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Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923), born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, was a New Zealand poet and writer of short fiction, who wrote under the name Katherine Mansfield.

Quotes

 * Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.
 * Letter to Sylvia Payne (24 April 1906), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (1984-1996), vol. I

 * To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
 * Journal entry, "Reading Notes" (1905-1907), quoted in Ruth Elvish Mantz and John Middleton Murry, The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1933), p. 212

 * To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
 * Letter to Bertrand Russell (7 December 1916), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I

 * It's a terrible thing to be alone — yes it is — it is — but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath — as terrible as you like — but a mask.
 * Letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I

 * If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.
 * "Love and Mushrooms," journal entry (1917), published in More Extracts from a Journal, ed. J. Middleton Murry, in The Adelphi (1923), p. 1068

 * I'm a writer first & a woman after.
 * Letter to John Middleton Murry (3 December 1920), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. IV

 * I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
 * "Je ne parle pas français," from Bliss and Other Stories (1920)

 * Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This is what I must do.
 * Journal entry (19 December 1920), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry

 * It's an infernal nuisance to love Life as I do. I seem to love it more as time goes on rather than less. It never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I do hope I'll be able to keep in it long enough to do some really good work. I'm sick of people dying who promise well.
 * Letter to Anne Estelle Rice (21 May 1921)), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. IV

 * Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.
 * Journal entry (29 January 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
 * Letter to Ottoline Morrell (January 1922)

 * Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
 * Journal entry (July 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun. All that we mean when we speak of the external world. A want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it’s no good — there’s only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun. About helping others, about carrying a light and so on, it seems false to say a single word. Let it be at that. A child of the sun.
 * Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) ed. J. Middleton Murry

 * Warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. … This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I feel happy — deep down. All is well.
 * Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry

 * Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
 * Letter to John Middleton Murry (11 October 1922), from The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry (1928)

 * When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
 * Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
 * Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
 * Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That's no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
 * Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * When I say "I fear" — don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.
 * Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)

 * This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy — deep down. May you be happy too. I'm going to Fontainebleau on Monday and I'll be back here Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. All is well.
 * Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927); these are the final words of the journal

 * Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
 * Quoted in A. R. Orage, "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau," The Century Magazine (November 1924)

 * I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
 * As quoted in Katherine Mansfield : A Biography (1953) by Antony Alpers, p. 266

 * The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. I want to find a world in which these instances are united. Shall I succeed? I scarcely care. What is important is to try & learn to live, and in relation to everything – not isolated. This isolation is death to me.
 * Letter to S. S. Koteliansky, as quoted in "Always my thoughts & feelings go back to New Zealand" by Vincent O'Sullivan, in NZ Listener Vol 214 No 3556, (July 5-11 2008)

 * I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
 * Quoted in Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L.M. (1972; digitized 2006), p. 178. L.M. was Lesley Morris, the pseudonym of Mansfield's friend Ida Baker.

Misattributed

 * Once we have learned to read, the meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
 * Anthony Marcel, Ph.D, Cambridge University, quoted in Speed Reading - Harness Your Computer's Power to Triple Your Reading Speed (2005) by Louis Crowe, p. 18

 * Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
 * Sally Poplin, as quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 170

 * The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.
 * This has been attributed to Mansfield on the internet, but no published source by her or any other author has been located.

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Debate

Debate is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument.

Quotes

 * [There exists a] profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.
 * , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, (1964)

 * [In] democratic societies … the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to control what you think. … One of the ways you control what people think is by creating the illusion that there's a debate going on, but making sure that that debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure that both sides in the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system. As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system, then you can have a debate.
 * Noam Chomsky, Chronicles of Dissent; Propaganda in the US vs in the USSR (24 October 1986)

 * The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
 * Noam Chomsky, The Common Good, (1998)

 * I never knew any debatable point not maintained on both sides by unanswerable arguments...
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, Vol. II, Chapter 21  (1831)

 * For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Gresham's law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.
 * Walter Lippmann, Essays in the Public Philosophy (1955), chapter 9, section 3, p. 129–30.

 * An entire generation is experiencing a crisis of free speech, of authenticity, and of honesty to oneself and one’s values. For every member of... that 62 percent of young people self-censoring, for every constructive debate that never happens, for every brilliant idea that never gets voiced, it amounts to a true tragedy. Generation Z deserves permission to engage with controversial topics and to lean into ambiguity. The realm of discomfort is where growth and discovery occur. As we come of age, we need the freedom to fumble, and the reasonable expectation of grace and forgiveness when we do. Unless our society abandons its censorious tendencies, it will yield a generation unable to speak freely, to take risks, or even just to be authentic.
 * Rikki Schlott, "Generation Z’s Silent Free Speech Crisis" (April 4, 2021)

 * I yield to no man—if I may borrow that majestic parliamentary phrase—I yield to no man in my belief in the principle of free debate, inside or outside the halls of Congress. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. But there is also, it seems to me, a moment at which democracy must prove its capacity to act. Every man has a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal cords.
 * Adlai Stevenson, speech to the state committee of the Liberal party, New York City (August 28, 1952); in The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson (1974), vol. 4, p. 63.

 * Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
 * Gertrude Stein
 * First written as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College (1895); "The Radcliffe Manuscripts", Form and Intelligibility (1949)
 * Ignorantia non est argumentum.
 * Translation: Ignorance is no argument.
 * Baruch Spinoza, Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata et in quinque parses distincta, Part 1, Addendum; Amsterdam, 1677.
 * Originally used to oppose traditional theological views that everything exists and is determined by divine intervention because no other plausible reason or explanation is seen.

 * In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.
 * John Paul Stevens, (, 2007).

 * To me "bipartisan foreign policy" means a mutual effort, under our indispensable two-Party system, to unite our official voice at the water's edge so that America speaks with maximum authority against those who would divide and conquer us and the free world. It does not involve the remotest surrender of free debate in determining our position. On the contrary, frank cooperation and free debate are indispensable to ultimate unity. In a word, it simply seeks national security ahead of partisan advantage. Every foreign policy must be totally debated... the "loyal opposition" is under special obligation to see that this occurs.
 * Arthur H. Vandenberg, The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg, ed. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., p. 552–53 (1952).

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Talk:Thomas Paine

Quotes
"Man cannot make or invent or contrive principles. He can only discover them and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author." --Thomas Paine 1797

Human Defined: Earth's Choicemaker - paradigm http://www.choicemaker.net/ (Christian advocacy link, placed here by IP 67.227.12.72)

This link has no bearing on the page, is not part of a running discussion and should be removed.

 * I restored the above statements made by an anonymous contributor because, unless there are violations of either laws or rules, it is not a good idea to censor the talk pages. They should be open to far more POV discussions and commentary than the articles are. ~ Kalki 22:52, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Other quote from Thomas Paine: "The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originaly payed to the sun." 82.73.49.40 14:47, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Capitalisation
What's going on with the capitalisation - is it present in the original texts?

 * I just have a few moments to check in right now... but yes, eccentric capitalization (and other typographic effects) were extensively used in the early pamphlets. ~ Kalki 00:41, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

What we might call "eccentric" capitalization was, at that time, correct and proper written English. See any history of the English or American language.

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 * The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage the keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property....Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived the use of them.
 * Writings of Thomas Paine at 56 (1894)

 * Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Cheers! BD2412 T 03:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The second of these quotes is already sourced under Common Sense; the first quote is found, not in its entirety and without the same wording, among the unsourced quotes. - InvisibleSun 03:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property...Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

 * Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

~ The Forester's Letters Number 3 (April 22, 1776) http://www.bartleby.com/184/117.html
 * He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

 * I care not a straw for the opinions of the world.

 * It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
 * found: https://archive.org/stream/lifewritingsofth05pain#page/208/mode/2up

 * It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
 * According to the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, this has been misattributed to Paine and is definitely not his quote. http://thomaspaine.org/aboutpaine/did-paine-write-these-quotes.html

 * Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

 * That government is best which governs least.
 * Attributed to Jefferson by Thoreau, this statement is used in his essay on civil disobedience, but the quote has not been found in Jefferson's own writing and the statement may well have originated with Thoreau himself. It is also commonly attributed to Paine, perhaps because of its similarity in theme to many of his well-documented expressions, such as "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"  and "security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others."   According to the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, this is not a Paine quote.  http://thomaspaine.org/aboutpaine/did-paine-write-these-quotes.html

 * The greatest threat to our [democratic] experiment will not come from those who would openly oppose us, but those who will silently follow us.

 * The study of theology as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and admits of no conclusion.
 * Alphaman 19:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Not unsourced. This is from The Age of Reason. Pt II, Ch 3.  Since I have a source, I'm adding it to the appropriate section.

 * You can't conquer an idea with an army.
 * Is this a very loose paraphrase of "An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot" (in Agrarian Justice, ¶ 69)? --Hughh (talk) 22:40, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

 * He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Misattributions (unsourced)

 * Lead, follow, or get out of the way
 * commonly misattributed[by whom?] to Paine; cannot be found anywhere in his writings
 * Will Rogers quote in reference to his father's teachings**

Exact words?
in: "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." ~ Thomas Paine - should that be "reach unto himself" as I've seen some places? Is the quote edited to modern english? does anyone have the exact old wording? thanks for any info.

 * This edition of Dissertation on first-principles of government, published in the "Third Year of the French Republic" (1795?), has it as "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself" (p. 32). --Hughh (talk) 22:59, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Curious emphasis
Thomas Paine (29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809) was an English political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas that led to the American revolution and declaration of independence. He claimed American citizenship (a court later rejected his claim) and was given French citizenship. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century

- In the minuscule information on Paine provided the emphasis was on his citizenship and not a word on what his main contribution actually achieved and thus what he is ultimately known for. It kind of leads to a feeling of a weasle tactic, wether intended or not. Besides, the emphasis on citizenship and allegiance is thoroughly discredited when one considers Paine's work.

 * I have trimmed the introduction accordingly: It is enough to identify the subject and indicate why he is notable. ~ Ningauble 13:04, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Without the pen of Paine
The folowing analysis of the attribution of the quote, "Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain," was originally posted in the article by IP user 76.218.105.79:

 * Here is further research:

 * It is commonly believed that John Adams made this quotation. However, John Adams did not ever say this. The first usage of a phrase similar to this is ascribed, not with complete certainty, to Joel Barlow in the 1790s, who did not say this quotation exactly. The quotation became apocryphal by the 1820s.

 * The following shows the various usages of this quotation, and tries to trace whether John Adams actually ever said or wrote it.

 * ON JOEL BARLOW:

 * From an 1892 text -- full citation: "The Life of Thomas Paine," By Moncure Daniel Conway, New York/ London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892, p. 63 (from Questia online database):

 * "An original copy of Paine's excise pamphlet (1792) in my possession contains a note in pencil, apparently contemporary, suggesting that the introduction was written by Barlow. In this introduction--probably by Barlow, certainly by a competent observer of events in America--it is said: 'On this celebrated publication ["Common Sense"], which has received the testimony of praise from the wise and learned of different nations, we need only remark (for the merit of every work should be judged by its effect) that it gave spirit and resolution to the Americans, who were then wavering and undetermined, to assert their rights, and inspired a decisive energy into their counsels: we may therefore venture to say, without fear of contradiction, that the great American cause owed as much to the pen of Paine as to the sword of Washington.' "

 * Note that while this author can't be certain it was Joel Barlow, he said in an article seven years later (1899, The Arena) that this introduction has been "justly ascribed to Joel Barlow." He also said that "At the close of the American Revolution, it became a proverb, that independence had been achieved equally by the sword of Washington and the pen of Paine."

 * EARLIEST JOHN ADAMS ATTRIBUTIONS

 * [1902] The earliest attribution I can find to John Adams is from 1902, in a Topeka KS newspaper, and it is quite different: "The sword of Washington would have been powerless without the pen of Paine." (American Historical Newspapers database)

 * [1938] A book review in 1938 that claims John Adams said, "History is to ascribe to Paine the Revolution. Washington's sword would have been wielded in vain, had it not been supported by the pen of Paine." (Citation: # C. G. Woodson The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct., 1938), pp. 487-489). (JSTOR)

 * WORKS OF JOHN ADAMS - QUOTATION DOES NOT EXIST:

 * I've searched all 10 volumes of The Works of John Adams, published between 1850-56 and edited by his son, Charles Adams, using the Stanford Law Library electronic version. In all 10 volumes, there is no mention of anything even close to this quotation.

 * Indeed, the 1938 review above misquotes Adams, who does say "And yet history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine! " However, in context the phrase seems ironic, though not quite laudatory, and it contains no mention of the addendum. In the letter to Jefferson of June 22, 1819, he says, "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass is Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' in comparison with this paper [the Raleigh Register Declaration of Independence]!...And yet history is to ascribe the Revolution to Thomas Paine! Sat verbum sapienti."

 * EARLIEST USAGE

 * These are the earliest usages a search of various databases could find, and none attributes it either to Barlow or Adams; it appears to be apocryphal to these users.

 * [1829] On Tom Paine's birthday in 1829, a friend, Mr. James McElroy, gave a speech which was printed in The Correspondent. He said: "...It is already a matter of history, which has long since briefly, but beautifully, expressed the value of those services in acknowledgment that 'Americans owe their liberties scarcely less to the pen of Paine than to the sword of Washington....'" (ProQuest)

 * [1835] In 1835 an article in the Workinman's Advocate said that it was a "standard toast" on the anniversary of the Revolution to say (among other toasts), "The Memory of Thomas Paine -- The literary champion of freedom, whose pen was no less powerful than the sword of Washington. Mankind owe him a debt of gratitude." (ProQuest)

 * [1856] In an 1856 New York Tribune does not cite this as a quotation. "Liberals should not be backward in paving this patriotic tribute, for they are aware that the American Revolution received as much aid from the pen of Thomas Paine as from the sword of Washington." (American Historical Newspapers database)

 * [1899] An 1899 article from the Time Picayune says that this saying became a "proverb." (American Historical Newspapers database)

End of analysis moved from article. ~ Ningauble 15:12, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

“He who is the author of a war
“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death”

anyone know if this one is bona fide?

It is found in "The American Crisis" pt. 5, "TO GEN. SIR WILLIAM HOWE," which can be found here

 * Thank you. 46.15.64.90 21:03, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Peace quote
"Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence." attributed to ~Thomas Paine

anyone know if this one is bona fide?

 * Hi, this quote is from Paine's Rights of Man, and I've just added it to the article; thanks for pointing it out. ~ DanielTom (talk) 11:47, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Variation
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

is sometimes quoted as:

"Those who reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." NoToleranceForIntolerance (talk) 00:54, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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W. Clement Stone

William Clement Stone (4 May 1902 – 3 September 2002) was an American businessman, author, and philanthropist; an advocate of what he called "PMA": Positive Mental Attitude. Beginning with meager material resources he became a multi-millionaire, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lived to be 100.
 * See also: Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) (co-authored with Napoleon Hill)

Quotes

 * 'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific
 * Daily mantra for positive self-suggestion which he recommended in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) and his teachings.

 * Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
 * As quoted in Teen Ink : What Matters (2003) by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer, and Peggy Veljkovic, p. 309

 * Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
 * As quoted in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without : 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (2006) by Glenn Shepard

 * All I want to do is change the world!
 * As quoted in Open Question Selling: Unlock Your Customer's Needs to Close the Sale (2007) by Val Gee and Jeff Gee, p. 66

Be Generous!

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 * Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes — give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give.

 * Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give — the more you will have!

 * Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) — and you’ll smile and receive smiles...

 * Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) — you will be kind and receive kind words.

 * Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) — you will be worthy and richly rewarded.

 * Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

 * Give encouragement (the incentive to action) — you will have courage and be encouraged.

 * Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) — you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.

 * Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) — you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.

 * Be generous! Give!

Misattributed

 * Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
 * Actually said by Napoleon Hill, Stone later added the line "...with P.M.A." (Positive Mental Attitude) to the end of this quote.

 * Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
 * As quoted in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 199
 * also attributed to Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and Les Brown (1912–2001)

title: W. Clement Stone


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Cheryl James

Cheryl James (born 28 March 1966) is an American rap / hip-hop artist known as "Salt" of the group Salt-n-Pepa.

Quotes

 * What's the matter with your life? Why you gotta mess with mine?
 * "None of Your Business"

 * The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee So hold your tongue tightly, wish you could be like me You're poppin' all that mess only to stress and to spite me Now you can get with that or you can get with this But I don't give a shit cuz really it's none of your business.
 * "None of Your Business"

 * No, I ain't hard like the bitches on a boulevard My face ain't scarred, and I don't dance in bars. You can call me a tramp if you want to But I remember the punk who just humped and dumped you.
 * "None of Your Business"

 * So the moral of this story is: Who are you to judge? There's only one true judge, and that's God So chill, and let my Father do His job.
 * "None of Your Business"

title: Cheryl James


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Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960) is a self-help book written by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill.

Quotes

 * This book is dedicated to Andrew Carnegie whose motto was "Anything in life worth having is worth working for!" and to THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING PERSON.
 * Dedication Page

 * "Don't ever let me hear you say that it is God's Will that we are poor. We are poor — not because of God."
 * Quoting the mother of Samuel B. Fuller, in Ch. 1 : Meet the Most Important Living Person. This statement is sometimes misattributed to Stone.

 * "If you know what you want you are more apt to recognize it when you see it."
 * Quoting Samuel B. Fuller, in Ch. 1; this statement is sometimes misattributed to Stone.

 * Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
 * A maxim of Napoleon Hill, in Ch. 1

 * Unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying. Success is attained and maintained by those who keep trying with PMA.
 * PMA was an abbreviation of Postive Mental Attitude used throughout the book, Ch. 1

 * What you try for is up to you.
 * Ch. 1

 * Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
 * Ch. 2 : You Can Change Your World.

 * You are what you think. But what do you think? How orderly are your thought processes? How straight is your thinking?
 * Ch. 3 : Clear the Cobwebs from Your Thinking

 * I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!
 * A daily mantra Stone recommended for positive self-suggestion, in Ch. 14 : How to Find Satisfaction in Your Job

 * Develop an obsession — a Magnificent Obsession — to help others. Share yourself without expecting a reward, payment, or commendation. And above all else — keep your good turn a secret. And, if you do this, you will set in motion the powers of a universal law. For, try as you will to avoid payment for your good deed — blessings and rewards will be showered upon you.
 * Ch. 15 : Your Magnificent Obsession

 * No matter who you are you can have a Magnificent Obsession. Every living person can help others by sharing a part of himself. You don't have to be rich or powerful to develop a Magnificent Obsession. Regardless of who you are, or what you have been, you can create inside yourself a burning desire to be helpful to others.
 * Ch. 15 : Your Magnificent Obsession

 * Your most preciously valued possessions and your greatest powers are often necessarily invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone can share them. The more you share, the more you will have.
 * Ch. 15

 * ''Share that which is good and desirable and withhold that which is bad and undesirable.
 * Ch. 15

 * Be a part of a great cause!
 * Ch. 15

 * A Magnificent Obsession will conquer despite the obstacles that stand in its way!
 * Ch. 15

 * You live longer with a Magnificent Obsession!
 * Ch. 15

 * The price of ignorance is sin, sickness and death.
 * Ch. 17 : You Can Enjoy Good Health and Live Longer

 * There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
 * Ch. 18 : Can You Attract Happiness?

 * One of the surest ways to find happiness for yourself is to devote your energies toward making someone else happy. Happiness is an elusive, transitory thing. And if you set out for it, you willl find it evasive. But if you try to bring happiness to someone else, then it comes to you.
 * Ch. 18


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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 film about a Chicago high school student who decides to take the day off from school with his girlfriend and his best friend, while creatively avoiding his school's dean of students, his resentful younger sister, and his parents.
 * Written and directed by John Hughes.

One Man's Struggle to Take It Easy Taglines

Ferris Bueller

 * [after his parents have left, thinking he is ill] They bought it. Incredible! One of the worst performances of my career and they never doubted it for a second. How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this? This is my ninth sick day this semester. It's getting pretty tough coming up with new illnesses. If I go for ten, I'm probably gonna have to barf up a lung, so I'd better make this one count. The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom. I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh, you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. That's worse than school. You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.

 * Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. I do have a test today, that wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean really, what's the point. I'm not European. I don't plan on being European, so who gives a crap if they're socialists. They could be fascist anarchists and it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

 * It's not that I condone fascism or any 'ism' for that matter. Ism's, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an 'ism,' he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: 'I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me.' A good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off of people.

 * If anybody needs a day off it's Cameron. He's got a lotta things to sort out before he graduates. He can't be wound up this tight and go to college. His roommate'll kill him. Pardon my French, but Cameron is so uptight, if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in 2 weeks, you'd have a diamond.

 * Cameron has never been in love - at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.
 * [after he barely gets back in bed, and his parents leave the room] Yep. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
 * [last line; in post-credits scene] [to home audience; after emerging from his bedroom] You're still here? It's over. Go home. [walks back to his bedroom; shoos audience away] Go.

Jeanie Bueller

 * [on the phone after her encounter with Rooney] Look, this is not a phony phone call. There is an intruder, male, Caucasian, possibly armed, certainly weird, in my kitchen. My name's Bueller. [pause] Look, it's real nice that you hope my brother's feeling better, but I'm in danger. Okay? I'm very cute, I'm very alone, and I'm very protective of my body. I do not want it violated or killed! All right?! I need help! [pause again] Speak any English?! [hangs up] DICK HEAD!
 * [discovers that Ferris has been faking being sick and sneaking out of the house by finding a mannequin in his bed] I KNEW IT!!!

Dialogue

 * Economics Teacher: [takes attendance] Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
 * Simone: Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
 * Teacher: Thank you, Simone.
 * Simone: No problem whatsoever.
 * Teacher: [continues with attendance] Frye? Frye? Frye?

 * Rooney: [on the phone with Ferris' mother] Are you also aware, Mrs. Bueller, that Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record?
 * Katie: I don't understand.
 * Rooney: He has missed an unacceptable number of school days. In the opinion of this educator, Ferris is not taking his academic growth seriously. Now I've spent my morning examining his records. If Ferris thinks that he can just coast through this month and still graduate, he is sorely mistaken. I have no reservation whatsoever about holding him back another year. [snickers]
 * Katie: This is all news to me.
 * Rooney: It usually is. So far this semester he has been absent 9 times.
 * Katie: 9 times?
 * Rooney: 9 times.
 * Katie: I don't remember him being sick 9 times.
 * Rooney: That's probably because he wasn't sick. He was skipping school. Wake up and smell the coffee, Mrs. Bueller. It's a fool's paradise. He is just leading you down the primrose path.
 * Katie: I can't believe it.
 * Rooney: I've got it right here in front of me. He has missed 9 days.
 * [his computer screen begins counting down from 9 to 2; Ferris is at home looking at the same screen on his computer]
 * Ferris: [to the home audience] I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?

 * Rooney: I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him.
 * Grace: Well, with your bad knee, Ed, you shouldn't throw anybody. [he looks at Grace] It's true.
 * Rooney: What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas.
 * Grace: Uh huh.
 * Rooney: Last thing I need at this point in my career is 1,500 Ferris Bueller disciples running around these halls. He jeopardizes my ability to effectively govern this student body.
 * Grace: Well, he makes you look like an ass, is what he does, Ed.
 * Rooney: Thank you, Grace. I think you're wrong.
 * Grace: Oh, well, he's very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads — They all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
 * Rooney: That is why I have got to catch him this time. To show these kids that the example he sets is a first-class ticket to nowhere.
 * Grace: Oh, Ed, you sounded like Dirty Harry just then.
 * Rooney: Really?
 * Grace: Uh huh.
 * Rooney: [smiles] Thanks, Grace.

 * Grace: [picks up ringing phone] Ed Rooney's office.
 * Cameron: [disguising his voice] This is George Peterson.
 * Grace: Oh! Uh, please hold. [to Rooney] What do ya know? It's Mr. Peterson. You still want his daytime number? [realizing, as Rooney shoots her a dirty look] Oh.
 * Rooney: [on the phone] Ed Rooney.
 * Cameron: Ed. This is George Peterson.
 * Rooney: How are you today, sir?
 * Cameron: Well, we've had a bit of bad luck this morning as you may have heard.
 * Rooney: [feigning concern] Yeah, I heard, and, ooh, I'm all broken up. Boy, what a blow.
 * Cameron: Yeah. Yeah. Well, uh, it's been a tough morning, and, uh, we got a lot of family business to take care of, so if you wouldn't mind excusing Sloane, I'd appreciate it.
 * Rooney: Uh, sure. Y'know, I'd be happy to. Yeah. You, uh, you-you just produce a corpse, and, uh, I'll release Sloane. I wanna see this dead grandmother first hand.
 * Grace: [suspiciously] Ed?
 * Rooney: [covering the phone; thinking he's talking to Ferris Bueller] It's alright, Grace, it's Ferris Bueller, the little twerp. I'm gonna set a trap, and let him fall right in it.
 * Grace: Ooh!
 * Cameron: Uh, uh, Ed, I-I'm sorry, did-- Did you say you wanted to see a body?
 * Rooney: Yeah, that's right, just, uh, roll her old bones on over here, and I'll dig up your daughter. You know, that's school policy.
 * Cameron: Oh?
 * Rooney: Uh, was this your mother?
 * Cameron: Uh, n-no, my wife's mother.
 * Grace: [picks up other extension on her phone] Ed Rooney's office.
 * Ferris: Hi, this is Ferris Bueller. Can I speak to Mr. Rooney, please? Thank you.
 * Grace: [caught off-guard] Uh... hold. [runs over and starts waving frantically to Rooney]
 * Rooney: Tell ya what, dipshit. You don't like my policies, you can come on down here and smooch my big ol' white butt.
 * Grace: [loud whisper] Ed!
 * Rooney: Pucker up, Buttercup. [to Grace; quietly] What?
 * Grace: Ferris Bueller's on Line 2.

 * [Ferris and Cameron enter the garage, where Cameron shows Ferris his father's prized possession]
 * Cameron: The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. Less than 100 were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love. It is his passion.
 * Ferris: [eyes the car hungrily] It is his fault he didn't lock the garage.
 * Cameron: Ferris, what are you talkin' about?
 * [Ferris leans on the car]
 * Ferris: Ooh!
 * Cameron: Ferris, my father loves this car more than life itself.
 * Ferris: A man with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile.
 * [Ferris walks around the car]
 * Cameron: No. No. Apparently, you don't understand.
 * Ferris: Wow.
 * Cameron: Ferris, he never drives it. He just rubs it with a diaper. [runs his finger across the car] Hey. Remember how insane he went when I broke my retainer? Huh? Come on, that was a little piece of plastic. This is a Ferrari.
 * Ferris: Qué bella. [kisses his fingers] Cameron, I'm sorry, but we can't pick up Sloane in your car. Mr. Rooney would never believe Mr. Peterson drives that piece of shit.
 * Cameron: [under his breath] It's not a piece of shit.
 * Ferris: It is a piece of shit. Don't worry about it. I don't even have a piece of shit; I have to envy yours.
 * Cameron: [sarcastically] Oh, thanks.
 * Ferris: [desperately] Look, I'm sorry. There's nothing else we can do. [Ferris slowly gets in the Ferrari, and closes the door] Ooh.
 * Cameron: He knows the mileage, Ferris.
 * Ferris: He doesn't trust you?
 * Cameron: Never has, never will.
 * Ferris: Look, this is real simple. Whatever miles we put on, we'll take off.
 * Cameron: How?
 * Ferris: We'll drive home backwards.
 * Cameron: [laughs coldly] No. No! [Ferris starts the car] Ferris, forget it. You're just gonna have to think of something else. I'm putting my foot down. [Ferris smiles as he drives the Ferrari out of the garage] How about we rent a nice Cadillac?! My treat! We could call a limo! A nice stretch job with a TV and a bar! How 'bout that?!
 * Ferris: [drives back to pick up Cameron] Come on! Live a little!

 * Sloane: What are we gonna do?
 * Ferris: The question isn't "What are we going to do?", the question is "What aren't we going to do?"
 * Cameron: Don't say we're not gonna take the car home. Please don't say we're not gonna take the car home. Please don't say we're not gonna take the car home.
 * Ferris: [to the home audience] If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? [beat] Neither would I.

 * Ferris: [after inspecting the dashboard of the car] Hey, Cameron?
 * Cameron: Yeah?
 * Ferris: How many miles did you say this thing had on it when we left?
 * Cameron: 126 and halfway between three and 4/10. Why? How many miles are on it now?
 * [Ferris pulls over; Cameron takes a closer look at the mileage on the dashboard: 301.7 miles]
 * Ferris: Here's where Cameron goes berserk.
 * [Cameron screams and several shots of the city are shown]

 * Ferris: 4,000 restaurants in the downtown area, I pick the one my father goes to.
 * Cameron: We're pinched for sure.
 * Ferris: No way, Cameron. Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. [puts on his beret] Let's go.
 * Cameron: Let's surrender.
 * Ferris: Never.

Taglines

 * One Man's Struggle to Take It Easy
 * Leisure Rules

Cast

 * Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller
 * Alan Ruck - Cameron Frye
 * Mia Sara - Sloane Peterson
 * Jeffrey Jones - Ed Rooney
 * Jennifer Grey - Jeanie Bueller
 * Cindy Pickett - Katie Bueller
 * Lyman Ward - Tom Bueller
 * Edie McClurg - Grace
 * Charlie Sheen - Boy in Police Station
 * Ben Stein - Economics Teacher
 * Del Close - English Teacher
 * Kristy Swanson - Simone Adamley
 * Edward LeBeau - Gym Teacher

title: Ferris Bueller's Day Off


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Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek [Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, literally meaning Life and Politics of Alexis Zorba] (1946) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis. In it a young Greek intellectual, the narrator, is writing a manuscript about the Buddha. He meets Alexis Zorba who greatly influences his outlook on life. The novel was translated into English by Carl Wildman in 1952, and a film adaptation was made in 1964, directed by Michael Cacoyannis who also wrote its screenplay.

Chapter 2

 * To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
 * On the Aegean Sea

 * You turn the wheel and the mud whirls round, as if you were possessed while you stand over it and say "I'm going to make a jug, I'm going to make a plate, I'm going to make a lamp and the devil knows what more!" That's what you might call being a man: freedom!

 * What kind of a man are you? Don't you even like dolphins!?

 * The maimed don't get into Paradise.

 * A man's a savage beast when he's young...he eats sheep...and hens and pigs, but if he doesn't eat men his belly's not satisfied.

Chapter 3

 * Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

 * Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. That was the face Zorba was seeing and talking to, and desiring. Dame Hortense was only an ephemeral and transparent mask which Zorba tore away to kiss the eternal mouth.

Chapter 4

 * Man is a brute [...] It seems everything's been too easy for you, but you ask me! A brute, I tell you! If you're cruel to him, he respects and fears you. If you're kind to him, he plucks your eyes out.
 * Keep your distance, boss! Don't make men too bold, don't go telling them we're all equal, we've got the same rights, or they'll go straight and trample on your rights; they'll steal your bread and leave you to die of hunger.

Chapter 6

 * While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.
 * Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you what you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God.
 * Is it possible to talk by dancing? And yet I dare swear that's how the gods and devils must talk to one another.
 * In more primitive and creative ages, Zorba would have been the chief of a tribe. He would have gone before, opening up the path with a hatchet. Or else he would have been a renowned troubadour visiting castles, and everybody would have hung on his words — lords and ladies and servants ... In our ungrateful age, Zorba wanders hungrily round the enclosures like a wolf, or else sinks into becoming some pen-pusher's buffoon.
 * It's beyond me. Everything seems to have a soul — wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, boss, absolutely everything!

Chapter 7

 * How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. And all that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
 * You must have seen those sails with red, yellow, and black patches, sewn with thick twine, which never tear even in the roughest storms. Well, that's what my heart's like. Umpteen holes, and umpteen patches: it need fear nothing more!
 * Woman's something incomprehensible, and all the laws of state and religion have got her all wrong.

Chapter 8

 * Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

 * You must sometimes rejoice that the dark forces of destruction are so numerous and invincible: for thus your aim to live almost without hope becomes more heroic and your soul acquires a more tragic greatness.

Chapter 11

 * It is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

Chapter 12

 * In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.
 * Action, dear inactive master, action: there is no other salvation.

Chapter 13

 * I have realized for some time I didn't come into this world to be a horse, or an ox. Only animals live to eat.
 * Death is nothing — just pff! and the candle is snuffed out. But old age is a disgrace.

Chapter 16

 * The day's for working [...] Daytime is a man. The night-time's for enjoying yourself. Night is a woman. You mustn't mix them up!
 * We travel, crossing whole countries and seas and yet we've never pushed our noses past the doorstep of our home.

 * You have seen what happens when you hold a glass out to the sun and concentrate all the rays onto one spot [...] ? That spot soon catches fire, doesn't it? Why? Because the sun's power has not been dispersed but concentrated on that one spot. It is the same with men's minds. You do miracles, if you concentrate your mind on one thing and only one.

Chapter 21

 * As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."

Chapter 23

 * What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, radishes, and out of him come sighs, laughter and dreams. Like a factory. I'm sure there's a sort of talking-film cinema in our heads.
 * "What's strange in that, you idiot? The truth is that man is full of worms from the day he's born, but you can't see them."

Chapter 24

 * "Well all those damned books you read — what good are they? Why do you read them? If they don't tell you [why we die], what do they tell you?"
 * The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Chapter 25

 * Sometimes the earth becomes transparent and we see our ultimate ruler, the grub, working night and day in his underground workshops. But we quickly turn our eyes away, because men can endure everything except the sight of that small white maggot.
 * Happiness is doing your duty, and the harder the duty is the greater the happiness.

Unsorted by chapter

 * Chapter citations should be provided for these.

 * Wife; children; house; everything. The full catastrophe.

 * Live life and enjoy it!

 * Boss, everything's simple in the world. How many times must I tell you? So don't go and complicate things!

 * I'm sorting out my own brand of folly here in Candia.

 * You want to build a monastery. That's it! Instead of monks you'd stick a few quill drivers like your honored self inside and they'd pass the time scribbling day and night. [...] Well, I'm going to ask you a favor, holy abbot: I want you to appoint me doorkeeper to your monastery so that I can do some smuggling and, now and then, let some very strange things through into the holy precincts: women, mandolins, demijohns of raki, roast sucking pigs ... All so that you don't fritter away your life with a lot of nonsense!

 * It's all because of doing things by halves, saying things by halves, that the world is in the mess is in today. Do things properly by God! One good knock for each nail and you'll win through! God hates a halfdevil ten times more than an archdevil!

 * "Alexis," he said, "I'm going to tell you a secret. You're too small to understand now, but you'll understand when you are bigger. Listen, little one: neither the seven stories of heaven nor the seven stories of the earth are enough to contain God; but a man's heart can contain him. So be very careful, Alexis — and may my blessing go with you — never to wound a man's heart!

 * What d'you lack? You're young, you have money, health, you're a good fellow, you lack nothing. Nothing, by thunder! Except just one thing — folly! And when that's missing, boss, well ...

 * “What’s your favorite dish, granddad?”
 * “Everything, everything, my son. It’s a great sin to say that this food is good, that food not good.”
 * “Why? Can’t we choose?”
 * “No, we really cannot.”
 * “Why?”
 * “Because there are people who are hungry.”

 * "Perhaps I'll stay here with you ..." I said, appalled by Zorba's desperate affection for me. "Perhaps I shall come away with you. I'm free."Zorba shook his head."No, you're not free," he said. "The string you're tied to is perhaps no longer than other people's. That's all. You're on a long piece of string, boss; you come and go, and think you're free, but you never cut the string in two. And when people don't cut that string ..."I'll cut it some day!" I said defiantly, because Zorba's words had touched an open wound in me and hurt."It's difficult, boss, very difficult. You need a touch of folly to do that; folly, d'you see? You have to risk everything! But you've got such a strong head, it'll always get the better of you. A man's head is like a grocer; it keeps accounts: I've paid so much and earned so much and that means a profit of this much or a loss of that much! The head's a careful little shopkeeper; it never risks all it has, always keeps something in reserve. It never breaks the. string. Ah no! It hangs on tight to it, the bastard! If the string slips out of its grasp, the head, poor devil, is lost, finished! But if a man doesn't break the string, tell me, what flavor is left in life? The flavor of camomile, weak camomile tea! Nothing like rum—that makes you see life inside out!"

 * One day in Berlin came a telegram: FOUND A WONDERFUL GREEN STONE. COME IMMEDIATELY, ZORBA.

Quotes about Zorba the Greek
On many a night Zorba heads for the home of Bouboulina, a blowzy, scow-bottomed "old siren," once the darling of admirals and of fleets. When his boss refuses to make love to a young, appetizing widow, Zorba warns him: "Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all ... is not to have one." The boss takes Zorba's advice to heart and the young widow to bed. Meanwhile, Zorba never misses a chance to ask such puzzlers as: What is a woman? Who made the stars? Why do men die? The boss's widow is murdered by puritanical peasants, Bouboulina dies, the lignite mine fails — and all these calamities lead to the heart of Zorba's message: live as if one were to die the next minute. Zorba is too full of juice to die onstage. Author Kazantzakis tries to kill him off in a letter. His last words: "I've done heaps and heaps of things in my life, but I still did not do enough . . . Good night!" But Author Kazantzakis reckons without his own talent. He has created Zorba, but he cannot kill him.
 *  Zorba the Greek resists easy definition. Like the Odyssey and Don Quixote, it is nearly plotless but never pointless. Like the heroes of those fictional sagas, its hero, Alexis Zorba, casts a larger shadow on the world than the world does on him. … Who is Zorba? He is Everyman with a Greek accent. He is Sinbad crossed with Sancho Panza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years in the Mediterranean sun have neither dimmed his hawk eyes nor dulled his pagan laughter. … Zorba is a great unbeliever in everything but the abundant life. Pockmarked with bullet scars, he has no faith in war. Full of reverent awe before the universe, he cannot stomach organized religion or priests ("[They] even fleece their fleas"). Child of instinct, Zorba defines the hours as if he had created them. "Daytime is a man," he explains, "night is a woman."
 * Review in TIME magazine (20 April 1953)

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Welcome to Wikiquote! The quotations you posted at Zorba The Greek appear to be from the book, and not the movie but I'd like to confirm this before adding a header with links to WIkipedia, and other information. I hope you like it here. ~ Kalki 22:51, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Neil Bogart

Neil Bogart (February 3, 1943 – May 8, 1982), born Neil E. Bogatz, was an American record executive.

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 * Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.
 * Neil Bogart at the 1977 Disco Forum.

 * Hype. What a marvellous, misused word. If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius, it wasn't hype; if you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype.
 * Neil Bogart, quoted in Loose Talk: The Book of Quotes from the Pages of Rolling Stone Magazine, 1990.

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Inside Monkey Zetterland

Inside Monkey Zetterland is a 1992 film about an out of work screenwriter/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
 * Directed by Jefery Levy. Written by Steve Antin and John Boskovich.

Life. It's A Trip.

Monkey

 * As a child I always felt responsible for my mom. Dad would be gone. She'd be alone for months, sometimes years, and eventually dad would come home. And I'd be okay. And everything would be all right. 'Cause mom would be saved.
 * My father used to shirk his parental responsibilities by saying that life was an illusion; karma was also a convenient excuse for foul-ups. In my mind echos: "Sorry I sold your baseball cards, Monkey, but it's your karma, and life is just an illusion anyway, boy."

Daphne

 * You're a fag, baby!
 * Throw it all out into the universe, baby!
 * The thing is, Monkey, you'd change if you could, but you can't, and even if you could, you really shouldn't. And stop being such a fuckin' pussy about your curtains.

Imogene

 * Una el coka dieta!
 * Excuse me, very rude and obnoxious stranger.
 * Tami Peterson has always been hyper-critical of my performance art. I mean she even delivered a speech in the quad about it called "Imogene: What do You Mean?" I mean, how could she do that to me? I've always been so nice to her!

Dialogue

 * Imogene: Now let me ask you something I've always wondered about. After you have the baby, does your pussy ever go back to it's natural tightness?
 * Cindy: I'm a dyke. It's not an issue.

 * Brent Zetterland: But seriously, Monkey, does my hair look okay like this?
 * Monkey: Brent, you live in a beautiful shell - go with it.

Cast

 * Steve Antin - Monkey Zetterland
 * Patricia Arquette - Grace
 * Sandra Bernhard - Imogene
 * Sofia Coppola - Cindy
 * Tate Donovan - Brent Zetterland
 * Rupert Everett - Sasha
 * Katherine Helmond - Honor Zetterland
 * Bo Hopkins - Mike Zetterland
 * Ricki Lake - Bella the Stalker
 * Debi Mazar - Daphne
 * Martha Plimpton - Sofie
 * Robin Antin - Waitress in Canters
 * Frances Bay - Grandma
 * Luca Bercovici - Boot Guy
 * Chuck Grieve - Guy at Taco Stand
 * Lance Loud - Psychiatrist
 * Nicholas Matus - Young Monkey
 * Chris Nash (actor) - Policeman
 * Lou Pearlman - Warden / Observation Psychiatrist
 * Blair Tefkin - Brent's Assistant
 * Marc Lafia - Observation Psychiatrist
 * Melissa Sullivan - Observation Psychiatrist
 * Lauren Zuckerman - Observation Psychiatrist

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Martha Plimpton

Martha Campbell Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American stage, film, and television actress, singer, and former model.

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 * The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness—a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. This is the '80s to me. And a lot of synthesizer music. And, of course, Madonna and the beginning of MTV.
 * Interview with Keith Phipps March 3, 1999

 * I like to try new things. I like to go new places and I like to work with new people.  That’s sort of the definition of my job.  As an actor, you just go where the work is, right.
 * Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton (Interview, Daily Actor, April 19, 2011)

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Talk:Romanian proverbs

I want to make some corrections/remarks regarding the transliteration and translation of the romanian proverbs : 1. "Ai carte, ai parte." Translation: "Knowledge is power." Initially it had another meaning - "carte" was used in the sense of "document (of property)". So the translation would have been "You have documents, you have rights". This in no longer the case.

2. "Apără-mă de găini, că de câini nu mă tem." Transliteration: "Defend me from chicken, I'm not afraid of dogs." Notes: this refers to people: the chicken are the mean people, the treacherous friends, the dogs are the known enemies Acctually I think this is a satire to the people who use to brag.

3. "Câinii latră, caravana trece." Transliteration: "The dogs bark, the caravan goes by." Translation: "Don't listen to every word you hear." Sometimes is also used in the sense of "We are talking for nothing, as nobody listen us" 80.96.249.190 11:58, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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 * Apa trece, pietrele rămân.
 * Translation: "Water flows, rocks remain."

 * Apără-mă de găini, că de câini nu mă tem. (also: "Apără-mă, Doamne, de prieteni, căci de dușmani mă feresc eu singur.")
 * Translation: "Defend me from chickens, for dogs I'm not afraid of."
 * Note: it refers to people: the chicken are the mean people, the treacherous friends, the dogs are the known enemies.
 * (also: "Defend me Lord from my friends, my enemies I do avoid myself.")

 * Aruncă binele în stânga şi în dreapta, şi la nevoie o să-l găseşti.
 * Translation: "Throw the good to your left and right, and you'll find it when you'll need it."

 * Ascultă cu urechile, vezi cu ochii, dar taci cu gura.
 * Translation: "Listen with your ears, see with your eyes, but shut up with your mouth."

 * Dacă tăceai filosof rămâneai.
 * Translation: "Had you kept silent you would have remained a wise man."

 * Banu-i ochiu' dracului
 * Translation: "Money is the devil's eye."

 * Treaba lăsată de azi pe mâine, baltă rămâne.
 * Translation: "Work from today left until tomorrow, remains undone."

 * Cine are carte, are parte!
 * Translation: "He who has a book, has power."("Knowledge is power.")

 * Cine ştie carte, are patru ochi
 * Translation: "He who knows books, has four eyes." (or "He who has knowledge")

 * Azi fură un ou, mâine un bou!
 * Translation: "Today he steals an egg, tomorrow an ox!"

 * La anul când o făta cârlanul! - sau - Când o fi bunica fată mare! - sau - Când o face plopul pere.
 * Translation: "Next year when the (male)lamb/calf delivers - and - When my grandma will be a virgin again!"
 * Meaning: Used to suggest something that will never happen.

 * Câinele bătrân nu latră degeaba.
 * Translation: "The old dog doesn't bark without reason."

 * Mulți văd, puțini pricep.
 * Translation: "Many see, few understand."

 * Cu gându' la Maica Domnului şi cu mâna în straiţa omului...
 * Translation: "With the thought at the Holy Virgin, with the hand in someone's pocket..."
 * Meaning: Thinking holy things while doing sinful deeds. (Hypocrisy)

 * Dacă doi spun că eşti beat, du-te şi te culcă.
 * Translation: "If two people say you're drunk, go to bed."

 * Dragostea e oarbă, dar căsătoria îi găseşte leacul.
 * Translation: "Love is blind, but marriage finds its cure."

 * Fereşte-mǎ, Doamne, de prieteni, cǎ de duşmani mǎ apǎr singur.
 * Translation: "Defend me, Lord, from my friends, because from enemies I can defend myself."
 * Fiecare pasăre, pe limba ei piere.
 * Translation: "Every bird dies by its own tongue."

 * Mâţa blândă zgârie rău.
 * Translation: "The gentle cat scratches the worst."

 * Nu poţi îndrepta lumea cu umărul.
 * Translation: "You can't straighten the world with your shoulder."

 * Nu te pune cu prostul că are mintea odihnită.
 * Translation: "Don't argue with a fool, he has a rested mind."

 * Omul sfinţeşte locul.
 * Translation: "The man blesses the place."

 * Prietenul, la nevoie se cunoaşte!
 * Translation: "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

 * Prostul care nu-i fudul, parcă n-ar fi prost destul!
 * Translation: "The fool who's not proud, is not foolish enough!"

 * Râde ciob de oală spartă. - sau - Râde ruptul de cârpit. (George Topârceanu: "Un bețiv din lumea toată/Care se numește Nae/Ce fusese RUPT odată/De nevastă-sa-n bătaie/Auzind cum că nevasta/unui prieten i-a CÂRPIT/și aceluia o palmă, foarte mult s-a veselit./Morala: Râde RUPTUL de CÂRPIT.")
 * Translation: "The splinter laughs at the broken pot."

 * S-a dus baba cu colacii!
 * Translation: The granny handing out pretzels is gone.
 * Meaning: "There goes your chance!"
 * ''"S-a dus bou... şi s-a-ntors vacă !"
 * Translation: "He went as an ox and came back as a cow."
 * Meaning: Used for a person that spends a lot of time and money to study and gains nothing. (in Romanian, ox/cow is used for a person who lacks judgement, a fool)
 * Origin: Wealthy Romanians used (in the 19th century) to send their spoiled kids to Paris to study, but some of them came back unchanged or worse.

 * Sângele, apă nu se face.
 * Translation: "Blood doesn't turn into water."

 * Stăpânul învaţă sluga hoţ.
 * Translation: "The master turns the servant into a thief."

 * Te îneci ca ţiganu' la mal.
 * Translation: "You drown at the shore like the gypsy."

 * Satul/Țara arde şi baba se piaptănă.
 * Translation: "The village is burning and the granny is combing her hair."

 * ''Un prost încurcă, şi zece înţelepţi nu pot descurca"
 * Translation: "One fool tangles and ten wise men cannot untangle."

 * Unde nu intră soarele pe geam, intră doctorul pe uşă.
 * Translation: "Whrerever the sun doesn't come through the window, the doctor will come through the door."

 * ''Viaţa asta-i bun pierdut, de n-o trăieşti cum ai fi vrut!"
 * Translation: "Life is a waste if you didn't live as you would have wanted to!"

 * Vino necazule, dar vino singur!
 * Translation: "Come trouble, but come alone." (See above: Trouble never comes alone.)

 * Din coada de câine sata de matase nu faci!
 * Translation: "You can't turn a dog's tail into a silk scarf!"

 * S-a dat în stambă. - or - Și-a dat arama pe față
 * Translation: "He showed his true colors"

 * Vorba multă, sărăcia omului
 * Translation: "Too many words, the poverty of mankind."

 * a sta cu ochii pe ceva ca pe butelie
 * literal translation: "To keep eyes on something as if it were a gas tank"
 * meaning: During the late years of communism, there was a shortage of almost everything that civilized countries take for granted, including propane tank refills and even empty tanks. One would have to sit hours or days in line to get a refill when the state would provide it and one would have to fiercely guard their canister lest it be stolen. The comparison is still used widely today, since many people still remember what it's like to have to keep eyes on a propane canister. Chiefly used about either something expensive or, even more, about a little kid prone to doing damage to himself or the environment if left to its own devices.

 * Sluga bună nu duce lipsă de stăpân
 * Translation: "A good servant never lacks a master."

 * Soare cu dinți
 * Translation: "Sun with teeth"
 * Meaning: (referring to weather) when outside it's very cold but sunny.

 * Când pisica nu-i acasă, şoarecii joacă pe masă
 * Translation: "When the cat is not at home the mice dance on the table."

 * Bine faci, bine găseşti.
 * Translation: "When you do good, you get good."

 * Norocul este din sticlă, când incepe să stralucească , se sparge ..
 * Translation: "Luck is made of glass: when it starts to shine, it breaks."

 * Din greșeală în greșeală. Spre victoria finală
 * Translation: "From one mistake to another. We head towards the final victory."

 * Cine sapă groapa altuia, cade singur în ea
 * Translation: "Who digs a hole for someone else, falls in it himself."

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