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Sockpuppetry on VfD
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

 * Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | Movies: Immortality | Main

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015), usually referred to as CSI, is a dramatic television series about the Forensics Crime Lab in Las Vegas.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10
 * Season 11
 * Season 12
 * Season 13
 * Season 14
 * Season 15

Movies

 * Immortality

Cast

 * William Petersen as Gil Grissom (2000–2009)
 * Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows (2000–2012)
 * Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle (2000–2007, 2009–2015)
 * George Eads as Nick Stokes (2000–2015)
 * Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown (2000–2008)
 * Paul Guilfoyle as Captain Jim Brass (2000–2015)
 * Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders (2000–2015)
 * Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins (2000–2015)
 * Wallace Langham as David Hodges (2003–2015)
 * Louise Lombard as Sofia Curtis (2004–2007, 2011)
 * Laurence Fishburne as Raymond Langston (2008–2011)
 * Ted Danson as D.B. Russell (2011–2015)
 * Elisabeth Harnois as Morgan Brody (2011–2015)
 * Elisabeth Shue as Julie Finlay (2012–2015)

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Category:Pirates of the Caribbean
I don't see the need for this category, since there is already a disambig page for this film trilogy. This seems a bit redundant. ~ UDScott 13:02, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 14:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:02, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Could there (in theory, at least) be an entry on a particular character (e.g. Captain Jack Sparrow)? Or would such quotes only ever be in one of the movie entries? BD2412 T 17:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I would expect that quotes from this character would be captured on the appropriate individual film's page. ~ UDScott 17:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete: If there is a dozen of works, like Star wars, it could be consideration. It isn't the case currenty. --Aphaia 22:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Aphaia.--Cato 19:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete per above.--Jusjih 05:42, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Neutral. This is one of those increasing number of situations where our growth pushes us into considering changes to our practices. How popular and well-established does a film franchise need to be before we accept character articles? Should we allow the overlap of disambiguation articles and categories in anticipation of these articles? My inclusionist nature is waking to the possibility that Wikiquote might accept the overlap instead of quickly deleting a collection page that might be reasonable in a few months. We need the dab article to make it easy for folks to fetch a useful page when entering "Pirates of the Caribbean", but a category may also makes sense even now. For the moment, I guess I'm ambivalent on this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 12:18, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


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Stop deleting stuff

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Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane (December 5 1886 – October 30 1968) was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist. Although her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, is now the better known writer, Lane's accomplishments remain remarkable. She is considered a seminal force in the founding of the American Libertarian Party.

Quotes

 * I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that’s piled up ahead of me, I’ll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I’ll be living a beautiful life.
 * Written in the 1920s, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 8, by William V. Holtz (1993).

 * I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.
 * Letter to Arthur Griggs (June 22, 1920).

 * I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man...It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go -- that's the horrible thing.
 * Letter to Dorothy Thompson (December 29, 1927).

 * I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.
 * Letter to Guy Moyston (June 25, 1925).

 * I want to finish work on my mother's juvenile (Farmer Boy manuscript) by the end of June. There's a curious half-angry reluctance in my writing for other people. I say to myself that whatever earnings there may be are all in the family. Also I seize upon this task as an excuse to postpone my own work.
 * Diary (May 29, 1933).

 * I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick", I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.
 * Diary (sick and depressed) (December 9, 1933).

 * Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.
 * Journal entry (1923), as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 7, by William V. Holtz (1993).

 * Making the best of things is … a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
 * Letters to Guy Moyston, (August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925).

 * The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
 * Diary, (1927).

 * My mother cannot learn to have any reliance upon my financial judgment or promises. It's partly, I suppose, because she still thinks of me as a child...She even hesitates to let me have the responsibility of bringing up butter from the spring(house), for fear I won't do it quite right!...This unaccountable daughter who roams the world, borrowing money here and getting shot at there...is a pride, in a way, but a ceaseless apprehension, too.
 * Letter to Guy Moyston, (July 18, 1925).

 * And I say again, you need not worry any more about money. If I were to drop dead this instant, I have enough to double your present income if you never touched a cent of the principle. If you take a notion to do something that costs more than your income warrants, you need only let me know. You can have it.
 * Letter from Albania to Laura Ingalls Wilder, (October 27, 1926).

 * It was like being quite alone on the roof of the world. I felt that if I were to go to the edge and look over … I would see below all that I had ever known; all the crowded cities and seas covered with ships, and the clamor of harbors and traffic of rivers, and farmlands being worked, and herds of cattle driven in dust across interminable plains. All the clamor and clatter, confusion of voices, tumults, and conflicts, must still be going on, down there—over the edge, and below—but here there was only the sky, and a stillness made audible by the brittle grass. Emptiness was so perfect all around me that I felt a part of it, empty myself.
 * Letter to the Clarence Day (June 10, 1926)
 * Describing her stop on a remote Russian plateau while with the Red Cross after WWI.

 * We joined long wagon trains moving south; we met hundreds of wagons going north; the roads east and west were crawling lines of families traveling under canvas, looking for work, for another foothold somewhere on the land.... The country was ruined, the whole world was ruined; nothing like this had ever happened before. There was no hope, but everyone felt the courage of despair.
 * Written in 1935, recalling her family’s migration from drought-stricken South Dakota to the Missouri Ozarks in 1894; the 650-mile trip had taken them six weeks.
 * As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 1, by William V. Holtz (1993).

 * That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
 * Written in 1935, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993).

 * The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
 * Said in 1936, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, prologue, by William V. Holtz (1993).

 * One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one’s self.... All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.
 * Journal entry (April 15, 1937), as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 14, by William V. Holtz (1993)
 * Commenting on the domestic policies of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 * Since 1914...I wait for the natural to return; for newspapers to report news with care for accuracy and grammar; for schools to teach and for pupils to study; for faces to be sane and intelligent, and even humorous; for American artists and poets and writers to be exuberant and optimistic...it is all gone with the music of Vienna and the gaiety of San Francisco. But I still see everything against that background, and really I see nothing funny anywhere.  The Beatnik beard and the mini skirt and the topless waitress, they ARE funny, I know they are funny but they only make me tired, I don't laugh.
 * letter to Roger MacBride (March 5, 1968).
 * reflecting her impressions of the world of 1968, at the age of 81.

 * The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year’s seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.
 * On the Way Home, ch. 1 (1962).

Old Home Town (1935)

 * Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
 * Ch. 1.

 * Two deep human desires were at war … the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.
 * Ch. 1.

 * It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
 * Ch. 1.

 * Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special [Sunday] quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.
 * Ch. 1.

 * There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.
 * Ch. 1.

Give Me Liberty (1936)
The Caxton Printers, LTD, Caldwell, Idaho, 1954
 * In 1919 I was a communist. My Bolshevik friends of those days are scattered now; some are bourgeois, some are dead, some are in China and Russia, and I did not know the last American chiefs of the Third International, who now officially embrace Democracy. They would repudiate me even as a renegade comrade, for I was never a member of The Party. But it was merely an accident that I was not.
 * p. 3
 * The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
 * pp. 9-10
 * Representative government cannot express the will of the mass of the people, because there is no mass of the people; The People is a fiction, like The State. You cannot get a Will of the Mass, even among a dozen persons who all want to go on a picnic. The only human mass with a common will is a mob, and that will is a temporary insanity. In actual fact, the population of a country is a multitude of diverse human beings with an infinite variety of purposes and desires and fluctuating wills.
 * pp. 10-11
 * A republic is not possible in the Soviet Union because the aim of its rulers is an economic aim. Economic power differs from political power.
 * p. 11
 * The historical novelty of the Soviet government was its motive. Other governments have existed to keep peace among their subjects, or to amass money from them, or to use them in trade and war for the glory of the men governing them. But the Soviet government exists to do good to its people, whether they like it or not…To that end they have suppressed personal freedom; freedom of movement, of choice of work, freedom of self-expression in ways of life, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience.
 * p. 13
 * The Communist hope of economic equality in the Soviet Union rests now on the death of all men and women who are individuals. A new generation, they tell me, had already been so shaped and schooled that a human mass is actually being created; millions of young men and women do, in veritable fact, have the psychology of the bee-swarm, the ant-hill.
 * p. 14
 * I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom. Like all Americans, I took for granted the individual liberty to which I had been born. It seemed as necessary and as inevitable as the air I breathed; it seemed the natural element in which human beings lived.
 * p. 15
 * The words we use are the most clumsy symbols for meanings, and to suppose that such words as ‘war,’ ‘glory,’ ‘justice,’ ‘liberty,’ ‘home,’ mean the same in two languages, is an error.
 * p. 15
 * Resisting step by step, I was finally compelled to admit to my Italian friends that I had seen the spirit of Italy revive under Mussolini. And it seemed to me that this revival was based on a separation of individual liberty from the industrial revolution whose cause and source is individual liberty. I said that in Italy, as in Russia, an essentially medieval, planned and controlled economic order was taking over the fruits of the industrial revolution while destroying its root, the freedom of the individual.
 * p. 16
 * This rejection of one's self as an individual was, I knew, the spirit animating the members of the Communist Party. I heard that it was the spirit beginning to animate Russia. It was the spirit of Fascism, the spirit that indubitably did revive Italy. Scores, hundreds of the smallest incidents revealed it.
 * p. 16
 * No jailer can compel any prisoner to speak or act against that prisoner's will, but chains can prevent his acting, and a gag can prevent his speaking.
 * p. 17
 * The American pioneers phrased this clearly and bluntly. They said, ‘Root, hog, or die.’ There can be no third alternative for the shoat let out of the pen, to go where he pleases and do what he likes. Individual liberty is individual responsibility. Whoever makes decisions is responsible for results. When common men were slaves and serfs, they obeyed and they were fed, but they died by thousands in plagues and famines. Free men paid for their freedom by leaving that false and illusory security.
 * pp. 23-24
 * We would learn more by looking at America. Oddly enough, statistics appear only in times of agitation and distress. Their function would appear to be that of omens of worse to come. We seem to have a morbid taste for them, like that of children for ghost stories that raise the hair. The American air has not been so full of fragmentary statistics since the Panic of 1893. I read again, for instance, that less than 10 per cent of our population own more than 90 per cent of the wealth… I read also that a hundred years ago 80 per cent of our population owned property and that today the percentage is 23.
 * p. 43
 * What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.
 * p. 47
 * History is nothing whatever but a record of what living persons have done in the past.
 * p. 48
 * To believe that any action based on an ignorance of fact can possibly succeed, is to abandon the use of reason.
 * p. 48
 * [D]uring half a century, reactionary influences from Europe have been shifting American thinking onto a basis of socialistic assumptions. In cities and states, both parties began to socialize America with imitations of the Kaiser's Germany: social welfare laws, labor laws, wage-and-hour laws, citizens' pension laws, and so-called public ownership.
 * p. 49
 * For nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar. I am not an alarmist; that is plain fact.
 * p. 50
 * In 1933 a group of sincere and ardent collectivists seized control of the Democratic Party, used it as a means of grasping Federal power, and enthusiastically, from motives which many of them regard as the highest idealism, began to make America over. The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.
 * p. 50
 * The Republican Party remains a political mechanism with no political principle. It does not stand for American individualism. Its leaders continue to play the 70-year-old American professional sport of vote-getting, called politics.
 * p. 50

Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943)
The John Day Company, 1943

 * Men are alive on this earth, only because the imperative human desire is to attack the enemies of human life.
 * p. viii.

 * This is the nature of human energy; individuals generate it, and control it. Each person is self-controlling, and therefore responsible for his acts. Every human being, by his nature, is free.
 * p. xii.

 * I am a contributing creator of American civilization; it does not create me. I control the stem of this civilization that is within my reach; it does not control me. It can not even make me read Spengler, if I'd rather read a pulp magazine.
 * p. 18

 * The reason is that Government, by its nature, can not per mit a competitor within the field of its activities. Everyone knows that Government is a monopoly of the use of force; it can not permit individuals to use force against each other, or against the Government, nor can it permit another Government to use force inside its frontiers; if it does, it ceases to be Government.
 * p. 31

 * When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it. This means that it can not permit any new use of productive energy, for the new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.
 * p. 32

 * Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
 * p. 60

 * Inside these modern National frontiers, the workers have been working harder and getting little more than their ancestors did in the feudal system. So the so-called revolutionists attack their Governments and ruling classes, accusing them of not controlling the social system as it should be controlled. Socialist, Social-Democrat, Communist, Fascist, National Socialist (Nazi) all demand that Government make a better social system; that Government control the men who produce and distribute goods; that Government create security for men on this earth. The basis of all this thinking is ignorance of creative energy; it is ignorance of the real nature of human beings; it is the ancient, pagan superstition that Authority controls a static, limited universe.
 * p. 140

 * Freedom is not a permission granted by any Authority. Freedom is a fact. Whether or not this fact is known, freedom is in the nature of every living person, as gravitation is in the nature of this planet. Life is energy; liberty is the individual control of human life-energy. It can not be separated from life. Liberty is inalienable; as I can not transfer my life to anyone else, I can not transfer my liberty, my control of my life-energy, to anyone else.
 * p. 149

 * Public debt is a new problem for Americans; a century ago, no one imagined it. Congress then did not know what to do with all the surplus money in the Treasury, and finally returned it to the States.
 * p. 193
 * But responsibility for whatever the men in American Government do, is the individual citizen's responsibility. The men who began the Revolution created and bequeathed to every future American the tools for progressively reducing the use of force in human affairs. Every American inherits these unique tools: the Constitution that checks the acts of men in public office, and the convention of delegates which is the peaceful means of changing the Constitution.
 * p. 193

 * Men stood up in Parliament and pointed to the American facts. What had created the clipper ships? Not the American government. Not protection, but lack of protection. What made the British marine second-rate? Safety, shelter, protection under the British Navigation Acts… The result was catastrophe. American clipper ships ran away with the Indian trade. They ran away with the trade in England's own home ports.
 * p. 238

 * American clipper ships opened the British ports to free trade. Half a century of American smuggling and rebellion and costly ineffectual blockades; seven years of war in America, and the loss of the thirteen colonies; and all the sound and sensible arguments of English liberals and economists, could not break down the British planned economy. American clipper ships did it.
 * p. 239
 * They were the final blow that brought down that whole planned structure. The great English reform movement of the 19th century consisted wholly in repealing laws. There was nothing constructive in it; it was wholly destructive. It was a destruction of Government's interference with human affairs, a destruction of the so-called ‘protection’ that is actually a restriction of the exercise of natural human rights. In that mid-19th-century period of the greatest individual freedom that Englishmen have ever known, they made the prosperity and power of the British Empire during Victoria's long and peaceful reign. And to that freedom, and prosperity and power and peace, the American clipper ship contributed more than any other one thing.
 * p. 239

The Lady and The Tycoon: Letters of Rose Wilder Lane and Jasper Crane (1973)
The Caxton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho, Roger Lea MacBride, edit., 1973
 * As to the restraint of trade by business, that is impossible; the notion that money is power is another lie. There is no possible means by which the duPont Company can stop me (if I have the brains, and not a penny) from starting an enterprise that will eventually totally destroy the duPont Company. I can be stopped only by violence, by physical force. The duPont Company, desiring to stop me, has two possible methods: (1) You can hire and pay a gunman to kill me or kidnap me, and gangsters to destroy my property; you cannot do this successfully if the State performs its proper function of protecting human rights (my right to life, liberty, and ownership of property). (2) Or, you can bribe enough Congressmen to pass an Act of Congress setting up a commission and requiring that anyone engaging in any enterprise in the field of duPont Company’s activities must first obtain a permit from the commission and thereafter be ‘regulated’ by the members of the commission.
 * p. 2 (letter March 22, 1946)
 * Freedom of enterprise CANNOT ‘produce a society in which there is great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few and considerable poverty among the many.’ Dr. Blake might as well ask, ‘What is our political and Christian duty when water runs uphill, when the earth turns from east to west, when air is heavier than lead?’ Doesn’t he know any facts at all? Does he never LOOK at his country? How can he avoid seeing, if he ever glances at any city, town, highway, or farm, that the salient characteristic of this country is distribution, not concentration, of wealth? Doesn’t he know that even ownership of capital wealth is not concentrated?—that, for example, some 600,000 ‘among the many’ own General Electric? What free enterprise produces most unexpectedly, is a society in which great economic responsibility is concentrated and great wealth is distributed among the many.
 * p. 81 (letter June 11, 1952)
 * It is obvious that by robbing others, he robs himself, because obviously, if ALL human beings tried to live by not producing but stealing goods from others, none could survive beyond a limited time. So anyone’s using his life-time-energy in stealing, instead of in producing goods, reduces by so much the amount of wealth that potentially could be produced, and progressively diminishes in time the amount that he can get, even by stealing.
 * p. 90 (letter October 3, 1953)
 * Chattel slavery really was an interesting illustration of this fact. The slavery-owners were in process of destroying their own economy by maintaining slavery. That’s why they could not win a military victory over the northerners. ‘Natural resources’ were more abundant in the south than in the north, but wealth was progressively less in comparison because slavery inhibited the use of human energy in the south. So the southerner was hampering the use of his own liberty by suppressing the slave’s use of his. The increasingly indebted slave-owner on his increasingly mortgaged property was unable to do much that he wanted to do, and the reason for his diminishing area of freedom was his denial of freedom to his slaves.
 * p. 90 (letter October 3, 1953)
 * More and more southerners were seeing this fact and trying to get rid of their slaves; there were all kinds of plans for doing this. So many simply freed their slaves that most, if not all, southern legislatures passed Acts forbidding this—Acts intended to compel slave-owners to continue to bear their responsibility for their slave-property, and to prevent an increase of the numbers of untrained, uncontrolled, unfed and unsheltered person at large in those states. To evade these laws slave-owners moved temporarily into ‘free’ territory, freed their salves there, and returned. So laws were passed forbidding this. And laws forbidding such freed slaves to return to the slave States, on penalty arrest, punishment and sale.
 * pp. 90-91 (letter October 3, 1953)

 * American farmers fought the ‘protective tariff’ from 1800 to 1896 … Even as late as 1933, when Garet Garrett and I drove all over the Midwest, the farmers in general were not wanting AAA or any other federal interference. In Kansas I met a rabble‐rousing New Dealer from Washington who took me to a farmers’ meeting where he spoke with real conviction and eloquence. The audience listened absolutely noncommittal, until he worked up to an incandescent peroration: ‘We went down there to Washington and got you all a Ford. Now we’re going to get you a Cadillac!’ The temperature suddenly fell below freezing; the silent antagonism was colder than zero. That ended the speech; the whole audience rose and went out. The orator later said to me, ‘Those damned numbskulls! The only thing to use on them is a club!’
 * p. 168 (letter July 13, 1963)
 * [I]n a hotel lobby in Branson, Missouri, I met a young man almost in tears, totally woebegone and despairing. He had spent seventy days in Stone County, working day and night, he said, house to house, up hill and down, over those horrible roads; he’d gone to every house, he’d used every persuasion he could think of, talked himself hoarse, and he had not got even ONE man to take a $2,500 loan from the government; and those wretched people needed everything; why, their children were barefoot, some of them lived in log cabins—could I believe it? They NEEDED to be rehabilitated; I had no idea what rural slums they lived in; and here he offered them a loan from the Government—amortized, 25 years to pay it, more time if they wanted it; he offered them horses, and tools, even a car, anything almost and they just wouldn’t take it. They didn’t talk or act like such fools either. He couldn’t understand it. He HAD to get some of them to take Government help or he’d lose his job.
 * pp. 168-169 (letter Jan. 30, 1957)
 * In southern Illinois there was a Terror. The Government men went into that country and took no nonsense; they condemned the land—every farm; offered the owners $7 an acre, or nothing. This was a model project, tearing down houses, building new roads, surveying a Community Center all blueprinted. The people were frantic and furious; they hired lawyers, who told them they could do nothing; they tried to get the facts printed; no newspaper dared do it.
 * p. 169 (letter July 13, 1963)
 * The county was listed as a rural slum, the land as eroded. When I asked to be shown erosion, the answer was, it is ’sheet erosion’ That is, the constant effect of rainfall on all earth. There was not an eroded ditch in the county. Every farm was well cared for, every house in repair, painted, cared for—simple frame houses, a few without electricity or plumbing, but many with both.… None of them wanted to be rehabilitated. None of them would speak to Garet or to me until we proved that we did not come from the Government. Garet was dumbfounded when men surrounded the car and demanded that proof; luckily he had it, by chance. And these are the people who are said to be demanding subsidies! That was a story—Communist Terror in Illinois. (The manager of the project was a Party member.) No editor would print it, of course. The truth about this country never does get into print.
 * pp. 169-170 (letter July 13, 1963)

 * Various authorities have been trying to force a Social Security number on me. They telephone and tell me I MUST have one; since I have none, they are giving me one. I tell them I won’t have it. I get forms, my humble request to be entitled to Social Security benefits; with command, Sign here and return to—I put them in the wastebasket. I get orders to appear at such an hour, such a date, at such an office, with all records and receipts to show cause—I reply that it is not convenient for me to appear—etc., etc. I even get an order to appear and support with documents my claim for refund of the tax‐and‐fine that I paid; I return this, writing across it, I have made no such claim. The telephone rings, and I am informed that I am being given the necessary Social Security number; I say I have none and I shall NOT have one; I will have nothing to do with that Ponzi fraud because it is treason; it will wreck this country as it wrecked Germany; I won’t have it; you can’t make me.
 * pp. 203–204 (letter May 9, 1958)
 * Mr.  LeFevre and I have engaged in heated, though amiable, controversy, about his attitude to Government. When the students in his Basic course—the one I attended—asked him, what should we do? his reply was negative. He said: Do not depend on Government; do not ask Government for favors and subsidies and support. I think that a negative is not enough; I say that if they do not know the right action they are too apt to take a wrong one; I think that the thing to do is to resist any further extensions and encroachments and usurpations by the Federal Government, by every peaceful legal means while such means exist.…
 * p. 213 (letter October 30, 1958)
 * I do not think that any honesty is involved in paying taxes. Taxation is plain armed robbery; tax‐collectors are armed robbers. I will save my property from them in any way that I think I can get away with. If you wake in the night with a flashlight shining in your face and a masked man with a gun ordering you to tell him where your money is, do you feel that you’re morally obliged to tell him the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I think you might. I don’t. I will try to get out of that predicament with as little loss as possible. In regard to taxes, this means taking advantage of every legality that any attorney can find in the tax ‘laws’ so called, and regulations. I have no scruples about this whatever, anything that I want to do with my money, and that I can in any way slip under any legality so that the robbers won’t find it and rob me of some of it, I do. They make the legalities, trying to be smart about who gets how much of my property; and to keep as much as possible of my own, I’ll outsmart them if I can.
 * p. 263 (letter February 1, 1961)
 * My attachment to these United States is wholly, entirely, absolutely The Revolution, the real world Revolution, which men began here and which has—so to speak—a foothold on earth here. If reactionaries succeed in destroying the revolutionary structure of social and political human life here, I care no more about this continent than about any other. If I lived long enough I would find and join the revival of the Revolution wherever it might be, in Africa or Asia or Europe, the Arctic or Antarctic. And let this country go with all the other regimes that collectivism has wrecked and eliminated since history began. So much for patriotism, mine.
 * pp. 267-268 (letter, Feb. 14, 1961)

 * As to anarchy, you can find me with Woodrow Wilson (that lying treacherous scoundrel who began this World War: truly a ‘Platonic ‘idealist,’ he was) who said words to the effect that increase of freedom is decrease of Government. The difference between W.W. and me is that I mean what I say. I am not wildeyed and whiskered and I do not contemplate throwing a home-made bomb at Mr. Kennedy but I am FOR any and every way of diminishing the size, the activity, the extent of Government per se, and all respect for Government, to the eventual end of eliminating Government totally. Anarchy is absence of earthly Authority over human beings, by definition and etymology; so I am an anarchist.
 * p. 268 (letter (letter February 14, 1961)

 * I am FOR any and every way of diminishing the size, the activity, the extent of Government per se, and all respect for Government, to the eventual end of eliminating Government totally. Anarchy is absence of earthly Authority over human beings, by definition and etymology; so I am an anarchist.
 * p. 268 (letter, Feb. 14, 1961)

 * I am ‘law‐abiding’ purely for expediency, for self‐defense, in the main against my conscientious principles, so at bottom I am ashamed of not being a conscientious objector practicing Gandhi’s or  Thoreau’s civil disobedience. I did refuse to be rationed; I do absolutely refuse to be Social‐Secured; but I should refuse to pay taxes and be in jail, only what would become of my little Maltese puppies? and my own little area of freedom? and my books and my friends and correspondents? I shall be reluctantly a martyr, only when backed into the last corner of the last resort. No heroine, alas.”
 * p. 269 (letter February 14, 1961)

 * Human minds always are logical; the fallacy always is in the premise, the basic unquestioned assumption, upon which the process of reasoning is based. So in logical return for The Government’s benefits, we are supposed to ‘owe a duty’ to It. The custom of taxation is a remnant of the Incarnate God’s ownership of ‘his people.’ Why do you owe money to Mr. Kennedy? If you need to guard your property, you hire and pay guards, nightwatchmen; if you are a banker you buy and pay for armored cars and hire guards to transport the bank’s gold; if you manage an insurance company you hire and pay detectives to investigate claims against your company. If a foreign power attacks your country, you defend it; you man the tanks, fly the bombers, fire the guns. Is there a need, in reason, to compel persons—by force—to defend their property and themselves? Is there a reason why ‘people cannot do for themselves’ in a free market, everything that The Government is supposed to be doing for them?
 * p. 332 (letter July 13, 1963)
 * ‘The people’ have in fact done everything that is done; they built the houses and roads and railroads and telephones and planes, they organized world‐wide cooperative institutions—the oil companies, the banks—and the postal services, and the militia companies, and the schools—what didn’t ‘the people’ do? What happens is that, after they do it, The Government takes it. The Government takes the roads, the postal service, the systems of communication, the banks, the markets, the stock exchanges, the insurance companies, the schools, the militia, the building trades, the telegraph and telephones, the radios, after ‘the people’ have done all these things for themselves.
 * pp. 332-333 (letter July 13, 1963)

Dorothy Thompson & Rose Wilder Lane; Forty Years of Friendship (1991)
Edit., William Holtz, University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1991
 * I do not see how a British switch from alliance with Stalin to alliance with Hitler can be any tragic defeat for ‘democracy.’ It is a smashing blow to a communist state and to communists as a party and as an international conspiracy—a blow to conspiracy because it will create further dissension in it. But if this alliance is a triumph for Fascism, then the British alliance with the Czar was a triumph for Czarism, and the one with Stalin was a triumph for communism.
 * p. 146 (letter to Dorothy Thompson (Oct. 15, 1938)
 * The existence of totalitarian states even as ruthlessly implemented as Hitler’s and Stalin’s, cannot destroy personal freedom on earth, for when that ideal came into history only a couple of centuries ago, there wasn’t anything else. The technical development that surged up out of free (released from government control) enterprise make totalitarian states look much more horribly terrific now; but actually, in relation to their time, they are no more totalitarian, no more ruthless and barbarous and bloody, than the France of the Louis’, or than Spain now, or than Pre-Victorian England.
 * p. 148 (letter to Dorothy Thompson (Oct. 15, 1938)

 * I would question whether, in the dynamics of capitalism, it is true (as Jefferson believed) that it is the distribution of ownership that matters… The man who owned no land was then actually dispossessed. He literally had no right to stand upon the earth. I think myself that the defense of personal freedom depends upon the institution of private property: i.e., the right of every individual to own an actual piece of ground upon which to stand.
 * p. 170, letter to Dorothy Thompson (May 20, 1943)
 * In 1800, a prosperous year, the total income of Americans (called ‘the national income’) was something over 2 billion dollars, a fabulous amount then. Capitalists and landlords got 68%, farmers and laborers 32%. In 1930, of tragic memory, near the bottom of ‘the worst depression in history’, the incomes of all Americans amounted to roughly to 75 billion. Of this wage earners (who had increased in number 17%) got 64%+; entrepreneurs, 20%; capitalists and landlords the remaining 16%.
 * p. 170, letter to Dorothy Thompson, (May 20, 1943)
 * ‘Public ownership’ is of course a fantasy. ‘The People,’ ‘The Public,’ do not exist and therefore can’t own anything. ‘Public ownership’ is actually destruction of ownership. Where everyone ostensibly ‘owns’ something, nobody owns it. Who owns a ‘public’ park? or a post office? Complete and absolute ‘public ownership’ is communism, in which nobody owns anything and all persons are inevitably slaves, either willingly obeying or compelled to obey an authority residing outside their own wills. The essential to individual liberty (or more accurately, to the exercise of the individual’s natural self-control and responsibility) is an established legal right to individual ownership of property. Every attack upon ‘private property’ is an attack upon human rights.
 * p. 172 (letter to Dorothy Thompson (May 20, 1943)
 * So far as is discernible to me, capitalism has no alter-ego, strictly speaking. In theory, capitalism is the economics of a society of free individuals. It rests upon the nature of man; this natural being, that each person is a source of human energy, a dynamo creating life energy, and self-controlling in action… I do not see how there can be an ‘alter-ego’ to this basic reality. One might as well say that there is an alter-ego to the fact that the earth is not flat.
 * p. 173
 * Samuel Grafton asked on the radio some weeks ago, for a listeners’ vote on the question; do you want the benefits of Social Security extended to those now excluded from them? Of course, I knew what the announced results would be, but just for shucks… I sent him a postcard saying ‘no’. I signed it Mrs. C. G. Lane (my name) for obvious reasons. Last Saturday, I’m peacefully digging dandelions out of my lawn with a paring knife, when the State Police arrive, in full uniform, complete with gun, and stern and overpowering as hell. The FBI, if you please, is investigating the subversive activities of Mrs. C. G. Lane. It is true that I sent this postcard? (Copy held accusingly before my eyes.) Is it true that I oppose Social Security? What (in effect) do I mean by it? My sense of proportion completely failed; I rose up in fury, and it’s really too bad that only the dandelions heard me. The State Police, really very decent young fellows, tried to explain that they didn’t really mean anything by it, that I should give them credit for coming to me instead of going around collecting evidence against me from the neighbors, and that of course if I’m Rose Wilder Lane—all of which only made me madder, naturally.
 * p. 176, letter to Dorothy Thompson (May 20, 1943)
 * Can’t you see,… that the ‘ending up’ of the communist effort, and the fascist, and the nazi, are inevitable in the nature of things? Can’t you see that the New Deal is essentially the same effort as all these, and that its end is inevitably the same end?
 * p. 177
 * How thoroughly have you studied compulsory insurance in Germany? And why do you believe that it will work here otherwise than it worked there? I would really like to know. My own opinions haven’t ripened yet. So far, I am opposed to so-called ‘Social Security’ principally because I am opposed to tyranny; I think it is tyranny to take my money, money earned by my labor, and to spend it for me—in any way whatever—instead of allowing me to send it for myself. But so far as I have learned, and thought, about this use of tyranny in Germany since Bismarck established it, I’m inclined to believe that it can’t work otherwise than as disastrously as it worked there.
 * pp. 177-178, letter to Dorothy Thompson (May 20, 1943)
 * When a free person buys insurance from a private company, the company has a profit-motive in remaining solvent, and the government uses it police power properly to enforce the carrying-out of the terms of the contract freely entered into. But when government uses police power to compel a person to buy government insurance, there is no profit motive, and there is no third party existing, to enforce the terms of the contract. It seems to be a most precarious venture, at best.
 * p. 178, letter to Dorothy Thompson (May 20, 1943)
 * A ‘civilization’ is not an organism, it is not biological, it is not an entity at all. ‘Civilization does not exist; what exists is living individual persons, each one endowed by his Creator with life energy and with liberty, which is his own control of his own actions (kinetic life energy). There is no inevitability whatever in history. Certainly, a collectivist ‘system’ will break down, as socialized Rome did, as all ‘governments’ antique and ancient and modern have broken down, when a majority of living persons believed the socialist fallacy: that there is a Human whole of which persons compose the cellular mass.
 * pp. 193-194, letter to Dorothy Thompson (Nov. 18, 1969)
 * I am not a prophet. But I do not believe that anything like a majority of Americans are looking for security; I do not believe that the groups of young radicals in the colleges and all over this country are in a ‘flight’ from socialization. I think they are furiously rebelling against it and determined to abolish it. I believe that their revolt is founded solidly on reality, as the similar socialist revolt of our youth was not; and I believe that they will succeed in overturning the status quo (as the socialist did) and end this century as Americans ended the 18th, in a great surge of liberalism, this time world-wide. I mean genuine liberalism. Since the socialists have stolen that good word, true liberals flounder all over the place, calling themselves ‘ libertarians’ and even ‘conservatives,’ but the accurate word, individualists, seems to be gaining ground lately.
 * p. 194, letter to Dorothy Thompson (Nov. 18, 1969)

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City of Angels (film)

City of Angels is a 1998 film about an angel watching over Los Angeles who begins finding his job difficult as he falls in love with a beautiful heart surgeon. She becomes interested in him, and soon his not-quite-mortal state seems a barrier rather than a gift. A choice must be made between celestial duty and earthly love. It is a remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 German film Wings of Desire, which was set in Berlin.
 * Directed by Brad Silberling. Written by Dana Stevens, Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, and Richard Reitinger.

She didn't believe in angels until she fell in love with one. taglines

Maggie Rice

 * Something happened in that room. I got this jolt that... something bigger is out there. Something bigger than me, bigger than you. Does that sound crazy?
 * No dying yet, Mr. Messinger. Not until you give me Seth's phone number.
 * We fight for people’s lives, right? Do you ever wonder who it is we're fighting with?
 * [to Seth] When they ask me what I liked best, I'll tell them, it was you.
 * I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if there's no way we could ever be together.

Seth

 * Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
 * I would rather have had... one breath of her hair... one kiss of her mouth... one touch of her hand... than eternity without it. One.

Others

 * Nathaniel Messinger: [to Seth] I can't see you, but I know you're there.
 * Ann: Never date a guy who knows more about your vagina than you do.
 * Susan: What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?

Dialogue

 * Susan: Where are we going?
 * Seth: Home.
 * Susan: Can Mommy come?
 * Seth: No.
 * Susan: She won't understand.
 * Seth: She will someday.

 * Seth: Can I ask you something?
 * Susan: Yes?
 * Seth: What did you like best?
 * Susan: Pajamas.

 * Seth: The little girl asked if she could be an angel.
 * Cassiel: They all want wings.
 * Seth: I never know what to say.
 * Cassiel: Tell them the truth. Angels aren't human. We were never human.
 * Seth: What if I just make her a little pair of wings out of paper?

 * Maggie: Are you a visitor? Who are you visiting?
 * Seth: You.

 * Seth: Are you in despair?
 * Maggie: I lost a patient.
 * Seth: You did everything you could?
 * Maggie: I was holding his heart in my hand when he died.
 * Seth: Then he wasn't alone.
 * Maggie: Yes, he was.
 * Seth: People died.
 * Maggie: Not on my table.
 * Seth: People died when their bodies give out.
 * Maggie: It's my job to keep their bodies from giving out. Or what am I doing here?
 * Seth: It wasn't your fault, Maggie.
 * Maggie: I wanted him to live.
 * Seth: He is living. Just not the way you think.
 * Maggie: I don't believe in that.
 * Seth: Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

 * Seth: Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.
 * Maggie: It's weird to see you again.
 * Seth: Weird is nice.

 * [Maggie meets Seth at the library]
 * Maggie: Do you come here a lot?
 * Seth: I live here.
 * Maggie: What do you do?
 * Seth: Read.
 * Maggie: No, I mean, your work.
 * Seth: Oh, I am a messenger
 * Maggie: What kind of messenger? Like a bike messenger?
 * Seth: No, I am a messenger of God.

 * Maggie: Why do you wear the same clothes all the time? Why won't you give me your phone number? Are you married?
 * Seth: No.
 * Maggie: Are you homeless?
 * Seth: No.
 * Maggie: Are you a drummer?

 * Seth: You're a good doctor.
 * Maggie: How do you know?
 * Seth: I have a feeling.
 * Maggie: Yeah, well that's pretty flimsy evidence.
 * Seth: Close your eyes. Just for a second... what am I doing?
 * Maggie: You're... touching me.
 * Seth: How do you know?
 * Maggie: Because I feel it.
 * Seth: You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.

 * Seth: Why do people cry?
 * Maggie: What do you mean?
 * Seth: I mean... what happens physically?
 * Maggie: Well... umm... tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overreact and create tears.
 * Seth: Why? Why do they overreact?
 * Maggie: [pause] I don't know.
 * Seth: Maybe... maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. Your mind and your feelings become too powerful... and your body weeps.

 * Seth: Let's go.
 * Maggie: Where?
 * Seth: Anywhere.
 * Maggie: What'll we do?
 * Seth: Anything.

 * Nathaniel: Listen, kid: He gave these bozos the greatest gift in the universe - you think He didn't give it to us, too?
 * Seth: Which gift?
 * Nathaniel: Free will, brother. Free will.

 * Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
 * Maggie: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
 * Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
 * Maggie: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
 * Seth: It's perfect.

 * Maggie: Who- What are you?
 * Seth: I came to take Mr. Balford... and I saw you. I couldn't take my eyes off you. How you fought for him. And you looked right at me... like I was a man.
 * Maggie: "To take Mr. Balford"?
 * Seth: I was there. We are always there in every room.
 * Maggie: What are you talking about?
 * Seth: I was there in the stairwell... when you cried for your patient. And I touched you, remember?
 * Maggie: Why are you doing this?
 * Seth: Because I'm in love with you.

 * Nathaniel: Seth knows no fear, no pain, no hunger, he hears music in the sunrise. But he'd give it all up, he loves you that much.
 * Maggie: I don't understand.
 * Nathaniel: He can fall, he can give up eternity and become... one of us, human.
 * Maggie: How do you know so much?
 * Nathaniel: Because... I did it.
 * Nathaniel: Because... I did it.

 * Mack Truck driver: Where are you headed?
 * Seth: Tahoe!
 * Mack Truck driver: Reno.
 * Seth: Tahoe!
 * Mack Truck driver: I'm going to Reno!
 * Seth: I'm going to Tahoe!
 * Mack Truck driver: Well, hop in, we'll figure it out when we get there.

 * Maggie: What happened?
 * Seth: Free will.

 * Seth: Why did He do this?
 * Cassiel: I don't know.
 * Seth: Am I being punished?
 * Cassiel: You know better than that.

 (last lines)
 * Cassiel: If you knew what was going to happen, would you still have done it?
 * Seth: I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. Just one.

Taglines

 * She didn't believe in angels until she fell in love with one.
 * What if angels walked amoung us, and one of them fell in love with us?

Cast

 * Nicolas Cage - Seth
 * Meg Ryan - Dr. Maggie Rice
 * Andre Braugher - Cassiel
 * Dennis Franz - Nathaniel Messinger
 * Colm Feore - Jordan Ferris
 * Robin Bartlett - Anne
 * Joanna Merlin - Teresa Messinger
 * Sarah Dampf - Susan

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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 30, 2007

I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (7 September 1936 – 3 February 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly inspired and influenced many contemporary and later musicians.

Song lyrics

 * All songs written by Buddy Holly, except as noted.

Singles

 * Maybe baby I'll have you, Maybe baby you'll be true. Maybe baby I'll have you for me. (All for me) It's funny honey you don't care-a-are, You never listen to my prayer-a-yer, Maybe baby you will love me someday (someday).
 * Maybe Baby, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty (1957)

 * It's so easy to fall in love — it's so easy to fall in love. People tell me love is for fools, So here I go breaking all of the rules.
 * It's So Easy, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty (1958)

 * Sometimes we'll sigh — sometimes we'll cry And we'll know why just you and I know true love ways.
 * True Love Ways, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty (1958)

 * You recall a girl that's been in nearly every song? This is what I heard of course the story could be wrong. She's the one — I've been told Now she's wearing a band of gold. Peggy Sue got married not long ago.
 * Peggy Sue Got Married (1959)

 * Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back. I just can't seem to get you off my mind. Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back. You're the one I love and I think about you all the time.
 * Crying (1959)

The "Chirping" Crickets (1957)

 * All of my love — all of my kissin’ You don’t know what you’ve been a-missin’ Oh boy — when you’re with me — oh boy The world will see that you were meant for me
 * Oh Boy!, written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, and Norman Petty

 * I'm a-gonna tell you how it's gonna be, You're gonna give your love to me. I wanna love you night and day, You know my love a-not fade away. A-well, you know my love a-not fade away.
 * Not Fade Away, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty

 * That'll be the day — when you say goodbye. That'll be the day — when you make me cry. You say you're gonna leave — you know it's a lie, 'cause That'll be the day when I die.
 * That'll Be the Day, written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty

Buddy Holly (1958)

 * If you knew Peggy Sue — then you'd know why I feel blue Without Peggy — my Peggy Sue. Oh well, I love you gal — yes, I love you Peggy Sue. Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue — oh how my heart yearns for you. Oh Peggy — my Peggy Sue. Oh well, I love you gal — yes, I love you Peggy Sue.
 * Peggy Sue, written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty

 * Everyday — it's a gettin' closer, Goin' faster than a roller coaster. Love like yours will surely come my way A hey — a hey hey.
 * Everyday, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty

 * Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
 * Words of Love

 * Words of love you whisper soft and true Darling I love you.
 * Words Of Love

Quotes about Holly

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source

 * I just want to say that one time when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play … at a Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him. … And he LOOKED at me. And I just have some kind of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time when we were making this record in some kind of way.
 * Bob Dylan, acceptance speech for Best Album of the Year, 1998 Grammy Awards, Radio City Music Hall, New York City (25 February 1998); YouTube video from channel Videoarcheology (Retrieved on 2014-03-15)

 * A long long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people dance And maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver With every paper I'd deliver Bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one more step I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride But something touched me deep inside The Day the Music Died.
 * Don McLean, in American Pie, on American Pie (1971)

 * Conspiracy theorists might have it otherwise, but any mystery relating to Buddy Holly's death has nothing to do with the plane crash. Far more intriguing is why the six marvellous songs he wrote shortly before he was killed should be among the most angst–ridden in the entire canon of rock. … Whatever the reason, Holly's last compositions were a wonderful achievement. Heard as he recorded them, without the overdubs, his voice is crystal clear yet raw with emotion. Close your eyes and, 50 years later, Buddy Holly is singing directly to you from across the room.
 * Julian Lloyd Webber, in "Buddy Holly 50th anniversary: Unhappy Buddy" in The Telegraph (2 February 2009)

 * Buddy Holly and the Crickets had the most influence on the Beatles.
 * Ian Whitcomb, in

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Shaker Abssi

Abu Yusuf Shaker Yusuf Hasan al-Absi (1955–2008?; Arabic: شاكر العبسي, romanized: Šākir al-ʿAbsī) was a veteran Palestinian guerrilla and Fatah al-Islam's leader.

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 * To you who follow the American plan, we say that the Sunnis will be the spearhead in the fighting against the Jews, the Americans, and their supporters.
 * I have the right to target American and Israeli civilians anyplace in the world...doesn't America come here to kill our innocents and children. We have the right to attack them at their homes just like they attack us in our homes.
 * Sheik Shaker Al-'Absi, Leader of the Fath Al-Islam Organization in the Nahr Al-Bared Refugee Camp in Lebanon: The Sunnis Will Be the Spearhead of the Fight against the Jews, Americans, and Their Supporters May 2007
 * June 2007

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Talk:J. M. Barrie

I see that someone has been bolding the quotes -- or parts of quotes -- he personally considers the most important. --Michael K. Smith 05:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * He is an infernal scoundrel, but that is his only fault.
 * Said, without looking up from his plate, about the German Kaiser at a dinner during the First World War.

 * Tell me one thing, Shaw, have you eaten that or are you going to?
 * Asked of George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian, who had before him a plate consisting of some greens and a mixture of salad oils.

 * Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything for it.

 * Well, to tell you the truth, I'd much rather talk one thousand times to one girl, than to talk one time to a thousand girls.
 * Answer to a friend who asked him how he had found the experience of addressing an audience of one thousand girls at Smith College during his American visit.

 * It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
 * Said to author H.G. Wells.

 * I cannot resist ordering them. The words are so lovely to say.
 * Answer to a friend who asked why Barrie ordered Brussels sprouts every day.

 * God has given us memories that we may have roses in December.

 * Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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Ernst Chain

Sir Ernst Boris Chain (June 19, 1906 – August 12, 1979) was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.

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 * The future of medicine is safe in your hands.
 * Quoted in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, art. Chain, Ernst
 * To Ashoka Jahnavi-Prasad the doctor who attended him in his final days

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User talk:Xiutwel

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Hi
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User talk:Vynz

Sometimes, memories can be a painful gift so to forget is then such a blessing. But what if my memory of you is the only proof I have that love really does exist? will I just forget about you and be out of pain? or should I live to suffer, then die believing that once in my life I've felt true love?

Hi!
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