence of this, because I believe it has been frequently practised on myself.'  I cannot help thinking that there is much weight in the opinion of those who have held, that Truth, as an eternal and immutable principle, ought, upon no account whatever, to be violated, from supposed previous or superiour obligations, of which every man being to judge for himself, there is great danger that we too often, from partial motives, persuade ourselves that they exist; and probably whatever extraordinary instances may sometimes occur, where some evil may be prevented by violating this noble principle, it would be found that human happiness would, upon the whole, be more perfect were Truth universally preserved.
 * James Boswell in Life Of Johnson (1794), Vol. 4

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 * "To have faith is to be human in highest, truest sense." -William Cantwell Smith

 * "Our strange dynamic towards becoming our truest selves, or becoming divine." -William Cantwell Smith

 * "Faith is relational: to think of self, others, and God, to be committed to something or someone; one's heart, love, and hope is invested." -James Fowler

 * "Faith is a verb." -James Fowler

 * "Faith is trusting God and taking HIM at his word." - Tr. Elder Charles Ryan

 * Faith is 'don't let those pesky facts get in the way of our political plan or our mystically ordained path to heaven'; faith is 'do what I tell you because I said so'. All things that can't be disproved need faith, utopia needs faith, idealism needs faith, spiritual salvation needs faith. Fuck faith. -Freydis

 * Of course, say the true believers, religion rests on faith, not intellect. But if all you need to do to prove I am wrong is to have faith that you are right, then no discussion is possible... It is only by resort to what the Roman statesman Cicero called 'right reason' that men and women can interact with each other amicably in a civilized society. -Philip D. Harvey

 * Getting facts right is a fundamental requirement of morality. - Peter W. Huber

 * "Our ultimate task is to be free, knowing, responsible, and loving, to walk in courage, hope, and trust." -Rahner
 * Question: Rahner who? Or Karl Rahner?
 * I never seen this quotation elsewhere ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:05, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know who said this?
"When you try to prove your faith, all you prove is that you have none."

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 * A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche

 * Faith is not wanting to know what is true.
 * Fruedrich Nietzsche

 * Faith is an oasis of the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
 * Khalil Gibran

 * Faith.Isn't that just another word for Ignorance? I've never understood how People can be so proud of believing in Something they have absolutely no proof of.
 * Dr.Gregory House, in House

 * A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill.  Worse, he is incurable.
 * H.L. Mencken

 * A reasonable scale of probability--what is likely--forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.
 * Jennifer Michael Hecht

 * Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
 * Buddha

 * Every religion, as far as reason will help them, makes use of it gladly - and where it fails them, they cry out: It is a matter of faith, and above reason!
 * John Locke

 * Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.
 * Arthur Koestler

 * By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge and second, the practice of good deeds.
 * Bahá'u'lláh

 * Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.
 * Ludwig Feuerbach

 * Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Variant: Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

 * I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche

 * I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up."
 * Penn Teller

 * I have more faith in my plumber than I do the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.
 * Charles Bukowski

 * If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different and largely contradictory set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence.
 * Richard Dawkins

 * Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
 * H. L. Mencken

 * Not knowing is much more interesting than believing an answer which might be wrong.
 * Richard Feynman

 * Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
 * Clarence Darrow

 * Skepticism is the highest of duties, and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
 * T. H. Huxley

 * The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
 * Ayn Rand

 * The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
 * Richard Dawkins

 * The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
 * Walter Savage Landor

 * The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.
 * Lizette Reese

 * To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
 * Thomas Edison

 * We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our constitution protection for people who profess no faith.  And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.
 * Bill Clinton

 * What with blowing up clinics, shooting doctors, and the endless terrorists blowing themselves up hither and yon, the truth regarding the cause of the violence is not addressed by anyone at all: Blind faith in interactive Deities.
 * Rack Jite

 * You, the religious believer, may well find subtle support for your faith in recent discoveries - that is, if you're willing to upgrade your metaphors and definitions as the latest data demand; and seek out new niches of ignorance or ambiguity to fill with the goose down of faith.
 * Natalie Angier

 * Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
 * Eric Hoffer

 * Ignorance is lack of knowledge, whereas faith is rejection of it.
 * Anonymous

 * Of all the human virtues... all the supposed virtues, faith would be the most harmful.
 * Anonymous

 * Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

 * Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
 * Blaise Pascal

 * Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
 * Blaise Pascal
 * It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
 * Blaise Pascal

Point of view
The recent reorganization of this article based on points of view that are For or Against is probably not a good idea. Note in particular that some quotes about the subject are neither for nor against. ~ Ningauble (talk) 13:32, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with that assessment — I generally dislike creating such presumptive categories on any pages, and have usually accepted them as necessary ONLY when that seems to be the preferred solutions to those most intensely engaged in some long term animosities. I have never found it all that good a solution on ANY page and find categories "for" and "against" so broad a thing as "faith" a rather ridiculous form of faith AND faithlessness of the chance of anyone seeing BEYOND such shallow designations. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I attempted to simply strip out the categories in a way that reverted the division of the page, but there seem to have been quotes removed in that edit, and now I am beginning a more meticulous response where I restore anything that I inadvertently removed. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:31, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I just worked on and off on this for several hours — but just realized I had not yet restored all the quotes which were lost in my initial edit back to an alphabetized listing — I will get back to these later, within the next day or so. I must be leaving now. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:36, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Great job. For the first time in five years the clean up tag can be removed. I am not sure what quotes you lost in the process, but good luck with that. -- Mdd (talk) 23:24, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I had meant to work on this a few times previously, but had been too busy. I reviewed what I had thought I had missed, and found I was mistaken in that — it was simply a few that I hadn't read while I was working on the page, because they were in sections I hadn't needed to move. It does look like I did get everything. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

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Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Maharaj (17 April 1897 – 8 September 1981) was a spiritual teacher of nonduality, who lived and taught in Bombay, India. He was very much admired for his direct and informal teaching. He is most famous for the work I Am That.

Attention

 * "Do not undervalue attention. It means interest and also love. To know, to do, to discover, or to create you must give your heart to it – which means attention. All the blessings flow from it."

Awareness and consciousness

 * Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginning-less, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. (…).
 * "(…) In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness alive."
 * "Whenever a form is infused with life (prana), consciousness (chetana) appears by reflection of awareness in matter."
 * "One thing is quite clear to me; all that is, lives and moves and has its being in consciousness and I am in and beyond that consciousness. (…)"
 * "(…) This must be well grasped; the world hangs on the thread of consciousness, no consciousness, no world."

Beauty

 * "God is not only true and good, he is also beautiful (satyam-shivam-sundaram). He creates beauty – for the joy of it. (…) God does not aim at beauty – whatever he does is beautiful. Would you say that a flower is trying to be beautiful? It is beautiful by its very nature. Similarly God is perfection itself, not an effort at perfection. (…) whatever is perceived blissfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty."

Bliss and happiness

 * "Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss consciously. Because you take your mind off yourself and make it dwell on what you are not, you lose your sense of well-being, of being well. (…) True happiness is spontaneous and effortless. (..)"
 * (The gnani) "(…) tastes of the pure, uncaused, undiluted bliss. He is happy and fully aware that happiness is his very nature and that he need not do anything, nor strive for anything to secure it. It follows him, more real than the body, nearer than the mind itself. (…)."
 * "As he (the gnani) gets older he grows more and more happy and peaceful. After all, he is going home. Like a traveller nearing his destination and collecting his luggage, he leaves the train without regret. (…) The mist of bodily existence is lifting – the burden of the body is growing less from day to day. (…) Every sensation is contemplated in perfect equanimity. There is no desire for it, nor refusal. It is as it is and he looks at it with a smile of affectionate detachment. (…) He is alone, but he is all. He is not even a being. He is the beingness of all beings. (…)."

Body

 * (…) All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define yourself. All definitions apply to your body only and its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. (…)
 * "(...) Bodies are born and bodies die, but what is it to me? Bodies come and bodies go in consciousness and consciousness itself has its roots in me. I am life and mine are mind and body."
 * "There is nothing wrong in the idea of a body, nor even in the idea ‘I am the body.’ But limiting oneself to one body only is a mistake. In reality all existence, every form, is my own, within my consciousness. (…)."
 * "(…)The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time."
 * "(…) As it is natural for the incense stick to burn out, so it is natural for the body to die. Really, it is a matter of very little importance. What matters is that I am neither the body nor the mind. I am."

Change

 * "Surely you can change your world if you work at it. (…) a world of which you are the only source and ground is fully within your power to change. What is created can always be dissolved and re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it. (…)"
 * "When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation."
 * "(…) if you can change yourself you will find that no other change is needed. To change the picture you merely change the film, you do not attack the cinema screen! (…) Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life – this is the quickest way to a change of your world."

Clean, well-ordered life

 * "(…) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas."

 * "The entire purpose of a clean and well-ordered life is to liberate man from the thralldom of chaos and the burden of sorrow. (…) What is wrong with a life which is free from problems? Personality is merely a reflection of the real. (…) Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret and worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown."

Courage

 * "(…) I live on courage. Courage is my essence, which is love of life. I am free of memories and anticipations, unconcerned with what I am and what I am not. (…) I have the courage to be as nothing and to see the world as it is: nothing. It sounds simply, just try it!"
 * "The gnani is afraid of nothing. But he pities the man who is afraid. After all, to be born, to live and to die is natural. To be afraid is not. (…)."

Death

 * "And what is death? It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death."
 * "(…) Can there be renewal without death? Even the darkness of sleep is refreshing and rejuvenating. Without death we would have been bogged for ever in eternal senility. (…) When life and death are seen as essential to each other, as two aspects of one being, that is immortality. (...).
 * "(...) To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor not-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the mind-body is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror, it becomes a part of living."
 * "People are afraid to die, because they do not know what is death. The gnani has died before his death, he saw that there was nothing to be afraid of. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. (…) The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. (…)."
 * "I shall tell you how my Guru’s Guru died. After announcing that his end was nearing, he stopped eating, without changing the routine of his daily life. On the eleventh day, at prayer time he was singing and clapping vigorously and suddenly died! Just like that, between two movements, like a blown out candle. Everybody dies as he lives. I am not afraid of death, because I am not afraid of life. I live a happy life and shall die a happy death. Misery is to be born, not to die. All depends how you look at it."

Desire and fear

 * "Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...)"
 * "The state of craving for anything blocks all deeper experience. Nothing of value can happen to a mind which knows exactly what it wants. For nothing the mind can visualize and want is of much value."
 * "Want the best. The highest happiness, the greatest freedom. Desirelessness is the highest bliss. (…) Only God’s energy is infinite – because he wants nothing for Himself. Be like Him and all your desires will be fulfilled. The higher your aims and vaster desires, the more energy you will have for their fulfillment. Desire the good of all and the universe will work for you. But if you want your own pleasure, you must earn it the hard way. (...)."
 * "My experience is that everything is bliss. But the desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain. (…) for the sake of pleasure you are committing many sins. And the fruits of sin are suffering and death."
 * "Your mind projects a structure and you identify yourself with it. It is in the nature of desire to prompt the mind to create a world for its fulfillment. Even a small desire can start a long line of action; what about a strong desire? Desire can produce a universe; its powers are miraculous. Just as a small matchstick can set a huge forest on fire, so does a desire light the fires of manifestation. (…)"
 * "(…) Desire what is worth desiring and desire it well. Just like you pick your way in a crowd, passing between people, so you find your way between events, without missing your general direction. It is easy, if you are earnest."
 * "(…) To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens."

Detachment

 * "By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected."
 * "(…) Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment (viveka-vairagya)."

Earnestness

 * "You need both clarity and earnestness for self-knowledge. You need maturity of heart and mind, which comes through earnest application in daily life of whatever little you have understood. (...)."
 * ¨Everything yields to earnestness.¨

Existence

 * "To exist means to be something, a thing, a feeling, a thought, an idea. All existence is particular. Only being is universal, in the sense that every being is compatible with every other being. Existences clash, being – never. Existence means becoming, change, birth and death, and birth again, while in being there is silent peace."

Faith

 * "Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily."

Freedom

 * "(...) one is always free. You are both conscious and free to be conscious. Nobody can take this away from you. (…)"
 * "(...) Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all."
 * "(…) Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom."
 * "When I say I am free, I merely state a fact. If you are an adult, you are free from infancy. I am free from all description and identification. (…)."
 * "The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have history. In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop, nor decay (…)."

God

 * "God is not running the world. (…) All happens by itself. You are asking the question and you are supplying the answer. And you know the answer when you ask the question. All is play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. (...)"
 * "When you see the world you see God. There is no seeing God, apart from the world. Beyond the world to see God is to be God. The light by which you see the world, which is God, is the tiny little spark: ‘I am,’ apparently so small, yet the first and the last in every act of knowing and loving."
 * "All this is temporary, while I am dealing with the eternal. Gods and their universes come and go, avatars follow each other in endless succession, and in the end we are back at the source. I talk only of the timeless source of all gods with all their universes, past, present and future."
 * "(...) Of what use is your arguing for or against God, when you just do not know who is God, and what are you talking about. (…)."
 * "(…) make your world perfect, by all means. If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one. Either see the world as a play or work at it with all your might. (...)."
 * "To me you are your own God. But if you think otherwise, think to the end. If there be God, then all is God’s and all is for the best. Welcome all that comes with a glad and thankful heart. And love all creatures. This too will take you to your Self."
 * "God is only an idea in your mind. The fact is you. The only thing you know for sure is: ‘here and now I am.’ Remove the ’here and now’ the ‘I am’ remains, unassailable. (…). All I can say truly is: ‘I am,’ all else is inference (…). The sense ‘I am’ is the manifestation of a deeper cause, which you may call self, God, Reality or by any other name. (…)."

Guru/Gnani

 * "Your own self is your ultimate teacher (sadguru). The outer teacher (Guru) is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher, that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal."
 * "That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher. He alone is, all else appears to be. He is your own self (swarupa), your hope and assurance of freedom, find him and cling to him and you will be saved and safe."
 * "(…) Life itself is the Supreme Guru; be attentive to its lessons and obedient to its commands. (…)."
 * "(...) Make your entire life an expression of your faith and love for your teacher – this is real dwelling with the Guru."
 * "(…) All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not gnanis. (…) Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance."

'I am'

 * "'I am' itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love."

 * "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."

 * (...) In pure being consciousness arises; in consciousness the world appears and disappears. All there is is me, all there is is mine. Before all beginnings, after all endings – I am. All has its being in me, in the “I am,” which shines in every living being. (...).
 * "(…) All kind of experience may come to you – remain unmoved in the knowledge that all perceivable is transient, and only ‘I am’ endures."
 * "(...) When we are absorbed in other things, in the not-self, we forget the self. There is nothing unnatural about it. But, why forget the self through excess of attachment? Wisdom lies in never forgetting the self as the ever-present source of both the experiencer and his experience."

Integrity

 * "To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. (…) What is supremely important is to be free from contradictions: the goal and the way must not be on different levels, life and light must not quarrel; behavior must not betray belief. Call it honesty, integrity, wholeness; you must not go back, undo, uproot, abandon the conquered ground. (…)"

Inter-connectedness

 * "(…) everything is inter-linked. And therefore everything has numberless causes. The entire universe contributes to the least thing. A thing is as it is because the world is as it is. (…)"

Killing

 * "If you look into living process closely, you will find cruelty everywhere, for life feeds on life. This is a fact, but it does not make you feel guilty of being alive. (…) From the animal point of view, being killed is not the worst form of dying; surely preferable to sickness and senile decay. The cruelty lies in the motive, not in the fact. Killing hurts the killer, not the killed."

Liberation

 * "Desire for embodied existence is the root-cause of trouble. (...) Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge –liberation. And what is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and death. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal creature, you created so much trouble for yourself that you have to wake up, like from a bad dream. Enquiry also wakes you up. You need not wait for suffering; enquiry into happiness is better, for the mind is in harmony and peace."
 * "Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. Only what liberates you from desire and fear and wrong ideas is good. As long as you worry about sin and virtue you will have no peace. (…)"
 * "(…) Theories are neither right nor wrong. They are attempts at explaining the inexplicable. It is not the theory that matters, but the way it is being tested. (…) Experiment with any theory you like – if you are truly earnest and honest, the attainment of reality will be yours. (…) It is the earnestness that liberates and not the theory."
 * "(…) A liberated man is extremely law-abiding. But his laws are the laws of his real self, not of his society. These he observes, or breaks, according to circumstances and necessity. But he will never be fanciful and disorderly."
 * "Don’t rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether."

Light

 * "Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy."

Love

 * "(...) To see myself in everybody and everybody in myself most certainly is love."
 * "When the sense of distinction and separation is absent, you may call it love."

Meditation

 * "The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness."
 * "Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them, and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you. (…) By the same power that brought you so far, that prompted your heart to desire truth and your mind to seek it. It is the same power that keeps you alive. You may call it Life or the Supreme."

Mind

 * "(…) A weak mind cannot control its own projections. Be aware, therefore, of your mind and its projections. You cannot control what you do not know. On the other hand, knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself – know yourself."
 * "There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates. It is self-created in the sense that at its very centre is the false idea of oneself as a thing different and separate from other things. (...)."
 * "(…) The problem is not yours – it is your mind’s only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours. (…) Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don’t look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change, there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these –you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention."
 * "(…) Is not meanness also a form of madness? And is not madness the misuse of the mind? Humanity’s problem lies in this misuse of the mind only. All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly. (…) Fear and greed cause the misuse of the mind. The right use of mind is in the service of love, of life, of truth, of beauty."
 * "(…) there is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.(…) Examine closely and you will see that the mind is seething with thoughts. It may occasionally go blank, but it does it for a time and reverts to its usual restlessness. (...)."
 * "(…) It is like taking food. All you can do is to bite off, chew and swallow. All else is unconscious and automatic. Listen, remember and understand – the mind is both the actor and the stage. All is of the mind and you are not the mind. (…)."
 * "(…) Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. (…)."

Nisarga Yoga

 * "Meet your own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide. As long as your urge for truth affects your daily life, all is well with you. Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural Yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless."

Nothingness

 * "(…) I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. (…) It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is not afraid of no thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. (…)"
 * "(...) To be nothing, to have nothing, to keep nothing for oneself is the greatest gift, the highest generosity."

Peace

 * "What has been attained may be lost again. Only when you realize the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you, for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost? That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything; that to which there is no birth, nor death. (…)."

Planning

 * "(…) Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born."

Present moment

 * "(…) There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. (…) What makes the present so different? Obviously, my presence. I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what is with me now shares in my reality.
 * "When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment, (…) Don’t be afraid, don’t resist, don’t delay. Be what you are. There is nothing to be afraid of. Trust and try. Experiment honestly. Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret."
 * "(…) In the now you are both the movable and the immovable. (…). Overlook the movable and you will find yourself to be the ever-present, changeless reality, inexpressible, but solid like a rock."

Purification

 * "Purify yourself by a well-ordered and useful life. Watch over your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. This will clear your vision."

Reality

 * "(...) To take the world as real and one’s self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow. To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought ‘I am’ is the polishing cloth. Use it."
 * "That in which consciousness happens, the universal consciousness or mind, we call the ether of consciousness. All the objects of consciousness form the universe. What is beyond both, supporting both, is the supreme state, a state of utter stillness and silence. Whoever goes there, disappears. It is unreachable by words, or mind. You may call it God, or Parabrahman, or Supreme Reality, but these are names given by the mind. It is the nameless, contentless, effortless and spontaneous state, beyond being and not being."
 * "(…) the supreme state (…) is entirely one and indivisible, a single solid block of reality. The only way of knowing it is to be it. The mind cannot reach it. To perceive it does not need the senses; to know it, does not need the mind."
 * "There are the two – the person and the witness, the observer. When you see them as one, and go beyond, you are in the supreme state. It is not perceivable, because it is what makes perception possible. It is beyond being and not being. It is neither the mirror nor the image in the mirror. It is what is – the timeless reality, unbelievably hard and solid."
 * "(…) as long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace – immersed in the deep silence of reality."
 * "The world and the mind are states of being. The supreme is not a state. It pervades all states, but it is not a state of something else. It is entirely uncaused, independent, complete in itself, beyond time and space, mind and matter. (…) it leaves no traces. There is nothing to recognize it by. It must be seen directly, by giving up all search for signs and approaches. When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it. Plurality and diversity are the play of the mind only. Reality is one."
 * "Everything is subjective, but the real is objective. (…) It does not depend on memories and expectations, desires and fears, likes and dislikes. All is seen as it is. (…) It is solid, steady, changeless, beginningless and endless, ever new, ever fresh. (…) Desirelessness and fearlessness will take you there."
 * "Reality can neither be proved nor disproved. Within the mind you cannot, beyond the mind you need not. In the real, the question ‘what is real?’ does not arise. (...)"
 * "Everything happens all the time, but you must be ready for it. Readiness is ripeness. You do not see the real because your mind is not ready for it."
 * "(...) Anything that implies a continuity, a sequence, a passing from stage to stage cannot be real. There is no progress in reality; it is final, perfect, unrelated."
 * " (...) All you can do is to grasp the central point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality. (…)."

Sadhana - spiritual practice

 * "In the case of a beginner the practice of Yoga is often deliberate and requires great determination. But those who are practicing sincerely for many years are intent on self-realization all the time, whether conscious of it or not. Unconscious sadhana is most effective, because it is spontaneous and steady."
 * "(…) Spiritual practice is will asserted and re-asserted. Who has not daring will not accept the real even when offered. Unwillingness born out of fear is the only obstacle."

Salvation

 * "(…) Salvation is to see things as they are. (…)"

Scriptures

 * "Those who know only scriptures know nothing. To know is to be. I know what I am talking about; it is not from reading, or hearsay."

Self-identification

 * "If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded.  The ocean of life contains all, not only humans.  So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that.  Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind.  You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing."
 * "You are confused, because you believe that you are in the world, not the world in you. Who came first – you or your parents? You imagine that you were born at a certain time and place, that you have a father and a mother, a body and a name. This is your sin and your calamity! (...)"
 * "The source of consciousness cannot be the object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source. When you realize that you are not the person, but the pure and calm witness, and that fearless awareness is your very being, you are the being. (…)"
 * "As you are now, the personality is only an obstacle. Self-identification with the body may be good for an infant, but true growing up depends on getting the body out of the way. Normally, one should outgrow body-based desires early in life. (…)"
 * "(…) You can help another by precept and example and, above all, by your being. You cannot give what you don’t have and you don’t have what you are not. You can only give what you are – and of that you can give limitlessly."
 * "(…) Just know that you are above and beyond all things and thoughts. What you want to be, you are it already. (…) desire nothing, for you lack nothing. The very seeking prevents you from finding."

Sex

 * "All suffering is born of desire. True love is never frustrated. How can the sense of unity be frustrated? (…) Love is a state of being. Sex is energy. Love is wise, sex is blind. Once the true nature of love and sex is understood there will be no conflict or confusion."

Silence

 * "The talk is in your world. In mine – there is eternal silence. My silence sings, my emptiness is full. I lack nothing. You cannot know my world until you are there."

Sin and virtue

 * "(...) Sin and virtue refer to a person only. Without a sinful or virtuous person what is sin or virtue? At the level of the absolute there are no persons; the ocean of pure awareness is neither virtuous nor sinful. Sin and virtue are invariably relative."
 * "Whatever you do against your better knowledge is sin. (…) Remembering your self is virtue, forgetting your self is sin. (…)"

Suffering

 * "(…) creation itself is rooted in ignorance; matter itself is ignorance. Not to know, and not to know that one does not know, is the cause of endless suffering."
 * "(…) Pain and suffering are only the body and the mind screaming for attention. To go beyond the body you must be healthy; to go beyond the mind, you must have your mind in perfect order. (…)."
 * "(…) Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don’t be lazy to think."

Truth and untruth

 * "Truth is simple and open to all. Why do you complicate? Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble. It always wants, expects, demands. Being false, it is empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance. It is afraid of and avoids enquiry. It identifies itself with any support, however weak and momentary. Whatever it gets, it loses and asks for more. (…)."
 * "(...) A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies. (...)"

Universal mind

 * "Gandhi is dead, yet his mind pervades the earth. The thought of a gnani pervades humanity and works ceaselessly for good. Being anonymous, coming from within, it is more powerful and compelling. That is how the world improves-the inner aiding and blessing the outer. When gnani dies, he is no more, in the same sense in which a river is no more when it merges in the sea; the name, the shape, are no more, but the water remains and becomes one with the ocean. When a gnani joins the universal mind, all his goodness and wisdom become the heritage of humanity and uplift every human being."

Will

 * "(…) After all, what is will but steadiness of heart and mind. Given such steadfastness all can be achieved."
 * "Whatever name you give it; will, or steady purpose, or onepointedness of the mind, you come back to earnestness, sincerity, honesty. (…) We are complex beings, at war within and without. We contradict ourselves all the time, undoing today the work of yesterday. No wonder we are stuck. A little of integrity would make a lot of difference."

Work

 * "(…) Work on, and the universe will work with you. After all the very idea of doing the right thing comes to you from the unknown. Leave it to the unknown as far as the results go, just go through the necessary movements. You are merely one of the links in the long chain of causation. Fundamentally, all happens in the mind only. When you work for something whole-heartedly and steadily, it happens, for it is the function of the mind to make things happen. (...)."

Specific works

 * Sri Maharaj Nisargadatta. (2005). I am That. Durham, NC: The Acorn Press. ISBN 0-89386-022-0.
 * Sri Maharaj Nisargadatta. (1994). The Ultimate Medicine. Canada: Blue Dove Printing..

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 * Categorizing: In general, all pages should be categorized. If it's a film, and you're not sure which film subcategory to put it in, just put it in Category:Films. To do that, add to the bottom of the page.
 * Buffy quotes: People names are always in title case (that is, "Buffy", not "BUFFY"). The first time, and only a first time, a character is quoted in an episode, the character's name should be linked to the wikipedia character page (if there is one). See Talk:Buffy the Vampire Slayer for more information.

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

 is a 2004 film about Princess Mia who has just turned 21 and is suppose to succeed her grandmother as the Queen of Genovia, but first she has to get married.
 * Directed by Garry Marshall. Screenplay written by Shonda Rhimes

You are cordially invited to the royal event of the season. R.S.V.P. This Summer. taglines

Princess Mia Thermopolis

 * There are 550 years of Renaldi's on these walls, and I will be up there next to my father.
 * [throwing herself onto her bed] This is so COOL!
 * I have my own mall!
 * [to Andrew, laughing] Why, thank you, sir. I think you might be even clumsier than me!
 * Andrew, could you try to talk without moving your lips? The lip-readers have binoculars.
 * [after Andrew gives her an engagement ring] Do I have to put it on myself?
 * To be a princess, you've got to believe that you're a princess. You've gotta walk the way you think a princess should walk, so think tall, smile and wave, and just have fun.
 * [to her grandmother] Just because I didn't get my fairytale ending doesn't mean you shouldn't.
 * Welcome. A few moments ago, I realized the only reason I was getting married was because of a law, and that didn't seem like a good enough reason. So, I won't be getting married today. My grandmother has ruled without a man at her side for quite some time, and... I think she rocks at it. So, as the granddaughter of Queen Clarisse and King Rupert, I ask the members of parliament to think about your nieces, your sisters, your daughters and granddaughters, and ask yourselves: would you force them to do what you're trying to make me do? I believe I will be a great queen. I understand Genovia to be a land that combines the beauty of the past with all the best hope of the future. I feel in my heart and soul that I can rule Genovia. I... I love Genovia. Do you think that I would be up here in a wedding dress if I didn't? I stand here ready to take my place as your queen. Without a husband.

Queen Clarisse Renaldi

 * A queen is never late, everyone else is simply early.
 * As your queen I simply cannot condone it... as a Grandma, I say right on!
 * A princess never chases a chicken.
 * [Mia shows up in soaking wet clothes] Do I want to know?
 * Well Maurice, it's just you and I. Or are you upset with me too? [Maurice leaves]
 * We never rush, we hasten.
 * Dear Joseph... is it too late to ask you to accept my hand in marriage?
 * [to wedding guests] I know it was short notice, but... you were all dressed.
 * My lord Archbishop, I would like to take this man as my husband, if you please.

Lily
Lenny, Squiggy, ZIP IT!
 * [singing to herself while watching Mia and Andrew play badminton] They were smitten, while playing badminton. Where's my kitten?
 * [sees Nicholas] My hello is insignificant. Rosencrantz, Guilderstern, come with me.
 * I can announce myself: Lily Moscovitz!
 * I'll cover for you. Go, Rapunzel, go!
 * I'd like to tell her what she can do with her eggs.
 * I'm a girl who loves black and is wearing pink.

Nicholas

 * Maybe, maybe it wouldn't be so bad if she ran the country.
 * It wouldn't be nothing. Genovia would be in good hands, and, she would be happy.
 * [to Mia] I think it's time I bowed out gracefully, don't you?
 * I decline. I refuse to be king. Ladies and gentleman, it is Princess Mia, who should rule. She is bright and she is caring, but more importantly she has a vision. One that will take Genovia forward and if the Parliament were astute, they would name her queen. Listen to her, she'll take us into the 21st century. Besides, just think how lovely she'll look on our postage stamp.

Other

 * Elsie: It was a ring! [gets smashed into the gate by paparazzi, continues speaking into her mic] A royal proposal has been made.

 * Andrew: [to Mia] You chose me and I accepted and a gentleman never backs out of his word. We are going to stand up in church tomorrow and we are going to say I do, and tomorrow you and I will be man and wife, and you will make an amazing Queen of Genovia.

 * Woodrow Wilson School Principal: [first lines] Although your diplomas are equally specific, remember: you are all going out into the world as individuals. I now proudly present this year's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and lnternational Affairs graduating class.

Dialogue

 * (Queen Clarisse decides to marry Joe)
 * Queen Clarisse: My Lord Archbishop, I'd like to take this man as my husband if you please.
 * Archbishop: (looks skyward) Finally!
 * (Queen Clarisse's face drops into one of shock)

 * Security Guard Lionel: Your Majesty, I would gladly take a bullet for you.
 * Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Oh, how brave. Most interns don't even want to fetch me my tea.

 * Mia Thermopolis: Oh, by the way, I'm getting married!
 * Lily Moscovitz: To who?
 * Mia: I don't know.

 * [Mia, Lily, Clarisse, Charlotte, and Joe are going through a slideshow of possible husbands for Mia]
 * Charlotte: Baron Johann Klemp.
 * Queen Clarisse: No, not appropriate. He's a complusive gambler.
 * [A picture of Prince William appears]
 * Mia: [gasps] Yes! Oh yes! I, I, I absolutely accept!
 * Charlotte: [giggles] Prince William. He's not eligible because he's in line for his own crown.
 * Mia: [disappointed] Oh.
 * Joe: If he's not eligible, why is he included in these pictures?
 * Charlotte: [dreamily] I just love to look at him.
 * Queen Clarisse: Me too.
 * Mia: Mmm-hmm.
 * Joe: Your Majesty!
 * Queen Clarisse: Next?
 * Charlotte: Antoine Suisson of Paris. Plays the harp. Uh, no title, but good family.
 * Lily: What about the title "husband?"
 * Mia: Yeah, he's cute.
 * Joe: His boyfriend thinks he's handsome, also.
 * Mia and Lily: Right on.
 * Queen Clarisse: No matter. Put him on all the invitation lists, he's a divine dancer. Next. [slideshow continues] Too old. Too young.
 * Lily: [to Mia] Does this popcorn taste like pears?
 * Mia: Mmmm. Genovian specialty.
 * Joe: Arrested too many times.
 * Queen Clarisse: Wait, no. We need someone titled. Someone who can help you run a country without ego getting in the way. Someone attractive, smart, but not arrogant. Someone with compassion...
 * Mia: Someone like him? [points to Andrew’s picture]
 * Queen Clarisse: Yes! Someone very much like him. Good choice, Mia! I wonder I didn't think of him before!
 * Charlotte: Andrew Jacoby, Duke of Kennelwith.
 * Lily: [admiringly] Oh.
 * Mia: [unsure] Well, he looks... decent.

 * Security Guard Lionel: [security guard Shades circles around once] Can I do that?
 * Security Guard Shades: No.
 * Lionel: Ever take those shades off?
 * Shades: No.

 * Nicholas: I'm Nick. Viscount Mabrey's nephew.
 * Andrew Jacoby: Ah, the chap who's trying to stage the palace coup. I'm Andrew Jacoby. Nice to meet you.
 * Lily: [thrusting out her hand to shake his] Lilly Moscovitz, official best friend of future queen. I don't like you.
 * Nicholas: Pleasure.

 * Mia: I can’t ride side-saddle.
 * Queen Clarisse: No, no, no, neither could I when I was your age and quite frankly, dear, it is ACUTELY uncomfortable. Herbie is my riding companion, here he is.
 * Queen Clarisse: Herbie.
 * Mia: It's a wooden leg.
 * Queen Clarisse: Yes.
 * Mia: That is impressively sneaky, Grandma, did you think of this yourself?
 * Queen Clarisse: No, it's a centuries old idea, our ancestors know something about being comfortable, right, you just drape your skirt over it and no one suspects a thing!

 * Joe: Viscount, you may not be aware of what my job entails as the Royal Head of Security. My job is to protect the crown. To make sure no harm comes to the crown. To step in when someone toys with the crown's emotions, you see.
 * Viscount Mabrey: I think the entire country understands how well you cater for the crown's emotions.
 * Joe: [pause] If you hurt my girl, you will answer directly to me, and whatever crimes I commit against you; remember, I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico.
 * Viscount Mabrey: Sir, you will find that the word "fear" is not in my vocabulary!
 * Joe: Perhaps... but it's in your eyes.

 * Mia: I loathe you!
 * Nicholas: I loathe YOU!
 * Mia: I loathed you FIRST!
 * [Nicholas grabs Mia and kisses her. Mia kisses back at first, then realizes what she's doing and breaks away.]
 * Mia: What?ǃ What are you doing? You can't just go around kissing people!  Particularly not ENGAGED people!
 * Nicholas: You enjoyed it. Do you want to kiss again?
 * Mia: Well I... NO! Stop trying to confuse me!
 * Nicholas: What's confusing about a kiss?
 * Mia: I know what you're trying to do! You're just trying to make me like you so that I won't marry Andrew and you can have the crown! UGH!
 * Nicholas: Maybe I am and.... maybe I just like kissing you. [he moves to kiss her again and they both fall into the fountain]
 * Mia: I have a terrific idea, you go underwater and I'll count to a million. [she climbs out of the fountain and walks away, head high and soaking wet]

 * Andrew Jacoby: She's going to be a handful, isn't she?
 * Queen Clarisse: You'll never be bored, Andrew.

 * Lionel: [into his mike very loudly] Eagle is leaving! Eagle is leaving!
 * Queen Clarisse: [stops] In hushed tones, Lionel. Hushed tones.

 * Joe: How do you feel today, my dear?
 * Mia: Honestly, Joe? Not that great.
 * Joe: Would you feel better if you called me "Joey"?
 * Mia: No, Joe.
 * Joe: Good.

 * Nicholas: She's letting the children join the parade, how charming.
 * Viscount Mabrey: Not for everyone.

 * [Queen Clarisse and Nicholas have been discussing why Mia should or shouldn't be Queen, and Clarisse tells Nicholas what a wonderful person Mia is.]
 * Nicholas: I know that.
 * Queen Clarisse: You do?
 * Nicholas: Yes. Yes, I do, but-- well, how can one rule the people, if one does not know the people?
 * Queen Clarisse: Touché. That's a very good question.

 * [Mia is talking to Nicholas in the hallway]
 * Brigitte: She needs to get ready for the party.
 * Brigitta: She's busy.
 * Lily: Lenny, Squiggy, zip it!

 * Mia: I thought you never slide.
 * Queen Clarisse: I don't. But I've done a lot of flying in my time.
 * Asana: Is she really going to do this?

 * Nicholas: Mia. Could I see you one more time before I go?
 * Mia: Nicholas, I'm watched like a hawk.
 * Lionel: Princess! Princess!
 * Mia: See?
 * Nicholas: I'll find a way.
 * Mia: [reluctantly] Yes?
 * Lionel: Nothing, I'm just supposed to watch you.

 * Lily: Look out your window.
 * Mia: Why? What's going on?
 * Lily: [excitedly] Just look out your window! Prince Charming is throwing pebbles!
 * Nicholas: [whistles]
 * Mia: [whispers] What're you doing?
 * Nicholas: [clears his throat] Rapunzel, Rapunzel, with hair so fine. Come out your window, climb down the vine.
 * Mia: The feat you ask, dear sir, isn't easy. And I won't respond to that line, it's far too cheesy.
 * Lily: So what does he want?
 * Mia: [sighs] He wants me to climb down the vine.
 * Lily: Well, do you want to?
 * Mia: Yes!
 * Lily: So go!
 * Mia: [stammers] It's a recipe for disaster!
 * Lily: Do something impulsive for once in your life. You're getting married. Do you want a regular bachelorette party with twelve screaming girls? Or do you want a stroll in the moonlight with your almost Prince Charming?

 * Nicholas: Tell me your greatest desires.
 * Mia: Tell me a secret.
 * Nicholas: Isn't that the same?
 * Mia: Almost, but anyone can see your desires. No one knows what's in your heart.

 * Nicolas: Tell me something.
 * Mia: Um, I love "I Love Lucy" reruns and sometimes I dream in black and white.
 * Nicolas: I used to pretend to be sick when I had a test in school.
 * Mia: We all did that.
 * Nicolas: Okay... sometimes I put chocolate milk in my cereal.
 * Mia: I'm deathly afraid of jellyfish.
 * Nicolas: I haven't danced with you since your birthday.
 * Mia: That's a fact, not a secret.
 * Nicolas: The secret is.... is that I still want to.

 * Elsie Kentworth: Keep your eggs sunny side up!
 * Lily: I'd like to tell her what she can do with her eggs, she can--
 * Queen Clarisse: Lily. Could we have a moment alone?

 * [Paolo has done Mia's hair in a very bizarre style]
 * Mia: I look like a moose.
 * Paolo: But a very cute moose. Make all the boy moose go "WHAAAAA".
 * Mia: I have antlers!
 * Paolo: WHAAAAA!

 * Mia: Joe? I just wanted to say, before I do this, I'm sorry you're retiring.
 * Joe: Who told you that?
 * Mia: The maids know everything.

 * Joe: Princess-- then you should know that Nicholas did not set you up at the lake.
 * Mia: You sure?
 * Joe: The maids know everything.

 * Mia: Grandma, I'm so sorry, I- I just need a minute--
 * Queen Clarisse: No.
 * Mia: I can do this--
 * Queen Clarisse: No!
 * Mia: I can't do this.
 * Queen Clarisse: I know. Darling, listen to me, I made my choice: duty to my country over love. Now I have lost the only man I have ever really loved. Don't make the same mistakes I made, make your own mistakes, there'll be plenty of them, believe me. Now you can go back into that church and get married, or you can walk away. Whatever choice you make, let it come from your heart.

 * Andrew: Uh, thank you. For saving me from doing the proper thing for once in my life. Now all I have to do is tell Mummy.
 * Mia: I have to tell everyone else.
 * Both: Good luck!

 * Nicholas: If I may be so bold, I would like an audience with your Highness.
 * Mia: [motions for him to go ahead] What is your dilemma, young man?
 * Nicholas: You are, in fact. [kneels] I'm in love with the Queen-to-be, and I am enquiring if she loves me too.
 * Mia: (pauses, then sighs) Do you have a chicken for my table?
 * Nicholas: No. No, my kitchen is out of chickens.
 * [Mia flops back into the throne for a moment, in mock disappointment, then runs over and they hug; he sighs and kisses Mia]

 * [Princess Aimee tugs on guard's sleeve, when he bends down, she whispers something, he looks embarrassed as he stands.]
 * Guard (announcing): Princess Aimee has to go potty!
 * [Brigitte and Brigitta hurry over to take Aimee to the bathroom]

Taglines

 * You are cordially invited to the royal event of the season. R.S.V.P. This Summer
 * It can take a lifetime to find true love; she's got 30 days!
 * The throne is all hers... but there's a little hitch.
 * She needs the rock to rule.

Cast

 * Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis
 * Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi
 * Hector Elizondo as Joe
 * John Rhys-Davies as Viscount Mabrey
 * Heather Matarazzo as Lilly Moscovitz
 * Chris Pine as Nicholas Devereaux
 * Callum Blue as Andrew Jacoby
 * Caroline Goodall as Helen Thermopolis
 * Kathleen Marshall as Charlotte Kutaway
 * Tom Poston as Lord Palimore
 * Raven-Symoné as Princess Asana
 * Larry Miller as Paolo
 * Matthew Walker as Captain Kip Kelly
 * Shea Curry as Brigitte
 * Anna A. White as Brigitta
 * Cassie Rowell as Olivia
 * Erik Bragg as Lionel
 * Sean O'Bryan as Patrick O'Connell
 * Scott Marshall as Shades
 * Abigail Breslin as Carolina
 * Stan Lee in a cameo appearance
 * Jonny Blu as himself
 * Spencer Breslin as Prince Jacques


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The Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 DreamWorks animated film based on the book of Exodus about Moses, an Egyptian prince who learns of his identity as an Israelite, and later his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people. The film has a direct-to-video prequel Joseph: King of Dreams released in 2000.

 * Directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells. Written by Ken Harsha, Anthony Leondis and Philip LaZebnik.

Two brothers united by friendship, divided by destiny. Taglines

Moses

 * [to Water Brigands] Hey you! Aren't these your camels?
 * [to Rameses] Goodbye, brother.

Rameses

 * [after the death of his son] You...and your people...have my permission...to go. LEAVE ME!
 * [last lines] Moses! MOSES!

God

 * With this staff, you shall do, My wonders!

Tzipporah

 * Look. Look at your people, Moses. They are free.

Miriam

 * Moses, hear what I say. I've been a slave all my life. And God has never answered my prayers until now. God saved you from the river, He saved you in all your wanderings, and even now, He saves you from the wrath of Pharaoh. God will not abandon you. So don't you abandon us.

Aaron

 * Miriam, do you want us flogged?

Others

 * Yocheved: [singing] River, O, River / Flow gently for me / Such precious cargo you bear / Do you know somewhere he can be free? / River, deliver him there.
 * Hotep and Huy: [repeated line] By the power of Ra!
 * Overseers: [chanting] Mud...sand...water...straw. Faster! Mud...and lift...sand...and pull...water...and raise up! Straw...faster!
 * Hebrews: [singing]
 * With the sting of the whip on my shoulder,
 * With the salt of my sweat on my brow...
 * Elohim, God on high, can You hear Your people cry?
 * Help us now, this dark hour...
 * Deliver us, hear our call, deliver us, Lord of all!
 * Remember us, here in the burning sand!
 * Deliver us, there's a land You promised us!
 * Deliver us out of bondage and,
 * Deliver us to the promised land!

Dialogue

 * Moses: Hey, Rameses, how'd you like to have your face carved on a wall?
 * Rameses: Someday, yes!
 * Moses: How about now?! [pushes Rameses' chariot into a wall]
 * Rameses: You almost killed me!
 * Moses: Oh, come on! Where's your sense of fun?
 * Rameses: Oh, it's fun you want!

 * Rameses: Come on, Moses, admit it. You've always looked up to me.
 * Moses: Yes, but it's not much of a view!

 * Rameses: Second born, second place!
 * Moses: Not for long!

 * [Rameses and Moses just accidentally destroyed a temple during their chariot race]
 * Rameses: You don't think we'll get in trouble for this, do you?
 * Moses: No, not a chance!
 * [Cut to Pharaoh Seti scolding Rameses and Moses]
 * Seti: Why do the gods torment me with such reckless, destructive, blasphemous sons?
 * Rameses: Father, hear what I say-
 * Seti: Be still, Pharaoh speaks! I seek to build an empire, and your only thought is to amuse yourselves by tearing it down. Have I taught you nothing?
 * Hotep: You mustn't be so hard on yourself, Your Majesty. You're an excellent teacher.
 * Huy: It's not your fault your sons learned "nothing".
 * Hotep: Well, they learned blasphemy.
 * Huy: True. [They both leaves]
 * Moses: Father, the fault is mine. I goaded Rameses on, and so I am responsible.
 * Seti: Humph. "Responsible". And do you understand the meaning of that word, Rameses?
 * Rameses: I understand, Father.
 * Seti: And do you understand the task for which your birth has destined you? The ancient traditions: when I pass into the next world, then you will be the Morning and Evening Star.
 * Rameses: One damaged temple does not destroy centuries of tradition.
 * Seti: [points at Rameses] But one weak link can break the chain of a mighty dynasty! [the Queen relieves him. He then sighs in exasperation] You have my leave to go.
 * Rameses: Father...
 * [The Queen stops him and he leaves, frustrated]
 * Moses: Father, you know it was really my fault. Must you be so hard on him?
 * Seti: Moses, you will never have to carry a burden like the crown I will pass to Rameses. He must not allow himself to be lead astray; not even by you, my son.
 * Moses: All he cares about is...is your approval. I know he will live up to your expectations. He only needs the opportunity.
 * Seti: [considering] Maybe, maybe so. Go now, I shall see you both tonight.

 * Moses: Well, that went well.
 * Rameses: Just go away.
 * Moses: Could've been worse.
 * Rameses: The weak link in the chain. That's what he called me.
 * Moses: Well, you are rather pathetic.
 * Rameses: Irresponsible, ignorant of the traditions. He practically accused me of bringing down the dynasty!
 * Moses: Yeah, I can see it now. There go the pyramids! [laughs]
 * Rameses: You can laugh about it.
 * Moses: Statues cracking and toppling over, the Nile drying up; single-handedly, you will manage to bring the greatest kingdom on Earth to ruin.
 * Rameses: Tell me this, Moses, tell me this: why is it that every time you start something, I'm the one who ends up in trouble?
 * [Moses drops a sack full of wine onto Hotep and Huy]
 * Hotep: Oh! Man! [spits out punch]
 * Huy: Oh!
 * Hotep: Ah! Rameses, you're in trouble, young man!
 * Huy: Rameses, get down here! I think you owe us an apology!
 * Hotep: Oh, my new thing!
 * Huy: I am so upset!
 * Moses: [hands Rameses a bowl of wine] You might as well.
 * Hotep: By the power of Ra, you'll pay for this!
 * Huy: We're going to tell Pharaoh!
 * Hotep: Yeah, we'll tell Pharaoh and then-
 * [Rameses dumps all the wine on Hotep and Huy]
 * Hotep: Oh, look at me! I'm drenched again!
 * Moses: Hey, I figured it out. You know what your problem is, Rameses?
 * Rameses: What?
 * Moses: You care too much.
 * Rameses: And your problem is that you don't care at all.
 * Moses: Well, in that case, I supposed that you care a lot more than I do that we're...late for the banquet, for example.
 * [Rameses's face suddenly lights up in alarm as we cut to Rameses and Moses rushing to the banquet]
 * Rameses: I'm done for! Father will kill me!
 * Moses: Don't worry, nobody will even notice us coming in.
 * [They enter, but the entire crowd sees them and cheers loudly]
 * Rameses: "Nobody will even notice?"
 * [Moses laughs nervously]
 * Taya: [approaches them] Ah, the young princes! [hugs her sons, then sides to her real son] Rameses, you were just named Prince Regent. You are now responsible for overseeing all the temples. I suggest you get over there and thank your father. [Rameses walks off] Apparently, Moses...someone thought he "just needed the opportunity".
 * Moses: [approaches Rameses and Seti] My lord, Pharaoh! I propose that the high priests offer tribute to their new Regent!
 * Seti: An excellent idea! Hotep! Huy!
 * [The priests drop the goblets]
 * Hotep: [Whispers] Huy?
 * Huy: What?
 * Hotep: The Midian girl...
 * Huy: [chuckles] Oh! Good idea!
 * Hotep: Go get her. [Huy runs off. He addresses the guests and performs a magic spell] By the power of Ra! We present for your delectation and delight, an exotic apparition stolen from faraway lands. [a large box-like construction rises from the floor, revealing an attractive young woman named Tzipporah, riding a camel. Huy restrains her by her hands with a rope. Moses and Rameses are enthralled] We offer you this...delicate desert flower.
 * [Hotep yanks the rope, and Tzipporah is dragged off her camel, screaming. The crowd shouted in wild excitement. She fights against her restraints]
 * Rameses: Let us inspect this "desert flower"... [Tzipporah tries to bites, his hand missed] Ehhg! More like a desert cobra.
 * Moses: Not much of a snake-charmer, are you?
 * Rameses: [pushes Moses to her] That's why I give her to you.
 * Moses: [tries to back away from Tzipporah] No, no, no. That's generous, but.
 * Tzipporah: [to Moses] I won't be given to anyone, especially an arrogant, pampered palace brat!
 * Rameses: [chuckles] Are you gonna let her talk to you like that?
 * [Tzipporah groans trying to the ropes off her wrists while Moses gets Rameses off of him]
 * Moses: [points at Tzipporah] You will show the proper respect for a prince of Egypt.
 * Tzipporah: But I am showing you all the respect you deserve. [pulls rope away from Hotep and Huy] None!
 * Moses: No, wait! Be still! [grabs the rope]
 * Tzipporah: Untie his rope, I demand you set me free!
 * Moses: Be still!
 * Tzipporah: Let go!
 * Moses: [noticed the pond] As you wish. [let it go of the rope, causing Tzipporah to screamed and fall backwards into the pond]
 * [The crowd laughs. Moses joins in but sees the queen looking on in disgust, and stops]
 * Rameses: [approaches, laughing; to the servants who lead Tzipporah out of the pond] You there! Have her dried off, and sent to Prince Moses's chambers. [to Seti] If it pleases you father, my 1st act of Regent is to appoint Moses [places the blue ring on Moses' finger] as Royal Chief Architect! [The crowd cheers. Moses smiles, then stares back at Tzipporah, who looks back at him in disgust, as she is led away]

 * [As Moses enters his chambers, he sees a silhouetted figure in his bed, and approaches]
 * Moses: [to himself] Well...alright...
 * [He pulls the curtain back, and sees the servant bound and gagged, and muffled. His two dogs tied to a pillar. Moses runs to the window, and sees several bedsheets tied tied to the pillar like a ladder. He sees Tzipporah leading her camel through the courtyard. The camel grunts]
 * Tzipporah: [whispers] Shh, come on.
 * [Moses climbs down the tied bedsheets, then sees two guards]
 * Moses: Guards!
 * Guards: Prince Moses.
 * Moses: [stares at Tzipporah, then he addresses the guards] There's...a man...tied up in my room. Well, look into it!
 * Guards: Right away, sir!
 * [Moses chuckles as they run off. Then he runs out of the palace, following Tzipporah into the Jewish village. He spies her at a well, talking with a now grown-up Aaron and Miriam]
 * Tzipporah: [Miriam] Please, I need water. I have a long journey ahead of me.
 * Miriam: [giving her water] May God protect you.
 * Tzipporah: Thank you. [climbs onto her camel] Hut-hut! [rides off]
 * [Moses sees Tzipporah riding out of Egypt, and is smitten. Then he hears the vase shattering, and looks down]
 * Miriam: [looking up] Oh, I am so sorry...I...please forgive me...I...I didn't expect to see you... [recognizing Moses] here! Of all places at our door. At last!
 * Moses: [confused] At last?
 * Miriam: [hugging Aaron] Didn't I tell you, Aaron? Didn't I tell you? He would return to us when he was ready.
 * Aaron: [whispers] Miriam, do you want us flogged?
 * Miriam: [to Moses] I knew you cared about our freedom!
 * Aaron: [whispers] Miriam...
 * Moses: Freedom? [chuckles] Why would I care about that?
 * Miriam: Because you...you're our brother.
 * Moses: What?
 * Miriam: [her face fell] They...they never told you?
 * Moses: Who never told me what?
 * Miriam: [realizes that Moses didn't remember] B-But you're here! You must know. [reaches to touch his hand]
 * Moses: [pulling away] Be careful, slave!
 * Aaron: [pulls Miriam back nervously] Oh, my good prince...um, she...she's exhausted from the day's work. Not that it was too much! We...we quite enjoyed it, but-but ah, she's confused, and knows not to whom she speaks!
 * Miriam: [breaks his grip] I know "to whom I speak", Aaron! I know who you are, and you are not a prince of Egypt!
 * Aaron: Miriam-!
 * Moses: What did you say?!
 * Aaron: Your Highness, pay her no heed! C-C-Come, Miriam. May I discuss something with you?
 * Miriam: [fighting him] No, Aaron. No! Please, Moses, you must believe!
 * Aaron: That's enough.
 * Miriam: You were born of my mother, Yocheved!
 * Aaron: Stop it!
 * Miriam: [breaks free of Aaron] You are our brother!
 * Moses: Now you go too far. You should be punished!
 * Aaron: [throws himself on ground between them] No!? Please...uh, Your Highness...she's ill! She's very ill; we beg your forgiveness. Please, Miriam; l-let's go! [starts dragging her away]
 * Miriam: No, Aaron! Our mother set you adrift in a basket to save your life!
 * Moses: Save my life?! From who?!
 * Miriam: [still struggling] Ask the man that you call father!
 * Moses: How dare you...??
 * [Aaron gives up and stands beside a wall, looking away]
 * Miriam: God saved you to be our deliverer!
 * Moses: Enough of this!
 * Miriam: And you are, Moses. You are the deliverer.
 * Moses: I said enough! [grabs her arm, throws her to ground] You will regret this night.
 * Miriam: [weeps; singing] Hush now, my baby. Be still now. Don't cry. Sleep as you're rocked by the stream. [Moses stops walking, and hears a familiar lullaby] Sleep and remember my last lullaby. So I'll be with you when you dream.
 * [Moses, disturbed by the lullaby only he knows, runs away in confusion, fright, and puzzled]

 * [Moses discovers, to his great dismay, that the pharaoh was responsible for the butchery of thousands of Hebrew children]
 * Pharaoh Seti: The Hebrews grew too numerous. They might have risen against us.
 * Moses: [On the brink of tears] Father, tell me you didn't do this.
 * Pharaoh Seti: Moses, sometimes, for the greater good, sacrifices must be made.
 * Moses: Sacrifices?
 * Pharaoh Seti: [Taking Moses tenderly into his arms] Oh, my son... they were only slaves.
 * [Moses, greatly disturbed, pulls away, shakes his head in anger and disgust at Seti, and runs off into the darkness]

 * Taya: [approaches her adopted son] Moses?
 * Moses: Is this where you found me?
 * Taya: Moses, please try to understand.
 * Moses: So everything I thought, everything I am...is a lie.
 * Taya: No! You are our son and we love you.
 * Moses: Why did you choose me?
 * Taya: We didn't, Moses. The gods did.

 * Moses: Stop it. Stop! Stop it! Stop! No! Stop him! Leave the man alone!
 * Rameses: [looks around in surprisedly] Moses? (Moses, no!) [Moses stops an overseer from whipping an old man, but accidentally pushes him out of the highest scaffold (Bucka: "Uh-oh?"), and crashes below, deadly]
 * Egyptian Guard: Out of my way, out of my way, move! Who did this?
 * Man: Up there! It's him! Up there! [Moses looks at the Hebrews, pants, and begins to run away]
 * Miriam: [grabs his arm] Moses!
 * [Moses looks at her, but continues to run away, and rolling down the sand hill]
 * Rameses: [grabs him] Moses, what's going on?! [Moses pushes him out of the way] Moses! [Moses continues to runs away, and reaches the palace gates]
 * Rameses: [catching up to him in his chariot] Moses! [stops him] Moses!
 * Moses: Let me go!
 * Rameses: [getting off his chariot] No, wait!
 * Moses: ''(All I need is 1 thing; myself.) You saw what happened; I just killed a man!
 * Rameses: We can take care of that! I-I will make it so it never happened!
 * Moses: Nothing you say can change what I've done?!
 * Rameses: I am Egypt! The Morning and the Evening Star; if I say, "day is night", it will be written! And you will be who I say you are. [places his hands on Moses' shoulders to stop him] I say you are innocent.
 * Moses: [shoves him away] What you say does not matter! You don't understand...I can't stay here any longer!
 * Rameses: Moses...
 * Moses: No! All I've ever known to be true is a lie! [calms down] I'm not who you think I am.
 * Rameses: What are you talking about?
 * Moses: Go ask the man I once called father. [turns, walks away]
 * Rameses: Moses-? [Moses pauses and turns around; on a verge of tears] Please. [Pauses out]
 * Moses: [sadly] Good-bye, Brother. [turns and runs into the desert]
 * Rameses: Moses! MOSES!

 * [The Water Brigands are steals water; Tzipporah's sisters are screaming furiously]
 * Ephorah: What are you doing! Help!
 * Ajolidoforah: Wait!
 * Jethrodiadah: Let our sheep drink!
 * [Moses sees what's happening]
 * Ephorah: Leave us alone!
 * Ajolidoforah: Get away! [Moses takes the ropes of the camels]
 * Jethrodiadah: Stop it! Our Father's the High Priest of Midian, you're going to be in big trouble! [The Water Brigands throws the girls to the side]
 * Moses: Hey you! Aren't these your camels? [The Water Brigands were alarmed] Hut-hut! [smacks the camels' butts, causing them to running off]
 * Water Brigands: [running after their camels] No, no, no, no! Wait! Wait, stop! [Tzipporah's sisters are amazed. Moses smiles at the girls, and then rests on Jethro's well, but suddenly falls in, screaming. Tzipporah's sisters are trying to pull him out]
 * Tzipporah: What are you girls doing?
 * Jethrodiadah: We're trying to get the funny man out of the well!
 * Tzipporah: Trying to get the funny man out of the well. Well, that's not I've never heard before. [looks down the well]
 * Moses: [from inside the well] Whoa!
 * Tzipporah: [gasps] Oh, my! Don't worry down there! We'll get you out! Hold on! [pulls the rope, but sees that it is Moses] You! [remembers the incident, and let us go of the rope, and sends Moses back inside the well; nods] Mm-hmm. [saunters away]
 * Ephorah: [to her sisters] That's why Papa says she'll never get married.

 * Jethrodiadah: [to Moses] Psst! Sit with me!
 * Moses: All right. [sits down with Tzipporah's sisters and picks up the fruit and is about to eat it]
 * Ajolidoforah: [to Moses] Psst! Not yet!
 * Moses: Oh, sorry. [puts the the fruit back into the bowl]
 * Jethro: My children! Let us give thanks for this bountiful food, and let us also give thanks for the presence of this brave young man whom we honor here tonight.
 * Moses: Please, sir, I wish you wouldn't. I've done nothing in my life worth honoring.
 * [Tzipporah is surprised by these words. So is Jethro]
 * Jethro: First you rescue Tzipporah from Egypt, [pinches Tzipporah's cheek playfully] then you defend my younger daughters from brigands. [walks over and hugs Tzipporah's sisters] You think that is nothing? It seems you do not know what is worthy of honor.

 * Jethrodiadah: Dance with me!
 * Moses: No, I don't know how.

 * God: [whispering] Moses...
 * Moses: Here I am.
 * God: Take the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.
 * Moses: Who are You?
 * God: I Am that I Am.
 * Moses: I don't understand.
 * God: I am the God of your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
 * Miriam: [from Moses' memory] You are born of my mother Yocheved! You are our brother!
 * 'Moses: [quickly removes his sandals and throws them behind him] What do You want with me?
 * God: I have seen the oppression of My people in Egypt, and have heard their cry.
 * [Sounds of screams and cracking whips in Moses' memory]
 * Moses: [from his memory] Stop it! Leave that man alone!
 * God: So I have come to deliver them out of slavery and bring them into a good land. A land flowing with milk and honey. And so, unto Pharaoh, I shall send...you.
 * Moses: Me? W-who am I to lead these people? They'll never believe me, they won't even listen.
 * God: I shall teach you what to say.
 * [Moses' words "Let my people go!" is heard in his vision]
 * Moses: But I was their enemy. I was the prince of Egypt, the son of the man who slaughtered...their children. You've chosen the wrong messenger. H-H-How can I even speak to these people? [The bush flame brightens and the blue flames spread out]
 *  God: WHO MADE MAN'S MOUTH?! WHO MADE THE DEAF, THE MUTE, THE SEEING, OR THE BLIND? DID NOT I?! NOW GO!! [Moses falls to the ground] [soothing voice, gently lifting Moses off the ground] Oh, Moses, I will be with you when you go to the king of Egypt. But Pharaoh will not listen. So I will stretch out My hand and smite Egypt with all My wonders! Take the staff in your hand, Moses. With it, you shall do My wonders. [whispers]'' I shall be with you, Moses.[God puts Moses down on the ground, and vanishes]

 * [Singing]
 * Hotep: So you think you've got friends in high places, with the power to put us on the run? [vanishes]
 * Huy: Well, forgive us these smiles on our faces. You'll know what power is when we are done, son...

 * Rameses: All right, Moses, I know you. What's this really about?
 * Moses: Rameses, look. What do you see?
 * Rameses: A greater Egypt than that of my father.
 * Moses: That is not what I see.
 * Rameses: [chuckles] Moses, I cannot change what you see. I have to maintain the ancient traditions. I bear the weight of my father's crown.
 * Moses: Do you still not understand what Seti was?
 * Rameses: He was a great leader.
 * Moses: His hands bore the blood of thousands of children.
 * Rameses: [scoffs] Slaves.
 * Moses: My people! And I can no longer hide in the desert while they suffer...at your hands.
 * Rameses: So...you have returned...only to free them.
 * Moses: [removes the ring Rameses gave him and places it on the armrest of the throne] I'm sorry.
 * Rameses: [picks it up and bows his head, saddened] Yes. I had hoped...that... [closes his eyes, looks up, his regret melted into cold anger, and stands up] I do not know this God, neither will I let your people go. [turns to leave]
 * Moses: Rameses, please! You must listen-!
 * Rameses: I WILL NOT BE THE WEAK LINK! [opens the doors] Tell your people, as of today their work load has been doubled, thanks to your God. [Moses' eyes widen in horror.] Or is thanks...to you? [coldly and angrily shuts the door]
 * [After Moses pleas with Rameses to free the Hebrews, Rameses instead doubles the workload of the slaves, blaming Moses.]
 * Old Hebrew Man: [looks up and sees Moses] It's Moses. [throws a handful of mud at Moses, which sends him to the ground]
 * Tzipporah: Moses!
 * [Aaron and several other Hebrews surround Moses, looking at him angrily]
 * Aaron: So, Moses, how does it feel when you get struck to the ground?
 * Moses: I didn't mean to cause you more pain. I'm just trying to do as God told me.
 * Aaron: God? [scoffs] When did God start caring about any of us? In fact, Moses, when did you start caring about slaves? Was it when you found out that you were one of us?
 * Tzipporah: Don't listen to him.
 * Moses: No, he's right. I did not see because I did not wish to see.
 * Aaron: [sarcastically] Oh, you didn't see because you didn't wish to see. Ah! Well, that makes everything fine then, doesn't it?
 * Miriam: [walks over and glares at her brother, unimpressed] Aaron! You shame yourself! [then sees Moses, smiling]
 * Moses: Miriam. I'm so sorry. [covers his face in shame]
 * Miriam: Moses, hear what I say. I have been a slave all of my life, and God has never answered my prayers until now. God saved you from the river, He saved you in all your wanderings, and even now, He saves you from the wrath of Pharaoh. God will not abandon you. So don't you abandon us.
 * [They all look at the men. Moses sees Rameses' boat on the Nile River, then grabs his staff, and walks down. Miriam follows him]
 * Aaron: Miriam. Where are you going? M-Miriam.
 * [They all walk down, then looking at a boat]
 * Hotep: The ball disappears. Where is it? In his hand.
 * [The Egyptians all laugh]
 * Moses: [walks over to the edge of the river] Rameses! Let my people go!
 * Rameses: [chuckles] Still gnawing away at that bone, are we? [to his guards] Carry on.
 * Moses: You cannot keep ignoring us!
 * Rameses: Enough. I will hear no more of this Hebrew nonsense. [to his guards] Bring him to me.
 * [Guards pull out their knives and jump into the Nile to retrieve Moses]
 * Tzipporah: [running after him] Moses!
 * Aaron: [holding Tzipporah back along with Miriam] No!
 * [Moses walks into the water, and looks up to the sky]
 * God: Take the staff in your hand, Moses.
 * [Moses follows God's command; walks into the Nile, dips staff into water; water slowly turns blood blue; guards look confused; 1 guard dips hand into blue blood cell water as well as Rameses's son]
 * Rameses's son: Father-
 * Miriam: It's-
 * Guard: BLOOD!? [The guards run back into the boat, screaming]
 * Rameses: [getting splattered with blood] Hotep! Huy! Explain this to me!
 * Hotep: Ah!
 * Huy: Rest assured, Your Majesty!
 * Hotep: Uh, yes, we were going to demonstrate the superior might of our gods. Uh... [puts the jug down, then collects powdered blue blood cell] By the power of Ra! [drops the powder into the water, creating the same blood]
 * Rameses: [dips his hand to the blood, and chuckles] Abandon this: futile mission, Moses. I've indulged you long enough! This must now be finished! [sails off]
 * Moses: [to himself] No, Rameses. It is only beginning.
 * Aaron: But, Moses, didn't you see what happened? The priests did the same thing. Pharaoh still has the power over our lives.
 * Moses: Yes, Aaron, it's true. Pharaoh has the power. He can take away your food, your home, your freedom. He can take away your sons and daughters. With one word, Pharaoh can take away your very lives. But there is one thing he cannot take away from you: Your faith. [Miriam smiles] Believe, for we will see God's wonders.

 * [Singing]
 * Moses: Once I called you brother. Once I thought the chance to make you laugh was all I ever wanted.
 * Chorus: I send the thunder from the sky, I send the fire raining down.
 * Moses: And even now, I wish that God had chose another. Serving as your foe on His behalf is the last thing that I wanted.
 * Chorus: I send a hail of burning ice on every field, on every town.
 * Moses: This was my home. All this pain and devastation, how it tortures me inside. All the innocent who suffer from your stubbornness and pride.
 * Chorus: I send the locusts on a wind, such as the world has never seen, on every leaf, on every stalk, until there's nothing left of green! I send my scourge, I send my sword. Thus saith The Lord!
 * Moses: You who I called brother, why must you call down another blow?
 * Chorus: I send my scourge, I send my sword.
 * Moses: Let my people go.
 * Chorus: Thus saith The Lord.
 * Moses and Chorus: Thus saith The Lord!
 * Rameses: You who I called brother. How could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted?
 * Chorus: I send the swarm, I send the horde.
 * Rameses: Then let my heart be hardened, and never mind how high the cost may grow. This will still be so: I will never let your people go.
 * Chorus: Thus saith The Lord.
 * Moses and Chorus: Thus saith The Lord!
 * Rameses: I will not-
 * Moses and Rameses: LET YOUR [Moses: MY] PEOPLE GO!

 * Moses: Rameses?
 * Rameses: [sarcastically] Oh, let me guess. You want me to..."let your people go".
 * Moses: I...I hoped I would find you here.
 * Rameses: Get out! [throws a goblet at him, but misses]
 * Moses: Rameses, we must bring this to an end. [Rameses is silent] Rameses, please. Talk to me. We could always talk here. [paused] This place...so many memories...I remember the time you... [chuckles] switched the heads of the gods in the Temple of Ra. [silent, starts to leaved]
 * Rameses: If I recall correctly, you were there switching heads right along with me.
 * Moses: No, that was you, I didn't do that.
 * Rameses: Oh yes, you did. You put the hippo on the crocodile and the crocodile...
 * Moses: [remembers] ...on the falcon.
 * Rameses: Yes! And the priests thought it was a horrible omen and fasted for two months! Father was furious! You were always getting me into trouble! [pauses as his expression softens] But then...you were always there to get me...out of trouble again. [chuckles] Why can't things be the way they were before?
 * Rameses' son: Father, it's so dark. I'm frightened. [Rameses walks over to son to comfort him; sees Moses] Why is he here? Isn't that the man who did all this?
 * Rameses: Yes. But one must wonder...why?
 * Moses: Because no kingdom should be made on the backs of slaves. Rameses, your stubbornness is bringing this misery upon Egypt. It would cease if only you would let the Hebrews go.
 * Rameses: I will not be dictated to. I will not be threatened. I am the Morning and the Evening Star. I am Pharaoh!
 * Moses: Something else is coming, something much worse than anything before. Please, let go of your contempt for life before it destroys everything you hold dear! Think of your son!
 * [Rameses' son backs away in fear]
 * Rameses: I do. You Hebrews have been nothing but trouble. My father had the right idea about how to deal with your people.
 * Moses: Rameses.
 * Rameses: And I think it's time I finished the job.
 * Moses: Rameses!
 * Rameses: And there shall be a great cry in all of Egypt, such as never has been or never will be again!
 * [Moses sees the murals of Pharaoh pointing at a baby, babies in the water, and Rameses' Son, who is now utterly horrified. He fears for his nephew's life]
 * Moses: Rameses, you bring this upon yourself.

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 * Moses: God has come to me again, saying, "Take a lamb, and with its blood...mark the lintel and posts of every door. For tonight...I shall pass through the land of Egypt...and smite all the firstborn. But when I see the blood upon your door...I will pass over you, and the plague shall not enter".

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 * Miriam: [singing]
 * Many nights we've prayed with no proof anyone could hear.
 * In our hearts a hopeful song, we barely understood.
 * Now we are not afraid. Although we know there's much to fear.
 * We were moving mountains long before we knew we could.
 * There can be miracles when you believe.
 * Though hope is frail. It's hard to kill.
 * Who knows what miracles you can achieve.
 * When you believe somehow you will.
 * You will when you believe.
 * Tzipporah: [singing]
 * In this time of fear, when prayers so often proved in vain.
 * Hope seemed like the summer birds too swiftly flown away.
 * Yet now I'm standing here.
 * Miriam: [singing]
 * Now I'm standing here.
 * Tzipporah: [singing]
 * With so heart so full I can't explain.
 * Both: [singing]
 * Seeking faith and speaking words I never thought I'd say.
 * There can be miracles when you believe.
 * Miriam: [singing]
 * Though hope is frail. It's hard to kill.
 * Tzipporah: [singing]
 * It's hard to kill.
 * Both: [singing]
 * Who knows what miracles you can achieve.
 * When you believe somehow you will.
 * You will when you believe.
 * Child: [singing]
 * A-shi-ra l'a-don-ai. Ki ga-oh ga-ah.
 * A-shi-ra l'a-don-ai. Ki ga-oh ga-ah.
 * Mi-cha-mo-cha ba-elim adonai.
 * Mi-ka-mo-cha. Ne-dar ba-ko-desh.
 * Children: [singing]
 * Na-chi-tah v'-chas-d'-cha. Am zu ga-al-ta.
 * Na-chi-tah v'-chas-d'-cha. Am zu ga-al-ta.
 * A-shi-ra, a-shi-ra a-shi-ra.
 * A-shi-ra l'a-don-ai ki ga-oh ga-ah.
 * A-shi-ra l'a-don-ai ki ga-oh ga-ah.
 * Mi-cha-mo-cha ba-elim adonai.
 * Mi-ka-mo-cha ne-dar ba-ko-desh.
 * Na-chi-tah v'-chas-d'-cha am zu ga-al-ta.
 * Na-chi-tah v'-chas-d'-cha am zu ga-al-ta!
 * A-shi-ra, a-shi-ra! A-shi-ra!
 * Chorus: [singing]
 * There can be miracles when you believe!
 * Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill!
 * Miriam: [singing]
 * It's hard to kill.
 * Chorus: [singing]
 * Who knows what miracles you can achieve.
 * Miriam: [singing]
 * You can achieve.
 * Chorus: [singing]
 * When you believe, somehow you will.
 * Now you will.
 * You will when you believe.
 * When you believe.
 * Miriam: [singing]
 * You will when you.
 * Tzipporah: [singing]
 * You will.
 * Both: [singing]
 * Believe.

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 * Rameses: DON'T JUST STAND THERE! KILL THEM! [soldiers] KILL THEM ALL!
 * Moses: The soldiers! They're coming!
 * Aaron: Moses! Moses! Hurry! Hurry!
 * Man: Look, the shore!

Cast

 * Val Kilmer - Moses (voice)
 * Ralph Fiennes - Rameses (voice)
 * Michelle Pfeiffer - Tzipporah (voice)
 * Sandra Bullock - Miriam (voice)
 * Jeff Goldblum - Aaron (voice)
 * Danny Glover - Jethro (voice)
 * Patrick Stewart - Pharaoh Seti I (voice)
 * Helen Mirren - Queen Tuya (voice)
 * Steve Martin - Hotep (voice)
 * Martin Short - Huy (voice)

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Talk:Charles Otis Whitman

There's no wikipedia article, and the quote is from 1919 when the guy died in 1910. None of this makes sense. Unless some verifiable evidence is given, I'm going to put this up for VfD. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:38, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The book was published posthumously. See the Gould essay cited.  121a0012 18:24, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

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