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Talk:Carl Sagan

Atheism Quote
I can't seem to find the source of "An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid. ".

I see it listed in the article linked, but I can't find an original source anywhere after searching through multiple essays and videos.

Any original source, out of curiosity?

Yes! the source is the book "Conversations with Carl Sagan", University Press of Missisipi, 2006 ISBN 1-57806-736-7. The book as preview could be found in Google books. But if you read page 70, you'll find the quote is quite different:

"Those who raise questions about the God hypothesis and the soul hypothesis are by no means all atheist. An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do know to be sure that no such God exist ..."

Source: Google Books preview.

The real quote continues, but in any case Sagan never mentions "by some definitions atheism is very stupid". So, whoever create that quote shown above, actually misquoted Sagan on purpose or by mistake.

I am not user of wikiquote, but please, check the source by yourselves, and correct the quote of the main page. Thanks

'''I found this link to Joel Achenbach's article in The Washington Post which sheds some more light regarding the quote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2014/07/10/carl-sagan-denied-being-an-atheist-so-what-did-he-believe-part-1/?utm_term=.75619b1d716e Apparently he interviewed Sagan and Sagan made that quote. ''' Sagan stated this quote in many fashions. It is up in the shortest version; the longest version is in his book. IN more than 1 interview he linked the assumption made on so few observations to stupidity.

"Waste of space"
The person that coined this phrase was James V. Screeton setting by a camp fire with friends on a clear stary night, near Canyon Dam Texas. Contemplating the meaning of our existence. The year was 1970. He said looking at the stars " If god created the entire universe just for us, what an awful waste of space". He also asked this question " Is god our dream, or are we god's dream." "If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space. (From the movie Contact, possibly earlier origin)"

In fact, the idea is much older, see video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8949469271181885482&q=owner%3Anara+type%3Anasa (starting at 2:50)

 * Thanks for the tip. I've moved the quote to a new "Misattributed" section (and added a similar citation for the Thomas Carlyle article). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Sagan also famously quoted Thomas Carlyle at a press conference. That quote from Carlyle was "A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space."

Cannabis quotation
I'd like to know why Sagan's quotation on cannabis prohibition was deleted. I understand that it doesn't need to be near the top of the page, so perhaps it should be under its own sub-heading? It is as well sourced (see his full article on Dr. Lester Grinspoon's site) as it is known that Sagan was a cannabis smoker.

It seems to me that this quote was deleted because Sagan's marijuana use is something which the scientific community prefers to turn a blind eye to. Why should only his quotations on sciences be acceptable while a reliably-sourced article expressing his true feelings about a social taboo is not? It's dishonest and irresponsible to omit certain quotations just because some people—or even a lot of people—will find what is said objectionable.

Out of consideration for others, I'm not going to repost that quotation until I've given reasonable time for those who object to it to rebut. --Pppjoker 07:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

That was 2006... Is four years long enough to wait on a rebuttal? (James_W)

 * The user above actually did add a section for the Essay as "Mr. X", and I just expanded it substantially. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Although it's good to have some of this, the section of Mr. X quotes seems disproportionately long. It's a long section of quotes from a relatively short article, and not one that Sagan is particularly known for. The purpose of wikiquotes shouldn't be a place to reprint material that the editors think should be more widely seen, but to pull out the quotes that are widely quoted or quotable.  Could this be trimmed a bit to just the most quotable parts? 76.241.135.221 14:04, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Not unsourced - "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
This is from the end of the promo video for Cosmos. See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1175883507954918704. Moving to Cosmos section.

Bolding
What's with the excessive bolding? I can barely read through all irregular font types. Parts of a quote may be bolded, but an entire statement bolded is just too much.
 * I reduced the bolding on some extensive passages, added a bit to other places, and added a few images. I might work on this a bit more in the next week or so, adding a few more images, and possibly a few more quotes. ~ Kalki 13:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Quote from The Demon Haunted World is misattributed
Hi all -- new to Wikiquote. I just stumbled over here looking for a quote from Carl Sagan. I found it -- his famous quote that he does not believe in the afterlife. It is attributed to Chapter Two of The Demon Haunted World. However, I scoured that chapter and the rest of the book and I couldn't find it! I then went elsewhere on the Internet and found references to him actually saying that in a 1996 issue of Parade Magazine. Anyway, am new to Wikiquote so I didn't quite know what to do. Also I do not have the actual Parade Magazine so am reluctant to change it, even if I knew how. I do know that, unless I missed it somehow, it is not in The Demon Haunted World, although it certainly has been attributed to that book a number of times.--Dontquoteme 19:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This has now been corrected the quote has been listed as from "In the Valley of the Shadow" PARADE magazine (10 March 1996). ~ Kalki 21:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Other Quotes of Importance
I think that there's at least one more quote from Cosmos that should go in, as well as a quote from an interview he did with PBS about alien abductees. It's found on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2306tufos.html, but I don't think I'm aloud to post it here, as it is copyrighted - I think.

This quote is from the last chapter of Cosmos; I think it might actually be the closing line. Not sure though.

"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.  Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring"

Thanks for looking into this!

Not Unsourced - "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
Hi,

I am new to wikiquote, but I think the description of this quote is in error.

Sagan uses this phrase in his "Baloney Detection Kit". It seems to me that he would agree quite strongly with the phrase. He did not use this phrase to summarize an "appeal to ignorance". Instead, he uses it as a tool to identify and reject an "appeal to ignorance". The phrase appears in Chapter 12, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection" in the "The Demon-Haunted World" (page 213 of the Ballantine paperback)

"appeal to ignorance - the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa (e.g., There is no compelling evidence that UFOs are not visiting the Earth; therefore UFOs exist - and there is intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. Or: There may be seventy kazillion other worlds, but not one is known to have the moral advancement of the Earth, so we're still central to the Universe.) This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

In this context, Sagan is clearly saying that the absence of evidence that UFOs are NOT visiting the Earth is a completely insufficient reason to conclude that UFOs ARE visiting the Earth. In the second portion he is stating that just because we have not found any other planets with intelligent life is not proof that such a planet does not exist. Thus, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I think the below quote nicely summarizes Sagan's views on the matter. This is from "The Varieties of Scientific Experience", published by Penguin, page 251...

"Questioner: As a scientist, would you deny the possibility of water having been changed into wine in the Bible?

CS: Deny the possibility? Certainly not. I would not deny any such possibility. But I would, of course, not spend a moment on it unless there was some evidence for it."

His logic seems to be the following. The claim is "water was changed into wine". There is no evidence that water was changed into wine. Apply "Absence of evidence is not proof of absence". We cannot say that the claim is disproved (on these grounds alone), but neither should we pay it any head.

--rsawatzky 23:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid you're being rather obtuse, rsawatzky. Sagan is explicitly criticizing the phrase "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." (and well he should, since the statement is false, though absence of evidence is not necessarily strong evidence).

You then replace the fallacious phrase with a different, more defensible one: "Absence of evidence is not proof of absence." Yes, the absence of evidence of water-wine transmutation isn't proof that it never occurred, but it is evidence against the proposition.

--Lionheart 04 September 2009

Lionheart, you are wrong. This is an older proposition than Carl Sagan's quotation.

If I propose that "A" is "B", but I do not find any evidence that "A" is "B", this does not mean that "A" is not "B", or even that "A" is simply "A", because all I have shown is that I do not have evidence for my conclusion, and I must await either a more complete theorem to prove my grounds or find some evidence. In this case the absence of evidence for "A" is "B" is not proof that "A" is not "B"--a proposition that Carl Sagen should uphold, since it is the foundation of empirical studies.

I presume you don't like the results, because a proposition like the following would hold true: You have no evidence that God exists, but this is not evidence that God does not exist. This proposition, upheld by theists, is correct. All I can show is that I have no evidence for God's existence.

This may seem like a blow to an atheistic ego, but remember that the non-existence of God isn't dependent on a lack of evidence for his existence. It is based on the fact that observable, quantifiable, empirical, easily-reproduced data provides the only explanation for human existence--one to which the existence of God is subordinate. The fact that I have no evidence for God's existence by which to prove his non-existence is true. But then, why am I even troubling myself with a problem for which there is no empirical evidence, whose truth can only be proven by gut feeling, faith, or belief---i.e. non-empirical measures? I can continue to look for evidence, and mankind has for the last 30,000 some odd years, but there is no evidence beyond faith, because there are no empirical measurements to be taken.

---King Crimsonite--- Have a Nice Day, Fellas.

--King Crimsonite

King Crimsonite, you have reiterated rsawatzky's error of conflating evidence with proof.

Let H be a hypothesis that something is true, and E be an observation of evidence supporting H. The probability of H given E is P(H|E), and the probability of H given not-E is P(H|~E). E being evidence of H means that P(H|E) > P(H), and that P(H|E) > P(H|~E).

In terms of probabilities, absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

Let me use a more concrete counterexample. Since everyone is using religious examples, let's take the Ten Plagues of Egypt.

According to this Bible story, during the time of the pharaohs, the River Nile turned to blood, killing all the fish and marine life. All the cattle and livestock died. All the trees were smashed by hail, all the crops devoured by locusts. Swarms of flies and frogs infesting the land, and the people infected with lice and boils. And overnight, the firstborn child of every family in Egypt died. A cataclysm greater than a hundred 9/11s.

We should expect to find archeological evidence of Egypt in chaos, graves filled in massive funerary rites, the pharoah making orders and proclamations to deal with civil unrest and starving Egyptians resorting to looting and violence on a national scale. We would expect this literate record-keeping people, the civilization that invented paper, to have produced lots of records documenting this unprecedented disaster. Every history book should record this event; historians would be made by this event.

All that evidence we'd expect to find if the story were true, is completely absent. The absence of evidence for the Ten Plagues is evidence that they never happened.

I shouldn't like to presume how you feel about that, KC. I'm just illustrating why this aphorism is false.

--Lionheart 18 January 2010

Regardless of whether or not the aphorism is correct, Carl Sagan is not criticizing the aphorism. His statement quite clearly using the aphorism to proof his point - to criticize the "impatience with ambiguity."

--24.19.10.154, 21 February 2011

His statement explicitly criticizes the statement’s “impatience with ambiguity”: “This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Frex:

A: How do you know? You have no evidence to support that.

B: Well, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

A is waiting until the evidence is in, while B would rather rush to judgment.

—Robin Lionheart 14:28, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

 * It would be helpful to be able to read a larger excerpt from the relevant chapter, but it seems to me that (aside from the alleged conflation of evidence and proof) that Crimsonite and rsawatzky are correct in that Carl Sagan was not criticizing Martin Rees's phrase but rather using it to criticize the argument from ignorance fallacy. CS referred to an "impatience with ambiguity" but it's Rees's phrase that leaves things open for at least the possibility of ambiguity, whereas the argument from ignorance fallacy is the more absolute of the two and not the other way around.

 * I believe that rsawatzky is also correct in saying both that the empirically prudent thing to do in the absence of evidence is to "await either a more complete theorem to prove my grounds or find some evidence" and the assumption that Carl Sagan would do the same.

 * In short, your interpretation (while probably debatable on its own merits vis a vis the differentiation of proof and the consideration of statistics and probabilities in relation to logic) seems to be in contradiction with not only other interpretions, but even Mr. Sagan's own previous statements on logic and the scientific method. --Dekker451 20:04, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

 * So, to clarify, we have conflicting interpretations of “This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

 * Mine is, “The impatience with ambiguity in the phrase “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” can be criticized.”

 * Yours is, “The phrase “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” can criticize impatience with ambiguity.”

 * I think your interpretation would make sense if the sentence had been written “criticized with the phrase” or “criticized by the phrase”, but that “criticized in the phrase” does not support your reading.

 * However, there’s no need for Wikiquote to take a position on this matter. We need merely quote Mr. Sagan’s words verbatim, and leave questions of its meaning to the reader. — Robin Lionheart 04:19, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

 * I agree with Robin Lionheart about use of the preposition "in" in both respects, i.e., what it means in proper English, and the impropriety of second-guessing what Sagan meant by it. ~ Ningauble 20:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

 * I concur and accordingly I have removed the phrase claiming it was a criticism of the the phrase itself, to just let the quote stand on it's own, since there seems to be no objection to that. --JS747 13:11, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Regardless of what Sagan meant by it, he didn't originate the phrase; see Carl Sagan. This is the only boldface text in this bullet item, and it isn't his. I'm commenting out the paragraph and putting a help request on the Reference desk. --Thnidu (talk) 21:43, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

 * The quote has been restored. I've removed the boldface and added a brief explanatory note about the aphorism. ~ Robin Lionheart (talk) 05:18, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Answers vs. questions
I seem to remember watching Cosmos as a kid and this quote popping out at me:

 * “The scientist’s job isn’t to find answers but to find questions.”

Can anyone verify this? Morganfitzp 13:14, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Atheism is more than just the knowledge...
“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”

This one is attributed to Carl Sagan, but the source is unknown. However, it appears here:

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/emmett_fields/affirmative_atheism.html

and it appears to have been said by a certain Emmett F. Fields.

Since I am relatively new to Wikipedia, I am not taking the initiative to correct the article without discussing it first.

Edit several days later: well, I did not hear any objections, so I proceeded to move the quote to "misattributed". (I am sorry, in the "reason" field I wrote that I moved the quotation from "attributed" while in fact I moved it from "unsourced".)

Unsourced

 * A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

 * Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
 * Common scientific aphorism. Out of context. Sagan took just the opposite view of this statement. This phrase was Sagan's summation of the attitude of many who continue to believe something even when they know there's no evidence to support their belief or claims. He was criticizing what is known as "An Appeal to Ignorance". See Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit".

 * All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

 * All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
 * Apparently, this might be more completely quoted as follows: "Thus all of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." And, it was from Cosmos p.285 (see, for example, this | Google Books link).

 * Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something.

 * Arguments from authority simply do not count; too many authorities have been mistaken too often.
 * possibly from Broca's Brain (1974)

 * Credulity kills.

 * I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

 * Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

 * Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

 * Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

 * Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

 * The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And there are much longer time scales still.

 * The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

 * The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

 * The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
 * This is probably a rephrasing of the quote from Richard Dawkins, who said, "Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent."
 * The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

 * There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

 * There is a place with four suns in the sky — red, white, blue, and yellow; two of them are so close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them. I know of a world with a million moons. I know of a sun the size of the Earth — and made of diamond....The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becoming part of it.

 * We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.

 * We're the kind of species that needs a frontier — for fundamental biological reasons. Every time humanity stretches itself and turns a new corner, it receives a jolt of productive vitality that can carry it for centuries. There is a new world next door. And we know how to get there.

 * When you make the finding yourself — even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light — you never forget it.

 * Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. (From the "Cosmos" television series, "Blues for the Red Planet")

 * Comets giveth and comets taketh away.

 * The nature of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere are two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.

 * Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

 * Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
 * I think this is actually a rephrasing of Sagan's text, from Pat Duffy Hutcheon's article in Humanist in Canada (Autumn 1997), p.6-9; 33.
 * Apparently, according to Wikiquote, the real quote is: "Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking."  And it is from his article "Why We Need To Understand Science" in The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3 (Spring 1990).

 * "* Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

 * Common scientific aphorism. Out of context. Sagan took just the opposite view of this statement. This phrase was Sagan's summation of the attitude of many who continue to believe something even when they know there's no evidence to support their belief or claims. He was criticizing what is known as "An Appeal to Ignorance". See Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit"."

 * One can not both take the opposite view of the aphorism "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and criticize the argument from ignorance fallacy. You have to do one or the other, because the argument from ignorance is that if there is an absence of evidence that something is false then it must be true and vice versa (assuming that something must be false in the absence of evidence that it is true). What Mr. Sagan was really doing by quoting Martin Rees was saying that the argument from ignorance is indeed a fallacy.

 * It may be helpful for us to read his Dragon In My Garage story in order to see in more elaboration what is opinions on and understandings of logic and empirical study actually were.

 * http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm

 * I'm not suggesting we use the linked page as a source for the front page and if necessary I could be bothered to find a better source with the same material, but this is what I found with a very quick Google search and I thought it might be elucidating. --Dekker451 20:25, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

 * "I don’t want to believe. I want to know."
 * From Ann Druyan "Carl didn't want just to believe: He wanted to know."

 * "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
This section should probably be put on its own page, with a reference to it left on the Carl Sagan page due to its size. ~ UDScott 14:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed, also because Sagan was not the sole writer on this production. ~ Ningauble 15:15, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Parade Quote Location
When reading looking into the quote "I would love to believe that when I die I will live again..." I found that the article published in Parade magazine exists in the book "Billions and Billions" by Carl Sagan. The quote is located as the first sentence on page 258, chapter 19, entitled "In the valley of the shadow".

Copyright
This page has individual quotes in excess of Limits on quotations, and there are cumulative quotes from one book over 800 words, which seems a problem under Copyrights. --Moonriddengirl 15:43, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Removal of images
After seeing the long list of images removed from this and other pages, I'm a bit dismayed at the application of the new Image use policy. I would argue that several of the images removed from this page did not violate the policy and should not have been removed (for example the ones depicting marijuana were paired with quotes about the use of cannabis - how are the images not related? Similarly, there were several images of objects in space that I believe were appropriately paired with quotes from Sagan). The point of the policy was to avoid having an overwhelming amount of images that could at best be described as having a loose association with the associated quotes or at worst, drove a POV. It is my opinion that the removal of all images on this page but two that are photos of Sagan went a bit too far. ~ UDScott (talk) 13:54, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I think I went overboard on this one. I've undone my edit, and reverted the previous version, and won't make any further changes to this page until other editors have their say. I guess my own view is that nothing gets added by adding a picture of cannabis to a quotation about the effect of smoking it. The illustration shows the plant, but the quotation is about the effects. But I realize that this is a matter of interpretation! Macspaunday (talk) 14:42, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't necessarily disagree that an image of cannabis may not add to the understanding of the quotes, but I was just worried that these images did not really violate the policy. I'm not faulting your recent work to remove images and enforce the policy - I just wanted to use this page as a test subject of its application and see if perhaps there was a bit too much cut - so that a more egregious removal does not occur in the future on other pages. Thanks. ~ UDScott (talk) 14:47, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think I agree with you completely about the cosmic objects. I went overboard, I think, because the page was littered with images that did not illustrate anything in the quotations (e.g. the Statue of Liberty, the rocket flying past the US flag, etc., etc.). This is one of the dangers of editing late at night. Perhaps another editor would like to have a look at this? I've been mostly interested in clearing out dozens of kitsch, sentimental, nineteenth-century academic-painting images used to illustrate literary quotations. But I agree this page is a different matter. Macspaunday (talk) 14:53, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

 * My two cents: We should keep the images of astronomical objects, because Sagan was an astronomer and they are thus directly relevant. The cannabis images seem relevant, but three is overkill - I would suggest removing one or two of them. I would remove "File:Spacecolony3edit.jpeg" because it seems only tangentially linked to the captioned quote or the content of the page. Some other images are of dubious value: "File:Reach for the stars.jpg" is not explicitly about imagination, although it is surreal. The use of the UN flag seems POV to me, because the connection of the UN flag with the captioned quotation gives a positive impression of the UN not within the quotation, and "File:Treny normal.jpg" seems marginally relevant to the quote at hand. I would also remove "File:KT-impact.gif" because it is completely irrelevant to the captioned quotation. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 15:30, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe add to that list: "File:L'origine_de_l'evolution.jpg" and File"DarkMatterPie.jpg" and the ones with the captions that begin "War is murder", "Look, all I'm asking", "Here we face", "In the vastness", "Which aspects", "Every thinking person", "History is full", "By exploring", "Exactly the same", etc. A lot of the images are astronomical images used to illustrate statements about other things entirely, such as the one captioned "A religion, old or new." It doesn't seem suitable to illustrate a quotation about religion with an astronomical image. But these are certainly debatable questions... Macspaunday (talk) 16:23, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The "religion, old or new" quote also mentions the "the magnificence of the universe", I agree with you that it's debatable that Hoag's object is a suitable illustration, but I rather like it the context. Much more interesting than an image of the milky way or andromeda. -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 20:42, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

On what page does this quote on advertising appear in Contact?
There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. CensoredScribe (talk) 22:36, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It's on page 225 of Contact (New York: Pocket Books, 1985), Ch. 13. ~ DanielTom (talk) 08:07, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

It's pretty frustrating when you can't find the source of a quote when you know who the author is.
I'm looking for the source (book, Cosmos series, etc.) of a Sagan quote so that I can site it in something I'm writing and all of the quotation websites that show the quote, and there seem to be dozens of them, don't say where the quote came from. And I don' see the quote I have in mind in this article, although at least this article does show the sources. The quote I have in mind is where he says "Personally, I would be delighted in there were a life after death ... " Thanks for allowing me to let off steam. -- James.

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 film about a newspaper editor who makes multiple attempts to prevent his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
 * Directed by Howard Hawks. Written by Charles Lederer, based on the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

She learned about men from him! taglines

Hildegard 'Hildy' Johnson

 * Tell me. Is the Lord of the Universe in?
 * I'm going into business for myself...I'm getting married tomorrow...It's gonna be all right. I'm gonna settle down. I'm through with the newspaper business.
 * [in her story] And so, into this little tortured mind came the idea that that gun had been produced for use. And use it he did. But the state has a 'production-for-use' plan too. It has a gallows. And at seven a.m. unless a miracle occurs, that gallows will be used to separate the soul of Earl Williams from his body. And out of Mollie Malloy's life will go the one kindly soul she ever knew.
 * [on the phone to Walter] Now get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee! There ain't gonna be any interview and there ain't gonna be any story. And that certified check of yours is leaving with me in twenty minutes. I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up. And if I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkey skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong! [she tears up her story] Do you hear that? That's the story I just wrote. Yes, yes, I know we had a bargain. I just said I'd write it. I didn't say I wouldn't tear it up. It's all in little pieces now, Walter, and I hope to do the same for you some day. [to newsroom] And that my friends, is my farewell to the newspaper game. I'm gonna be a woman, not a news-getting machine. I'm gonna have babies and take care of them. Give 'em cod liver oil and watch their teeth grow.
 * Next time you see me, I should be riding in a Rolls Royce giving interviews on success...So long you wage-slaves...When you're crawling up fire escapes and getting kicked out of front doors, and eating Christmas dinners in one-armed joints, don't forget your pal, Hildy Johnson!..And when the road beyond unfolds...
 * All right, now here's your story. The jailbreak of your dreams. It seems that expert Dr. Egelhoffer, the profound thinker from New York, was giving Williams a final sanity test in the Sheriff's office - you know, sticking a lot of pins in him so that he could get his reflexes. Well, he decided to re-enact the crime exactly as it had taken place, in order to study Williams' powers of co-ordination...Of course, he had to have a gun to re-enact the crime with. And who do you suppose supplied it? Peter B. Hartwell, "B" for brains...Well, the Sheriff gave his gun to the Professor and the Professor gave it to Earl, and Earl shot the Professor right in the classified ads...No, ads. Ain't it perfect? If the Sheriff had unrolled a red carpet and loaned Williams an umbrella, it couldn't have been more ideal...Egelhoffer wasn't badly hurt. They took him to the County Hospital...
 * [to Walter] How you have messed up my life. What am I going to do?...I could be on that train right now. What a sap I am falling for your line: "They're gonna name streets after me." Johnson Street!

Walter Burns

 * Tell him if he'll reprieve Earl Williams, we'll support him for senator. Tell him the Morning Post will be behind him hook, line, and sinker.
 * I wish you hadn't done that, Hildy...Divorce me. Makes a fellow lose all faith in himself...Almost gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted.
 * [to Bruce] You're getting a great little girl for yourself...You're getting something else too, Bruce, you're getting a great newspaperman ... One of the best I ever knew. Sorry to see her go. Darn sorry, Hildy.
 * No, no, never mind the Chinese earthquake for heaven's sake...Look, I don't care if there's a million dead...No, no, junk the Polish Corridor...Take all those Miss America pictures off Page Six...Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page...No, no, leave the rooster story alone - that's human interest.
 * [on the phone] Well Butch, where are you?...Well, what are you doing there? Haven't you even started?...Listen, it's a matter of life and death!...Well, you can't stop for a dame now! I don't care if you've been after her for six years. Butch - our whole lives are at stake! Are you going to let a woman come between us after all we've been through?...Butch, I'd put my arm in fire for you, up to here. Now you can't double-cross me...Put her on, I'll talk to her. Oh, good evening madam. Now listen, you ten-cent glamour girl. You can't keep Butch away from his duty!

Bruce Baldwin

 * [on the phone to Hildy] I was sitting right in the taxi where you left me and the young lady seemed to have a dizzy spell and I just...Yes, she's a blonde. Yes, very blonde.
 * [To Hildy] I don't know what they're gonna think up there in Albany. They had to send the money to the police station...Where's mother? She said she was coming up here...Where'd she go?...Hildy! Tell me where my mother was going?...Did she get the money from you?...I'll take that money, Hildy...I've decided I can handle things around here and I'll take that certified check too...This is my wallet. Say, there's something funny going on. [To Walter] Hey, what are you doing?...[To Hildy] Hildy, I'm taking the nine o'clock train...Hildy, I just want you to answer me one question - you don't want to come with me...answer me, Hildy, you don't, do you?...Hildy, tell me, please tell me the truth. If you ever loved me, Hildy -? [To Walter] You're doing all this to her, I know that. She wanted to get away from you and everything you stand for, but you were too smart. You caught her and changed her mind...[To Hildy] Come on, Hildy, you're coming with me right now...I see, I'll keep. I'm like something in the icebox, aren't I?...You just don't love me...The point is that you never intended to be decent and live like a human being...I see what you are now. You're just like him and all the rest...I understand all right, I understand...Oh Hildy, I don't think you ever loved me at all...

Mollie Malloy

 * [to a group of newspapermen] I came to tell ya what I think of ya, all of ya...You crumbs have been makin' a fool out of me long enough. I never said I loved Earl Williams and was willing to marry him on the gallows. You made that up, and about my being a soul-mate and having a love-nest with him...I met Mr. Williams just once in my life when he was wandering around in the rain without his hat and coat on like a sick dog the day before the shooting. I went up to him like any human being would and I asked him what was the matter. And - and he told me about being fired after being on the same job for fourteen years. And I brought him up to my room because it was warm there...Aw listen to me, please. I tell ya, he just sat there talking to me all night. He never once laid a hand on me. And - and in the morning, he went away. And I never saw him again till that day of the trial. Sure I was his witness!...That's why you're persecuting me, because Earl Williams treated me decent and not like an animal, and I said so!...It's a wonder a bolt of lightning don't come down and strike you all dead! A poor little fella that never meant nobody no harm. Sitting there this minute with the Angel of Death beside him, and you cracking jokes!
 * Now you want me to talk...Oh ain't that funny. You wouldn't listen to me before. Not even for a minute. And now you want me to talk...What do ya want to know for? So you can write some more lies, so you can sell some more papers. I'll give you a wonderful story - only this time it'll be true!

Others

 * Mayor: Do you realize there are two hundred thousand votes at stake? And if Earl Williams don't hang, we're gonna lose 'em?
 * Mayor: A guy who's done nothing for the last forty years but play pinochle gets elected Governor and right away, he thinks he's a Tarzan.
 * Diamond Louie: Down Western Avenue, we was going sixty-five miles an hour...We run smack into a police patrol. you know what I mean? We busted it in half!...Can you imagine bumping into a load of cops? They come rolling out like oranges!...When I come to, I was running down Thirty-fourth Street...The driver got knocked cold...I don't think she's [Bruce's mother] squawking much, you know what I mean?...Say listen, me with a gun on the hip and a kidnapped old lady on my hands, I'm gonna stick around askin' questions from a lot of cops?

Dialogue

 * Bruce: Even ten minutes is a long time to be away from you.
 * Hildy: What did you say?
 * Bruce: What?
 * Hildy: Go on. [He laughs sheepishly] Well, go ahead.
 * Bruce: Well, I just said, 'Even ten minutes is a long time to be away from you.'
 * Hildy: I heard you the first time. I like it. That's why I asked you to say it again.

 * Hildy: I spent six weeks in Reno, then Bermuda, oh, about four months, I guess. It seems like yesterday to me.
 * Walter: Maybe it was yesterday, Hildy. Been seeing me in your dreams?
 * Hildy: Oh, no, Mama doesn't dream about you anymore, Walter. You wouldn't know the old girl now.
 * Walter: I'd know you anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

 * Hildy: A big fat lummox like you - hiring an airplane to write: 'Hildy, don't be hasty, remember my dimple.' Walter. It delayed our divorce twenty minutes while the judge went out to watch it.
 * Walter: I've still got the dimple and in the same place.

 * Hildy: All I know is that instead of two weeks in Atlantic City with my bridegroom, I spent two weeks in a coal mine with John Krupsky. You don't deny that, do you Walter?
 * Walter: Deny it? I'm proud of it. We beat the whole country on that story.
 * Hildy: Well, I suppose we did. That isn't what I got married for!

 * Walter: What's the use of fighting, Hildy? I'll tell you what you do. You come back to work on the paper, and if we find we can't get along in a friendly fashion, we'll get married again.
 * Hildy: Oh Walter, you're wonderful - in a loathsome sort of way. Listen, Walter, you are no longer my husband and no longer my boss. And you're not going to be my boss.
 * Walter: All right, take it. Work for somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.
 * Hildy: Oh, I wish you'd stop hamming.
 * Walter: What were you when you came here five years ago? A little college girl from a school of journalism. I took a doll-faced hick.
 * Hildy: Well, you wouldn't take me if I hadn't been doll-faced...
 * Walter: Listen. I made a great reporter out of you, Hildy. But you won't be half as good on any other paper and you know it. We're a team. That's what we are. You need me and I need you, and the paper needs both of us.
 * Hildy: Sold American! Listen, Walter, the paper's gonna have to get along without me. So are you. It just didn't work out, Walter.
 * Walter: Well, it would have worked out if you'd been satisfied with just being editor and reporter - but not you! You had to marry me and spoil everything.
 * Hildy: I wasn't satisfied? I suppose I proposed to you?

 * Walter: And I still claim I was tight the night I proposed to you. If you had been a gentleman, you would have forgotten all about it. But not you.
 * [Hildy throws her pocketbook at the back of his head, but he ducks]
 * Walter: You're losing your eye. You used to be able to pitch better than that.

 * Walter: Hildy, you've got to help me out. Just this once...This will bring us back together again. Just the way we used to be. This is bigger than anything that ever happened to us. Don't do it for me, do it for the paper.
 * Hildy: Scram, Svengali.
 * Walter: Now look, if you won't do it for love, how about money? Forget the other offer. I'll raise you twenty-five bucks a week.

 * Hildy: Listen to me, you great big bumble-headed baboon.
 * Walter: I'll make it thirty-five bucks and not a cent more.
 * Hildy: Walter, are you gonna listen?
 * Walter: But good grief, how much is that other paper gonna pay you?
 * Hildy: There isn't any other paper.
 * Walter: Oh! Well in that case, the raise is off. You go back to your old salary...
 * Hildy: Walter, I want to show you something. It's here. It's a ring. Take a good look at it. Do you know what it is? It's an engagement ring. I tried to tell you right away, but you would start reminiscing. I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.
 * Walter: What?
 * Hildy: I am through.
 * Walter: You can marry all you want to, Hildy, but you can't quit the newspaper business.
 * Hildy: Oh! Why not?
 * Walter: I know you, Hildy. I know what quitting would mean to you.
 * Hildy: And what would it mean?
 * Walter: It would kill ya.
 * Hildy: You can't sell me that, Walter Burns.
 * Walter: Who says I can't? You're a newspaperman.
 * Hildy: That's why I'm quitting. I want to go someplace where I can be a woman.
 * Walter: You mean be a traitor.
 * Hildy: A traitor? A traitor to what?
 * Walter: A traitor to journalism. You're a journalist, Hildy.
 * Hildy: A journalist? Hell, what does that mean? Peeking through keyholes? Chasing after fire engines? Waking people up in the middle of the night to ask them if Hitler's gonna start another war? Stealing pictures off old ladies? I know all about reporters, Walter. A lot of daffy buttinskis running around without a nickel in their pockets and for what? So a million hired girls and motormen's wives'll know what's going on. Why-... Golly, what's the use? Walter, you-you wouldn't know what it means to want to be respectable and live a half-way normal life. The point is, I-I'm through.

 * Hildy: He's an insurance salesman. That's a good, honest business, isn't it?
 * Walter: Oh certainly, it's honest. It's also adventurous, it's romantic. Listen, Hildy, I can't picture you being surrounded by policies, policies...
 * Hildy: I can, I can, and I like it, what's more. Besides, he forgets the office when he's with me...He doesn't treat me like an errand boy either, Walter. He treats me like a woman.
 * Walter: He does, does he? How did I treat ya, like a water buffalo?
 * Hildy: I don't know from water buffalos, but I do know about him. He's kind and he's sweet and he's considerate. He wants a home and children.
 * Walter: Sounds more like a guy I ought to marry. What's his name?
 * Hildy: Uh, Baldwin. Bruce Baldwin.
 * Walter: Baldwin, Baldwin. Oh, I knew a Baldwin once. A horse thief in Mississippi. Couldn't be the same fella, could it?
 * Hildy: You're now talking about the man I'm marrying tomorrow.
 * Walter: Tomorrow? As soon as that?

 * Walter: She deserves all this happiness, Bruce. All the things I couldn't give her. Yeah, all she ever wanted was a home.
 * Bruce: Well, I'll certainly try to give her one.
 * Walter: I know you will, Bruce. Where are you gonna live?
 * Bruce: Albany.
 * Walter: Albany, huh? Got a family up there then?
 * Bruce: No, just my mother.
 * Walter: 'Just your mother.' Oh, you're gonna live with your mother?
 * Bruce: Well, just for the first year.
 * Walter: Oh, that will be nice! Yes, yes, a home with mother - in Albany too!
 * Bruce: Mighty nice little town - Albany. They've got the state capital there, you know.
 * Walter: Well Bruce, how is business up there? Any better?
 * Bruce: Well, Albany's a mighty good insurance town. Most people there take it out pretty early in life.
 * Walter: Yeah, well I can see why they would.
 * Bruce: I figure I'm in one business that really helps people. Of course, we don't help you much while you're alive, but afterward - that's what counts!

 * Walter: Listen, Bruce, I, uh, let me get that straight, I must have misunderstood you. You mean you're taking the sleeper today and then getting married tomorrow?
 * Bruce: Oh, well, it's not like that.
 * Walter: Well, what is it like?
 * Hildy: Oh poor Walter. He'll toss and turn all night. Perhaps we better tell him Mother's coming along, too.
 * Walter: [To Hildy] Mother? Why, your mother kicked the bucket!
 * Bruce: No, my mother, my mother.
 * Walter: Oh, your mother. Oh, well, that relieves my mind.
 * Hildy: [To Walter] It was cruel to let you suffer that way. [To Bruce] Isn't Walter sweet? Always wanting to protect me.
 * Walter: Well, I admit I wasn't much of a husband, but you can always count on me, Hildy.

 * Bruce: You know, Hildy, he's not such a bad fellow.
 * Hildy: No, he should make some girl real happy.
 * Bruce: Uh-huh.
 * Hildy: [To herself] Slap-happy.
 * Bruce: He's not the man for you. I can see that. But I sort of like him. He's got a lot of charm.
 * Hildy: Well, he comes by it naturally. His grandfather was a snake.

 * Walter: Well, he'll (Egelhoffer) say the same as all the rest.
 * Hildy: Suppose he does.
 * Walter: Well, what's the scheme, Hildy?
 * Hildy: Look Walter, you get the interview with Earl Williams. Print Egelhoffer's statement. And right alongside of it - you know, double column - run your interview. Alienist says he's sane. Interview shows he's goofy.
 * Walter: Aw Hildy, you can do it. You could save that poor devil's life.

 * Bruce: How long would the interview take?
 * Walter: Oh, about an hour for the interview. Another hour to write it. That's about all.
 * Bruce: Hildy, we could take the six o'clock train if it'd save a man's life.
 * Hildy: No, Bruce. [To Walter] If you want to save Earl Williams' life, you write the interview yourself. You're still a good reporter.
 * Walter: Aw, Hildy. You know I can't write that kind of thing. It takes a woman's touch. It needs that heart, that...
 * Hildy: Now don't get poetic, Walter. Get Sweeney. He's the best man you've got on the paper for that sob-sister stuff.
 * Walter: [explaining that Sweeney is not to be found because he is out celebrating the birth of twins] So Sweeney has twins, and Earl Williams gets hanged tomorrow. [to Bruce] Well you argue with her. You argue with her. Otherwise, you're going on a honeymoon with blood on your hands. How can you have any happiness after that? All through the years, you'll remember that a man went to the gallows because she was too selfish to wait two hours. I tell ya, Bruce, Earl Williams' face will come between you on the train tonight and at the preacher's tomorrow, and all the rest of your lives.
 * Hildy: I just remembered. Sweeney was only married four months ago.
 * Walter: All right, Hildy, you win. I'm licked.

 * Walter: [to Bruce] You persuade Hildy to do the story and you can write out a nice fat insurance policy for me.
 * Bruce: I refuse to use my wife for business purposes.
 * Hildy: We could use that money, Bruce. How long would it take to get him examined?
 * Bruce: Well, I could get a company doctor here in twenty minutes.
 * Hildy: Alright Bruce, suppose you have Mr. Burns examined over in his office and see what they'll allow on that old carcass of his...
 * Walter: Say, I'm better than I ever was. How do ya like...
 * Hildy: There was never anything to brag about. Now look, Bruce. I'll go back and change and dress. And after you get the check, you phone me. I'll be in the press-room of the Criminal Courts Building. Oh Walter!
 * Walter: What?
 * Hildy: By the way, I think you'd better make that a certified check.
 * Walter: What do you think I am, a crook?
 * Hildy: Yes. No certified check, no story. Get me?
 * Walter: It'll be certified. Want my fingerprints?
 * Hildy: No thanks. I've still got those.

 * Roy Bensinger: A new lead on the hanging - This alienist from New York, Dr. Max J. Egelhoffer, Egelhoffer, yeah, he's gonna interview with him in about half an hour in the Sheriff's office...Here's the situation on the eve of the hanging...A double guard is being thrown around the jail, the Municipal Buildings, railroad terminals, and elevated stations to prepare for the expected general uprising of radicals at the hour of execution.
 * Murphy: The Sheriff has just put two hundred more relatives on the payroll to protect the city from the Red Army which is leaving Moscow in a couple of minutes.

 * Hildy: I have to do a yarn on Williams. Did he know what he was doing when he fired that gun?
 * Murphy: If you ask us, 'No.' If you ask the state alienist, the answer is 'Yes.'
 * Hildy: Who is he? What's he do?
 * Jake McCue: He was a bookkeeper. He starts out at twenty dollars a week and after fourteen years, he gradually works himself up to seventeen fifty...Plus the company goes out of business and Williams loses his job...
 * Ernie: So he starts hangin' around the park, listenin' to a lot of soapbox spellbinders makin' phony speeches and begins to believe 'em.
 * Endicott: And makes some of his own.

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 * Walter: [after designating Hildy as the beneficiary of his life insurance policy] Well, by that time, you'll probably have made enough so that the money won't mean anything to you. But suppose you haven't made good Bruce? What about Hildy's old age? Think of Hildy. Ah - I can see her now. White-haired. Lavender and old lace. Can't you see her, Bruce?
 * Bruce: [dreamily] Yes. Yes I can.
 * Walter: She's old, isn't she? Now Bruce, don't you think that Hildy is entitled to spend her last remaining years without worries of money? Of course you do, Bruce.
 * Bruce: Of course, if you put it that way.
 * Walter: And remember, I love her too.
 * Bruce: Yes, I'm beginning to realize that.
 * Walter: And the beauty of it is, she'll never have to know until I've passed on. Oh well, maybe she'll think kindly of me after I'm gone.
 * Bruce: Gee! You make me feel like a heel comin' between ya.
 * Walter: No, no Bruce. You didn't come between us. It was all over for her before you came on the scene. For me...it'll never be.

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 * Williams: He [the soap-box speaker] said everything should be made use of.
 * Hildy: It makes quite a bit of sense, doesn't it?...Now look, Earl, when you found yourself with that gun in your hand, and that policeman coming at you, what did you think about?...You must have thought of something...Could it have been, uh, 'production for use'?...What's a gun for Earl?
 * Williams: A gun?...Why to shoot, of course.
 * Hildy: Oh. Maybe that's why you used it.
 * Williams: Maybe.
 * Hildy: Seems reasonable?
 * Williams: Yes, yes it is. You see, I've never had a gun in my hand before. That's what a gun's for, isn't it? Maybe that's why.
 * Hildy: Sure it is.
 * Williams: Yes, that's what I thought of. Production for use. Why, it's simple isn't it?
 * Hildy: Very simple.
 * Williams: There's nothing crazy about that, is there?
 * Hildy: Nope. Nothing at all.
 * Williams: You'll write about that in your paper, won't you?
 * Hildy: You bet I will.
 * Williams: I liked talking to you.

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 * Mollie: Aren't they inhuman?
 * Hildy: I know. They're newspapermen.
 * Mollie: All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies...Why won't they listen to me?

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 * Murphy: Why can't you hang this guy at five o'clock instead of seven?
 * Bensinger: Sure, it won't hurt you, and we'd make the city edition.
 * Sheriff: Oh well now, that's, that's kind of raw, Roy. After all, I can't hang a man in his sleep just to please the newspaper.
 * Newsman: No, but you can reprieve him twice so the hanging's three days before election, can't ya?
 * Endicott: You can run on a law and order ticket. You can do that all right.
 * Sheriff: Honest boys, I had absolutely nothing to do with those reprieves. He's just as sane as I am.

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 * Newsman: Well, I still say that anybody that can write like that ain't gonna give it up permanently and sew socks for a guy in the insurance business. Now I give that marriage three months and I'm layin' three to one. Any takers?
 * Hildy: [entering the room] I'll take that bet. Geez. It's getting so a girl can't leave the room without being discussed by a bunch of old ladies...
 * Newsman: Oh, don't get sore, Hildy. We were only saying a swell reporter like you wouldn't quit so easy...
 * Hildy: Oh, I can quit all right without a single quiver. I'm gonna live like a human being. Not like you chumps.

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 * Walter: [describing Bruce] He looks like, uh, that fellow in the movies, you know, uh, Ralph Bellamy.
 * Benji: Oh him.
 * Walter: Can you handle it?
 * Benji: I've never flopped on you yet, have I?

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 * Mayor: Have you seen Sheriff Hartwell?
 * Endicott: It's hard to tell, your Honor. You see, there's so many cockroaches around here.

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 * Hildy: Mrs. Baldwin - Mother!
 * Mrs. Baldwin: Don't you 'Mother' me! Playing cat and mouse with my poor boy, keeping him locked up, making us miss two trains and you supposed to be married tomorrow.
 * Hildy: I'll be with you in five minutes.
 * Mrs. Baldwin: You don't have to go with me at all. Just give me Bruce's money and you can stay here forever as far as I'm concerned - you and that murderer you caught...Which one of these men is it? They all look like murderers to me.
 * Endicott: Wait a minute, Hildy. What murderer did you catch?...
 * Hildy: I don't know what she's talking about. I haven't said any such thing.
 * Mrs. Baldwin: I am quoting my son, and he has never lied to me.
 * Hildy: That's ridiculous. In the first place, I never said anything like that.
 * Mrs. Baldwin: Yes you did.
 * Hildy: No, I didn't. I said I was trying to find the murderer. [To the news-hungry reporters] She got it all balled up. Can't you see that?

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 * Walter: Get Bruce out of jail? How can you worry about a man who's resting in a nice quiet police station while this is going on? Hildy, this is WAR! You can't desert me now!
 * Hildy: Oh Walter, get off that trapeze. You've got your story right over there in the desk. Go on. Smear it all over the front page. Earl Williams - captured by the Morning Post. I covered your story for ya and I got in a fine mess doing it. Now I'm gettin' out.
 * Walter: You're a drooling idiot. What do you mean you're getting out? There are 365 days in a year one can get married. How many times you got a murderer locked up in a desk? Once-in-a-lifetime. Hildy, you got the whole city by the seat of the pants.
 * Hildy: Sure, I know, I know...
 * Walter: You know. You know. You got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering. It's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingston discovered Stanley.
 * Hildy: It's the other way around.
 * Walter: Oh, well don't get technical at a time like this. Do you realize what you've done, honey? You've taken a city that's been graft-ridden for 40 years under the same old gang. With this yarn, you're kicking 'em out. They're giving us a chance to have the same kind of government New York's having under LaGuardia. Listen honey, if I didn't have your best interest at heart, do you think I'd waste my time arguin' with ya? You've done something big, Hildy. You've stepped up into a new class.
 * Hildy: Huh?
 * Walter: We'll make such monkeys out of those ward heelers next Tuesday nobody will vote for 'em. Not even their wives.
 * Hildy: Expose 'em, eh...
 * Walter: Certainly. We'll crucify that mob. We'll keep Williams under cover until morning so the Post can break the story exclusive. Then we'll let the Governor in on the capture. Share the glory with him.
 * Hildy: I get it. I get it.
 * Walter: You've kicked over the whole City Hall like an applecart. You've got the Mayor and Hartwell backed up against a wall. You put one administration out and another one in. This isn't just a newspaper story, Hildy. It's a career. And you standin' there bellyache-ing about whether you're catchin' an eight o'clock train or a nine o'clock train.
 * Hildy: Well, Walter, I never figured it that way.
 * Walter: You're still a doll-faced hick, that's why.
 * Hildy: Gee, we'd be the white-haired boys, won't we?
 * Walter: Sure, they'll be naming streets after you. Hildy Johnson Street. There'll be statues of ya in the park. The movies will be after ya. The radio. By tomorrow morning, I'll betcha there's a Hildy Johnson cigar. I can see the billboards now. They say, 'Light up with Hildy Johnson.'
 * Hildy: Oh Walter, will you stop that acting!...We got a lot to do.
 * Walter: Now you're talking.

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 * Hildy: Walter? The mayor's first wife - what was her name?
 * Walter: You mean the one with the wart on her -
 * Hildy: Right.
 * Walter: Fanny.

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 * Bruce: Remember, if you change your mind, I'm leaving on the nine o'clock train.
 * Hildy: If you want me, Bruce, you've gotta take me as I am instead of trying to change me into something else. I'm no suburban bridge player. I'm a newspaperman. Darn it.

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 * Hildy: 'While hundreds of Sheriff Hartwell's paid gunmen stalked through the city shooting innocent bystanders, spreading their reign of terror, Earl Williams was lurking less than twenty yards from the Sheriff's Office where...'
 * Walter: Wait a minute, wait a minute, aren't you going to mention the Post? Doesn't the paper get any credit?
 * Hildy: Well, honey, I did that. Right there in the second paragraph.
 * Walter: Who's gonna read the second paragraph? Listen honey, for ten years, I've been telling ya how to write a newspaper story and that's all I get?

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 * Walter: Be honest. If you were out joy-riding, plastered, and got into some scrape, why don't you admit it instead of accusing innocent people?
 * Mrs. Baldwin: You ruffian. How dare you talk like that to me!
 * Hildy: He's just a little crazy, mother.
 * Mrs. Baldwin: And I can tell you something more. I can tell you why they did it...They had some kind of a murderer in here, and they were hiding him.
 * Walter: Madam. You're a Cock-Eyed Liar, and you know it.

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 * Mayor: Well, it looks like ten years apiece for you two birds.
 * Walter: Does it?
 * Hildy: Whenever you think you've got the Morning Post licked, it's time for you to get out of town.
 * Mayor: Whistling in the dark? Well that isn't gonna help you this time. You're through.
 * Walter: Listen. The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat. [Archie/Archibald Leach was Cary Grant's real name.]
 * Sheriff and the Mayor: Is that so?
 * Walter: We've been in worse jams than this, haven't we, Hildy?
 * Hildy: Nope.

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 * Hildy: Remember the time we stole Old Lady Haggerty's stomach off the coroner's physician...We proved she'd been poisoned then, didn't we, Walter? We had to hide out for a week. Do you remember that?...That's where, I mean, how...
 * Walter: We could have gone to jail for that too, you know that.
 * Hildy: I guess so.

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 * Walter: Aw yes, maybe you're right, Hildy. It's a bad business. Well, you're gonna be better off. Say, you better get going.
 * Hildy: Where would I go?
 * Walter: Well, to Bruce, of course.
 * Hildy: But you know, he's gone. He took the nine o'clock train.
 * Walter: Just send him a wire. He'll be waiting at the station when you get into Albany. Now go on.
 * Hildy: I don't know. I got so messed up, Walter. Maybe...
 * Walter: Get going, Hildy.
 * Hildy: Get going? What is that with you?
 * Walter: ...Now look, honey. Can't you understand? I'm trying to do something noble for once in my life. Now get out of here before I change my mind. Come on.
 * Hildy: But Walter, listen, just a minute...
 * Walter: ...Send the fellow a wire. He'll be waiting when you get in. Come on.
 * Hildy: Who'll write the story?
 * Walter: I'll do it myself. Won't be half as good as you can do it, but what's the difference?
 * Hildy: It's my story. I'd kinda like to think that it...I get it, Walter. The same old act, isn't it? Trying to push me out of here, thinking I'll be stupid enough to want to stay.
 * Walter: Now I know I deserve that, Hildy...but this is one time you're wrong. Look honey, when you walk out that door, part of me will go right with ya. But a whole new world's gonna open up for you. I made fun of Bruce and Albany and all that kind of thing, you know why?
 * Hildy: Why?
 * Walter: I was jealous. I was sore because he could offer you the kind of life I can't give ya. That's what you want, honey.
 * Hildy: I-I could stay and do the story, and take the train in the morning. Doesn't make that much difference.
 * Walter: Now forget it. Come on, come on. Goodbye dear, and good luck.

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 * Hildy: I thought you were really sending me away with Bruce. I didn't know you had him locked up. I thought you were on the level for once. I think you were just standing by and letting me go off with him without doing a thing about it.
 * Walter: Oh come on, honey. What do you think I was? A chump?
 * Hildy: And I thought you didn't love me.
 * Walter: Oh, what were you thinking with?
 * Hildy: I don't know. Well, what are you standing there gawking for? We have to get him out of jail. Send Louie down with some honest money and send him back to Albany where he belongs.
 * Walter: Sure, sure.

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 * Walter: [To Duffy on the phone] We're coming over to the office. No, don't worry about the story. Hildy's gonna write it. Course she's not quitting. She never intended to. We're gonna get married.
 * Hildy: Can we go on a honeymoon this time, Walter?
 * Walter: Sure. Hey Duffy, you can be managing editor. No, no, not permanently. Just for the two weeks we're away on a honeymoon...I don't know where we're going. [To Hildy] Where are we going?
 * Hildy: Niagara Falls.
 * Walter: [To Duffy] Niagara Falls, Duffy.
 * Hildy: Two whole weeks, Walter?
 * Walter: Sure. You've earned it. [To Duffy] What? What? Strike? What strike? Where? Albany? Well, I know it's on the way Duffy, but I can't ask Hildy to...
 * Hildy: All right, we'll honeymoon in Albany.
 * Walter: OK, Duffy! Ha, ha, ha. Well, isn't that a coincidence? We're going to Albany. I wonder if Bruce can put us up?

Taglines

 * She learned about men from him!
 * The Year's Wildest, Wittiest Whirlwind of a Love Battle... Outrageously Racy... Sparkling... Gay!

Cast

 * Cary Grant - Walter Burns
 * Rosalind Russell - Hildegard 'Hildy' Johnson
 * Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin
 * Gene Lockhart - Sheriff Peter B. 'Pinky' Hartwell
 * Porter Hall - Murphy, reporter
 * Ernest Truex - Roy V. Bensinger, Tribune reporter
 * Cliff Edwards - Endicott, reporter
 * Clarence Kolb - Fred, the Mayor
 * Roscoe Karns - McCue, reporter
 * Frank Jenks - Wilson, reporter
 * Regis Toomey - Sanders, reporter
 * Abner Biberman - Diamond Louie
 * Frank Orth - Duffy, Morning Post copy editor
 * Helen Mack - Mollie Malloy
 * John Qualen - Earl Williams

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Daniel Tosh

Daniel Tosh (born 29 May 1975) is an American comedian.

Quotes

 * Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like, five guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her...
 * Laugh Factory (2012); as quoted in "Daniel Tosh apologises for rape joke as fellow comedians defend topic", Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian, 11, Jul 2012

Comedy Central Presents: Daniel Tosh (2003)

 * Even when I was a kid, my imaginary friend would play with the kid across the street. I'd be like, "Hey, so I guess I'll see you later," and he's, like, "Whatever, queer".
 * I'm a lousy piece of ass, and I should know every woman I have been with has told me so, I've been there almost every time. I mean, the closest thing I got to a birds and bees talk was with my dad. He was like, "Son, sex is a lot like this egg." "Dad, I think those are drugs." "Whatever, queer." "Why does everyone keep saying that?" "Listen up, son, listen good. You take a woman and crack her over the head and lie her flat. Make sure she sizzles and then flip her over. Don't stand too close or you'll get yellow stuff all over your bacon" What? I see some of you holding your stomach and feeling: "No, you shouldn't." That's a breakfast joke. That's the most important joke of the day. If you don't laugh at that, you're gonna be sleepy around 11:30. And you'll be like, "Why am I so tired?"
 * The floor is lava! That's the lava game, when you pretend that the floor is lava and you climb up on all the furniture. I see some of you don't get that. I don't care, that's okay. You might have called it something else, but it meant the same thing; you were poor. I'd tell my mom, "I want a Nintendo." and she'd reply "The floor is lava!" "What's wrong with our house? Why can't we afford better carpeting? It's called two jobs, bitch!" That's how I used to talk. I was very street.
 * You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"
 * I don't think I could stab somebody, 'cause I'm really bad at a Capri Sun.
 * Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, "Hey, at least I'm not pregnant."
 * Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, "Hey, at least I'm not pregnant."

True Stories I Made Up (2005)

 * I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
 * I'm actually all for gay marriage. Just the thought of having another man around the house...
 * Butt sex is a lot like spinach: if you're forced to have it as a child, you won't enjoy it as an adult. (Track 10: Please Light Me - 00:34)
 * You are a sick freak who should be beaten.
 * You'll have to excuse me for my bad posture. My mom says it's 'cause I have a huge cock. Yeah, she talks like that. She's a sailor.  We don't judge her. She lives by one rule, and it's the rule of the sea.
 * I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fake...We have shows like Extreme Make-Over: "I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it."

Completely Serious (2007)

 * Thank you... I deserve that. I'm really good. I'm one of the best. Actually, I'm the best, currently ranked number one in the world. So buckle up. You guys are in for a treat. Oh, 19,000 people, This is awesome. Thank you. Seriously, don't look around. It's 19,000. People watching on tv, they never know. They're so stupid. That's why they watch tv.
 * Before I get started tonight, sorry in advance if I offend anyone. It's not my job to know what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time. It's how I know I still have one.
 * God doesn't hate gays. He's just upset that they found a loophole in the system.
 * Leopards can carry twice their own weight up a tree...I don't have a joke for that, yet. But, when you walk out of here tonight, you can say, "Well, at least I learned something. That guy's like a fucking Snapple!"
 * [On looters stealing VCR's] Why are you stealing a VCR, they don't even make VHS tapes anymore! I'd steal a TiVo...but I don't, because I'm rich, and I've had one for 3 years. I would say 4 years, but that won't make the joke any funnier. You tell people, "I've had a TiVo for 4 years," and they're all like, "Who's the dick?"
 * You know who LOVES to get fisted? Sock puppets. That joke is adorable!
 * I once had on a Lance Armstrong bracelet and a What Would Jesus Do bracelet and I rubbed a blind kid's eyes and he could see. But he wasn't used to the light, it was bright, walked into traffic, was killed instantly. Okay, those of you that are laughing, I'm going to call you half-full, because you're remembering the most important part of the joke: The bracelets are working!
 * I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.
 * [On looters stealing VCR's] Why are you stealing a VCR, they don't even make VHS tapes anymore! I'd steal a TiVo...but I don't, because I'm rich, and I've had one for 3 years. I would say 4 years, but that won't make the joke any funnier. You tell people, "I've had a TiVo for 4 years," and they're all like, "Who's the dick?"
 * You know who LOVES to get fisted? Sock puppets. That joke is adorable!
 * I once had on a Lance Armstrong bracelet and a What Would Jesus Do bracelet and I rubbed a blind kid's eyes and he could see. But he wasn't used to the light, it was bright, walked into traffic, was killed instantly. Okay, those of you that are laughing, I'm going to call you half-full, because you're remembering the most important part of the joke: The bracelets are working!
 * I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.
 * I once had on a Lance Armstrong bracelet and a What Would Jesus Do bracelet and I rubbed a blind kid's eyes and he could see. But he wasn't used to the light, it was bright, walked into traffic, was killed instantly. Okay, those of you that are laughing, I'm going to call you half-full, because you're remembering the most important part of the joke: The bracelets are working!
 * I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.
 * I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

Happy Thoughts (2011)

 * Thank you … San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you … for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
 * Oh, San Francisco! My 3rd favorite place to do comedy in. That's not bad, right? Top ten. More butt-fucking per square foot than any other place in the world, that's you guys. [Audience cheers] Put that on your postcards. "San Fransisco: More butt-fucking per square foot. Miss you."
 * I'm all for illegal immigration in this country except for the fact that they don't have to serve on jury duty. That's horseshit. It should be the other way around, they should serve exclusively on jury duty. Yeah, then, then, it would truly be a jury of one's own peers. [Some of the audience groans] It's not a stereotype if it's always true. Yeah, then it becomes law. That joke was called, "Latinos are criminals."
 * I can say that. I have a television show.
 * Am I the only one who thinks that David Beckham should film a sex scene with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of casting in Hollywood, but get it done before one of them is past their prime. Can you imagine those two making love? If there is not a man in here who's junk doesn't even wiggle at the thought of it, and this has nothing to do with your homophobic beliefs. At that level, it's art, you monkey! You should feel privileged that you get to breathe the same air as those Greek gods!
 * A golden shower and Kite Runner reference in the same joke? Almost impossible! Almost impossible! I pull it off, because I care.
 * Have you ever taken a post-shower shit? Augh! Might as well go back to bed, start your whole day over.
 * You should never eat when you're on the toilet. "But I'm lactose-intolerant, and I've always wanted to enjoy a bowl of Puffins with whole milk!" That's more of an almond milk cereal, but live your dream.
 * We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk? Why don't people talk about that?
 * Don't get lost on a hike there. You'll end up on YouTube without a head, and there's no web redemption for that.
 * Don't you love it when people in school are like, "I'm a bad test taker?" You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here[points to head], but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's. I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume your best work is in the A.M. Probably gets a bit abstract by noon.
 * You ever hear this expression? The worst day of fishing is better than the best day at work. Uh, I'll call B.S. I've watched the Deadliest Catch on Discovery. I've never once been at work, capsized in a 40 degree water, watched all my co-workers die, and be like, "Hey, at least we're fucking fishin'."
 * The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?
 * Babies aren't dishwasher-safe.
 * I came up with my own expression. I like to "make it hail". Yeah. That's when you throw change on sluts. [Mimes throwing change] "Ow! Were those nickels?" Yeah, it's a down economy, I'm a baller on a budget, bitch!
 * The first thing Michael Phelps should have done when that photo came out was call Kobe Bryant's publicist. Cuz Kobe was accused of rape, and all he had to do was settle in court for millions of dollars, change his jersey number and win a championship and that soulless town in LA couldn't be prouder. I just hope that when parents let their kids run around in #24 jerseys, they have the decency to say: 'well come on, number 8 was the rapist. Number 24 has a great work ethic and an unblockable turnaround.'
 * Have you heard about the kid who lost his head at Six Flags? The first time I read it, I thought, "Oh my God...How can I make this funny for everybody?"...Here goes. What happened was, he was in a church youth group and he lost his hat during the roller coaster. Afterwards, he was like, "I'm going to go get my hat." And there was a big fence with signs that said, "Hey, cut your losses." And he was like, "What? Have you SEEN me in that hat? Not today, fence!" So, he climbed that fence, and then there was another fence with a sign that probably said, "Hey, come on, knock it off." He was like, "You can't tell me how to live, signs!" And he climbed over that fence and there, the story ends. Did he get the hat? I'd like to think he did. That small silver lining, "Hey, I got my hat!" Then whack, right then! And I know he was on a church youth group and they don't believe in evolution, but that kid was going to get picked off sooner or later.
 * Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

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George Fisher (musician)

George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher (born July 8, 1969) is the vocalist for the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.

Sourced

 * It's art, just look at it as art. Yeah, it's disgusting, but that's never gonna happen. Go to the Vatican and look at some of the artwork there. Woah! That's real, representing something that could happen. Monsters are never gonna come ripping out of your body.
 * Discussing the Cannibal Corpse's usually gory album cover art, specifically ma-ta coaie "The Wretched Spawn"'s cover art in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

 * Anyone who doesn't like Metal is a fucking pussy!
 * From the Vile Live DVD

 * Kiss the ass of metal, you fucking Jerk-offs!
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhg51kROQ8&feature=related.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Zhang Qi Chao

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Zhang Qi Chao
Search for name and quote yields few results; no evidence of notability. - InvisibleSun 03:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Confusing Delete. If it's not going to be expanded I guess it shall be deleted. -- ~ ♥ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me! * ♥ ~  04:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete unless (A) the single well-known quote is sourced as original with this person, and (B) evidence of their notability is provided. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Jeffq. ~ UDScott 12:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't expect that we'll see any evidence that this person is the origin of the quote, given the lack of Google results on the name. —LrdChaos 14:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:05, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/The 4400

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: keep. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The 4400
I think this article should be delete because it needs more information, but no one adds any. It's like hardly anyone edits it.Either it gets expanded and cleanup, or it should be deleted.--  ~ ♥ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me! * ♥ ~  05:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: keep (7 keeps; article expanded, addressing nominator concern; no other dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * 1) Keep. While the article needs expansion and cleanup, it's about an established TV show. I've added a cleanup tag to it, in addition to the required vfd tag.~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Keep, concur with Jeffq. ~ UDScott 12:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Keep. It's a poorly-formatted stub, but it's a real, established show, and the quotes it gives are valid. —LrdChaos 14:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Keep, clean. BD2412 T 15:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Speedy Keep, I've added a few quotes for episodes and i've tidied the page; hopefully should be enough to save it till i have more time to work on her. WikiProject The 4400 has'nt got around to adding quotes yet; But i'll add some. MatthewFenton 17:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Keep. - InvisibleSun 17:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Keep. -   - Cbrown1023 03:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Some other page

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Some other page
I'm not really sure what this page is. It looks like it has sections for several different (some unrelated) Internet videos. —LrdChaos 15:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete, because I don't really see anything on that page worth merging with the pages we already have. —LrdChaos 15:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 15:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. It looks like just one person's collection of favorite quotes from an arbitrary set of works. If the user registers, maybe we can move it to their user page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- ~ ♥ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me! * ♥ ~  20:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 17:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:05, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I suspect that this page was created by the anonymous editor clicking on the link in Templates/Redirect, which is actually a placeholder page for creating redirects from the Redirect inputbox at Help:Starting a new page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/David H. Arrington

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

David H. Arrington
Not notable. ~ UDScott 20:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 20:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos 20:50, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just for form's sake, I added a nointro tag. I also removed the sole quote, which is a variation on a well-established Woody Allen quote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete.  ~ ☺ ♥ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me!  * ♥ ☺  ~  18:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 17:51, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 03:05, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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User:Obi-Jon

Obi-Jon is not a Jedi, as he would like people (including himself) to believe. From his lair in Providence, Rhode Island, he seeks to pour some gasoline on the fire of world knowledge. He also works on Wikipedia under the same moniker.

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User talk:Obi-Jon

Welcome
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User:Friendofworld

Just a Buddhist wikifan

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Wikiquote:AutoWikiBrowser

The AutoWikiBrowser is a semi-automated Wikiquote editor for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (or newer) designed to make tedious repetitive tasks quicker and easier. It is essentially a browser that automatically opens up a new page when the last is saved. When set to do so, it suggests some changes (typically formatting) which are generally meant to be incidental to the main change.

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The check page (required for usage) is found at AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage.

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User talk:Miguel Cervantes~enwikiquote

--Miguel Cervantes 02:03, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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 Miguel Cervantes. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Miguel Cervantes~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 23:29, 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) 05:53, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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title: User:Miguel Cervantes~enwikiquote