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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American film actress.

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 * I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
 * Cameron Diaz on fashion[]

 * I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.
 * Cameron Diaz after visiting Machu Picchu in Peru with a green bag which had a red star and the words "serve the people" printed in Chinese. BBC News

 * Fame does not define me. If you are looking for fame to define you, then you will never be happy and you’ll always be searching for happiness, and you will never find it in fame. Fulfillment comes from within you, by being authentic to yourself — not chasing fame.
 * Human the movie: Cameron's interview (New York Post)

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Talk:China

Under what circumstances did Napoleon make the China statement? Where is the source to this quote?

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 * India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
 * Hu Shih (Chinese ambassador to the US)

 * Seek for science. Even to China.
 * Muhammad

 * China is like a sleeping giant. And when she awakes, she shall astonish the world.
 * Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803

 * The Chinese have gained achievements in only 20 years which would take many other countries two centuries to accomplish.
 * James Wolfensohn

 * China and India have huge populations. There's no reason why they can't emerge as an economic and military superpower in 100 years.
 * Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney

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Extinction

In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

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 * The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
 * William Beebe, The Bird, 1906

 * It is noteworthy that human concern about human extinction takes a different form from human concern (where there is any) about the extinction of non-human species. Most humans who are concerned about the extinction of non-human species are not concerned about the individual animals whose lives are cut short in the passage to extinction, even though that is one of the best reasons to be concerned about extinction (at least in its killing form). The popular concern about animal extinction is usually concern for humans –- that we shall live in a world impoverished by the loss of one aspect of faunal diversity, that we shall no longer be able to behold or use that species of animal. In other words, none of the typical concerns about human extinction are applied to non-human species extinction.
 * David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, 2006, p. 197. ISBN 978-0199549269

 * We are now living in the era of the sixth extinction crisis in the history of the planet, the last one occurring 65 million years ago when a meteor struck the Gulf of Mexico and annihilated half of existing species including the dinosaurs. Unlike the last five, however, the sixth extinction crisis is caused by human activity.
 * Steven Best, The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century (2014), p. 160. ISBN 978-1349500864

 * This time it is we who are the meteor crashing into the earth, and we keep crashing and crashing and crashing, never allowing the planet to recover. We are a meteor storm that continuously, repetitively keeps slamming into the planet, precluding adaptation and blocking recovery. If we cannot learn how to live on this planet and harmonize our existence with other species and the biocommunity as a whole, then, frankly, we have no right to live at all. If we can only exploit, plunder, and destroy, then surely our demise is for the greater good. Whereas worms, pollinators, dung beetles, and countless other species are vital to a flourishing planet, Homo sapiens is the one species the earth could well do without.
 * Steven Best, The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century (2014), pp. 165-66. ISBN 978-1349500864

 * While certainly no cultures, peoples, and social systems have been as devastating to animals and the environment as modern capitalism, there was no Edenic time, no Golden Era, when humans lived in peace and harmony with one another, other species, and their natural surroundings. Problems like species extinction, resource depletion, desertification, and overall mindless destruction of life and ecosystems did not originate in European modernity but rather have deep roots in antiquity and prehistory.
 * Steven Best, "Failed Species: The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire". Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity. 9 (2). (2021).

 * The human species is driving itself full speed into an evolutionary dead-end. We are destroying the planet and everything we do murders animals and dismantles ecosystems. We have lost our moral compass. We think in terms of profit and power rather than ethics and compassion. We no longer have reverence for life or any sense of connection with the natural world. We see ourselves as conquerors of nature rather than citizens of a vast biocommunity. We are technologically sophisticated and morally stunted. We have no conception of the importance of nonhuman life forms in sustaining ecosystems and no sensitivity to the inherent value of species outside of our exploitative purposes. We fail to realize that what we do to animals and the earth, we do to ourselves. And all the while, we live in a fantasy land of entertainment and distractions whereby we focus more on the sex lives and surgical makeovers of movie stars than the most consequential changes unfolding in this planet in the last sixty-five million years.
 * Ibid.

 * We have since built museums to celebrate the past, and spent decades studying prehistoric lives. And if all this has taught us anything, it is this: no species lasts forever.
 * Kenneth Branagh, final episode of Walking with Beasts (2001)

 * EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
 * Ambrose Bierce, "Decalogue", The Devil's Dictionary (1906).

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 * Global biodiversity decline is best understood as growing numbers of people and their rapidly expanding economic support systems crowding out other species. Conservation biologists standardly list five main direct drivers of biodiversity loss: habitat loss, of species, pollution, invasive species, and climate change. The  found that in recent decades habitat loss was the leading cause of terrestrial, while overexploitation  was the most important cause of marine losses. All five direct drivers are important, on land and at sea, and all are made worse by larger and denser human populations.
 * Philip Cafaro, Pernilla Hansson, Frank Götmark,

 * Much less frequently mentioned are, however, the ultimate drivers of those immediate causes of biotic destruction, namely, human overpopulation and continued population growth, and overconsumption, especially by the rich. These drivers, all of which trace to the fiction that perpetual growth can occur on a finite planet, are themselves increasing rapidly.
 * Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo, "Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines." PNAS, 2017.

 * Life has now entered a sixth mass extinction. This is probably the most serious environmental problem, because the loss of a species is permanent, each of them playing a greater or lesser role in the living systems on which we all depend . The species extinctions that define the current crisis are, in turn, based on the massive disappearance of their component populations, mostly since the 1800s. The massive losses that we are experiencing are being caused, directly or indirectly, by the activities of Homo sapiens. They have almost all occurred since our ancestors developed agriculture, some 11,000 y ago. At that time, we numbered about 1 million people worldwide; now there are 7.7 billion of us, and our numbers are still rapidly growing. As our numbers have grown, humanity has come to pose an unprecedented threat to the vast majority of its living companions.
 * Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, and, "Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction". , 2020.

 * Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. We must remember that a great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.  At the same time it is probably true that when two husky representatives of Homo sapiens, with clubs, corner the last two birds of a species, no matter how far they have or have not evolved, both the phylogeny and the ontogeny of those birds are, to all intents and purposes, over.
 * Will Cuppy, How to Become Extinct, 1941

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 * Capitalism is not necessarily more immoral than previous social systems with regard to cruelty to humans and the gratuitous destruction of nature. As a mode of production and a social system, however, capitalism requires people to be destructive of the environment. Three destructive aspects of the capitalist system stand out when we view this system in relation to the extinction crisis: 1) capitalism tends to degrade the conditions of its own production; 2) it must expand ceaselessly in order to survive; 3) it generates a chaotic world system, which in turn intensifies the extinction crisis.
 * , Extinction: A Radical History, 2016, p. 41. ISBN 978-1944869014

 * It is clear that only a giant change in human culture can significantly limit the extinction crisis. Humanity must face the need to reduce birth rates further, especially among the overconsuming wealthy and middle classes. In addition, a reduction of wasteful consumption will be necessary, accompanied by a transition away from environmentally malign technological choices such as private automobiles, plastic everything, and treating billionaires to space tourism. Otherwise growthmania will win; the human enterprise will not undergo the needed shrinkage, but will continue to expand, destroying most of biodiversity and further wrecking the life-support systems of humanity until global civilization collapses
 * Rodolfo Dirzo, Gerardo Ceballos, and Paul R. Ehrlich,

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 * The Brontosaurus had a brain no bigger than a crisp. The Dodo had a stammer, and the Mammoth had a lisp. The Auk was just too awkward. Now they're none of them alive; Each one, like Man, had shown himself unfitted to survive. Their story points a moral; now it's we who wear the pants. The extinction of these species holds a lesson for us ants.
 * Michael Flanders, "Dead Ducks", from The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann, 1967

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 * Since 1970, overall numbers are down by 69%. Livestock and the human beings who farm them now account for 96% of all the mammals on Earth. The Sumatran tiger, the Bornean orangutan and the hellbender salamander are among the million animal and plant species judged perilously close to extinction.
 * The Guardian, The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore (4 December 2022)

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 * We are experiencing an accelerated obliteration of the planet’s life-forms — an estimated 8,760 species die off per year — because, simply put, there are too many people. Most of these extinctions are the direct result of the expanding need for energy, housing, food and other resources. The, , , , , , and  are all victims of human overpopulation. Population growth, as E. O. Wilson says, is "the monster on the land." Species are vanishing at a rate of a hundred to a thousand times faster than they did before the arrival of humans. If the current rate of extinction continues, Homo sapiens will be one of the few life-forms left on the planet, its members scrambling violently among themselves for water, food, fossil fuels and perhaps air until they too disappear. Humanity, Wilson says, is leaving the , the age of mammals, and entering the Eremozoic — the era of solitude. As long as the Earth is viewed as the personal property of the human race, a belief embraced by everyone from  Christians to Marxists to free-market economists, we are destined to soon inhabit a biological wasteland.
 * Chris Hedges, Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction", truthdig.com, March 9, 2009

 * The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the farmers, and gives us an important perspective on the Third Wave Extinction, which industrial activity is causing today. Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology. Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of. If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive. This is especially relevant to the large animals of the oceans. Unlike their terrestrial counterparts, the large sea animals suffered relatively little from the Cognitive and Agricultural Revolutions. But many of them are on the brink of extinction now as a result of industrial pollution and human overuse of oceanic resources. If things continue at the present pace, it is likely that whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins will follow the diprotodons, ground sloths and mammoths to oblivion. Among all the world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah’s Ark.
 * Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 4: "The Flood"

 * Nature cannot be destroyed. Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, but in so doing opened the way forward for mammals. Today, humankind is driving many [if not all] species into extinction and might even annihilate itself. But other organisms are doing quite well. Rats and cockroaches, for example, are in their heyday. These tenacious creatures would probably creep out from beneath the smoking rubble of a nuclear Armageddon, ready and able to spread their DNA. Perhaps 65 million years from now, intelligent rats will look back gratefully on the decimation wrought by humankind, just as we today can thank that dinosaur-busting asteroid.
 * Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 18: "A Permanent Revolution"

 * SEVENTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HOMO sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia it transformed itself into the master of the entire planet and the terror of the ecosystem. Today it stands on the verge of becoming a god, poised to acquire not only eternal youth, but also the divine abilities of creation and destruction. Unfortunately, the Sapiens regime on earth has so far produced little that we can be proud of. We have mastered our surroundings, increased food production, built cities, established empires and created far-flung trade networks. But did we decrease the amount of suffering in the world? Time and again, massive increases in human power did not necessarily improve the well-being of individual Sapiens, and usually caused immense misery to other animals. In the last few decades we have at last made some real progress as far as the human condition is concerned, with the reduction of famine, plague and war. Yet the situation of other animals is deteriorating more rapidly than ever before, and the improvement in the lot of humanity is too recent and fragile to be certain of. Moreover, despite the astonishing things that humans are capable of doing, we remain unsure of our goals and we seem to be as discontented as ever. We have advanced from canoes to galleys to steamships to space shuttles – but nobody knows where we’re going. We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding satisfaction. Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?
 * Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens (2011), Afterword: "The Animal that Became a God"

 * A few years ago, virtually no one was talking about this . . . everyone just assumed that the web of life would always be intact. Now the situation is so severe that the United Nations has set up a special task force to monitor it: the (IPBES). In 2019, it published its  – a groundbreaking assessment of the planet's living species, drawing on 15,000 studies from around the world and representing the consensus of hundreds of scientists. It found an accelerating rate of global, unprecedented in human history.
 * Jason Hickel, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, 2021, pp. 8-9

 * It's no wonder that we react so nonchalantly to the ever-mounting statistics about the crisis of mass extinction. We have a habit of taking this information with surprising calm. We don't weep. We don't get worked up. Why? Because we see humans as fundamentally separate from the rest of the living community. Those species are out there, in the environment. They aren't in here; they aren't part of us. It is not surprising that we behave this way. After all, this is the core principle of capitalism: that the world is not really alive, and it is certainly not our kin, but rather just stuff to be extracted and discarded – and that includes most of the human beings living here too. From its very first principles, capitalism has set itself at war against life itself.
 * Jason Hickel, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, 2021, p.80

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 * Humans have caused extinctions since leaving Africa 60,000+ years ago; in the last twelve millennia post-foraging societies have systematically increased their exploitation and control of the Earth. Humans groups rearrange the natural world in their own image, taking the homes and food of other species for their own.
 * David Johns, Eileen Crist, Bittu Sahgal, "Ending the Colonization of the Non-Human World." . 9 November 2022.

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 * Our leaders willfully ignore the wisdom and the models of every other species on the planet—except of course those that have gone extinct.
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer,

 * Beginnings, it’s said, are apt to be shadowy. So it is with this story, which starts with the emergence of a new species maybe two hundred thousand years ago. The species does not yet have a name—nothing does—but it has the capacity to name things. As with any young species, this one’s position is precarious. Its numbers are small, and its range restricted to a slice of eastern Africa. Slowly its population grows, but quite possibly then it contracts again—some would claim nearly fatally—to just a few thousand pairs. The members of the species are not particularly swift or strong or fertile. They are, however, singularly resourceful. Gradually they push into regions with different climates, different predators, and different prey. None of the usual constraints of habitat or geography seem to check them. They cross rivers, plateaus, mountain ranges. In coastal regions, they gather shellfish; farther inland, they hunt mammals. Everywhere they settle, they adapt and innovate. On reaching Europe, they encounter creatures very much like themselves, but stockier and probably brawnier, who have been living on the continent far longer. They interbreed with these creatures and then, by one means or another, kill them off. The end of this affair will turn out to be exemplary. As the species expands its range, it crosses paths with animals twice, ten, and even twenty times its size: huge cats, towering bears, turtles as big as elephants, sloths that stand fifteen feet tall. These species are more powerful and often fiercer. But they are slow to breed and are wiped out. Although a land animal, our species—ever inventive—crosses the sea. It reaches islands inhabited by evolution’s outliers: birds that lay footlong eggs, pig-sized hippos, giant skinks. Accustomed to isolation, these creatures are ill-equipped to deal with the newcomers or their fellow travelers (mostly rats). Many of them, too, succumb. The process continues, in fits and starts, for thousands of years, until the species, no longer so new, has spread to practically every corner of the globe. At this point, several things happen more or less at once to allow Homo sapiens, as it has come to call itself, to reproduce at an unprecedented rate. In a single century the population doubles; the doubles again, and then again. Vast forests are razed. Humans do this deliberately, in order to feed themselves. Less deliberately, they shift organisms from one continent to another, reassembling the biosphere.
 * , , 2014. ISBN 978-1250062185

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 * We are currently, in a systematic manner, exterminating all non-human living beings.
 * , executive secretary, quoted in Jason Hickel, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, 2021, p. 9

 * The most wretched of all current trends is of course the mass extinction of organisms, which has been escalating for decades and is still increasing in magnitude.
 * Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis, 2011, page 183.

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 * Having initiated a sixth mass extinction, carried out by access to energy, continued powering of modernity (via electricity, for instance) most likely means compounding ecological harm, piling up accelerating extinctions, under which conditions high-maintenance humans are unlikely to fare well. (More likely, electricity will stop before modernity manages to extinguish most species on the planet, giving humans a chance to try again without electricity/modernity.)
 * Thomas W. Murphy, "Outside the Fishbowl." Do the Math, April 30, 2024.

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 * Finding out that 1 million species face extinction without radical corrective changes in human behavior is akin to finding out you have a fatal disease. One day you have a thousand problems; the next, you have just one. Nothing in today’s headlines compares to the catastrophic potential posed by climate change and the decimating effects of careless consumerism around the globe.
 * Kathleen Parker, "Nothing in today's headlines compares to the coming catastrophe." The Washington Post, May 7, 2019.

 * In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the . In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were . But on this New Year's Day, the population is 8 billion. Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live.
 * Scott Pelley, "Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live", January 1, 2023.

 * Indeed, in the long run, extinctions of species are as inevitable as the deaths of individual animals, and it may be that the causes of extinctions are as varied as the causes of individual deaths. A wave of extinctions—a sudden diminution in the number of species—is analogous to a sudden big drop in the size of a human population, an event that deserves to be explained even though the individual people would inevitably have died sooner or later anyway. Catastrophes in human populations have many causes: war, famine, and pestilence are the possibilities that first spring to mind. There may be equally many causes for evolutionary catastrophes, as waves of extinctions could well be called. Another possibility, however, is that extinctions come in waves that are part of a recurring cycle. It would then be the cycle itself, rather than each individual wave in the cycle, that would need to be explained. If there is such a cycle, it presumably follows a cycle in the inorganic world, such as cyclic climactic changes.
 * E. C. Pielou, "After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America" (1991). University of Chicago Press. Trade paperback edition; ISBN 0-226-66812-6, pages 252-253

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 * Moreover, we have unleashed a mass extinction event, the sixth in roughly 540 million years, wherein many current life forms could be annihilated or at least committed to extinction by the end of this century.
 * et al, ": A Second Notice," , 2017.

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 * Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.
 * Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, 1982, ISBN 0-39452-559-0

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 * This did not happen yesterday because we suddenly became aware of the dangers of global warming. It began 50,000 years ago when a relatively hairless primate stumbled out of equatorial Africa and began wiping out the megafauna of the time. Wherever this creature (our ancestor) went, their arrival was followed by large die-outs of megafauna. Primitive hominids were well-organized, efficient, slaughter crews. As they advanced, the mammoth, sabre-toothed cats, cave bears, giant sloths, camels, horses, and wholly rhinos fell to their stone weapons and deliberately set fires. The extinction of all of these great mega-species is directly attributable to "primitive" human hunters. The hunting down of the mega-fauna was followed by the advent of agriculture and the domestication of selected animals. Domesticated cows, goats, sheep, and pigs grew in numbers and denuded large areas of grasslands. Irrigation systems began to toxify land. Then agriculture was followed by industrial activities, and finally, by the burning off of vast amounts of fossil fuels.
 * Paul Watson, The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth? There is a Biocentric Solution. Commentary by Paul Watson, Founder and President of

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Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento (23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), known as Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest player of all time.

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 * The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
 * A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
 * I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.
 * Quoted in Parton Keese, The measure of greatness (1980)

 * Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
 * Quoted in "SI Flashback: Soccer's greatest genius" Sports Illustrated, (1 June 1999)

 * When I was a professional footballer at Santos [where he played from 1956-74] there was a lot of time hanging around team hotels doing nothing. My way of passing the time was writing songs and strumming my guitar [...] I have written more than 500 songs. Sometimes I just write the lyrics. Sometimes the lyrics come with a melody. Even now, wherever I go I always have my little tape recorder - and tape everything that comes into my head. All my homes have guitars.
 * [On his unpublicized work as a songwriter.] I didn't want the public to make the comparison between Pele the composer and Pele the footballer. That would have been a huge injustice - in football my talent was a gift from God, music was just for fun.'
 * Alex Bellos "He sings, he scores" The Guardian (21 May 2022)

 * Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
 * Bobby Moore — he defended like a lord. Let me tell you about this man. When I played, I would face up to a defender, I would beat him with my eyes, send him the wrong way; I would look one way and then go the other. Defenders would just kick me in frustration. They would foul me because they couldn't stop me, or because I would confuse them with my movement. I would move my eyes, my legs or my body, but not always the ball. They would follow my move, but not Bobby, not ever. He would watch the ball, he would ignore my eyes and my movement and then, when he was ready and his balance was right, he would take the ball, always hard, always fair. He was a gentleman and an incredible footballer.
 * Interviewed by Lee Clayton, "Welcome into Pelé's World" in Daily Mail [England] (27 May 2006)

Quotes about Pelé

 * Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory [...] Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries.
 * Andy Warhol cited in Pelé's New York Times obituary (29 December 2022)
 * Warhol's original comment was "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes".

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Tarcisio Burgnich

Tarcisio Burgnich (born April 25, 1939, in Ruda, Italy– May 25, 2021) is a former Italian football defender.

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 * I told myself before the game, 'he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else' - but I was wrong.
 * Regarding Pelé, whom he was assigned to mark, in the 1970 World Cup Finals.

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Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune is a 1990 film about the defense by Alan Dershowitz and his team of Harvard Law students of wealthy socialite Claus von Bülow for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny.
 * Directed by Barbet Schroeder and written by Nicholas Kazan, based on the book by Alan Dershowitz.

Sunny von Bülow

 * [narrating] I never woke from this coma, and I never will. I am what doctors call "persistent vegetative" -- a vegetable. According to medical experts, I could stay like this for a very long time -- brain dead, body better than ever.

 * [narrating] Claus von Bülow was given a second trial, and acquitted on both counts. This is all you can know, all you can be told. When you get where I am, you will know the rest.

Alan Dershowitz

 * If the rules don't work, you change them.

 * One thing, Claus. Legally, this was an important victory. Morally -- you're on your own.

 * Claus, let me explain something to you: the less you tell me, the more options I have.

Raj

 * A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent. The kids could have framed a guilty man.

Dialogue

 * Alan Dershowitz: I'm not a hired gun. I've got to feel there's some moral or constitutional issue at stake.
 * Claus von Bülow: But I'm absolutely innocent, and my civil liberties have been egregiously violated!
 * Alan Dershowitz: I've got two black kids facing the electric chair for a crime they did not commit. THEY are innocent.
 * Claus von Bülow: Well, before you assume I'm guilty, won't you hear my story?
 * Alan Dershowitz: No. Never let defendants explain; puts most of them in an awkward position.
 * Claus von Bülow: How do you mean?
 * Alan Dershowitz: Lying.

 * Alan Dershowitz: You do have one thing in your favor: everybody hates you.
 * Claus von Bülow: Well, that's a start.

 * Alan Dershowitz: Reminds me of my Hitler dream. You know, Hitler calls up, he's alive... needs a lawyer. I say, "Sure, come on over." Then I have to decide: do I take the case, or do I kill him?
 * Elon Dershowitz: You? No question.
 * Alan Dershowitz: I would take the case...
 * Alan/Elon: Then kill him.

 * Alan Dershowitz: We've got two big problems here. The case against him is very strong but more importantly is the absolute certainty that Claus is guilty, finding grounds for reversal won't be enough here. Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court will have to go home to their wives and explain to them why they reversed. To do that we have to totally obliterate the States case so that they have no other reason to affirm. Total victory or we are dead in the water. Now, I assumed you've all had a chance to go over the transcripts and materials, first impressions?
 * [Minnie raises her hand]
 * Alan Dershowitz: Yeah, Minnie.
 * Minnie: I think this whole case stinks! I think von Bülow stinks! He's obviously guilty of something pretty despicable and if we free him we become his accessories, accomplices after the fact. I'm really shocked with your reputation for defending the poor and oppressed that you've taken this case. [Stands up] I won't have anything to do with it, and I hope my fellow students won't either.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Can I exercise my First Amendment right to free speech? If lawyers only defended innocent clients there would only be 12 defense attorneys and none of you would be able to find a job.
 * Minnie: Why help guilty people get off?
 * Alan Dershowitz: Oh you're sure he's guilty, 100% sure?
 * Minnie: He had a lawyer. He had a trial. He was convicted.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Are you sure he had a fair trial?
 * Minnie: Come on!
 * Alan Dershowitz: It's the basis of the whole legal system! Everyone gets a defense. So the system is there for the innocent person falsely accused. OK, say it's you OK? You decide you're gonna get a divorce, you're gonna divorce your husband. A week later you're accused of child abuse. [Minnie smiles in disbelief] Oh, no don't give me that people do it all the time. Suddenly you're alone it's a disaster. Everyone thinks that you are guilty. Even the mailman is looking at you a little funny. There's only one person who can help you. There's only one person who you can trust, your lawyer.
 * Minnie: Yeah, okay, so, someone's got to defend Claus. But why you, why us?
 * Alan Dershowitz: Look, you're my student, you, you have a choice. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do; that is your choice. The reason I take cases -- and here I'm unlike most other lawyers, who are not professors and therefore have to make a living -- I take cases because I get pissed off. And I am pissed off here. The family hired a private prosecutor: unacceptable! They conducted a private search! Now if we let them get away with that, rich people won't go to the cops any more. You know what they're going to do? They're going to get their own lawyers to collect evidence -- and then they are going to choose which evidence they feel like passing on to the DA. And the next victim isn't going to be rich, like von Bülow -- but it's going to be some poor schnook in Detroit who can't afford, or who can't find, a decent lawyer. I think it's a little more complicated than your simple moral superiority, hmm?

 * Raj: I agree von Bülow is guilty, but then, that's the fun -- that's the challenge.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Now THERE is a lawyer.

 * Claus von Bülow: Well, so much for the first coma. The second, of course, was much more theatrical.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game? This is life and death; your wife is lying in a coma. You, you don't even make a pretense of caring, do you?
 * Claus von Bülow: 'Course I care, Alan. It's just, I don't wear my heart on my sleeve.

 * Alan Dershowitz: This is the most dangerous case I have ever worked on.
 * Claus von Bülow: You find that exhilarating?
 * Alan Dershowitz: No, I do not. I am breaking every rule. 'Cause the best way to win is to proclaim your innocence, and I have never done that for anybody. And the problem I got is, I see who you are. You'd do anything to win.
 * Claus von Bülow: So would you.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Yeah, but you don't trust the legal system.
 * Claus von Bülow: You're saying I'd manufacture... witnesses? Affidavits?
 * Alan Dershowitz: No. But you would sacrifice me.
 * Claus von Bülow: Oh, please.
 * Alan Dershowitz: See, the more I believe that you are innocent, the more nervous I am. I go out on a limb for you, you're proven guilty, I look like an asshole. My reputation, my credibility, my career, destroyed.
 * Claus von Bülow: That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?
 *  Alan Dershowitz: Well, fuck you, fuck you, man... I'm glad we understand one another.

 * Alan Dershowitz: Why -- why do you think this case fascinates people? 'Cause, one time or other, every man is driven crazy by his wife, and in his secret heart, he wants to do exactly what Claus is accused of: kill her in some sly, silent way that can't be detected. Claus is a scapegoat: someone has to suffer for the sin that we all want to commit.
 * Team member: Alan... that's ridiculous.
 * Alan Dershowitz: It's ridiculous, you're right.

 * Alan Dershowitz: All right, my friend...
 * Claus von Bülow: "Friend"? I like that.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Nothing personal.

 * Alan Dershowitz: Our new evidence will clearly indicate...
 * Judge: Professor, you know there isn't a single case which allows you to introduce new evidence on appeal.
 * Alan Dershowitz: Well, there is one, your honor, and you wrote it. Derrick. In Derrick, in Derrick, you yourself said that a case based on circumstantial theory rather than fact only stands up if no other theory makes sense. The only way to show a better theory is to present it!

 * Alan Dershowitz: A priest? Well, a priest is the ideal witness: it's like getting the word of God
 * Claus von Bülow: I checked. God is unavailable.

 * Minnie: He says he doesn't have anything that'd help us.
 * Alan Dershowitz: You with me?
 * Sarah: Paydirt.
 * Raj: What's paydirt?
 * Alan Dershowitz: He's a lawyer. If he really didn't have anything, he'd give it to us. But there's something there, and he's going to fight like hell to hold onto it.

 * Claus von Bülow: I'm not afraid, Alan. Let the chips fall where they may.
 * Alan Dershowitz: That's what an innocent man would say.
 * Claus von Bülow: I know.

 * Claus von Bülow: [To the law team] What do you give a wife that has everything?
 * [silence]
 * Claus von Bülow: A shot of insulin.

 * Claus von Bülow: What do you call a fear of insulin?
 * [silence]
 * Claus von Bülow: Claus-traphobia.

 * Alan Dershowitz: You are a very strange man.
 * Claus von Bülow: You have no idea.

Cast

 * Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz
 * Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow
 * Glenn Close - Sunny von Bülow
 * Annabella Sciorra - Sarah
 * Felicity Huffman - MInnie
 * Mano Singh - Raj
 * Fisher Stevens - David Marriott
 * Jack Gilpin - Peter MacIntosh
 * Christine Baranski - Andrea Reynolds
 * Stephen Mailer - Elon Dershowitz
 * Johann Carlo - Nancy
 * Keith Reddin - Dobbs
 * Mitchell Whitfield - Curly
 * Tom Wright - Jack
 * Michael Lord - Ed
 * Lisa Gay Hamilton - Mary
 * Julie Hagerty - Alexandra Isles

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Amber Benson

Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress best known for playing Tara Maclay, Willow's love interest in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Quotes

 * It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
 * Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003

 * It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!
 * Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003

 * I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.
 * Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003

 * I don't think you ever die on Buffy.
 * Chat at BBC-CULT December 19, 2002

 * I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.
 * 10 Questions: Amber Benson Answers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Tara. by Ken P.

 * I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
 * Amber Benson at Toronto Trek, July 6, 2002

 * I really didn't want Tara to be bad, and that would have been a component of me coming back. As much as I wanted to come back—and I almost did—that was something that was dogging my not wanting to come back. I just felt like people really loved that character and for her to be bad would just destroy people. So that was one of the reasons I didn't go back.
 * Amber Benson: Staying away (On Buffy season 7 episode 7, "Conversations with Dead People")

Willow & Tara (2000-2002)
Written by Amber Benson & Christopher Golden

 * I saw them in the grocery store [...] sitting benignly in their spinning racks, their technicolor faces looked like a not very girl-friendly amalgam of muscles, testosterone and pulpy, bloody flesh.
 * Introduction

 * Willow: Tell me a story. Tara: Okay. Once upon a time, there was, um... a kitty. She was very little, and she was all alone, and nobody wanted her. Willow: This is a very upsetting story.
 * This Year's Girl [4.15]

 * Tara: Well, I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's depressing.
 * Family [5.6]

 * Willow: What did I have for breakfast this morning? Do you remember? Tara: Huh? Willow: I-I wanna say bagel, but I think that was yesterday. You had two eggs sunny side up. I remember because they were wiggling at me like little boobs. Tara: Sassy eggs.
 * Triangle [5.11]

 * Willow: Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagey slutbomb walking around going, "Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked cool, I'm five by five." Tara: "Five by five?" Five what by five what? Willow: See, that's the thing. No one knows.
 * Checkpoint [5.12]

 * Spike: I had a muscle cramp. Buffy was, uh, helping. Tara: A muscle cramp... in your pants? Spike: What? It's a thing.
 * I Was Made to Love You [5.15]

 * Tara: Sweetie, you wouldn't blow off a class if your head was on fire.
 * Forever [5.17]

 * Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers? Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.
 * Tough Love [5.19]

 * Willow: Questions. Great. Tara: W-we can answer questions. Nigel: Good. I need to know a little bit more about the Slayer, and about the both of you. Your relationship, whatever you can tell me. Tara: O-o-our relationship? Willow: We're friends. Tara: Good friends. Willow: Girlfriends, actually. Tara: Yes, we're girlfriends. Willow: We're in love. W-we're lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers. Nigel: I meant your relationship with the Slayer.
 * All the Way [6.6]

 * Willow: Hey, clothes. Tara: Better not get used to 'em.
 * Older and Far Away [6.14]

 * Tara: No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?
 * Seeing Red [6.19]

 * Willow: We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know, insane. Tara: I said "quirky."

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David Boreanaz

David Paul Boreanaz (born May 16, 1969) is an American actor. He was thrust into the limelight on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the mysterious Angel, a vampire with a soul, later starring in the Angel spinoff.

Quotes

 * It's definitely a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.
 * Q&A with David Boreanaz
 * Regarding Hollywood

 * I'm just portraying this guy.
 * SciFi channel interview, regarding Angel

 * I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
 * Interview with a vampire By Chuck Holliday

 * I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.
 * Interview with a vampire By Chuck Holliday

 * Early on, with any startup show, you're really building credibility and making it stand on its own.
 * TV Guide interview

 * The only way it would work for me is if it was a full-length feature film directed by Joss Whedon or Tim Minear or David Greenwalt.
 * TV Guide interview, on becoming Angel again.

 * Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.
 * BBC interview

 * I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to re-live.
 * BBC interview

 * I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.
 * BBC interview

 * It's just a television show, we have fun with it and try to make each other crack up.
 * BBC interview

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Nicholas Brendon

Nicholas Brendon (born Nicholas Brendon Schultz on April 12, 1971) is an actor best known for playing the character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Quotes

 * There are so many different phases of stuttering, and it always breaks my heart. I always wish I could say, 'When I'm done hugging you . . . your stuttering will be gone.'
 * Make-over artist: Nicholas Brendon goes for laughs in 'Celeste in the City', BostonHerald.com, March 12, 2004

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Anthony Stewart Head

Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is a British actor in theatre, television and films but most widely known for his role in the American television drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the role of Frank N Furter in the London revival of The Rocky Horror Show, and a series of coffee commercials (the Gold Blend/Taster's Choice couple) in Britain and the US.

Quotes

 * Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.
 * 60 seconds interview by Bel Jacobs, Metro (17 November 2003).
 * Responding to a suggestion that he picked up an American accent.

 * [T]he germ of every season comes from him
 * Anthony Stewart Head Reflects on Buffy
 * About Joss Whedon

 * [A]ctors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
 * Anthony Stewart Head Reflects on Buffy

 * And to get that much talent in the show—and to keep it constant and consistent—I think is a remarkable feat.
 * Anthony Stewart Head watches and wonders about the future of Buffy By Melissa J. Perenson

 * I suppose I would be a logical choice to play the Doctor just because Giles, my character in Buffy, has the same light and dark sides and quirkiness as Doctor Who.
 * Buffy man tops 'next Dr Who' poll

 * I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
 * Antony Head Talks To Scifind.co.uk

 * I had my trousers on at all times.
 * Anthony Stewart Head at Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003

 * I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
 * Anthony Stewart Head at Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.

 * I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped—as it is when you've been shot across the chest.
 * Anthony Stewart Head at Toronto Trek, July 12, 2003.

 * We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about.
 * Giles Ahead Time Out - London's Living Guide January 9-16 2002

 * It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.
 * Doctor Who Confidential Series 2, Episode 3, "Friends Reunited" (Doctor Who documentary series, 2005), referring to his character's minions being dissolved by acidic slime

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was a Jesuit priest and English poet whose posthumous, 20th-century fame established him among the finest Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially in regard to sprung rhythm) and his vibrant use of imagery established him as both an original and daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.

Quotes

 * On this day by God's grace I resolved to give up all beauty until I had His leave for it.
 * Journal entry (6 November 1865), as reported in In Extremity: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1978) by John Robinson, p. 1

 * What I do is me: for that I came.
 * "As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" (undated poem, c. March - April 1877) - Analysis and information regarding this poem at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society

 * I say more, the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces.
 * "As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" (undated poem, c. March - April 1877)

Letters, etc

 * It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
 * Diary (April 1864)

 * For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
 * Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (10 September 1864)

 * Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
 * Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (10 September 1864)

 * I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.
 * Letter to E.H. Coleridge (22 January 1866)

 * I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.
 * Letter to his father, Manley Hopkins (16 October 1866)

 * I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
 * Journal (19 July 1872)

 * All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.
 * Journal (24 February 1873)

 * Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
 * Letter to Coventry Patmore, published in The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges (1955), edited by C. C. Abbott, p. 263

 * No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music, and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive, and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (15 February 1879)

 * The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (14 August 1879)

 * Take breath and read it with the ears, as I always wish to be read, and my verse becomes all right.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (25 October 1879 )

 * Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
 * Sermon (23 November 1879)

 * For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ’s body in the heavenly light.
 * Sermon (23 November 1879)

 * Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
 * Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (22 May 1880)

 * I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.
 * Letter to Richard Watson Dixon (17 October 1881)

 * I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (18 October 1882)

 * By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (3 February 1883)

 * You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (24 October 1883)

 * It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (1 September 1885)

 * That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.
 * Letter to Coventry Patmore (4 June 1886)

 * A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.
 * Letter to Robert Bridges (13 October 1886)

 * It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.
 * "On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"

 * Beauty … is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
 * "On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

 * Online at Bartleby.com

 * I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
 * "Heaven-Haven", lines 1-8

 * Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
 * "The Habit of Perfection", lines 1-4

 * Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb: It is the shut, the curfew sent From there where all surrenders come Which only makes you eloquent.
 * "The Habit of Perfection", lines 5 - 8

 * Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World’s strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.
 * "The Wreck of the Deutschland", lines 1-8

 * Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on, Trenched with tears, carved with cares, Hope was twelve hours gone.
 * "The Wreck of the Deutschland", lines 115-118

 * Abel is Cain's brother and breasts they have sucked the same.
 * "The Wreck of the Deutschland", line 160

 * The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
 * "God's Grandeur", lines 1-4

 * Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
 * "God's Grandeur", lines 5-8

 * There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.
 * "God's Grandeur," line 10

 * Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
 * "The Starlight Night" (1877), lines 1-3

 * Nothing is so beautiful as Spring— When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
 * "Spring", stanza 1

 * I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy!
 * "The Windhover", lines 1-5

 * Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.
 * "Pied Beauty", lines 1-3

 * All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
 * "Pied Beauty", lines 7-11

 * Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
 * "Hurrahing in Harvest", lines 1-4

 * I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.
 * "Hurrahing in Harvest", lines 5-6

 * Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.
 * "In the Valley of the Elwy", lines 9-10

 * Ask of her, the mighty mother: Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?— Growth in everything.
 * "The May Magnificat", stanza 4

 * My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank.
 * "Binsey Poplars", lines 1-8

 * O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being so slender, That, like this sleek and seeing ball But a prick will make no eye at all, Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
 * "Binsey Poplars", stanza 2

 * When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
 * "Peace", lines 3-6

 * Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?
 * "Felix Randal", lines 1-4

 * Poor Felix Randal; How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years, When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!
 * "Felix Randal", lines 11-14

 * Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?
 * "Spring and Fall", lines 1-2

 * Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, not spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.
 * "Spring and Fall", lines 5-9

 * Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
 * "Spring and Fall", lines 12-15

 * What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
 * "Inversnaid,'' lines 13-16

 * How to keep—is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, … from vanishing away?
 * "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo'': The Leaden Echo, lines 1-2

 * Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
 * "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo'': The Golden Echo, line 19

 * Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-fixed Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing’s life.
 * "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 1-8

 * I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
 * "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 34-36

 * World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child.
 * "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 124-126

 * Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
 * "Carrion Comfort", lines 1-4

 * That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.
 * "Carrion Comfort", lines 13-14

 * No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
 * "No Worst, There Is None", lines 1-2

Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
 * O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
 * "No Worst, There Is None", lines 9 -15
 * I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent This night!
 * "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day", lines 1-3

 * I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse. Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
 * "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day", lines 9-14

 * Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.
 * "Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray", lines 6-7

 * My own heart let me have more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
 * "My own heart let me have more have pity on", lines 1-4

 * I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.
 * "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection", lines 22-24

 * Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?
 * "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend", lines 1-4

 * Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
 * "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend", line 14

 * The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim Now known and hand at work now never wrong. Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
 * "To R. B.", lines 7-10

 * The best ideal is the true And other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to The holy Three in One.
 * "Summa", lines 1-4

The Principle or Foundation

 * An address based on The Spiritual Exercises, written by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus.

 * He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.

 * Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, made for — things that give and mean to give God glory.

 * It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.

Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

 * When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

 * I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

 * Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

 * I consider my selfbeing … that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

 * For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Quotes about Gerard Manley Hopkins

 * There are basically three kinds of poetry: first, poetry which is divine (inspired); secondly, poetry which is crafted; and thirdly, poetry which is inherited. It reminds me of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He has a letter to a friend of his in which he speaks of writing and how there are three voices of the poet: the Olympian (inspired); the Parnassian (when you're really a good poet, you don't write bad poetry but sometimes you write so-so poetry), and finally, there's jargon.
 * 1978 interview in Conversations with Audre Lorde (2004)

 * The tension of Hopkins is nearer to activity: it is activity, muscular, violent, and formal.
 * Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry (1949)

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William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684 – 7 July, 1764) was an English politician, created Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II.

Quotes

 * The army causes taxes, the taxes cause discontents, & the discontents are alleged to make an army necessary. Thus you go in a circle.
 * Cited in John Brewer, The Sinews of Power 8-10 (1988)

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Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first prime minister of Great Britain.

Quotes

 * Anything but history, for history must be false.
 * To his son, who offered to read history to him. quoted in Walpoliana, 1799, Vol. 1, p. 60, No. 79, quoted in Carlyle's French Revolution, Pt. 1, book. 7, chapter 5, also quoted in Famous Sayings And their Authors, p. 7

 * The doctrine of unlimited passive obedience was first invented to support arbitrary power, but [was] of no use in her Majesty’s reign, where the law was the only measure of the regal power and people's obedience; and since it could be of no use or security to her Majesty there could be no other aim in it than to unhinge the government, and clear the way to the impostor's title. In fine, if the sin of resistance was damnable, there must a sincere repentance ensue to wash away the guilt, and this could not be done without restitution.
 * Speech at the trial of Dr Henry Sacheverell (28 February 1710)

 * I am at a loss to discover where they will find this divine right in our government, or at least where they do find it in the reign of the late King [William III], whose title to be rightful and lawful king they have all sworn, or where they will find it in the next Protestant successor, for whom they profess an equal zeal, is not very obvious to me.
 * Draft speech for the trial of Dr Henry Sacheverell

 * It is obvious, that the people of England are at this moment animated against each other, with a spirit of hatred and rancour. It behoves you, in the first place, to find a remedy for these distempers which at present are predominant in the civil constitution.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (10 January 1711)

 * The most unrighteous judgment was passed upon me in the House that was ever heard of...against the most positive evidence that it was possible in any case to give. ... I am made a sacrifice to the violence of a party and entirely innocent.
 * Letter (c. January 1712). On 17 January 1712 the case against Walpole for bribery was heard in the House of Commons and he was voted by a majority of more than 50 to have been guilty of "a high breach of trust and notorious corruption". By further votes he was committed to the Tower of London and expelled from the Commons.

 * I dare be bold to affirm that, had the King of France beaten us, as we have done him, he would have been so modest as to have given us better terms than we have gained after all our glorious victories.
 * Address to the electors of Kings Lynn for the general election of 1713 against the Treaty of Utrecht

Prime Minister

 * All those men have their price.
 * Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "'All men have their price' is commonly ascribed to Walpole", and citing Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole, Vol. iv, p. 369: "Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, 'All those men have their price'".

 * Anything but history, for history must be false.
 * Walpoliana, No. 141.

 * The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
 * Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), stating "Hazlitt, in his Wit and Humour, says, 'This is Walpole’s phrase'". Compare: "La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits" (translated: "The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits"), François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 298.

Quotes about Walpole

 * He was an honorable man and a sound Whig. He was not, as the Jacobites and discontented Whigs of his time have represented him, and as ill-informed people still represent him, a prodigal and corrupt minister. They charged him in their libels and seditious conversations as having first reduced corruption to a system. Such was their cant. But he was far from governing by corruption. He governed by party attachments. The charge of systematic corruption is less applicable to him, perhaps, than to any minister who ever served the crown for so great a length of time. He gained over very few from the Opposition. Without being a genius of the first class, he was an intelligent, prudent, and safe minister. He loved peace; and he helped to communicate the same disposition to nations at least as warlike and restless as that in which he had the chief direction of affairs... With many virtues, public and private, he had his faults; but his faults were superficial. A careless, coarse, and over familiar style of discourse, without sufficient regard to persons or occasions, and an almost total want of political decorum, were the errours by which he was most hurt in the public opinion: and those through which his enemies obtained the greatest advantage over him. But justice must be done. The prudence, steadiness, and vigilance of that man, joined to the greatest possible lenity in his character and his politics, preserved the crown to this royal family; and with it, their laws and liberties to this country.
 * Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs [1791] (1962), pp. 62–63

 * In private life he was good natured, Chearfull, social. Inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse wit, which he was too free of for a Man in his Station, as it is always inconsistent with dignity. He was very able as a Minister, but without a certain Elevation of mind...He was both the ablest Parliament man, and the ablest manager of a Parliament, that I believe ever lived...Money, not Prerogative, was the chief Engine of his administration, and he employed it with a success that in a manner disgraced humanity...When he found any body proof, against pecuniary temptations, which alass! was but seldom, he had recourse to still a worse art. For he laughed at and ridiculed all notions of Publick virtue, and the love of one's Country, calling them the Chimerical school boy flights of Classical learning; declaring himself at the same time, No Saint, no Spartan, no reformer. He would frequently ask young fellows at their first appearance in the world, while their honest hearts were yet untainted, well are you to be an old Roman? a Patriot? you will soon come off of that, and grow wiser. And thus he was more dangerous to the morals, than to the libertys of his country, to which I am persuaded that he meaned no ill in his heart... His Name will not be recorded in History among the best men, or the best Ministers, but much much less ought it to be ranked among the worst.
 * Lord Chesterfield, quoted in Colin Franklin (ed.), Lord Chesterfield. His Character and 'Characters' (1993), p. 114

 * I am sensible that Sr Robert, who is at once both a Wagg and a boaster, would be apt to ridicule these hopes of mine as fond and sanguine.
 * Lord Chesterfield to Robert Nugent (1 August 1741), quoted in Claud Nugent, Memoir of Robert, Earl Nugent, With Letters, Poems, and Appendices (1898), p. 246

 * [H]is prevailing weakness was, to be thought to have a polite and happy turn to gallantry,—of which he had undoubtedly less than any man living.
 * Lord Chesterfield to his son (16 October [O.S.] 1747), quoted in The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, With the Characters, Vol. I, ed. John Bradshaw (1892), p. 66

 * The eloquence of Sir Robert Walpole was plain, perspicuous, forcible, and manly, not courting, yet not always avoiding metaphorical, ornamental, and classical allusions; though addressed to the reason more than to the feelings, yet on some occasions it was highly animated and impassioned. No debater was ever more happy in quickness of apprehension, sharpness of reply, and in turning the arguments of his assailants against themselves.
 * William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume the First (1798), p. 749

 * The tone of his voice was pleasing and melodious; his pronunciation distinct and audible, though he never entirely lost the provincial accent. His style, though by no means elegant, often deficient in taste, and sometimes bordering on vulgarity, was highly nervous and animated, persuasive and plausible.
 * William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume the First (1798), p. 749

 * The political axiom generally attributed to him, that all men have their price, and which has been so often repeated in verse and prose, was perverted by leaving out the word those. Flowery oratory he despised; he ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives, the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price," and in the event, many of them justified his observation.
 * William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume the First (1798), p. 757

 * Sir Robert loved to take company home with him to dinner after a debate: when the letters came in, he threw such and such aside, and said they might stay till to-morrow; when he saw the direction of his Huntsman, he said he would read it immediately.
 * Lord Hardwicke, Walpoliana (1783), p. 10

 * [H]e had great method and a prodigious memory, with a mind and spirit that were indefatigable: and without every one of these natural as well as acquired advantages, it would indeed have been impossible for him to go through half what he undertook.
 * Lord Hervey, Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second from His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline, Vol. I, ed. John Wilson Croker (1848), pp. 22-23

 * No man ever was blessed with a clearer head, a truer or quicker judgment, or a deeper insight into mankind; he knew the strength and weakness of everybody he had to deal with, and how to make his advantage of both; he had more warmth of affection and friendship for some particular people than one could have believed it possible for any one who had been so long raking in the dirt of mankind to be capable of feeling for so worthless a species of animals.
 * Lord Hervey, Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second from His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline, Vol. I, ed. John Wilson Croker (1848), p. 23

 * Colonel Cecil, who was agent for the Chevalier St. George...suffered himself to be cajoled and duped by Sir Robert Walpole to such a degree, as to be fully persuaded that Sir Robert had formed a design to restore the House of Stuart. For this reason he communicated to Sir Robert all his dispatches, and there was not a scheme which the Chevalier's court or the Jacobites in England had projected during Sir Robert's long administration, of which that minister was not early informed, and was therefore able to defeat it without any noise or expence.
 * William King, Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times (1818), pp. 36-38

 * He was not a reformer, or a successful war minister, or a profound and original thinker, or even a tactician of great enterprise, and yet he possessed qualities which have justly placed him in the foremost rank of politicians. Finding England with a disputed succession and an unpopular sovereign, with a corrupt and factious Parliament, and an intolerant, ignorant, and warlike people, he succeeded in giving it twenty years of unbroken peace and uniform prosperity, in establishing on an impregnable basis a dynasty which seemed tottering to its fall, in rendering, chiefly by the force of his personal ascendency, the House of Commons the most powerful body in the State, in moderating permanently the ferocity of political factions and the intolerance of ecclesiastical legislation.
 * William Edward Hartpole Lecky, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I (1878), p. 328

 * But however distasteful this was to several serious men among the Whigs, Mr. Walpole enjoyed and encouraged it all, as pursuing of his plan of having everybody be deemed a Jacobite who was not a professed and known Whig.
 * Arthur Onslow, quoted in The Manuscripts of The Earl of Buckinghamshire, The Earl of Lindsey, The Earl of Onslow, Lord Emly, Theodore J. Hare, Esq., and James Round, Esq., M.P. (1895), p. 465

 * For twenty years Walpole had just held in check those aspirations natural to a society which was faced with enormous possibilities of commercial expansion, a society which had, too, the capacity to seize its chances and the wealth and men needed to exploit them. Walpole had avoided wars and kept the peace because he believed England existed for the sake of men of substance, who gained from security and low taxation, and not for the sake of rash commercial adventurers... England has never known a prime minister more adroit in handling men than Walpole, but he was too rooted in reality, too sensitive to the everyday world to be a great statesman.
 * J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century (1950; 1964), pp. 72-73

 * Although in 1714 the materials for oligarchy everywhere abounded, it seemed as if no party could use them and that political instability, which had been such a marked feature of English life since the Revolution, would continue. Within a decade all was changed: aided both by events, and by the tidal sweep of history, a politician of genius, Robert Walpole, was able to create what had eluded kings and ministers since the days of Elizabeth I—a government and a policy acceptable to the Court, to the Commons, and to the majority of the political establishment in the nation at large. Indeed, he made the world so safe for Whigs that they stayed in power for a hundred years.
 * J. H. Plumb, The Growth of Political Stability in England 1675–1725 (1967), p. 158

 * It is great pleasure to me that I never saw him better, and that quiet and hunting, together, have repaired his health so well. Your friend Sir Robert has but one of these helps; but I remember when I saw him last, which was the last time he sent to desire me, he told me he owed his strength to it.
 * Alexander Pope to William Fortescue (31 July 1738), quoted in The Works of Alexander Pope, Vol. IX. Correspondence.—Vol. IV (1886), p. 142

 * He possessed no vain desire to distinguish himself by peculiarity of opinion or hardiness of enterprize, and he detested war. This made the late acute Dr. Johnson (who was no friend to his political opinions) say of him, "He was the best minister this country ever had; as, if we would have let him" (he speaks of his own violent faction) "he would have kept the country in perpetual peace."
 * William Seward, Biographiana, Vol. II (1799), p. 554

 * I need not mention the many advantages that will attend this manner of proceeding. It will in a great measure obviate the delusion which Sir Robert makes use of in a certain place, to wit, that the majority of the House of Commons is the majority of the nation.
 * Lord Stair, "Memorial for Instructions to Members of Parliament from Scotland, 7th July, 1739", quoted in A Selection from the Papers of the Earls of Marchmont, in the Possession of the Right Honourable Sir George Henry Rose. Illustrative of Events from 1685 to 1750, Vol. II (1831), p. 123

 * With favour and fortune fastidiously blest, He's loud in his laugh, and he's coarse in his jest; Of favour and fortune unmerited, vain, A sharper in trifles, a dupe in the main; Achieving of nothing, still promising wonders, By dint of experience, improving in blunders; Oppressing true merit, exalting the base, And selling his country to purchase his place; A jobber of stocks by retailing false news; A prater at court in the style of the stews; Of virtue and worth by profession a giber; Of juries and senates the bully and briber. Though I name not the wretch, you all know who I mean— 'Tis the cur-dog of Britain, and spaniel of Spain.
 * Jonathan Swift, 'Character of Sir Robert Walpole', quoted in Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and Her Second Husband, The Hon. George Berkeley; From 1712 to 1767, Vol. II (1824), p. 32

 * The most unpopular Ministers in England, were the Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Robert Walpole, during their respective Administrations; the former a true, a steady, and equal Friend to a limited Monarchy, and the just civil Rights of the People; and the latter the best commercial Minister this Country ever had, and the greatest Promoter of its real Interests.
 * Josiah Tucker, A Treatise Concerning Civil Government, In Three Parts (1781), p. 222

 * One of the great merits of Sir Robert Walpole, and in which perhaps no minister ever approached him, was that of simplifying the taxes, abolishing the numerous petty complicated imposts, which checked commerce and vexed the fair trader, and substituting in their stead more equal and simple. But to omit matters of lesser note, the wisest proposal to relieve the nation was the Excise Scheme, by means of which the whole island would have been one general free port, and a magazine and common storehouse for all nations.
 * Josiah Tucker, Elements of Commerce and Theory of Taxes, quoted in William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume the First (1798), p. 373

 * It was perhaps still more remarkable, and an instance unparalleled, that sir Robert governed George the first in Latin, the king not speaking English, and his minister no German, nor even French.
 * Horace Walpole, Reminiscences: Written by Mr Horace Walpole in 1788, For the Amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B***y (1819), p. 10

 * Sir Robert Walpole used to say, that it was fortunate so few men could be prime ministers, as it was best that few should thoroughly know the shocking wickedness of mankind. I never heard him say, that all men have their prices; and I believe no such expression ever came from his mouth.
 * Horace Walpole, 'Corruption', Walpoliana, Vol. I (1799), p. 88

 * But Orford's self I've seen, whilst I have read, Laugh the heart's laugh, and nod th' approving head.
 * Charles Hanbury Williams, quoted in The Works of The Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams, Vol. I (1822), p. 206

 * In private amiable, in public great, Gentle in power, but daring in disgrace, His love was liberty, his wish was peace.
 * Charles Hanbury Williams, quoted in The Works of The Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams, Vol. I (1822), pp. 207-208

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Charisma Carpenter

Charisma Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress of Mexican and Cherokee descent. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.

Quotes

 * On a highway in a moving automobile. I wasn't driving. It worked out quite well, but I don't know how it did. I was young and stupid.
 * "The Dirty Dozen: Charisma Carpenter", Playboy.com, p. 2 (accessed 2006-04-30)
 * When asked what was the strangest place she had sex.

 * For nearly two decades, I have held my tongue and even made excuses for certain events that traumatize me to this day. abused his power on numerous occasions while working together on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. While he found his misconduct amusing, it only served to intensify my performance anxiety, disempower me, and alienate me from my peers. The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively
 * Tweet reported as part of an article in the context of multiple people alleging director Whedon's abusive behavior on set.
 * Tweet reported as part of an article in the context of multiple people alleging director Whedon's abusive behavior on set.

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Emma Caulfield

Emma Caulfield (born Emma Chukker on April 8, 1973) is an American actress, best known for playing the character of the ex-demon Anya Jenkins in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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 * a question i have for whoever runs these sites--where do you get all these pictures from? i can't even tell where i was when i took most of these!
 * [sic], Emma's first post to her fan forum

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Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie film series (1999–2012).

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 * Last night Alexis got his script for Angel. I was like, "Oh, I would have been getting a Buffy script right now."
 * About.com, "American Wedding's" Bride and Groom Discuss the Third "Pie" Movie.

 * I love the shock factors and that Michelle is just OK with every aspect of herself, especially the sexual side.
 * Paul Fischer interview.

 * No, I don't think they're obsessive, they're just dedicated.
 * Alyson Hannigan: Bedknobs and broomsticks Published: 19 February 2004
 * Regarding Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans.

 * I just don't feel the need to swallow all the time, I only do it because I have to, because, like, saliva's gross or something, but I don't see it that way. It's just spit, what's the big deal? I really don't care.
 * When asked why she doesn't swallow her saliva very often after being asked if she was sick and she said she wasn't.

title: Alyson Hannigan