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Common sense

This article refers to a broad form of understanding.
 * For the political tract Common Sense, see Thomas Paine.
 * For the rapper formerly known as "Common Sense", see Common (rapper).

Common sense, roughly speaking, is what people in common would agree: that which they "sense" in common as their shared natural understanding. Some use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that in their opinion they consider would in most people's experience be prudent and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what is believed to be knowledge held by people "in common".

A

 * Common sense should be renamed, cos nower days it's rare
 * Jamie Adenuga, aka JME, grime artist and rapper, from the song JME

 * Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
 * Henri Fredrick Amiel, in “On the Art of Business” p. 88

B

 * Common sense is the favorite daughter of Reason, and altho thare are menny other wimmin more attraktive for a time, thare is nothing but death kan rob common sense ov her buty
 * Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876), p. 214
 * Wit, without sense, iz like a razor without a handle
 * Josh Billings, The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876), p. 219

 * Many quite nefarious ideologies pass for common sense. For decades of American history, it was common sense in some quarters for white people to own slaves and for women not to vote. ... If common sense sometimes preserves the social status quo, and that status quo sometimes treats unjust social hierarchies as natural, it makes good sense on such occasions to find ways of challenging common sense.
 * Judith Butler, “A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back,” The New York Times, March 20, 1999

C

 * Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.
 * Raymond Chandler, Playback (1958)

 * Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.
 * Stuart Chase, quoted in S. I. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action (1952); this has sometimes become misattributed to Hayakawa in later publications.

 * A weak mind with no common sense magnifies trifling things and cannot receive great ones.
 * Lord Chesterfield, in “Thoughts for Meaningful Life” p. 96

 * Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hacket's Life of Lord Keeper Williams", notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186

 * Common sense is only the application of theories which have grown and been formulated unconsciously as result of experience.
 * Hardy Cross, "For Mans Use of God's Gifts", collected in Engineers and Ivory Towers (1952), ed. Robert C. Goodpasture, p. 107

D

 *  Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée; car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.
 * Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
 * René Descartes, Discours de la Méthode (1637), Part I, incipit.
 * Variant: Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
 * As attributed in Ian Glynn, An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind (2003), p. 7

 * Unless the materials involved can be traced back to the material of common sense concern there is nothing whatever for scientific concern to be concerned with.
 * John Dewey, "Common Sense and Science", The Journal of Philosophy 45:8 (18 April 1948), §3; as reprinted in John Dewey: The Later Works, Vol. 16: 1949–1952 (1989), ed. Jo Ann Boydston, p. 252

 * I don’t profess to be profound, but I do lay claim to common sense.
 * Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1849-1850), ch. 8

E

 * Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
 * Attributed to Albert Einstein in Mathematics, Queen and Servant of the Sciences (1952) by Eric Temple Bell. However, this may only be based on a paraphrase or summary of his views as documented at Quote Investigator.
 * Paraphrased variant: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

 * Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art (1841)

 * Common sense is as rare as genius.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Anatomy of Judgment p. 88

G

 * The physician would be even worse off than he is, if not for the occasional emergence of common sense which breaks through dogmas with intuitive freshness.
 * Alexander Goldenweiser, Robots or Gods (1931), p. 62

 * Science and common sense differ as cultivated fruits differ from wild fruits. Science sows its seeds of inquiry, and gathers the fruit. Common sense picks the fruit, such as it, is by the wayside. Common sense has no fields or orchards of knowledge.
 * Sir William Withey Gull, A Collection of the Published Writings of William Withey Gull, Vol. 2: Memoir and Addresses (1896), ed. Theodore Dyke Acland, "Notes and Aphorisms", p. liv

H

 * Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other.
 * Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)

 * In all spheres of science, art, skill, and handicraft it is never doubted that, in order to master them, a considerable amount of trouble must be spent in learning and in being trained. As regards philosophy, on the contrary, there seems still an assumption prevalent that, though every one with eyes and fingers is not on that account in a position to make shoes if he only has leather and a last, yet everybody understands how to philosophize straight away, and pass judgment on philosophy, simply because he possesses the criterion for doing so in his natural reason.
 * G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), § 67

 * The phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
 * Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973), Prelude II

 * It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
 * Lawrence Joseph Henderson, The order of Nature (1917), Ch. 5

 * Consider the very roots of our ability to discern truth. Above all (or perhaps I should say "underneath all"), common sense is what we depend on – that crazily elusive, ubiquitous faculty we all have to some degree or other.... If we apply common sense to itself over and over again, we wind up building a skyscraper. The ground floor of the structure is the ordinary common sense we all have, and the rules for building news floors are implicit in the ground floor itself. However, working it all out is a gigantic task, and the result is a structure that transcends mere common sense.
 * Douglas Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (1985), pp. 93–94

 * Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872), Ch. 5, p. 140 (p. 120 in the 1891 edition)

 * What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition: that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
 * E. W. Howe, in "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately" p. 424; quoting from Sinner Sermons: A Selection of the Best Paragraphs of E W Howe (1926)

 * Common sense is in spite of, not the result of education.
 * Widely attributed to Victor Hugo posthumously but not in any of his published works. No sources indicating origins have been found.

 * Science, is I believe, nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only so far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields a club.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854), as reprinted in Collected Essays by T. H. Huxley Vol 3: Science and Education (1894), p. 45

J

 * Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
 * Russell Jacoby, Social Amnesia (1975), p. 23-25

 * The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common sense and empiricism from the charge of ideology.
 * Russell Jacoby, Social Amnesia (1975), pp. 6-7

 * Common-sense contents itself with the unreconciled contradiction, laughs when it can, and weeps when it must, and makes, in short, a practical compromise, without trying a theoretical solution.
 * William James, "German Pessimism" (1875), a review of Der Modern Pessimismus by Edmund Pfleiderer; as reprinted in Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920), ed. Ralph Barton Perry, p. 17

 * In practical talk, a man's common sense means his good judgement, his freedom from eccentricity, his gumption.
 * William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907), Lecture 5: "Pragmatism and Common sense"

K

 * We know that the probability of well-established induction is great, but, when we are asked to name its degree we cannot. Common sense tells us that some inductive arguments are stronger than others, and that some are very strong. But how much stronger or how strong we cannot express.
 * John Maynard Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (1921), ch. 22, p. 259

L

 * A small overweight of knowledge is often a sore impediment to the movements of common sense.
 * Peter Mere Latham, as attributed without citation in Aphorisms from Latham (1962), ed. William Bennett Bean, p. 37

M

 * I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.
 * H. L. Mencken, as quoted in LIFE magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (5 August 1946), p. 52

 * I am one of those philosophers who have held that that "the Common Sense view of the world" is in certain fundamental features, wholly true.
 * George Edward Moore, "A Defence of Common Sense", as reprinted in Moore, Philosophical Papers (1959), p. 44

O

 * Common sense is not wrong in the view that is meaningful, appropriate and necessary to talk about the large objects of our daily experience…Common sense is wrong only if it insists that what is familiar must reappear in what is unfamiliar.
 * Robert Oppenheimer, Science and the Common Understanding (1953), Ch. 5

R

 * Since the world is what it is, it is clear that valid reasoning from sound principles cannot lead to error; but a principle may be so nearly true as to deserve theoretical respect, and yet may lead to practical consequences which we feel to be absurd. There is therefore a justification for common sense in philosophy, but only as showing that our theoretical principles cannot be quite correct so long as their consequences are condemned by an appeal to common sense which we feel to be irresistible.
 * Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945)

S

 * Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
 * Gertrude Stein, "Reflection on the Atomic Bomb", Yale Poetry Review, December 1947

T

 * Common sense is the very antipodes of science.
 * Edward Bradford Titchener, Systematic Psychology: Prolegomena (1972), p. 48

 * There is absolutely no common sense; it is common nonsense.
 * Henry David Thoreau, "Paradise (to be) Regained", The Democratic Review (November 1843); as reprinted in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 10: Miscellanies (1893), ed. Horace Elisha Scudder and Harrison Gray Otis Blake, p. 61

V

 * Whatever the common-sense of earlier generations may have held in this respect, modern common-sense holds that the scientist's answer is the only ultimately true one. In the last resort enlightened common-sense sticks by the opaque truth and refuses to go behind the returns given by the triangle of facts.
 * Thorstein Veblen, "The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation", The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 11 (March 1906); as reprinted in Veblen, The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays (1919), p. 4

 * On dit quelquefois: "Le sens commun est fort rare."
 * People sometimes say: "Common sense is quite rare."
 * Voltaire, "Common Sense," Dictionnaire philosophique portatif (1765)
 * The better known variant of this quote is "Common sense is not so common," said to be in the Dictionnaire philosophique entry "Self-Love"; but it is not found there.

W

 * To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the Goodness that has given so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
 * Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann, 27 May (1776), Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann  (1844), Vol. 1, p. 409

 * Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Ch. 3

Anonymous

 * Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
 * Anonymous, variously attributed to Josh Billings, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Calvin Ellis Stowe, and Harriet Beecher Stowe but no reliable source has been found

 * There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
 * Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Ralston Bowles

Ralston Bowles (born August 31, 1952) is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Quotes

 * "We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile."
 * From the song "Fragile" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now."
 * From the song "Fragile" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "I am but a draper in a room of wool, looking at the patterns, feeling like a fool. I'm going to take my fabric, stretch it to the seams, I want to find what's woven underneath these tailored dreams"
 * From the song "Draper" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "When I go let it be like James Dean, I don't want to die slow."
 * From the song "James Dean" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "These carwreck conversations always seem to end this way, with me knocked out on the gurney and you serenely pull away."
 * From the song "You Already Knew That" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die."
 * From the song "Draper" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?"
 * From the song "Draper" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)

 * "When did he cross that line from a person to a textile shrine?"
 * From the song "Velvet Elvis" on the album The Grand Rapids Collection (2005)

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Walt Kelly

Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. (25 August 1913 – 18 October 1973) was an American animator and cartoonist, usually known simply as Walt Kelly, most famous for the comic strip Pogo.

Quotes

 * The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name "Armistice Day." Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.
 * Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959), p. 100

 * Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.
 * Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959); an aside while recounting the 1954 shooting in the US Congress public-viewing gallery. Kelly noted that the shooters were not lunatic-fringe segregationists, then added the aside in a footnote.

And a fishin' expedition Needs no repetition For the end is never new: you need a friend and you.'''
 * '''Suspicion is the mother of invention
 * The Jack Acid Society Black Book (1960)

 * God is not dead — He is merely unemployed...
 * A response to Time magazine's cover story of 8 April 1966, which asked, "Is God Dead?" This, in turn, came from Nietzsche's famous quote, "God is dead." It appears on page 96, the final panel in The Pogo Poop Book (1966).

 * As we thrash on to a finish through the current thicket of flags and banners, we realize it is no finish at all, but a new inning. Secure in the rules, we know that, given three strikes, the truth will out.
 * Equal Time for Pogo (1968)

 * Looking back on things, the view always improves.
 * Impollutable Pogo (1970)

Pogo
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.
 * We have met the enemy and he is us.
 * This is derived from the famous statement of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on the "War of 1812": "We have met the enemy and they are ours". It appeared in a "modern day" poster for the first Earth Day in April 1970, and next in the comic strip itself in August 1970 in Porky Pine's mouth, and was re-used by Kelly in a subsequent Earth Day poster (1971), and further strips and in the title of the book Pogo : We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us (1972).
 * A similar statement was actually used by Kelly many years earlier in his introduction to The Pogo Papers (1953) which he closes with these comments:
 * Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.
 * Forward!

Porky Pine

 * Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

 * Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it’s worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

 * The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

 * I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.
 * The Honolulu Advertiser (20 June 1959), cited in "Pogo on intelligent life in the universe" by Garson O'Toole, in Archive of the American Dialect Society listserver (16 February 2017), and in 'Pogo Comic on Extraterrestrials: Either Way, It’s a Mighty Soberin’ Thought", The Quote Investigator (18 February 2017). This has often been paraphrased as: "Thar’s only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we’re the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it’s a mighty sobering thought."

 * [After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:] If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.

Beauregard

 * Is we runnin' TO it or FROM it?
 * In response to being awakened from sleep by a stampede of animals and being told "The DAM is bust".

Others

 * Ever since I heard you is got a million dollars I notice you is fraught with perspicacity.
 * Uncle Baldwin (speaking to Churchy)

 * Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
 * Miz Beaver

 * I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!
 * Congersman Frog

 * So we got fifty percent. Babe Ruth didn't do no better. — Did you mean hittin' it... or throwin' it?
 * The three bats (Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred)

 * Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
 * Tammananny Tiger (to Pogo)

 * The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.
 * Dr. Howland Owl

 * Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!
 * Albert Alligator in a thinking contest (after Howland Hoo Owl fires the starting gun)

 * Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!
 * Churchy (to Howland)

Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo! Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou. Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola Boola Pensacoola Hullabaloo!
 * ''Deck us all with Boston Charlie

Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly wolly cracker n' too-da-loo! Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon, Willy, folly go through!

Donkey Bonny brays a carol, Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you! Chollie's collie barks at Barrow, Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo

Duck us all in bowls of barley, Hinky dinky dink an' Polly Voo! Chilly Filly's name is Chollie, Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, Woof, Woof! Tizzy seas on melon collie! Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, Goof, Goof!''

Dialogue

 * Albert: I'd give them a piece of my mind if I could find it! I mean, them!
 * Porky Pine: [to Pogo] Y'know, ol' Albert leads a life of noisy desperation.

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Jamie Oliver

James Trevor Oliver MBE (born 27 May 1975), better known as Jamie Oliver and nicknamed The Naked Chef, is an English celebrity chef. He is well known for his role in campaigning against processed foods in British schools.

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 * Whether you’re a vegan or not, there are endless reasons why we should all be delighted that the movement has grown so fast in the last few years. … Through adapting their diets to make sure they get all the vitamins they need, to pressuring big corporations and governments for more ethical products, vegans are giving food the focus it deserves. They are also doing their bit to reduce food miles and emissions … They’re teaching us a thing or two as well. My vegan and vegetarian friends have cooked me some fantastic meals, many of which I now make regularly. It’s saving me money, encouraging me to eat more vegetables, and reducing my meat intake. While I have no plans to give up meat, I recognise that it shouldn’t be the focus of my diet. I am now vegetarian every other day – not consciously, but because lots of my favourite meals are meat-free. I have also learnt lots of new techniques as I work around the limits of reducing dairy and meat products. I make cakes without eggs, burgers without beef, and pastry without butter. I … refuse to buy any animal product that doesn’t have a guarantee of quality such as Freedom Food, free range or organic status.
 * "World Vegan Month is good for everyone", JamieOliver.com (November 3, 2014).

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Major Characters

 * Albert Alligator - blustering and cheerful, always chomping a dead cigar (sometimes attempts to light a sausage)
 * Churchill (Churchy) LaFemme - superstitious mud turtle
 * Howland Owl - pedantic know-it-all (a.k.a. Dr Howland)
 * Okefenokee Swamp - home to Pogo and friends
 * Pogo Possum - Our hero, modest and profound, likes to fish
 * Beauregard Hound Dog - loyal and true, Man's best friend
 * Porkypine (Porky) - shy misanthropic porcupine

Minor Characters

 * Deacon Mushrat - educated muskrat, the hypocritical spiritual leader
 * Mam'selle Hepzibah - coquettish skunk, heart throb for Churchy and Porky
 * Miz Beaver - matron in an apron sporting a corn cob pipe
 * Mole MacCarony - a near-sighted All-American birdwatcher
 * P.T. Bridgeport - con-artist bear caricature of P.T. Barnum
 * Sarcophagus Macabre - mortician vulture
 * Seminole Sam - the sly fox; a snake-oil salesman
 * Simple J. Malarkey - polecat/lynx caricature of Senator Joseph McCarthy
 * Tammananny Tiger
 * Wiley Catt - gun totin' bob cat

Misc. Characters

 * Alf and Reggie
 * Aunt Granny’s Bitter Brittle Root
 * Auntie Fudgenut
 * Auntie Goose
 * Baleful Baxter - a wood tick
 * Baldwin, Porky’s uncle
 * Basher the kangaroo
 * Basil McTabolism - the pulse beatnik
 * Bemildred - one of the bats
 * Blue Muslin ants of the XXX
 * Bonfire Boys
 * Boy Bird Watchers
 * Bulldog - caricature of J.Edgar Hoover
 * Bullmoose
 * Bumbazine - a small black boy dropped from the original strip
 * Bun Rabbit
 * Butch the cat
 * Camp Siberia members
 * Choo-Choo the mailman duck
 * Clifford the Crawfish
 * Congersman Jumphrey Frog
 * Cricket
 * Doc Noah
 * Doctor Howland - see Howland Owl
 * Dogslife reporters
 * Fenster Moop
 * Fido the Liberator Goat - caricature of Fidel Castro
 * Flea
 * Fort Mudge
 * Fremount the boy bug
 * Grundoon the baby groundhog
 * Gai-Tsu - Chinese chick hatched from a thousand-year-old egg
 * Gwhan Shi Foah
 * Herm Bandwaggin
 * Herman the half-hatched egg
 * Hogarth the hornet
 * Igor Beaver
 * Indian Charlie - Malarkey's sidekick, caricature of Richard Nixon
 * Kluck Klams - caricature of Ku Klux Klan
 * Loan Arranger
 * Mailman duck - see Choo-Choo
 * Miggle’s Emporium
 * Miz Flea
 * Miz Groun’squirrel
 * Miz Limpkin
 * Miz Rackety-Coon
 * Miz Weevil
 * Mouldy Mort the frog
 * Mouse
 * Mr Pig - The Notorious International Pig - caricature of Nikita Khrushchev
 * Newslife reporters
 * Nostril O’Toole
 * Pavlov - the two-headed Russian dog
 * Picayune Frog
 * Pup-dog
 * Rackety-coon chile
 * Ripe-Dan Winkle
 * Roogey Batoon - New Orleans pelican
 * Sam - teapot-shaped spider - caricature of Richard Nixon
 * Senator Bulfrog
 * Sha-Lan
 * Sis Boombah - a Rhode Island Red Hen
 * Snavely - the snake
 * Solid MacHogany - a smalltime ham
 * Tacky - the porcupine tad
 * The angle worm
 * The Australian kangaroo - “The Basher‿
 * The bats - pollsters by the names of Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (sometimes Bemildred)
 * The Boss
 * The Chief
 * The cowbirds
 * The gentleman ladybug
 * The hyena, in uniform - caricature of Spiro Agnew
 * The International Pig as Sam Nikolaus
 * The Jack Acid Society (Deacon and Mole) - caricature of the John Birch Society
 * The ladybug
 * The Prince of Pompadoodle
 * The skunk-child
 * Uncle Antlers
 * Uncle Beanfellow and Cleo
 * Unknowns Anonymous
 * Wee Willie the Jayhawk
 * Willow McWisper
 * worm chile

Pogo Book List
1. POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1951, Softcover 2. I GO POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1952, Softcover 3. UNCLE POGO SO-SO STORIES, Simon & Schuster, 1953, Softcover 4. THE POGO PAPERS, Simon & Schuster, 1954, Softcover 5. THE POGO STEPMOTHER GOOSE, Simon & Schuster, 1954, Softcover 6. THE INCOMPLEAT POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1954, Softcover 7. THE POGO PEEK-A-BOOK, Simon & Schuster, 1955, Softcover 8. POTLUCK POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1955, Softcover 9. SUNDAY BOOK, Simon & Schuster, 1956, Softcover 10. THE POGO PARTY, Simon & Schuster, 1956, Softcover 11. SONGS OF THE POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1956, Hardcover 12. POGO'S SUNDAY PUNCH, Simon & Schuster, 1957, Softcover 13. POSITIVELY POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1957, Softcover 14. THE POGO SUNDAY PARADE, Simon & Schuster, 1958, Softcover 15. G.O. FIZZICKLE POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1958, Softcover 16. TEN EVER-LOVIN' BLUE-EYED YEARS WITH POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1959, Hardcover 17. THE POGO SUNDAY BRUNCH, Simon & Schuster, 1959, Softcover 18. POGO EXTRA ELECTION SPECIAL, Simon & Schuster, 1960, Softcover 19. BEAU POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1960, Softcover 20. GONE POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1961, Softcover 21. POGO A LA SUNDAE, Simon & Schuster, 1961, Softcover 22. INSTANT POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1962, Softcover 23. THE JACK ACID SOCIETY BLACK BOOK, Simon & Schuster, 1962, Softcover 24. THE POGO PUCE STAMP CATALOG, Simon & Schuster, 1963, Softcover 25. DECK US ALL WITH BOSTON CHARLIE, Simon & Schuster, 1963, Softcover 26. POGO FOR PRESIDENT, Crest Books, 1964, Softcover 27. THE RETURN OF POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1965, Softcover 28. THE POGO POOP BOOK, Simon & Schuster, 1966, Softcover 29. PREHYSTERICAL POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1967, Softcover 30. EQUAL TIME FOR POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1968, Softcover 31. POGO: PRISONER OF LOVE, Simon & Schuster, 1969, Softcover 32. IMPOLLUTABLE POGO, Simon & Schuster, 1970, Softcover 33. POGO: WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US, Simon & Schuster, 1972, Softcover 34. POGO'S BATS AND BELLES FREE, Simon & Schuster, 1976, Softcover 35. POGO'S BODY POLITICS, Simon & Schuster, 1976, Softcover 36. THE POGO CANDIDATURE, Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, 1976, Softcover

--Jwalling 03:25, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

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 * Reciprovocation is the spites of life.

 * Romeo wasn't bilked in a day.

 * I carry the hose.

 * Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

 * Given three strikes, the truth will out.

 * Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
 * (taken from the George Santayana quote, "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.")

 * I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

 * If you wants to get elected president, you've got to think up some memorable homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.

 * In like a dimwit, out like a light.

 * Knowledge and meaning can be too earnestly sought after. for the boy who, blind or helpless, can lie around and find moonlight and dancing girls going about their business in the secrecy of his mind alone.

 * Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

 * Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. ~ Miz Beaver

 * My bug brain is ever whirrin.

 * Pogo is "the reasonably patient, soft-hearted, naive, friendly little person we all think we are"

 * The Now is alive with a curious life which defies the descriptive powers of such divers as swim ahead of the swine in search of pearls.

 * We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
 * Variant: We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.

 * We gotta make democracy safe for the world.

 * What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.

 * Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

 * If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

 * A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.

I’m against all extremes
"I’m against all extremes: the extreme right, the extreme left, and the extreme middle."

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/71621761/

--85.197.8.209 13:15, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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Jim Jones

James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, political activist, preacher, and faith healer who led the Peoples Temple, a new religious organization which existed between 1955 and 1978. In what he claimed to be a "revolutionary suicide", Jones and his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder–suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.

Quotes

 * My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home.
 * (1978). Translated back from Dutch to English, indirectly sourced, Messiahs: The vision and prophecies for the Second coming by John Hogue

 * The young preacher once threw his Bible to the floor and yelled at his associates, "Too many people are looking at this instead of looking at me!"
 * Quoted in "Messiah from the Midwest" Time (December 4, 1978)

 * If you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin.
 * "The Letter Killeth." Original material reprint. Department of Religious Studies. San Diego State

 * "Love is the only weapon." Shit! Bullshit! Martin Luther King died with love! Kennedy died talking about something he couldn't even understand, some kind of generalized love, and he never even backed it up. He was shot down. Bullshit! "Love is the only weapon with which I've got to fight." I've got a hell of a lot of weapons to fight! I've got my claws. I've got cutlasses. I've got guns. I've got dynamite. I've got a hell of a lot to fight! I'll fight! I'll fight!
 * Mass meeting in Jonestown, featured in Father Cares (NPR documentary)

 * Son of a bitchin’ no good lousy ass anarchistic capitalist bitch. That's what I say about my relatives, but you won't say it.
 * "" FBI No. Q265 (October 17, 1978)

 * If my wife said, I'm not going to be a communist, I'd say, well, forget it, by God, I'll forget you too.
 * "" FBI No. Q265 (October 17, 1978)

 * I'd like to choose my own kind of death, for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell. Tired of it.
 * "Death Tape" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 18, 1978)

 * If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.
 * "Death Tape" FBI No. Q042 (November 18, 1978)

 * Take our life from us. We laid it down. We got tired. We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.
 * Last words on "Death Tape" FBI No. Q042 (November 18, 1978)

About Jim Jones

 * Jim Jones was a self-obsessed American cult leader who manipulated the poor and vulnerable, demanded their complete obedience, and ordered the murder of those who questioned his integrity. At the end he killed or convinced nearly a thousand people — including two hundred children — to take their own lives in a jungle settlement in South America called ‘Jonestown’, constructed around his own warped and paranoid fantasy.
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), p. 341

 * Jones began life as a pious man with a social conscience, who refused to judge people on grounds of wealth or race. But his vision of a socialist utopia was ultimately indistinguishable from his own manic desire for domination — and when that control was threatened, he was prepared to bring destruction down on all those around him.
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), p. 344

 * A paranoid narcissist. Jim Jones was enthralling, persuasive and power-hungry. He thrived on attention, adoration and adulation. He was equal parts bully and charmer.
 * David Nemer "Is Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's right-wing president, the new Jim Jones?" Salon (April 8, 2020)

 * We were about to board the planes for the flight back to the United States. Jim Jones didn't want us to leave, at least not alive. A tractor trailer loaded with men armed with shotguns and rifles pulled up and opened fire on us at that airstrip. Congressman Ryan was gunned down, having been shot 40 times. The first and only congressman in the history of this country to be assassinated during the line of duty. I was shot five times and left to bleed on that airstrip for 22 hours. Back at Jonestown, over 900 people lost their lives in a mass murder and suicide that night. This is what I awoke to on that long day. I was 28 years old, and I was waiting to die. I laid awake all night fearing some of the gunmen would come back and finish us off. Time passed, and local Guyanese people offered me rum to try and get me through the night. I had a lot of time to think. I promised God that if I lived, I would make every day count. I promised that I would make something out of my life if I was allowed to keep my life. Well, here I am. I have chosen a career as a public servant. One, I hope many of you will contemplate as you move forward in your lives.
 * Jackie Speier, Commencement Speaker, San Francisco State University (2006)

 * Constructing or adopting a belief system in which one is either God's prophet or God himself inflates the ego to monstrous proportions. Koresh was more deeply concerned with religion, Jim Jones with racial equality and an egalitarian society. But both compensated for isolation and lack of love in childhood by becoming infatuated with power, and both ended up with delusions of their own divinity.
 * Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997), p. 18

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Minor griping aside, I like quotes and have a small collection of them. Don't expect any new pages, but I might add some quotes to existing ones.

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John Forbes Nash, Jr.

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 — May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician, who shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. His works in game theory,, and have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory.
 * See also:
 * A Beautiful Mind
 * Nash equilibrium

1950s

 * A less obvious type of application (of non-cooperative games) is to the study of . By a cooperative game we mean a situation involving a set of players, pure strategies, and payoffs as usual; but with the assumption that the players can and will collaborate as they do in the von Neumann and Morgenstern theory. This means the players may communicate and form coalitions which will be enforced by an umpire. It is unnecessarily restrictive, however, to assume any transferability or even comparability of the pay-offs [which should be in utility units] to different players. Any desired transferability can be put into the game itself instead of assuming it possible in the extra-game collaboration.
 * "Non-cooperative Games" in Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (September 1951); as cited in Can and should the Nash program be looked at as a part of mechanism theory? (2003) by Walter Trockel

 * The writer has developed a “dynamical” approach to the study of cooperative games based upon reduction to non-cooperative form. One proceeds by constructing a model of the preplay negotiation so that the steps of negotiation become moves in a larger non-cooperative game [which will have an infinity of pure strategies] describing the total situation. This larger game is then treated in terms of the theory of this paper [extended to infinite games] and if values are obtained they are taken as the values of the cooperative game. Thus the problem of analyzing a cooperative game becomes the problem of obtaining a suitable, and convincing, non-cooperative model for the negotiation. The writer has, by such a treatment, obtained values for all finite two-person cooperative games, and some special n-person games.
 * "Non-cooperative Games" in Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (September 1951)

 * We give two independent derivations of our solution of the two-person cooperative game. In the first, the cooperative game is reduced to a non-cooperative game. To do this, one makes the players’ steps of negotiation in the cooperative game become moves in the noncooperative model. Of course, one cannot represent all possible bargaining devices as moves in the non-cooperative game. The negotiation process must be formalized and restricted, but in such a way that each participant is still able to utilize all the essential strengths of his position. The second approach is by the axiomatic method. One states as axioms several properties that it would seem natural for the solution to have and then one discovers that the axioms actually determine the solution uniquely. The two approaches to the problem, via the negotiation model or via the axioms, are complementary; each helps to justify and clarify the other.
 * "Non-cooperative Games" in Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (September 1951)

1990s

 * I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
 * Statement of 1996, as quoted in Dr. Riemann's Zeros (2003) by Karl Sabbagh, p. 88

Autobiographical essay (1994)

 * "Autobiographical essay" in Les Prix Nobel - The Nobel Prizes 1994 (1995) edited by Tore Frängsmyr

 * By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.

 * As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to "," also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph. D. thesis with the other results.

 * Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

 * At the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

 * Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.

2000s

 * Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
 * As quoted in A Beautiful Mind, (2001); also cited in Quantum Phaith (2011), by Jeffrey Strickland, p. 197

 * People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
 * As quoted in "A Brilliant Madness A Beautiful Madness (2002), PBS TV program; also cited in Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession'' (2013) by René J. Muller, p. 62

 * You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.
 * Statement of 2006, partly cited in Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) by Scott Wilson, p. 117

Quotes about Nash

 * This man is a genius.
 * Richard Duffin, recommendation for Nash

 * ... he gave his name to the Nash equilibrium – a position in a situation of competition or conflict in which both sides have selected a strategy, but where neither side can then independently change their strategy without ending up in a less desirable position. Such positions are common in everyday life, and in the interactions of business people, politicians and nations. He earned his early reputation, and his 1994 Nobel prize in economics, by proving mathematically that there is at least one Nash equilibrium lying in wait to trap us in every situation of competition or conflict where the parties are unwilling or unable to communicate.
 * Len Fisher

 * He was always full of mathematical ideas, not only on game theory, but in geometry and topology as well. However, my most vivid memory of this time is of the many games which were played in the common room. I was introduced to Go and Kriegspiel, and also to an ingenious topological game which we called Nash in honor of the inventor.
 * , describing what Nash was like late 1940s, when Milnor was also a Princeton undergraduate, in "A Nobel prize for John Nash", in The Mathematical Intelligencer 17 (3) (1995), p. 11-17

 * As I said, I spent a great deal of time in the common room, and so did Nash. He was a very interesting character and full of ideas. He also used to wander in the corridors whistling things like Bach, which I had never really heard before — a strange way to be introduced to classical music! I saw quite a bit of him over those years and I also became interested in game theory, in which he was an important contributor. He was a very interesting person.
 * John Milnor, in Interview with John Milnor, by Martin Raussen and Christian Skau, The Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society (September 2011)

 * When Freeman Dyson, the physicist, greeted John Forbes Nash, Jr. at the Institute for Advanced Study one day in the early 1990s, he hardly expected a response. A mathematics legend in his twenties, Nash had suffered for decades from a devastating mental illness. A mute, ghost-like figure who scrawled mysterious messages on blackboards and occupied himself with numerological calculations, he was known around Princeton only as “the Phantom.” To Dyson’s astonishment, Nash replied. He’d seen Dyson’s daughter, an authority on computers, on the news, he said. “It was beautiful,” recalled Dyson. “Slowly, he just somehow woke up.” Nash’s miraculous emergence from an illness long considered a life sentence was neither the first, nor last, surprise twist in an extraordinary life.
 * Sylvia Nasar, in the Introduction to The Essential John Nash (2001), edited by Harold W. Kuhn & Sylvia Nasar

 * [W]hile the book and the movie probed the conflicting complexities in Nash the man, neither delved deeply into Nash's math. So for most people today, his accomplishments remain obscure. Within the world of science, though, Nash's math now touches more disciplines than Newton's or Einstein's. What Newton's or Einstein's math did for the physical universe, Nash's math may now be accomplishing for the biological and social universe.
 * Tom Siegfried, A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature (2006) Introduction

 * The tools introduced by Nash gave rise to new powerful theories (convex integration, Nash-Moser scheme) which later would allow to attack many mathematical problems.
 * Cédric Villani, (quote at 27:08 of 59:51)

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Teresa of Ávila

Saint Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús) (28 March 1515 – 4 October 1582), born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a Spanish mystic philosopher and Catholic saint.

Quotes

 * Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee: All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
 * "Poem IX", in Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila (1963) edited by E. Allison Peers, Vol. 3, p. 288

 * To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.
 * As quoted in The Little Lamp (1981) by Eknath Easwaran, p. 80

 * It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
 * As quoted in The Road to Emmaus : Pilgrimage as a Way of Life (2007) by Jim Forest, p. 61

 * Pain is never permanent.
 * The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 333

 * He who cares nothing for the good things of the world has dominion over them all.
 * The Way of Perfection, p. 41

The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565)

 * Teresa's autobiography, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel (c. 1565) as translated by David Lewis (1904) at Project Gutenberg

 * One of my brothers was nearly of my own age; and he it was whom I most loved, though I was very fond of them all, and they of me. He and I used to read Lives of Saints together. When I read of martyrdom undergone by the Saints for the love of God, it struck me that the vision of God was very cheaply purchased; and I had a great desire to die a martyr's death, — not out of any love of Him of which I was conscious, but that I might most quickly attain to the fruition of those great joys of which I read that they were reserved in Heaven; and I used to discuss with my brother how we could become martyrs. We settled to go together to the country of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, that we might be there beheaded; and our Lord, I believe, had given us courage enough, even at so tender an age, if we could have found the means to proceed; but our greatest difficulty seemed to be our father and mother.
 * Ch. I "Childhood and early Impressions" ¶ 4

 * It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them, in order that you, my father, may understand the matter; for ever since that time of which I am speaking, when our Lord granted me that grace, it has been an ordinary occurrence until now, as will appear by what I have yet to say. The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer. When we wish not to hear anything in this world, we can stop our ears, or give attention to something else: so that, even if we do hear, at least we can refuse to understand. In this locution of God addressed to the soul there is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen; and the understanding must apply itself so thoroughly to the comprehension of that which God wills we should hear, that it is nothing to the purpose whether we will it or not; for it is His will, Who can do all things.
 * Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 1 & 2

 * All things fail; but Thou, Lord of all, never failest! They who love Thee, oh, how little they have to suffer! oh, how gently, how tenderly, how sweetly Thou, O my Lord, dealest with them! Oh, that no one had ever been occupied with any other love than Thine! It seems as if Thou didst subject those who love Thee to a severe trial: but it is in order that they may learn, in the depths of that trial, the depths of Thy love. O my God, oh, that I had understanding and learning, and a new language, in order to magnify Thy works, according to the knowledge of them which my soul possesses! Everything fails me, O my Lord; but if Thou wilt not abandon me, I will never fail Thee. Let all the learned rise up against me, — let the whole creation persecute me, — let the evil spirits torment me, — but do Thou, O Lord, fail me not; for I know by experience now the blessedness of that deliverance which Thou dost effect for those who trust only in Thee. In this distress, — for then I had never had a single vision, — these Thy words alone were enough to remove it, and give me perfect peace: "Be not afraid, my daughter: it is I; and I will not abandon thee. Fear not." It seems to me that, in the state I was in then, many hours would have been necessary to calm me, and that no one could have done it. Yet I found myself, through these words alone, tranquil and strong, courageous and confident, at rest and enlightened; in a moment, my soul seemed changed, and I felt I could maintain against all the world that my prayer was the work of God. Oh, how good is God! how good is our Lord, and how powerful! He gives not counsel only, but relief as well. His words are deeds. O my God! as He strengthens our faith, love grows.
 * Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 22 & 23

 * Seeing, then, that our Lord is so powerful, — as I see and know He is, — and that the evil spirits are His slaves, of which there can be no doubt, because it is of faith, — and I a servant of this our Lord and King, — what harm can Satan do unto me? Why have I not strength enough to fight against all hell? I took up the cross in my hand, — I was changed in a moment into another person, and it seemed as if God had really given me courage enough not to be afraid of encountering all the evil spirits.
 * Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 24

 * I feared them so little, that the terrors, which until now oppressed me, quitted me altogether; and though I saw them occasionally, — I shall speak of this by and by, — I was never again afraid of them — on the contrary, they seemed to be afraid of me. I found myself endowed with a certain authority over them, given me by the Lord of all, so that I cared no more for them than for flies. They seem to be such cowards; for their strength fails them at the sight of any one who despises them. These enemies have not the courage to assail any but those whom they see ready to give in to them, or when God permits them to do so, for the greater good of His servants, whom they may try and torment.
 * Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 25

 * May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear, and understand that one venial sin can do us more harm than all hell together; for that is the truth. The evil spirits keep us in terror, because we expose ourselves to the assaults of terror by our attachments to honours, possessions, and pleasures. For then the evil spirits, uniting themselves with us, — we become our own enemies when we love and seek what we ought to hate, — do us great harm. We ourselves put weapons into their hands, that they may assail us; those very weapons with which we should defend ourselves. It is a great pity. But if, for the love of God, we hated all this, and embraced the cross, and set about His service in earnest, Satan would fly away before such realities, as from the plague. He is the friend of lies, and a lie himself. He will have nothing to do with those who walk in the truth. When he sees the understanding of any one obscured, he simply helps to pluck out his eyes; if he sees any one already blind, seeking peace in vanities, — for all the things of this world are so utterly vanity, that they seem to be but the playthings of a child, — he sees at once that such a one is a child; he treats him as a child, and ventures to wrestle with him — not once, but often. May it please our Lord that I be not one of these; and may His Majesty give me grace to take that for peace which is really peace, that for honour which is really honour, and that for delight which is really a delight. Let me never mistake one thing for another — and then I snap my fingers at all the devils, for they shall be afraid of me. I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? What does it mean? I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. I have spent some years of such great anxiety, that even now I am amazed that I was able to bear it. Blessed be our Lord, who has so effectually helped me!
 * Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 26 & 27
 * Variant translation: I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

 * I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have visions of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful — his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim. Their names they never tell me; but I see very well that there is in heaven so great a difference between one angel and another, and between these and the others, that I cannot explain it. I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it, even a large one. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.
 * Ch. XXIX, ¶ 16-17

Interior Castle (1577)

 * It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. Would it not be a sign of great ignorance, my daughters, if a person were asked who he was, and could not say, and had no idea who his father or mother was, or from what country he came? Though that is a great stupidity, our own is incomparably greater if we make no attempt to discover what we are, and only know that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are — those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. All our interest is centred in the rough setting of the diamond and in the outer wall of the castle – that is to say in these bodies of ours.
 * First Mansions, Ch. 1, as translated by E. Allison Peers (1961) p. 18

 * We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
 * First Mansions, Ch. 2 : The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman

 * Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought. And then we send all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are lost, and have misused the time that we are spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united with Him in the Mansions very near His presence, while thought remains in the outskirts of the castle, suffering the assaults of a thousand wild and venomous creatures and from this suffering winning merit. So this must not upset us, and we must not abandon the struggle, as the devil tries to make us do. Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves.
 * Fourth Mansions, Ch. 1, trans. E. Allison Peers (1961), ISBN 0-385-03643-4 p. 58–59

 * God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
 * Fourth Mansions, Ch. 3: Prayer of Quiet, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman

 * We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.
 * Fifth Mansion, Ch. 3, translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1921), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman (1930); reprinted (2003) by Kessinger Publications, ISBN 0-766-17267-8 p. 109

Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)

 * "Maxims for Her Nuns" in Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila (1963) edited by E. Allison Peers, Vol. 3, p. 256 - 260

 * Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
 * Maxim 13, p. 256

 * Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
 * Maxim 15, p. 256

 * Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
 * Maxim 25, p. 257

 * Reflect upon the providence and wisdom of God in all created things and praise Him in them all.
 * Maxim 35, p. 258

 * Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
 * Maxim 44, p. 259

 * Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
 * Maxim 52, p. 259

 * Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
 * Maxim 55, p. 259

About

 * You ask whether it is possible to understand the indication regarding the appearance of Christ in lesser images and in reality. Certainly. Medievalism made an inaccessible idol of Christ and deprived him of any humanity, therefore also of divinity. Thus, all the Teachings of the East proclaim that there is no god (or gods) who was not at one time a man. Such a forced separation of Christ from human essence threatened and still threatens a complete break in the communion of humanity with the Higher World. One can trace how in the Middle Ages there appeared every now and then great saints who tried to re-establish this almost lost communion, and all of them insisted precisely on the human essence of Christ. Especially strong affirmations of this can be found in the pages of the autobiography of St. Theresa, the Spanish saint of the sixteenth century, and still earlier, in the visions and writings of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Gertrude. Thus, the form and the quality of the visions and communications received through such communion always correspond with the level of the consciousness of those who see and receive them, and also with the needs of the time. As it was said, "In is precisely by following the character of the visions that the best history of the intellect may be written."
 * Helena Roerich, Letters of Helena Roerich II,  (2 April 1936)

 * I strongly recommend that all read the autobiography of St. Theresa. In spite of the fact that this work went through the "spiritual" censorship of the Church, some amazing pages have been preserved. By propagating the dogma of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, the Church contradicts the very sense of the prayer given to us by Jesus Christ himself, "Our Father which art in heaven." And also the words of the Scriptures, "So God created man in his own image." (Genesis 1:27) Thus, by claiming the exclusiveness of sonship and divine origin for Jesus Christ, the Church, by that very claim, forever divorced him from mankind. From this came a whole train of grave events; the exclusion of Jesus Christ from the life of humanity, the obliteration of his human Sacrifice and the awful suggestion implying that the death of Christ on the Cross saved humanity from "original" sin (?!) and from all subsequent sins.
 * Helena Roerich, in Letters of Helena Roerich II,  (2 April 1936)

 * The image of St. Theresa, the Spaniard, is not less than that of St Francis of Assisi. Let us also recall the ancient times when, in spite of the fact that masculine egoism always attempted to suppress the achievements of women, there were always some illumined minds that did not submit to this shameful weakness.
 * Helena Roerich, in Letters of Helena Roerich II,  (9 August 1937)

Disputed

 * More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
 * First attributed to St. Teresa by Truman Capote in "Go Ahead and Ask Me Anything.' (And So She Did): An Interview with Truman Capote" by Gloria Steinem, in McCall's magazine (November 1967), as the source of the title of a novel he was working on called Answered Prayers.
 * Likely a variant of “I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers,” a quip found in act 2 of Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband.

 * Christ has no body [...] but yours. [...] Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good. [...] Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.
 * Annie Johnson Flint (25 December 1866 - 8 September 1932) wrote a hymn The World's Bible, which goes
 * Christ has no hands but our hands, To do His work each day; He has no feet but our feet, To lead men in his way; He has no tongues but our tongues, To tell men how he died; He has no help but our help, To bring them to His side.

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Blackadder

Blackadder (1983, 1986–89, 1999) is a television series which originally aired on BBC1 written by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, and Rowan Atkinson. It traces members of the Blackadder dynasty and their associates through different periods of history.

Seasons

 * Series 1
 * Series 2
 * Series 3
 * Series 4

Specials

 * Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
 * Blackadder's Christmas Carol
 * Blackadder: Back & Forth

The Black Adder

 * Rowan Atkinson - Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
 * Elspet Gray - The Queen
 * Tim McInnerny - Percy
 * Patrick Allen - Narrator
 * Brian Blessed - King Richard IV
 * Tony Robinson - Baldrick
 * Robert East - Prince Harry, Prince of Wales

Blackadder II

 * Rowan Atkinson - Lord Edmund Blackadder
 * Tim McInnerny - Lord Percy
 * Tony Robinson - Baldrick
 * Miranda Richardson - Queen Elizabeth I
 * Stephen Fry - Lord Melchett
 * Patsy Byrne - Nursie
 * Tony Aitken - Minstrel
 * Rik Mayall - Lord Flashheart
 * Hugh Laurie - Prince Ludwig
 * Tom Baker - Capt. Rum

Blackadder the Third

 * Rowan Atkinson - Edmund Blackadder, Esq
 * Tony Robinson - Baldrick
 * Hugh Laurie - The Prince Regent
 * Helen Atkinson-Wood - Mrs. Miggins
 * Stephen Fry - Duke of Wellington
 * Tim McInnerny - The Scarlet Pimpernel
 * Miranda Richardson - Amy Harwood

Blackadder Goes Forth

 * Rowan Atkinson - Captain Edmund Blackadder
 * Tony Robinson - Private Baldrick
 * Hugh Laurie - Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
 * Stephen Fry - General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
 * Tim McInnerny - Captain Kevin Darling
 * Miranda Richardson - Nurse Mary
 * Rik Mayall - Lord Flasheart

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

 * Rowan Atkinson - Sir Edmund Blackadder
 * Tony Robinson - Baldrick
 * Stephen Fry - King Charles I

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

 * Rowan Atkinson - Ebenezer Blackadder / Lord Edmund Blackadder / Edmund Blackadder, Esq. / Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder
 * Tony Robinson - Baldrick / Baldrick / Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldrick
 * Miranda Richardson - Queen Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
 * Stephen Fry - Lord Melchett / Lord Frondo
 * Hugh Laurie - George, the Prince Regent / Lord Pigmot
 * Robbie Coltrane - Spirit of Christmas
 * Miriam Margolyes - Queen Victoria
 * Jim Broadbent - Prince Albert
 * Patsy Byrne - Nursie

Blackadder Back & Forth

 * Rowan Atkinson - Lord Edmund Blackadder / King Edmund III / Blackaddercus
 * Tony Robinson - Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldrickus
 * Miranda Richardson - Lady Elizabeth / Queen Elizabeth
 * Tim McInnerny - Archdeacon Darling / Duc de Darling / Duke of Darling
 * Hugh Laurie - Viscount George Bufton-Tufton / Georgius
 * Stephen Fry - Bishop Flavius Melchett / Melchett / General Melchecus / Wellington
 * Rik Mayall - Robin Hood
 * Colin Firth - William Shakespeare
 * Kate Moss - Maid Marian / Queen Marian
 * Patsy Byrne - Nursie
 * Simon Russell Beale - Napoleon
 * Jennie Bond - Royal Reporter
 * Crispin Harris - Friar Tuck

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Talk:Khalil Gibran

Spelling
His name is spelled Kahlil Gibran (Khalil in the Lebanese Arabic Language). I will move the page, when I figure out how. - User:Manchineel

 * The Wikipedia article declares that the spelling Kahlil arose as a mistake. I know that the male name is most often spelled Khalil to emphasize the sound that is usually designated with a "Kh" rather than with just a "K". Both spellings are obviously widely used in Gibran's case. When I created the page I spelled it "Khalil" to conform with the general spelling of the name as the Wikipedia article does. ~ Kalki 13:40, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

 * 16 years in, additionally to the excellent explanation below by Stan, it seems like a good time to move the article as proposed to align with spelling in Western World and specifically English Wikipedia article Kahlil_Gibran. –Volker E. (talk) 23:43, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Clarification
Minor editorial clarification to above:

I feel that everyone agrees that the writer was born Gibran Khalil Gibran. He now is known mainly by the Western World as Kahlil Gibran and as Khalil Gibran by the Mideast World, particularly Lebanon/Syria, his birthplace. He is also known as Kalil Gibran by some, and purists continue to call him by his birth name, Gibran Khalil Gibran. How did this happen?

There are conflicting stories. Some blame immigration clerks when Gibran arrived in the US at age 12 from Beirut. The name, Gibran Gibran, did not make sense to them so they dropped the first Gibran and spelled the second 'Kahlil.'

A more popular version is it was suggested when he began to attend school in Boston to learn English, his first formal education, at age 12. His teacher wanted to Anglicise his name to make it more acceptable to American society. In any event, it worked. The first 'Gibran' was dropped and the KHA changed to KAH.

The teacher might also have changed his name because most English speakers cannot pronounce the kh sound in Khalil (IPA: [xaliːl]) correctly. (For those who are not familiar with IPA notation, "kh" is pronounced like the "ch" in the German word Buch (IPA: [buːx]) or the "х" in the Russian word хлеб (IPA: [xlep]).

There is a great deal of Mideast national pride in Gibran, and they're not about to let the West change his name. To many of us who consider him America's greatest writer also, even though he started learning the language at age twelve, and the family was penniless in a strange country, we simply know him as "Gibran."

In any event you can't spell it wrong. However, the word "mispelle" is often misspelled. (grin)    Stan (often misspelled 'sAtan') Clark ______________________________________________

Commonly attributed, but correctly?
Is this quote Gibran's? Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Yes. It's the closing line in the chapter On Clothes in The Prophet. Stan Clark

Misquote

 * Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so the other half might reach you is from Sand and Foam, not from The Prophet.

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Khalil Gibran. --Antiquary 20:07, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

 * If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

 * I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

 * Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

 * Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.

 * The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

 * If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

 * Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

 * When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

 * A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Sand and Foam
These quotes are from Sand and Foam, sourced below.
 * If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

 * I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

 * The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

 * http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/gibran/sandfoam/sandfoam.htm - A text copy of Sand and Foam.
 * http://4umi.com/gibran/sand_and_foam/1 - A second text copy of Sand and Foam, to double check if this is indeed the text.--184.54.80.202 02:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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