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Clone High

Clone High is an adult animated sitcom that was aired on MTV and Teletoon from 2002 until 2003 and on Max since 2023. The comedy centers on a high school populated by the clones of famous historical figures.

Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand [1.1]

 * JFK: [popping in and out of bathroom to taunt Abe and Gandhi] I will see you there. And by will, I mean won't. HA HA HA! / Because you're not invited. I, er, wasn't sure if I was clear on that earlier. So you're not. Invited that is. / TO MY PARTY!! / Forgot to wash my hands...

 * Van Gogh: [on phone] Sometimes I just turn the lights off in my room and cry.
 * Gandhi: I'm sorry, uh, Van Gogh, could you speak up?
 * Van Gogh: The only way I can cling to my sanity is that nobody knows how lonely I truly am.
 * Gandhi: [To crowd at party, snickering] He's sad...
 * Crowd: [Laughs]
 * Gandhi: It's Hilarious!
 * Van Gogh: Wait, am I on speakerphone?
 * Gandhi: Hey, would Gandhi put somebody on speakerphone?
 * Crowd: NO!
 * Van Gogh: This is Gandhi, how could you? [begins to tear up and his lower lip begins to quiver]
 * Gandhi: Hey man, Gandhi's anti-violence, not anti-comedy. [Hangs up] Whoo. Feels good to help people.

Election Blu-Galoo [1.2]

 * Scudworth: Your secret army of cloned historical figures is maturing according to schedule.
 * Shadowy Figure: I'm sorry, Dr. Scudworth, is that a scale model behind you labelled "Dr. Scudworth's Evil Plan?"
 * Scudworth: Say, where'd you get those fresh Pumas, Bro?
 * Shadowy Figure: Actually, we're sponsored by Puma. These bad boys are catalogue-only.
 * Scudworth: If you're implying that I plan to steal the clones away from you and use them in a clone-themed amusement park, then shame on you. By the by, could I have $2,000,000...you know, for dry erase markers and such...they've got some keen new colors like...kiwi...and mango...
 * Shadowy Figure: For giggles, I'm going to keep saying "no" until you turn the TV off. No, no, no, no, no, no, no—

 * Abe: Right now all I can think about is not thinking about you over there on your thinking dock thinking about what you did.
 * Joan: I was only trying to help, Abe. You don't know what you're getting into...what she's getting you into.
 * Abe: You don't know what you're getting into, and that's out of my friendship. And do you know what hurts the most, Joan? This nail I just stepped on.  But there's a metaphorical nail in my other foot that hurts the second most, and it's from you backstabbing me.  So maybe instead of the nail metaphor, I should have used a stabbing metaphor, but it's too late for that now, isn't it?
 * Joan: I guess it is.
 * Abe: That's where you're wrong, Joan. Because I'm going to win that election with the most dangerous campaign stunt since Dukakis jumped the snake river canyon. Goodbye, Joan. [Walks off dock into water. Gets back onto dock] ...Goodbye, Joan.

A.D.D.: The last D is for disorder [1.3]

 * [Tom Green has just noticed Abe reading his book]
 * Tom Green: Hey, you're reading my book! Touch the book...lick the book. Lick the book. Lick the book. Lick the book. Lick the book. Lick the book. Lick the book. Lick the book. Book. Book. Book. Book. Book. Yeah, I haven't read it either, people with ADD aren't good readers. Wanna go shave a dog?'''
 * Abe: My friend has ADD, and everyone at school treats him like some kind of leper.
 * Tom Green: Well, that's discrimination! Hey, do you wanna go take a dump in my parents' bed?
 * [Abe remains silent]
 * Tom Green: [Caws] I'm an albatross! I'm an albatross! I'm flap-flap-flapping my albatross wings, flap-flap-flapping my albatross wings...[falls out of window]...AAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH-[pokes the skin on his elbow]-AGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 * Tom Green: Hi everybody, I'm Ottawa's Tom Green. I live in Hollywood.
 * [crowd claps]
 * Tom Green: Thank you. So, some of you have been mean to a kid with A.D.D. That's not cool. Coffee? Anyone...coffee, anyone? Huh? Sorry. I like cotton candy. Check out my muscle. Potato chips! It's a Ferris wheel! So I guess what I'm trying to say is...
 * [sees a plastic bag blow by and runs after it]
 * Tom Green: ...Plastic bag! Plastic bag! Plastic bag! Plastic bag! Plastic bag!
 * Abe: Like Mister Green so eloquently said ...

 * Tom Green: WHO LIKES CHEESE?

Film Fest: Tears of a Clone [1.4]

 * Scudworth: Maybe we could have dinner. Perhaps the Olive Garden. It's like eating in the private kitchen of a delightful Italian stereotype!
 * Shadowy Figure: We were thinking somewhere more...intimate. Your house, next Friday, no dairy. Please.
 * [transmission ends]
 * Scudworth: Dammit! I haven't been to the Olive Garden in, like, forever!

 * George Washington Carver: Say what?
 * Gandhi: Cut. No! No, no, man, you're making me fall asleep... tah death, bro! 'K, the line is "Say whaaaaat?"
 * George Washington Carver: Say what?
 * Gandhi: Say whaaaaat?
 * George Washington Carver: Say what?
 * Gandhi: Say...
 * George Washington Carver: Say...
 * Gandhi: Whaaa
 * George Washington Carver: What?
 * Gandhi: Say whaaaaat?
 * George Washington Carver: [Irritated] I! GANDHI! This character is not me!
 * Gandhi: Say whaaa...
 * George Washington Carver: Stop it! Listen...

Sleep of Faith: La Rue D'Awakening [1.5]

 * Doug Prepcourse: Sleep ought to be the number one thing on that list. I was in my 18 wheeler late one night, at about the sleepy hour, when I came across a cop, weaving all over the road. He was clearly too sleepy to drive. I tried to guide him off the road with my rig, but I think I over did it and sent that cop sailing off a cliff. [Laughs]
 * Joan: Did you kill him?
 * Doug Prepcourse: Kill him!? I saved his life... 'course, he's a cripple now.
 * Gandhi: [Pause] Hey, is that your rig? SWEET!

 * Gandhi: I don't know if I want a hamburger, hot dog, chili, or all of above.
 * Doug Prepcourse: Can you eliminate two of the options? If you can, go ahead and guess. Chances are, that's what you want.
 * Gandhi: It makes sense because it's real.

Homecoming: A Shot in D'Arc [1.6]

 * JFK: Gay foster dads, do you mind if I watch Will & Grace with you?
 * Gay foster dad: But you usually watch SportsCenter up in your room, baby.
 * JFK: Well, I've been thinking of switching channels... and I'm a little scared.
 * Gay foster dad: Getting into a new show can be a little uncomfortable, but once you get into the rhythm of it you'll be on your knees begging for more.

 * Mr. Butler-tron: Your friend should listen to her heart. I'm not programmed to wink but if I were programmed to wink I would have winked when I said your friend.

Plane Crazy: Gate Expectations [1.7]

 * Principal Scudworth: My evil surgery certainly won't be disturbing at an expensive china store.
 * Skunky-Poo: Yoo-hoo! (Scudworth drops the tool and ends up hitting the clone, the clone screams in pain and his blood lands on lab coat. Scudworth's heart pumps and Skunky-Poo drops a dynamite)
 * Principal Scudworth: Ma'am, I believe this lipstick of dynamite belongs to you! (The dynamite explodes in his face, Scudworth screams in agony) That dynamite really sparked! (Skunky-Poo unzips the disguise, sprays on his face and kisses)
 * Skunky-Poo: Try and catch me, bitch! (Runs away, all the china fall and shatter)

 * Abe: CLEO!!!!! (Cleopatra gasps) Don't get on that plane! (The conductor closes the door. Abe gasps) BUDDY HOLLY! Is there any room on your plane?
 * Buddy Holly: Well, let me see. It's me, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, Jim Croce, Stevie Ray Vaughan and a half of Lynyrd Skynyrd. I guess there's any room for more.

 * Principal Scudworth: Yo, the atta-boy! Bring me a hot dog with a side of ketchup! (Krabby Cakes wears a shirt, pants and ladder, holds a hot dog and dynamite on a round tray and gives Scudworth the hot dog and dynamite) This ketchup will be spice up my dog. (He tries to squeeze the dynamite, but he realizes that dynamite is disguised as "Catsup") Darn it! It's being blocked by some sort of lit fuse! (Explodes in his face, Scudworth screams in pain)
 * Krabby Cakes: You've got crabs, ass-face! (Krabby Cakes jumps on Scudworth's palm, cuts his nose) Aha!

(A picture shows a scared Scudworth and Krabby Cakes goes by the title "SCUDWORTH & KRABBY CAKES in HELP! I GOT CRABS!")

A Room of One's Clone: Pie of the Storm [1.8]

 * Abe: Girls, girls, please! You know how I feel about conflict. I'm against it! Now, I love you both. One in a completely platonic way, the other with a fiery passion that most people know but once in a lifetime. By the way, that one's not you, Joan; it's Cleo.

 * Joan of Arc: [referring to Cleo's bra] Why don't you just take the tissues out and it'll fall off?
 * Cleopatra: [gasps] You signed a nondisclosure agreement! I hope you have good lawyers, because I'm gonna sue your hand-me-down pants off, bleacher trash!
 * Abe: Girls, girls, girls! You're both human beings. You both put your bras on one leg at a time.

Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts [1.9]

 * Larry Hardcore: Are you ready to say no to drugs? Coz if you don't say no to drugs, you're gunna say yes, to regret. And believe me, I know a little something about regret. I regret the time, that I got 'high' and wrote a hit song and it made me insane amounts of coin.  Coin I used to buy more drugs.  And a motor boat.  And a house for my mom.  Plus I gave some to charity.  See, I was into everything.  Weed, grass, ganja, reefer, marijuana, mary-jane.. I did it all. I even smoked pot once.  I was such a waste case, I would've probably smoked..I dunno raisins if somebody told you that got ya high.

 * Gandhi: Geldemore! But, where's the princess?
 * Geldemore: Closer than you think, Gandhi. Use the Amulet.
 * [Gandhi uses the amulet; Geldemore becomes slightly more humanoid but is still very much unicorn-ish.]
 * Geldemore: It was I, all along. As a reward for your bravery and leadership, I shall thrice lay you.
 * Gandhi: Uhhh, that's—, that's cool. But [cough] I'm good.
 * Geldemore: But, but, but I shall thrice lay you.
 * Gandhi: Uh, I just ate, and they say you shouldn't lay thrice, uh, after eating. Uh [cough] thank you.
 * Geldemore: We could just do coffee first. It doesn't have to be a big deal.
 * Gandhi: It's just, um, I've got to be up early.
 * Geldemore: Oh—, Ok, alright, that's fine. I'm kinda seeing someone anyway.
 * Gandhi: Well, uh, thanks for the trippy adventure through my subconscious, huh. I'll call you.
 * Geldemore: Oh, ok, great.
 * Gandhi: You know, maybe we could, uh, hang out, uh, but, you know, not—
 * Geldemore: Sure, sometime, maybe.
 * Gandhi: —not lay.
 * Geldemore: Whatever. I'm listed, in Santa Monica.

Litter Kills: Litterally [1.10]

 * Scudworth: D'oooh, he thinks he's the greatest thing since wheels on a bucket!

 * Glen the Janitor: Ponce was like a son to me... probably because he was my foster son... my DEAD foster son. [sobs] Son, I just want you to know--
 * Scudworth: Oh, janitor! Some kid threw up in the hallway. Could you make with the sawdust and clean it up?
 * Glen: I'm... kinda delivering my son's eulogy, here.
 * Scudworth: Yeeeah... If you could just do it now, your son will still be dead when you get back.

 * Joan: [after Gandhi throws a cup] That's not COOL, Gandhi!
 * Gandhi: If littering's not cool, why does Ponce do it?

Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode [1.11]

 * Abe: Where am I going to get money to buy Cleo a good present?
 * Gandhi: Have a Bar Mitzvah, dude. You get mad stacks!
 * Abe: Sounds sweet but I think I'm going to do the Christian thing, get a job.
 * Gandhi: Right on! Both Will Smith and Bill Gates have jobs and they're millionaires!
 * Abe and Gandhi: [High five] To jobs!

 * Abe: What a jerk! Napoleon's got some sort of a complex. I don't know what it is, but man.

Makeover, Makeover, Makeover: The Makeover Episode [1.12]

 * Scudworth: I first got the idea for Cloney Island after seeing the movie Jurassic Park 3. But my ill-conceived amusement park will be filled with human clones instead of zoo animals. It's as fool-proof as the amusement park in the movie itself!

 * JFK: Hey, you! Half Pint, Junior Mint, Pipsqueak, Tiny Tim, Yardstick, Snack Pack, Wee Fella, Brown Leprechaun!
 * Gandhi: Are you talking to me?

 * JFK: No, no, no! Like this! 'Fo-wah, suppah, I, er, uh, wanna party plattah!'

Changes: The Big Prom: The Sex Romp: The Season Finale [1.13]

 * Scudworth: [in anguish] "STAMOS! DAMN HIM AND HIS JET-BLACK HAIR AND AWARD-WINNING SMILE! Oh, I'm a failure! A failure! I'm so disorganized! I start to dial, but I never call anyone back! You should see my car! It's a mess. I'm a mess! I go to the submarine sandwich restaurant and I leave my submarine sandwich restaurant value card at home,every time! All I want is a free sandwich. STAMOS!"

 * Abe's foster dad: Well, foster son, over half of high school students nationwide have chosen abstinence, which is a good choice. But they're not dating Cleo-frigging-patra! Have you seen that girl's ass!? It's built like the space shuttle! Oh this could be your only chance to drown the slippery otter! To harpoon the salty longshoreman! To verb the adjective noun! But, abstinence is a good choice as well.

 * Cleo: Abe, it's sex o' clock, it may sound like I said six, but I replaced it with a more suitable term, [whispers] sex!
 * [Abe looks at Cleo and Joan over and over again until Cleo stick her tongue and hops on Abe's back]
 * Abe: [whispering] Cotton balls...

 * Abe: But Joan. I love- [gets frozen]

Cast

 * as Abe Lincoln
 * as Joan of Arc and Marie Curis
 * Michael McDonald as Gandhi (season 1)
 * as JFK and Mr. Lynn Butlertron
 * as Cleopatra Smith (season 1) and Candide Sampson
 * as Cleopatra Smith (season 2 onwards)
 * as Frida Kahlo
 * as Harriet Tubman (season 2 onwards)
 * as Confucius
 * as Topher Bus
 * Phil Lord as Principal Scudworth and Genghis Khan
 * as Toots, Wally, X-Stream Bob, Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver
 * as Julius Caesar, Buddy Holly, Carl, and Moses, Krabby Kakes, Glenn the Janitor
 * as Mr. Sheepman, Police Officer and Vincent van Gogh
 * as Catherine the Great
 * as Scangrade
 * as Harriet Tubman (season 1), Eva Perón, Skunky-Poo, Reporter
 * as X-Stream Erin, Marie Antoinette
 * Zach Braff as X-Stream Mike, Paul Revere
 * as Abe's Foster Dad

title: Clone High


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Horace Mann

Horace Mann (4 May 1796 – 2 August 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist

Quotes

 * If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
 * Journal entry (29 October 1838)

 * Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.
 * The Common School Journal, Vol. III, No. 17 (1 September 1841)

 * Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing, papermaking, and so forth. … All children will work better if pleased with their tools; and there are no tools more ingeniously wrought, or more potent than those which belong to the art of the printer. Dynasties and governments used to be attacked and defended by arms; now the attack and the defence are mainly carried on by types. To sustain any scheme of state policy, to uphold one administration or to demolish another, types, not soldiers, are brought into line. Hostile parties, and sometimes hostile nations, instead of fitting out martial or naval expeditions, establish printing presses, and discharge pamphlets or octavoes at each other, instead of cannon balls. The poniard and the stiletto were once the resource of a murderous spirit; now the vengeance, which formerly would assassinate in the dark, libels character, in the light of day, through the medium of the press. But through this instrumentality good can be wrought as well as evil. Knowledge can be acquired, diffused, perpetuated. An invisible, inaudible, intangible thought in the silent chambers of the mind, breaks away from its confinement, becomes imbodied in a sign, is multiplied by myriads, traverses the earth, and goes resounding down to the latest posterity.
 * "Printing and Paper Making" in The Common School Journal Vol. V, No. 3 (1 February 1843)

 * God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
 * The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 18 (15 September 1843)

 * Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
 * The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)

 * Lost — Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
 * Published (anonymously) as "A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT … which we clip from an exchange paper" in Universalist Union (16 March 1844), p. 288.
 * Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever!
 * Variant in Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann, ed. Mary Mann (Boston: H. B. Fuller and Company, 1867), p. 217
 * Lost, Two golden hours: Each with a set of Sixty diamond minutes! No reward Is offered, for they are Lost for ever!
 * Variant (with "yesterday" omitted and "with a set of" instead of "set with") published without any crediting of authorship as "Loss of Time" in The Church of England Magazine (28 June 1856), p. 424
 * Sometimes titled "Lost, Two Golden Hours". Most commonly quoted in Mann's second version — i.e., with a comma after "Lost" instead of a dash and without italics — but with the first version's period (full-stop) rather than the second's exclamation mark.

 * Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. As childhood advances to manhood, the transition from bad manners to bad morals is almost imperceptible. Vulgar and obscene forms of speech keep vulgar and obscene objects before the mind, engender impure images in the imagination, and make unlawful desires prurient. From the prevalent state of the mind, actions proceed, as water rises from a fountain.
 * The Common School Journal Vol. IX, No. 12 (15 June 1847), p. 181

 * Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of their fellow-men. This idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich: it prevents being poor.
 * 12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education (1848); published in Life and Works of Horace Mann Vol. III, (1868) edited by Mary Mann, p. 669

 * Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
 * Address at Antioch College (1859)

 * Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
 * As quoted in Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 74

 * Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
 * As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds : A Treasury Of Quotations From The Literature Of Every Land And Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch

 * Observation — activity of both eyes and ears.
 * As quoted in Every Other Sunday Vol. 23 (1907) by The Unitarian Sunday-School Society, p. 19

 * I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
 * As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards

 * Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
 * Quoted in Thoughts (1901) by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, p. 83, and in Collect Writings of Russell H. Conwell (1925), Vol. 1, p. 396

 * A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
 * As quoted in Words for Teachers to Live By (2002) by Mary Engelbreit

 * Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
 * As quoted in The Quotable Teacher (2006) by Randy Howe, p. 67

 * So much, then, my friends, is done, in the common and established course of nature, for the welfare of our children. Nature supplies a perennial force, unexhausted, inexhaustible, re-appearing whenever and wherever the parental relation exists. We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and devoted than ourselves.
 * Lectures and Annual Reports on Education, by Horace and Mary Peabody Mann (1867)

Congressional speech (1849)

 * Speech in the US House of Representatives (23 February 1849), published in Slavery : Letters and Speeches (1851)

 * God is more to me than a grand and solitary Being, though refulgent with infinite perfections. Contemplated as enthroned in the midst of his works, his spiritual offspring in all the grand circuit of the worlds he has formed become a multiplying glass, reflecting back the Original in the profusion and countlessness of infinity. But when the wickedness of man cuts off entire generations and whole races from the capacity of reflecting back this radiant image of the Creator, then all that part of the universe where they dwell becomes black and revolting, and all that portion of the Mirror of Souls which was designed to reproduce and rekindle the glories of the Eternal absorbs and quenches the rays which it should have caught and flamed with anew, and multiplied and returned.

 * I affirm, in words as true and literal as any that belong to geometry, that the man who withholds knowledge from a child not only works diabolical miracles for the destruction of good, but for the creation of evil also. He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacuities of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead. Superstition is the mathematical complement of religious truth; and just so much less as the life of a human being is reclaimed to good, just so much more is it delivered over to evil. The man or the institution, therefore, that withholds knowledge from a child, or from a race of children, exercises the awful power of changing the world in which they are to live, just as much as though he should annihilate all that is most lovely and grand in this planet of ours, or transport the victim of his cruelty to some dark and frigid zone of the universe, where the sweets of knowledge are unknown, and the terrors of ignorance hold their undisputed and remorseless reign.

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)

 * A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

 * Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them. Hence, a knowledge what to select and how to pursue, is as necessary to the highest happiness as virtue herself. Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
 * p. 10

 * The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore. The laws by which the winds blow, and the tides of the ocean, like a vast clepsydra, measure, with inimitable exactness, the hours of ever-flowing time; the laws by which the planets roll, and the sun vivifies and paints; the laws which preside over the subtle combinations of chemistry, and the amazing velocities of electricity; the laws of germination and production in the vegetable and animal worlds, — all these, radiant with eternal beauty as they are, and exalted above all the objects of sense, still wane and pale before the Moral Glories that apparel the universe in their celestial light. The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. Arabian gardens in their bloom can exhale no such sweetness as charity diffuses. Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies.
 * pp. 37–38

 * He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.
 * p. 70

Lectures on Education (1855)

 * Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
 * Lecture 1

 * Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
 * Lecture 1

 * The most ignorant are the most conceited. Unless a man knows that there is something more to be known, his inference is, of course, that he knows every thing. Such a man always usurps the throne of universal knowledge, and assumes the right of deciding all possible questions. We all know that a conceited dunce will decide questions extemporaneous which would puzzle a college of philosophers, or a bench of judges. Ignorant and shallow-minded men do not see far enough to see the difficulty. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. And for all purposes of individual character, as well as of social usefulness, it is quite as important for a man to know the extent of his own ignorance as it is to know any thing else. To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.
 * Lecture 6

 * Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
 * Lecture 6

 * The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
 * Lecture 7

The Duty of Owning Books (1859)

 * Men are not accustomed to buy books unless they want them. If, on visiting the dwelling of a man of slender means, I find the reason why he has cheap carpets and very plain furniture to be that he may purchase books, he rises at once in my esteem. Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

 * Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! To spend several days in a friend’s house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind.

 * Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

 * Edited by Mary Mann. Boston: H. B. Fuller and Company, 1867.

 * If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
 * p. 7

 * Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
 * p. 47

 * The creation is a museum, all full, and crowded with wonders and beauties and glories. One door, and one only is open, by which you can enter this magnificent temple. It is the door of Knowledge. The learned laborer, the learned peasant, or slave, is ever made welcome at this door, while the ignorant, though kings, are shut out.
 * p. 48

 * The intellect is the light of the mind. The appetites, impulses, affections, sentiments,— whatever we please to call them,— have their objects of desire; but they know not how to obtain them. The intellect points out or devises the means by which their ends can be reached. They inform the intellect what they want; the intellect discerns and adopts the measures necessary to their gratification. The intellect performs the office of a pilot; but what shall become of the vessel and its treasures, if the pilot is blind?
 * p. 50

 * We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west,— it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
 * p. 81

 * Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
 * p. 112; quoted in Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1881)

 * Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.
 * p. 115

 * When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
 * p. 116; sometimes paraphrased as: "When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

 * Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
 * p. 143

 * The intellectual and moral nature of man is the one thing precious in the sight of God; and therefore, until this nature is cultivated, and enlightened, and purified, neither opulence, nor power, nor learning, nor genius, nor domestic sanctity, nor the holiness of God's altars, can ever be safe. Until the immortal and god-like capacities of every being that comes iuto the world are deemed more worthy, are watched more tenderly than any other thing, no dynasty of men, or form of government, can stand, or shall stand, upon the face of the earth; and the force or the fraud which would seek to uphold them, shall be but "as fetters of flax to bind the flame."
 * p. 183

 * We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light."
 * p. 184

 * No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare. When Dr. Franklin was once sceptically asked what was the use of some recondite and far-off truth which had just been brought to light, "What," said he, "is the use of babies?"
 * p. 185

 * How strong that idea of improvement in the human mind, which is the companion, if it be not the condition of genius!— that ideality, I mean, which always runs ahead of actuality. Achievement is only the eminence whence we survey something better to be achieved. Ideality is only the avant-courier of the mind, and where that, in a healthy and normal state, goes, I hold it to be a prophecy that realization can follow.
 * p. 195

 * Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
 * p. 199

 * You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
 * p. 211

 * Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,— the other from pride or fear.
 * p. 211

 * Be sure of the fact, before you lose time in searching for a cause.
 * p. 212

 * It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
 * p. 213

 * Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.
 * p. 214; sometimes paraphrased as: "Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms."

 * Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
 * p. 214

 * If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
 * p. 215

 * Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind — the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties — Ontology.
 * p. 215

 * Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
 * p. 219

 * Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
 * p. 220

 * A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.
 * p. 225

 * Knowledge is a mimic creation.
 * p. 236

 * Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
 * p. 240

Misattributed

 * Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
 * Philip James Bailey, in Festus (1839), misattribution of this to Mann seems to have only started in recent years, on the internet.

 * Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
 * Sir Thomas Browne, as quoted by The Pleasures of Life (1891), by John Lubbock, p. 11

 * Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
 * James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence (1754); this is very widely misattributed to Mann, appearing at least as early as the publication of Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867) edited by Mary Mann.

 * You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all, but let all you tell be truth.
 * James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

 * Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.
 * James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

 * If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
 * Edmund Burke, as quoted in Lacon in Council (1865) by John Frederick Boyes, p. 124

 * Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
 * Anonymous author; this is attributed to Mann, in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) edited by Connie Robertson, and similar statements are often attributed to Thomas Paine, but the earliest published variant of such a declaration seem to be in an anecdote about an anonymous Boston woman in 1889:
 * I have the reputation of being of good moral character. But you know reputation is what people think of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us, and that I don't want to tell.
 * Anonymous Boston woman, as quoted in Current Opinion (1889)
 * There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.
 * Price Collier, in Sermons (1892)
 * Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and the angels know of us.
 * Attributed to Thomas Paine in A Dictionary of Terms, Phrases,and Quotations (1895) edited by Henry Percy Smith, and Helen Kendrick Johnson

 * Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
 * Peter Marshall, US Senate prayer (10 March 1948)

Quotes about Mann

 * He is a delightful companion and friend, and among all the excellent men whom we met in Boston, none entwined themselves more deeply and closely with our affections than Horace Mann.
 * George Combe, quoted in B. A. Hinsdale, Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States (1898), p. 95

 * The process did not begin with Horace Mann, although he probably did more to humanize American education in the nineteenth century than any other educator, and thus we tend to trace humanistic roots back to him. Mann was vigorously opposed by ministers of his day, who foresaw the shift from a biblical to a humanistic base for education, but their resistance was gradually overcome.
 * Tim LaHaye, quoted in Eugene F. Provenzo, Religious Fundamentalism and American Education: The Battle For The Public Schools (1990)

 * I would ask, if this modesty is not attractive also, when manifested in the other sex? It was strikingly marked in Horace Mann, when presiding over the late National Educational Convention in this city. The retiring modesty of William Ellery Channing was beautiful, as well as of many others who have filled elevated stations in society. These virtues, differing as they may in degree in man and woman, are of the same nature, and call forth our admiration wherever manifested.
 * Lucretia Mott, "Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" (1854)

 * Control of children and their education is control of the future. Humanists have always understood this. Horace Mann, James G. Carter, and their many associates (including Senator Charles G. Sumner) were all Unitarians; they hated the Puritan faith of their forefathers with a passion. Their purpose in promoting state control of education was twofold. First, they rightfully understood that the only way to destroy Biblical faith was to control the schools and, little by little, remove Christianity and introduce Humanism. Second, they were Centralists or statist, men who believed that salvation comes by work of statist legislation or law.
 * R. J. Rushdoony, quoted in Eugene F. Provenzo, Religious Fundamentalism and American Education: The Battle For The Public Schools (1990)

 * The 1830s, in fact, gave rise to an educational awakening, led by such reformers as Horace Mann, James G. Carter, Henry Barnard, and William Russell, all of whom used Massachusetts and other New England states as their laboratory. Their crusading helped to generate public support for common schools. Mann, acknowledged as the father of the common school movement, argued that these institutions should be publicly controlled, publicly supported, and open to all.
 * Roger Lea Williams, The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement, Penn State Press, 1991.

 * Anyone who has read anything of Horace Mann knows that he is a sort of patron saint of progressive education not only because of his ideas (very advanced for his day) about the way children should be treated, not only because he advocated a personal and humane atmosphere in the school in the relation of children and teachers, but because, above all, he was the prophet of the idea of the absolute necessity of free public education for the existence and preservation of a democratic way of life; or, as he said in the phraseology of his time, "republican institutions of self-government."
 * John Dewey, The Challenge of Democracy to Education; Quoted in The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953: Essays, Reviews, Trotsky Inquiry, Miscellany, and Liberalism and Social Action, by Jo Ann Boydston

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Mr. T

Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud on May 21, 1952) is an actor principally known for his roles in the 1980s television series The A-Team and as boxer James "Clubber" Lang in the 1982 film Rocky III. I pity the foo'...

Quotes

 * I didn't just start doing this today. Not like some people that have a movie coming out, so they go visit kids in the hospital. You don't need that phony crap. All of these celebrities, they turn my stomach with their funny stuff. I've been going in the ghettos without the press, without bodyguards, talking to kids. "Get to reading, stay in school. You don't have to carry a gun." I know about peer pressure and all that, but I say, "Hey, they called me a sissy because I wouldn't join a gang. Who was calling me a sissy? Does it make me a sissy because somebody called me a sissy?" [...] I'm going to fight if you touch me or hurt me or do harm to my family. But if you call me a bad name, or whatnot, I'm too smart for that. That's the message the kids need to hear coming from me. I tell them, "If I fought every time somebody called me a name, I would never get out of jail. But I'm disciplined. I'm smarter than that." So I tell them, like my mother said, "Consider the source." When you see who called you the name, then you understand why they're doing it. Then you don't have to stoop that low.

 * See, if I come into a black neighborhood and say, "Thanks for watching my show," and give out high fives and all that, I'm not doing no good. I go out and see a kid grabbing his crotch. Ain't nobody telling them that. Where do they get it from? They watch MTV. I say, "If you wash up more often, you won't have to grab your crotch." I'm telling these guys, "Why you gotta grab your crotch?" Then you see Michael Jackson grabbing his crotch 50 times. What's with him?

 * Everything started as a dream. You gotta have insight, know what you want. You gotta have a plan. Like I tell anybody, if you fail to plan, you're planning to fail. I've been planning ever since I was a youngster. You've got to start from somewhere. There's nothing wrong or demeaning in flipping burgers. It's more proud than selling drugs.

 * We didn't starve. We spent wisely. Like I tell people in the ghetto, "If you can buy guns and bullets, why can't you buy food? You can buy heroin and crack cocaine, so why can't you buy bread and butter and milk? Why can't you pay your rent?" There's a lot of people in the ghetto who go out and get a fancy car and all that. The car costs more than their house. Meanwhile, your kids need shoes. That's not cool.
 * The Onion A.V. Club, June 26th, 2002

Silver Spoons (1982)

 * First name Mr, middle name 'period', last name T!

Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool (1984)

 * Do you know me? Of course you do. 'Cause I'm famous!

 * Hey, you with the teeth...

 * Hey, everybody gotta’ put on clothes and if you don’t you get arrested.

 * Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?

 * Anger - use it, but don't lose it!

Snickers Advert (2007)

 * Quit yo Jibber-jabber! You ain't hurt, yo pathetic!, Argh! If I ever catch you acting like a crazy fool again, you're gonna meet my friend pain! Snickers, get some nuts!
 * SPEEDWALKING?! I pity you fool! You a disgrace to the man race! It's time to run like a real man! Take that speedwalker! Do it again sucker, and there's going to be trouble! With a capital Mr.T! Snickers, get some nuts!
 * Yo makin' me mad sucker, cold water never hurt nobody! It's time to get in da pool, 'cause you're goin' swimmin', fool! TAKE THAT, TOEDIPPER! Argh! Argh! I hate flying, so this had better be the last time I see yo cryin'! Snickers, get some nuts!

World of Warcraft Advert (2007)

 * Shut up, fool!

 * Mr. T has the greatest hair in the world. You can't deny it, it's been proven by science, fool!

 * Well, maybe Mr. T hacked the game and created a Mohawk class! Maybe, Mr. T's pretty handy with computers! Had that occurred to you, Mr. "Condescending" Director?!

 * I'm Mr. T and I'm a "Night Elf Mohawk"! What's YOUR game?

 * I ain't no computer hacker!

Attributed

 * As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

 * I pity the fool who drinks soy milk.

 * I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... rules.

 * For 5 years Mr. T disappeared. Fools went unpitied and Jibba-Jabba went unchallenged!
 * On his fight with cancer

 * It takes a smart guy to play dumb.
 * Response to the question "Are you as thick as BA?" at a press conference.

 * People ask me what the "T" stands for in my name. If you're a man, the "T" stands for tough. If you're a woman or child, it stands for tender!

 * I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.

 * I pity the university for not giving T enough time. You know I got all duded up, got dressed, the students were all ready for me, then they gave me short time. So I pity them. So if they want to be unpitied, they'll invite me back and give me more time.
 * Speech at UCLA, May 9, 2002.

 * I think about my father being called 'boy,' my uncle being called 'boy,' my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called 'boy.' So I questioned myself: 'What does a black man have to do before he's given the respect as a man?' So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is 'Mr.' That's a sign of respect that my father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother didn't get.

 * You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.

 * I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond – I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.
 * On winning the America's Toughest Bouncer contest.

 * I tell people that I was born and raised in the ghetto, but the ghetto was not born and raised in me.

 * When you see me now, I'm nothing but a big overgrown tough mama's boy. And I speak that with glee because the problem with society is we don't have enough mama's boys.

 * I said "Hell no, because you didn't find a weapon; or if that's the charge you would have to lock me up because my hands and feet are deadly weapons."

 * I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to my mother. I tell people that when they look at me, they're looking at nothing but a big, overgrown, tough mama's boy. That's who I am.

 * People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves.

Source: "'I pity the fool': Mr T on jury duty" 28 April 2009 by Cheryl V. Jackson Chicago Sun Times https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-sun-times/20090428/281651071050776
 * "You've got to testify! Tell somebody about it. God is good!" "I pity the fool that don't get it." - Mr. T going for Jury Duty.

About

 * You don't rehearse Mr. T, you just turn him loose.
 * Sylvester Stallone.

Quotes from acting

 * Hey, sucka!

 * Shut up Murdock, crazy fool!

 * I ain't getting on no plane, Hannibal!

 * Where's the meat? This sandwich is full of weeds! I don't eat nothing I don't know!

 * I got no time for the jibba-jabba.

 * Don't make me mad, Arrr!

 * I'm on a real short leash here, and I'm tired of your crazy rap!

 * I pity the fool, thug, or soul who tries to take over the world.

 * Shut up, fool!

 * What!?! Idiot shot the tires on my van!!

 * Hannibal is on the jazz.
 * Be there!
 * NBC promotional spot, 1983

 * Mother, There is No Other. Like Mother So treat Her right, treat Her right.

 * Mother, I always Love Her. My Mother. So treat Her right, treat Her right.

 * It's a crack baby....FOOL
 * Mr.T and the T-Force, Issue 1

 * I pity Screech, because everybody pitied Screech. --NBC 75th Anniversary Special

 * I pity that chump Conan O'Brien.
 * On the Conan O'Brien show.

 * Take it from me...Mr.T

 * Eight out of twenty?!? That's only a third, and third rhymes with Turd! That's bad.

 * Love is a verb... and Verbs show action

 * You gonna lose a deal over $35? Thats chump change! My lunch cost $35!

 * Hey fool, this ain't no football game! (A-Team)

 * I don't hate fools, I pity them! (I pity the fool)

 * Life's tough, but I'm tougher! (I pity the fool)

 * The jibba jabba stops here! (I pity the fool)

 * Teachin' fools some basic rules! (I pity the fool)

 * You got to believe in the ball, and throw your self. (Not Another Teen Movie)

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Rocky III

Rocky III is a 1982 film in which Rocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion. It is the third installment in the Rocky film series.
 * Directed and written by Sylvester Stallone.

The legend continues...The Italian Stallion is back!! (taglines)

Rocky Balboa

 * You ain't so bad, you ain't so bad, you ain't nothin'. C'mon, champ, hit me in the face! My mother hits harder than that!
 * Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

Dialogue

 * [Thunderlips makes his entrance into the arena]
 * Mickey: Let's get outta here.
 * Rocky: Aw, c'mon, Mick. It's for charity.
 * Mickey: You're wearin' your anatomy out for charity. Nobody else does this much for charity.
 * Rocky: Bob Hope would.
 * Mickey: [pauses] That's true.
 * [Thunderlips enters the ring]
 * Paulie: Rocky, you better call Bob Hope.

 * Title announcer: And fans, with us tonight, truly one of the fistic greats. He's coming up from ringside, the Master of Disaster, the King of Sting, the one and only Apollo Creed.
 * [Apollo enters the ring and walks up to Clubber]
 * Clubber: [slaps Apollo's hand away] Get out my face. Don't need nothin' you ain't got no more. Don't need no has-been messin' in my corner. And ya better get that bad look off ya face before I knock it off! C'mon, you wanna jump, then jump. C'mon! C'mon, Creed! C'mon! Yeah, c'mon! Yeah, just like a chicken, you better run.
 * Apollo: [walks away to speak to Rocky] Give everybody a present and drop this chump, all right?

 * [the rematch between Rocky and Clubber is about to begin]
 * Clubber: Hey, fool! You ready for another beatin'? You should've never came back!
 * Apollo: Don't look at him. Let's just be cool.
 * Clubber: [to Apollo] Hey, boy. Hey, boy. After I crucify him, you next.
 * Apollo: Just stay outta my face, chump.
 * Clubber: [furiously] Don't turn yo' back on me, sucka!!
 * [he shoves Apollo, and a melee breaks out]
 * Nahan: We got a brawl before the bell!
 * [the bell rings, and the fight breaks up]
 * Clubber: I'm-a get you! I'm-a get you! Let him go! I want him!
 * Rocky: I thought you said "be cool"!
 * Apollo: That was cool!

 * Apollo: [in the ring sparring with Rocky] He's hooking! He's hooking! DAMN, ROCK! COME ON! What's the matter with you?!
 * Rocky: Tomorrow. Let's do it tomorrow.
 * Apollo: THERE IS NO TOMORROW!! THERE IS NO TOMORROW!! THERE IS NO TOMORROW!!

 * [at the statue unveiling, Rocky is considering retirement and the crowd is against it; Clubber Lang appears in the crowd]
 * Clubber: Gettin' out while you can?! Don't give this sucker no statue. Give him guts! I told you I wasn't goin' away. You got your shot. Now, give me mine.
 * Mickey: Why don't you get the fuck outta there?
 * Clubber: Shut up, old man! I ain't goin' nowhere. And why don't you tell all these nice folks why you been duckin' me? Politics, man! This country wants to keep me down. Keep everybody weak. They don't want a man like me to have the title, because I'm not a puppet like that fool up there.
 * Rocky: You know, you've got a big mouth. Y'know?
 * Clubber: Why don't you come down here and close it, Balboa? C'mon! C'mon!
 * Rocky: Anytime.
 * Mickey: This guy's crazy. Don't listen to him.
 * Clubber: The little man don't wanna come to me, then I'll come to you people and lay out the truth. I am ranked #1. 1! That means I'm the best. But this bum been takin' the easy matches. Fightin' other bums. I'm telling you and everybody here. I'll fight him anywhere, anytime, for nothin'! [crowd shouts] But you people ain't never gonna see that happen, because he's gonna retire. You see, he don't fight no real man. He fight them setups.
 * Rocky: What?
 * Mickey: You're a disgrace to this sport!
 * Clubber: Shut up, old man! You and that chump don't know what I had to come from! Balboa, your family doin' real nice, ain't it? You call yourself a fighter? Prove it now. Gimme that same chance! The way you been duckin' is a disgrace. If he ain't no coward, why don't he fight me, then?
 * Rocky: I can't listen to anymore of this bullshit. Hey, anytime you--
 * Mickey: I don't care what you're ranked! You don't get no shot and I mean that!
 * Clubber: I'm glad you people are seein' this here.
 * Rocky: What are you doin'? I wanna fight this guy.
 * Mickey: Well, you got him. But you'll fight him without me.
 * Rocky: What are you saying?
 * Mickey: It's finished. Yes. I'm finished. I don't want no more of this. I don't want no more of it! You understand? None of it! It's over with! [exits through the crowd]
 * Clubber: Judge me by my fight record. [to Adrian] Hey, woman! Hey, woman! Listen here. Since your ol' man here ain't got no heart, maybe you like to see a real man. I bet you stay up late at night dreamin' you had a real man, don't ya? I tell you what? Bring your pretty, little self over to my apartment tonight, and I'll show you a real man.
 * Rocky: [angrily] YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!

 * [after the statue unveiling, Rocky finds Mickey packing his suitcase]
 * Rocky: Why did you leave? Why did you walk away like that?
 * Mickey: Life's too short, kid.
 * Rocky: Where are you goin'?
 * Mickey: I'm goin' on a permanent vacation.
 * Rocky: What are you talkin' 'bout? We got one more fight.
 * Mickey: No, no. Not we, you.
 * Rocky: Why you doin' this? [Mickey doesn't answer, Rocky slams the suitcase shut] I said why you doin' this?!
 * Mickey: Because you can't win, Rock! This guy'll kill ya to death inside of 3 rounds!
 * Rocky: You're crazy.
 * Mickey: What else is new?
 * Rocky: He's just another fighter.
 * Mickey: No, he ain't just another fighter. This guy is a wreckin' machine, and he's hungry! Hell, you ain't been hungry since you won that belt!
 * Rocky: What are you talkin' about? I've had 10 title defenses.
 * Mickey: That was easy!
 * Rocky: What do you mean easy?
 * Mickey: They was hand-picked!
 * Rocky: Setups?
 * Mickey: No, they weren't setups. They was good fighters, but they wasn't killers like this guy. He'll knock ya into tomorrow, Rock!
 * Rocky: Jeez, Mick, why'd you do it?
 * Mickey: 'Cause the beating that you got from Apollo should have killed you, kid. It didn't. It was my job to keep ya winnin' and to keep ya healthy.
 * Rocky: You really don't think I got nothin' left, do you?
 * Mickey: Well, Rock, let's put it this way. Three years ago, you were supernatural. You was hard and nasty. You had this cast iron jaw. But then, the worst thing happened to you that could happen to any fighter. You got civilized. Don't worry, kid. You know, presidents retire, generals retire, horses retire, Man o War retired. They put him out to stud. That's what you should've done, retire.
 * Rocky: I can't retire knowing all this, Mick.
 * Mickey: Don't push it.
 * Rocky: You've been carrying me.
 * Mickey: We don't need it.
 * Rocky: You've been carrying me, though.
 * Mickey: I haven't been carryin' ya, I've been protecting you.
 * Rocky: Look, I want this fight. Just one more.
 * Mickey: No, we don't need it.
 * Rocky: I'll live in the gym.
 * Mickey: We don't need it.
 * Rocky: Mick, I do. I'm askin' you to train me one last time.
 * Mickey: No, I can't.
 * Rocky: If you don't, I'm gonna tell everybody you ain't bought a new pair of underwear in 10 years.
 * Mickey: You would, wouldn't you?
 * Rocky: Yeah. Absolutely.
 * Mickey: No.
 * Rocky: C'mon. One more time, then it's over. Deal? Come on, come on.
 * Mickey: It's your head kid. It's your head.
 * Rocky: Yeah, it is. Thanks, Mick.

 * [after losing the title to Clubber, Rocky sees a dying Mickey]
 * Rocky: Mick?
 * Mickey: [gasps for air] What? Is it over?
 * Rocky: Yeah, yeah it's all over.
 * Mickey: Hey, what happened?
 * Rocky: It was a knockout.
 * Mickey: What round? What round?
 * Rocky: Second round.
 * Mickey: [thinking Rocky had won] I knew it. That's good. We did it, huh?
 * Rocky: We did it. We did it. You don't have to worry about nothing no more. Everything's going to be okay Mick.
 * Mickey: Yeah we did it.
 * Rocky: You gotta get to the hospital, Mick. You're not as young as you used to be.
 * Mickey: You're the winner. We did everything right. I did everything right.
 * Rocky: No, no, listen to me. You done everything right. Listen, we got more to do. Mick, whatever you want to do, we'll do it. Okay?
 * Mickey: I love you, kid. I love you. [gasps harder] Your instinct... [stops breathing]
 * Rocky: Mick? MICK! [sobs] M...Mick? It isn't...Speak to me, goddammit! [breaks down]

 * [Rocky walks into Mickey's gym which is now closed down; he punches the speed bag]
 * Apollo: That's not the way to do it.
 * Rocky: Who's that?
 * Apollo: You should hit it straight. Step into it.
 * Rocky: Apollo?
 * Apollo: Right. I waited at your house for about an hour. Your wife said you might be here.
 * Rocky: What are you doin' here?
 * Apollo: Business.
 * Rocky: If the papers knew we were talkin' like this, they'd think we was crazy. Why you?
 * Apollo: Because I'm the best, and you need somebody to teach you different.
 * Rocky: Why?
 * Apollo: To be honest with you, I don't think you could pull it off without me, Rock.
 * Rocky: You still didn't give me the answer, Apollo. What's the real reason?
 * Apollo: Listen. It's quiet, isn't it? When you retire, it's too quiet. I mean, we way too young to retire, anyway. Besides, with the right touch, I could promote this thing into the biggest gate of all time. It'd be bigger than ours. Heaven knows I don't mind bein' involved with large numbers. Right?
 * Rocky: I don't need this no more. I don't want this no more.
 * Apollo: Look, man. When you beat me, I hurt all over, and I didn't wanna know from nothin' or nobody, not even my kids. Hell, every fighter knows that hurt, and we get sick inside trying to live with it. So don't back off now and make it right for yourself or you'll be sorry you didn't. We held the greatest title in the whole world, babe. You lost that fight, Rock, for all the wrong reasons. You lost your edge. All right. I know your manager dying had you all messed up inside. But the truth is, you didn't look hungry. Now, when we fought, you had the eye of the tiger, man. The edge! And now you gotta get back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean? [laughs] Maybe we can win it back together. Eye of the tiger, man.
 * Rocky: Why'd you have to come here?
 * Apollo: I have the plan. Get it back, man.
 * Rocky: You got me curious.
 * Apollo: You got me curious, Rock.

 * Adrian: Can I talk to you? I want to ask you something important and I want you to tell me the truth.
 * Rocky: What?
 * Adrian: Why did you come here?
 * Rocky: I just don't want it no more.
 * Adrian: If it's over because you want it to be over, I'm glad.
 * Rocky: I do.
 * Adrian: It's just, you've never quit anything since I've known you.
 * Rocky: I don't know what you want me to say. I mean, what happened? How did everything that was so good get so bad?
 * Adrian: What's so bad? Tell me, what?
 * Rocky: I wrecked everything by not thinking for myself. I mean, why couldn't Mickey tell me where I was really at right from the start? He didn't have to carry me and lie to me and make me think I was better than I really was when I wasn't.
 * Adrian: He never lied.
 * Rocky: Those fights weren't right. They weren't, Adrian. I never fought anybody who was in their prime. There was always some angle to hold on to the title longer than I should have had it. I mean do you understand what I'm saying here?
 * Adrian: I understand, but you've got to understand that he loved you and that was his job--protecting you!
 * Rocky: Look, but that protecting don't help nothing. It only makes things worse. You wake up after a few years thinking you're a winner, but you're not. You're really a loser. So we wouldn't have had the title as long. So what?! At least it would've been real Adrian.
 * Adrian: It was real!
 * Rocky: Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are! I don't believe in myself no more don't you understand? When a fighter don't believe, that's it! He's finished, it's over, that's it.
 * Adrian: THAT'S NOT IT!!
 * Rocky: That is it!
 * Adrian: Why don't you tell me the truth?!
 * Rocky: What are you putting me through, Adrian?! You wanna know the truth? The truth is I don't want to lose what I've got. In the beginning I didn't care about what happened to me. I'd go in the ring, I'd get busted up, I didn't care! But now there's you, there's the kid. I don't want to lose what I've got!
 * Adrian: What do we have that can't be replaced? WHAT?! A house, we've got cars, we've got MONEY! We got everything but the truth. WHAT'S THE TRUTH, DAMN IT?!
 * Rocky: I'M AFRAID! ALL RIGHT?! YOU WANT TO HEAR ME SAY IT? You want to break me down? All right, I'm afraid. For the first time in my life, I'm afraid.
 * Adrian: I'm afraid too. There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
 * Rocky: There is. For me, there is.
 * Adrian: Why? You're human aren't you?
 * Rocky: Look, I don't know what I am. All I know is I'm a liar, and because of that Mickey ain't here no more.
 * Adrian: You didn't push him into anything! He was a grown man and he did what he had to do! And you have no right to feel guilty for what happened. You don't! You were a champion, and you did what you were expected to do, and you did what I and everybody else thought you should do. And you wanna tell me that those fights weren't real, that you were carried? Well I don't believe it! But it doesn't matter what I believe because you're the one that's got to carry that fear around inside you, afraid that everybody's going to take things away and afraid that you're going to be remembered as a coward, that you're not a man anymore. Well, none of it's true! But it doesn't matter if I tell you. It doesn't matter, because you're the one that's gotta settle it. Get rid of it! Because when all the smoke has cleared and everyone's through chanting your name, it's just going to be us. And you can't live like this. We can't live like this. Cause it's going to bother you for the rest of your life. Look what it's doing to you now. Apollo thinks you can do it, so do I. But you gotta want to do it for the right reasons. Not for the guilt over Mickey, not for the people, not for the title, not for money or me, but for you. Just you. Just you alone.
 * Rocky: And if I lose?
 * Adrian: Then you lose. But at least you lose with no excuses, no fear. And I know you can live with that.
 * Rocky: How did you get so tough?
 * Adrian: I live with a fighter.
 * Rocky: I really love you. [they kiss, and Rocky holds her close] I love you. ''

 * Apollo: [Rocky keeps getting hit by Clubber] He's getting killed out there!
 * Paulie: Oh, no, no. He's not getting killed, he's getting MAD!

 * [last lines, Rocky and Apollo are walking into the ring at Mickey's gym after the rematch.]
 * Apollo: Come on, come on. We made a deal.
 * Rocky: I know but this is extremely crazy.
 * Apollo: Yeah, it's mentally irregular, right? But it makes all the sense in the world. Now you owe me a favor.
 * Rocky: I know but when did you think of this?
 * Apollo: About three years ago.
 * Rocky: This is very crazy, Apollo.
 * Apollo: Look Stallion, when you won that last fight, you won by one second. You beat me by one second. That's very hard for a man of my intelligence to handle.
 * Rocky: But didn't you say after I beat you, you learned how to live with it?
 * Apollo: I lied.
 * Rocky: Oh, you lied! So now you just gotta prove it to yourself right?
 * Apollo: Just myself. No TV, no newspapers, just you and me.
 * Rocky: Nothing, just you and me. Age before beauty?
 * Apollo: Anything you say, Stallion.
 * Rocky: I do all the work. Okay. I'll tell you, Apollo, you'd better go slow cause you ain't as young as springtime no more.
 * Apollo: I'm still young enough to whip your butt Stallion.
 * Rocky: Oh yeah? How are you going to do that? You taught me everything you know.
 * Apollo: Almost everything. You got to remember now, you fight great, but I'm a great fighter. You ready?
 * Rocky: Absolutely.
 * Apollo: You know, Stallion? It's too bad we gotta get old.
 * Rocky: Just keep punching Apollo. Wanna ring the bell?
 * Apollo: All right. Ding, ding. [they start circling] Come on Stallion. Come on. Come on.
 * Rocky: Boy, you really move good for an older guy.
 * Apollo: You're looking good, Stallion. I taught you well.
 * Rocky: I think you taught me too good. You can fly.
 * Apollo: Look out now. No no you don't want any of this. Come on. Come on.
 * Rocky: Maybe I'm in here with the wrong guy.
 * Apollo: Watch yourself. You ready? [both throw hooks at each other, and the movie ends with a painting of the freeze-frame]

Taglines

 * The legend continues...The Italian Stallion is back!!
 * His life is happy, his fights have seemed easy. Now a young upstart is going to make him prove just how far he can still go...
 * A Fighter. A Lover. A Legend. The Greatest Challenge.
 * The Excitement... The Power... The Man...
 * The greatest challenge.

Cast

 * Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
 * Talia Shire as Adrian Balboa
 * Burt Young as Paulie Pennino
 * Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed
 * Burgess Meredith - Mickey Goldmill
 * Tony Burton - Tony "Duke" Evers
 * Mr. T - Clubber Lang
 * Ian Fried as Rocky Balboa, Jr.
 * Hulk Hogan - Thunderlips

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Polish-Soviet War

The Polish-Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 October 1920), also known as the Polish-Bolshevik War, was an armed conflict fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the aftermath of World War I, on territories formerly held by the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The war was the result of conflicting expansionist attempts.

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 * As a result of the Soviet hopes of world revolution or, at least, ideological expansion into Central Europe, the Polish victories near Warsaw between 16 and 25 August 1920 were a key incident in the Cold War. The Battle of Warsaw ended the drive west by the Soviets, a drive which had already led them to capture the cities of Minsk and Vilnius the previous month. Had the Soviets succeeded in 1920 and established a sister republic in Poland, on the model of the French Revolutionaries in Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands, then Communism would have had an opportunity to become more strongly grounded.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2015)
 * In this episode, as with the post-1945 conflicts more classically seen as part of the Cold War, the struggle between the Great Powers was indirect: even in the Korean War (1950–3), there was no declaration of war or full-scale conflict. In 1920, the French provided the Poles with useful supplies and military advice, but there was no commitment of troops. Instead, the Poles benefited from their ability to gain the initiative, and then defeat separately the Soviet forces whose coordination was handicapped by mutually-distrustful Communist generals and by lengthy supply lines. Advancing over a very wide front and reliant on long supply lines, the tired Soviet forces lacked depth and nearby reserves. This was a very different situation to their successful fighting advance across this territory against the Germans in 1944. Prior to the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, Soviet strength seemed particularly potent and threatening, and it was unclear whether it would be possible for the Western powers to stop Soviet expansion short of full-scale war. What containment (to employ a later term) could mean in practice was unclear. In the event, after the battle, the Poles, in turn, advanced to within ninety miles of Kiev, before agreeing an armistice. The eventual Treaty of Riga, in March 1921, left Poland with some territory in modern Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, and with a frontier far to the east of modern Poland.
 * Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2014)

 * If Charles Martel had not checked the Saracen conquest at the Battle of Tours, the interpretation of the Koran would be taught  at the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet. Had Pilsudski failed to arrest the advance of the Soviet Bolshevik Army at the Battle of Warsaw, not only would Christianity have experienced a dangerous reverse, but the very existence of Western civilisation would have been imperilled. The Battle of Warsaw saved Central and most parts of Europe from a more subversive danger – the fanatical tyranny of the Communist Soviet. All of Europe at this time, after World War I, was in ruin, and a strong conqueror could have imposed a tyrannical system from Russia in the East to France, and possible Britain in the west. The army that had marched on Warsaw was over a million strong and was nearing the gates of Warsaw when the Polish Cavalry attacked at the Bolshevik hind-quarter. The Bolsheviks were so surprised by a viable and active military response to their sure victory that the Bolshevik army in shock routed and fled in complete disarray. The Polish western boundary stood until 1939 and World War II. On the essential point, there can be little room for doubt; had the Soviet forces overcome Polish resistance… Bolshevism would have spread throughout Central Europe and might well have penetrated the whole continent.
 * Edgar Vincent D'Abernon

 * General Peter Wràngel's Caucasian Army had captured Tsaritsyn that June, but by January 1920 it was clear that the war was effectively over. The Allies cut off their aid to the Whites. One by one the generals fled or, like Kolchak, were captured and executed. By the summer of 1920 Lenin felt confident enough to export the Revolution westwards, ordering the Red Army to march on Warsaw and confidently talking of the need to 'sovietize Hungary and perhaps Czechia and Romania too'. Only their decisive defeat by the Polish army on the banks of the River Vistula halted the spread of the Bolshevik epidemic.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), pp. 149-150

 * (this war) largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more.[...] Unavowedly and almost unconsciously, Soviet leaders abandoned the cause of international revolution.
 * A.J.P. Taylor
 * That was the time when everyone in Germany, including the blackest reactionaries and monarchists, declared that the Bolsheviks would be their salvation.
 * (this war allows us) ...to probe Europe with the bayonets of the Red Army.
 * We must direct all our attention to preparing and strengthening the Western Front. A new slogan must be announced: Prepare for war against Poland.
 * Vladimir Lenin:
 * Lenin’s great disappointment with spreading Communism abroad occurred in the summer of 1920. In April of that year, Poland, eager to forestall the reemergence of a strong and imperialist Russia, had made common cause with Ukrainian nationalists and invaded the Soviet Ukraine with the aim of detaching it from Russia. The invasion failed to ignite an uprising in the Ukraine, and the Polish armies soon found themselves in full retreat. As the Red Army approached the borders of ethnic Poland, the Politburo, the directing organ of the Communist Party, had to decide whether to stop or to continue advancing westward. Opinions were divided but Lenin insisted on offensive operations, and as by now was always the case, he had his way. He felt certain that both Germany and England were ripe for revolution, which the appearance of Communist armed forces on their borders would help ignite. In the summer of 1920, the Red Army, accompanied by Soviet commissars of Polish origin, entered Poland. It broadcast appeals calling on Polish workers and peasants to seize properties of the bourgeois and landlords—slogans that had proven very effective in Russia. But the Poles of all classes rallied to defend newly won Polish sovereignty. In the battle for Warsaw, one of the decisive battles of modern history, they repulsed and scattered the Communist army. Lenin could not conceal his bitterness at this outcome.
 * Richard Pipes, Communism: A History (2003)
 * Under the rule of Catherine the Great, Russia reclaimed all of its historical lands, including in the south and west. This all lasted until the Revolution. Before World War I, the Austrian General Staff, relying on the ideas of Ukrainianization, started to actively promote the ideas of Ukraine and the Ukrainianization. Their motive was obvious. Just before World War I, they wanted to weaken the potential enemy and secure themselves favourable conditions in the border area. So this idea which had emerged in Poland that people residing in that territory were allegedly not really Russians, but rather belonged to a special ethnic group, the Ukrainians, started to be promoted by the Austrian General Staff too. As far back as the 19th century, theorists calling for Ukrainian independence appeared. All those, however, claimed that Ukraine should have a very good relationship with Russia. They insisted on that. After the 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks sought to restore the statehood, and the Civil War began, including the hostilities with Poland. In 1921, peace with Poland was proclaimed, and under that treaty, the right bank of the Dnieper River once again was given back to Poland.
 * Vladimir Putin, Interview to Tucker Carlson, 9 February 2024
 * To the West! Over the corpse of White Poland lies the road to world-wide conflagration. March on Vilno, Minsk, Warsaw!
 * Mikhail Tukhachevsky

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Talk:Bruce Baillie

Dear friends,

I have been fortunate enough to have film artist Bruce Baillie as a friend for nearly fourteen years. A founding member of San Francisco's 3rd Avant-Garde, his ground-breaking films are in the Library of Congress, are considered American national treasures and are internationally renown.

Bruce has informed me that he is now working on his last major creative project: transferring his life's work to DVD. This transfer is vital to the continued longevity of his films. If it does not take place, I fear that his works may become eventually lost (like at least one other film-artist's I am aware of), scattered and buried in forgotten vaults, deteriorating beyond recovery. The transfer requires funds, however. Mr. Baillie is attempting to raise funds through tax deductible donations directed through Anthology Film Archives in New York. The funds would go directly to the artist, save for a small amount that Anthology takes for administrative costs. I make nothing from spreading the word...my interest in this venture is only that I am aiding a friend and trying to help keep alive films that helped shape the nature of modern moving media. This is quite possibly his last chance to update his work's medium. After this effort is over, Mr. Baillie has declared that what income he does have will go to help his children through school.

Please help if you can. No amount is too large or small. Please make sure to include a notation that funds are to be directed to Bruce Baillie. Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Avenue New York, NY 10003 USA Telephone: (212) 505-5181

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