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Satoru Iwata

Satoru Iwata (December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was the fourth president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. His predecessor was Hiroshi Yamauchi. Iwata had been in his position from 2002 until his death in 2015.

Quotes

 * Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

 * Our competitors are always saying that Nintendo is just for children. To counter that, what we really need to do is explain to customers and potential customers [that we do not just make games for kids].

 * Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.

 * Of course, we are applying advances in technology. But when you use those advances just to boost the processing power, the trade-off is that you increase power consumption, make the machine more expensive and make developing games more expensive. When I look at the balance of that trade-off -- what you gain and what you lose -- I don't think it's good. Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter and faster to start. And we're making a brand-new user interface. I think that way of thinking is the biggest difference.

 * Talking about the definition of the niche, or niche market, I really have the completely opposite opinion. The people the other companies are targeting are very limited to those who are high-tech oriented, and core game players. They cannot expand beyond that population. We are trying to capture the widest possible audience all around the world. In other words, we are trying to capture the people who are even beyond the gaming population. So for that kind of company, we don't think the term 'niche' is appropriate.
 * In response to Bill Gates' labeling Nintendo as a "niche player" in the seventh generation console wars
 * In response to Bill Gates' labeling Nintendo as a "niche player" in the seventh generation console wars

 * I've never once been embarrassed that children have supported Nintendo. I'm proud of it. That's because children judge products based on instinct. Everyone wants to appeal to people's instincts, but it's not easy. That doesn't mean we're making products just for children. We believe that there's interactive entertainment that people in their 60s, 70s and 80s can enjoy, so we're doing various things.

 * Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services and titles that can appeal, not only to those who have never played games, but also to those who play them hard.
 * Japan's Nintendo wins exclusive deal for Capcom's Monster Hunter 3 title

 * On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
 * 2005 GDC Keynote

 * Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages. Even if we eat too many chips, or rice balls. Even if we have different tastes in games. Every one of us, here today, is identical, in the most important way. Each one of us has the heart of a gamer.
 * 2005 GDC Keynote

 * There is a vast amount of energy which disappears inside organisations, or is expended going in directions which don't end up leading anywhere. If all that energy is properly directed, it can add up to a huge amount of power that can be used to produce visible results. That's why I think that over the last three years, as the level of awareness shared by the staff has increased, each individual's understanding has also developed. I believe this has meant that the total amount of energy in the company has increased more than it would have by simply increasing the number of staff. That is to say, the overall potential within the company has become more fully realised.
 * Iwata's Ask: Special Edition Interview

 * I don't think it's reasonable to make someone pay for a game and then make them prepare a network connection and charge a monthly fee
 * Reuters interview

E³ 2005

 * And my name is Iwata. I'm about making games and I'm about playing games. Last night, I played Super Smash Bros. That's my game. I kicked some... you know what and I took his name. His name was Reggie. As Nintendo president, I'm also all about asking questions. So Reggie, I have a question for you: Who's your daddy?
 * Referring to Reggie Fils-Aime's opening comments at E³ 2004

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Salvador Allende

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean politician of the Socialist Party, and President of Chile from November 1970 up until his death during the 1973 coup.

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 * Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! [...] Everything that he did, he did at the service of the people. Our father Stalin is dead, but when remembering his example, our affection towards him will make our arms grow strong for the building of a great tomorrow, to assure a future in memory of his magnificent example.
 * Speech at the Baquedano Theater, Santiago, Chile (1953)

 * Now the question is, "Who is going to use whom?" Even accepting the form of the question, the answer is the proletariat. If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here. I am working for Socialism and through Socialism.
 * As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray

 * As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.… Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism.
 * As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray

 * We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees.
 * As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray

 * We start from different ideological positions. For you, to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man.
 * Quoted in "Allende Sees Chile Finding Her Own Way to Socialism" by Joseph Novitski, in The New York Times (4 October 1970)

 * I have been to Cuba many times. I have spoken many times with Fidel Castro and got to know Commander Ernesto Guevara well enough. I know Cuba's leaders and their struggle. It has been difficult to overcome the blockade. But the reality in Cuba is very different from that in Chile. Cuba came from a dictatorship, and I arrived at the presidency after being senator for 25 years.
 * Interview with Saul Landau (1971)

 * I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.
 * Interview with Saul Landau (1971)

Final address (1973)

 * The last radio broadcast of Allende (11 September 1973 at 9:10 am.) Spanish text with English translation · Audio mp3

 * Surely, this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the antennas of Radio Magallanes. My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. … the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I am not going to resign!

 * Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.

 * Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that.

They were committed. History will judge them. Surely, Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal instrument of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. '''I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to his country.'''
 * I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours — in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to act.

Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Keep in mind that, much sooner than later, great avenues will again be opened, through which will pass the free man, to construct a better society. '''Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!''' These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason.
 * The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either.

Misattributed

 * I am not the president of all the Chileans. I am not a hypocrite that says so.
 * Quoted by Chilean newspapers as a remark at a public rally (17 January 1971). Allende sent a public letter to El Mercurio newspaper to deny the quotation
 * Citied in Jonathan Haslam's "The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile"

Quotes about Allende

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source

 * I think Pinochet has been proven to be an evil dictator in the eyes of most people in the world, and most people see Allende as a dreamer and even as a visionary.
 * Marjorie Agosín Interview (2015)

 * Allende was proposing very deep reforms. He had a dream. He was a socialist, a Marxist, the first socialist Marxist president ever to be elected by a democratic free election. He wanted to institute these reforms within the bounds of Chile's constitution. We continued to enjoy all the civil rights we had before: freedom of the press, speech, education and religion. Within the constitutional framework, he tried to redistribute the land and that meant taking it from rich landowners who owned half the country. He also attempted to regain control of Chile's copper mines from the North Americans, and do many other things that were very important to our economy and for our dignity as a country. It was a fascinating process and a beautiful dream. Before that, Chile had been a democracy, but without social justice. How can you have a social democracy if there is such great inequality that a few people have all the opportunities and all the wealth while the great majority does not?
 * Isabel Allende, Interviews with Latin American writers by Marie Lise Gazarian Gautier (1989)

 * I don't think he influenced my life much until he died, although I always had great admiration for him. When we had the military coup in Chile in 1973, it was not he, but the military coup that changed the lives of so many Chileans. It affected half the population dramatically. Salvador Allende was my father’s first cousin. I saw him on weekends, sometimes on vacations, but I did not live with him. After the military coup, I realized that he had a historical dimension. I only saw that after I left Chile. Following the coup, his name was banned throughout Chile. When I went to Venezuela, every time I said my name, people would ask immediately if I was related to Salvador Allende. He has become a legendary figure, a hero.
 * Isabel Allende Interview

 * Allende is seeking the totality of power, which means Communist tyranny disguised as the dictatorship of the proletariat.
 * Statement of the National Assembly of the Chilean Christian Democratic Party (15 May 1973)
 * Chile had long been polarized between conservatives and reformers. Socialists had the upper hand until World War II, after which liberal Christian Democrats dominated, following many socialist programmes. When conservatives and liberals split in 1970, Salvador Allende, a prominent and eloquent Marxist, won the election with 36 per cent of the vote. He pledged to rule democratically, but brought in ideologues whose policies caused crippling shortages and explosive inflation. Hostility between left and right paralyzed the government, while strikes and Allende's efforts to create a popular militia increased the fury of the opposition. The military had traditionally stood outside politics, but now seemed the country's only hope for stability. Urged on by politicians and the press, leaders of the navy and air force planned a coup. They called on General Pinochet to join them.
 * Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 188

 * We should remember that Chile was, in the '70s, beginning of the ’70s, the most democratic country in the Spanish-speaking world — Latin America and Spain and Portugal included. And this day, for the first time in history, of the Chilean history, the army revolted against the legitimate government. That was unexpected. And this army overthrew the government and changed the regime and established, in place of the parliamentarian democracy, a dictatorship, and through force, through massive arrests, through killings … the president was Salvador Allende, a Democrat for forty years in the public life of Chile, a convinced Democrat, that fought until his last moment of life for defending the law and defending the freedom of all the Chilean citizens.
 * Juan Garcés, the sole survivor among Allende’s political advisors who had been with him during the coup, in "Another 9/11 Anniversary: September 11, 1973, When US-Backed Pinochet Forces Took Power in Chile" at Democracy Now! (15 September 2010)

 * This past Saturday, there were memorials held across the United States to mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. But the 9/11 attacks were not the only September 11th remembered that day. In Chile, many people spent the day reflecting on another 9/11: September 11th, 1973, when a US-backed coup led by General Augusto Pinochet ousted the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. He died in the palace on that day.
 * Amy Goodman, in "Another 9/11 Anniversary: September 11, 1973, When US-Backed Pinochet Forces Took Power in Chile" at Democracy Now! (15 September 2010)

 * Except perhaps for Che Guevara, no one has quite been the heroic totem to the global left than the late Marxist president of Chile, whose death in 1973 made him a martyr to socialism. Allende seemingly legitimized socialism as a democratically elected leader, the first Marxist who in 1970 didn't shoot his way to power.That gave the left hope for more. Elected with just 36% of the vote in a split election, he believed he had a mandate to ram through a hard-core Marxist program of expropriation and indoctrination like that of his mentor, Cuba's Fidel Castro. In the process Allende left Chile's economy in ruins and trampled the rule of law so badly he brought his country to the brink of civil war. He was stopped only when the legislature charged him with 22 constitutional violations and ordered Chile's military to oust him.
 * Investors.com editorial board, The Left's Big Lie On Allende, 21 July 2011

 * I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.
 * Henry Kissinger, in a meeting of the US "40 Committee" overseeing covert actions (27 June 1970)

 * Of all of the leaders in the region, we considered Allende the most inimical to our interests. He was vocally pro-Castro and opposed to the United States. His internal policies were a threat to Chilean democratic liberties and human rights.
 * Henry Kissinger, in Years of Renewal (1999)

 * Since the 1950s, several democratically elected socialist governments have nationalized large parts of their extractive sectors and begun to redistribute to the poor and middle class the wealth that had previously hemorrhaged into foreign bank accounts, most notably Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and Salvador Allende in Chile. But those experiments were interrupted by foreign-sponsored coups d'état before reaching their potential.
 * Naomi Klein This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014)

During the first year, 47 industrial firms were nationalised, along with most of the banking system. Agrarian reform saw the expropriation and incorporation into communal property of six million acres of land formerly held by the large landowners. The inflationary process was slowed, full employment was attained and wages received a cash rise of 30 per cent. … Popular Unity, with a single legal act supported in Congress by all of the nation’s popular parties, recovered for the nation all copper deposits worked by the subsidiaries of the American companies Anaconda and Kennecott. Without indemnification: the government having calculated that the two companies had made a profit in excess of $800m over 15 years. The petite bourgeoisie and the middle class, the two great social forces that might have supported a military coup at that moment, were beginning to enjoy unforeseen advantages and not at the expense of the proletariat, as had always been the case, but, rather, at the expense of the financial oligarchy and foreign capital. The armed forces, as a social group, have the same origins and ambitions as the middle class, so they had no motive, not even an alibi, to back the tiny group of coup-minded officers. Aware of that reality, the Christian Democrats not only did not support the barracks plot at that time but resolutely opposed it, for they knew it was unpopular among their own rank and file. Their objective was something else again: to use any means possible to impair the good health of the government so as to win two-thirds of the seats in Congress in the March 1973 elections. With such a majority, they could vote for the constitutional removal of the president of the republic.
 * The Popular Unity victory did not bring on the social panic US intelligence had expected. On the contrary, the new government’s independence in international affairs and its decisiveness in economic matters immediately created an atmosphere of social celebration.
 * Gabriel García Márquez, in "Why Allende had to die", in New Statesman (March 1974)

That belated disillusionment must have been the force that impelled him to resist to the death, defending the flaming ruins of a house that was not his own, a sombre mansion that an Italian architect had built to be a mint and that ended up as a refuge for presidents without power. He resisted for six hours with a sub-machine gun that Castro had given him and was the first weapon that Allende had ever fired. … According to the story of a witness who asked me not to give his name, the president died in an exchange of shots with that gang. Then all the other officers, in a caste-bound ritual, fired on the body. Finally, a non-commissioned officer smashed in his face with the butt of his rifle. A photograph exists: Juan Enrique Lira, a photographer for the newspaper El Mercurio took it. He was the only one allowed to photograph the body. It was so disfigured that when they showed the body in its coffin to Señora Hortensia Allende, his wife, they would not let her uncover the face.
 * In that final battle, with the country at the mercy of uncontrolled and unforeseen forces of subversion, Allende was still bound by legality. The most dramatic contradiction of his life was being at the same time the congenital foe of violence and a passionate revolutionary. He believed that he had resolved the contradiction with the hypothesis that conditions in Chile would permit a peaceful evolution toward socialism under bourgeois legality. Experience taught him too late that a system cannot be changed by a government without power.
 * Gabriel García Márquez, in "Why Allende had to die", in New Statesman (March 1974)

The drama took place in Chile, to the greater woe of the Chileans, but it will pass into history as something that has happened to us all, children of this age, and it will remain in our lives for ever.
 * His greatest virtue was following through but fate could grant him only that rare and tragic greatness of dying in armed defence of an anachronistic booby of bourgeois law, defending a Supreme Court of Justice that had repudiated him but would legitimise his murderers, defending a miserable Congress that had declared him illegitimate but which was to bend complacently before the will of the usurpers, defending the freedom of opposition parties that had sold their souls to fascism, defending the whole moth-eaten paraphernalia of a shitty system that he had proposed abolishing but without a shot being fired.
 * Gabriel García Márquez, in "Why Allende had to die", in New Statesman (March 1974)

 * The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism — a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.
 * Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America (July 2003)

 * I knew what none of them could possibly know, that the corporatocracy, its band of EHMs [economic hitmen), and the jackals waiting in the background would never allow the little guys to gain control. I only had to draw upon the examples of Arbenz and Mossadegh — and more recently, upon the 1973 CIA overthrow of Chile's democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.
 * John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Chapter 14, Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History  p. 77,  2004

 * In Chile, a CIA-supported coup helped put Gen. Augusto Pinochet in power from 1973 to 1990.
 * John Perkins in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man  2004,  p. 200

 * The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Public Accounts Control. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.
 * Augusto Pinochet, at a press conference in September 1973, after Allende's death, quoted in "Sunglasses optional: Essential props for declaring a coup" at BBC News (5 July 2013)

 * Twenty-nine years ago, in Chile, on the 11th of September 1973, General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in a CIA-backed coup. “Chile should not be allowed to go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible,” said Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Laureate, then the U.S. Secretary of State... Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Mexico and Colombia – they’ve all been the playground for covert – and overt – operations by the CIA. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been killed, tortured or have simply disappeared under the despotic regimes that were propped up in their countries...
 * Arundhati Roy, Come September Speech, Santa Fe, NM, (29 Sep 2002)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Rev Timms

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The result was: delete. — LrdChaos 23:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Rev Timms
This is a character from a TV show for which we don't have a page; ordinarily, I would just say it should be turned into a page for the show, but it seems like it's very hard to get quotes added to pages for children's shows (which this is), and a short quote like this one is hardly the basis for a good stub. —LrdChaos 02:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (seven votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos 23:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 02:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless more quotes are added. The page can be recreated if someone finds quotes afterwards. Who said "Time waits for no man" originally? - Koweja 04:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with above. By the way, Koweja, as for the originator of this line, I'm not sure, but I do know that The Rolling Stones had a song called Time Waits For No One. ~ UDScott 14:05, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I believe that the original quote being asked about here is "Time and tide wait for no man." - InvisibleSun 23:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 04:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Robert 12:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The sole quote isn't even original. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:22, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Category:Actress

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Category:Actress
This category is unnecessary, duplicating Category:Actors; it looks like the category was created with no meaningful content, which was blanked. There was one article in this category, which I've moved to the "Actors" category. —LrdChaos 13:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (seven vites to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos 23:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 13:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 14:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - Koweja 03:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 04:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Robert 12:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, following Wikipedia's practice of avoiding anachronistic gender divisions of occupations. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Category:Arts

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Category:Arts
This is an empty category, and the text for it says to see Category:Art, which does have articles present, so this category is unnecessary. —LrdChaos 13:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (seven votes to delete, no dissent). —LrdChaos 23:37, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 14:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - Koweja 03:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 04:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Robert 12:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Art" is one of those odd words that serves as both a countable noun and a mass noun (e.g., "the world or art" vs. "a patron of the arts"). Countable nouns are pluralized for theme titles; mass nouns are singular. I guess this is a case where the first and/or more populated category wins. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:30, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

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Envy (film)
An editor using this IP address added a request for "Envy" to the List of films. Without any qualification specified, this link incorrectly points to the existing article on the theme of envy, not a film. I have removed this misleading link, but I invite the editor to re-add it with an appropriate qualifier in the title (e.g., "Envy (1930 film)"). If the intended film is the 2004 film starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black, "Envy (film)" will suffice, as it matches the current Wikipedia article on this film. Thank you for your cooperation and your suggestion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Nobel's most famous invention was dynamite, a safer and easier means of harnessing the explosive power of nitroglycerin; it was patented in 1867 and was soon used worldwide for mining and infrastructure development.

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 * I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
 * As quoted in Nobel, Dynamite and Peace (1929) by Ragnar Sohlman and Henrik Schück, as translated by Brian Lunn and Beatrix Lunn, p. 249; also quoted by Lester B. Pearson in his address on accepting the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1957).

 * If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
 * As quoted in The 12 best Questions To Ask Customers (2001), by Jim Meisenheimer, p. 26.

 * My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
 * As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 114.

 * A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
 * Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
 * Contentment is the only real wealth
 * We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes.
 * The truthful man is usually a liar.
 * Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
 * It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
 * Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
 * The best excuse for the fallen ones is that Madame Justice herself is one of them.
 * Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.
 * Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
 * Lying is the greatest of all sins.
 * Home is where I work and I work everywhere.
 * Alfred Nobel, "Aphorisms by Alfred Nobel". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014.

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Jak and Daxter

 is a video game series created and developed by Naughty Dog.

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 * (when attacks) Yah!
 * (when gets hit) Ouch!
 * (when falls) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Daxter

 * (to Samos) Uh, we won't find any more of that Dark-gooey-Eco stuff in there, will we? Cuz I'd hate to fall in again and turn into you!
 * The sage yaps on about the Precursors who built this place all the time. (imitating Samos) "Where did they go, why did they build this crap?"
 * I like Precursor orbs and power cells as much as the next guy, but if you ask me, they musta been real losers.
 * Hmmm. Stay fuzzy, save the world... Choices. Oh alright fine! We'll save the world! But do it quickly before I change my mind!
 * "Oh Boy! Here we go again!

Death Monologues

 * I was right behind you, Jak! Really... I was.
 * Don't worry, I'll avenge you! Not...!
 * While you're down there, will you rub my feet?
 * Don't step into the light, Jak! DON'T STEP INTO THE LIGHT!!
 * Say "goodnight", Jak!
 * Hey, Jak! Can I, uh... have your insect collection?
 * I'll say something really teary at the funeral, like... "HOW AM I GONNA GET CHANGED BACK NOW?!!"
 * Step 1: Stay Alive. Step 2: THINK-ABOUT-NOT-DOING-SOMETHING-LIKE-THAT-AGAIN!
 * Heimlich! Stretcher! Yuck! Breath mint?
 * Well, uh... better you than me.
 * That looks like it hurt. Should I call for backup?

Samos the Green Sage

 * I have spent my life searching for the answers that my father and my father's fathers failed to find. Who were the Precursors? Why did they create the vast monoliths that litter our planet? How did they harness Eco, the life energy of the world? What was their purpose? And why did they vanish? I have asked the plants, but they do not remember. The plants have asked the rocks, but the rocks do not recall. Even the rocks do not recall. Every bone in my body tells me that the answers rest on the shoulders... of a young boy... oblivious to his destiny, uninterested in the search for truth, and rejecting of my guidance! And why would he want to listen to old Samos the sage, anyway? I'm only the master of Green Eco, one of the wisest men on the planet! So it seems the answers begin not with careful research or sensible thinking. Nay! As with many of fate's mysteries, it begins with but a small act... of disobedience.

Yellow Sage

 * Who woulda thought I'd live to see the day I had to be rescued by a boy and his muskrat? I'm gonna give Gol and Maia a little payback for these embarrassments! Then we'll see about cookin' up some muskrat stew. (Daxter gulps)

Conversations

 * Sculptor: Hey! Little furry dude! Oh, I thought you were my muse!
 * Daxter: Your what?
 * Sculptor: You haven't seen a muse before? It's a little glowin' squirrel about your size, full of spunk, and crazy as a lark!
 * Daxter: Oh, I get it! Like a sidekick. (points to Jak)

 * Red Sage: Heh heh heh heh...! You've finally come to rescue me! Do you know how long I've been in here? Heh heh heh...! What are your names?
 * Daxter: I'm Daxter. He's Jak. He's with me.

 * Blue Sage: Great balls of Precursor metal! That insidious contraption must not be allowed to wreak its terrible havoc! I shall try to actuate the shield door by eliciting a conduit of energy between myself, and the vast portal bellow!
 * Daxter: Yeah... you do that. We'll go get help. (aside) Weirdo.

 * Samos: (after arriving at the Blue Sage's Hut) "I don't think I'll ever get used to that teleporter tingling sensation. (He looks around the hut, which looks like it has had a struggle take place inside it) Hey! It looks like the Blue Sage threw a party."
 * Keira: Oh my, (She points out of the window past the telescope in the window) Rock Village is on fire!
 * Samos: (Gesturing and almost hitting Jak, who ducks, with his staff) One heck of a party!
 * Keira: (Gesturing wildly with her hands): No, no, I mean Rock Village is being bombarded with flaming boulders. (She looks through the telescope as Daxter repeatedly jumps up to try and see through the window) Oh, and it looks like the Blue Sage is working on a levitation machine to move them. Assuming it's operational, we're going to need Power Cells to fuel it. (She looks back to Jak) I guess you two are going to have to find some more.
 * Samos: We'd better take a look at his notes. Jak, go check on the villagers, then come back and give us an update... and take the furball with you.

 * Maia: We have been given a beauty beyond anything you could understand.
 * Daxter: Beauty? Have you two looked in a mirror lately?
 * Maia: Just wait until we open the silos, little one. You think short and fuzzy is bad...
 * Gol: And to think, you two traveled all the way here for my help! Fools! Enjoy your front-row seats to the re-creation of the world!

 * Samos: "It's about time you two decided to show up!
 * Daxter: "Nice to see you, too! Do they have you mopping the floors now?

 * Daxter: Look, old man! Are you gonna keep yappin' or are you gonna help me outta this mess?
 * Samos:"I'm gonna keep yappin', because in my personal opinion, the change is an improvement. (Daxter silently growls) And besides... I couldn't do it even if I wanted to.
 * Daxter: WHAT?!

 * Mayor: Oh, don't tell me you two have problems as well! First, I hear of monstrous sightings near the village, now this. See those gears, boys? See them, see how they're not moving? That means our village has no power! The Eco beam coming from the jungle temple has been interrupted.
 * Daxter: Did you pay the bill?

 * Birdwatcher: Oh my, what a horribly sick little bird!
 * Daxter: Huh! You don't look so good yourself, lady!
 * Birdwatcher: Oh, sorry! I thought you were a Spotted Orange-Bellied Rain Fray.

 * Samos: Hey! It looks like the Blue Sage threw a party!
 * Keira: Oh my! Rock Village is on fire!
 * Samos: One heck of a party!"

 * Willard: Ooh! Ooh! I got it this time! Here's a... Here's a...!
 * Gordy: A Power Cell!
 * Willard: Yeah... yeah... What he said.

 * Daxter: (on the Precursor Ring) Wooooow! What is it?
 * Keira: It's beautiful...!
 * Samos: By the Precursors...!

 * Boggy Billy: I own these here parts. Everything that doesn't sink into the mud that is!
 * Daxter: Judging by the smell, I'd wager your bathtub sank into the mud long ago!
 * Boggy Billy: What's a bathtub?

 * Keira: (on Power Cells) And they are all just waiting for some brave adventurer to find.
 * Daxter: Well we've got the brave adventurer at least.
 * Samos: Brave adventurer?! You 2 wouldn't be able to get out of the village without training!"

Daxter

 * Wait! Come back! After I fell down to... confuse the Lurkers I uh... argh!
 * What insect crawled up his butt?
 * Oh yeah! Let's see what's on the Tube tonight. (presses buttons to cycle through TV channels) Boring... boring... seen it... hated it... I was up for that part... (girls screaming) Whoa! Sorry ladies! I didn't know Krimzon Girls took showers!
 * I know Kung Fu?
 * Wow, that was pretty deep.
 * FREEEEEEEEDOM!
 * The Twitch comes with the Job

Conversations

 * Daxter: (Examining bug shop) Looks like the bugs won. Osmo: What was that? Daxter: Nothing!
 * Daxter: (Spots Tik on floor) What's this? Hey little fella. Are you lost? (picks up Tik) I'll get us off this rusty boat, don't worry your little... thorax or whatever it is. (stands) You know... I always wanted my very own sidekick! From now on I'll call you..! Tik: Tik! Tik! Daxter: Tik... I wonder if you're a boy or a girl. Let's see... so small it's hard to tell. Tik: Tik Tiiiik!! Daxter: Hey! Did you just raise your leg? Eww! Bad Tik! Bad! From now on only on the grass ok? Yuck...
 * Daxter: Someone call about a bug infestation? Erol: What? I've heard of no infestation. (points his gun at Daxter) Who called you? Daxter: Uh, your boy, you know! (makes it up as he goes along) Captain Xi-Ximon Rupert-tik-Jak-mos. Erol: Nice try. That call didn't happen. Captain Ruperttikjakmos is on leave this month. He couldn't have been the one!

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"La perfection est atteinte, non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer." Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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