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Steve Allen

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American humorist, writer, composer, and general entertainer.

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 * This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.
 * First broadcast of The Tonight Show (1953)

 * Get this to Grand Central Station as quick as you can!
 * Instructions to a cab-driver after racing out of his studio dressed as a policeman, and throwing a large salami into the backseat of his taxi. The driver sped off without a word.

 * Sports fans, I have the final score for you on the big game between Harvard and William & Mary. It is: Harvard 14, William 12, Mary 6.

 * It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.
 * 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught

 * Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
 * Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio: Raising Standards of Popular Culture (2001), ISBN 1615927514, p. 344

Funny People (1981)

 * Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality (1990)

 * One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

 * There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lightning, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

 * There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians.

 * To those who wish to punish others — or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters into their own hands — the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993)

 * The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
 * Introduction

 * Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

 * No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.

 * God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a 1994 film about a mentally challenged man's epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture, and experiencing first-hand historical incidents while largely unaware of their significance.
 * Directed by: Robert Zemeckis. Written by Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom.

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Forrest Gump

 * My Momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
 * Note: ranked #40 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
 * Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we was related to him in some way. And what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.
 * Yes, drill sergeant!
 * [About his injury in the war] They said it was a million-dollar wound, but the army must keep that money cuz I ain't seen a nickel of that million dollars.
 * [at Jenny and her boyfriend] You know what I think? I think you should go home to Greenbow, ALABAMA!
 * Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat captain, and a college graduate, the city of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said "That's good. One less thing." Now, Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off. So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare Gospel Church and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. And even though Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave Bubba's momma Bubba's share. And you know what? She didn't have to work in nobody's kitchen no more. And 'cause I was gazillionaire and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free. But at nighttime, when there was nothing to do and the house was all empty, I'd always think of Jenny. And then, she was there.
 * [recalling saving Lt. Dan; we see him carrying Dan away through the jungle.] [narrating] Then it felt like somethin' just jumped up and bit me! [A muzzle flash is briefly visible from the trees as a gunshot rings out; Forrest is hit in the rear] OW! SOMETHING BIT ME!
 * [to Jenny's grave] You died on a Saturday morning and I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. [begins to cry] He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. [puts letter at foot of tombstone] Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. [voice shakes] Jenny? Is that you? Jenny! I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.

Lt. Dan Taylor

 * Now, you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Things don't just happen, it's all part of a plan.
 * You'll never sink this boat! [cackles madly] Come on! You call this a storm?! Come on, you son of a bitch! Blow! It's time for a showdown: You and me! I'm right here, come and get me! [cackles] You'll never sink...this...BOAT! [Cackles louder]

Dialogue

 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] You know, it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I don't remember being born. I, I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But, I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.
 * Young Jenny: You can sit here if you want.
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.
 * Young Jenny: Well, are you gonna sit down, or aren't ya?
 * [Young Forrest sits down next to Jenny]
 * Young Jenny: What's wrong with your legs?
 * Young Forrest: Um, nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy.
 * Young Jenny: Then why do you have those shoes on?
 * Young Forrest: Momma says my back is as crooked as a question mark. These shoes are gonna make me as straight as an arrow. They're my magic shoes.
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] I just sat next to her on that bus and had conversation all the way to school. And next to Momma, no one ever talked to me or asked me questions.
 * Young Jenny: Are you stupid or something?
 * Young Forrest: Momma says stupid is as stupid does.
 * Young Jenny: I'm Jenny.
 * Young Forrest: I'm Forrest. Forrest Gump.
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] From that day on, we was always together. Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.

 * Forrest Gump: Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.
 * Recruit Officer: [shouting] Nobody gives a horse's shit who you are, fuzzball! You're not even a low-life, scum-sucking maggot! Get your faggoty ass on the bus, you're in the Army now!
 * [Forrest quickly gets on the Army bus.]
 * Recruit #1: Seat's taken.
 * Recruit #2: Taken.
 * Forrest Gump: [describing his induction] At first it seemed like I made a mistake, seeing how it was my induction day and I was already gettin' yelled at.
 * Bubba Blue: You can sit down... if you want to.
 * [Forrest sits down next to Bubba.]
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] I didn't know who I might meet or what they might ask?
 * Bubba Blue: Have you ever been on a real shrimp boat?
 * Forrest Gump: No, but I've been on a real big boat.
 * Bubba Blue: I'm talkin' about a shrimp-catchin' boat. I've been workin' on shrimp boats all my life. I started out on my uncle's boat, that's my mother's brother, when I was maybe about nine. I was just lookin' into buyin' a boat of my own and got drafted. My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me "Bubba." Just like one o' them ol' redneck boys; can you believe that?
 * Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and his momma cooked shrimp. And her momma before her cooked shrimp. And her momma before her momma cooked shrimp, too. Bubba family knew everything there was to know about the shrimpin' business.
 * Bubba Blue: I know ever'thing there is to know about the shrimpin' business. Matter of fact, I'm goin' into the shrimpin' business for myself after I get out o' the Army.
 * Forrest Gump: Okay.

 * Drill Sergeant: GUMP! What's your sole purpose in this Army?!
 * Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, Drill Sergeant!
 * Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a goddamned genius! That's the most outstanding answer I have ever heard! You must have a goddamned I.Q. of 160! You are goddamned gifted, Private Gump! Listen up, people...
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] Now for some reason I fit in the Army like one of them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight and always answer every question with "Yes, Drill Sergeant!"
 * Drill Sergeant: This is one very intelligent individual! You lock your scuzzy bodies up behind that private and do exactly what he does, and you will go far in this man's Army! Is that clear?!
 * Forrest Gump, Recruits: YES, DRILL SERGEANT!

 * [The recruits are stripping down and reassembling their M-14 rifles; Forrest finishes well ahead of the others]
 * Forrest Gump: Done, Drill Sergeant!
 * Drill Sergeant: [off screen] GUMP! [Hurrying over] Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?!
 * Forrest Gump: You told me to, Drill Sergeant.
 * Drill Sergeant: [Looks at a stopwatch he is holding] Jesus H. Christ! This is a new company record. If it wouldn't be a waste of such a damn fine enlisted man, I'd recommend you for OCS, Private Gump! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump! Now, disassemble your weapon and continue!

 * Lt. Dan Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
 * Forrest Gump: Uh, I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him.

 * Lt. Dan Taylor: There are two standing rules in this outfit. One, take care of your feet. Two, don't go doing something stupid, like getting yourself killed!
 * Forrest Gump: [to Bubba] I sure hope I don't let him down.

 * Bubba Blue: I'm gonna lean up against you, you just lean right back against me. This way, we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud. You know why we a good partnership, Forrest? 'Cause we be watchin' out for one another. Like brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest, there's somethin' I've been thinkin' about. I got a very important question to ask you. How would you like to go into the shrimpin' business with me?
 * Forrest Gump: Okay.
 * Bubba Blue: Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, so many pounds for gas, we can just live right on the boat. We ain't got to pay no rent. I'll be the captain; we can just work it together. Split everything right down the middle. Man, I'm tellin' you, fifty-fifty. And, hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.
 * Forrest Gump: That's a fine idea. [narrating] Bubba did have a fine idea.

 * Dick Cavett: Here he is, Forrest Gump. Right here. Mr. Gump, have a seat. Forrest Gump, John Lennon.
 * John Lennon: Welcome home.
 * Cavett: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
 * Forrest Gump: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
 * Lennon: No possessions?
 * Gump: And in China they never go to church.
 * Lennon: No religion, too?
 * Cavett: Ah, it's hard to imagine.
 * Lennon: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.
 * Gump: [narrating] Some time later, that nice young man from England was coming home to see his little boy, and he was signin' some autographs when, for no reason at all, somebody shot him.
 * [John Lennon's picture fades into snow.]

 * Forrest Gump: What's the matter, Momma?
 * Mrs. Gump: I'm dyin', Forrest. Come on in, sit down over here.
 * Forrest Gump: Why are you dyin', Momma?
 * Mrs. Gump: It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life. It's something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it, but I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.
 * Forrest Gump: You did good, Momma.
 * Mrs. Gump: Well, I happened to believe you make your own destiny. You have to do the best with what God gave you.
 * Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Momma?
 * Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself. Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] Momma always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
 * Mrs. Gump: I will miss you, Forrest.
 * Forrest Gump: [narrating] She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought her a new hat with little flowers on it. And that's all I have to say about that.

 * [Jenny and Forrest are talking about their son, Forrest Jr.]
 * Jenny: Isn't he beautiful?
 * Forrest Gump: He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...but... [uneasily] is- is he s- smart, or did he... [gesturing towards self]
 * Jenny: He's very smart. He's one of the smartest in his class.
 * [Forrest, though holding back tears, sighs in relief]

Cast

 * Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
 * Michael Conner Humphreys - Young Forrest Gump
 * Robin Wright Penn - Jenny Curran-Gump
 * Hanna R. Hall - Young Jenny Curran
 * Gary Sinise - Lieutenant Dan Taylor
 * Mykelti Williamson - Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue
 * Sally Field - Mrs. Gump
 * Siobhan Fallon Hogan - Dorothy Harris
 * Sonny Shroyer - Paul "Bear" Bryant
 * Haley Joel Osment - Forrest Gump Jr.

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Erwin Griswold

Erwin Griswold (July 14, 1904 – November 19, 1994) was U.S. Solicitor General under President Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean of Harvard Law School, and President of the American Bar Foundation.

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 * It quickly becomes apparent to any person who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive overclassification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but rather with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another.
 * Washington Post op-ed piece, 15 February 1989

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Leonard H. Courtney

Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney (6 July 1832 – 11 May 1918) was a British politician, long held to have made the first published reference to the phrase "Lies — damned lies — and statistics" in 1895. He later became president of the Royal Statistical Society (1897–1899).

Quotes

 * There is an imperialism that deserves all honor and respect — an imperialism of service in the discharge of great duties. But with too many it is the sense of domination and aggrandisement, the glorification of power. The price of peace is eternal vigilance.
 * As quoted in The Life Of Lord Courtney (1920) by G. P. Gooch
 * The statement "The price of peace is eternal vigilance" has been widely attributed to others, including George Marshall, however even Courtney's use of it is probably derived from an earlier statement with several variants:
 * '''The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
 * The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
 * Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
 * These have often been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but also to Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, and many others; Lord Denning in The Road to Justice (1988) states that the phrase originated in a statement of Irish orator John Philpot Curran in 1790: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."

To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

 * Essay in The National Review (London, 1895) (PDF document online)

 * What a jolly awakening there will be some few years hence, when the inevitable argument of experience will show us a nation contradicting itself through the voices of its chosen representatives! The stupidest politician will sit up, rubbing his eyes. After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies — damned lies — and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. So we may be led to the serious consideration of change by the evolution of materials of conviction which those who run may read, though some who read may wish to run away from them.
 * This is one of the earliest known uses of the term "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" which is often attributed to Mark Twain, who in his Autobiography (1924) in a passage probably written in Florence in 1904, attributes it to Benjamin Disraeli, perhaps because he thought him "The Wise Statesman" Courtney referred to. An even earlier incident has recently been located, in which  Mrs Andrew Crosse (Cornelia Augusta Hewitt Crosse) states in "Old Memories Interviewed" (1892):
 * It has been said by some wits that that there are three degrees of unveracity: "Lies, d—d lies, and statistics."
 * Even earlier uses of similar but not identical expressions have been found in notes by T. H. Huxley of a meeting of the Royal Society of London on 5 December 1885:
 * Talked politics, scandal, and the three classes of witnesses — liears, d—d liears, and experts.
 * More information is available at "Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics" at The University of York

 * We may blunder on in spite of repeated miscalculations of the popular will. More penetrating and pernicious is the influence our ill-devised machinery has upon the character of our national life. It eats in and into it. It degrades candidates and electors alike. It does its worst to reduce to sterility of influence many of the best of the component elements of the people. The individuals survive, but with their political activity dead or dying, no opportunities of life and growth being afforded them. Finally it presents as an embodiment of the nation an assembly or assemblies into which none can enter who have not been clipped, and pared, and trimmed, and stretched out of natural shape and likeness to slip along the grooves of supply. A free press, free pulpits, and a free people outside help to correct what would otherwise become intolerable but press, pulpits and people, free as they are, work and live in strict limits of relation to the machinery established among them. The world revolves on its axis subject to the Constitution of the United States, and the most Radical newspaper man in London, if such there be, never lets his imagination range out of hearing of the Clock Tower.

 * The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life, whose creed is not in absolute inheritance from his fathers, learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both. It is not everyone whose ductile mind takes him through this training, and a goodly number of up-growing men of not the worst promise for the future have to step aside.

 * What an education follows! It is really a fine comedy, though the players rarely know it. I am but a clumsy performer myself, and have to confess to incurable defects of training, so that I sometimes wonder I have not been hissed off the stage; still I have seen the performance through more than once or twice, and know something about it. Such tender and delicate adjustments and readjustments of convictions to keep the party balance sure! Such abundance of spoonmeat on the one hand, and such careful economy on the other of truths that may prove too strong for weak digestions! Such avowals of readiness to consider seriously any opinion, however obviously absurd, broached by a possible supporter! Such prompt denunciations of all the devices of an irreconcilable opponent!

 * As for life within a Legislature,— who can tell how warped and bent and twisted, and accommodated to the exigencies of party struggle become the faculties of belief? Strong and courageous natures know it, and remain strong and courageous in spite of knowledge and practice; but the pliancy of man is beyond admiration, and is nowhere better seen than under the schooling of Parliament.

 * It is true— it has been already admitted— that the picture will not be universally recognized; but it has been suggested that the failure of recognition lies rather in the degeneracy of the faculty of seeing than in the misrepresentation of the vision to be seen. It may be also confessed that life often survives all the perversities of training. We cannot absolutely nullify the prodigality of nature, try as hard as we may. In spite of most careful management, untractable growths survive in the most provoking way, and intrude themselves into fields believed to be kept free from their presence. And sometimes it happens that the poor party managers have to accommodate themselves to the genius they curse.

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Dune (film)

Quotes from Dune, the 1984 motion picture directed by David Lynch, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert. See also Dune (TV miniseries) and the 2021 remake.

Princess Irulan

 * A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year 10,191. The Known Universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the spice has mutated over 4,000 years, use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space. That is, travel to any part of the universe without moving. Oh, yes. I forgot to tell you — the spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe. A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.
 * Introductory narrative
 * The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for 90 generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a super being. On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood and the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters. Because of her love for the Duke, she disobeyed, and gave birth to a son. Paul... Paul Atreides.
 * Introducing House Atreides
 * House Atreides took control of Arrakis 63 standard days into the year 10,191. It was known that the Harkonnens, the former rulers of Arrakis, would leave many suicide troops behind. Atreides patrols were doubled.
 * Following the Bene Gesserit tradition, the old Reverend Mother surrendered her life as she surrendered her knowledge. Jessica has successfully transmuted the poisonous Water of Life. The tremendous power of the Water of Life caused the premature birth of Jessica's daughter, Alia. Alia was born with all the knowledge and powers of a Reverend Mother.
 * In the two standard years that followed, Muad'Dib and his Fremen brought spice production to a standstill. Fearing for his life, Rabban did his best to hide this fact from his uncle, the Baron. Paul's sister, Alia, matured at a frightening rate. Her small body harbored tremendous powers. Paul and Chani's love grew.
 * Muad'dib had become the hand of God, fulfilling the Fremen prophecy. Where there was war, Muad'dib would now bring peace. Where there was hatred, Muad'dib would bring love. To lead the people to true freedom, and to change the face of Arrakis.
 * Final line spoken by Irulan, when Paul becomes Emperor, just before Arrakis has its first rainfall

Duke Leto Atreides

 * Thank you for joining me, Paul. Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides for three generations. He swears you are the finest student he has ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same. It makes me feel very proud.
 * I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
 * As House Atreides prepares to leave Caladan for Arrakis
 * [voiceover] Jessica, what is wrong? Forgive me, my beloved concubine. I should have married you. Why hold a dream to ascend to a throne through a political marriage? I should have married you.

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV

 * The Atreides house is building a secret army, using a technique unknown to us; a technique involving sound. The Duke is becoming more popular in the Landsraad; he could threaten me. I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis, to mine the spice, thus replacing their enemies, the Harkonnens. House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time, Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides. I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardukar terror-troops.
 * In conversation with a Third Stage Spacing Guild Navigator, regarding the Atreides/Harkonnen feud and control of Arrakis and how the Atreides will be felled
 * This is genocide! The deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis!
 * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
 * Bring in that floating fat man, the Baron!
 * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, after the Fremen succeed in their assaults on the spice trade.

Paul Atreides

 * Also known as Muad'Dib and Usul, among the Fremen

 * I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
 * Reciting the Bene Gesserit Litany against Fear
 * Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won't attract the worm. It will go to the thumper.
 * To his mother, as they try to reach safety of rock outcrops in the desert.
 * This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
 * Instructing Fremen on the use of weirding modules.
 * My name is a killing word. They are ready to fight. Yet in order to lead them, I must conquer the worm ... conquer Shai-Hulud.
 * After one of the Fedaykin begins to ask a question of Muad'Dib while holding a weirding module.
 * I'm dead to everyone unless I try to become what I may be.
 * The Guild and the entire universe depends on spice. He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
 * When the spice flow stops, all eyes will turn to Arrakis. The Baron and the Emperor himself will be forced to deal with us.
 * Your time has come. A storm is coming. Our storm. And when it arrives, it will shake the universe. Emperor...we come for you!!
 * Long live the fighters!
 * Father... father, the sleeper has awakened!
 * After surviving the spice agony on taking the Water of Life.
 * We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God.

Liet-Kynes

 * (Thinking about Leto's reaction after the sandworm attack) He's more concerned about the men than the spice. I must admit, against all judgement, I like this duke.

Chani

 * Tell me of your homeworld, Usul.
 * Words Paul Atreides had foreseen that she would express to him in a vision-dream, before they had ever met, and before he had yet received the name Usul.
 * (Before Paul takes the Water of Life) Paul... whatever happens, I will love you forever. You are my life. You are my life.

Others

 * Did you really think you could bear the Kwisatz Haderach, the universe's super being? How dare you! My greatest student... and my greatest disappointment.
 * Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
 * It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
 * The Mentat Mantra, recited by Piter De Vries
 * Feyd, Rabban, go quietly. No other great house of the Landsraad must ever know of the Emperor's aid to the Baron. The entire Landsraad would turn against the Baron and the Emperor.
 * Piter De Vries
 * A secret report within the Guild. Four planets have come to our attention... regarding a plot which could jeopardize spice production. Planet Arrakis, source of the spice. Planet Caladan, home of House Atreides. Planet Giedi Prime, home of House Harkonnen. Planet Kaitain, home of the Emperor of the Known Universe. Send a third stage Guild Navigator to Kaitain to demand details from the Emperor. The spice must flow...
 * A member of the Spacing Guild, from a special report within the Guild
 * The Bene Gesserit witch must leave.
 * A Guildsman tells the Emperor that his Truthsayer has to leave the room
 * I mean Paul Atreides. We want him killed. Blend his extinction into your recipe and you will come with a meal to our liking. I did not say this. I am not here.
 * Third stage Guild navigator, informing the Emperor that they want Paul Atreides killed during Baron Harkonnen's invasion of Arrakis.
 * Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it round real neat. ...You are so beautiful, my Baron. Your skin — love to me. Your diseases — lovingly cared for for all eternity!
 * The Baron Harkonnen's doctor treating the pustules of his skin
 * He who controls the spice, controls the universe!
 * Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
 * My lord, I suspect so much. I think the Fremen are the allies we seek. They are strong, fierce. They do not give their loyalty easily or quickly. As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet, that the Fremen exist in vast numbers—vast—and it is they who control Arrakis.
 * Duncan Idaho talking to Duke Leto about the Fremen
 * Hmmm. Shai-hulud.
 * Stilgar and the Fremen, chanting.
 * Who is the little one, a pet perhaps? Will she deserve my special attentions?
 * Feyd-Rautha, about Chani
 * Why prolong the inevitable? I will kill you! — I will kill him! I WILL KILL HIM!!!
 * Feyd-Rautha armed with the Emperor's blade against Paul Atreides

Dialogue

 * Paul Atreides: I know, Thufir, I'm sitting with my back to the door. I hear you, Dr. Yueh, and Gurney coming down the hall.
 * Thufir Hawat: Those sounds could be imitated!
 * Paul: I'd know the difference.
 * Thufir: [voiceover] Yes, perhaps he would at that.

 * Paul Atreides: My father sent you to test me. Music, then?
 * Gurney Halleck: No music — I'm packing this [puts down his baliset] for the crossing. Shield practice.
 * Paul: Shield practice? Gurney, I thought we had practice this morning. I'm not in the mood.
 * Gurney: Not in the mood?! Mood's a thing for cattle and love play, not fighting.
 * Paul: I'm sorry, Gurney.
 * Gurney: [draws a knife and raises his body shield] Not sorry enough.

 * Paul Atreides: [holding a knife to Gurney's throat] Is this what you seek?
 * Gurney Halleck: Good. The slow blade penetrates the shield, but ah, look down. [Paul sees Gurney's blade at his own waist.] We'd have joined each other in death. You did seem, finally, to get in the mood. [they both turn their shields off]
 * Paul: Would you really have drawn my blood?
 * Gurney: If you had fought one whit below your abilities, I'd have given you a good scar to remind you.
 * Paul: Things have been so serious here lately.
 * Gurney: Soon we leave for Arrakis. Arrakis is real. The Harkonnens are real.

 * Paul Atreides: Duncan!
 * Duncan Idaho: Paul. I was just on my way to say good-bye to you. I have to go on ahead, alone. I won't be seeing you for a while.
 * Paul: I wish you were coming with us. Why?
 * Duncan: There's something for your father. He wants to talk to you. I'll see you on Arrakis. May the hand of God be with you.
 * Paul: May the hand of God be with us all, Duncan.

 * Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Jessica, you were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides. [Jessica ignores her, lost in thought] Jessica!
 * Jessica Atreides: It meant so much to him.
 * Reverend Mother: You thought only of a Duke's desire for a son?! Desires don't come into this. An Atreides daughter could've been wed to a Harkonnen heir and sealed the breach! We may lose both bloodlines now.
 * Jessica: I vowed never to regret my decision. I'll pay for all my own mistakes.
 * Reverend Mother: And your son will pay with you!

 * Paul Atreides: What's in the box?
 * Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain. I hold at your neck the gom jabbar. This one kills only animals.
 * Paul Atreides: Are you suggesting the Duke's son is an animal?
 * Reverend Mother: Let us say I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct would be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die. You will feel... an itching... there! Now, the itching becomes burning. Heat upon heat upon heat.
 * Paul: It burns!
 * Reverend Mother: Silence! SILENCE!!

 * Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile of the newborn worms of Arrakis?
 * Paul Atreides: I have heard of it.
 * Reverend Mother: It is very dangerous and deadly. The Bene Gesserit women who drink it use it to see from within. There is a place... terrifying to us... to women. It is said... a man will come... the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we cannot. Many men have tried.
 * Paul: They tried and failed?
 * Reverend Mother: They tried and died.

 * Piter de Vries: As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning our plan to—
 * Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: My plan!
 * Piter de Vries: ... the plan... to crush the Atreides.

 * Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: I will have Arrakis back for myself! He who controls the spice controls the universe, and what Piter did not tell you is we have control of someone who is very close — very close! — to Duke Leto. This person — this traitor — will be worth more to us than ten legions of Sardaukar!
 * Feyd-Rautha: And who is this traitor?
 * Baron: I won't tell you who the traitor is, or when we'll attack. However, the Duke will die before these eyes and he'll know — he'll know! — that it is I, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who encompasses his doom!

 * Dr. Wellington Yueh: I sabotaged the house generators. We are wide open! I've destroyed the new army's weirding modules. I've brought House Atreides down.
 * Duke Leto Atreides: Why?
 * Yueh: I wish to kill a man. Not you, my dear Duke. You are already dead. But you will get close to the Baron before you die. You will be tied and drugged, but you can still attack. You can still attack! When you see the Baron, you will have a new poison gas tooth. He'll want you close so he can gloat over you. One bite on this tooth, and a strong exhale...
 * Leto: Refuse...
 * Yueh: No! You mustn't! Because in return, I'll save the lives of your Paul and Jessica. (Yueh removes the Ducal signet ring from his finger) For Paul. (Yueh then takes out the Duke's organic tooth and replaces it with a poison gas capsule in his tooth) When you see the Baron, remember the tooth, the tooth, (echo) the tooth.

 * Iakin Nefud: What are your orders, Piter?
 * Piter De Vries: (referring to Jessica and Paul) Take them to the desert as the traitor suggested. The worms will destroy the evidence. Their bodies must never be found.

 * Paul Atreides: What do you call the mouse shadow on the second moon?
 * Stilgar: We call that one Muad'Dib.
 * Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?
 * Stilgar: You are Paul Muad'Dib, and your mother shall be a Sayyadina among us... We welcome you.
 * Paul: [thinks] The dream unfolds.

 * Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Feyd, even though he's aging, Thufir's one of the finest Mentats in the universe. And he's mine, Feyd, all mine. Quiet now.
 * Feyd-Rautha: I will.
 * Baron: Come. Oh, Thufir! I see they've installed your heart plug already. Don't be angry; everyone gets one here, but this is not why we're here. We've brought you a little cat, Thufir. You must care for it if you wish to live. A poison has been introduced into your body, Thufir Hawat. By milking this, this smooth little cat's body, you'll receive your antidote. It must be done each day!
 * Feyd-Rautha: All I can see is an Atreides that I want to kill.
 * Baron: Feyd, no. No! Thufir's a Harkonnen now. Aren't you, Thufir?
 * Thufir Hawat: [voiceover] My Duke, how I've failed you.

 * Paul Atreides: You've no need for your weapons with me, Gurney Halleck.
 * Gurney Halleck: Paul? Paul?
 * Paul: Don't you trust your own eyes?
 * Gurney: They said you were dead. They said— [sees Paul's signet ring and embraces him] You young pup! You young pup!

 * Spacing Guildsman: Emperor Shaddam IV, you have one last chance to take matters into your own hands and bring the situation under control on Arrakis.
 * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: What do you mean, one last—
 * Spacing Guildsman: Do not speak! Listen! You do not have more than this one chance! I represent the entire Guild in this matter! Our navigators warn you that spice production is in great danger! A new Fremen leader, Muad'dib, has stopped spice mining on Arrakis! Our navigators suggest he is not of Arrakis. No one on the outside world has been able to see him. We do not know who he is. The Harkonnens cannot stop him. Remedy the situation! Restore spice production, or you will live out your life in a pain amplifier!

 * Muad'Dib: Gurney, when the storm hits, set off the atomics. I want an opening through the entire Shield Wall. Stilgar, do we have wormsign?
 * Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.

 * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Why have you brought me here?
 * Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Your Highness, there must be some mistake. I never requested your presence.
 * Emperor: Ah, but your lack of action demanded it. Your dreadful mismanagement, your bad judgment in assigning to Rabban the governorship! You have forced me to come here and set things straight personally!
 * Alia Atreides: I am a messenger from Muad'Dib. Poor Emperor. I'm afraid my brother won't be very pleased with you.
 * Emperor: Silence!
 * Reverand Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Kill this child. She's an abomination. Kill her! [groans then yells at Alia] Get out of my mind!
 * Alia: Not until you tell them both who I really am!
 * Reverend Mother: Alia, daughter of Duke Leto the Just and the royal lady Jessica, sister of Paul Muad'Dib.
 * Emperor: Paul's sister? Paul is Muad'Dib?

 * Paul Atreides: Emperor Shaddam IV, there are Guild heighliners above us containing many great Houses of the Landsraad. Send them back!
 * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: How dare you speak to me in that—
 * Spacing Guild Agent: Stop your speaking!
 * Paul: You have some idea of what I could do. [to Reverend Mother Mohiam] Don't try your powers on me! Try looking into that place where you dare not look. You'll find me there, staring back at you.
 * Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: You mustn't speak—
 * Paul: Silence! I remember your Gom Jabbar. Now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.
 * Fremen warrior: And his word shall carry death eternal to those who stand against the righteous.
 * Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen: The righteous?
 * Paul: There is a Harkonnen among you. Give the Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth.
 * Emperor Shaddam: If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my blade in his hand.
 * Feyd-Rautha: I wish it!
 * Gurney Halleck: This is a Harkonnen animal! Let me. Please, my lord.
 * Paul: The Emperor's blade.

 * Feyd-Rautha: You see your death. My blade will finish you.
 * Paul Atreides: [voiceover] I will bend like a reed in the wind.

 * Paul Atreides: We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of God.
 * Alia Atreides: [as rain begins falling on Arrakis] And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!

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Rajneesh

Osho [Hindi: ओशो] (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain [चन्द्र मोहन जैन], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour — qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation.

Quotes

 * One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.
 * Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen (1982) ISBN 0880506687

 * I am the rich man's guru.
 * The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509

 * I would like that what I am doing is not lost. So I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest... you alone are enough to face the sunrise, you don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is... And this is my attitude: you are here, every individual is here, the whole existence is available. All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization. I trust in the individual categorically. Nobody up to now has trusted in the individual in such a way.
 * The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)

 * Buddha declared before his death that he would be coming again after twenty-five centuries, and that his name would be Maitreya. Maitreya means the friend. Buddhas don't come back; no enlightened person ever comes back, so it is just a way of saying... What he was saying is of tremendous importance. It has nothing to do with his coming back; he cannot come back. What he meant was that the ancient relationship between the Master and the disciple would become irrelevant in twenty-five centuries. It was his clarity of perception — he was not predicting anything — just his clarity to see that as things are changing, as they have changed in the past and as they go on changing, it would take at least twenty-five centuries for the Master and disciple relationship to become out of date. Then the enlightened Master will be only the friend. I had always wanted not to be a Master to anybody. But people want a Master, they want to be disciples; hence, I played the role. It is time that I should say to you that now many of you are ready to accept me as the friend. Those who are in tune with me continuously, without any break, are the only real friends...
 * The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509

 * I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.
 * The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)

 * It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead — I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly — seventy years will be gone soon. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth — not a belief — is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. And the whole person is the holy person to me.
 * God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth (1989) YouTube video of the lecture

 * I believe and trust absolutely in existence. If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive. The people who remain interested in my work will be simply carrying the torch, but not imposing anything on anyone, either by sword or bread. I will remain a source of inspiration to my people and that is what most sannyasins will feel. I want them to grow on their own. Qualities like love, around which no church can be created, like awareness, qualities which are nobody's monopoly, like celebration, rejoicing, and maintaining childlike fresh eyes. I want people to know themselves, not to be according to someone else, and the way is in.
 * Italian TV Interview (1989)

 * Just a few days ago a man came to see me and he said, "I am a humble man. I am just like the dust on your feet. I have been trying for almost twenty years to achieve higher consciousness, but I have been a failure. Why can't I attain?" And on and on he went. Every sentence started with I. If the grammar allowed, every sentence would have ended with I. And if everything was allowed, every sentence would have consisted only of I's. "I etcetera, I etcetera, I etcetera," it went on and on. You are filled too much. There is no room, no space for God to enter in you. You are too crowded. A thousand I's milling inside — they don't leave any space for anything to enter in you.
 * Just Like That: Talks on Sufism (1993) ISBN 3893381139

 * Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven, hell. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the mystery. In fact, all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
 * Never Born, Never Died (2002) ISBN 81-7621-121-4

 * It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable — and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
 * Your Answers Questioned (2003)

 * Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.
 * From Sex to Superconsciousness

 * I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
 * From Darkness to Light

 * Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. And when love comes, there is no question of responsibility. You do things because you enjoy doing them for the person you love. You are not obliging the person, you are not even wanting anything in return, not even gratitude. On the contrary, you are grateful that the person has allowed you to do something for him. It was your joy, sheer joy. Love knows nothing of responsibility. It does many things, it is very creative; it shares all that it has, but it is not a responsibility, remember. Responsibility is an ugly word in comparison to love. Love is natural. Responsibility is created by the cunning priests, politicians who want to dominate you in the name of God, in the name of the nation, in the name of family, in the name of religion -- any fiction will do. But they don't talk about love. On the contrary, they are all against love, because love is unable to be controlled by them. A man of love acts out of his own heart, not according to any moral code. A man of love will not join the army because it is his responsibility to fight for his nation. A man of love will say there are no nations, and there is no question of any fight.
 * Sat Chit Anand

 * Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden — you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha. There is no contradiction … I say unto you, your every act should be a ceremony. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion: life itself will be the religion.
 * Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen

 * Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
 * Ancient Music in the Pines

 * I do not ordinarily make prophecies, but about this I am absolutely prophetic: the coming hundred years are going to be more and more irrational, and more and more mystical. The second thing: After a hundred years people will be perfectly able to understand why I was misunderstood — because I am the beginning of the mystical, the irrational. I am a discontinuity with the past. The past cannot understand me; only the future will understand. The past can only condemn me. It cannot understand me, it cannot answer me, it cannot argue with me; it can only condemn me. Only the future … as man becomes more and more available to the mysterious, to the meaningless yet significant … After a hundred years they will understand. Because the more man becomes aware of the mysterious side of life, the less he is political; the less he is a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian; the less is the possibility for his being a fanatic. A man in tune with the mysterious is humble, loving, caring, accepting the uniqueness of everybody. He is rejoicing in the freedom of each individual, because only with freedom can this garden of humanity be a rich place.
 * The Osho Upanishad

 * My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
 * Come, Come, Yet Again Come

 * Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature. You are going upstream — that's what misery is.
 * The Book of Wisdom

 * Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
 * The Book of Wisdom

 * All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don't try to become. Within these two words — being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
 * The Book of Wisdom

 * The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition … If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him. … You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you … Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest — just like you … That is why Jesus is worshipped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.
 * When the Shoe Fits

 * You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
 * When the Shoe Fits

 * When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.
 * Satyam Shivam Sundaram

 * You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.
 * Sufis, The People of the Path, Vol. 1

 * I have withdrawn the red dress, the mala, because thousands of people wanted to be sannyasins but just because of the clothes and the mala they felt difficulties in the world — their job, their family, their wife, their parents, their friends — and it was too much of a trouble. I have withdrawn everything. Now whatsoever remains is something inner which neither the wife can detect nor the father nor the job nor the friends.
 * The Last Testament, Vol. 3

 * Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you. Meditation is your freedom, not a biological necessity. You can learn in a certain period of time every day to strengthen meditation, to make it stronger — but carry the flavor of it the whole day.
 * Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram

 * If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.
 * Come Follow To You, Vol. 2, Chapter 4; in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic'' (2000), Part 2.

 * Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people; but the people are retarded. So let us say government by the retarded, for the retarded, of the retarded.
 * Is Democracy the Best Way of Government? (1981) YouTube video of the lecture

The Mustard Seed (1975)

 * The first thing to be understood about a man like Jesus is that whatsoever the church that is bound to grow around such a man says about him, it is bound to be wrong. What the Christian church says about Christ cannot be true. In fact the Christian priest does not represent Christ at all. He is the same old rabbi in new garments, the same old rabbi who was responsible for Jesus murder.

 * Jesus is a rebel, just as Buddha or Lao Tzu is. When the church starts establishing itself it starts destroying the rebelliousness of Jesus, Buddha, because rebellion cannot go with an establishment.

 * The Christian priest is not interested in God: he is interested in creating a business. He has to claim that Jesus is the only way, that all other ways are wrong. He is in search of customers.

The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)

 * ISBN 088050045X

 * Just before twenty-first March, 1953, seven days before, I stopped working on myself. A moment comes when you see the whole futility of effort. You have done all that you can do and nothing is happening. You have done all that is humanly possible. Then what else can you do? In sheer helplessness one drops all search. And the day the search stopped, the day I was not seeking for something, the day I was not expecting something to happen, it started happening. A new energy arose — out of nowhere. It was not coming from any source. It was coming from nowhere and everywhere. It was in the trees and in the rocks and the sky and the sun and the air — it was everywhere. And I was seeking so hard, and I was thinking it is very far away. And it was so near and so close.

 * Near about twelve my eyes suddenly opened — I had not opened them. The sleep was broken by something else. I felt a great presence around me in the room. It was a very small room. I felt a throbbing life all around me, a great vibration — almost like a hurricane, a great storm of light, joy, ecstasy. I was drowning in it. It was so tremendously real that everything became unreal. The walls of the room became unreal, the house became unreal, my own body became unreal. Everything was unreal because now there was for the first time reality.

 * The whole day was strange, stunning, and it was a shattering experience. The past was disappearing, as if it had never belonged to me, as if I had read about it somewhere, as if I had dreamed about it, as if it was somebody else's story I have heard and somebody told it to me. I was becoming loose from my past, I was being uprooted from my history, I was losing my autobiography. I was becoming a non-being, what Buddha calls anatta. Boundaries were disappearing, distinctions were disappearing.

Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

 * ISBN 81-216-0695-0

 * Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

 * Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.

 * Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.

 * Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.

 * Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.

 * The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

 * The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.

 * When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

My Way: The Way of the White Clouds (1995)

 * ISBN 3893380574

 * Find moments when you are not, and those will be the moments when you will be for the first time...really. So I am the white cloud, and the whole effort is to make you also white clouds drifting in the sky. Nowhere to go, coming from nowhere, just being there this very moment — perfect. I don't teach you any ideals, I don't teach you any oughts. I don't say to you be this, become that. My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are, accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will become a white cloud.

 * Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look — in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river — wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved.

 * Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened in new subtle ways. This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity — only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved.

The Art of Dying

 * Man has nothing else to do but surrender — in deep trust, in deep love. Don’t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.
 * The Art of Dying (osho.com; retrieved August 2012), Chapter 6, 14.

Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000)

 * And my grandparents became very aware of one thing—that I enjoyed my aloneness. They had seen that I had no desire to go to the village to meet anybody, or to talk with anybody. Even if they wanted to talk, my answers were yes or no; I was not interested in talking either. They became aware of one thing—that I enjoyed my aloneness and it was their sacred duty not to disturb me.
 * p. 6

 * For seven years I remained undisturbed—no one to nag me, to prepare me for the world of business, politics, diplomacy. My grandparents were more interested in leaving me as natural as possible—particularly my grandmother. She is one of the causes—these small things affect all your life patterns—she is one of the causes of my respect for the whole of womanhood. She was a simple woman, uneducated, but immensely sensitive. She made it clear to my grandfather and the servant: "We all have lived a certain kind of life which has not led us anywhere. We are as empty as ever, and now death is coming close." She insisted, "Let this child be uninfluenced by us. What influence can we have? We can only make him like us, and we are nothing. Give him an opportunity to be himself."
 * p. 7

 * If you believe in any religion you cannot meditate. Religion is an interference in your meditation. Meditation needs no God, no heaven, no hell, no fear of punishment, and no allurement of pleasure.
 * p. 10

 * Nobody should lie — to a child, at least — it is unforgivable. Children have been exploited for centuries just because they are willing to trust. You can lie to them very easily and they will trust you. If you are a father, a mother, they will think you are bound to be true. That’s how the whole of humanity lives in corruption, in a very slippery mud of lies told to children for centuries. If we can do just one thing, a simple thing — not lie to children and to confess to them our ignorance — then we will be religious and we will put them on the path of religion. Children are innocent: leave them not your so-called knowledge. But you yourself must first be innocent, unlying, true.
 * p. 13

 * The so-called mahatmas and saints are all cowards. I have never come across a single mahatma—Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist—who can be said to be really a rebellious spirit. Unless one is rebellious, one is not religious. Rebellion is the very foundation of religion.
 * p. 19

 * My grandfather ... had raised me with absolute freedom, no inhibitions, no suppressions, and no commandments. Love with freedom—if you have it, you are a king or a queen. That is the real kingdom of God—love with freedom. Love gives you the roots into the earth, and freedom gives you the wings.
 * p. 25

Quotes about Rajneesh/Osho

 * Never born, Never died: only visited this planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.
 * Epitaph, as quoted in Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins : Laughter in the History of Religion (1997) by Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, p. 143

 * Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, given a hero's welcome by his Indian disciples after returning from a U.S. jail, denounced the United States Sunday and said the world must "put the monster America in its place." "The real enemy is no more the Soviet Union, it is America," said the 53-year-old guru, who returned to New Delhi after pleading guilty to violating U.S. immigration laws by arranging sham marriages so his followers could stay in the U.S. In his first press conference since he was arrested last month in Charlotte, N.C., Rajneesh declared, "Either America must be hushed up or America will be the end of the world."
 * Quotes from an Associated Press report on Rajneesh return to India from the United States on 17 November 1985, published as "World must put U.S. 'monster' in its place, guru says" in the Chicago Tribune (18 November 1985), p. 5

 * Reading his discourses made me realize that Rajneesh was a sad loss. He had an extraordinary range of knowledge and a vision of how life should be lived, but he proved incapable of following his own precepts.
 * Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997), p. 63

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Alicia Witt

Alicia Roanne Witt (born 21 August 1975) is an American actress, musician, singer, writer and director.

Quotes

 * I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
 * On her extraordinarily high I.Q., as quoted in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

 * I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
 * On moving to Hollywood at 14, after having earned her high school equivalency diploma, as quoted in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

 * Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience.
 * As quoted in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

 * I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.
 * AOL Live (1996)

 * I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my "accomplishments" from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.
 * AOL Live (1996)

 * When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after "the little redhead girl".
 * Seventeen (1996)

 * Everything was okay, as long as I could dream. Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying.
 * "Belinda" in Belinda's Swan Song (2006)

 * I like digging into these characters that are a lot more complex, and there's a lot that isn't apparent on the surface … In a weird way, you can access all that fear and pain. … Nothing makes me happier than when somebody figures out I was in something, and then they'd seen me in something else, and had no idea it was the same person… Then I feel like I've done my job. … I've always loved finding characters that are not always the most likable ones when you first meet them, and finding a way to make them people that viewers will identify with, even against their better judgment.
 * As quoted in "Why Now Is a Divine Time for Alicia Witt", by Sarah Beauchamp at Huffington Post (30 May 2014)

 * All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with … The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore.
 * As quoted in "Why Now Is a Divine Time for Alicia Witt", by Sarah Beauchamp at Huffington Post (30 May 2014)

Filmcritic.com interview (2000)

 * Witt's Beginning: Alicia Witt Struts Her Stuff in the New Comedy "Playing Mona Lisa" by Christopher Null (17 October 2000)

 * I don't consider myself to be a quote-unquote "good girl". I'm not prim and proper and polite. I'm very honest, and I love talking about sex, or people's deviances. I love psychology. I like listening to or talking about any personality traits that are unusual. That's what I like about acting.

 * I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

 * I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.

Twitter tweets

 * Official Twitter account

 * i am always doing things i can't do. that's how i get to do them.
 * Bio note

 * so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.
 * Extended tweet at TwitLonger (14 August 2010)

Alicia Witt (2009)

 * Debut EP on iTunes

 * I'm bruised again, I wear it well, The self-inflicted tale they tell. I singed my hair, I broke my nails. You'd love me then, If all else failed. The night was long and dark and just Another dagger to my trust. I thrust it in until I bleed I wiped my point for you to see. And anyway, It's over now. Nothing left to say. I don't know why, I don't care how, It's over anyway. It's broken in pieces. You've got the space you needed. Too late to try, Just say good-bye It's over anyway.
 * "Anyway" Official Video - Performance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (1 July 2010)

 * My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong, You're not that strong. I don't belong here!
 * "Anyway"

 * You'll say I'm self-destructive — I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy. And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.
 * "Anyway"

Live at Rockwood (2012)

 * Live at Rockwood (recorded in Rockwood Music Hall, New York City, January 2012; released June 2012)

stare it in the teeth question everything you never ask the earth shall drink the meek is there lighting in your veins is there something that remains nothings ever gonna change so take yourself out in the rain life is leadin while you wait waitin for your judgement day
 * hold your head up high to face the past
 * Judgement Day

wish i didn’t know the things I know you're backing off from me i saw it happening the moment she came back to you
 * damn my intuition here it goes
 * Fighting For Crumbs

looks like my moment here is done your heart is broken in too many pieces and I’m not fighting for crumbs
 * looks like it’s time to walk away
 * Fighting For Crumbs

I'm Not Ready For Christmas (2013)

 * "I'm Not Ready For Christmas" (November 2013)

don’t need a gift list don’t give a shit how many shopping days are left this holiday season give me one reason i should believe it’s ever gonna change and why should i be merry when every January i come back so very broken hearted I’m not ready for Christmas I think i’ll skip this one and Santa I will see you next year.
 * I’m not ready for Christmas

the Grinch was not so mean he had a point or two I think he’d have liked me.
 * It just occurs to me

buying things that no one wanted trying on my own to save the day while dad plays cards and bro reads verses mom’s in tears between the curses I need a fucking holiday I’m not ready for Christmas.
 * I’m done with wrapping boxes

Revisionary History (2015)
and all the roads that were lost the signs you missed turns that passed you by '''maybe it’s not too late to find your way it’s not your place to say what if you can you can go home again'''
 * and for the falling stars   the broken hearts    mansions in your mind
 * Theme from Pasadena (You Can Go Home), (lyrics by Witt, music by Ben Folds) · Video performance with Ben Folds

god knows you damn well tried''' and all the stones you tossed they’re ripples now waves you left behind they’re leading you back you can go home again
 * '''and tho you lost your way it’s not too late
 * Theme from Pasadena (You Can Go Home)

doesn’t it feel like freedom breathin in and out now isn’t it good to see all the love in someone else’s eyes doesn’t it all make sense that you’re better off without me
 * isn’t it nice to know that you’re not my consolation prize
 * Consolation Prize · performance on The Queen Latifah Show (2015)

no pain to mention just too many days that fade to blue and look how it came out perfect for better would have been for worse if I’d have been the one to settle down that walk with you
 * no grand intention
 * Consolation Prize

Quotes about Witt

 * Alphabetized by author

 * Look at the girl I did Urban Legends with, my last big hit, in '98. One of the girls in that, Alicia Witt — who was on the TV series, Cybill — she without a doubt did the best work on television last year when she guest-starred on the most difficult show to guest star on, which was The Sopranos. She played a non-Italian mafia type on The Sopranos — she was the best thing in the hour. To me, this girl is outstanding. This girl has movie star potential. Now, she was in Cecil B. Demented. I'm just amazed she's not a much bigger star already — not out of any disappointment in Alicia. But I just can't believe the town hasn't just sort of like scooped her up and made her as much of an "It Girl" as, for instance, Goldie Hawn's daughter or Gwyneth Paltrow, because I think this girl is really — and she's also genuinely funny in a wonderful, sexy, screwball comedy way.
 * Robert Englund, in "An Interview with Robert Englund" at IGN Movies (16 December 2002)

 * Arguably the smartest person ever to perform in the genre that gave us Green Acres. Exposed to Shakespeare as an infant — her mother, Diane, a former junior high reading teacher, would read aloud from his plays — Witt was able to recite from Romeo and Juliet and the sonnets at 2. By then, on some cognitive tests she was scoring at the level of a high school senior.
 * Tom Gliatto, in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

Thanks to this bit of exposure, Witt was invited to appear on ABC's That's Incredible, where she played a scene as Shakespeare's Juliet. Working with the cameras set off lightbulbs in Alicia's head. "I loved it," she says. "It was like life, only 10 times more intense." At 7, brought to the attention of director David Lynch, she made her film debut in the sci-fi epic Dune as space princess Alia. '''She learned her lines in one reading. "It's easy," Witt says. "You memorize the thought process instead of the words." '''Of course. Dune opened and closed, and Witt stayed in Worcester, racing through her piano studies. She even created her own variations, in the style of Debussy, Chopin and other masters, on Over the Rainbow.
 * It was her mother who launched Witt on her unusual trajectory from whiz kid to starlet. Back in 1977, Diane Witt — who, to give her her due as an amazing person, currently has the world's longest hair (documented as 12'8" in the 1994 Guinness Book of Records) — dropped a line to Good Housekeeping. She enjoyed the magazine, she wrote, and noted that her 2-year-old did, too. Housekeeping staff promptly visited and photographed "our youngest reader."
 * Tom Gliatto, in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

 * I sometimes get a funny feeling, that Alicia Witt has to shut down half her cerebellum to have a conversation with me.
 * Chuck Lorre creator of the sitcom Cybill, as quoted in "Genius at Work" by Tom Gliatto in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

 * Alicia was angelic … yet she could play Beethoven ferociously or Bartok at a raging tempo.
 * David Patterson, music professor at the University of Massachusetts, who taught her as a child, as quoted in "Genius at Work" by Tom Gliatto in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

 * She did have an extraordinary childhood. At the age of 1 month, she says, she was talking. At 6 months, she was reading. At the age of 4, she performed a scene from Romeo and Juliet on the Today show and wrote short stories based on the Peanuts characters. "In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous."
 * Mark Schwed, in "Cybill-ing Revelry" in TV Guide (27 July 1996)

 * She's very talented in everything she's ever done … [her brother Ian is also] a very talented boy, and I was advanced. But no one has seen anything like Alicia.
 * Diane Witt, her mother, as quoted in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

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