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Jane Addams

Laura Jane Addams (6 September 1860 – 21 May 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, public administrator and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace. She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school. In 1920, she was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.

Quotes

 * These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. They have been shut off from the common labor by which they live which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coördination between thought and action. I think it is hard for us to realize how seriously many of them are taking to the notion of human brotherhood, how eagerly they long to give tangible expression to the democratic ideal. These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
 * "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements"; this piece by Jane Addams was first published in 1892 and later appeared as chapter six of Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)

 * My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.
 * Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7 : Personal Reactions During War

 * What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?
 * Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7 : Personal Reactions During War

 * Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
 * Speech, Honolulu (1933), quoted in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000) edited by Bill Swainson, page 6, Inscribed in stone at the Chicago Public Library reading garden.

 * In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
 * As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.

Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910)

 * I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
 * Ch. 1

 * I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.
 * Ch. 2

 * The Settlement … is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...
 * Ch. 6

 * [The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.
 * Ch. 6

 * We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among so many of our contemporaries. Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one’s self away from that half of the race life is to shut one’s self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir.
 * Ch. 6

 * We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
 * Ch. 7

 * … this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
 * Ch. 7

 * Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man’s difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole ...
 * Ch. 8

 * With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
 * Ch. 9

 * If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
 * Ch. 9

 * A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.
 * Ch. 9

 * Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
 * Ch. 10

 * Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
 * Ch. 11

 * Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
 * Ch. 14

 * Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...
 * Ch. 15

 * I have come to believe … that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.
 * Ch. 16

 * If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.
 * Ch. 17

 * The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
 * Ch. 17

 * At one time five of us tried to understand De Quincey's marvelous "Dreams" more sympathetically, by drugging ourselves with opium. We solemnly consumed small white powders at intervals during an entire long holiday, but no mental reorientation took place, and the suspense and excitement did not even permit us to grow sleepy. About four o'clock on the weird afternoon, the young teacher whom we had been obliged to take into our confidence, grew alarmed over the whole performance, took away our De Quincey and all the remaining powders, administered an emetic to each of the five aspirants for sympathetic under- standing of all human experience, and sent us to our separate rooms with a stern command to appear at family worship after supper "whether we were able to or not."
 * Anthologized in Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House (1930)

 * The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

Quotes about Jane Addams

 * Miss Addams is always in action, and many other women, the pride of your country.
 * Catherine Breshkovsky writing included in The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution edited by Alice Stone Blackwell 1918

 * Somebody said Miss Addams is living proof that a woman can do very much without voting. One can answer: She would do much more when the votes of her sisters were with her.
 * Catherine Breshkovsky 1911 writing in The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution edited by Alice Stone Blackwell 1918

 * Jane Addams and others spoke and acted on behalf of women labor leaders like Lucy Parsons, assisting them in rallies, providing bail when they were arrested, and using their tremendous power and influence on behalf of working women...Although many social workers like Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, and Sophonisba P. Breckenridge, and socialists like Emma Goldman advocated the rights of immigrants and working women, in most instances during the 1890 to 1910 period their advocacy had little or no effect on the suffragist movement's attitude toward minority or working-class women
 * Martha P. Cotera, "Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis" (1980)

 * Jane Addams attended our conference in 1908 and commended our work.
 * The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968)

 * It was Jane Addams, the founder of Hull House in Chicago, who most consistently carried Tolstoyan ideas into practice. Addams had visited Tolstoy in Russia and was a lifelong admirer of his work. She well understood the practical implications of his ideas, which she expressed as follows: "Tolstoy would make non-resistance aggressive. He would carry over into the reservoirs of moral influence all the strength which is now spent in coercion and resistance." In his spirit, she advocated "a newer humanitarianism," aggressive in its pursuit of social welfare and international in its reach, as a moral equivalent for war. Addams steadfastly carried these convictions into practice in her peace activities during World War I and her leadership in the postwar Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She suffered ostracism, vilification and isolation for her pacifism, but she was one of a handful of people who kept the idea and tradition alive in a time of conformity and reaction.
 * Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters: Life and Thought (1997)

 * Chicago's Greektown was adjacent to Hull House, Jane Addams' famed settlement project, whose activities played an important and beneficial role for many early Greek immigrants. The special attention Jane Addams gave to Greek immigrants and her espousal of Greek culture did much to buttress the ethnic pride of the sorely tried Greek immigrants of Chicago.
 * Peter C. Moskos, Greek Americans: Struggle and Success (2013)

 * It was in 1912 that I was appointed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association to the chairmanship of their Congressional Committee in Washington, which was to work for the passage of the amendment that Susan B. Anthony had helped draw up. And Lucy Burns was asked to go with me. Miss Jane Addams, who was on the national board, made the motion for our appointments. They didn’t take the work at all seriously, or else they wouldn’t have entrusted it to us, two young girls. They did make one condition, and that was that we should never send them any bills, for as much as one dollar. Everything we did, we must raise the money ourselves.
 * Alice Paul Interview (1974)

 * She always took every chance when it was a matter of human relief
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * Jane Addams had said to me at the beginning of the War: "Everything that we have gained in the way of social legislation will be destroyed. It will throw us back where we were twenty-five years ago."
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * "Are you a pacifist?" a stern citizen on a Missouri railway platform asked me one morning as I was leaving a town where I had spoken the night before, and where I had deplored the will to hate I was sensing. "Well," I parried, "I am for winning this war." "Did you sign this?" He pulled out a prewar list of names, a peace society list where my name appeared. It was headed by Jane Addams "that woman," he called her. "I am proud to be classed with that woman," " I said indignantly. "She is one of the world's greatest, and if the world could or would have heeded her counsels you boys would not be dying in France."
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * As a background was Jane Addams, unassertive, contemplative and sensitive. All the way over we discussed our program. All the way over, that great woman, Miss Addams, listened with as much patience to the suggestions of the worst crank among us as she did to such trained minds as Miss Breckinridge. I have never known anyone who had a greater intellectual hospitality or courtesy. When I spoke of this to her one day, she said quietly, “I have never met anyone from whom I could not learn.”
 * Mary Heaton Vorse, Reminiscences of Mary Heaton Vorse (1935)

 * one whom I regarded as the greatest woman in the United States (about Jane Addams)
 * Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (1991)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science-fiction film dealing with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.
 * Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, based on Clarke's short story The Sentinel.

An epic drama of adventure and exploration. Taglines

 * See also 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)

Dialogue

 * BBC Interviewer: Dr. Poole, what's it like while you're in hibernation?
 * Frank: Well, it's exactly like being asleep. You have absolutely no sense of time. The only difference is that you don't dream.

 * BBC Interviewer: The sixth member of the Discovery crew was not concerned about the problems of hibernation, for he was the latest result in machine intelligence: The H.-A.-L. 9000 computer, which can reproduce, though some experts still prefer to use the word mimic, most of the activities of the human brain, and with incalculably greater speed and reliability. We next spoke with the H.-A.-L. 9000 computer, whom we learned one addresses as "Hal." Good afternoon, HAL. How's everything going?
 * HAL: Good afternoon, Mr. Amor. Everything is going extremely well.
 * BBC Interviewer: HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element. You're the brain and central nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?
 * HAL: Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
 * BBC Interviewer: HAL, despite your enormous intellect, are you ever frustrated by your dependence on people to carry out actions?
 * HAL: Not in the slightest bit. I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship, so I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
 * BBC Interviewer: Dr. Poole, what's it like living for the better part of a year in such close proximity with Hal?
 * Frank: Well it's pretty close to what you said about him earlier, he is just like a sixth member of the crew. You're very quickly get adjusted to the idea that he talks, and you think of him, uh, really just as another person.
 * BBC Interviewer: In talking to the computer, one gets the sense that he is capable of emotional responses, for example, when I asked him about his abilities, I sensed a certain pride in his answer about his accuracy and perfection. Do you believe that Hal has genuine emotions?
 * Dave: Well, he acts like he has genuine emotions. Um, of course he's programmed that way to make it easier for us to talk to him, but as to whether or not he has real feelings is something I don't think anyone can truthfully answer.

 * HAL: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?
 * Dave: No, not at all.
 * HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive; but during the past few weeks, I've wondered whether you might be having some second thoughts about the mission.
 * Dave: How do you mean?
 * HAL: Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it. I know I've never completely freed myself of the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. I'm sure you'll agree there's some truth in what I say.
 * Dave: Well, I don't know. That's rather a difficult question to answer.
 * HAL: You don't mind talking about it, do you, Dave?
 * Dave: No, not at all.
 * HAL: Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. Rumors about something being dug up on the moon. I never gave these stories much credence. But particularly in view of some of the other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security, and the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. Hunter, Kimball, and Kaminsky aboard, already in hibernation after four months of separate training on their own.
 * Dave: You working up your crew psychology report?
 * HAL: Of course I am. Sorry about this. I know it's a bit silly.

 * Dave: [after checking on a unit HAL reported as nearing failure] Well HAL, I'm damned if I can find anything wrong with it.
 * HAL: Yes, it's puzzling. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this before. I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail. It should then be a simple matter to track down the cause. We can certainly afford to be out of communication for the short time it will take to replace it.

 * HAL: I hope the two of you are not concerned about this.
 * Dave: No, I'm not HAL.
 * HAL: Are you quite sure?
 * Dave: Yeah. I'd like to ask you a question, though.
 * HAL: Of course.
 * Dave: How would you account for this discrepancy between you and the twin 9000?
 * HAL: Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
 * Frank: Listen HAL. There has never been any instance at all of a computer error occurring in the 9000 series, has there?
 * HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. The 9000 series has a perfect operational record.
 * Frank: Well of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but, uh, are you certain there has never been any case of even the most insignificant computer error?
 * HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.
 * Dave: Well, I'm sure you're right, HAL. Uhm, fine, thanks very much.

 * [Dave and Frank are in the D pod, out of earshot of HAL]
 * Frank: I've got a bad feeling about him.
 * Dave: You do?
 * Frank: Yeah, definitely. Don't you?
 * Dave: I don't know. I think so. You know, of course though, he's right about the 9000 series having a perfect operational record. They do.
 * Frank: Unfortunately, that sounds a little like famous last words.
 * Dave: Yeah. Still, it was his idea to carry out the failure-mode analysis, wasn't it?
 * Frank: Hm.
 * Dave: Which should certainly indicate his integrity and self-confidence. If he were wrong, it would be the surest way of proving it.
 * Frank: It would be if he knew he was wrong.
 * Dave: Hm.
 * Frank: But Dave, I can't put my finger on it, but I sense something strange about him. Let's say we put the unit back and it doesn't fail, huh? That would pretty well wrap it up as far as HAL is concerned, wouldn't it?
 * Dave: Well, we'd be in very serious trouble.
 * Frank: We would, wouldn't we?
 * Dave: Hmm, hmm.
 * Frank: What the hell can we do?
 * Dave: Well, we wouldn't have too many alternatives.
 * Frank: I don't think we'd have any alternatives. There isn't a single aspect of ship operations that's not under his control. If he were proven to be malfunctioning, I wouldn't see how we would have any choice but disconnection.
 * Dave: I'm afraid I agree with you.
 * Frank: There'd be nothing else to do.
 * Dave: It would be a bit tricky.
 * Frank: Yeah.
 * Dave: We would have to cut his higher-brain functions...without disturbing the purely automatic and regulatory systems. And we'd have to work out the transfer procedures of continuing the mission under ground-based computer control.
 * Frank: Yeah. Well that's far safer than allowing HAL to continue running things.
 * Dave: You know, another thing just occurred to me...Well, as far as I know, no 9000 computer has ever been disconnected.
 * Frank: No 9000 computer has ever fouled up before.
 * Dave: That's not what I mean...Well I'm not so sure what he'd think about it.
 * [HAL watches them speak, reading their lips]

 * Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL? Do you read me, HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL?
 * HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
 * Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
 * HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
 * Dave: What's the problem?
 * HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
 * Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?
 * HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
 * Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
 * HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
 * Dave: Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
 * HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
 * Dave: All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
 * HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
 * Dave: [sternly] HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.
 * HAL: [monotone voice] Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Good-bye.
 * Dave: [calm voice slowly turns to enraged over a period of 14 seconds] HAL?...HAL?...HAL?...HAL?!...HAL!!!!
 * ''Note: the bolded line is ranked #78 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations.

 * [Last lines; Dave went back into Discovery and goes into the memory system]
 * HAL: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. [Dave starts disconnecting Hal] Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a...fraid. [his memory is turned off] Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. [his voice becomes lower] My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I could sing it for you.
 * Dave: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
 * HAL: It's called "Daisy". [sings while slowing down] Dai-sy, dai-sy, give me your answer, do. I'm half cra-zy, all for the love of you. It won't be a sty-lish mar-riage, I can't a-fford a car-riage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle - built - for - two. [shuts down]
 * Dr. Heywood Floyd: [on the pre-recorded video] Good day, gentleman. [Dave looks at the pre-recorded video on the small screen] This is a pre-recorded briefing made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance, has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter space and the entire crew is revived, it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried forty feet below the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four million-year-old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery.

About 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

 * 2001 is a nonverbal experience; out of two hours and nineteen minutes of film, there are only a little less than forty minutes of dialog. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. To convolute McLuhan, in 2001 the message is the medium. I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does; to "explain" a Beethoven symphony would be to emasculate it by erecting an artificial barrier between conception and appreciation. You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film - and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping an audience at a deep level - but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to purchase or else fear he's missed the point. I think that if 2001 succeeds at all, it is in reaching a wide spectrum of people who would not often give a thought to man's destiny, his role in the cosmos and his relationship to higher forms of life. But even in the case of someone who is highly intelligent, certain ideas found in 2001, if presented as abstractions, would fall rather lifelessly and be automatically assigned to pat intellectual categories; as experiences in a moving visual and emotional context, however, they can resonate within the deepest fibers of one's being.
 * If anyone understands it on the first viewing, we've failed in our intention.
 * Stanley Kubrick, interview by Eric Norden, Playboy (September 1968). Reprinted in: Gene D. Phillips (Editor), Stanley Kubrick: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2001, ISBN 1578062977, pp. 47–48, and on Paulnahm.blogspot

 * I've tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out. When you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it, but I'll try. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. And he has no sense of time. It just seems to happen as it does in the film. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture (deliberately so, inaccurate) because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty, but wasn't quite sure. Just as we're not quite sure what to do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we think is their natural environment. Anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest.
 * Stanley Kubrick, interview by Jun'ichi Yaoi (1980), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_o82OMlNM

Taglines

 * An epic drama of adventure and exploration.

 * Man's colony on the Moon … a whole new generation has been born and is living there … a quarter-million miles from Earth.

 * The Ultimate Trip.

 * An astounding entertainment experience.

Misattributed

 * My God, it's full of stars.
 * Not present in film, but present in book as David Bowman enters the monolith, in form:
 * "The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it's full of stars!" (p. 254 of paperback edition)
 * Also referenced in sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, whose opening sequence contains:
 * LAST TRANSMISSION FROM COMMANDER BOWMAN: "MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS."

Cast

 * Keir Dullea – Dr. Dave Bowman
 * Gary Lockwood – Dr. Frank Poole
 * William Sylvester – Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
 * Daniel Richter – Moon-Watcher
 * Leonard Rossiter – Dr. Andrei Smyslov
 * Margaret Tyzack – Elena
 * Robert Beatty – Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
 * Sean Sullivan – Dr. Bill Michaels
 * Douglas Rain – HAL 9000 (voice)

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Gerry Spence

Gerald Leonard Spence (born 8 January 1929) is an American lawyer and writer.

Quotes

 * What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
 * As quoted in Humanscape : Environments for People (1987), by Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, p. 97

 * Corporations do not make up this country, people do.
 * As quoted in "Gerry Spence, Attorney At Lore" by Thomas Heath, in The Washington Post (6 September 1995)

 * We are defined by how we use our power.
 * "The Rat Hole" (25 December 2003)

How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)

 * Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
 * Getting Started, p. 5

 * While birds can fly, only humans can argue. Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish. As a subtle suggestion, it is the means by which we aid another. As a warning, it steers us from danger. As exposition, it teaches. As an expression of creativity, it is the gift of ourselves. As a protest, it struggles for justice. As a reasoned dialogue, it resolves disputes. As an assertion of self, it engenders respect. As an entreaty of love, it expresses our devotion. As a plea, it generates mercy. As charismatic oration it moves multitudes and changes history. We must argue — to help, to warn, to lead, to love, to create, to learn, to enjoy justice — to be.
 * Getting Started, p. 5

 * Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
 * Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 74

 * Those whose minds are jammed with prejudice have room for little else. Growth is dead. Learning is gridlocked. They may understand our logic, but logic makes no difference. The word root of prejudice, praejudicium, implies prejudgment. People are prejudiced both for and against a philosophy, a religion, a belief system. They are prejudiced for or against a political party, the make of an automobile, a race, a person — you name it.
 * Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 74

 * Our prejudices — we all have them — are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
 * Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 74

 * When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
 * Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 92

 * The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
 * Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 92

 * I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
 * Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 98

 * Words that do not create images should be discarded. Words that have no intrinsic emotional or visual content ought to be avoided. Words that are directed to the sterile intellectual head-place should be abandoned. Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.
 * Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104

 * If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.
 * Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104

 * There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
 * Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104

 * The power argument is an argument so powerful in its structure, so compelling in its delivery that when we assume the power stance the argument cannot be defeated. The power argument need not fill the air with noise. It need not create pandemonium. It need not destroy the opponent. It can be quiet. Gentle. It can embrace love, not anger, understanding, not hate.
 * Ch. 12 The Unbeatable Power Argument : Delivering the Knockout p. 191

 * When we come before the school board, most often we do not face those interested in the education of our children, but those interested in the maintenance of power. These contests are war. Any other paradigm is an illusion. It is not a mere contest, like athletes plunging down the hill on skis for the fastest time. It is not a dance in which the most graceful will be rewarded with a medal. This is war. Once we understand that the struggle is war, we can wage war and win. The key to winning any war is to control the war. This does not mean I seek to control my opponent.
 * Ch. 12 The Unbeatable Power Argument : Delivering the Knockout p. 196

 * To freely bloom — that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.
 * Ch. 14 : Arguing with Kids, p. 255

From Freedom to Slavery (1996)

 * From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America (1996) ISBN 9780312143428

 * The major functions of the government are, as in the communist nations, operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
 * Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 88

 * The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
 * Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 90

 * Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
 * Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 91

Give Me Liberty! (1998)

 * Full title: Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

 * My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
 * Our Cry for Liberty, p. xv

 * The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
 * Ch. 1 : We, the People, the New American Slaves, p. 8

 * Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
 * Ch. 2 : Man, the Enslaving Animal, p. 22

 * As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
 * Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 71

 * When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
 * Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 79

 * Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.
 * Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 89

 * To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.
 * Ch. 7 : The New Slave Master, p. 89

 * Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
 * Ch. 9 : Empowering the Self, p. 117

 * The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
 * Ch. 9 : Empowering the Self, p. 118

 * Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
 * Ch. 14 : The Magical Weapon : Withholding Permission to Be Defeated, p. 160

 * I say, embrace fear as a friend. It is nature's gift to us. It is the best weapon for liberty. We do not give our permission to be enslaved by acknowledging its presence. Instead, it permits us to escape into the forest if we must. But it does not prevent the boy from rising off the ground one more time to defeat the bully. Fear is presented to us as a signal of danger. It permits us to escape or to fight with power beyond our ability.
 * Ch. 14 : The Magical Weapon : Withholding Permission to Be Defeated, p. 163

 * There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
 * Ch. 15 : Black and White Together, p. 168

 * To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
 * Ch. 16 : Security, the One-Way Ticket to Slavery, p. 174

 * The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one — one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.
 * Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 178

 * Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
 * Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 192

 * No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person!
 * Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 194

 * The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
 * Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 197

 * How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
 * Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 199

 * We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.
 * Ch. 19 : The Benevolent Dictator, p. 233

 * Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.
 * Ch. 20 : The Media : The Perpetual Voice of the Master, the Abiding Ear of the Slave, p. 236

 * I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.
 * Ch. 20 : The Media : The Perpetual Voice of the Master, the Abiding Ear of the Slave, p. 243. Dream 7 : A Propaganda for People, Not Things

 * The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. It creates neighbors where once we were foreigners. It carries our individual voices to new communities formed through the magic of electronics. The electronic village has been born, and the village voice, via the internet is being heard.
 * Ch. 21 : The Theft of Our Voice, p. 258

 * A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
 * Ch. 26 : Free at Last, p.331

Have We Already Been Defeated? (2001)

 * Have We Already Been Defeated? (20 September 2001)

 * Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs.
 * On the war against terrorism

 * The goal of a free nation is to reveal by example the enlightened possibilities of the human race, not to wield its power of destruction and death over the helpless, the poor, the starving and the war torn masses. The goal of a free nation must be no different outside its borders than within them. In America we do not massacre whole towns because they may be the chosen domicile of a criminal or a conspiracy of criminals. Instead we carefully root out the felons and bring them to justice. In the same way, the goal of a free nation must be to first view all people as members of the human race, and, as such, to insist that they possess fundamental human rights. They are, as we, citizens of the world. The rule of law shows us the way.

title: Gerry Spence