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Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film  co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after which Dax attempts to defend them against charges of cowardice in a court-martial. On its release, the film's anti-military tone was subject to criticism and censorship. The film was banned in all United States military establishments.

Colonel Dax

 * If any soldiers in the world can take it, we'll take the Ant Hill.
 * Stick to the stories you've told me, and don't let the prosecutor shake you out of them. Now remember, you'll be soldiers in the presence of superior officers, so act like what you are - soldiers! - and brave ones at that...When you answer questions, look the judges in the eye, don't whine, plead, or make speeches. That's my job. Simple statements, short, but make them so they can be heard all over the room and try not to repeat yourselves. I'll do that for you when I sum up.
 * There are times when I am ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion...I protest against being prevented from introducing evidence that I consider vital to the defense, the prosecution presented no witnesses, there has never been a written indictment of charges made against the defendants, and lastly, I protest against the fact that no stenographic record of this trial has been kept. The attack yesterday morning was no stain on the honor of France, but this court-martial is such a stain...Gentlemen of the court, to find these men guilty will be a crime to haunt each of you to the day you die. I can't believe that the noblest impulse in man, his compassion for another, can be completely dead here. Therefore, I humbly beg you to show mercy to these men.
 * [to Broulard] What would your, er, newspapers and your politicians do with that?...you are in a difficult position. Too much has happened. Someone's got to be hurt. The only question is who. General Mireau's assault on the Ant Hill failed. His order to fire on his own troops was refused. But his attempt to murder three innocent men to protect his own reputation will be prevented by the General's staff.

General Paul Mireau

 * It's out of the question, George. Absolutely out of the question. My division was cut to pieces. What's left of it is in no position to even hold the Ant Hill, let alone take it. I'm sorry, but that's the truth.
 * Nothing is beyond those men once their fighting spirit is aroused...We might just do it!
 * Hello there soldier, ready to kill more Germans?
 * Looking over your rifle, I see? Well, that's the way. It's a soldier's best friend. You be good to it and it will always be good to you.
 * Naturally, men are going have to be killed, possibly a lot of them. They'll absorb bullets and shrapnel, and by doing so make it possible for others to get through...say five percent killed by our own barrage - that's a very generous allowance. Ten percent more again in no man's land, and twenty percent more again into the wire. That leaves sixty-five percent, and the worst part of the job over. Let's say another twenty-five percent in actually taking the Ant Hill - we're still left with a force more than adequate to hold it.
 * Miserable cowards, they're not advancing...they're still in the trenches!
 * If those little sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll face French ones!
 * [about Rousseau] In cases like this, shells falling short, I-I always try to avoid an inquiry. It gets around among the men and makes a bad impression. Now, shelving will be the best discipline for him in my opinion.
 * Get off this fancy talk with me, do you understand? General Broulard seemed to think you were funny. I don't. I want you to drop this affair...Colonel Dax, when this mess is cleaned up, I'll break you...I'll ruin you. And it'll be just what you deserve, showing such little loyalty to your commanding officer.
 * [to Broulard] You're making me the goat. The only completely innocent man in this whole affair. I have only one last thing to say to you, George. The man you stabbed in the back is a soldier.

General Broulard

 * Maybe the attack against the Ant Hill was impossible. Perhaps it was an error of judgment on our part. On the other hand, if your men had been a little more daring, you might have taken it. Who knows? Why should we have to bear more criticism and failure than we have to?...These executions will be a perfect tonic for the entire division. There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die...You see, Colonel, troops are like children. Just as a child wants his father to be firm, troops crave discipline. And one way to maintain discipline is to shoot a man now and then.
 * [to Dax, about Mireau] Well, it had to be done. France cannot afford to have fools guiding her military destiny.

Others

 * Narrator: War began between Germany and France on August 3, 1914. Five weeks later, the German army had smashed its way to within 18 miles of Paris. There the battered French miraculously rallied their forces at the Marne River, and in a series of unexpected counterattacks, drove the Germans back. The Front was stabilized and shortly afterward developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches zigzagging their way five hundred miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier. By 1916, after two grisly years of trench warfare, the battle lines had changed very little. Successful attacks were measured in hundreds of yards - and paid for in lives by hundreds of thousands.
 * Lt. Roget: "It's impossible, sir. All the men are falling back.
 * Judge: This is a general courtmartial and we shall therefore dispense with unnecessary formalities. These men are charged with cowardice in the face of the enemy and will be tried for that offense... The indictment is lengthy and there's no point in reading it. The indictment is that the accused showed cowardice in the face of the enemy during the attack on the Ant Hill.
 * Saint-Auban: And I submit that the attack was a stain on the flag of France, a blot on the honor of every man, woman, and child in the French nation. It is to us that the sad, distressing, repellent duty falls, gentlemen. I ask this court to find the accused guilty...
 * Ferol: What do I have to die for, Father?...I'm scared, I'm scared!

Dialogue

 * Mireau: I am responsible for the lives of 8,000 men. What is my ambition against that? What is my reputation in comparison to that? My men come first of all, George. And those men know it, too.
 * Broulard: I know that they do.
 * Mireau: You see, George, those men know that I would never let them down.
 * Broulard: That goes without saying.
 * Mireau: The life of one of those soldiers means more to me than all the stars and decorations and honors in France.

 * Mireau: There is no such thing as shell shock!
 * Soldier: Yes, I have a wife...I'm never going to see her again. I'm going to be killed.
 * [Mireau slaps the soldier]
 * Mireau: Sergeant, I want you to arrange for the immediate transfer of this baby out of my regiment. I won't have any of our brave men contaminated by him.

 * Mireau: I never got in the habit of sitting. I like to be on my feet. Keep on the move...I can't understand these arm-chair officers, fellows trying to fight a war from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy, worrying about whether a mouse is going run up their pants leg.
 * Dax: I don't know, General. If I had the choice between mice and Mausers, I think I'd take the mice every time.

 * Roget: I thought you'd been killed.
 * Paris: You didn't wait around to find out, did you Lieutenant?
 * Roget: Now look here, what do you mean?
 * Paris: I mean you ran like a rabbit after you killed Lejeune.
 * Roget: Killed Lejeune? What are you talking about? I don't think I like your tone. You're speaking to an officer, remember that.
 * Paris: Oh, well, I must be mistaken then, sir. An officer wouldn't do that. A man wouldn't do it. Only a thing would - a sneaky, booze-guzzling, yellow-bellied rat with a bottle for a brain and a streak of spit where his spine ought to be. You've got yourself into a mess, Lieutenant.
 * Roget: Have you ever tried to bring charges against an officer? It's my word against yours, you know, and whose word do you think they're going to believe - or, let me put it another way, whose word do you think they're going to accept?
 * Roget: Have you ever tried to bring charges against an officer? It's my word against yours, you know, and whose word do you think they're going to believe - or, let me put it another way, whose word do you think they're going to accept?

 * Mireau: [ordering artillery fire on his own men] The troops are mutinying, refusing to advance!
 * [Rousseau refuses the order twice, before demanding to see it in writing]
 * Rousseau: Supposing you're killed. Then where will I be?
 * Mireau: You'll be in front of a firing squad tomorrow morning, that's where you'll be. Hand over your command and report yourself under arrest to my headquarters.

 * Dax: They're not cowards, so if some of them didn't leave the trenches, it must have been because it was impossible.
 * Mireau: They were ordered to attack. It was their duty to obey that order. We can't leave it up to the men to decide when an order is possible or not. If it was impossible, the only proof of that would be their dead bodies lying in the bottom of the trenches. They are scum, Colonel, the whole rotten regiment; a pack of sneaking, whining, tail-dragging curs.
 * Dax: Do you really believe that, sir?
 * Mireau: Yes, I do. That's exactly what I believe. And what's more, it's an incontestable fact.
 * Dax: Then why not shoot the entire regiment? I'm perfectly serious...If it's an example you want, then take me...One man will do as well as a hundred. The logical choice is the officer most responsible for the attack.

 * Saint-Auban: Did you advance?...How far did you advance?
 * Ferol: To about the middle of no man's land, sir.
 * Saint-Auban: Then what did you do?
 * Ferol: ...Well, I saw that me and Meyer, sir...
 * Saint-Auban: I didn't ask you what you saw. The court has no concern with your visual experiences...
 * Ferol: I went back, sir.
 * Saint-Auban: In other words, Private Ferol, you retreated.
 * Ferol: Yes, sir.

 * Saint-Auban: Did you urge your fellow soldiers forward?
 * Arnaud: Most of them were dead or wounded before they got three steps beyond the trenches.

 * Dax: Why didn't you leave the trenches?
 * Paris: Major Vignon was shot, and he fell back on top of me, sir, and knocked me cold.
 * Dax: And were you lying unconscious in the trenches during the entire attack?
 * Paris: Yes, sir.
 * Judge: Have you any witnesses to that?
 * Paris: No, sir. I guess everybody was too busy to notice me. There were so many others lying dead anyway.
 * Judge: But you have no witnesses?
 * Paris: No, sir. I only have a rather large cut on my head, sir.
 * Judge: That could have been self-inflicted later.

 * Paris: See that cockroach? Tomorrow morning we'll be dead and it'll be alive. It will have more contact with my wife and child than I will. I'll be nothing, and it'll be alive.
 * Ferol: [crushes the cockroach] Now you've got the edge on him.

 * Priest: Have faith in your Creator - Death comes to us all.
 * Arnaud: That's really deep! Death comes to us all. [holds up his whiskey bottle] This is my religion.

 * Sergeant: There will be a lot of dignitaries, newspapermen out there. You've got a wife and family. How do you want to be remembered?...Many of us will be joining you before this war is over.
 * Paris: I don't want to die.

 * Mireau: I'm awfully glad you could be there, George. This sort of thing is always rather grim but this one had a kind of splendor to it, don't you think?
 * Broulard: I have never seen an affair of this sort handled any better.
 * Mireau: The men died wonderfully! There's always that chance that one of them will do something that will leave everyone with a bad taste. This time, you couldn't ask for better.

 * Dax: Let me get this straight, sir. You’re offering me General Mireau’s command?
 * Broulard: Come, come, Colonel Dax. Don't overdo the surprise. You've been after the job from the start. We all know that, my boy!
 * Dax: I may be many things, sir. But I am not your boy.
 * Broulard: Well, I certainly didn’t mean to imply any biological relationship.
 * Dax: I’m not your boy in any sense.
 * Broulard: Are you trying to provoke me colonel?
 * Dax: Why should I want to do that?
 * Broulard: Exactly. It would be a pity to lose your promotion before you get it - a promotion you have so very carefully planned for.
 * Colonel Dax: Sir, would you like me to suggest what you can do with that promotion?
 * Broulard: Colonel Dax, you will apologize at once or you shall be placed under arrest!
 * Dax: I apologize for not being entirely honest with you. I apologize for not revealing my true feelings. I apologize, sir, for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man. AND YOU CAN GO TO HELL BEFORE I APOLOGIZE TO YOU NOW OR EVER AGAIN!
 * Broulard: Colonel Dax, you're a disappointment to me. You've spoiled the keenness of your mind by wallowing in sentimentality. You really did want to save those men, and you were not angling for Mireau's command. You are an idealist - and I pity you as I would the village idiot. We're fighting a war, Dax, a war that we've got to win. Those men didn't fight, so they were shot. You bring charges against General Mireau, so I insist that he answer them. Wherein have I done wrong?
 * Dax: Because you don't know the answer to that question, I pity you.

Taglines

 * It explodes in the no-man's land no picture ever dared cross before!
 * BOMBSHELL! the roll of the drums... the click of the rifle-bolts... the last cigarette... and then... the shattering impact of this story... perhaps the most explosive motion picture in 25 years!
 * Now the screen blasts open the bombshell story of a Colonel who led his regiment into hell and back - while their maddened General waited for them - with a firing squad!

Cast

 * Kirk Douglas - Col. Dax
 * Ralph Meeker - Cpl. Philippe Paris
 * Adolphe Menjou - Gen. George Broulard
 * George Macready - Gen. Paul Mireau
 * Wayne Morris - Lt. Roget
 * Richard Anderson - Maj. Saint-Auban
 * Joe Turkel - Pvt. Pierre Arnaud
 * Christiane Kubrick - German singer
 * Peter Capell - Narrator of opening sequence/Judge of court-martial
 * Emile Meyer - Father Dupree
 * Bert Freed - Sgt. Boulanger
 * Kem Dibbs - Pvt. Lejeune
 * Timothy Carey - Pvt. Maurice Ferol

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Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton (born 17 February 1981) is an heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as her father's real estate fortune. In addition to being a famous socialite, Hilton has dabbled in modeling, acting, singing, and writing.

Quotes

 * That's hot!.
 * YouTube - "That's Hot" Medley

 * I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.
 * As quoted at ABC News (11 June 2007)

 * It is my first trip here on Lake Como [...] A fantastic place.
 * Paris Hilton to Instagram in "Paris Hilton: “Lago di Como fantastico" at Espansione TV (5 August 2022) by Massimo Moscadi

 * You're a fucking bitch. I'm going to destroy you.
 * Paris Hilton to Zeta Graff in "Paris Hilton's lawyers: We want more information on accuser's mental condition" at CourtTV (25 January 2006) by Lisa Sweetingham

Confessions of an Heiress (2004)

 * Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-chic Peek Behind the Pose

 * To me, anything goes. But that's me.
 * p. 53

 * You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.
 * p. 53

 * The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
 * p. 53 (included in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations )

The Simple Life

 * What's Wal-mart? Do they sell Walls and stuff?

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Talk:Virgil

Hell
I'm looking in book one, and I'm not seeing that quote about hell anywhere. My latin has seen better days, but is it in there?
 * No, it's from Book VI, line 743. ~ DanielTom (talk) 16:34, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Omnia vincit Amor
Is it "Omnia vincit amor" or "Amor vincit omnia"?

 * Despite the word order of most tanslations, the original latin is "Omnia vincit Amor...", and where chapters are known chapter orders should be retained. ~ Kalki 01:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Naturalia non sunt turpia
 * Natural things are not shameful.
 * Variant translation: Natural things are without shame.

 * Command large fields, but cultivate small ones.
 * This is probably a translation of "laudato ingentia rura, exiguum colito" (Georgics, II.412–413). ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

 * To have died once is enough.

Haerent infixi pectore vultus.
The most popular English translation of "Haerent infixi pectore vultus" (Aeneid, Book IV, l. 4) seems to be: "Her looks were deep imprinted in his heart", but that is confusing to me because the original line refers to Dido's love for Aeneas, and her heart (not the other way around). Am I missing something here? ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:34, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Dryden has "His words, his looks, imprinted in her heart"; and Theodore C. Williams "Her hero's virtues and his lordly line / keep calling to her soul; his words, his glance, / cling to her heart like lingering, barbed steel. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 17:03, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

This author's name is Vergil.
I can see making a reference to the misspelled version Virgil, but this spelling error should not be the title of the main entry. The name Publius Vergilius Maro doesn't lead to "Virgil" unless you're trying to Christianize it: wholly inappropriate considering when he lived.

 * Vergilius is properly part of his name, but one of the standard anglicizations of that is Virgil, and that is what is currently used at Wikipedia, and in many other publications. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:37, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I am in favor of changing the title to Vergil.
 * Vergilius wrote his name with an "e", so "Vergil" is indisputably the correct spelling. However, during the early Middle Ages the "e" was changed to an "i", possibly due to a scribe's mistake (many stories on this), and "Virgil" has since then become the standard spelling. I myself see no reason why Wikiquote should continue to perpetuate this error. ~ DanielTom (talk) 15:27, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Spelling idiosyncrasies abound in English, and Virgil is the most common form, and not in itself an "error" though it probably developed from some. A debate occurred in relation to the Wikipedia title as well, and eventually Virgil was maintained; I have no strong feelings either way, but am generally willing to accord with the Wikipedia preferences. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:40, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
 * "Virgil" has become standard English usage as DanielTom notes, and is the most common form as Kalki notes. I think WP:COMMONNAME makes good sense in this case: the more recognizable name is more useful to our readers. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:16, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Disputed 'about' quotation involved in edit war
This quotation was added by CensoredScribe but was rejected by DanielTom, afterwhich an edit war ensued. Let us discuss the inclusion here.

 * They tell us, that Virgil placed a fly of brass over one of the gates of the city, which, as long as it continued there, that is, for a space of eight years, had the virtue of keeping Naples clear from moschetoes and all noxious insects: that he built a set of shambles, the meat in which was at all times free from putrefaction: that he placed two images over the gates of the city, one of which was named Joyful, and the other Sad—one of resplendent beauty, and the other hideous and deformed—and that whoever entered the town under the former image would succeed in all his undertakings, and under the latter would as certainly miscarry: that he caused a brazen statue to be erected on a mountain near Naples, with a trumpet in his mouth; which, when the north wind blew, sounded so shrill as to drive to the sea the fire and smoke which issued from the neighbouring forges of Vulcan: that he built different baths at Naples, specifically prepared for the cure of every disease, which were afterward demolished by the malice of the physicians: and that he lighted a perpetual fire for the refreshment of all travellers, close to which he placed an archer of brass, with his bow bent, and this inscription, "Whoever strikes me, I will let fly my arrow:" that a foolhardy fellow notwithstanding struck the statue, when the arrow was immediately shot into the fire, and the fire was extinguished. It is added, that, Naples being infested with a vast multitude of contagious leeches, Virgil made a leech of gold, which he threw into a pit, and so delivered the city from the infection: that he surrounded his garden with a wall of air, within which the rain never fell: that he built a bridge of brass that would transport him wherever he pleased: that he made a set of statues, which were named the Salvation of Rome, which had the property that, if any one of the subject nations prepared to revolt, the statue, which bore the name of, and was adored by that nation, rung a bell, and pointed with its finger in the direction of the danger: that he made a head, which had the virtue of predicting things future: and lastly, amid a world of other wonders, that he cut a subterranean passage through Mount Pausilippo, that travellers might pass with perfect safety, the mountain having before been so infested with serpents and dragons, that no one could venture to cross it.
 * William Godwin, Lives of the Necromancers (1835), pp. 176–177.

I myself am opposed to the quotation, primarily for being too long and secondarily for lacking value. Perhaps a trimmed section of this could be included.

Signed, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 05:24, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

 * This quote passage is not quoted by anybody, anywhere, so in no way is it a notable quotation about Virgil. And for it to make any sense, we would have to give the context as well: "One of the most curious particulars, and which cannot be omitted in a history of sorcery, is the various achievements in the art of magic which have been related of the poet Virgil. I bring them in here, because they cannot be traced further back than the eleventh or twelfth century. The burial-place of this illustrious man was at Pausilippo, near Naples; the Neapolitans had for many centuries cherished a peculiar reverence for his memory [...]. The vulgar of this city, full of imagination and poetry, conceived the idea of treating him as the guardian genius of the place; and, in bodying forth this conception, they represented him in his life-time as gifted with supernatural powers, which he employed in various ways for the advantage of a city that he so dearly loved. [...]" – but again, I agree that what CensoredScribe added is too long to even be considered a "quote"; it's a book excerpt, if anything. ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:46, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

This passage is too short for inclusion to Wikisource being an encyclopedia entry; though I'm still confused why similar concern hasn't been raised for the excerpts from Clarence Darrow's trial transcripts at Evolution and Übermensch. In terms of importance to evolutionary teaching, without this series of words, the biology education of hundreds of millions of Americans would have been drastically altered, making the transcript historically quite important even if few people have publicly read from it. Also note how there are no quotes indicating the Gettysburg address is historically important; how many notable people actually quote it directly, compared to making comments about the address? SImply saying something once doesn't make it quotable, it has to be directly quoted to be a quote under the strictest definition meaning Lincolns page requires additional citations to prove notability.

In recent times, news sound bites, due to their reuse by other news outlets are by many peoples definitions more quotable than older, than many more objectively memorable texts that didn't have the benefit of a 24 hour cable news cycle and magazine interviews. For example; the transcripts from the Monica Lewinsky trial has been quoted by news casters and agencies with Wikipedia pages, making the incident more notable in the public eye than anything Godwin said in this book; which seemingly Edgar Allen Poe is the only notable person to ever mention. CensoredScribe (talk) 15:25, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

 * CensoredScribe, I confess I do not understand your argumentation here. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 16:16, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * My apologies; I thought it was clear what my argument was and that 2 paragraphs was short enough; unfortunately I don't understand isn't really question I can answer; what do you mean by "..." is a question I could answer. First, there are longer quotes; like on Evolution. Second the word notability gets thrown around about as often as quality. There are a lot of quotes that have not been directly quoted; the glaring example of why this is a bad idea I provided is the Gettysberg adress; we all know worth quoting, however there are no direct quotations on that page to suggest it it "notable". I'm sure you can find quotes ABOUT the address; but that is not the same as DanielTom made clear with William Godwins merely paraphrasing his sources in the Virgil entry. Cheers. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

I think this quotation may be worth including:

 * One of the most curious particulars, and which cannot be omitted in a history of sorcery, is the various achievements in the art of magic which have been related of the poet Virgil. [...] The burial-place of this illustrious man was at Pausilippo, near Naples; the Neapolitans had for many centuries cherished a peculiar reverence for his memory [...] The vulgar of this city, full of imagination and poetry, conceived the idea of treating him as the guardian genius of the place ; and, in bodying forth this conception, they represented him in his lifetime as gifted with supernatural powers, which he employed in various ways for the advantage of a city that he so dearly loved.
 * William Godwin, Lives of the Necromancers (1835), pg. 150

What say you DanielTom, CensoredScribe? Signed, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 20:27, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

 * That's better, but still not worth including, in my opinion. ~ DanielTom (talk) 16:58, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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User talk:Giri~enwikiquote

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User talk:Teubs

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User talk:Editor~enwikiquote

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Hi, thanks for your help on clean-up. I noticed your user page vandalized by Ass Pus vandal. Would you like it to be semiprotected? Cheers, --Aphaia 19:52, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Slarre~enwikiquote

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Please do not accuse other editors of vandalism over basic content disputes, as you did in an edit summary of Ron Paul. Vandalism is obvious defacement of an article, whereas merely removing quotes, unless it's a clear blanking of entire sections without explanation, is simply a disagreement on what should be included. Although we ask everyone not to remove material without an explanation, we should assume good faith when arguing over content issues. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Personally I see the removal of fully relevant quotes without any given explanation (and at the same time trying to "hide" the edits) as a pure example of vandalism. No, I do not "assume good faith" in this case, I think that's the most ridiculous of all WP-policies. How that user could've gotten admin privileges is beyond me. /Slarre 19:37, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Davidthornton~enwikiquote

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User talk:210.91.151.28

- InvisibleSun 23:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

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Basil King

William Benjamin Basil King (February 26, 1859 – June 22, 1928) was a Canadian-born clergyman and author.

The Conquest of Fear (1921)

 * Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
 * Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29; sometimes paraphrased: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."

This does not mean that in our effort to reproduce harmonious action we should shut our eyes to what is evidently wrong, or blandly ignore what is plainly being done to our disadvantage. Of course not! One uses all the common-sense methods of getting justice for oneself and protecting one's own interests. But it does mean that when I can no longer protect my own interests, when my affairs depend upon others far more than on myself — a condition in which we all occasionally find ourselves — I am not to fret myself, not to churn my spirit into nameless fears. '''I am not a free agent. Those with whom I am associated are not free agents. God is the one supreme command. He expresses Himself through me; He expresses Himself through them; we all.'''
 * I was to see myself as God's Self-Expression working with others who were also His Self-Expression to the same extent as I. It was in the fact of our uniting together to produce His Self-Expression that I was to look for my security. No one could effectively work against me while I was consciously trying to work with God. Moreover, it was probable that no one was working against me, or had any intention of working against me, but that my own point of view being wrong I had put the harmonious action of my life out of order. Suspicion always being likely to see what it suspects the chances were many that I was creating the very thing I suffered from.
 * Chapter III : God And His Self-Expression, § VIII

 * My small experience in the conquest of fear can be condensed into these four words: Calmly resting! quiet trust! That amid the turmoil of the time and the feverishness of our days it is always easy I do not pretend. Still less do I pretend that I accomplish it. I have said, a few lines above, that I tried. Trying is as far as I have gone; but even trying is productive of wonderful results.
 * Chapter VIII : The Fear Of Death And Abundance Of Life, § V

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June 28

June 28 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again? ~ Michael Moore
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. ~ Rick Moranis as "Dark Helmet" in Spaceballs by Mel Brooks (born 28 June 1926)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born 28 June 1712)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love. ~ John Wesley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. ~ John Wesley born on 28 June 1703
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

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 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
All I really want is to provide a hard-working man in the blouse business with a method of expressing himself; if he likes a tune, he can whistle it, and it will make his life happier. ~ Richard Rodgers, born on June 28th
 * We don't have a Rodgers page yet (hardly surprising); this quotation is the only Rodgers in my Simpson's (number 9614).

 * 2 121a0012 02:24, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 27 June 2005 21:53 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:33, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:33, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:37, 28 June 2023 (UTC) // NOT: 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 27 June 2022 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon,  And the white rose is a dove.But I send you a cream-white rosebud  With a flush on its petal tips, For the love that is purest and sweetest  Has a kiss of desire on the lips. ~ John Boyle O'Reilly (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 13:19, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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June 29

June 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ Karl Kraus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (born 29 June 1900)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * What makes the desert beautiful … is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * What though our eyes with tears be wet? The sunrise never failed us yet. The blush of dawn may yet restore Our light and hope and joy once more. Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet!  ~ Celia Thaxter ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, — his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.  ~ Celia Thaxter ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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June 30

June 30 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ James Anthony Froude
 * selected by Kalki, originally crediting it to Lord Acton who quoted Froude in an address "The Study Of History" (11 June 1895); an early published version of this did not include quote marks around Froude's statement which led to this long being widely attributed to Acton. The phrase has also sometimes been misquoted as: Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

 * 2005
 * It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamilar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa. ~ Albert Einstein
 * 100th Anniversary of the publication Einstein's "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", Annalen der Physik (published 30 June 1905), the first work to describe relativity.
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills — A bird and a tree say to him: Friend. ~ Czesław Miłosz ~ (born 30 June 1911)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. ~ John Gay ~ (born 30 June 1685)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory. ~ Czesław Miłosz
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness. ~ Czesław Miłosz ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * And space, what it is like? Is it mechanical, Newtonian? A frozen prison? Or the lofty space of Einstein, the relation Between movement and movement? No reason to pretend I know. I don't know, and if I did, Still my imagination is a thousand years old. ~ Czesław Miłosz ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

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 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki in 2013 (earlier proposed by InvisibleSun in 2007, but only partially used in 2010).

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on globally significant circumstances.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~ Albert Einstein
 * In honor of "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/)" Annalen der Physik. June 30, 1905, first work to show relativity

 * 3 MosheZadka 00:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Zhaladshar 22:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 121a0012 02:14, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 28 June 2005 22:57 (UTC) The joke is fine, but I have never been able to establish this as an actual statement of Einstein's and have long been inclined to doubt that it is, despite it often being cited as one. If we are to commemorate the centennial of Einstein's publication, I would much prefer to use a far less dubious quotation of him, or perhaps the famous equation summing up the relations indicated by the theory: E = mc². The joke has been "quoted" by Steve Mirsky in the humorous "antigravity" section of Scientific American (September 2002). Vol. 287, Iss. 3; pg. 102 but this should hardly be taken as an authentication of the statement as actually Einstein's, as Mirsky cites the original source as being a fictional magazine: "Amazingly, the pretty girl/hot stove quote is actually the abstract from a short paper written by Einstein that appeared in the now defunct Journal of Exothermic Science and Technology (JEST, Vol. 1, No. 9; 1938)."
 * There is a thunderstorm rumbling where I am at, so to avoid a possible disconnect, I have just made a choice to use a more reliably genuine quote that includes "E = mc²", as it is the most famous statement of Einstein's theories. I am open to other options, but there are only about 5 hours remaining before the automated updates occur to the main page. After several sessions of extensive searching I cannot find any information that leads me to accept the above statement as a genuine quotation of Einstein, though it has often come to be cited as one. If anyone can provide reliable evidence that it is, it would be very welcome. ~ Kalki 29 June 2005 18:43 (UTC)

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. ~ Chaim Weizmann, about a 1921 trans-Atlantic voyage
 * 3 121a0012 02:41, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:17, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

E = mc²
 * 2 Kalki 01:09, 27 June 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 28 June 2005 22:57 (UTC) the famous equation summing up the relations indicated by relativity theory This has now been used as part of a quote of the day, and I am no longer as inclined to use it alone.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me? ~ Czesław Miłosz
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy. ~ Czesław Miłosz
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

The Russian colossus...has been underestimated by us...whenever a dozen divisions are destroyed the Russians replace them with another dozen. ~ Franz Halder (born June 30)
 * 3 and this isn't an exaggeration. Forces were replenished by more forces, lives by lives, and most importantly, soldiers by soldiers. Zarbon 06:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The World at War - Page 129 by Mark Arnold-Forster - World War, 1939-1945 - 1981
 * 2 Kalki 18:20, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

This is not a promise, this is a duty which I have to carry out. ~ Serzh Sargsyan
 * 3 Zarbon 04:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * [Source: 2008 Presidential Elections in Armenia]
 * 1 Kalki 18:20, 27 June 2008 (UTC) No context is provided in this statement, as it exists.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 16:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

These pages of our history, which we are writing together, shall bear witness only to victories. ~ Serzh Sargsyan
 * 3 Zarbon 04:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * [Source: The Government of the Republic of Armenia official website - Speech at the February 26 rally]
 * 2 Kalki 18:20, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 16:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down! ~ Cave Johnson
 * 3 Alistair3900 14:37, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC) I would rate this "3" if a source was provided.

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind? ~ Czesław Miłosz
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:43, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:38, 29 June 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 with a lean toward 3 - but presently prefer many other quotes by Miłosz and John Gay
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC) // NOT 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

 * Why, Rome was naked once, a bastard smudge, Tumbled on straw, the denfellow of whelps, Fattened on roots, and, when a-thirst for milk, He crept beneath and drank the swagging udder Of Tyber’s brave she-wolf; and Heaven’s Judea Was folded in a pannier. ~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 06:54, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

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