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User talk:69.135.206.147

Please stop removing content from Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Wikiquote exists for the collecting of notable quotations of famous people and famous works. For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote, and also What Wikiquote is not for a list of common activities that Wikiquote does not support. When people are not interested in responsibly contributing to the development of the project incidents of their deliberate vandalism can result in IP addresses being blocked from editing. Thank you.--Aphaia 00:26, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
''Aphaia, you recently warned me to stop removing content from Wikiquote. Did you take the time to look at the material I removed? I assume you didn't because I removed a duplicate quote...and I'm a little offended that you would warn me after one edit, much less an obviously benevolent one.69.135.206.147 01:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)''
 * NOTE: Originally posted to User talk:Aphaia.

 * Please excuse me for jumping in here. I'm posting this message to the three people involved in this 30 April 2007 edit to Atheism: 69.135.206.147 (who removed a quote without explanation); Écrasez l'infâme (who reverted it, calling it "vandalism"); and Aphaia (who posted a warning message to 69.135.206.147's talk page).

 * 69.135.206.147, please do not remove content without specifying a reason in the edit summary. Vandals routinely do this, but it is not at all unusual for well-meaning editors to do so, too. The latter, however, should not generally remove someone else's effort without a simple explanation (e.g., "rm duplicate quote", "rm unsourced quote from likely unnotable", "rm quote taken out of context", "rm copyvio material", etc.).

 * Écrasez, please do not call simple removal of a quote "vandalism". Vandalism is an unmistakable attempt to deface Wikiquote. Inclusion or exclusion of particular quotes is almost never vandalism, even when the editors fail to include an explanation. The best response to such a removal is to revert it with a more accurate edit summary (e.g., "rv unexplained removal of quote"). Please assume good faith.

 * Aphaia, I think we need to update our warning templates and/or our practices in using them, because it's not a good idea to warn editors who have made only a single contribution that their unexplained removal "is considered vandalism" when it isn't obviously so. Persistent unexplained removals, of course, can be, but even then they're often just content disputes involving someone who is unaware of how to deal with these disputes properly on a wiki. (I know there aren't many of us posting warnings, but I think they should reflect at least one attempt to help rather than scold.)

 * I believe we need to try to work together more instead of reacting negatively so quickly. Thank you for listening. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

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Richard Lewontin

Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. He pioneered the application of techniques from molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis, to questions of genetic variation and evolution, and is considered a leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory.

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 * Lysenkoism is held up by bourgeois commentators as the supreme demonstration that conscious ideology cannot inform scientific practice and that "ideology has no place in science." On the other hand, some writers are even now maintaining a Lysenkoist position because they believe that the principles of dialectical materialism contradict the claims of genetics. Both of these claims stem from a vulgarisation of Marxist philosophy through deliberate hostility, in the first case, or ignorance, in the second. Nothing in Marx, Lenin or Mao contradicts the particular physical facts and processes of a particular set of natural phenomena in the objective world, because what they wrote about nature was at a high level of abstraction. The error of the Lysenkoist claim arises from attempting to apply a dialectical analysis of physical problems from the wrong end. Dialectical materialism is not, and has never been, a programmatic method for solving particular physical problems. Rather, dialectical analysis provides an overview and a set of warning signs against particular forms of dogmatism and narrowness of thought. It tells us, "Remember that history may leave an important trace. Remember that being and becoming are dual aspects of nature. Remember that conditions change and that the conditions necessary to the initiation of some process may be destroyed by the process itself. Remember to pay attention to real objects in space and time and not lose them utterly in idealized abstractions. Remember that qualitative effects of context and interaction may be lost when phenomena are isolated." And above all else, "Remember that all the other caveats are only reminders and warning signs whose application to different circumstances of the real world is contingent."
 * "The Problem of Lysenkoism" by Richard Lewontin and, in Hilary and Steven Rose (eds.), The Radicalisation of Science, Macmillan, 1976, p. 58.

 * It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth, with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun. The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution.
 * "Evolution/Creation Debate: A Time for Truth", BioScience volume 31 (1981), p. 559; Reprinted in J. Peter Zetterberg, editor, Evolution versus Creationism, Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona, 1983.

 * Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call dialectical: that one thing cannot exist without the other, that one acquires its properties from its relation to the other, that the properties of both evolve as a consequence of their interpenetration.
 * The Dialectical Biologist (1985), co-written with Richard Levins, Introduction, p. 3.

 * The great attraction of cultural anthropology in the past was precisely that it seemed to offer such a richness of independent natural experiments; but unfortunately it is now clear that there has been a great deal of historical continuity and exchange among those "independent" experiments, most of which have felt the strong effect of contact with societies organized as modern states. More important, there has never been a human society with unlimited resources, of three sexes, or the power to read other people's minds, or to be transported great distances at the speed of light. How then are we to know the effect on human social organization and history of the need to scrabble for a living, or of the existence of males and females, or of the power to make our tongues drop manna and so to make the worse appear the better reason? A solution to the epistemological impotence of social theory has been to create a literature of imagination and logic in which the consequences of radical alterations in the conditions of human existence are deduced. It is the literature of science fiction. … [S]cience fiction is the laboratory in which extraordinary social conditions, never possible in actuality, are used to illumine the social and historical norm. … Science fiction stories are the Gedanken experiments of social science.
 * "The Last of the Nasties?," The New York Review of Books, 29 February 1996;
 * Review of The Lost World by Michael Crichton

 * With great perception, Sagan sees that there is an impediment to the popular credibility of scientific claims about the world, an impediment that is almost invisible to most scientists. Many of the most fundamental claims of science are against common sense and seem absurd on their face. Do physicists really expect me to accept without serious qualms that the pungent cheese that I had for lunch is really made up of tiny, tasteless, odorless, colorless packets of energy with nothing but empty space between them? Astronomers tell us without apparent embarrassment that they can see stellar events that occurred millions of years ago, whereas we all know that we see things as they happen. (…) Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.
 * "Billions and Billions of Demons" in: The New York Review of Books, 9 January 1997, p. 31
 * Review of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

 * The fallacy of genetic determinism is to suppose that the genes "make" the organism. It is a basic principle of developmental biology that organisms undergo a continuous development from conception to death, a development that is the unique consequence of the interaction of the genes in their cells, the temporal sequence of environments through which the organisms pass, and random cellular processes that determine the life, death, and transformation of cells. As a result, even the fingerprints of identical twins are not identical. Their temperaments, mental processes, abilities, life choices, disease histories, and death certainly differ despite the determined efforts of many parents to enforce as great a similarity as possible.
 * "The Confusion over Cloning," The New York Review of Books, 23 October 1997.
 * Review of Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission by the.

 * The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.
 * "It’s Even Less in Your Genes," The New York Review of Books, 26 May 2011
 * Review of The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture by.

Sex, Lies, and Social Science (1995)

 * "Sex, Lies, and Social Science" in The New York Review of Books, 20 April 1995.

 * The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our lives how impossible that is. How, then, can there be a "social science"? The answer, surely, is to be less ambitious and stop trying to make sociology into a natural science although it is, indeed, the study of natural objects. There are some things in the world that we will never know and many that we will never know exactly. Each domain of phenomena has its characteristic grain of knowability. Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists.

 * It is characteristic of the design of scientific research that exquisite attention is devoted to methodological problems that can be solved, while the pretense is made that the ones that cannot be solved are really nothing to worry about. On the one hand, biologists will apply the most critical and demanding canons of evidence in the design of measuring instruments or in the procedure for taking an unbiased samples of organisms to be tested, but when asked whether the conditions in the laboratory are likely to be relevant to the situation in nature, they will provide a hand-waving intuitive argument filled with unsubstantiated guesses and prejudices because, in the end, that is all they can do.

 * The division between those who try to learn about the world by manipulating it and those who can only observe it had led, in natural science, to a struggle for legitimacy. The experimentalists look down on the observers as merely telling uncheckable just-so stories, while the observers scorn the experimentalists for their cheap victories over excessively simple phenomena. In biology the two camps are now generally segregated in separate academic departments where they can go about their business unhassled by their unbelievers. But the battle is unequal because the observers' consciousness of what it is to do "real" science has been formed in a world dominated by the manipulators of nature. The observers then pretend to an exactness that they cannot achieve and they attempt to objectify a part of nature that is completely accessible only with the air of subjective tools.
 * a reply to critical comments on his article "Sex, Lies and Social Science" in New York Review of Books (4/20/95)].

Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange (1995)

 * "Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange," letter to the editor in The New York Review of Books, 2 November 1995.

 * [T]he psychic and physical characteristics of human beings, and the differences between individuals, are the consequence of an interaction between the genes that are present in the fertilized egg and the sequence of environmental circumstances that the developing organism experiences during its entire life history. With a few exceptions, like cystic fibrosis where possession of the defective genotype leads ineluctably to the disease, or language acquisition where the language spoken depends only on experience and not at all on genotype, human characteristics are all subject to this interaction of forces. There are, moreover, random events in cell growth and differentiation that are neither genetic nor environmental in the usual sense, and which play an extremely important part in development, especially in behavioral traits.

 * An important consequence of the unique interaction between internal and external forces … is that knowledge of genetic differences contains no information at all about whether a characteristic can be changed by environmental and social arrangements. The most elementary error about genetics and development is to suppose that “genetic” is the opposite of “changeable” and that an answer to the question “how much can a trait be changed by social, historical, and individual circumstances” is given by an answer to the question “how important are genes.”

 * Genetics is the study of similarity between relatives, and the problem of human genetics is that, in a species with a family and social structure and a taboo against manipulating individual life histories experimentally, there is a confounding between the similarity of relatives that arises from biological causes and the similarity that arise from social causes.

 * To say that genetic differences are relevant to hetero- and homosexuality is not, however, to say that there are “genes for homosexuality” or even that there is a “genetic tendency to homosexuality.” This critical point can be illustrated by an example I owe to the philosopher of science, Elliott Sober. If we look at the chromosomes of people who knit and those who do not, we will find that with few exceptions, knitters have two X chromosomes, while people with one X and one Y chromosome almost never knit. Yet it would be absurd to say that we had discovered genes for knitting. The possession of two X chromosomes causes an embryo, with rare exceptions, to develop into an anatomical and physiological female, while the possession of a Y chromosome leads almost always to male development, and in our culture women are taught to knit while men are not. The beauty of this example is its historical (and geographical) contingency. Had we made the observations before the end of the eighteenth century (or even now in a few Irish, Scottish and Newfoundland communities), the result would have been reversed. Hand knitting was men’s work before the introduction of knitting machines around 1790, and was turned into a female domestic occupation only when mechanization made it economically marginal.

Quotes about Lewontin

 * Lewontin visited an economics class... a few years ago to talk to the students. In a kind of neo-Darwinian jockeying, he said that evolutionary changes are due to the Fisher-Haldane mechanisms: mutation, emigration, immigration, and the like. ...His elaborate cost-benefit mathematical treatment was devoid of chemistry and biology. I asked him why... when he himself was pointing to serious flaws related to the fundamental assumptions, did he teach such nonsense? ...His response was that there were two reasons: the first was "P.E." …I asked. What is "P.E." …he replied, "P.E. is 'physics envy,'"… His second reason was even more insidious: if he didn't couch his studies in neo-Darwinian style... he wouldn't be able to obtain grant money that was set up to support this kind of work.
 * Lynn Margulis, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ed. John Brockman (1995).

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Larijani (disambiguation)

Larijani may refer to one of the three brothers in Iranian politics:
 * Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran since 2005
 * Mohammad Javad Larijani, a diplomat and a former Majlis member
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User talk:129.96.252.38

- InvisibleSun 08:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

it isn't nonsense, it's vandalism. As the page says, vandalism is not nonsense and nonsense isn't necessarily vandalism. 129.96.252.38 07:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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I'm sorry, but I cannot see you. 129.96.142.10 07:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Incidents of deliberate vandalism have resulted in this IP address being temporarily blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 03:08, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Incidents of deliberate vandalism have resulted in this IP address being temporarily blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 07:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Peter Harriman~enwikiquote

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Bewitched

Bewitched (1964–1972) was an American TV sitcom about the adventures of Samantha Stephens, a witch who, to the dismay of her family, married a mortal man, Darrin Stephens. The series starred Elizabeth Montgomery.

Super Car [3.19]

 * [Endora 'pops' in while Darrin has a day off from work.]
 * Samantha: Mother, Darrin's off today.
 * Endora: I think you're just noticing it for the first time.

The Corn is as High as a Guernsey's Eye [3.20]

 * [Samantha is trying to convince a cow (who she believes to be Aunt Clara) to go to the kitchen. It won't budge.]
 * Samantha: Just because you chose to be a cow doesn't mean you have to be a stupid one.

 * Samantha: You see, everything turns out for the best.
 * Darrin: Yeah, when you're around to give everything a big assist, it does.

The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara [3.21]

 * [Samantha is trying to hide a witches court meeting (attended by Endora, Clara, Enchantra and Hagatha) from Darrin in the other room.]
 * Darrin: I know why you don't want to let me in there.
 * Samantha: You do?
 * Darrin: Mm-hm. I finally figured it out. Ladies club, right?
 * Samantha: Sort of.
 * Darrin: Is it the committee for the bazaar?
 * Samantha: Oh, I'd certainly call them a bizarre committee.

Three Wishes [3.22]

 * Darrin: That was no lady, that was my mother-in-law!

 * Samantha: Darrin, I'm leaving you.
 * Darrin: Sam!
 * Samantha: I'm going home to Mother.
 * Darrin: What do you mean "going home to Mother"? Your mother's always here!

Cousin Serena Strikes Again (Part 1) [5.15]

 * [Referring to Darrin's beautiful, but snobby, client.]
 * Samantha: Personally, I think she should see a plastic surgeon.
 * Darrin: What for?
 * Samantha: To have her nose lowered.

Charlie Harper, Winner [3.26]

 * [After losing to Charlie all day.]
 * Darrin: Believe me honey, I don't feel bad. As a matter of fact, I feel great. I finally beat Charlie at something.
 * Samantha: You said you lost by 12 strokes.
 * Darrin: 11.
 * Samantha: Oh, pardon me.
 * Darrin: But we flipped a coin to see who'd tip the caddy and I won. It cost me ten bucks, but I won.

The Crone of Cawdor [3.27]

 * Samantha: When the earth turns once around the sun, let the crone go forth til the day is done. Another's form she'll take and her form leave, from 6 in the morn til 6 in the eve. And in this guise if she can secure, a willing kiss from a mortal pure. To her will pass the mortal's youth, to him will pass her age forsooth. [Legend of the Crone of Cawdor]

My What Big Ears You Have

 * Darrin: A satisfactory explanation?! You're kidding!
 * Samantha: It's not for me. I trust you implicitly, in spite of my doubts. Mother will not take off that spell until you explain.
 * Darrin: Suppose you explain to me what gives your mother the right to bug my telephone calls.
 * Samantha: Darrin, how can I explain my mother?
 * Darrin (realizing Samantha's point): That's true.

Darrin, Gone and Forgotten [5.4]

 * Samantha: Happy sweetheart?
 * Darrin: Let's see. I've got a beautiful wife. Lovely daughter. Comfortable home. Good job. I guess I'm reasonably happy.
 * Samantha: Why only 'reasonably'?
 * Darrin: I would be ecstatically happy if you were an orphan!
 * Samantha: Another remark like that and I'll be a widow.

 * Samantha: I thought you and mother were getting along rather well lately. You were almost on speaking terms.
 * Darrin: Let's hope it stays 'almost'.

 * Samantha: Now, mother. I'm sorry to have to ask you to do this, but repeat after me ... Spiders that crawl, bats that fly, silence my tongue if I'm telling a lie.

 * [Samantha is trying to figure out who has taken Darrin.]
 * Maurice: Uncle Arthur! That's it! Uncle Arthur is using Darrin for one of his practical jokes.
 * Endora: Well, why would he do a thing like that? Derwood is already a practical joke.

It's So Nice to Have a Spouse Around the House [5.5]

 * [After Darrin yells out loud.]
 * Endora: I've not only lost a daughter, I've gained a bullhorn.

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall [5.6]

 * ''[After Darrin insults Endora]
 * Endora: Fortunately for you, I don't offend easily.
 * Darrin: Let me try a little harder.

 * Samantha: Mr. Haskem, you really should listen to Darrin. He has his finger on the pulse of today.
 * Larry Tate: And his foot on the unemployment line of tomorrow.

Samantha's French Pastry [5.07]

 * ''[Joking about Samantha's unrisen Angel Food Cake]
 * Uncle Arthur: When you cast your spell, you probably faced west when you should of faced 'yeast'.

 * Darrin: I don't believe it. In our living room, in person, sits Napoleon Bonaparte.
 * Samantha: Yeah. You're the only living human being who can say he's had Napoleon Bonaparte as a guest in his house. It's ironic.
 * Darrin: Ironic?
 * Samantha: Yes. Who can you say it to?

Is It Magic Or Imagination? [5.8]

 * ''[Darrin is trying to apologize to Samantha, for accusing her of using witchcraft to win a slogan competition].
 * Darrin: The point is, your slogan was rejected, it was lousy. Which proves it was your imagination!

Samantha Fights City Hall [5.9]

 * Larry Tate: [Laughs] Darrin, you old son of a gun, we've done it again. This Ezyway rent-a-car presentation is a masterpiece.
 * Darrin: Just don't hog all the credit this time, huh, Larry. Let's make it 50-50 right down the line.
 * Larry Tate: Done. I'll even go you one better, Darrin. If HB doesn't like it, it's all yours.

Samantha Loses Her Voice [5.10]

 * ''[Larry explaining why he didn't pick his wife for his volleyball team].
 * Larry Tate: Have you ever seen Louise play volleyball? Her best shot is ducking.

I Don't Want to Be a Toad, I Want to Be a Butterfly [5.11]

 * ''[After Tabitha has changed her classmate into a butterfly].
 * Tabitha: Is this one of those things that's called a problem?
 * Samantha: Not exactly, sweetheart. This is one of those things that's called a catastrophe.

Weep No More My Willow [5.12]

 * Mrs Kravitz: Abner! Darrin Stephens is talking to a strange woman.
 * Mr Kravitz: So what? I'm listening to one.

Samantha's Double Mother Trouble [6.12]

 * [In the backyard, Esmerelda sneezes, which pops Mother Goose out of Tabitha's storybook]
 * Tabitha: Mommy, Mommy!
 * Samantha: [from Tabitha's bedroom window] What is it, sweetheart?
 * Tabitha: Look who's here!
 * Samantha: [shocked] Oh, my goose! It's Mother Stars!

A Plague on Maurice and Samantha [8.9]

 * Maurice: Endora, you have all the charm of a tse-tse fly.

 * [Maurice dismisses his driver (named Yorick), who coughs before disappearing.]
 * Maurice: Alas, poor Yorick. He isn't well.

 * Darrin's client: And Mrs Stephens. You should be very proud of your father. I think he's dynamite.
 * Samantha: Ooh, I do too. And, uh, I never know when he might explode.

Hansel And Gretel In Samanthaland [8.10]

 * Larry Tate: Darren, why are you carrying that leg of lamb?
 * Darrin: Well, in the condition it's in, it couldn't very well walk by itself.

The Warlock In The Grey Flannel Suit [8.11]

 * [After finding out that Endora has cast yet another spell on Darrin.]
 * Samantha: One thing you can say about my mother. She's a mother-in-law.
 * Darrin: The one thing I can say about your mother is censorable.

The Eight-Year Witch [8.12]

 * [After Endora finds photographs of beautiful models in swimsuits in Darrin's briefcase.]
 * Endora: Have you ever heard of the syndrome peculiar to mortal men? The seven year itch? Seven years marriage and it's off with the old and on with the new.
 * Samantha: In case you hadn't noticed, Darrin and I have been married for eight years.
 * Endora: You see, Derwood can't do anything right.

Three Men And A Witch On a Horse [8.13]

 * [Samantha is reading a newspaper betting column. She is trying to dissuade Darrin from betting on the horse.]
 * Samantha: Look at what this fellow says about Count of Valor. "Couldn't beat a fat man up a hill".

 * [Darrin is phoning the betting company to place a bet on a horse.]
 * Darrin: Hello. I'd like to place a bet. My account number is A231. My codename is 'Dog'.
 * Samantha: And so's your horse.

 * [When Count of Valor is at the back of the field in the race.]
 * Samantha: He'll catch up.
 * Larry Tate: Only if they race to Albany.

Adam, Warlock or Washout? [8.14]

 * [Maurice is greeting Samantha.]
 * Maurice: She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies. And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.
 * Samantha: Aw, thank you, Daddy. You and Byron say the cutest things.

 * Endora: Maurice, this exhibition is absurd. Childishly flamboyant and pathetically egomaniacical.
 * Maurice: Thank you, Endora, your charm is ageless. So sad about the rest of you.

 * [Maurice is greeting Tabitha.]
 * Tabitha: Hello, Grandpapa.
 * Maurice: Tabitha! How is my little princess?
 * Tabitha: Fine. I can always tell your voice, Grandpapa.
 * Maurice: Yes, people say it has a unique quality.
 * Tabitha: And it's so loud, too.

 * [Explaining why Adam has not shown any signs of being a warlock.]
 * Maurice: Let me tell you what I think the problem is. This child has been brought up in an atmosphere that has inhibited the growth of his witchcraft.
 * Endora: You see, Samantha's husband - that mortal lamebrain - absolutely forbids the use of witchcraft in this house.
 * Witches Council Representative #1: No.
 * Endora: Yes.
 * Witches Council Representative #2: No!
 * Endora: Yes!
 * Witches Council Representative #1: No!!!
 * Endora: Why do you keep saying 'No' when I keep saying 'Yes'!!!

Samantha is Earthbound [8.16]

 * [After witnessing Samantha and Darrin walking along while hugging each other closely (to prevent Samantha from being lifted into the air!)]
 * Mr. Prescott: That's a pretty squirrely couple
 * Mrs. Prescott: It's called love, Wilbur.
 * Mr. Prescott: Why's he holding her like that?
 * Mrs. Prescott: That is also called love, Wilbur.
 * Mr. Prescott: He's gonna help her dress?
 * Mrs. Prescott: Love, Wilbur!
 * Mr. Prescott: Sick, Selma.

Samantha on Thin Ice [8.18]

 * Darrin: Can you learn to skate normally? From scratch, without witchcraft?
 * Samantha: Why would I want to do that?
 * Darrin: Could you or couldn't you?
 * Samantha: Darrin, why is it you think that witches need witchcraft for everything?
 * Darrin: Not everything. Just everything difficult.
 * [Samantha turns around in a huff!)]
 * Samantha: Well!
 * Darrin: Can you learn to skate the mortal way?
 * Samantha: Are you challenging me?
 * Darrin: Yes
 * Samantha: I accept. And if I can't, I will be more careful in the future about accepting challenges.

Serena's Youth Pill [8.19]

 * Samantha: In gay Paree it's s'il vous plaît, in Germany it's bitte. Please, Serena, come this way, I need a baby sitter.

 * ''[Larry doesn't understand what Louise is getting at!]
 * Larry Tate: Do me a favour, call Berlitz and get me a translator

Tabitha's First Day at School [8.20]

 * Darrin: Is Tabitha ready for school?
 * Samantha: Of course she's ready for school! [pause] The question is, is school ready for Tabitha?

 * Charlton, the bully: What kind of dumb name is Tabitha?
 * Tabitha: It's not a dumb name.
 * Charlton, the bully: How come I've never heard it before?
 * Tabitha: Because you never met anyone named Tabitha!

 * ''[After Charlton keeps insisting that Tabitha turned him into a bullfrog.]
 * Charlton's mom: Why does he keep saying that?
 * Samantha: Well, maybe it's a case of ego identification.
 * Charlton's mom: Yeah. [She thinks for a second.] What's that?
 * Samantha: Well, a bullfrog suggests bully, doesn't it?
 * Charlton's mom: Yes.
 * Samantha: Do you follow me?
 * Charlton's mom: No.
 * Samantha: Children need love and understanding. Without it, they sometimes become overly aggressive and turn into bullies.
 * Charlton's mom: Oh. Charlton, did you really think you were a bullfrog?
 * Charlton, the bully: I WAS a bullfrog.
 * Samantha: Love and understanding, Mrs Rollnick.

 * ''[After Samantha has convinced the bully's mother that he only imagined himself as a bullfrog]
 * Tabitha: Young lady! You have nothing to laugh about, you started this whole mess. Now, how are we gonna deal with you?
 * Tabitha: I have an idea.
 * Tabitha: What's that?
 * Tabitha: How about a little love and understanding?
 * Tabitha: Why is it that I feel like the fox that's been cornered by the chicken!?

George Washington Zapped Here[8.21]

 * [After George Washington sees Abraham Lincoln's face on the $5 bill and his on the $1 bill].
 * George Washington: And who is this bearded fellow?
 * Samantha: That's Abraham Lincoln. The 16th president.
 * George Washington: He must have been a very fine president to have his name honored on a $5 bill.
 * Samantha: He was an excellent president, Sir.
 * George Washington: Better than me?
 * Darrin: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
 * George Washington: Then why is President Lincoln's name on a $5 bill while the father of his country is only on a $1 bill?
 * Samantha: Well, you see, more people can afford $1 bills than $5 bills which means more people see your picture than Abraham Lincoln's.

 * Samantha: Sometimes, it's easier to be led than to lead. And a great many of our citizens prefer to stand on the sidelines and ignore their rights instead of defend them. They're called "The Silent Majority".
 * George Washington: Experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer evils while those evils are sufferable, than to right themselves and abolish those abuses.

 * [Referring to Esmerelda]
 * Darrin: How come you witches can do anything, but you can't come up with a witch psychiatrist for her!

School Days, School Daze [8.23]

 * Samantha: How would you like a drink?
 * Darrin: Sam, just give me the news, without the anesthetic.

A Good Turn Never Goes Unpunished [8.24]

 * Samantha: Just because blondes have more fun doesn't make them brainless, you know?

 * Samantha: Did Larry like it?
 * Darrin: He hated it. Right up until the time that Benson loved it.

Samantha's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse [8.25]

 * [Referring to Dr. Bombay].
 * Samantha: There goes one of the great quackpots of all time.

The Truth, Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Sam [8.26]

 * Samantha: Darrin, don't make mother angry. She's very difficult when she gets angry.
 * Darrin: Since when does she have to be angry to be difficult?
 * Endora: Your right, Derweed. I don't have to be angry to be difficult. [pause] But it helps.
 * Samantha: Oh, Darrin. When are you going to learn that mother knows best. And what mother knows best - is how to be difficult.

 * [The last lines spoken in the series. Darrin is testing the truth spell Endora has cast]
 * Darrin: Honey. You're beautiful, sweet, clever, adorable and I love you madly. [referring to the spell] It works.
 * Samantha: Well, it doesn't work on me. But I love you. And that is the truth, the whole truth and etcetera.

Cast

 * Elizabeth Montgomery - Samantha Stephens
 * Dick York - Darrin Stephens (1964-1969)
 * Dick Sargent - Darrin Stephens (1969-1972)
 * Agnes Moorehead - Endora
 * David White - Larry Tate
 * Erin Murphy - Tabitha Stephens

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We are better to keep it and expand as link directory, as German page? Or better to merge it into categories or Community portal? For a historical note, this page was created years before, then "Community portal" idea may have not been known and category was not supported by MediaWiki. --Aphaia 11:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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Here Wikiquote press releases are found (Wikimedia project press releases can be found at Wikimedia official website). If you are interested in working on press releases, please add your name below.

 * 7 May, 2007 - "Wikiquote, the free compendium of quotations, reaches 10,000th articles in the English edition"

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Wikiquote:Press releases/May 2007

Wikiquote, the free compendium of quotations, reaches 10,000 articles in the English edition

7 May, 2007 (St. Petersburg, Fl) - The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 10,000th article in the English language edition of Wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org), a community-built multilingual  compendium of quotations. The article is for quotes by or about Langdon Smith, and it was started by the Wikiquote contributor whose username is Kalki.

The Wikiquote project itself is going to celebrate its four-year anniversary on June 27. The Wikiquote in the English language edition is the biggest and oldest among all Wikiquote language editions. But the growth is not limited to the English version, as more than 50,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikiquote in over 35 languages. As of yet, thirteen projects including English Wikiquote have more than 1,000 articles: top 5 are English, German, Polish, Italian and Slovak.

The scope of Wikiquote collection is from notable people like Tony Blair to creative works like Lord of the Rings or Latter Days in every language, including sources (where known) and translations of non-English quotes as Rainer Maria Rilke. Besides articles by source, Wikiquote also provides its readers articles by theme.

Wikiquote is a public WikiWikiWeb, a website where anyone can edit any article at any time, similar to its well-known sister project Wikipedia. Users build upon each other's edits, and vandalized articles are quickly repaired by restoring an older version. In Wikiquote's third year, thousands of volunteer editors from around the world have added 2,500 entries to the English version and 15,000 more to the other language editions of Wikiquote.

Since 2004, the English Wikiquote provides a good quotation for readers every day selected from its collection. It is available on its Main Page and also archives.

About Wikiquote
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Rent (film)

Rent was the 2005 film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, Rent, detailing the struggles of a group of young friends in the East Village area of New York City in the late-1980s. The film, directed by Chris Columbus, had most of the original Broadway cast members reprising their original roles, with the exception of the actresses who played Joanne and Mimi. It was released on November 23, 2005.

Roger Davis

 * How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare?
 * You can't wipe out an entire tent city then... watch It's A Wonderful Life on TV!
 * I'm writing one great song before I... oh.
 * Zoom in on my empty wallet.
 * Find glory, beyond the cheap colored lights. One song, before the sun sets. Glory - on another empty life.
 * Glory: in a song that rings true. Truth like a blazing fire, an eternal flame.
 * Find: One song, one last refrain. Glory, of the pretty boy front man. Who wasted opportunity.
 * One song, he had the world at his feet. Glory, in the eyes of a young girl. A young girl...
 * Time flies then no need to endure anymore.
 * I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs.
 * Your sweet whisper, I just can't handle! So take your hair in the moonlight, your brown eyes, goodbye goodnight!
 * You wanna prove me wrong, come back another day!
 * [To Angel, who's knocing the padlock off the door] Watch your fingers.
 * That's a full service woman you got there.
 * It's true you're with this yuppie scum?
 * Mark's got his work, they say Mark lives for his work and Mark's in love with his work. Mark hides in his work.
 * All your words are nice Mimi, but love's not a three way street! You'll never share real love until you love yourself, I should know!
 * I see Mimi everywhere.
 * I hear it, I hear it, I hear it my song!
 * You were the song all along, and before the song dies… I should tell you, I should tell you, I have always loved you. You can see it in my eyes!

Mark Cohen

 * December 24, 9 PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes from it, instead of my old shit.
 * The music ignites the night with passionate fire.
 * There are times, when we're dirt broke and hungry, and I ask myself "What the hell am I still doing here?" and then they call, and I remember...
 * First I got a protest to save.
 * And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song... that doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz."
 * That sleezy news show Buzzline wants to take a meeting.
 * Look, this is not my Bar Mitzvah, give it back to me!
 * [About Maureen committing to Joanne] This can't be happening.
 * Hey, guys, all our shit's back!
 * That drip of hurt, that pint of shame, goes away—just play the game!
 * I see it my film!
 * Alexi? Mark. Call me a hypocrite. I need to finish my own film. I quit!
 * December 24, 1990, 10 PM, Eastern Standard Time. I can't believe a year went by so fast.
 * Hey, Collins, don't get your ass kicked this time!
 * Mutual Masturbation!
 * (With Roger, Collins, Angel, and support group while filming) Will I loose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow, from this nightmare?
 * [In Goodbye Love] (To Roger) Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive!
 * How do you document real life, when real life is getting more like fiction each day?

Mimi Marquez

 * We could light the candle… Oh, what'd you do with my candle!
 * But now and then I like to feel good.
 * Meow... HA!
 * Get up—life's too quick. I know someplace sick, where this chick'll dance in the flames!
 * In the evening I've got to roam—can't sleep in the city of neon and chrome.
 * So let's find a bar, so dark we forget who we are, where all the scars from the nevers and maybes die!
 * I live this moment as my last!
 * No day but today.
 * I'm lookin' for baggage that goes with mine.
 * AZT break...
 * I should tell you—I blew the candle out, just to get back in.
 * Without you, the tides change, the boys run, the oceans crash.
 * The moon glows, the river flows, but I die without you.
 * He was the same way. He was always run away, hit the road, don't commit, you're full of shit!
 * I was heading towards this warm, white light, and I swear… Angel was there. And she looked good.
 * (saying about angel) "... 'I'm more of a man than you will ever be, I'm more of a woman than you will ever get"'

Tom Collins

 * Merry Christmas, bitches!
 * (optional line in place of the previous) Happy Kwanzaa, crackers!
 * 'Oh, hi,' after seven months?
 * They expelled me for my theory of actual reality.
 * That's cute, you still love her.
 * Well I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle, and I'm sick of grading papers, that I know. I'm drowning in my sleep I need a muzzle. And all this misery pays no salary, so…
 * Lets open up a restaurant in Santa Fé! Lovely Santa Fé would be NICE!
 * Yeah, I teach. Computer age philosophy. When my students would rather watch TV.
 * In honor of the death of Bohemia, an impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner - Maureen Johnson, back from her one night performance at the eleventh street lot, will perform Native American tribal chants, backwards, through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello, which she ain't never studied.
 * [To Joanne] You got engagedededed!
 * The benevolent god ushers the poor artists back to their flat. Full story tonight on Buzzline.
 * Hey, it's me! Throw down the key.
 * (cut line) after Mark throws down key Thanks you honk headed albino f***!
 * Come at me bro
 * In truths that she learned/Or in times that he cried/In bridges he burned/Or the way that she died

Angel Dumott Schunard

 * I'm Angel... come on, let's get you cleaned up...
 * But sure as I am here, that dog is now in doggy hell.
 * Back on the street, where I met my sweet, where he was moaning and groaning on the cold concrete. The nurse took him home for some Mercurochrome, then I dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet!
 * Singing! Today for you tomorrow for me! Today for you tomorrow for me!
 * Times are shitty but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse.
 * And Pussy Galore... in person
 * America!

Joanne Jefferson

 * Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
 * Share love, give love, spread love.
 * I'm so mad that I don't know what to do! Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones, and to top it all off, I'm with YOU!
 * You should try it...in heels.
 * [To Maureen] Does everything have to be about you?
 * Don't. You. Dare.
 * I make lists in my sleep, baby, what's my sin?
 * We used to have this fight each night! She'd never admit I existed!
 * Didn't give an inch when I gave a mile!
 * She'd been living on the street. We found her in the park. She wanted to come here.

Maureen Johnson

 * It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed in with fertilizer, and fuel oil, pushed off a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse!
 * Only thing to do is jump over the moon. Over the moon.
 * Hey Mister... she's my sister.
 * TO THE STAGE!
 * What a frickin' sweetheart!
 * I didn't pierce my nipples because it grossed YOU out! I didn't stay at the Kink Club last night because YOU wanted to go home!
 * There will always be women in rubber flirting with me!
 * Don't you want your girl hot?
 * Kiss, Pookie?
 * IIIII gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta gotta.....gotta gotta find a way to jump over the moon!
 * So much more original than any of us. You'd find an old table cloth on the street and make a dress then...then the next year sure enough they'd be mass producing them at the Gap.....you always said how lucky you were that we were all friends.....but it was us baby.....who were the lucky ones....
 * The enemy of Avenue A....we'll stay.
 * Benny? THAT FUCK!

Others
What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting winds of change keep ripping away?
 * Roger and Mark: How do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you're torn apart!
 * Mark, Roger, and Tenants: How can you connect in an age when strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray?
 * Mark's Dad: Look, Mark. I'm sorry that Maureen dumped you. I say, "C'est la vie." Let her be a lesbian! She doesn't know what she's missing!
 * Gordon: Now, I find some of what you teach suspect, because I'm used to relying on intellect. But I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago.
 * All: Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
 * Angel and Collins: I think they meant it, when they said you can't buy love. Now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are, my love.
 * Angel and Collins: With a thousand sweet kisses, I'll cover you.
 * All: Actual reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!
 * All: To people living with, living with, living with... not dying from disease! Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn! La vie Boheme!
 * Alexi Darling: How much did I love your footage? So much, so mu - it reminded me of the Berkley days, fighting the good fight. Kudos, kudos.
 * Maureen's Mom: [to Mark] Maybe now you two can get back together.
 * Joanne and Mimi: I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had! Someone to live for, unafraid to say 'I love you!'
 * Roger and Mark: You're living in America, at the end of the millennium. You're living in America, where it's like The Twilight Zone.
 * Roger and Mark: For once the shadows gave way to light. For once I didn't disengage!
 * Roger and Mark: Dying in America, at the end of the millennium. We're dying in America, to come into our own. And when you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone. I'm not alone!
 * Benny You wanna write songs and produce film? You need somewhere to do it, it's what we use to dream about so think before you poo poo it you'll see boys. You'll see boys!
 * Bohiemians LA VIE BOHÈME!!!!!

Dialogue

 * Mark: Where is he?
 * Collins: Getting dizzy.

 * Benny: Hey, bum, get your ass off the Range Rover.
 * Mark: Hey Benny, that attitude towards the homeless is exactly what Maureen is protesting.
 * Benny: Maureen is protesting losing her performance space. Not my attitude.

 * Benny: She left you? Another guy?
 * Mark: Not exactly...
 * Benny: What's his name?
 * Mark and Roger: Joanne.
 * [Benny cracks up]

 * Mimi: They say I have the best ass below 14th Street. Is it true?
 * Roger: What?
 * Mimi: You're staring again.
 * Roger: Oh no. I mean you do have a nice... I mean --

 * Mimi: Do you want to dance?
 * Roger: With you?
 * Mimi: No, with my father.

 * Collins: Merry Christmas, bitches!
 * Mark: Yeah, fourteen hours later! What the hell happened to you?!

 * Mark: Say something, anything.
 * Joanne: Test one two three...
 * Mark: Anything but that.

 * Joanne: She cheated.
 * Mark: She cheated.
 * Joanne: Maureen cheated.
 * Mark: Fuckin' cheated.

 * Mark: Pookie.
 * Joanne: Shut up.

 * Paul: Then why chose fear?
 * Gordon: I'm a New Yorker: fear's my life

 * Life Cafe Manager: Oh, no. Please, no. No. Not tonight. Please leave.
 * Mark: What are you talking about? Why?
 * Life Cafe Manager: Because you sit here all night and you never order anything.
 * Mark: That's a lie. Just last week I had a tea.
 * Life Cafe Manager: You couldn't pay.
 * Mark: Oh, yeah.
 * Angel: Tonight we can.
 * [Holds up money]
 * Angel: Ka-pow! [To others] Come on.
 * Life Cafe Manager: All right. Fine. Just please don't move the tables!
 * Angel: [Off-screen] Hey, Rosie, let's put these tables together!

 * Roger: Why did Muffy-
 * Benny: Alison!
 * Roger: -miss the show?

 * Angel: Who died?
 * Benny:: Our Akita
 * Roger: and Mark: Evita?
 * [Collins glares]

 * Mark: I sold my soul.
 * Joanne: Yeah, for three grand a segment!

 * Collins: Angel helped us believe in love, I can't believe you disagree.
 * All: I can't believe this is...good bye.

 * Joanne: Take me for what I am.
 * Maureen: A control freak.
 * Joanne: Who I was meant to be.
 * Maureen: A snob yet over attentive.
 * Joanne: And if you give a damn.
 * Maureen: A lovable droll geek.
 * Joanne: Take me baby or leave me.
 * Maureen: AN ANAL RETENTIVE!

 * Mimi: Do you go to the Kat Scratch club? That's where I work I dance.
 * Roger: YES! They use to tie you up!
 * Mimi: It's a living.
 * Roger: I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs

Deleted Scenes

 * Mark: Why our entire year's strewn on the cutting room floor of memory...
 * Mark: Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that is the end, and I'm alone?
 * Benny: I always hated that dog.
 * Roger: Mark has got his work. They say Mark lives for his work. And Mark's in love with his work. Mark hides in his work.
 * Mimi: Goodbye love, just came to say, goodbye love.
 * Mimi: Goodbye love, hello disease.

 * Mark: Must be nice to have money.
 * Mimi and Collins: No shit.
 * Collins: You owe me a beer.
 * Mimi: I'll give you a cigarette.

 * Roger: Mimi's got her baggage too.
 * Mark: So do you.

 * Roger: You're always preaching not to be numb, when that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe, when you really detach from feeling alive.
 * Mark: Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive.
 * Roger: Poor baby.

 * Roger: I'll call (opens door Mimi stood listening) You heard?
 * Mimi: Every word. You don't want baggage without lifetime guarantees. You don't to watch me die I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, came to say goodbye love goodbye

 * Angel: My cat had a fall and I went through hell.
 * Benny: Yeah, its like losing a......how do you know she fell?

(Angel looks uneasy, she turns away and sits next to Collins turning to look to check if Benny has left then she and Collins burst out laughing!

 * Mark Forever flicker in closeup on the 3D Imax of my mind...that's poetic...(sigh)that's pathetic!

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Saikano

Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet (最終兵器彼女, Saishū Heiki Kanojo?, lit. She, the Ultimate Weapon) is a manga, anime, and OVA series by Shin Takahashi, about a high school girl who has been turned into an ultimate weapon against her will, seen as the last hope for defending Japan from imminent invasion. The series revolves around her relationship with her boyfriend and her fading humanity.

We're Going to Fall in Love [1.1]

 * Shuji:Thinking back now, How many times have I come here since that day? I was the only one in this town...in this country. no the only one on this planet who loved my little girlfriend, Chise. This is...*sigh*...was our special place! It was here on that day our love first begin! In a middle of nowhere town like this, there isn’t a whole lot to do. And we didn’t have any plans for the future. But one thing that was for certain, the two of us would fall in love.

Together, Alone [1.3]

 * Chise:Shuji, You’ve been really nice to me lately, but it worries me seeing you smile so often! Every time I see you with that forced smile, it makes me want to vanish and disappear! Why did I have to become like this? Did I do something bad? Is this some kind of punishment? Since the fact that I’ve become an ultimate weapon is a secret, its been really hard not being able to talk to anybody about it. That’s why back on that day I...Because what happen to my body! I didn’t want you to see me like Shuji! I was happy and at the same time really sad seeing you be so nice to me! And so you don’t have to lie anymore! I’m going to be stronger! Even more than I am now! Stronger! So don’t worry! It was only for a short while, but thank you for going out with me! I’m sorry!!!

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Talk:Intellectual property

Lawrence Lessig?
Being that he is the founder of Creative Commons, and has written extensively on reforming Copyright laws, I'm surprised not to see any quotations by him here.

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User talk:64.8.58.90

- InvisibleSun 18:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 1, 2007

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles. ~ Joseph Addison

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Syria

Syria (Arabic: سوريا/سورية), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. The modern state of Syria attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1946, but can trace its roots to the fourth millennium BC; its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Empire.

A

 * Syria is a melting pot. It existed like this, like it is today because it is a melting pot with multifarious cultures for centuries, before Christianity and after Christianity, before Islam and after Islam. If you have any change, dramatic change, in the demographic and social fabric of the Syrian society, you're going to have a big problem in the future regarding the future of Syria.
 * President Bashar al-Assad, The Syria Times, "President Al-Assad to Rai News 24: I will take my country to the shore –not to abandon the ship and the Syrian people" (29 September 2013).

B

 * While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2 million by the summer of 1915, the extermination of innocent civilians in Turkey (the Armenians, but also Syrian and Assyrian Christians and large portions of the Greek population, especially the Greeks of Pontos, or Black Sea region) was reaching 1 million.
 * Peter Balakian, The Burning Tigris, p. 285-286

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 * Few who watched the Syrian revolution rise and unfold thought back to 1979, but the echoes would be obvious in hindsight—except everything was worse, as though all the players picked up where they had left off after the jihad in Afghanistan, or the Iran-Iraq War, or the 2003 Iraq War. The son of Sa’id Hawwa, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, was involved; Surur, author of the Magi book, was playing a key role rallying the Islamists; even the son of Arif Hussaini, the assassinated Pakistani allama, would show up in Damascus to meet Shia fighters. With appetites sharpened, everyone returned to the battle with renewed vengeance. There would be rivers of blood, millions displaced, millions of refugees. The war in Syria would break the Middle East. It would break the world. But first, it would destroy the lives of men like Yassin. In the fluid chaos of the revolution, he couldn’t know all the details about the forces lurking in the background. He focused on the possibilities, on the Syrianness of the revolution and the goodness in Syrians’ hearts; on the belief in the righteousness of their cause and their call for basic freedoms.
 * Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020)

H

 * Syria, using the term in its old, geographical sense, occupies a unique place in the annals of the world. Especially because of the inclusion of Palestine and Phoenicia within its ancient boundaries, it has made a more significant contribution to the moral and spiritual progress of mankind than any other comparable land. Small as it appears on a map or a globe, its historical importance is boundless, its influence universal.
 * , Syria: A Short History (1959), p. 1.

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 * The Arab conquest of Syria in 632–42 was one of the most astonishing accomplishments of its age. In the first place it finally and permanently cut off an eastern wing of the Byzantine Empire, which had been Roman territory for nearly seven hundred years; the border of Byzantium was now pushed back to the Amanus Mountains on the eastern edge of Asia Minor, beyond which it would seldom reach for the rest of the Middle Ages. Much more significantly, though, Syria was one of the first major triumphs of a new power that was about to sweep across the world, branching out to the borders of China and the Atlantic seaboard of Europe, establishing an Islamic state that covered more than twelve million square kilometers. Between Muhammad’s death and the collapse of the Umayyad caliphate in 750, Arab armies appeared everywhere from central Asia, through the Middle East and north Africa, throughout the Visigothic Iberian Peninsula, and even into southern France. They imposed Islamic governments and introduced new ways of living, trading, learning, thinking, building, and praying. The capital of the vast caliphate they established would be Damascus itself, crowned with its Great Mosque—one of the masterpieces of medieval architecture anywhere in the world.
 * Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (2021)

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 * Today, Bashar Al-Assad is playing the role of the son of the Levanter, offering his services to any would-be buyer through interviews with whoever passes through the corner of Damascus where he is hiding. At first glance, the Levanter may appear attractive to those engaged in sordid games. In the end, however, the Levanter must betray his existing paymaster in order to begin serving a new one. Four years ago, Bashar switched to the Tehran-Moscow axis and is now trying to switch back to the Tel-Aviv-Washington one that he and his father served for decades. However, if the story has one lesson to teach, it is that the Levanter is always the source of the problem, rather than part of the solution. ISIS is there because almost half a century of repression by the Assads produced the conditions for its emergence. What is needed is a policy based on the truth of the situation in which both Assad and ISIS are parts of the same problem.
 * Amir Taheri, "Opinion: Like Father, Like Son", Ashraq Al-Awsat (20 February 2015)

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 * Since 1961, Syria has been ruled by the Ba'ath Party, the same party that ruled Iraq until the fall of Saddam Hussein. Bashar al-Assad inherited the leadership of Syria from his father Hafiz al-Assad, in 2000. Bashar is the balancing point among the various Syrian power forces, including the military, the intelligence service, the nation's ruling party, and the government bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the people of Syria are not free to express their political opinions, much less choose their leaders.
 * David Wallechinsky, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006), p. 2

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Mini Golf Master 2

Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 22:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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I don't see anything memorable or worth keeping on this page. ~ UDScott 20:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed early: Speedy delete as nonsense. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 22:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. ~ UDScott 20:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Talk:G. I. Gurdjieff

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Can this section be changed to be more specific, as there is a big difference between who Ouspensky was to Gurdjieff, and what the rest of those figures are/were. Aeuio 20:21, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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 * A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

 * Beware of someone who wants to teach you something.

 * If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt... It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

 * Patience is the mother of will.

 * Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

 * Take the "wisdom" of the East and the '"energy" of the West and then seek.

 * There are two struggles — inner-world struggle and outer-world struggle, but never can these two make contact, to make data for the third world. Not even God gives this possibility for contact between inner- and outer-world struggles; not even your heredity. Only one thing — you must make intentional contact between outer-world struggle and inner-world struggle; only then can you make data for the Third World of Man, sometimes called World of the Soul.

 * Those who have not shown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

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 * The following line with the first sentence in all caps was removed:
 * KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ARE QUITE DIFFERENT. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it."
 * & replaced with same quote - as it appears (not in caps) on p. 244 with a few more words to make the meaning easier for readers to understand:

Trust that move is ok with all who may be concerned & if it isn't that you'll change it. Om777om (talk) 16:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * "Yes, Professor, knowledge and understanding are quite different. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old and the result is, as it were, a pouring from the empty into the void."

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User talk:206.165.219.1

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User talk:Beecheese~enwikiquote

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!-- Aphaia 20:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:42, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Vandlebury

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  21:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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title: User talk:Vandlebury


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User talk:SexiiT

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  21:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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title: User talk:SexiiT


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User talk:Amaan 2020

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  21:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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User talk:Michaelio

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  21:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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User talk:Moorisonhotel

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  21:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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title: User talk:Moorisonhotel


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User talk:Brobabe

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy!  Cbrown1023  talk  21:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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title: User talk:Brobabe