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Information

Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it.

A-L

 * In 2007, for the first time ever, more information was generated in one year than had been produced in the entire previous five thousand years - the period since the invention of writing.
 * Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, Sander Duivestein, Me the media: rise of the conversation society, VINT editions (research institute of Sogeti), 2009, p. 270.

 * Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
 * Anna C. Brackett, The Technique of Rest, Ch. 2 (1892).

 * Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
 * Jean Baudrillard French semiologist. Cool Memories, Ch. 5 (1987, trans. 1990).

 * Information is not a substance or concrete entity but rather a relationship between sets or ensembles of structured variety.
 * Walter F. Buckley (1967), Sociology and Modern Systems Theory p. 47.

 * ... we simply try to give you all of the information about our businesses, in a large general way, that Charlie and I would want if our positions were reversed. ... The facts are out about what we do.
 * Warren Buffett, (quote at 1:07:47 of 4:54:01)

 * If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess.
 * Ronald Coase, "How should economists choose?" Warren Nutter Lecture, 1981. Reprinted in Essays on Economics and Economists (1994) p. 27.

 * Wisdom is dead. Long live information.
 * Mason Cooley (1927-2002), American academic and aphorist. City Aphorisms (1984).

 * We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
 * Thomas Edison, As quoted in Golden Book (April 1931), according to Stevenson's Book of Quotations (Cassell 3rd edition 1938) by Burton Egbert Stevenson.

This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.''' Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
 * '''The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.
 * Buckminster Fuller, in Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity (1992)

 * people cannot take action if they don't have accurate information.
 * Amy Goodman The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman (2004)

 * Information is not lost in black holes, but it is not returned in a useful way. It is like burning an encyclopaedia. Information is not lost, but it is very hard to read.
 * Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking Higgs Boson Particle

 * The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384.

 * Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
 * Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson, 18th April 1775.

 * It used to be said that information is power. As Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of the board of the New York Times Co., rightly says, "Information is now ubiquitous. Power is understanding."
 * Martin Kaiser, in INFORMATION: The news will be exciting and so will the medium Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 January 2000.

 * There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.
 * Andrew Kantor, as quoted in The Transparent Society, by David Brin, p. 1. Perseus Books Group, 1998.

 * When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
 * Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929), American Science Fiction author. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ch. 3 (1969).

M-Z

 * You've seen how information holds system together and how delayed, biased, scattered, or missing information can make feedback loops malfunction. Decision-makers can respond to information they don't have, can't respond accurately to information that is inaccurate, and can't respond in a timely way to information that is late. I would guess that most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information. [...] Information is power.
 * Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 173 (ISBN 9781603580557).

 * As I understand the theory of period information doubling, this states that if we take one period of human information as being the time between the invention of the first hand axe, say around 50,000 BC and 1 AD, then this is one period of human information and we can measure it by how many human inventions we came up during that time. Then we see how long it takes for us to have twice as many inventions. This means that human information has doubled. As it turns out, after the first 50,000-year period, the second period is about 1500 years, say around the time of the Renaissance. By then we have twice as much information. To double again, human information took a couple of hundred years. The period speeds up—between 1960 and 1970, human information doubled. As I understand it, at the last count human information was doubling around every 18 months. Further to this, there is a point sometime around 2015 where human information is doubling every thousandth of a second. This means that in each thousandth of a second we will have accumulated more information than we have in the entire previous history of the world. At this point I believe that all bets are off. I cannot imagine the kind of culture that might exist after such a flashpoint of knowledge. I believe that our culture would probably move into a completely different state, would move past the boiling point, from a fluid culture to a culture of steam.
 * Alan Moore, The Mindscape of Alan Moore, (2003)

 * Information smacks of safe neutrality; it is simple, helpful heaping of unassailable facts. In that innocent guise, its the perfect starting point for a technocratic political agenda that wants as little exposure for its objectives as possible. After all, what can anyone say against information?
 * Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information: The folklore of computers and the true art of thinking, 1968, p. 19.

 * What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
 * Herbert Simon, Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

 * Information exists. It does not need to be perceived to exist. It does not need to be understood to exist. It requires no intelligence to interpret it. It does not have to have meaning to exist. It exists.
 * Tom Stonier, Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe: An Exploration into Information Physics, 1990, p. 21.

 * You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.
 * Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 8

 * Data, seeming facts, apparent associations-these are not certain knowledge of something. They may be puzzles that can one day be explained; they may be trivia that need not be explained at all.
 * Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (1979), Ch. 1 : Laws and Theories

 * Information is a name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer world as we adjust to it, and make our adjustment felt upon it. The process of receiving and of using information is the process of our adjusting to the contingencies of the outer environment, and of our living effectively within that environment. The needs and the complexity of modern life make greater demands on this process of information than ever before, and our press, our museums, our scientific laboratories, our universities, our libraries and textbooks, are obliged to meet the needs of this process or fail in their purpose. To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus, communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society.
 * Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings (1950; 1954)

 * Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
 * Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Sir Robert Chiltern, in An Ideal Husband, Act 1.

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Talk:Edgar Allan Poe

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I have to say that I disagree with using all these images; some are not intentionally illustrative of Poe's words and some do not necessarily reflect them. The image of Poe's wife, for example, includes a quote from a poem written two years before their marriage - putting the quote as the caption implies that the lines are about her, which is not true. --71.225.104.186 17:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going to bring this up again because my previous attempt at editing was reverted: Some of these images are not related to Poe. Some of these captions are not related to their image. Some examples: quoting a poem Poe wrote one he was 15 with an image of him at 39? Quoting a poem under the image of Poe's wife when the poem was written two years before they were engaged (thereby suggesting the poem was about her, even though it clearly is not)? Quoting "Annabel Lee" with an image of Sarah Elmira Royster (when several women could claim inspiration)? A statue of El Cid with a quote from Eldorado? Using I have seen no other page on Wikiquote with this kind of problem... why are we setting a precedent with Poe? This is, frankly, disappointing and shameful. --71.225.104.186 18:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I hadn't realized it was a standard practice to use quotes in the main image (my first check was on Mark Twain, who does not follow this practice). Even so, the entire quote page is very POV, pushing the dark, horror, scary side of Poe as someone who was demented, different, and obsessed with death (the quotes about Poe in particular push this). Why not quote something that is more than just the mainstream image of Poe, and focus on the beauty of his work, rather than the darkness and horror he is perceived as embodying? (As an aside, I have personally brought the wikipedia article on Edgar Allan Poe to featured article and have the tendency to consider myself an expert... a poem he wrote when he was 15 does not sum up the man well at all). Here's an alternative suggestion, using his own words rather than fiction: "After all... Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path." -Letter from Poe to Frederick W. Thomas, February 1849. --71.225.104.186 21:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Your suggestion for the first caption sounds good to me. As for your point about the types of quotes that appear here, if you have others that are properly sourced and reflect another side of him, feel free to add them. Your point above about the appropriateness of using certain quotes as captions, again if you have others that might be better served as captions, feel free to change them.  ~ UDScott 16:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Edgar Allan Poe. --Antiquary 19:21, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

 * No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.

 * The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

 * The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

 * Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

 * I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
 * I have become insane with random intervals of horrible sanity.

 * I don't believe in ghosts but they have been chasing me my whole life.

 * Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Sleep
“Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them.” This is widely attributed to Poe, possibly because Nightmare on Elm Street 3 claimed so, but there doesn’t seem to be any record of his ever having said this. But should it be mentioned in here? What is Wikiquote's policy on false attributions? Correct them? Ignore them and let them persist? —173.199.215.5 22:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I found the FAQ and I’m adding the quote per FAQ. Thanks. —173.199.215.5 22:35, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

The world is a great ocean
I saw this quote attributed to Poe: "The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms." But I can't find any context of where it is from. It does show up in a book of quotations from the early 1900s, but that's all I can find:

https://books.google.com/books?id=mToeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1986&lpg=PA1986&dq=%22the+world+is+a+great+ocean%22&source=bl&ots=EyiQ86Ys3c&sig=3UMJrrE8PyAcLjvsRBu7S2BMXVM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL-5Co6PbYAhWGmeAKHdrMAzkQ6AEIRzAI#v=onepage&q=%22the%20world%20is%20a%20great%20ocean%22&f=false

or: http://www.bartleby.com/348/1491.html

Does anyone know the original source for this quote? Is this sufficient to add to the article? --108.53.252.109 23:59, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

William Wilson [1839] plot summary and quotes
− William Wilson" was written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1839 − −   − − The story follows a dying man of "a noble descent" who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his profligate past of a miserable life of unspeakable misery and unpardonable crime, he does not accept full blame for his actions, saying that "man was never thus ... tempted before". He retorts that while some men became base by degrees, he is one in whom all virtue dropped in an instant. [Wilson is not his real name which has become a byword of horror]. He admits that his family has been renowned "... whose imaginative and easily excitable temperament has at all times rendered them remarkable; and, in my earliest infancy, I gave evidence of having fully inherited the family character. As I advanced in years it was more strongly developed; becoming, for many reasons, a cause of serious disquietude to my friends, and of positive injury to myself. I grew self-willed, addicted to the wildest caprices, and a prey to the most ungovernable passions...I was left to the guidance of my own will, and became, in all but name, the master of my own actions." After several paragraphs, the narration then segues into a description of Wilson's boyhood, which is spent in a school "in a misty-looking village of England". William meets another boy in his school who has the same name and roughly the same appearance, and who was even born on the same date (January 19, Poe's own birthday). William's name (he asserts that his actual name is only similar to "William Wilson") embarrasses him because it sounds "plebeian" or common, and he is irked that he must hear the name twice as much on account of the other William.The boy also dresses like William, walks like him, but can only speak in a whisper. He begins to give advice to William of an unspecified nature, which he refuses to obey, resenting the boy's "arrogance". One night he steals into the other William's bedroom and recoils in horror at the boy's face—which now resembles his own. William then immediately leaves the academy and, in the same week, the other boy follows suit.William eventually attends Eton and Oxford, gradually becoming more debauched and performing what he terms "mischief". For example, he steals from a man by cheating at cards-first by letting him win and then tricking him to place very expansive wagers. The other William appears, his face covered, and whispers a few words sufficient to alert others to William's behavior, and then leaves with no others seeing his face. William leaves the room and is stunned to find his doppelganger has had a fur coat similar to his own. After being subject to admonished at Eaton and his honor destroyed at Oxford, William [no matter where he flies to--Vienna, Berlin, Moscow] is haunted by his double in subsequent years, who thwarts plans described by William as driven by ambition [in Rome], revenge [in Paris], passionate Love [in Naples], and avarice [In Egypt]. One thing William cannot understand is that while no one knows anything about his double, his double always seems to know everything about William. In his latest caper, he attempts to seduce [with her consent] a young married noblewoman at Carnival in Rome, but the other William stops him; the enraged protagonist drags his "unresisting" double—who wears identical clothes—into an antechamber, and stabs him fatally.After William does this, a large mirror suddenly seems to appear. Reflected at him, he sees "mine own image, but with features all pale and dabbled in blood": apparently the dead double, "but he spoke no longer in a whisper". The narrator feels as if he is pronouncing the words: "In me didst thou exist—and in my death, see ... how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry!
Perhaps it's worth including https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/05/07/chicanery/ with the "All religion ... " quote in # 2 Disputed. Mcljlm (talk) 00:19, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

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Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 film about an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
 * Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Paul Haggis. Based on the short stories by F.X. Toole.

Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love.

Eddie Dupris

 * If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
 * To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can't just tell 'em to forget everything you know, you gotta make 'em forget even their bones... make 'em so tired they only listen to you, only hear your voice, only do what you say and nothing else... show 'em how to keep their balance and take it away from the other guy... how to generate momentum off their right toe and how to flex your knees when you fire a jab... how to fight backing up so that the other guy doesn't want to come after you. Then you gotta show 'em all over again. Over and over and over... till they think they're born that way.
 * All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about something. Truth is: even if they're wrong, even if that one thing is going to be the ruin of them, if you can beat that last bad out of them... they ain't fighters at all.
 * Frankie likes to say that boxing is an unnatural act, that everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all.
 * Anybody can lose one fight, anybody can lose once, you'll come back from this you'll be champion of the world.

Maggie Fitzgerald

 * I saw your last fight Shawrelle. You spent so much face time on the canvas, you thought the canvas had titties.
 * I'm 32, Mr. Dunn, and I'm here celebrating the fact that I spent another year scraping dishes and waitressing which is what I've been doing since 13, and according to you I'll be 37 before I can even throw a decent punch, which I have to admit, after working on this speed bag for a month may be the God's simple truth. Other truth is, my brother's in prison, my sister cheats on welfare by pretending one of her babies is still alive, my daddy's dead, and my momma weighs 312lbs. If I was thinking straight I'd go back home, find a used trailer, buy a deep fryer and some Oreos. Problem is, this the only thing I ever felt good doing. If I'm too old for this then I got nothing. That enough truth to suit you?

Frankie Dunn

 * I want you to jab, right in the tits, until they turn blue and fall off.
 * Girlie, tough ain't enough.

Dialogue

 * Frankie Dunn: You forgot the rule. Now, what is the rule?
 * Maggie Fitzgerald: Keep my left up?
 * Frankie: Is to protect yourself at all times. Now, what is the rule?
 * Maggie: Protect myself at all times.
 * Frankie: Good. Good.

 * Maggie: You're gonna leave me again?
 * Frankie: Never.

 * Frankie: Father, that was a great sermon... made me weep.
 * Father Horvak: What's confusing you this week?
 * Frankie: Oh, it's the same old, 'one God-three God' thing.
 * Father Horvak: Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten that it's about faith.
 * Frankie: Is it sort of like Snap Crackle and Pop, all rolled into one big box?
 * Father Horvak: You're standing outside my church, comparing God to Rice Krispies?

 * Frankie: How many eyes do you need to finish this fight?
 * Maggie: [with a black eye] One's enough.

 * Maggie: She's tough, I can't go inside, I can't get close enough to hit her.
 * Frankie: You know why that is?
 * Maggie: Why?
 * Frankie: Cause she's a better fighter than you are, that's why. She's younger, she's stronger, and she's more experienced. Now, what are you gonna do about it?
 * [Next round starts. Maggie knocks her out in few seconds]

 * Maggie: Working the bag, boss.
 * Frankie: I'm not your boss and that bag's working you.

 * Maggie: I've got nobody but you, Frankie.
 * Frankie: Then you've got me.

Cast

 * Hilary Swank - Maggie Fitzgerald
 * Clint Eastwood - Frankie Dunn
 * Morgan Freeman - Eddie Dupris
 * Jay Baruchel - Danger Barch
 * Mike Colter - "Big" Willie Little
 * Lucia Rijker - Billie "The Blue Bear"
 * Brian F. O'Byrne - Father Horvak
 * Anthony Mackie - Shawrelle Berry
 * Margo Martindale - Earline Fitzgerald
 * Riki Lindhome - Mardell Fitzgerald
 * Michael Peña - Omar
 * Benito Martinez - Billie's manager

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Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman (born 1 June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actor and film director who first became known in the American media through roles on the kids' show The Electric Company and on the soap opera ''Another World.
 * See also:
 * The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

Quotes

 * Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
 * .

 * To go somewhere and say: 'I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money' - Good luck!

 * I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

 * You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.

 * We have 7 billion people on this planet. It’s not that there’s not enough room on this planet for 7 billion people, it’s that the energy needs for 7 billion people are 7 billion people’s worth of energy needs, as opposed to, say, 2 billion. Imagine how much pollution would be in the air and the oceans if there were only 2 billion people putting it in? So yeah, we’re already overpopulated.

 * The search for truth is never over and the survival of truth is never assured. We have to choose - do we stand with those who wish to suppress the truth or stand with those who seek it.

Misattributed

 * I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.
 * @MorgonFreeman on Twitter, a now-defunct account also known as "Tweets from God". This Twitter account was never written or controlled by Freeman, and was a parody of his character in the films Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. snopes.com: Morgan Freeman on Homophobia

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Osmosis Jones

Osmosis Jones is a 2001 part animated, part live action film whose title character is Osmosis Jones, a white blood cell who takes on a deadly virus.
 * Directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. Written by Marc Hyman.

He's one cell of a guy. (taglines)

Dialogue

 * Osmosis Jones: Whoo-hoo! Next time, I'll be the bad cop.
 * Drix: You are a bad cop.
 * Osmosis Jones: Yo, who ya calling "bad cop"?!

 * Drix: Attention, germs! You are surrounded! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh, uh-huh, surrounded!
 * Osmosis Jones: Yo, Hammer! You can stop dancing!

 * Osmosis Jones: Goodbye, Drips.
 * Drix: That's Drix.
 * Osmosis Jones: Whatever.

 * Osmosis Jones: In the words of the immortal James Brown: GET DOWN!
 * Drix: James who?!

 * Chief: JONES! IN MY OFFICE!
 * [Ozzy enters his boss' office]
 * Osmosis: Chiefy-weefy, what's up?
 * Chief: Don't "chiefy-weefy" me! Have you seen the headlines? The paper's are calling it the most powerful cramp since Shane made us try that tae-bo workout!
 * Osmosis: Hold on a second...
 * Chief: [leaning closer to Jones] I told you to stay put. I told you to wait for backup! But once again, you had to do it your own way!
 * Osmosis: Man, I was right there! I couldn't done it...
 * Chief: Right! 78 trillion cells in the body all working together... you're the only one who thinks he can do it alone! You ever think that might be your problem, Jones?

 * [deleted scene]
 * Drix: The eye? What are we doing here? Do I have to remind you that I am on a strict twelve hour time release program? First the throat, then the nose, then the aches and pains.
 * Osmosis Jones: Yeah, I got it. Real important stuff. Now, get your butt out of my car!
 * Drix: Oh! I don't even have a butt. Officer, if I don't get to the sinuses, my entire relief mission could be jeopardized.
 * Osmosis Jones: Yo, it's time we take a look at the big picture. See? The Big F. He's the one we're here to protect and serve. I mean, just look at him. Doesn't he make you want to be a better cell?
 * Drix: [Drix sees Frank clean his tongue] Ew! I see why you feel such a strong connection.
 * Osmosis Jones: Hey, watch it! Show the man some respect! He's the reason all of us are here.
 * Drix: Take me to the nose!
 * Osmosis Jones: Dude, just wait in the car. I got police work to do.

 * Osmosis Jones: Baby, I always knew you and me were gonna hook up. I know this little spot right behind the eye, has the perfect view - perfect for a little rendezvous between me and you. You know what I'm sayin'? Do you know what I'm sayin'? 'Cause I been sayin' it a long time.
 * Leah: Jones, what in the world makes you think I would ever go out with you?
 * Osmosis Jones: Whatcha talkin' about? I'm a legend, girl! The chicks line up to divide with me.
 * Leah: Oh, really? 'Cause to me you look like the kind of cell who most likely divides with himself.

 * Leah: [on a recently ingested cold pill] Whoa, this is huge.
 * Osmosis Jones: Don't be all impressed, 'cause 99% of that is just sugar, ya know.
 * Leah: Yeah, and 99% of you is just stupid.
 * Osmosis Jones: Ooh, like I haven't heard that one before!

 * Osmosis: So, where you from, tough stuff?
 * Drix: I was developed at the University of Chicago, where I graduated Phi Beta Capsule.
 * Osmosis: Great, got me a college boy...
 * Drix: Where did you study?
 * Osmosis: Study? When you grow up on the wrong side of the digestive track, you ain't got no money for no fancy schools.
 * Drix: Oh...
 * Osmosis: I'm not kiddin', man. My school was Crack Central.
 * Drix: Oh?
 * Osmosis: No, it was in the crack. [Drix whimpers] Right in the stanky, puckered center. We were so poor, we lived off of peanut butter and cellulite sandwiches! You ever try to blow-dry your hair with a fart?
 * Drix: OK, I get it. You were poor.
 * Osmosis: You bet I was! You ever try to make a snowman out of toilet paper cling-ons? Now that's poor!
 * Drix: OK, please, you're going to make me vomit!
 * Osmosis: Vomit? We couldn't afford no vomit; that's for rich folk.
 * Drix: Excuse me while I wipe my eyes.
 * Osmosis: Oh, you wanna talk about wiping?
 * Drix: NO!

 * Scabies: Did the Foot Fungus pay up yet?
 * Joe Cramp: Nah. That guy's getting flaky on us.
 * Scabies: Well, you ain't gonna collect nothin' from him up here in the pit! Now get down there, send him a message.
 * [Thrax strolls into the sweat gland spa, humming]
 * Thrax: So, this is where the scum of Frank comes to fester.
 * Bruiser: Hey, you lost, pal? This is a private sweat-gland. Now beat it!
 * Thrax: I'm looking for volunteers, yo. Some nasty germs who want in on a big score.
 * Scabies: Yo, Red, we run the rackets around here. Take your little hustle someplace else.
 * Thrax: Oh, baby, this ain't about no hustle. This is about the baddest illness any of y'all have ever seen.
 * Scabies: Look who thinks he's the ebola virus, huh? [he and his thugs laugh]
 * Thrax: [angrily] ...Ebola? [shoves past Bruiser and Joe Cramp] Let me tell you about ebola, baby: ebola is a case of DANDRUFF compared to me!
 * Scabies: All right, pal, you're outta here. Bruiser, take this punk up to the face and bury him in a blackhead. When we're done with you, it'll take a Swedish facialist and six steaming washcloths to get you out!
 * Thrax: Hmm, sounds like a gas, baby. Bring it on.

 * Osmosis Jones: I bet Johnny Streptoccocus and the Melanoma family would be very interested to hear about your flu shot work.
 * Chill: You can't jack me on that, brother! I'm in the Virus Protection Program.

 * Osmosis Jones: You can probably guess which photo made it to the front page of the paper the next day. Overnight, Frank became the town laughingstock. The photo got picked up and ran in every daily across the country, he even got fired from his job at the pea soup factory. Lucky for us, our old friend, Bob, hooked up Frank with a job at the zoo. It was a 90% cut in pay, but it was the best we could do. Needless to say, none of this helped Shane. And as for me, I got suspended for unnecessary force. Since then, that the days gone by that I've been wonder: "Did I do the right thing?"

 * Drix: My, what big zits he has. How does something like this happen?
 * Osmosis Jones: You wash your face with fried chicken, that's how.

 * Thrax: And who are you?
 * Osmosis Jones: Who am I? Who am I? Uh, Bad Booty-shakin' Pickanosis. Yeah! That's who I am!
 * Thrax: I never heard of you.
 * Osmosis Jones: That's cause you just got here. You ask any of these suckers, when it comes to illin', Bad Booty-shakin' Pickanosis stands above the rest.

 * Dispatcher: [over radio] Suspect is headed toward the uvula - repeat, headed toward the uvula.
 * Osmosis Jones: What the heck is a u-va-la?
 * Drix: It's that little dangly thing that hangs down in Frank's-
 * Osmosis Jones: [interrupting] Boxer shorts! Okay, here we go!
 * Drix: Not that little dangly thing! The one in his throat!
 * [Pause]
 * Osmosis Jones: I knew that. I knew that.

 * Shane: I'm not going.
 * Frank: You're not going where, hon?
 * Shane: To Buffalo. I'm not going.
 * Frank: Honey, I'm- we're all packed. Buffalo's gonna be a blast.
 * Shane: I'm going camping with my friends. You're welcome to join us.
 * Frank: Well, I don't think-
 * Shane: I'd really like you to come.
 * Frank: No. No, no. No, no, no, I- You don't want me huffing and puffing after you. If you want to go camping, Okay, I'll- I know I can get uncle Bob to go with me in Buffalo. [lays down on couch]
 * Shane: [frustrated] I'm tired of this! It's not fair! I go where you want to go, I eat what you want to eat. Don't you ever think of anyone other than yourself?
 * Frank: I think about you all the time.
 * Shane: Were you thinking about me when you packed me a fried Slim Jim sandwich for lunch?
 * Frank: Yeah, it was a turkey Slim Jim!
 * Shane: You know, dad, maybe if you and mom listened to me a little more and took better care of yourselves, maybe she'd still be here.
 * Frank: Will you knock off that hamburger talk? Come here, honey. Hey... [Shane sits next to him] your mom died... because she got sick.
 * Shane: And how do you think you get sick?
 * Frank: Germs.
 * Shane: It's the way you eat. [She rolls her eyes and sighs frustratingly; leaves room]

Taglines

 * He's one cell of a guy
 * Every body needs a hero

Voices

 * Chris Rock — Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones
 * Laurence Fishburne — Thrax
 * David Hyde Pierce — Drixenol "Drix" Koldreliff
 * Brandy Norwood — Leah Estrogen
 * William Shatner — Mayor Phlegmming
 * Ron Howard — Tom Colonic

Live-action

 * Bill Murray — Frank DeTorre
 * Elena Franklin — Shane DeTorre
 * Molly Shannon — Mrs. Boyd
 * Chris Elliott — Bob DeTorre

title: Osmosis Jones


text:
C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society. He advocated relevance and engagement over disinterested academic observation as a "public intelligence apparatus" in challenging the policies of the institutional elites in the "Three" (the economic, political and military).

Quotes

 * As an institutional fact, the cultural apparatus assumes many forms, but everywhere today it tends to be part of some national establishment. This term, “establishment,” is of course your (a British) term. The ambiguity with which you use it is at once too lovely and too useful for a mere sociologist to avoid stealing it. I now serve notice that I do intend to steal it, although I promise that I shall try not to make of it a Concept. In general, the term points to the overlap of culture and authority. This overlap may involve the ideological use of cultural products and of cultural workmen for the legitimation of power, and the justification of decisions and policies. It may involve the bureaucratic use of culture by the personnel of authoritative institutions. But the essential feature of any establishment is a traffic between culture and authority, a tacit co-operation of cultural workmen and authorities of a ruling institution. This means of exchange between them includes money, career, privilege; but, above all, it includes prestige. A zone of at least semiofficial prestige which is at once of culture and of authority is the zone of any establishment.
 * "The Cultural Apparatus," in The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (2008)

1940s

 * To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.
 * The New Men of Power (1948).

 * The two greatest blinders of the intellectual who today might fight against the main drift are new and fascinating career chances, which often involve opportunities to practice his skill rather freely, and the ideology of liberalism, which tends to expropriate his chance to think straight. The two go together, for the liberal ideology, as now used by intellectuals, acts as a device whereby he can take advantage of the new career chances but retain the illusion that his soul remains his own.
 * The New Men of Power (1948), p. 281.

1950s

 * If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
 * "Structure of Power in America", The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 9 (March 1958).

 * Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.
 * Character & Social Structure (1954).

 * In the United States… a handful of corporations centralize decisions and responsibilities that are relevant for military and political as well as economic developments of global significance. For nowadays the military and the political cannot be separated from economic considerations of power. We now live not in an economic order or a political order, but in a political economy that is closely linked with military institutions and decisions. This is obvious in the repeated "oil crisis" in the Middle East, or in the relevance of Southeast Asia and African resources for the Western powers…
 * Character & Social Structure  (1954).

White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951)

 * [A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
 * P. 65.

 * Competition has been curtailed by larger corporations; it has been sabotaged by groups of smaller entrepreneurs acting collectively. Both groups have made clear the locus of liberalism's rhetoric of small business and family farm. The character and ideology of the small entrepreneur and the facts of the market are selling the idea of competition short. These liberal heroes, the small businessmen and the farmer, do not want to develop their characters by free and open competition; they do not believe in competition, and they have been doing their best to get away from it. When the small businessmen are asked whether they think free competition is…a good thing, they answer…, 'Yes, of course—what do you mean?' … Finally: 'How about here in this town in furniture?'—or groceries, or whatever the man's line is. Their answers are of two sorts: 'Yes, if it's fair competition,' which turns out to mean: 'if it doesn't make me compete.' … The small businessman, as well as the farmer, wants to become big, not directly by eating up others like himself in competition, but by the indirect ways means practiced by his own particular heroes—those already big. In the dream life of the small entrepreneur, the sure fix is replacing the open market. But if small men wish to close their ranks, why do they continue to talk…about free competition? The answer is that the political function of free competition is what really matters now…[f]or, if there is free competition and a constant coming and going of enterprises, the one who remains established is 'the better man' and 'deserves to be where he is.' But if instead of such competition, there is a rigid line between successful entrepreneurs and the employee community, the man on top may be 'coasting on what his father did,' and not really be worthy of his hard-won position. Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm. … … In Congress small-business committees clamored for legislation to save the weak backbone of the national economy. Their legislative efforts have been directed against their more efficient competitors. First they tried to kill off the low-priced chain stores by taxation; then they tried to eliminate the alleged buying advantages of mass distributor; finally they tried to freeze the profits of all distributors in order to protect their own profits from those who could and were selling goods cheaper to the consumer. The independent retailer…has been pushing to maintain a given margin under the guise of 'fair competition' and 'fair-trade' laws. He now regularly demands that the number of outlets controlled by chain stores be drastically limited and that production be divorced from distribution. This would, of course, kill the low prices charged consumers by the A&P, which makes very small retail profits, selling almost at cost, and whose real profits come from the manufacturing and packaging. ... Under the threat of 'ruinous competition,' laws are on the books of many states and cities legalizing the ruin of competition.
 * Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.

 * In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.

 * Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.

 * In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.

 * The personality market, the most decisive effect and symptom of the great salesroom, underlies the all pervasive distrust and self-alienation so characteristic of metropolitan people. Without common values and mutual trust, the cash nexus that links one man to another in transient contact has been made subtle in a dozen ways, and made to bite deeper into all areas of life and relations. People are required by the salesman ethic and convention to pretend interest in others in order to manipulate them. In the course of time, and as this ethic spreads, it is got on to. Still, it is conformed to as part of one;s job and one's style of life, but now with a winking eye, for one knows that manipulation is inherent in every human contact. Men are estranged from one another as each secretly tries to make an instrument of the other, and in time a full circle is made: one makes an instrument of himself and is estranged from it also.

Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)

 * Page numbers are from 2000 University of California Press edition

 * The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion. Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial. We feel that distrust has become nearly universal among men of affairs, and that the spread of public anxiety is poisoning human relations and drying up the roots of private freedom. We see that people at the top often identify rational dissent with political mutiny, loyalty with blind conformity, and freedom of judgment with treason. We feel that irresponsibility has become organized in high places and that clearly those in charge of the historic decisions of our time are not up to them. But what is more damaging to us is that we feel that those on the bottom-the forced actors who take the consequences-are also without leaders, without ideas of opposition, and that they make no real demands upon those with power.
 * pp. 184-185.

 * The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.
 * p. 185.

 * To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
 * p. 187.

The Power Elite (1956)

 * The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
 * p. 4.

 * Most American men of affairs have learned well the rhetoric of public relations, in some cases even to the point of using it when they are alone, and thus coming to believe it.
 * p. 5.

 * The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated… The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered… The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.
 * p. 7; discussing sectors of society which Mills feels have only recently become the dominant factors in determining the ultimate course of society.

 * People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite, and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.
 * p. 14.

 * The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
 * p. 14.

 * America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
 * P. 47.

 * Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
 * p. 23.

 * It is not characteristic of American executives to read books, except books on 'management' and mysteries. ... Those who who do venture into this arena ... are looked upon by their colleagues with mingled awe and incredulity.
 * p. 130.

 * The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
 * P. 242, describing the view commonly held in the eighteenth century.

 * The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner… dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory… "The supremacy of corporate economic power… consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation… [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.
 * P. 270-272; key shifts in power relations which Mills contends have brought us to the current state.

 * The American elite does not have any real image of peace — other than as an uneasy interlude existing precariously by virtue of the balance of mutual fright. The only seriously accepted plan for peace is the full loaded pistol. In short, war or a high state of war-preparedness is felt to be the normal and seemingly permanent condition of the United States.

 * For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

 * America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology - appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America.

 * These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.

 * What the main drift of the twentieth century has revealed is that the economy has become concentrated and incorporated in the great hierarchies, the military has become enlarged and decisive to the shape of the entire economic structure; and moreover the economic and the military have become structurally and deeply interrelated, as the economy has become a seemingly permanent war economy; and military men and policies have increasingly penetrated the corporate economy.

 * In a public, as we may understand the term, (1) virtually as many people express opinions as receive them, (2) Public communications are so organised that there is a chance immediately and effectively to answer back any opinion expressed in public. Opinion formed by such discussion (3) readily finds an outlet in effective action, even against – if necessary – the prevailing system of authority. And (4) authoritative institutions do not penetrate the public, which is thus more or less autonomous in its operations.-In a mass, (1) far fewer people express opinions than receive them; for the community of publics becomes an abstract collection of individuals who receive impressions from the mass media. (2) The communications that prevail are so organised that it is difficult or impossible for the individual to answer back immediately or with any effect. (3) The realisation of opinion in action is controlled by authorities who organise and control the channels of such action. (4) The mass has no autonomy from institutions; on the contrary, agents of authorised institutions penetrate this mass, reducing any autonomy it may have in the formation of opinion by discussion.

 * The top of modern American society is increasingly unified and often seems wilfully co-ordinated: at the top there has emerged an elite of power.The middle levels are a drifting set of stalemated balancing forces: the middle does not link the bottom with the top.The bottom of this society is fragmented,and even as a passive fact,increasingly powerless:at the bottom there is emerging a mass society.

 * But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people, and diplomatic codes of honor between nations have collapsed. Peace is no longer serious; only war is serious. Every man and every nation is either friend or foe, and the idea of enmity becomes mechanical, massive, and without genuine passion. When virtually all negotiation aimed at peaceful agreement is likely to be seen as 'appeasement,' if not treason, the active role of the diplomat becomes meaningless; for diplomacy becomes merely a prelude to war or an interlude between wars, and in such a context the diplomat is replaced by the warlord......In other words 'the morale of the State Department is so broken that its finest men flee from it, and advise others to flee.'.

 * Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military institutions as parasitic upon the means of production. Now, however, such institutions have come to shape much of the economic life of the United States.

 * Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.

 * The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

The Sociological Imagination (1959)

 * [O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
 * p. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief work of competing sociologist Talcott Parsons.

 * It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

 * One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of — and hence be able to control — the levels of abstraction on which he is working. The capacity to shuttle between levels of abstraction, with ease and with clarity, is a signal mark of the imaginative and systematic thinker.

 * Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
 * p. 174.

 * Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues — and in terms of the problems of history making.
 * Appendix: "On Intellectual Craftsmanship"

1960s

 * The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
 * "Liberal Values in the Modern World," in Power, Politics and People (1963), p. 189.

 * If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
 * Foreword, The Marxists (1962).

 * IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
 * Power, Politics, and People Boston: Beacon Press, (1963).

 * Every revolution has its counterrevolution — that is a sign the revolution is for real. And every revolution must defend itself against this counterrevolution, or the revolution will fail.
 *  Listen Yankee (1960), pp. 54.

 * We know well that all new cultural beginnings today must be part of world culture; that no truly intellectual life can occur if the mind is restricted; that no art can have genuine and everlasting value if it is not in a universal language. East and West. God knows there is enough restriction. Enough laziness of stereotypes. Smash them, we say to ourselves. And the only way to do that is to open up a true world forum that is absolutely free.
 *  Listen Yankee (1960), pp. 144-145.

 * Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
 * Mills was invited to speak in the Soviet Union as an honored guest, due to his criticisms of economies in the West; he was asked to make a toast at a banquet, and in his contrarian way, toasted Trotsky, whose works had been banned in the Soviet Union by Stalin. Reported in Saul Landau, "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months", Ramparts (August 1965), p. 49-50.

The Causes of World War Three (1960)

 * For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.

 * An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life."

 * Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its "inevitability," want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.

 * They know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the Middle East and Europe, the Far East and Africa except the landing of Marines. Being baffled, and also being very tired of being baffled, they have come to believe that there is no way out—except war—which would remove all the bewildering paradoxes of their tedious and now misguided attempts to construct peace. In place of these paradoxes they prefer the bright, clear problems of war—as they used to be. For they still believe that "winning" means something, although they never tell us what.

Power, Politics, and People (1963)

 * The first rule for understanding the human condition is that men live in second-hand worlds. They are aware of much more than they have personally experienced; and their own experience is always indirect.
 * "The Cultural Apparatus"
 * Liberalism, as a set of ideals, is still viable, and even compelling to Western men. That is one reason why it has become a common denominator of American political rhetoric; but there is another reason. The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. Everybody can easily agree on general ends; it is more difficult to agree on means and the relevance of various means to the ends articulated. The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
 * "Liberal Values in the Modern World"
 * Moral distrust of men in public life is an old American convention. In the current campaign, however, it has reached unprecedented heights: each of the leading candidates has felt it necessary to make public an accounting of his personal income.
 * "Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness".
 * Laws without supporting moral conventions invite crime, but much more importantly, they spur the growth of an expedient, amoral attitude. In our kind of society - with its absence of pre-capitalist traditions - the only way to do away with training devices is to change the laws and their enforcement so that, unlike the current income tax, they do not depend upon individual integrity. Another way is to pass only laws that result from great social movements with concomitant changes in moral codes, but there is no such movement underway in any area of American society today.
 * "Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness"
 * When ever the standards of the moneyed life prevail, the man with money, no matter how he got it, will eventually be respected.
 * "Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness", III
 * In a society which the money-makers have had no serious rival for repute and honor, the word "practical" comes to mean useful for private gain, and "common sense," the sense to get ahead financially. The pursuit of the moneyed life is the commanding value, in relation to which the influence of others values has declined, so men eas**"Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness", III
 * "Diagnosis of Our Moral Uneasiness", III
 * Today in the United States there is no Left: practical political activities are monopolized by an irresponsible two-party system; cultural activities - although formally quite free - tend to become nationalist or commercial or mere private. Today in Western Europe what remains of the older Left is weak; its remnants have become inconsequential as a cultural and political center of insurgent opposition. "The Left" has indeed become "established." Even if the Left wins state power, as in Britain, it often seems to its members to have little room for maneuver - in he world or in the nation.
 * "The Decline of the Left"

Quotes about C. Wright Mills

 * "All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence," said C. Wright Mills, echoing, as it were, Max Weber's definition of the state as "the rule of men over men based on the means of legitimate, that is allegedly legitimate, violence." The consensus is very strange; for to equate political power with "the organization of violence" makes sense only if one follows Marx's estimate of the state as an instrument of oppression in the hands of the ruling class.
 * Hannah Arendt Crises of the Republic (1972)

 * In The Sociological Imagination, Mills stresses the importance of institutions: "Much of human life consists of playing... roles within specific institutions. To understand the biography of an individual, we must understand the significance and meaning of the roles he has played and does play; to understand these roles we must understand the institutions of which they are a part."
 * Annette Lareau Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

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Can you tell me why you got rid of some lines, and radically changed the article please? --Aphaia 5 July 2005 22:56 (UTC)

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I reverted it because there was assumingly an advertisement, that is, "Other "quotes" available in: [book]". But I am not sure. It could be on a good faith, but I think mention to this book is not appropriate unless some quotes came from this book. Just a note. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 23:10 (UTC)
 * On this weblog you may find some other quotes (in Italian) by Silvio Berlusconi. --131.114.248.176 02:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)(in Wikipedia as Angelo.Romano)

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The Observer made an article of Berlusconi's quotation. You may find it useful. --Jaqen 15:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

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Also BBC has a page titled "Berlusconi in his own words" with a bunch of quotations http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm --Marra 15:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

remove the bold setting from all quotes
why some quote/section of quote are in bold? i think this is not neutral, i think is better to remove the bold setting from any quote. --151.36.255.221 13:35, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

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Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. Considered to have been the greatest chess grandmaster of his time, he is today widely recognized as one of the finest chess players to have ever lived. Morphy was also chess publisher and an attorney.

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 * I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away. It is, to be sure, a most exhilarating sport, but it is only a sport; and it is not to be wondered at that such as have been passionately addicted to the charming pastime should one day ask themselves whether sober reason does not advise its utter dereliction.
 * From Morphy's letter to Daniel Fiske, February 4, 1863

Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall (1859)

 * Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York (May 25, 1859)

 * Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations.

 * It [chess] is not only the most delightful and scientific, but the most moral of amusements.

 * It [chess] is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game.

 * Let the chessboard supercede the card table, and a great improvement will be visible in the morals of the community.

About Paul Morphy

 * Anderssen voiced it well when asked why he did not play as brilliantly as usual in his game with Morphy, when he replied: "Morphy will not let me."
 * As quoted in Lasker's Chess Magazine

 * Paul Morphy was the greatest chess player that ever lived. Every student of the game, who has delved into the stories of the past, realizes that no one ever was so far superior to the players of his time, or ever defeated his opponents with such ease, and no one ever offered knight odds to the men who considered themselves his equal.
 * As quoted in Lasker's Chess Magazine

 * So still was he, that but for the searching intellect which glittered in his full dark eye, you might have taken him for a carven image as he pondered his moves. His bearing was mild and that of a refined gentleman, and he dealt the most crushing blows on his adversary with an almost womanly ease and grace.
 * Hugh Alexander Kennedy, quoted in The Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama, Volume X

 * "...Morphy was stronger than anyone he played with, including Anderssen"
 * Wilhelm Steinitz, International Chess Magazine 1885.

 * "Morphy's principal strength does not rest upon his power of combination but in his position play and his general style....Beginning with la Bourdonnais to the present, and including Lasker, we find that the greatest stylist has been Morphy. Whence the reason, although it might not be the only one, why he is generally considered the greatest of all."
 * José Raúl Capablanca, in Pablo Morphy by V. F. Coria and L. Palau.

 * "...Morphy, the master of all phases of the game, stronger than any of his opponents, even the strongest of them..." ~ Alexander Alekhine, in Shakmatny Vestnik, January 15, 1914

 * "We also remember the brilliant flight of the American super-genius Paul Morphy, who in a couple of years (1857-59) conquered both the New and the Old Worlds. He revealed a thunderous blend of pragmatism, aggression and accurate calculation to the world -- qualities that enabled America to accomplish a powerful spurt in the second half of the 19th century."
 * Garry Kasparov (2003). On My Great Predecessors. Gloucester Publishers plc. Vol. 1, p. 6. ISBN 1857443306.

 * "What was the secret of Morphy's invincibility? I think it was a combination of a unique natural talent and brilliant erudition.  His play was the next, more mature stage in the development of chess.  Morphy had a well-developed 'feeling for position', and therefore he can be confidently regarded as the 'first swallow' - the prototype of the strong 20th century grandmaster."
 * Garry Kasparov (2003). On My Great Predecessors. Gloucester Publishers plc. Vol. 1, p. 43. ISBN 1857443306.

 * "After the passage of a century, Morphy still remains the most glamorous figure that has ever appeared in the chess world."
 * Edward Lasker (in The Adventure of Chess, 2nd Edition, New York, 1959)

 * "Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy."
 * Andrew Soltis (in Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, New York, 1977)

 * "It has been truly said that Morphy was at once the Caesar and the Napoleon of chess. He revolutionized chess. He brought life and dash and beauty into the game at a time when an age of dullness was about to set in and he did this at a stroke. Then he quit forever. Only two years from the beginning to the end. The negotiations for some modern matches have taken that long!"
 * J. A. Galbreath (American Chess Bulletin, October, 1909)

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Megadeth

Megadeth is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California.

Song lyrics
All songs written by Dave Mustaine, unless noted.

Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985)

 * Prepare the patients scalp To peel away Metal caps his ears He'll hear not what we say Solid steel visor Riveted cross his eyes Iron staples close his jaws So no one hears his cries.

 * The Skull Beneath the Skin

Peace Sells... but Who's Buying (1986)

 * Don't summon the devil, Don't call the priests, If you need the strength, The conjuring

 * The Conjuring

 * What do you mean, "I don't believe in God"? I talk to him every day. What do you mean, "I don't support your system"? I go to court when I have to. What do you mean, "I can't get to work on time"? I got nothing better to do And, what do you mean, "I don't pay my bills"? Why do you think I'm broke? Huh?

 * Peace Sells

 * Killer, intruder, homicidal man If you see me coming run as fast as you can A bloodthirsty demon who's stalking the street I hack up my victims like pieces of meat. Blood thirsty demon, sinister fiend, Bludgeonous slaughters, my evil deeds.

 * Good Mourning/Black Friday

 * A merciless butcher who lives underground I'm out to destroy and I will cut you down.

 * Good Mourning/Black Friday

 * Take another drink and raise the last bets Think about my last words They might be what I just said.

 * My Last Words

So Far, So Good... So What! (1988)

 * The arsenal of megadeth can't be rid they said And if it comes, the living will envy the dead

 * Set The World Afire

 * Put your hand right up my shirt Pull the strings that make me work Jaws will part, words fall out Like a fish with hook in mouth

 * Hook in Mouth

Rust In Peace (1990)

 * Brother will kill brother, spilling blood across the land Killing for religion, something I don't understand

 * Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

 * Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't thinkin' it Next thing you know they'll take my thoughts away

 * Holy Wars... The Punishment

 * Military intelligence; two words combined that can't make sense.

 * Hangar 18

 * Don't ask what you can do for your country Ask what your county can do for you"

 * Take No Prisoners

 * I rule on land, air and sea Pass judgment on humanity Winds blow from the bowels of hell Will we give warnings, only time will tell

 * Rust in Peace... Polaris

 * Launch the Polaris The end doesn't scare us When will this cease The warheads will all rust in peace!

 * Rust in Peace... Polaris

Countdown to Extinction (1992)

 * You take a mortal man, and put him in control. Watch him become a God, watch people's heads a roll.

 * Symphony of Destruction

 * Hello me, meet the real me.

 * Sweating Bullets

 * Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend? Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin I'm in trouble for the things, I haven't got to yet I'm chomping at the bit and my palms are getting wet.

 * Sweating Bullets

 * Feeling claustrophobic, like the walls are closing in Blood stains on my hands and I don't know where I've been I'm in trouble for the things, I haven't got to yet I'm sharpening the axe and my palms are getting wet.

 * Sweating Bullets

 * And when you kill a man, you're a murderer. Kill many, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god.

 * Captive Honour (written by Ellefson & Mustaine)

Youthanasia (1994)

 * Set the ball a-rollin, I'll be clicking off the miles, On the train of consequences My boxcar life o' style, My thinking is derailed, I'm tied up to the tracks, The train of consequences There ain't no turning back!

 * Train of Consequences

 * Don't remember where I was I realized life was a game The more seriously I took things The harder the rules became

 * À Tout le Monde

 * I had no idea what it'd cost My life passed before my eyes I found out how little I accomplished All my plans denied.

 * À Tout le Monde

 * Moving on is a simple thing What it leaves behind is hard

 * À Tout le Monde

Cryptic Writings (1997)

 * Living alone, falling from grace I want to atone, but there’s just empty space I can’t face tomorrow, now you’re not coming back Walked off in the night and just left me the tracks.

 * Almost Honest

Risk (1999)

 * My head is talking to me, I don't know what it needs But the loudest voice is the one that I heed

 * Insomnia

 * My victims are rich or poor, young or old, strong or weak I cause millions of accidents, I am cancer in your bones I fathered the lie, twist what you say, speak not the truth I am insidious, impartial, deep inside your chromosomes

 * Prince of Darkness

 * I am more powerful than all the armies of the world I am more violent than violence, more deadly than death I have destroyed more men than all the nation's wars I am relentless, unpredictable, waiting for your last breath

 * Prince of Darkness

 * I'll be there for you, when you walk through the fire I'll be there for you when the flames get higher When nothing fits, and nothing seems right To the very last breath of my life I'll be there for you

 * I'll Be There (written by Mustaine & Prager}

The World Needs a Hero (2001)

 * Phantom rule, the hidden jewel who's really in control? On puppet strings, a nation swings undermined by moles

 * The World Needs a Hero

 * If you took your own direction If only you practice what you preach If you follow your advice You wouldn't be burning bridges all the time

 * Burning Bridges

The System Has Failed (2004)

 * As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting I will tell you what you want to hear and not mean anything Then I treat you like a dog, as I shoot my venom in You pretend you didn't know, that I am a scorpion

 * The Scorpion

 * This is our way of life A life that was born free To follow orders how to live Was never meant to be

 * Back in the Day

 * Metal's king back then And still is to this day Others imitate or challenge But it never goes away

 * Back in the Day

 * So live your life and live it well There's not much left of me to tell I just got back up each time I fell

 * Of Mice and Men

United Abominations (2007)

 * How can there be any logic in biological war?

 * Washington is Next!

 * Disengage their minds, sabotage their health Promote sex and war and violence in the kindergardens Blame the parents and teachers, it's their fault.

 * Washington is Next!

 * You may bury the bodies, but you cant bury the crimes only Fools stand up and really lay down their arms No not me, not when death lasts forever

 * United Abominations

 * The U.N. is right, you can't be anymore 'un' than you are right now, the U.N. is undone. Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun The threat is real, the locust king has come.

 * United Abominations

 * NATO invaded Yugoslavia to end ethnic cleansing, there was no U.N. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan after 9/11, there was no U.N. Saddam Hussein violated 17 U.N. resolutions; The U.N. was asked to join the war in Iraq. The U.S. invaded, Ha! there was no U.N. Libya bombed a discotheque in Berlin killing Americans, there was no U.N. Iran funds Hamas, and attacked the U.S. in the seventies, there was no stinking U.N. Facing War without end, looking into the future, there was no more U.N.

 * United Abominations

Endgame (2009)

 * The ex-president signed a secret bill That can land a legal U.S. citizen in jail And the Patriot Act stripped away our constitutional rights They say a concentration camp just popped up. Yeah, right!

 * Endgame

 * Refuse the chip? Ha! Get persecute and beat by the Tyranny of mind control, for the mark of the beast All rights removed, you're punished captured, and enslaved Believe me when I say, "This is the Endgame!"

 * Endgame

Th1rt3en (2011)

 * Public enemy number one Jailbreak and a smoking gun You wont believe the things I've done And the killing is just for fun

 * Public Enemy No. 1 (written by Mustaine & Johnny K)

 * Secret bureaucracy, it’s just a lie The devil’s henchmen, in suit and tie A sacred brotherhood; an ancient rite Politicians and the double lives they hide

 * We the People (written by Mustaine & Johnny K)

 * Where hath the apostles gone? Joining hands with wicked ones Revelation has come to pass New world order will hold the mass

 * New World Order (written by Mustaine & Menza)

 * At the start of time Many centuries ago Came the spawning of Christ And the Antichrist And darkness fell upon our people And the children, they were born faceless Without eyes they could not see Born unto themselves They lived and they died In the Millennium of the Blind

 * Millennium of the Blind

Super Collider (2013)

 * You'll never see a ray of daylight So far in debt you're struggling to survive But you will break your back fighting and they'll help Before you let them break your pride

 * Dance in the Rain

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Teen films is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation. Often these normally serious subject matters are presented in a glossy, stereotyped or trivialized way.

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Talk:Abigail Adams

Which category is most suitable, I wonder. "First ladies" (and including other states' First ladies") or "First ladies of the United States". Any suggestion? --Aphaia 6 July 2005 05:24 (UTC)

 * Whatever the solution, use same for Eleanor Roosevelt ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 09:00 (UTC)

 * ;p-) (Not even "Americans" or US Americans, whow) or "Wives of political leaders"??--Aphaia 6 July 2005 10:05 (UTC)

 * I'd go one state further: under Category:Political leaders, create category "First ladies" and put them there. In the US, that's a political occupation in all respects :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 10:48 (UTC)

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Category talk:Theologians

Now there are two sorts of Theologians in this category: Christian theologians and Jewish. Someday we will have Islamic theologians too ... and somehow other religions' ... they should be in one category or better to subcategorized? Categories with few items would be inconvinient so it might be a future problem, not the current one. Just thought. --Aphaia 6 July 2005 05:37 (UTC)

 * Let's subdivide when we no longer have room for all the theologists. I am unsure by religion is the best division, also [perhaps by period is better?] ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 05:41 (UTC)

 * As for when we should begin, I agree with you. Yep, category by religion might be problematic ... but in most cases theologians were (and are) concious on which religion they are talking. So it would be less controversial than "religious leaders". --Aphaia 6 July 2005 05:53 (UTC)

 * I am unsure that the religious categorization would be trivial. Some of the extreme theologists, for example, were cast out by their religion. E.g., Gnostic theologists considered themselves Christians, but other Christians did not. Likewise, things like whether the LDS Church should be considered Christian, or even if Catholics are considered Christians, is debated by some. Jews might have problems with Chabad-oriented theologists, and I somehow doubt the Shi'ite Muslims and the Sunite Muslims would be more tolerant of each other. On the other hand, period-based categorization is simple and unambiguous -- there is wide agreement on when the Renneisance begun, when the Industrial revolution started, and so on. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 06:54 (UTC)

 * Ah okay, you are right. French Wikiquote has categories by centuries for people. Such division might be helpful for us too. --Aphaia 6 July 2005 07:02 (UTC)

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Category:1970s films

This is a selection of films with Wikiquote pages that were released in the 1970s.

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Category:1980s films

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1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989

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Category:1990s films

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1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999

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User talk:68.108.25.154

Hi. If you would not like to expose your IP address, it is better to register before posting. Also, please sign (using ~ ) with your IP and timestamp your comments in talk pages, so as to have tracability. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 6 July 2005 05:56 (UTC)

And Wikiquote is not a net forum. Please read WQ:NOT for understanding our project. Thank you. --Aphaia 6 July 2005 06:34 (UTC)

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