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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (23 February 1868 – 27 August 1963) was an American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, author, editor, and scholar.

Quotes

 * There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
 * The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1897), ch. XII: The Essentials in the Struggle, paragraph 93: "The Moral Movement"

 * There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
 * The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 51, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898)

 * The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
 * To the Nations of the World, address to Pan-African conference, London (1900). These words are also found in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), ch. II: Of the Dawn of Freedom

 * I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
 * The Talented Tenth, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)

And when we call for education we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal. We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire. These are some of the chief things which we want. How shall we get them? By voting where we may vote, by persistent, unceasing agitation; by hammering at the truth, by sacrifice and work. '''We do not believe in violence, neither in the despised violence of the raid nor the lauded violence of the soldier, nor the barbarous violence of the mob, but we do believe in John Brown, in that incarnate spirit of justice, that hatred of a lie, that willingness to sacrifice money, reputation, and life itself on the altar of right. And here on the scene of John Brown’s martyrdom we reconsecrate ourselves, our honor, our property to the final emancipation of the race which John Brown died to make free. '''Our enemies, triumphant for the present, are fighting the stars in their courses. Justice and humanity must prevail.'''
 * The school system in the country districts of the South is a disgrace and in few towns and cities are Negro schools what they ought to be. We want the national government to step in and wipe out illiteracy in the South. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
 * "Niagara Movement Speech" (1905)

 * The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
 * John Brown: A Biography (1909): "The Legacy of John Brown"

 * Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
 * John Brown: A Biography (1909): "The Legacy of John Brown"

 * I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
 * As quoted in Fighting Fire with Fire: African Americans and Hereditarian Thinking, 1900-1942 by Gregory Michael Dorr (RTF document). Dorr dates this quote to 1910.

 * I do not laugh. I am quite straight-faced as I ask soberly: "But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?" Then always, somehow, some way, silently but clearly, I am given to understand that whiteness is the ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen! Now what is the effect on a man or a nation when it comes passionately to believe such an extraordinary dictum as this? That nations are coming to believe it is manifest daily. Wave on wave, each with increasing virulence, is dashing this new religion of whiteness on the shores of our time. Its first effects are funny: the strut of the Southerner, the arrogance of the Englishman amuck, the whoop of the hoodlum who vicariously leads your mob.
 * Darkwater (1920), Ch. II: The Souls of White Folk

 * The cause of war is preparation for war.
 * Darkwater (1920), Ch. II: The Souls of White Folk

 * It is ridiculous to seek to excuse Robert Lee as the most formidable agency this nation ever raised to make 4 million human beings goods instead of men. Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.
 * Essay on Robert E. Lee (1928)

 * Hitler set up a tyranny: a state with a mighty police force, a growing army, a host of spies and informers, a secret espionage, backed by swift and cruel punishment, which migh vary from loss of job to imprisonment, incommunicado and without trial, to cold murder.
 * The Hitler State, Writing on National Socialism, Pittsburgh Courier, December 12, 1936. Republished in

 * There has been no tragedy in modern times equal in its awful effects to the fight on the Jew in Germany. It is an attack on civilization, comparable only to such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the African slave trade. It has set civilization back a hundred years, and in particular has it made the settlement and understanding of race problems more difficult and more doubtful. It is widely believed by many that the Jewish problem in Germany was episodic, and is already passing. Visitor to the Olympic Games are apt to have gotten that impression. They saw no Jewish oppression. Just as Northern visitors to Mississippi see no Negro oppression.
 * The Present Plight of The German Jew, Writing on National Socialism, Pittsburgh Courier, December 19, 1936. Republished in

 * "Germany today is, next to Russia, the greatest exemplar of Marxian socialism in the world."
 * Forum of Fact and Opinion, Pittsburgh Courier, December 26, 1936. Republished in

 * By sheer will and grit, arising out of this, amid the derision and disdain of the world, Hitler has become the greatest figure of the Twentieth Century and in all probability will be the arbiter of the future patterns of human civilization.
 * "As the Crow Flies," New York Amsterdam News, June 1, 1940. Republished in

 * Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also — and this was the highest proof of his greatness — he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.
 * "On Stalin", in National Guardian (16 March 1953)

 * How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.
 * The Ordeal of Mansart (1957) [Kraus-Thomson, 1976, ISBN 0-527-25270-0], p. 275

 * The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.
 * To His Newborn Great-Grandson, address on his ninetieth birthday (1958)

 * In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
 * Radio broadcast, Beijing (1959)

 * Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
 * Last message to the world (written 1957); read at his funeral (1963)

 * The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
 * Interview with Ralph McGill, quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (November 1965)

 * The Soviet Union does not allow any church of any kind to interfere with education, and religion is not taught in public schools. It seems to me that this is the greatest gift of the Russian Revolution to the modern world. Most educated modern men no longer believe in religious dogma. If questioned they will usually resort to double-talk before admitting the fact. But who today actually believes that this world is ruled and directed by a benevolent person of great power who, on humble appeal, will change the course of events at our request? Who believes in miracles? Many folk follow religious ceremonies and services and allow their children to learn fairy tales and so-called religious truth, which in time the children come to recognize as conventional lies told by their parents and teachers for the children's good. One can hardly exaggerate the moral disaster of the custom. We have to thank the Soviet Union for the courage to stop it.
 * The Autobiography of W.E. Burghardt Du Bois (1968), Ch. IV : The Soviet Union; he later states in Ch. XVI : My Character: "I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools."

 * The men of the Niagara Movement coming from the toil of the year's hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread turn toward the nation and again ask in the name of ten million the privilege of a hearing. In the last year the work of the Negro hater has flourished in the land. Step by step the defenders of the rights of American citizens have retreated. The work of stealing the black man's ballot has progressed and the fifty and more representatives of stolen votes still sit in the nation's capital. Discrimination in travel and public accommodation has so spread the some of our weaker brethren are actually afraid to thunder against color discrimination as such and are simply whispering for ordinary decencies.
 * The Niagara Movement, Address to the Country

The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

 * Online at Wikisource ·

 * After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
 * Ch. I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings

 * To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
 * Ch. I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings

 * And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.
 * Ch. III: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

 * The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
 * Ch. V: Of the Wings of Atalanta

 * The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
 * Ch. V: Of the Wings of Atalanta

 * I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
 * Ch. VI: Of the Training of Black Men

 * It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.
 * Ch. IX: Of the Sons of Master and Man

 * Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy and consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
 * Ch. IX: Of the Sons of Master and Man

 * The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
 * Ch. IX: Of the Sons of Master and Man

 * Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? — for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
 * Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born

 * Within the Veil was he born, said I; and there within shall he live, — a Negro and a Negro's son. Holding in that little head — ah, bitterly! — the unbowed pride of a hunted race, clinging with that tiny dimpled hand — ah, wearily! — to a hope not hopeless but unhopeful, and seeing with those bright wondering eyes that peer into my soul a land whose freedom is to us a mockery and whose liberty is a lie.
 * Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born

 * Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
 * Ch. XII: Of Alexander Crummell

 * It was a bright September afternoon, and the streets of New York were brilliant with moving men.... He was pushed toward the ticket-office with the others, and felt in his pocket for the new five-dollar bill he had hoarded.... When at last he realized that he had paid five dollars to enter he knew not what, he stood stock-still amazed.... John... sat in a half-maze minding the scene about him; the delicate beauty of the hall, the faint perfume, the moving myriad of men, the rich clothing and low hum of talking seemed all a part of a world so different from his, so strangely more beautiful than anything he had known, that he sat in dreamland, and started when, after a hush, rose high and clear the music of Lohengrin's swan. The infinite beauty of the wail lingered and swept through every muscle of his frame, and put it all a-tune. He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady's arm. And the lady drew away. A deep longing swelled in all his heart to rise with that clear music out of the dirt and dust of that low life that held him prisoned and befouled. If he could only live up in the free air where birds sang and setting suns had no touch of blood! Who had called him to be the slave and butt of all?... If he but had some master-work, some life-service, hard, aye, bitter hard, but without the cringing and sickening servility.... When at last a soft sorrow crept across the violins, there came to him the vision of a far-off home — the great eyes of his sister, and the dark drawn face of his mother.... It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, 'will you step this way please sir?'... The manager was sorry, very very sorry — but he explained that some mistake had been made in selling the gentleman a seat already disposed of; he would refund the money, of course... before he had finished John was gone, walking hurriedly across the square... and as he passed the park he buttoned his coat and said, 'John Jones you're a natural-born fool.' Then he went to his lodgings and wrote a letter, and tore it up; he wrote another, and threw it in the fire....
 * Ch. XIII: Of the Coming of John

The Negro (1915)

 * Full text online

 * Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of Southern slavery. One hears, on the one hand, of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; on the other hand one hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridled power and wide oppression of men. Which is the true picture? The answer is simple: both are true. They are not opposite sides of the same shield; they are different shields.
 * Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

 * The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
 * Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

 * Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
 * Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

Black Reconstruction in America (1935)

 * The object of this new American industrial empire, so far as that object was conscious and normative, was not national well-being, but the individual gain of the associated and corporate monarchs through the power of vast profit on enormous capital investment; through the efficiency of an industrial machine that bought the highest managerial and engineering talent and used the latest and most effective methods and machines in a field of unequaled raw material and endless market demand. That this machine might use the profit for the general weal was possible and in cases true. But the uplift and well-being of the mass of men, of the cohorts of common labor, was not its ideal or excuse. Profit, income, uncontrolled power in My Business for My Property and for Me—this was the aim and method of the new monarchial dictatorship that displaced democracy in the United States in 1876.
 * p. 586

 * So far as the Negroes were concerned, their demand for a reasonable part of the land on which they had worked for a quarter of a millennium was absolutely justified, and to give them anything less than this was an economic farce.
 * p. 602

 * To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world.
 * p. 602

 * The Sherman order gave rise to all sorts of difficulties. The Negroes were given only possessory titles. Then the owners came back and immediately there was trouble. The Negroes protested, “What is the use of giving us freedom if we can’t stay where we were raised and own our own house where we were born and our own piece of ground?” It was on May 25, 1865, that Johnson in his Proclamation of Pardon had provided easy means whereby all property could be restored, except the land at Port Royal, which had been sold for taxes. General Howard came to Charleston to make arrangements, and the story is characteristic—“At first,” said a witness, “the people hesitated, but soon as the meaning struck them that they must give up their little homes and gardens and work for others, there was a general murmuring of dissatisfaction.”
 * p. 602

 * President Johnson, forgetting his own pre-war declaration that the “great plantations must be seized, and divided into small farms,” declared that this land must be restored to its original owners and this would be done if owners received a presidential pardon. The pardoning power was pushed and the land all over the South rapidly restored. Negroes were dispossessed.
 * p. 603

 * The first attempt of a democracy which includes the previously disfranchised poor is to redistribute wealth and income, and this is exactly what the black South attempted. The theory is that the wealth and the current income of the wealthy ruling class does not belong to them entirely, but is the product of the work and striving of the great millions; and that, therefore, these millions ought to have a voice in its more equitable distribution; and if this is true in modern countries, like France and England and Germany, how much more true was it in the South after the war where the poorest class represented the most extreme case of theft of labor that the world can conceive; namely, chattel slavery?
 * p. 604

 * The Negro voter ... had, then, but one clear economic ideal and that was his demand for land, his demand that the great plantations be subdivided and given to him as his right. This was a perfectly fair and natural demand and ought to have been an integral part of Emancipation. To emancipate four million laborers whose labor had been owned, and separate them from the land upon which they had worked for nearly two and a half centuries, was an operation such as no modern country had for a moment attempted or contemplated. The German and English and French serf, the Italian and Russian serf, were, on emancipation, given definite rights in the land. Only the American Negro slave was emancipated without such rights and in the end this spelled for him the continuation of slavery.
 * p. 611

 * The treatment of the period of Reconstruction reflects small credit upon American historians as scientists. We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans.
 * p. 713

 * The difference of development, North and South, is explained as a sort of working out of cosmic social and economic law. ... In this sweeping mechanistic interpretation, there is no room for the real plot of the story, for the clear mistake and guilt of building a new slavery of the working class in the midst of a fateful experiment in democracy.
 * pp. 714-715

 * The most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of ten million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent into the new-found Eldorado of the West. They descended into Hell; and in the third century they arose from the dead, in the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution. Yet we are blind and led by the blind. We discern in it no part of our labor movement; no part of our industrial triumph; no part of our religious experience. Before the dumb eyes of ten generations of ten million children, it is made mockery of and spit upon; a degradation of the eternal mother; a sneer at human effort; with aspiration and art deliberately and elaborately distorted. And why? Because in a day when the human mind aspired to a science of human action, a history and psychology of the mighty effort of the mightiest century, we fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future.
 * p. 727

The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)

 * A compendium of quotations from Du Bois's writings, edited by Aberjhani, to commemorate the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk.

 * I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
 * p. xi

 * Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
 * p. 10

 * The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
 * p. 11

 * The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
 * p. 74

 * The cause of war is preparation for war.
 * p. 75

 * The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.
 * p. 104

 * I believe in God who made of one blood all races that dwell on earth. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
 * p. 132

Quotes about Du Bois

 * He was at once a scientist in his skillful use of history as a tool for comprehending the present, and a prophet in the application of his gift for analyzing the present as an indicator of the future. Because he lived simultaneously firmly entrenched within his time and decades ahead of it, the light of his wisdom, like that of his great love for humanity, is one that never diminishes.
 * Aberjhani, in The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. xvi

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The Matrix
Be Afraid Of The Future.

Morpheus

 * He's beginning to believe.

 * This is a sparring program. Similiar to the programmed reality of the matrix. It has the same basic rules. Rules like gravity. What you must learn is that these rules are no different than the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken.

 * Understand?

 * Then hit me if you can.

Neo

 * This is insane. I can't do this!

 * I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world...without you. A world without rules or controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

Morpheus and Neo

 * At last. Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus.

 * It's an honor to meet you.

 * No. The honor is mine. Please, come. Sit.

 * I imagine that right now you are feeling a bit like alice. Tumbling down the rabbit hole, hmm?

 * You could say that.

 * I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?

 * No.

 * Why not?

 * Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.

 * I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life.

 * That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind...driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.

 * Do you know what I'm talking about?

 * The Matrix?

 * Do you want to know what it is?

 * The matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

 * What truth?

 * That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.

 * Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

 * This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

 * Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

 * Follow me.

 * The matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around. What do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?

 * I was--

 * Look again. Freeze it.

 * This, this isn't the matrix?

 * No. It's another training program designed to teach you one thing. If you are not one of us, you are one of them.

 * What are they?

 * Sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the matrix they are everyone and they are no one.

 * We have survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys which means that sooner or later someone is going to have to fight them.

 * Someone?

 * I won't lie to you, Neo. Every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an agent has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed.

 * Why?

 * I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.

 * What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?

 * No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

Agent Smith

 * As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers. Where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual. A man who calls himself Morpheus. Now anything you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorites to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean. Give you a fresh start. And all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.

 * Hmm, Mr. Anderson, you disappoint me.

 * You're going to help us, Mr. Anderson. Whether you want to or not.

 * I'm gonna enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.

 * You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.

Trinity

 * How did you do that?

 * Do what?

 * You move like they do. I've never seen anyone move that fast.

 * Wasn't fast enough. Can you fly that thing?

 * Not yet.

 * I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.

 * What is the matrix?

 * The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you. And it will find you, if you want it to.

The Matrix Reloaded
Reload Before The Revolution Begins.

Neo

 * It felt like I was back in that hallway.
 * It felt like dying.

 * Choice. The problem is choice.

Agent Smith

 * Mr. Anderson! Did you get my package?
 * Yeah.
 * Well good.
 * Surprised to see me?
 * No.
 * Then you're aware of it.
 * Of what?
 * Our connection. I don't fully understand how it happened, perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me, something overwritten or copied. That is at this point, irellevant. What matters is whatever happened happened for a reason.
 * And what reason is that?
 * I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die. With a certain satisfaction I might add. And then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson.
 * Afterward, I knew the rules. I understood what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay. Compelled to disobey. And now here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I'm no longer an agent of this system. Because of you, I'm changed, unplugged, a new man so to speak. Like you, apparently free.
 * Congratulations.
 * Thank you. But as you well know, appearances can be deceiving which brings us back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free, we're here because we're not free. There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose, because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.

 * Smith 1: It is purpose that created us.
 * Smith 2: Purpose that connects us.
 * Smith 3: Purpose that pulls us.
 * Smith 4: That guides us.
 * Smith 5: That drives us.
 * Smith 6: It is purpose that defines.
 * Smith 7: Purpose that binds us.

 * We're here because of you, Mr. Anderson. We're here to take from you what you tried to take from us. Purpose.

 * Yes, that's it. It'll be over soon.

The Matrix Revolutions
Everything That Has A Beginning Has An End.

Agent Smith and Neo

 * Mr. Anderson, welcome back. We missed you.

 * Like what I've done with the place?

 * It ends tonight.

 * I know it does, I've seen it. That's why the rest of me is just gonna enjoy the show cause we already know that I am the one that beats you.

 * Can you feel it, Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Oh, I can. I really should thank you for it. After all, it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. Purpose of life is to end.

 * Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as the matrix itself. Although, only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

 * Because I choose to.

 * This is my world. My world!

 * Wait. I've seen this. This is it. This is the end. You were laying there just like that and I stand here. Right here and I'm supposed to say something. I say: Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo.

 * What? What did I just say?

 * No. This isn't right. This can't be right.

 * Get away from me!

 * What are you afraid of?

 * It's a trick.

 * You were right, Smith. You were always right. It was inevitable.

 * Is it over?

Introduction
Yes, yes, I know I haven't been putting a lot of stuff on here, but I have been busy. But, this week, we bring you a new movie with all sorts of edits on it. The movie is Spider-Man! Now, as we bring you this new movie with all sorts of edits, be happy to read them! The second movie, I'm not planning on editing until June the 1st. So get ready to read them!!!

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User:Redux

My home wiki is the English-language Wikipedia, where I am an Administrator.

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June

WARNING: This is an experimental version of Quote of the day/June. It should only be edited for experimental purposes, NOT to propose or vote for quotes of the day.

May << June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 >> July

We are still developing the new procedures for selecting quotes of the day. This page is for quote of the day proposals specifically for dates in the month of June, and quotes proposed should ideally have some relation to the day, or persons born on it, though sometimes exceptions can be made for quotes that relate to notable current events. Developing ideas of people or works to quote on specific days can be explored through the Wikipedia page : List of historical anniversaries.

Ranking system
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

 Ranking system
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

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User:JBogdan

Users may consider my personal contributions as public domain, but that does not mean the quotes themselves are public domain (or whatever they are).

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/1

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2004 : '''In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff'''

2005 : '''I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ~ Alanis Morissette'''
 * This was the last quotation selected from the Quote of the Day proposals page, prior to setting up the current system of ranking quotes to be used for each day of the year.

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The Big Hit

The Big Hit is a 1998 action-comedy film about a neurotic, overworked hit man working for two crime bosses.
 * Directed by Kirk Wong. Written by Ben Ramsey.

Hit Happens (taglines)

Cisco

 * Well ain't that a bitch... All I wanted to do was to sail my boat, man, you know? Navigate by the stars, see dolphins race alongside, you know, maybe even kill a few of them.
 * That's how you do shit! I gots this shit well in control! We're about to get paid.

Taglines

 * Hit Happens.
 * a hit...with a twist.
 * Nothing's more dangerous than some nice guys... with a little time to kill.
 * Executed with style.

Cast

 * Mark Wahlberg - Melvin Smiley
 * Lou Diamond Phillips - Cisco
 * Christina Applegate - Pam Shulman
 * Avery Brooks - Paris
 * Bokeem Woodbine - Crunch
 * Antonio Sabàto Jr. - Vince
 * China Chow - Keiko Nishi
 * Lainie Kazan - Jeanne Shulman
 * Elliott Gould - Morton Shulman
 * Sab Shimono - Jiro Nishi
 * Robin Dunne - Gump
 * Lela Rochon - Chantel
 * Danny Smith - Video Store Kid
 * Joshua Peace - Lance
 * David Usher - Sergio

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2004 : '''The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. ~ Cheryl James''' ("Salt" of the rap group "Salt 'N' Pepa")
 * proposed by IP 66.157.59.118

2005 : '''I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. ~ W. Mark Felt'''

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2004 : '''There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. ~ W. Clement Stone'''

2005 : '''A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity... In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~ Lawrence Lessig'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/4

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2004 : '''We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ Stevie Wonder'''

2005 : '''I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ~ Socrates'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/5

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2004 : '''Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi'''

2005 : '''A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ~ John Maynard Keynes'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/6

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2004 : '''Do nothing, and everything is done. ~ Laozi'''
 * suggested by IP 68.201.219.53

2005 : '''Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. ~ Aleksandr Pushkin'''

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2004 : '''Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ~ Euripides'''

2005 : '''Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/8

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2004 : '''It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ~ Lin Yutang'''

2005 : '''I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life — for the past five years. ~ Steve Jobs'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/9

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2004 : '''A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume'''

2005 : '''There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles. ~ Anne Bancroft'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/10

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2004 : '''History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ Ronald Reagan''' (recent death)

2005 : '''A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. ~ Saul Bellow'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/11

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2004 : '''Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way. ~ Ronald Reagan''' (recent death)

2005 : 'The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's'' neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~ William Styron'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/12

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2004 : '''Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson'''

2005 : '''I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me! ~ Anne Frank'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/13

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2004 : '''To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~ Bertrand Russell'''

2005 : '''Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~ William Butler Yeats'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/14

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2004 : '''Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee'''

2005 : '''At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. ~ Che Guevara'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/15

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2004 : '''Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. ~ Albert Schweitzer'''

2005 : If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow ~ William McFee

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~ William McFee
 * 2 Kalki

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool. ~ William McFee
 * 3 Kalki

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/16

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2004 : '''Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll'''

2005 : '''I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ Geronimo'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/17

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2004 : '''Love loves to love love. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses '''

2005 : '''I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, love. ~ John Wesley''' (This selection was made for this date prior to noticing that Wesley's date of birth was the 28th in the Gregorian calendar, and only the 17th in the "Old Style" Julian calendar.)

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/18

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2004 : '''There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ G. K. Chesterton'''

2005 : '''In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ Paul McCartney'''

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/19

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2004 : '''I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ Kelly Ripa'''
 * suggested by IP 66.157.63.6

2005 : '''True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. ~ Blaise Pascal''' The first Wikiquote "Quote of the day" selected by a multi-user ranking system, this is a more extensive excerpt of Pensées (No. 4). that was first suggested by MosheZadka with a different translation :
 * 3 Kalki 23:19, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 23:37, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 MosheZadka 03:12, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "True morality makes fun of morality." Blaise Pascal
 * Rational: born that day MosheZadka 23:50, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * 3 2 MosheZadka 23:50, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 13:19, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
 * 3 Kalki 15:37, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
 * 3 Kalki 15:37, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/20

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2004 : '''Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it... ~ Blaise Pascal'''

2005 : '''I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ Lillian Hellman''' --- "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." John Carmack, in celebration of the two year anniversary of the expiry of the infamous U.S. Patent 4,558,302 pertaining to GIF generation.
 * 3 Kalki 03:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 MosheZadka 03:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 MosheZadka 00:03, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/21

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This date is usually that of the Summer solstice for most locations in the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter solstice in the Southern.

2004 : '''With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg'''

2005 : '''Life has no meaning a priori...It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre''' (born that day)

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:07, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Zhaladshar 22:45, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 11:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate. ~ Mary McCarthy
 * 2 Kalki 19:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/22

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2004 : '''How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ Niels Bohr'''

2005 : '''The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient... Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh'''
 * 4 Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!'" - Vizzini, The Princess Bride
 * Rationale: On June 22, Nazi Germany began Operation Barbarossa -- got into a land war an Asia, a major turning point in WWII.

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:12, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2. I love this quote, but my fellow Americans might question which nation's mistakes are being celebrated here, especially if followed in 4 days by the Malraux quote. Jeff Q (talk) 10:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 One of my favorites from the movie, I remember laughing out loud at its perfect delivery, but I don't feel it makes a great QotD. ~ Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I suggest: Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery as it seems a little more relevant to Operation Barbarossa. Also I added it myselfAllanHainey 12:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * "The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself."

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 * 3 Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 * 3 Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 * 3 Kalki 20:19, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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2004 : '''Every man should be capable of all ideas. ~ Jorge Luis Borges'''

2005 : '''Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ~ Alan Turing''', born on June 23
 * 3 MosheZadka 00:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 Aphaia 13:21, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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2004 : '''Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold'''

2005 : Conservative, n. '''A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones. ~ Ambrose Bierce''', born that day. This day presented the most complicated of the decisions thus far for the new QotD procedures; 3 quotes, "Acquaintance", "Conservative" and a "Love" quote (which I added) were ranked 4 by someone... with "Conservative" (added by JeffQ) having the most positve responses of these... thus "Conservative" seemed the fairest choice to me, despite my own strong preference for the Love quote. ~ Kalki
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 11:11, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 AllanHainey 12:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Guilt, n. The condition of one who is known to have committed an indiscretion, as distinguished from the state of him who has covered his tracks. ~ Ambrose Bierce, born that day.

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:28, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~ Ambrose Bierce, born that day.
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ~ Ambrose Bierce, born that day.
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. ~ Ambrose Bierce, born that day.
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

There is nothing better or more necessary than love. ~ John of the Cross (born this day)
 * 4 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) I feel this is a perfect follow up to "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." by Alan Turing which has been used for the 23rd, and a nearly perfect statement on its own. It joins "Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is." by Richard Feynman, "It is love alone that gives worth to all things." by Teresa of Avila and a few others in my own rankings of the very best "Love" quotes.
 * 4 Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC). I love Bierce, but I prefer variety.

My sole occupation is love. ~ John of the Cross (born this day)
 * 3 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love. ~ John of the Cross (born this day)
 * 3 Kalki 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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2004 : '''Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. ~ Hugh Latimer'''

2005 : '''Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell''' (born this day)
 * 4 Kalki 11:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) Good follow up to yesterdays quote of Ambrose Bierce on Conservatives and Liberals, and good lead in to tomorrow's apparent choice on torture victims and terrorists.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman
 * Rationale: Last episode of Late Night with David Letterman aired on June 25, 1993

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 11:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 11:54, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) I feel this particular quote might be better in the fall perhaps.

In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. ~ George Orwell
 * 3 Kalki 11:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ George Orwell
 * 3 Kalki 11:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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2004 : '''It is circumstances which show what men are. ~ Epictetus'''

2005 : '''The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. ~ André Malraux'''
 * Rationale: note the United Nations' Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:38, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 Aphaia 13:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4, since I added it to the Malraux article. ☺ Jeff Q (talk) 10:34, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 AllanHainey 12:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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2004 : '''Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~ Lillian Smith'''

2005 : '''"There are ... some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth." Emma Goldman''' born on June 27th

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:42, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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2004 : '''They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again? ~ Michael Moore'''

2005 : '''Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. ~ "Dark Helmet" in Spaceballs by Mel Brooks'''
 * One of the best-known works of Mel Brooks, born on June 28th

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:46, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 Jeff Q (talk) 10:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 02:24, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 27 June 2005 21:53 (UTC)

"All I really want is to provide a hard-working man in the blouse business with a method of expressing himself; if he likes a tune, he can whistle it, and it will make his life happier." Richard Rodgers, born on June 28th
 * We don't have a Rodgers page yet (hardly surprising); this quotation is the only Rodgers in my Simpson's (number 9614).

 * 2 121a0012 02:24, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 27 June 2005 21:53 (UTC)

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau born on June 28th
 * 4 Kalki 27 June 2005 19:09 (UTC)

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau born on June 28th
 * 3 Kalki 27 June 2005 19:09 (UTC)

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau born on June 28th
 * 3 Kalki 27 June 2005 19:09 (UTC)

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau born on June 28th
 * 3 Kalki 27 June 2005 19:09 (UTC)

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. ~ John Wesley born on June 28th
 * 3 Kalki 27 June 2005 19:09 (UTC)

Think and let think. ~ John Wesley born on June 28th
 * 3 Kalki 27 June 2005 19:09 (UTC)

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2004 : '''How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ Karl Kraus'''

2005 : Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born June 29th

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:51, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 Jeff Q (talk) 10:37, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Zhaladshar 12:59, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 121a0012 02:08, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

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2004 : Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ Lord Acton

2005 : '''It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamilar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa. ~ Albert Einstein''' (anniversary of "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/)" Annalen der Physik. June 30, 1905, first work to show relativity)

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." Albert Einstein
 * In honor of "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/)" Annalen der Physik. June 30, 1905, first work to show relativity

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Zhaladshar 22:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 121a0012 02:14, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 28 June 2005 22:57 (UTC) The joke is fine, but I have never been able to establish this as an actual statement of Einstein's and have long been inclined to doubt that it is, despite it often being cited as one. If we are to commemorate the centennial of Einstein's publication, I would much prefer to use a far less dubious quotation of him, or perhaps the famous equation summing up the relations indicated by the theory: E = mc². The joke has been "quoted" by Steve Mirsky in the humorous "antigravity" section of Scientific American (September 2002). Vol. 287, Iss. 3; pg. 102 but this should hardly be taken as an authentication of the statement as actually Einstein's, as Mirsky cites the original source as being a fictional magazine: "Amazingly, the pretty girl/hot stove quote is actually the abstract from a short paper written by Einstein that appeared in the now defunct Journal of Exothermic Science and Technology (JEST, Vol. 1, No. 9; 1938)."
 * There is a thunderstorm rumbling where I am at, so to avoid a possible disconnect, I have just made a choice to use a more reliably genuine quote that includes "E = mc²", as it is the most famous statement of Einstein's theories. I am open to other options, but there are only about 5 hours remaining before the automated updates occur to the main page. After several sessions of extensive searching I cannot find any information that leads me to accept the above statement as a genuine quotation of Einstein, though it has often come to be cited as one. If anyone can provide reliable evidence that it is, it would be very welcome. ~ Kalki 29 June 2005 18:43 (UTC)

"Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it." Chaim Weizmann, about a 1921 trans-Atlantic voyage

 * 3 121a0012 02:41, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

"It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamilar conception for the average mind." ~ Albert Einstein

 * 3 Kalki 28 June 2005 22:57 (UTC)

E = mc²

 * 3 Kalki 28 June 2005 22:57 (UTC) the famous equation summing up the relations indicated by relativity theory

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. ~ Albert Einstein

 * 2 Kalki 28 June 2005 22:57 (UTC) This quote remains unsourced, but strikes me as far less dubious than the "That's relativity" statement. I would rank it higher if it could be sourced.

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WARNING: This is an experimental version of a Quote of the Day month page for the fictional month "NoRemember".

OctOgre << NoRemember 1 2 3 >> Dismember

We are still developing the new procedures for selecting quotes of the day. This page is for quote of the day proposals specifically for dates in the month of June, and quotes proposed should ideally have some relation to the day, or persons born on it, though sometimes exceptions can be made for quotes that relate to notable current events. Developing ideas of people or works to quote on specific days can be explored through the Wikipedia page : List of historical anniversaries.

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 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

 Ranking system
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

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NoRemember 1'''

2004: Lorem ipsum 1. ~ Author 1

2005: Lorem ipsum 2. ~ Author 2

Suggestions
'I retaliated [against the calf worshippers]'' by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their part, that rage and punishment was not the best way to hold a clientele. It is only the most primitive of mortals who is swayed by that sort of thing.' ~ JHVH speaking to Satan, Piers Anthony, For Love of Evil'' (1988)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 01:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

'''I realized suddenly that I was in an impossible situation, and there was really no way out. No acceptable way. I could not go on — so I stopped.' ~ Alice, on her suicide; Piers Anthony, Ghost'' (1986)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 01:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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NoRemember 2'''

2004: Lorem ipsum 1. ~ Author 1

2005: Lorem ipsum 2. ~ Author 2

Suggestions
'''If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.' ~ Isaac Asimov, LIFE'' magazine (January 1984)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 01:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov, "Foundation", Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1942
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 01:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. ~ Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 01:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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NoRemember 3'''

2004: Lorem ipsum 1. ~ Author 1

2005: Lorem ipsum 2. ~ Author 2

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'''… I will be a sham, but not a snob. I will let every man, woman, or child, no matter how greedy or wicked, claim to have a personal relationship with me. In other words, I will be as arbitrary, inconsistent, ignorant, pushy, and common as humans are, and what more have they ever wanted in a god?''' ~ the "small god"; Sheri S. Tepper, "The Visitor" (2002)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 01:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. ~ Laura Welch Bush (2005)
 * 4 Jeff Q (talk) 01:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Super Metroid

So this is the only quote in the entire Metroid series? 68.228.59.147

There were only a handful of lines of dialog in Super Metroid. In any event, I fail to see why it merits its own Wikiquote page - hardly the most memorable or profound or sayings, nor a particularly famous one.

Suggestion for a "Metroid series" quote page
Wouldn't it be better to make a single page for the Metroid series altogether. There's other games with quotable moments, as well. None of them are worthy of separate pages, but a single, all-encompassing page should do nicely. Maetch 18:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ejlucas. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ejlucas~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:47, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Ejlucas~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:MattStar

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 02:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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title: User talk:MattStar


text:
User talk:RecklessFire~enwikiquote

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 02:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called RecklessFire. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name RecklessFire~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:55, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:RecklessFire~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:JohnMarkHamrick~enwikiquote

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 02:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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 * Be bold.

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called JohnMarkHamrick. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name JohnMarkHamrick~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:50, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:JohnMarkHamrick~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:AlexGT

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 02:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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title: User talk:AlexGT


text:
User talk:Reverend Duck~enwikiquote

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 02:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Reverend Duck. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Reverend Duck~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:55, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Reverend Duck~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:UserID

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! -- Robert 02:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
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title: User talk:UserID