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Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel Phillips Huntington (18 April 1927 – 24 December 2008) was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Huntington was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council. During the 1980s Apartheid era in South Africa, he served as an adviser to P. W. Botha's Security Services.

He is best known for his 1993 theory, the "Clash of Civilizations", of a post-Cold War new world order. Huntington argued that clashes between rival civilizations would become the greatest source of global tension but also that an international order based on civilizations would serve as the best safeguard against war.

Quotes

 * When an American thinks about the problem of government-building, he directs himself not to be creation of authority and the accumulation of power but rather to the limitation of authority and the division of power.
 * Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), p. 7

 * Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
 * American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981), p. 262

 * Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.
 * The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991)

 * It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation-states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.
 * "The Clash of Civilizations?," in Foreign Affairs (1993)

 * In Eurasia the great historic fault lines between civilizations are once more aflame. This is particularly true along the boundaries of the crescent-shaped Islamic bloc of nations, from the bulge of Africa to central Asia. Violence also occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma and Catholics in the Philippines. Islam has bloody borders.
 * "The Clash of Civilizations?" (1993)

 * The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite. Labeled 'Davos Men', 'gold-collar workers' or 'cosmocrats', this emerging class is empowered by new notions of global connectedness... Estimated to number about 20 million in 2000, of whom 40 percent were American, this elite is expected to double in size by 2010. Comprising fewer than 4 percent of the American people, these transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations.
 * "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18

 * For almost four centuries, the Anglo-Protestant culture of the founding settlers has been the central and the lasting component of American identity. One has only to ask: Would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish, or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico, or Brazil.
 * "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18

 * Millions of immigrants and their children achieved wealth, power and status in American society precisely because they assimilated themselves into the prevailing American culture. Hence there is no validity to the claim that Americans have to choose between a white, racist, WASPish ethnic identity, on the one hand, and an abstract, shallow civic identity dependent on commitment to certain political principles, on the other. The core of their identity is the culture that the settlers created, which generations of immigrants have absorbed, and which gave birth to the American Creed.
 * "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18

 * Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.
 * "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite", The National Interest, No. 75 (Spring 2004), pp. 5-18

 * "We Americans" face a substantive problem of national identity epitomized by the subject of this sentence. Are we a "we," one people or several? If we are a "we," what distinguishes us from the "thems" who are not us? Race, religion, ethnicity, values, culture, wealth, politics, or what?
 * Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 9

 * National interests derive from national identity. We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.
 * Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 10

 * Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.
 * Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 12

 * To describe America as a "nation of immigrants" is to stretch a partial truth into a misleading falsehood, and to ignore the central fact of America's beginning as a society of settlers.
 * Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 46

 * Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization.
 * Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 171

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

The years after the Cold War witnessed the beginnings of dramatic changes in peoples’ identities and the symbols of those identities. Global politics began to be reconfigured along cultural lines. Upside-down flags were a sign of the transition, but more and more the flags are flying high and true, and Russians and other peoples are mobilizing and marching behind these and other symbols of their new cultural identities.
 * On January 3, 1992 a meeting of Russian and American scholars took place in the auditorium of a government building in Moscow. Two weeks earlier the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and the Russian Federation had become an independent country. As a result, the statue of Lenin which previously graced the stage of the auditorium had disappeared and instead the flag of the Russian Federation was now displayed on the front wall. The only problem, one American observed, was that the flag had been hung upside down. After this was pointed out to the Russian hosts, they quickly and quietly corrected the error during the first intermission.
 * Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 1 : Introduction: Flags And Cultural Identity

 * The survival of the West depends on Americans reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.
 * Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 1 : Introduction: Flags And Cultural Identity

 * Avoidance of a global war of civilizations depends on world leaders accepting and cooperating to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics.
 * Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 1 : Introduction: Flags And Cultural Identity

In the late 1980s the communist world collapsed, and the Cold War international system became history. In the post-Cold War world, the most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic. They are cultural. Peoples and nations are attempting to answer the most basic question humans can face: Who are we? And they are answering that question in the traditional way human beings have answered it, by reference to the things that mean most to them. '''People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and, at the broadest level, civilizations. People use politics not just to advance their interests but also to define their identity. We know who we are only when we know who we are not and often only when we know whom we are against.''' Nation states remain the principal actors in world affairs. Their behavior is shaped as in the past by the pursuit of power and wealth, but it is also shaped by cultural preferences, commonalities, and differences. The most important groupings of states are no longer the three blocs of the Cold War but rather the world’s seven or eight major civilizations. Non-Western societies, particularly in East Asia, are developing their economic wealth and creating the basis for enhanced military power and political influence. As their power and self-confidence increase, non-Western societies increasingly assert their own cultural values and reject those “imposed” on them by the West.
 * In the post-Cold War world, for the first time in history, global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational. During most of human existence, contacts between civilizations were intermittent or nonexistent. Then, with the beginning of the modern era, about A.D. 1500, global politics assumed two dimensions. For over four hundred years, the nation states of the West — Britain, France, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Germany, the United States, and others — constituted a multipolar international system within Western civilization and interacted, competed, and fought wars with each other. At the same time, Western nations also expanded, conquered, colonized, or decisively influenced every other civilization. During the Cold War global politics became bipolar and the world was divided into three parts. A group of mostly wealthy and democratic societies, led by the United States, was engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic, and, at times, military competition with a group of somewhat poorer communist societies associated with and led by the Soviet Union. Much of this conflict occurred in the Third World outside these two camps, composed of countries which often were poor, lacked political stability, were recently independent, and claimed to be nonaligned.
 * Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 2 : A Multipolar, Multicivilizational World

 * One widely articulated paradigm was based on the assumption that the end of the Cold War meant the end of significant conflict in global politics and the emergence of one relatively harmonious world. The most widely discussed formulation of this model was "the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing, Fukuyama argued, "… the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." … The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.
 * Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 3 : Other Worlds?, p. 31

 * China under the Tang, Sung, and Ming dynasties, the Islamic world from the eighth to the twelfth centuries, and Byzantium from the eighth to the eleventh centuries far surpassed Europe in wealth, territory, military power, and artistic, literary and scientific achievements. Between the eleventh and thirteen centuries, European culture began to develop, facilitated by the "eager and systematic appropriation of suitable elements from the higher civilization of Islam and Bizantium, together with adaptation of this inheritance to the special conditions and interests of the West".
 * Ch. 2 : Civilizations in History and Today, § 10 : Relations Among Civilizations, p. 50

 * The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
 * Ch. 2 : Civilizations in History and Today, § 10 : Relations Among Civilizations, p. 51

 * Asians, in short, are determined to exclude Australia from their club for the same reason Europeans do Turkey: they are different from us. Prime Minister Keating liked to say that he was going to change Australia from "the odd man out to the odd man in" in Asia. That, however is an oxymoron: odd men don't get in.
 * Ch. 6 : The Cultural Reconfiguration of Global Politics, Torn Countries: The Failure of Civilization Shifting, p. 152

 * The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness.
 * Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 1 : Western Universalism, p. 184

 * Having achieved political independence, non-Western societies wish to free themselves from Western economic, military, and cultural domination. East Asian societies are well on their way to equaling the West economically. Asian and Islamic countries are looking for shortcuts to balance the West militarily. The universal aspirations of Western civilization, the declining relative power of the West, and the increasing cultural assertiveness of other civilizations ensure generally difficult relations between the West and the rest.
 * Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 1 : Western Universalism, p. 184

 * Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle.
 * Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 1 : Western Universalism, p. 184

 * Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
 * Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 3 : Human Rights And Democracy, p. 197

 * In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced Anti-Semitism against Jews...
 * Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 3 : Immigration, p. 200

The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the US department of Defense. It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining, power imposes on them the obligation to extend that culture throughout the world. These are the basic ingredients that fuel conflict between Islam and the West.
 * Muslim governments, even the bunker governments friendly to and dependent on the West, have been strikingly reticent when it comes to condemning terrorist acts against the West. On the other side, European governments and publics have largely supported and rarely criticized actions the United States has taken against its Muslim opponents, in striking contrast to the strenuous opposition they often expressed to American actions against the Soviet Union and communism during the Cold War. In civilizational conflicts, unlike ideological ones, kin stand by their kin.
 * Ch. 9 : The Global Politics of Civilizations, § 2 : Islam And The West, p. 217

 * In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards.
 * Ch. 10 : From Transition Wars to Fault Line Wars § 3 : Incidence: Islam’s Bloody Borders p. 258 * Footnote 10: No single statement in my Foreign Affairs article attracted more critical comment than: "Islam has bloody borders." I made that judgment on the basis of a casual survey of intercivilizational conflicts. Quantitative evidence from every disinterested source conclusively demonstrates its validity.

The leaders of other countries have, as we have seen, at times attempted to disavow their cultural heritage and shift the identity of their country from one civilization to another. In no case to date have they succeeded and they have instead created schizophrenic torn countries. The American multiculturalists similarly reject their country’s cultural heritage. Instead of attempting to identify the United States with another civilization, however, they wish to create a country of many civilizations, which is to say a country not belonging to any civilization and lacking a cultural core. History shows that no country so constituted can long endure as a coherent society. A multicivilizational United States will not be the United States; it will be the United Nations.
 * The leaders of the United States have not only permitted that but assiduously promoted the diversity rather than the unity of the people they govern.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 1 : The Renewal Of The West?, p. 306

First, statesmen can constructively alter reality only if they recognize and understand it. The emerging politics of culture, the rising power of non-Western civilizations, and the increasing cultural assertiveness of these societies have been widely recognized in the non-Western world. European leaders have pointed to the cultural forces drawing people together and driving them apart. American elites, in contrast, have been slow to accept and to come to grips with these emerging realities.
 * A world in which cultural identities — ethnic, national, religious, civilizational — are central, and cultural affinities and differences shape the alliances, antagonisms, and policies of states has three broad implications for the West generally and for the United States in particular.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 308

 * Although Europeans universally acknowledge the fundamental significance of the dividing line between Western Christendom, on the one hand, and Orthodoxy and Islam, on the other, the United States, its secretary of state said, would "not recognize any fundamental divide among the Catholic, Orthodox, and Islamic parts of Europe." Those who do not recognize fundamental divides, however, are doomed to be frustrated by them.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 309

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.''' … The belief that non-Western peoples should adopt Western values, institutions, and culture is immoral because of what would be necessary to bring it about. The almost-universal reach of European power in the late nineteenth century and the global dominance of the United States in the late twentieth century spread much of Western civilization across the world. European globalism, however, is no more. American hegemony is receding if only because it is no longer needed to protect the United States against a Cold War-style Soviet military threat. Culture, as we have argued, follows power. If non-Western societies are once again to be shaped by Western culture, it will happen only as a result of the expansion, deployment, and impact of Western power. Imperialism is the necessary logical consequence of universalism. In addition, as a maturing civilization, the West no longer has the economic or demographic dynamism required to impose its will on other societies and any effort to do so is also contrary to the Western values of self-determination and democracy. As Asian and Muslim civilizations begin more and more to assert the universal relevance of their cultures, Westerners will come to appreciate more and more the connection between universalism and imperialism.
 * Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture. This belief is expressed both descriptively and normatively. Descriptively it holds that peoples in all societies want to adopt Western values, institutions, and practices. If they seem not to have that desire and to be committed to their own traditional cultures, they are victims of a “false consciousness” comparable to that which Marxists found among proletarians who supported capitalism. '''Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 310

To preserve Western civilization in the face of declining Western power, it is in the interest of the United States and European countries … to recognize that Western intervention in the affairs of other civilizations is probably the single most dangerous source of instability and potential global conflict in a multicivilizational world.
 * All civilizations go though similar processes of emergence, rise, and decline. The West differs from other civilizations not in the way it has developed but in the distinctive character of its values and institutions. These include most notably its Christianity, pluralism, individualism, and rule of law, which made it possible for the West to invent modernity, expand throughout the world, and become the envy of other societies. In their ensemble these characteristics are peculiar to the West. Europe, as Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has said, is “the source — the unique source” of the “ideas of individual liberty, political democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and cultural freedom. . . . These are European ideas, not Asian, nor African, nor Middle Eastern ideas, except by adoption.” They make Western civilization unique, and Western civilization is valuable not because it is universal but because it is unique. The principal responsibility of Western leaders, consequently, is not to attempt to reshape other civilizations in the image of the West, which is beyond their declining power, but to preserve, protect, and renew the unique qualities of Western civilization. Because it is the most powerful Western country, that responsibility falls overwhelmingly on the United States of America.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 311

 * Some Americans have promoted multiculturalism at home; some have promoted universalism abroad; and some have done both. Multiculturalism at home threatens the United States and the West; universalism abroad threatens the West and the world. Both deny the uniqueness of Western culture. The global monoculturalists want to make the world like America. The domestic mulitculturalists want to make America like the world. A multicultural America is impossible because a non-Western America is not American. A multicultural world is unavoidable because global empire is impossible. The preservation of the United States and the West requires the renewal of Western identity. The security of the world requires acceptance of global multiculturality.

 * Does the vacuousness of Western universalism and the reality of global cultural diversity lead inevitably and irrevocably to moral and cultural relativism? If universalism legitimates imperialism, does relativism legitimate repression? Once again, the answer to these questions is yes and no. Cultures are relative; morality is absolute. Cultures, as Michael Walzer has argued, are “thick”; they prescribe institutions and behavior patterns to guide humans in the paths which are right in a particular society. Above, beyond, and growing out of this maximalist morality, however, is a “thin” minimalist morality that embodies “reiterated features of particular thick or maximal moralities.” Minimal moral concepts of truth and justice are found in all thick moralities and cannot be divorced from them. There are also minimal moral “negative injunctions, most likely, rules against murder, deceit, torture, oppression, and tyranny.” What people have in common is “more the sense of a common enemy [or evil] than the commitment to a common culture.” Human society is “universal because it is human, particular because it is a society.” At times we march with others; mostly we march alone. Yet a “thin” minimal morality does derive from the common human condition, and “universal dispositions” are found in all cultures. Instead of promoting the supposedly universal features of one civilization, the requisites for cultural coexistence demand a search for what is common to most civilizations. In a multicivilizational world, the constructive course is to renounce universalism, accept diversity, and seek commonalities.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The Commonalities Of Civilization, p. 319

This effort would contribute not only to limiting the clash of civilizations but also to strengthening Civilization in the singular (hereafter capitalized for clarity). The singular Civilization presumably refers to a complex mix of higher levels of morality, religion, learning, art, philosophy, technology, material well-being, and probably other things. These obviously do not necessarily vary together.''' Yet scholars easily identify highpoints and lowpoints in the level of Civilization in the histories of civilizations. … '''When civilizations first emerge, their people are usually vigorous, dynamic, brutal, mobile, and expansionist. They are relatively uncivilized.''' As the civilization evolves it becomes more settled and develops the techniques and skills that make it more Civilized. As the competition among its constituent elements tapers off and a universal state emerges, the civilization reaches its highest level of Civilization, its “golden age,” with a flowering of morality, art, literature, philosophy, technology, and martial, economic, and political competence. As it goes into decay as a civilization, its level of Civilization also declines until it disappears under the onslaught of a different surging civilization with a lower level of Civilization.
 * At least at a basic “thin” morality level, some commonalities exist between Asia and the West. In addition, as many have pointed out, whatever the degree to which they divided humankind, the world’s major religions — Western Christianity, Orthodoxy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism — also share key values in common. If humans are ever to develop a universal civilization, it will emerge gradually through the exploration and expansion of these commonalities. Thus, in addition to the abstention rule and the joint mediation rule, the third rule for peace in a multicivilizational world is the commonalities rule: '''peoples in all civilizations should search for and attempt to expand the values, institutions, and practices they have in common with peoples of other civilizations.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The Commonalities Of Civilization, p. 320

 * The futures of both peace and Civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political, spiritual, and intellectual leaders of the world’s major civilizations. In the clash of civilizations, Europe and America will hang together or hang separately. In the greater clash, the global “real clash,” between Civilization and barbarism, the world’s great civilizations, with their rich accomplishments in religion, art, literature, philosophy, science, technology, morality, and compassion, will also hang together or hang separately. In the emerging era, clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
 * Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 4 : The Commonalities Of Civilization, p. 321

 * In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced anti-Semitism against Jews.
 * The Clash of Civilizations (1996), Simon and Schuster, 2007, p. 200

Quotes about Huntington

 * One of the most astonishing features of this apparently antagonistic world survey of the globalization process is the utter absence of any serious economics. This is truly political science of the most arid and specialized type, all diplomatic and military clashes, without a hint of the unique dynamics of the economic that makes for the originality of historiography since Marx … here the plurality of cultures simply stands for the decentralized, diplomatic and military jungle with which "Western" or "Christian" culture will have to deal. Yet ultimately, any discussion of globalization surely has to come to terms, one way or another, with the reality of capitalism itself.
 * Fredric Jameson discussing The Clash of Civilizations in Globalization and political strategy, New Left Review 4 (July/August 2000)

Ah, the cruel fortunes of the Geheimrat, subject to the whims of the sovereign! The U.S. government has repeated insistently since September 11 that its global security strategy has nothing to do with a clash of civilizations. There is something sad about an eager adviser who has been spurned by the sovereign and cast out of the court.
 * Huntington's brilliance as Geheimrat in the 1970s was to anticipate the needs of the sovereign, providing beforehand an antidemocratic how-to manual for the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions.
 * Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude (2004)

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Randomness

The term randomness is often used in statistics to signify well defined statistical properties, such as lack of bias or correlation. Random is different from arbitrary, because to say that a variable is random means that the variable follows a probability distribution. Arbitrary on the other hand implies that there is no such determinable probability distribution for the variable.

Quotes

 * How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?
 * Joseph Bertrand, Calcul des probabilités, 1889.

 * He who believes this (atomism) may as well believe that if a great quantity of the one-and-twenty letters, composed either of gold or any other matter, were thrown upon the ground, they would fall into such order as legibly to form the Annals of Ennius. I doubt whether fortune could make a single verse of them.
 * Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum, 2.37. Translation from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations; Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, C. D. Yonge, principal translator, New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, Franklin Square. (1877).

 * The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
 * Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1969.

 * The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
 * Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born, 4 December 1926; commonly paraphrased "God does not play dice with the universe."

 * Events may appear to us to be random, but this could be attributed to human ignorance about the details of the processes involved.
 * Brain S. Everitt, Chance Rules (1999), Chapter 12, p. 175.

 * Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word.
 * Stephen Jay Gould,"Chance Riches" in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983).

 * Randomness is a very, very subtle concept with its study properly belonging to statisticians more than mathematicians.
 * Julian Havil, The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On (2012), Chapter 9, p. 229.

 * Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
 * Stephen Hawking in a 1994 debate with Roger Penrose, as transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Hawking and Penrose, p. 26.

 * Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.
 * Brian Hayes (scientist), Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 23.

 * The fact that randomness requires a physical rather than a mathematical source is noted by almost everyone who writes on the subject, and yet the oddity of this situation is not much remarked.
 * Brian Hayes (scientist), Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 35.

 * Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe — in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance.
 * Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1960).

 * Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
 * Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II, 1969, section 3.1.

 * The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.
 * Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II, 1969, section 3.3.2.

 * A random sequence is a vague notion in which each term is unpredictable to the uninitiated and whose digits pass a certain number of tests traditional with statisticians and depending somewhat on the uses to which the sequence is to be put.
 * Dick Lehmer (1951), cited by Julian Havil in The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On (2012), Chapter 9, p. 229.

 * Quand une regle est fort composée, ce qui luy est conforme, passe pour irrégulier.
 * When a rule is extremely complex, that which conforms to it passes for irregular (random).
 * Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics (1686), §6.

 * For I do not believe that it is through the interference of Divine Providence … that the spittle of a certain person moved, fell on a certain gnat in a certain place, and killed it.
 * Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, 12th century, Friedländer translation.

 * Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us.
 * Alan Moore, Watchmen

 * Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
 * John von Neumann, "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in Monte Carlo Method (1951), ed. A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe, and H.H. Germond.

 * One of us recalls producing a 'random' plot with only 11 planes, and being told by his computer center's programming consultant that he had misused the random number generator: 'We guarantee that each number is random individually, but we don’t guarantee that more than one of them is random.' Figure that out.
 * William H. Press, Press, Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77: The Art of Scientific Computing (2nd ed), (1992). ISBN: 0-521-43064-X.

 * The definition of random in terms of a physical operation is notoriously without effect on the mathematical operations of statistical theory because so far as these mathematical operations are concerned random is purely and simply an undefined term.
 * Walter A. Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming, Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control (1939).

 * While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007).

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Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David -- Dates: June 23, 1894 to May 28, 1972). Edward was King from the death of his father, George V (1910–36), on January 20, 1936 until his abdication on December 11, 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson. After he abdicated, the former King became known as The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor.

Quotes

 * These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.
 * Spoken at an abandoned colliery, November 19, 1936. Often wrongly quoted as "something must be done".

 * At long last I am able to say a few words of my own... You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
 * Abdication Speech, via radio to a worldwide audience. (11 December 1936)

 * "[The Indian princes’] ceremonies are so irritating and ridiculous"
 * Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 116

 * "This place ought never to have been dug up."
 * On seeing the great archaeological finds at Taxila, in Punjab (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 140)

 * "It must be remembered that Dupach is more than half Negro, and due to the peculiar mentality of this Race, they seem unable to rise to prominence without losing their equilibrium."
 * Of Étienne Dupach, the editor of the Nassau Daily Tribune (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 448)

 * "I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece." (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
 * To John Kenneth Galbraith, who had been appointed American ambassador to India,

 * "British Empire. First trip to India. Glorious. Never would have believed it would all be gone in my lifetime. Not possible, I’d’ve thought. I am the last king-emperor, you know. My brother was, for a time, but had to give it up. I didn’t"
 * To Gore Vidal, who described the Duke as having "always had something of...riveting stupidity to say on any subject" (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

 * "Mona said, 'Did you see Gore's new play The Best Man when you were in New York?' 'Of course not.'...'Don't like plays, only shows.' He meant musical comedies."
 * In conversation with Mona Bismarck and Gore Vidal (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

 * Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, "I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really." (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

 * The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
 * Look magazine (5 March 1957).

 * It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.
 * Hoping George VI's illness would allow him to resume the throne. Quoted by Christopher Wilson, The Telegraph (22 November 2009)

 * Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: "Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet."
 * A King's Story (1951)

Around the World with the Prince of Wales
all quotations from Godfrey, Letters

 * [Italy:] [T]hey are indeed a repulsive nation these dagoes, both the men and the women & I'm just longing to quit them for good & all !!! (18 September 1918)

 * [ Cologne, Germany:] Claud & I had a stroll in the centre of town afterwards & had great fun making the Hun men civilians get off the pavement for us .... It does one worlds of good to know how humiliating it must be for the Huns. (9 January 1919)
 * [ Quebec City, Canada:] A rotten priest-ridden community who are the completest passengers & who won't do their bit in anything & of course not during the war !! (23 August 1919)

 * [In Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan] (referring to (First Nations of Canada, then known as Canadian Indians):] I've told you what a foul decadent lazy crowd they are & what I think of them !! But this camp is pitched right inside an Indian reserve … & we have hundreds of the mouldy local tribe camped around us. (6 October 1919)

 * [Barbados:] A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting. (26-27 March 1920)

 * [Panama:] [A] deadly spot the end of the world almost....There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal...; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words....the Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty. (31 March - 1 April 1920)

 * [ Honolulu, Hawaii:] (At a luau) [A] unique native stunt though the Hawaiian food we were made to eat was too revolting for words....One got rather tired of the native songs & longed for some of our tunes. (14 April 1920)

 * [Outside Adelaide, Australia:] [T]hey showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen. (11 July 1920)

 * [Acapulco, Mexico:] [Q]ueer, dirty little dago town....The people are too revolting for words, super dagoes & some of them are quite black as a result of Spaniards inter-breeding with the Indians; & of course they only speak Spanish. (9 September 1920)

Quotes about Edward VIII

 * This trend was encouraged by the well-known sympathies of the Prince of Wales, or King Edward VIII as he became on 20 January 1936. Lacking both intelligence and a sense of constitutional propriety, the Prince made his views clear when he told Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, in July 1933, that it "was no business of ours to interfere in Germany’s internal affairs either re Jews or re anything else" and that "dictators were very popular these days and that we might want one in England before long". Four months later, he told the former Austrian Ambassador Count Mensdorff that national socialism was "the only thing to do", while, in June 1935, the diarist and Tory MP Chips Channon noted "much gossip about the Prince of Wales' alleged Nazi leanings". The reason tongues had been set wagging was the speech the Prince had given to members of the British Legion on 11 June 1935, in which he praised the forthcoming visit to Germany of a delegation of ex-servicemen. This took place the following month and was, as Anthony Eden had warned, a propaganda gift for the regime.
 * Tim Bouverie Appeasing Hitler (2019)

 * The importance of the Abdication to our story is twofold. First, it removed a monarch who exhibited a worrying admiration for dictatorships in general and Nazi Germany in particular. Describing the crisis on 22 November, Chips Channon noted that the King, who "is insane about Wallis, insane", was also "going the dictator way", being "pro-German, against Russia and against too much slip-shod democracy". "I shouldn't be surprised", continued the Conservative MP, "if he aimed at making himself a mild dictator." This was unlikely. Yet it is possible to imagine a situation in which the King's sympathies, combined with his lack of respect for the constitution, could have triggered a worse crisis than that which occurred in December 1936. Then the monarchy was able to survive since it was essentially a personal affair and the King went quietly. A political rupture would have been a very different matter. Second, the Abdication was wilfully misinterpreted by Ribbentrop, who persuaded Hitler that it constituted a plot by the British Government to rid itself of a pro-German monarch. "Don’t you know what expectations the Führer has based on the King's support in the coming negotiations? He’s our greatest hope!" expostulated the Ambassador when the Embassy's Press Attaché, Fritz Hesse, tried to warn him about the crisis. "Don’t you think the whole affair is an intrigue of our enemies to rob us of one of the last big positions we hold in this country? … You'll see, the King will marry Wally and the two will tell Baldwin and his whole gang to go to the devil." When this turned out not to be the case, Hitler's confidence in the English and the possibility of an Anglo-German alliance was severely shaken. According to Hesse, he told Ribbentrop to pack his bags and return to Germany. There was, he said, "no other person in England who is ready to play with us" now "that the King has been dethroned".
 * Tim Bouverie, Appeasing Hitler (2019)

 * There is another grave matter which overshadows our minds tonight. In a few minutes we are going to sing "God Save the King". I shall sing it with more heartfelt fervour than I have ever sung it in my life. I hope and pray that no irrevocable decision will be taken in haste, but that time and public opinion will be allowed to play their part, and that a cherished and unique personality may not be incontinently severed from the people he loves so well. I hope that Parliament will be allowed to discharge its function in these high constitutional questions. I trust that our King may be guided by the opinions that are now for the first time being expressed by the British nation and the British Empire, and that the British people will not in turn be found wanting in generous consideration for the occupant of the Throne
 * Winston Churchill The Second World War Volume 1: The Gathering Storm (1948) [2009], p. 196, ISBN 0-395-41055-x
 * Quoting from a speech delivered on 3 December 1936.

 * It is not relevant to this account to describe the brief but intensely violent controversy that followed. I had known King Edward VIII since he was a child, and had in 1910 as Home Secretary read out to a wonderful assembly the Proclamation creating him Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle. I felt bound to place my personal loyalty to him upon the highest plane. Although during the summer I had been made fully aware of what was going forward, I in no way interfered or communicated with him at any time. However, presently in his distress he asked the Prime Minister for permission to consult me. Mr. Baldwin gave formal consent, and on this being conveyed to me I went to the King at Fort Belvedere. I remained in contact with him till his abdication, and did my utmost to plead both to the King and to the public for patience and delay. I have never reprented of this—indeed, I could do no other.
 * Winston Churchill, The Second World War Volume 1: The Gathering Storm (1948), pp. 196-197, ISBN 0-395-41055-x
 * He was at his best only when the going was good.
 * Alistair Cooke, Six Men (1977).

 * In Britain the inter-war years were marked by a decline in the power of two traditionally important institutions: the monarchy and the military. In December 1936 Edward VIII abdicated, having been bullied into doing so by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, who disapproved of the American divorcée he wished to marry and who asserted that the British public (and the governments of the Dominions) shared his sentiments.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 289

 * [An explanation for the attraction of Wallis Simpson] There must have been some sort of sadomasochistic relationship [...] He relished the contempt and bullying she bestowed on him.
 * Philip Ziegler, official biographer, cited in "Profile: Wallis Simpson" BBC News (29 January 2003)

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Boy George

George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George, (born June 14, 1961, in Eltham, Kent, England) is an English singer-songwriter. George grew up in a large, working-class Irish family.

Quotes

 * Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
 * The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:

 * Madonna is "a living, breathing cash register".
 * The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:

 * I was pleased because he is the first American rapper to say something positive about gay people. I met his mum, she's lovely.
 * The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
 * On Kanye West's winning of the Brit award

 * Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!
 * RBTV (Rainier Beach High School TeleVision in Seattle), 1996 (youtube clip)

 * I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
 * London newspaper, 1984
 * At other times he has characterized himself as "bisexual", "very confused", "not confused", and "not really all that keen on sex".

 * Jail's like school but you can't leave.
 * Boy George: 'Jail's like school but you can't leave', guardian.co.uk, 12 October 2010

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Neville Cardus

Sir Neville Cardus (2 April 1889 – 28 February 1975) was a celebrated British journalist. He was a music and cricket writer for the Manchester Guardian.

On cricket

 * For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.
 * Cricket (1930)

 * Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
 * Good Days (1934)

 * Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
 * Good Days (1934)

On music

 * A cultured aromatist.
 * Of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Manchester Guardian (1935)

 * If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
 * Manchester Guardian (1939)

 * Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.
 * Of Rachmaninoff's playing; Manchester Guardian (1939)

 * A great composition to me is ... an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
 * Preface to Ten Composers, August 1944.

 * Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
 * Manchester Guardian (1958)

 * It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.
 * Of Mozart's "The Magic Flute"; Manchester Guardian (1961)

Quotes about Cardus

 * He has made a contribution to cricket which no one can ever duplicate. It may be true that cricket was always an art, but no one until Neville Cardus presented it as an art with all an artist's perception.
 * John Arlott, "Neville Cardus", Wisden, 1965, pp. 120–27.

 * His books are full of humour: rich comedy, sometimes almost slapstick, and yet he keeps us hovering between tears and laughter. For always he is conscious, and makes us conscious, of the fragility of happiness, of the passing of time. He loved the good moments all the more avidly because he knew they were fleeting.
 * Alan Gibson, "Sir Neville Cardus", Wisden, 1976, pp. 107–10.

 * His descriptions of cricket gave it a pulse but, more significantly, chimed with the post-war mood for something romantic, something dreamy, something purely for fun. He spoke to a generation which already felt old, and his tender approach to cricket, as well as his empathy for it, gave whoever read him a feeling for matches they'd never seen, players they barely knew and even places – backwater towns and major cities alike – they couldn't visit.
 * Duncan Hamilton, The Great Romantic (2019), p. xix, on Cardus's cricket journalism in the 1920s.

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Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn (October 24, 1945 – May 11, 2016) was a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet.

Geek Love (1989)

 * The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it before. Liking it so much is dangerous now, and so I hold it and look through it, and drink it very slowly.

 * I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.

 * She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.

 * 'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.

 * Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.

 * She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.

 * It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.

 * And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.

 * I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.

 * The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.

 * Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull.
 * There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees.

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User:Mercutio~enwikiquote

Billy
" 'Bird pedophile' is a summary of Hooper's life in two words."

"This guy obviously doesn't know how debilitating a ten-foot wing span actually is."

"So is it a no on the whole 'bun juice' thing?"

"You just got zinged by a dead man."

Duncan
"One more hooker then it's my turn."

"Hey look, a grape!"

"I am still a pea!"

Hooper
"HOW DO YOU KNOW I'M HETEROSEXUAL!?"

Joe
"When I"m on a greased surface wearing slick pants, I tend to be lurching forward."

"You drowned our children?!"

"Psh. Scientific butt pirates maybe..."

Mike
"Biting off things that are attached to you is unpleasant."

"Monty, I didn't read the book, what happens after they get to Babylon?"

"I'm disappointed, I expected more groping."

Mitch
"This carpet smells like peanut butter!"

"Steve, I don't want you to ever come near one of my orifices again."

"Monty, quit pulling at my pants."

"You're supposed to look at it! Not touch it!"

Monty
"Ok, I suppose I'll give this so-called 'heterosexuality' one more try."

"Mike, you need a stronger groin."

"Logic isn't as important as incest."

"Martin Luther King did wonderful things for the Civil Rights movement, but his real passion was the nunchaku."

Rachel
"And Monty can be your crotch."(to Rich)

Rich
"Pain is so much more interesting than McGee's lecture."

"I'm Gene Hackman!"

Sam
"She doesn't have to be good, just enjoyable."

Smitty
"Just because I'm friendly doesn't mean I'm your friend."

Steve
"I often mistake cars for women, but I tend to prefer the former."

"By that you implied that I was having sex with Davy. Believe you me, when I'm having sex with Davy, you'll know."

"Guys, I think I'm the Messiah."

"Just because they have a penis does not mean they are a man."

"How do you think dark matter would feel if it knew we were gossiping about it behind its back?"

"I don't think it gets much better than peanut butter and poon tang."

Dialogue
James: "I got the tail end of that conversation."

Steve: "You seem to get the tail end of a lot of things."

Hooper: "Have you been peeking at my virginity again?"

Steve: "Oh yes, Hooper."

James: "It's called deductive reasoning! You look in the back of the book and-

Duncan: "And write down the answer. It's called cheating."

Steve: "Just because they have a penis does not mean they are a man."

Doug enters

Steve: "Take Douglas for example."

Doug: "Yeah! Take me for example! What were we talking about?"

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User talk:66.81.148.137

~ Kalki 21:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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Boho-chic

Boho-chic is a style of women's' apparel drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences that was fashionable in the decade of the 2000s.

Quotes

 * Trousers … have taken a backseat this summer, overtaken by the ubiquity of boho skirts
 * Lisa Armstrong, ibid., (13 August 2005)

 * Proper trousers are not boho
 * Lisa Armstrong, Times Magazine, (17 June 2006)

 * Heavily embroidered folklorique pieces - this summer's answer to last year's boho
 * Lisa Armstrong, Times Magazine, (5 August 2006)

 * Do you wonder what happened to those beautiful boho babes who floated through last summer in their eclectic finery?
 * Claudia Croft, Style, (2 July 2006)

 * Put some unstructured bohemianism into your beach life
 * Lucy Ewing, ''ibid.'

 * We thought Miss [Sienna] Miller had hit her fashion peak when she sparked a single-handed craze for all things boho, but this new Bob showed the world this Style Queen has staying power
 * Hair, (June 2006)

 * A slouchy, baggy cardigan is the essential new boho styling prop
 * Sara Hassan, Style, (1 May 2005)

 * A recent study concluded that car boots are the only truly classless British event, attracting the unwaged, boho trendies and middle Englanders
 * Carol Midgley, Times Magazine, (11 June 2005)

 * Bohemian. Ugh, that word
 * Savannah Miller, Style, (20 August 2006)

 * By June, Sienna Miller had made a mark with her sexy boho style. At Glastonbury she wore grungy dresses, belts and cowboy boots, confirming her status as a fully fledged style icon.
 * Style, (26 December 2004)

 * The younger bohos still love W10
 * The Tatler, (May 2006)

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William H. Gass

William H. Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor.

Quotes

 * Getting even is one great reason for writing. The precise statement of the motive is tricky, but the clearest expression of my unwholesome nature and my mean motives (apart from trying to write well) appears in a line I like in “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” The character says, “I want to rise so high that when I shit I won’t miss anybody.” But maybe I say it’s a motive because I like the line. Anyway, my work proceeds almost always from a sense of aggression. And usually I am in my best working mood when I am, on the page, very combative, very hostile. That’s true even when I write to praise, as is often the case.
 * Interview in The Paris Review Issue 70, (Summer 1977)

The Tunnel (1995)

 * So she drank to the point of suicide, because a life which not only lacked love, but couldn't even catch a little indifference, like a net to contain air, was intolerable; because she hadn't a single god, or goddamn thing to do, or anything she could look back on as done—completed or accomplished—only one pleasureless screw which produced an ingrate and a monster upon whom she nevertheless pinned her hopes with exactly the same chance for success as anyone would who tried to drive a nail into a passing cloud—a son to whom she threw her soul at considerable peril, like a stone in a paper boat.
 * pgs 136-137

 * Great undulating banners red as blood. And the brass bands. And the manly thud of uniformly set-down boots. And the rage inside the happy shouts. A hundred thousand spleens have found a mouth. Curtains of sperm are flung up the side of the sky. Hell has fertilized heaven. And now the hero comes—the trumpet of his people. And his voice is enlarged like a movie's lion. He roars, he screams so well for everyone, his tantrums tame a people. He is the Son of God, if God is Resentment. And God is Resentment—a pharaoh for the disappointed people.
 * p.155

 * But if you want to think about something really funny, consider how the titles of tyrants change. We shall suffer no more Emperors, Kings, Czars, Shahs, or Caesars, to lop off our limbs and burn our homes, kiddo, defile our women and bugger our boys; the masses make such appointments now; the masses love tyranny; they demand it; they dance to it; they feel that their hand is forming the First Citizen's Fist; so we shall murder more modestly in future: beneath the banners of Il Duce, Der Führer, the General Secretary or the Party Chairman, the CEO of something. I suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called Coach. -
 * p.155

 * O, Koh, the limerick is the unrefiner's fire. It is as false and lifeless, as anonymous, as a rubber snake, a Dixie cup. It is indeed the dildo of desire! No one ever found a thought in one. No one ever found a helpful hint concerning life, a consoling sense. The feelings it harbors are the cold, the bitter, dry ones: scorn contempt, disdain, disgust. Yes. Yet for that reason, nothing is more civilized than this simple form. -pg 177

 * The devil does not sign contracts with just anyone. Upon the tens of millions, no judgment is pronounced. For them there is death, of course, but no doom. The trouble with history is its incorrigible and horrifying honesty. Only the truly doomed matter a damn to it. History is the abyss of the doomed.
 * p.185

 * So city a man he seldom freed his feet to feel the country.
 * p. 217

 * I wonder how many men and women, kids and dogs, go through life in a state of modest misery; how much communal coldness there is, how much extinguished hope.
 * p. 226

 * My illness is alive, the threats to my life are real; yet it is only my death I feel, only the lessening made by my own loss. I am gone, Kohler, right now; and who is so dead as one so dead to a moment of life that life can't raise him up? Not to be here, not to see tomorrow—which, when I see it I shall find as stupid and empty as I found today—is appalling, Kohler, appalling... to slip into the insignificance of history like a thought held in a dream...
 * p. 250

 * If the study of history is the study of language in one form or another, and if we really fabricate our past, not merely—weakly—live it; then we can begin to see how the world was Greek once, or was Roman, since every page of consciousness was written in these tongues then. All the central documents—laws, plays, poems, reports, abiding wisdoms, letters, scientific learning, news—were couched in Greek or Latin phrases, and the chief historians consulted them, composed their chronicles from the same speech, in the same words. Don't you see that when a man writes the history of your country in another mother-language, he is bent on conquest?
 * p. 271

Quotes about William H. Gass

 * I am actively drawn to essays, and am right now immersed in “Life Sentences,” a 2012 collection by William Gass (our most accomplished living American essayist, hands down).
 * Cynthia Ozick Interview (2016)

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User talk:Ron Kirk

PW Reset
''I forgot my password to RadioKirk. Reset Please. 00:05, 9 September 2006 (UTC)'' {unsigned request by this user at User talk:Kalki}

I am afraid that neither an administrator nor a bueareaucrat can "reset" passwords. If you have declared an email contact address in your preferences file, an email with the password for a username could be sent to that address by clicking on the "E-mail password" button on the log-in screen. If you did not declare an email address for that account the simplest option available is simply to use another account. ~ Kalki 00:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Your Wikipedia userpage says your on a "Wikibreak." Old TI-89 00:42, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I was suspicious at the request, and would not have immediately granted it even if I had the ability. I had noted that RadioKirk had been impersonated in the past on other wikis. The edit activity concurrent with this user's requests indicates that it is very likely an account created by a pathetic nuisance who often attempts impersonations, and sometimes seems proud to declare him or herself to be "Wazzawazzawazza". ~ Kalki 01:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ Edith Sitwell

RADIOKIRK IS A HORRIBLE PERSON, he blocked my IP address and now i can't do a thing on this website. he must hate free speech.

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User talk:Old TI-89~enwikiquote

~ Kalki 06:53, 9 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 Old TI-89. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Old TI-89~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 23:31, 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) 05:54, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User:Old TI-89~enwikiquote

 ~ Kalki 06:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello! Welcome to my Wikiquote user page!

Me Around the Wiki World

 * Wikipedia
 * Wikinews

Quote of the Day
"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the rules. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden in them that every honorable man will do in any day of the year, and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet"-Herman Hesse

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User talk:My Name~enwikiquote

~ Kalki 00:49, 9 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 My Name. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name My Name~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 23:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:65.78.87.120

This IP address consistently has edited only during vandal attacks, and it's history and some deleted edits indicate it is likely an IP used by a known vandal.

Incidents of deliberate vandalism have resulted in this IP being temporarily blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 01:40, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Don't claim to be a nominator. Continued disruption will result in a block. Nyarlathotep 20:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Incidents of deliberate vandalism have resulted in this IP being temporarily blocked from editing for a period of one week. Further disruption should result in longer blocks. ~ Kalki 02:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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User:65.78.87.120

This IP address consistently has edited only during vandal attacks, and it's history and some deleted edits indicate it is likely an IP used by a known vandal. ~ Kalki 01:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

title: User:65.78.87.120