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Ideas

An  is a concept or mental impression. Very often, ideas are construed as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images.

Quotes

 * Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
 * Howard H. Aiken, as quoted in Portraits in Silicon (1987) by Robert Slater
 * Variant: Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
 * As quoted in A Computer Science Reader: Selections from Abacus (1988) by Eric A. Weiss, p. 404.

 * Man has always been afraid of anything mysterious, forgetting that the key to the mystery is within himself. One must free oneself from all impeding conditions or circumstances, which are different for everyone. Progress depends upon free will that is directed toward good. The power of good compels even machines to act not for themselves, but for humanity. Thus, Our apparatuses function with Our collaboration. People may laugh, but ideas do rule the world. These words are entered into the Statutes of the Brotherhood.
 * Agni Yoga, Supermundane I, (1938)  2.

 * Unknown names, unknown places and unfamiliar words often come to the surface from the depths of consciousness. Scientists call this the subconscious, but they are unaware that communications from space accumulate... and when given an impulse, are transferred to the brain... one should pay heed to such flashes of consciousness... In everyday life one should learn to recognize these messages which always come at the right moment. People complain that they are deprived of lofty Guidance, but such a strong statement is unreasonable. We give much, and it is they who perceive little! Therefore, We remind people to pay more heed to words that spring forth suddenly in the conscious mind. Such words should not be dismissed, but should be carefully applied in life. Many other useful ideas come in a flash, like flying butterflies, but people only brush them aside.  We never tire of disseminating useful information, and We advise you to treat it with care, for it will be of use in the Subtle World. Thus, one should develop the particular ability to catch the thoughts of space.
 * Agni Yoga, Supermundane I, (1938)   145.

 * Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
 * Propos sur le Religion no. 74 (1938), under the pen name Alain.
 * Alternate translation: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.” IZQuotes (retrieved 10/30/18).

 * It is in this realm of ideas that humanity is not a free agent. . . . Once an idea becomes an ideal, humanity can freely reject or accept it, but ideas come from a higher source and are imposed... whether men want them or not. Upon the use made of these ideas (which are in the nature of divine emanations, embodying the divine plan for planetary progress) will depend the rapidity of humanity's progress, or its retardation for lack of understanding.
 * Alice Bailey, The Destiny of Nations (1949) p 8.

 * It’s important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it’s kind of a romantic notion that you’re just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what’s key.
 * Sergey Brin. Interviewed by Jemima Kiss for The Guardian (UK) newspaper, ‘Secrets of a nimble giant’, Wednesday 17th June 2009.

 * ... the best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and just think. And if that doesn't work — nothing else is going to work. ... what you are looking for is some way to get one good idea a year ... and then ride it to its full potential. ... Wall Street makes its money on activity — you make your money on inactivity.
 * Warren Buffett, (quote at 55:30 of 1:27:35)

 * Incredulity doesn't kill curiosity; it encourages it. Though distrustful of logical chains of ideas, I loved the polyphony of ideas. As long as you don't believe in them, the collision of two ideas — both false — can create a pleasing interval, a kind of diabolus in musica. I had no respect for some ideas people were willing to stake their lives on, but two or three ideas that I did not respect might still make a nice melody. Or have a good beat, and if it was jazz, all the better.
 * Casaubon, Binah, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Chapter 7

 * But arms – instrumentalities, as President Wilson called them – are not sufficient by themselves. We must add to them the power of ideas. People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy; but the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength. You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like – they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – all the more powerful because forbidden – terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes, they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge?
 * Winston Churchill, Broadcast to the United States and to London, 16 October 1938

 * Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.
 * Albert Einstein,  (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld).

 * A man to whom it has been given to bless the world with a great creative idea has no need for the praise of posterity. His very achievement has already conferred a higher boon upon him.
 * Albert Einstein, "Max Planck in Memorium" (1948)

 * A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
 * Albert Einstein, Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon (May 3, 1949 – AEA 58-217) as quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) by Walter Isaacson.

 * The key to every man is his thought…. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles,” Essays: First Series, p. 303 (1903).

 * The phrase a Russian intellectual is probably most likely to use when talking about the early 1980s is bezvozdushnoye prostranstvo—“airless space.” The era was stuffy like the Russian izba, a log cabin, when its windows are caulked for the winter: it keeps out the cold, but also the fresh air. The windows will not be opened even a crack until well into spring, and as time goes on, smells of people, food, and clothing mix into one mind-numbing undifferentiated smell of gigantic proportions. Something similar had happened to the Russian mind over two generations of Soviet rule. At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part of and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, arrests, and, most damaging, unrelenting pressure on what had become an isolated thought universe, the Russian intellectual landscape was populated by barely articulated ghosts of once vibrant ideas. Even Communist ideology was a shadow of its former self, a set of ritually repeated words that had lost all meaning. Lenin had long ago dispensed with most of what Karl Marx had to say, enshrining a few of his selected ideas as überlaw.
 * Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, (2017)

 * Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
 * Alfred Whitney Griswold, baccalaureate address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (9 June 1957) —Congressional Record (11 June 1957), vol. 103, Appendix, p. A4545.

 * Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
 * Alfred Whitney Griswold, Essays on Education as quoted in The New York Times (24 February 1959).

 * Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
 * Christopher Hitchens, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish (1990), Chatto Counterblasts

 * The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
 * Eric Hoffer, “Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: ‘Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,’” The New York Times, April 25, 1971, p. 60.

 * If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
 * Admiral Grace Hopper, as quoted in Built to Learn: The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003) by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171.

 * A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
 * Ignatius of Loyola, Letter to Teresa Rejadell (11 September 1536).

 * If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
 * Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson (13 August 1813).

 * That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one,
 * Samuel Johnson, in Life of Johnson (Boswell), Volume iii, Chapter v (1770).
 * Compare Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, book 4, chapter 5 (1845):
 * Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,—and that was wrong.

 * A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
 * John F. Kennedy, Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina (8 February 1963) Audio at JFK Library (01:29 - 01:40) · Text of speech at The American Presidency Project

 * The composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of escape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the author's assault upon them is to be successful,—a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
 * John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Preface, p. viii (1936).

 * The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
 * John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Ch. 24 "Concluding Notes" p. 383-384

 * Plato was right: ideas rule the world, and, as men's minds will receive new ideas, laying aside the old and effete, the world will advance: mighty revolutions will spring from them; creeds and even powers will crumble before their onward march crushed by the irresistible force. It will be just as impossible to resist their influx, when the time comes, as to stay the progress of the tide. But all this will come gradually on, and before it comes we have a duty set before us; that of sweeping away as much as possible the dross left to us by our pious forefathers. New ideas have to be planted on clean places, for these ideas touch upon the most momentous subjects.
 * Koot Hoomi, The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, Letter VI, p. 24, (1923)

 * People don't understand this: Ideas are important, but they're not essential. What's essential and important is the execution of the idea. Everyone has had the experience of seeing a movie and saying, "Hey! That was my idea!" Well, it doesn't mean anything that you had that idea. There's no such thing as an original concept. What's original is the way you re-use ancient concepts.
 * John Landis

 * It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
 * Ursula K. Le Guin,  (1974), Chapter 3, p. 72.

 * You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
 * Ursula K. Le Guin,  (1974), Chapter 6, p. 165.

 * It's impossible not to admire a person who devoted his life to his ideas.
 * Gideon Levy, This Biography Makes It Clear: The Founder of the Palestinian Popular Front Was Right (April 15, 2018), .

 * There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath and power in our own living.
 * Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s,

 * When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
 * Karl Marx, Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto) (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Section 2, paragraph 58.

 * The ideas of the ruling class are, in every age, the ruling ideas. ... The class which is the dominant material force in society is at the same time its dominant intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control over the means of mental production, so that in consequence the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are, in general, subject to it.
 * Karl Marx, German Ideology

 * My goal is making machines that can think—by understanding how people think. One reason why we find this hard to do is because our old ideas about psychology are mostly wrong. Most words we use to describe our minds (like "consciousness," "learning," or "memory") are suitcase-like jumbles of different ideas. Those old ideas were formed long ago, before "computer science" appeared. It was not until the 1950s that we began to develop better ways to help think about complex processes.
 * Marvin Minsky, ,

 * A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.
 * Shigeru Miyamoto, Interviewed by Eurogamer.net, 31 March 2010.

 * Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
 * Alan Moore, What Is Reality?

 * There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.
 * Alan Moore, V for Vendetta as spoken by "V"

 * To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world. We are heading for a radical revision where you could say we are heading towards the end of the world, but more in the R.E.M. sense than the Revelation sense. That is what apocalypse means – revelation. I could square that with the end of the world, a revelation, a new way of looking at things, something that completely radicalises our notions of the where we were, when we were, what we were, something like that would constitute an end to the world in the kind of abstract – yet very real sense – that I am talking about. A change in the language, a change in the thinking, a change in the music. It wouldn’t take much – one big scientific idea, or artistic idea, one good book, one good painting – who knows – we are at a critical point where the ideas are coming thicker and faster and stranger and stranger than they ever were before. They are realised at a greater speed, everything has become very fluid.
 * Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)

 * If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
 * Linus Pauling, as quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" (1995).

 * It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man’s head, will sometimes act like an obstruction … in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.
 * Charles Sanders Peirce, "How to make our ideas clear,” Popular Science, January 1878.

 * The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.
 * Charles Sanders Peirce, "Man's Glassy Essence" in The Monist, Vol. III, No. 1 (October 1892).

 * We are accustomed to speak of ideas as reproduced, as passed from mind to mind, as similar or dissimilar to one another, and, in short, as if they were substantial things; nor can any reasonable objection be raised to such expressions. But taking the word "idea" in the sense of an event in an individual consciousness, it is clear that an idea once past is gone forever, and any supposed recurrence of it is another idea. These two ideas are not present in the same state of consciousness, and therefore cannot possibly be compared.
 * Charles Sanders Peirce, The Law of Mind (1892), First published in The Monist, Vol. II, No. 4 (July 1892), p. 533.

 * The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.
 * George Pólya, How to Solve It (1945), p. 100 in the 2004 edition.

 * New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.
 * Max Planck addressing the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936), as quoted in Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (1993) ISBN 0-19-507010-0

 * One thing I learnt was never to hoard ideas because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour them out.
 * Mary Quant, Daily Express, 29th October 2008.

 * Historians must break out of the prison of ideas.
 * Dave Renton,

 * Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
 * Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1921). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 3.

 * Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
 * Thomas Sowell,  (1980), Ch. 1: The Role of Knowledge

 * What is important is not the ideas themselves, but the context in which they operate.
 * Colin Sparks, Fascism in Britain From International Socialism, No. 71, September 1974, pp. 13–28. Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL. Text online at .

 * In the brain model proposed here, the causal potency of an idea, or an ideal, becomes just as real as that of a molecule, a cell, or a nerve impulse. Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and, thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains. And they also interact with the external surroundings to produce, in toto a burstwise advance in evolution that is far beyond anything to hit the evolutionary scene yet, including the emergence of the living cell.
 * Roger Wolcott Sperry, "Mind, Brain and Humanist Values," New Views on the Nature of Man (1965) ed., John R. Platt, pp. 82-83.

 * Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
 * Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers: A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the USA Ex-senator.

 * Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
 * John Steinbeck, Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck: A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini.

 * “Our ideas” are only partly our ideas. Most of our ideas are abbreviations or residues of the thought of other people, of our teachers (in the broadest sense of the term) and of our teachers’ teachers; they are abbreviations and residues of the thought of the past. These thoughts were once explicit and in the center of consideration and discussion. It may even be presumed that they were once perfectly lucid. By being transmitted to later generations they have possibly been transformed, and there is no certainty that the transformation was effected consciously and with full clarity. … This means that the clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
 * Leo Strauss, What is Political Philosophy? (1959), p. 73

 * An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Preludes, p.3.

 * The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
 * Nikola Tesla "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)

 * Universal Peace, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not require eons for its accomplishment, however probable this may appear, judging from the imperceptibly slow growth of all great reformatory ideas of the past. … Our accepted estimates of the duration of natural metamorphoses, or changes in general, have been thrown in doubt of late. The very foundations of science have been shaken.
 * Nikola Tesla A Means for Furthering Peace (1905)

 * To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever.
 * Miguel de Unamuno, Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida (The Tragic Sense of Life), V: The Rationalist Dissolution (1913).

 * There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
 * Miguel de Unamuno, as recalled by Walter Starkie from a conversation he had with Unamuno, as related in the Epilogue of Unamuno.

 * We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them … but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it … ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love… And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man.
 * Lana & Lilly Wachowski, V for Vendetta based on the comic series by Alan Moore, as spoken by Evey Hammond.

 * Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
 * Lana & Lilly Wachowski, V for Vendetta based on the comic series by Alan Moore, as spoken by "V".

 * When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

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The United States of Leland

The United States of Leland is a 2003 film about a meek teenaged boy named Leland P. Fitzgerald who has inexplicably committed a shocking murder. In the wake of the killing, his teacher in prison tries to understand the senseless crime, while the families of the victim and the perpetrator struggle to cope with the aftermath.
 * Written and directed by Matthew Ryan Hoge.

Crime. Confusion. Compassion. They're all just states of mind.

Leland P. Fitzgerald

 * When I say I don't remember that day, I'm not lying. Wish I did, but I just don't. Sometimes the most important stuff goes away. Goes away so bad, it's like it was never there to begin with. It's funny the stuff that sticks in your head. I could tell you forward and backward about one day when I was five, and my dad bought me a stupid ice cream cone. I could tell you the flavor of the ice cream. It was pink bubblegum. Even stuff about the girl who scooped it out. Her hair was fire red. All that stuff is there like it was happening right now, but I don't remember that day.
 * This one is something a friend of mine said to me. "You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo." I remember it right now to the "kiddo" part. But when I think about what she said, the same thing always comes into my head. What if you can't put the pieces together in the first place?
 * I know what they want from me. They want a reason. Something to tie up with a little bow and bury in the backyard. Bury it down so deep it's like it never happened. They want me to say how I'm so sorry, and it was my mom's fault. Or maybe it was my dad's fault. Or it happened because of TV or movies or some junk like that. Or maybe I blame some girl.
 * You want a why. Well, maybe there isn't one. Maybe...maybe this is just something that happened.
 * I think there are two ways you can see the world. You either see the sadness that's behind everything or you choose to keep it all out. Your heart can't break if you don't let the world touch it.
 * And that's when I figured out that tears couldn't make somebody who was dead, alive again. There's another thing to learn about tears: they can't make somebody who doesn't love you anymore love you again. It's the same with prayers. I wonder how much of their lives people waste crying and praying to God. If you ask me, the devil makes more sense than God does. I can at least see why people would want him around. It's good to have somebody to blame for the bad stuff they do. Maybe God's there because people get scared of all the bad stuff they do. They figure that God and the Devil are always playing this game of tug-of-war with them. And they never know which side they're gonna wind up on. I guess that tug-of-war idea explains how sometimes, even when people try to do something good, it still turns out bad.
 * It covers my eyes. It's all I can see. Say there's some kids playing baseball. All I see is the one kid they won't let play because he tells corny jokes and no one thinks they're funny. Or I see a boy and a girl in love and kissing, you know. I just see that they're gonna be one of those sad old couples one day who just cheats on each other and can't even look each other in the eye. And I feel it. I feel all of their sadness. I feel it probably worse than that sad old couple or that corny kid will ever feel it.
 * The worst part is knowing that there is goodness in people. Mostly it stays deep down and buried. Maybe we don't have god because we're scared of the bad stuff. Maybe we're really scared of the good stuff. Because if there is no god, then that means it's inside of us and we can be good all the time if we wanted. So when we do bad things maybe it's because we want to, or because we have to. Or maybe we just need the bad stuff to remind us what the good stuff is in the first place.

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 * Albert T. Fitzgerald: I recall when our lives were unusual and electric. When we burned with something close to fire. But now we sway to a different rhythm. Lives lived without meaning or even directed hope. The passage of time measured only by loss. Loss of a job, loss of a minivan...a son.
 * Mrs. Calderon: You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo.
 * Pearl Madison: Just because what you did was wrong doesnt mean that giving up on your life is right.
 * Pearl Madison: Love is when you can't get somebody out of your mind. When they are your first thought in the morning and your last thought at night. Maybe it's not in your heart but it is in your head.
 * Bengel: You ever think the whole thing doesn't make sense? I mean, they take all this stuff away from you; freedom, girls and sunshine - because it's supposed to make it so when you get back on the outs you never wanna screw up again. All that really does is get you to thinking that you're... just so small. You know? Like you're this... this small thing that doesn't matter for anything. And by the time you do get out - you don't even feel like a human person anymore.

Dialogue

 * TV Reporter: Why did you do it, Leland?
 * Leland: Because of the sadness.
 * TV Reporter: What sadness? Whose sadness?
 * Leland: Your sadness.

 * Pearl Madison: I'm only human, man.
 * Leland: It's funny how people only say that after they do something bad. I mean, you never hear someone say, "I'm only human" after they rescue a kid from a burning building.

 * Lady on Airplane: Aren't you an actor?
 * Albert Fitzgerald: Aren't we all, dear.

 * Becky Pollard: I'm serious, okay? I want you to say you're always gonna to be there.
 * Leland: Well, sometimes I'm somewhere else.
 * Becky Pollard: Just tell me that everything's gonna to be okay.
 * Leland: I can't really make sure everything's okay.
 * Becky Pollard: I know, but... Sometimes you say things that aren't all the way true, but you say them anyways because you want to be true. You know, maybe, maybe that's good enough. Just... just tell me everything's gonna be okay. Whisper it in my ear, that's all.
 * Leland: [In a full voice into her ear] Everything's gonna be okay.

 * Leland: You know what the funny thing about earthquakes is? After an earthquake you see people pulling other people out of broken down buildings and people hugging and junk because they saw a little girl's shoe in the middle of the road and no little girl around. Then a couple days later they forget all about it...
 * Pearl Madison: Well it still shows you that there's goodness in people.
 * Leland: During earthquakes at least...

 * Leland: How do you see the world, bro?
 * Pearl Madison: Full of possibilities. I think that good things abound positive things. What about you?
 * Leland: Hmm... I think there are two ways to see it. One's like what you said, where our lives are ok. And maybe stuff's wrong but you don't see it.
 * Pearl Madison: What's the other way?
 * Leland: When you see what's really there.
 * Pearl Madison: The sadness?

Cast

 * Ryan Gosling - Leland P. Fitzgerald
 * Ryan Malgarini - 6-year-old Leland
 * Alec Medlock - 12-year-old Leland
 * Don Cheadle - Pearl Madison
 * Chris Klein - Allen Harris
 * Jena Malone - Becky Pollard
 * Lena Olin - Marybeth Fitzgerald
 * Kevin Spacey - Albert T. Fitzgerald
 * Sherilyn Fenn - Angela Calderon
 * Michelle Williams - Julie Pollard

 * Martin Donovan - Harry Pollard
 * Ann Magnuson - Karen Pollard
 * Michael Welch - Ryan Pollard
 * Matt Malloy - Charlie
 * Kerry Washington - Ayesha
 * Michael Peña - Guillermo
 * Wesley Jonathan - Bengel
 * Troy Winbush - Dave
 * Ron Canada - Elden
 * Clyde Kusatsu - Judge

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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was an American sitcom created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan. The series is set in the Tipton Hotel in Boston and centers on Zack Martin and Cody Martin (Dylan and Cole Sprouse), troublesome twins who live at the Tipton Hotel.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3

Cast

 * Zack Martin (Dylan Sprouse)
 * Cody Martin (Cole Sprouse)

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Rene Russo

Rene Russo (born February 17, 1954) is an American film actress, producer and former model.

Quotes

 * I was really intimidated, but then the acting kicks in. We have a similar fire, so he doesn't intimidate me in that way; I can get really angry, I can get in your face too.
 * On acting with Al Pacino; Interview on RopeofSilicon with Laremy Legel, Friday, October 7th 2005

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Kate Beckinsale

Kathrin Romary Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress and model.

Quotes

 * Acting requires so much delving into yourself and exposing yourself, so it's sensible to be wondering, Do I still want to be doing this? But I enjoy the work, and everything is so solid at home. I don't care if they say I've had buttock implants. Or not. I don't care. Go ahead! That's the nice thing about getting to the age I am. I could have said I didn't care before -- but secretly I did. And now I really don't.
 * Allure magazine, March 2008.

 * I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.
 * Allure magazine, March 2008.

 * I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.
 * On the effect the arrival of her daughter had on her acting work. Allure magazine, March 2008.

 * Boyfriends? In my life I have had three. Three. Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh's tomb.
 * Allure magazine, March 2008.

 * People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
 * Referring to Pearl Harbor (2001). Allure magazine, March 2008.

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James Van Der Beek

James William Van Der Beek, Jr. (born March 8, 1977) is an American actor.

Quotes

 * If a rumor comes out that I’m gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.
 * CinemaSource: James Van Der Beek Interview: Dan Deevy, January 28, 2008

 * You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
 * CinemaSource: James Van Der Beek Interview: Dan Deevy, January 28, 2008

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Józef Piłsudski

Józef Klemens Piłsudski (December 5, 1867 – May 12, 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and First Marshal of Poland (from 1920). He was considered the de facto leader (1926–35) of the Second Polish Republic as the Minister of Military Affairs. After World War I, he held great power in Polish politics and was a distinguished figure on the international scene. He is viewed as a father of the Second Polish Republic re-established in 1918, 123 years after the final Partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia in 1795.

Quotes

 * I am not going to dictate to you what you write about my life and work. I only ask that you not make me out to be a 'whiner and sentimentalist.'
 * (1908) Bohdan Urbankowski, Józef Piłsudski: Dreamer and Strategist, 1997, ISBN 8370019145, p. 133

 * Only the sword now carries any weight in the balance for the destiny of a nation.
 * (1914)

 * All that we can gain in the west depends on the Entente — on the extent to which it may wish to squeeze Germany, [while in the east] there are doors that open and close, and it depends on who forces them open and how far.
 * (Probably 1918) Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, ISBN 0375760520, p. 211.

 * Comrades, I took the red tram of socialism to the stop called Independence, and that's where I got off. You may keep on to the final stop if you wish, but from now on let's address each other 'Mister' [rather than continue using the socialist term of address, 'Comrade']!

 * Poland can have nothing to do with the restoration of the old Russia. Anything rather than that – even Bolshevism.
 * Joseph Pilsduski. Interview by Dymitr Merejkowsky, 1921. Translated from the Russian by Harriet E. Kennedy, B.A., London & Edinburgh, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1921. Quoted from this site.

 * To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
 * (Late 1920s or the 1930s) Zbigniew Brzezinski in his introduction to Wacław Jędrzejewicz’s Piłsudski: A Life For Poland. Quoted from this website

 * To want to, is to be able to.
 * Peter Ackerman, Jack Duvall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, Palgrave, 2001, ISBN 0312240503, Google Books, p. 165

 * [About Russians] They are all more or less disguised imperialists, including revolutionists. The trait of these minds, always longing for the absolute, is a vivid centralism. They loathe varieties, cannot conciliate dissonances - such things dull their will and imagination to the extent that they cannot combine varieties into one whole; they reject even the idea of conscious social organizations. [...] Let everything happen by itself, vividly - that is the wisest solution according to them, because it is the simplest and the easiest. Which is why there are so many anarchists among them. A strange thing, but I have never met any republicans among Russians!
 * Wacław Sieroszewski, Józef Piłsudski, Piotrków: 1915, p. 19

 * Bolshevism is a disease which is peculiar to Russia. It will never grow deep roots in any countries which are not entirely Russian.
 * Aleksandra Piłsudski, Memoirs of Madame Piłsudski, 1940

 * You, the Poles, have a funny nature. When the people going along the road are attacked by a dog with its insistent and noisy barking, you immediately feel like jumping off the vehicle, standing on all fours and starting to bark back at it. We, in the Vilnius region, let the dog bark because that is what its canine nature is like but we do not stop out journey because of its canine barking and without any war against dogs we calmly continue our journey until we reach our destination. It seems that you care more about barking more than the dog does and about winning the war with any lousy puppy than about reaching the destination quickly.
 * Jerzy Robert Nowak, Na przekór skorpionom. Wyznania upartego Polaka, Warszawa 2005, p. 52.

 * [About Poland] A great nation, only the people are cunts.
 * Józef Piłsudski, Myśli i wypsknięcia, Warszawa 2010, p. 41

 * There can be no independent Poland without an independent Ukraine.

Quotes about Piłsudski

 * He was the only great man to emerge on the scene during the [First World] war.
 * Joseph Conrad. Zdzisław Najder, Conrad under Familial Eyes, Cambridge University Press, 1984, ISBN 052125082X Books, p. 239.

 * In other cases, it was the army that seized power. General Josef Pilsudski, Poland's Cromwell, marched on Warsaw in 1926 to become de facto dictator until his death in 1935, when much, though not all, of his power passed to another soldier, Edward Smigly-Rydz.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 230

 * Józef Piłsudski will remain in the memory of our nation as the founder of independence and as the victorious leader who fended off a foreign assault that threatened the whole of Europe and its civilization. Józef Piłsudski served his country well, and has entered our history forever.
 * Declaration of the Sejm (Lower House) of the Polish Parliament, May 12, 1995, the 60th anniversary of Piłsudski's death. Józef Piłsudski

 * [H]e was king of our hearts and ruler of our will. Through half a century of his life’s travails, he took into his possession heart after heart, soul after soul, until he had drawn the whole of Poland under the purple of his royal spirit.[...] He gave Poland freedom, boundaries, power and respect.
 * Polish President Ignacy Mościcki, speaking at Piłsudski's 1935 funeral. Józef Piłsudski

 * Whoever had the choice, would choose an eagle's nest on the cliffs in place of a home. May he know how to sleep, though his eyes be red from the thunder, and listen to the cries of the wild spirits in the murmur of the pines.
 * Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, quoted on tombstone of Józef Piłsudski's mother, with whom Piłsudski's heart is interred.

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Kate Moss

Katherine Ann Moss (born January 16, 1974), known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer who was once the "Face of Calvin Klein."

Quotes

 * I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
 * in 1994, New York Times Magazine

 * I don't do any Class A -especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.
 * in 1994 to Channel 4 on the BBC

 * It was just the time. It was a swing from more buxom girls like Cindy Crawford and people were shocked to see what they called a 'waif'. What can you say? How many times can you say 'I'm not anorexic'?
 * March, 2003 interview with website Showstudio

 * 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.'
 * Time magazine

 * A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.
 * Of the flood of minor celebrities; quoted in the Evening Standard, Tue 1 May 2012, p. 16

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Category:Wikiquote maintenance templates

Templates not used in the article space, but rather, in the Wikiquote space. This includes templates for issues such as policy, deletion, and vandalism.

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Template:WikiquoteVandalism

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikiquote project rather than the encyclopaedic content.

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Wikiquote:Vandalism

 is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the project. The most common type of vandalism is the replacement of existing text with obscenities, page blanking, or the insertion of other wholly irrelevant content.

Any good-faith effort to improve the project, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad-faith edits that do not make their bad-faith nature inarguably explicit are not considered vandalism at Wikiquote.

Committing vandalism is a violation of the Wikiquote policy; it needs to be spotted, and then dealt with; if you cannot deal with it yourself, you can seek help from others.

Not all vandalism is blatant, nor are all massive or controversial changes vandalism: Careful attention needs to be given to whether the new data or information is right or whether it is vandalism.

Dealing with vandalism
If you see vandalism (as defined below), revert it. It is often worthwhile to check the page history after reverting to make sure you have removed all the vandalism. Also, check the user contributions of the vandal - you will often find more malicious edits.

Additionally, leave warning messages on the vandal's talk pages using the following system.

Warning templates
Note that these need not be used sequentially. If the edit is clearly vandalism, consider starting with test2. For continuing severe vandalism, test3 may be skipped and a test4 given straight after a test2. If, however, you are not sure that the edit is vandalism, always start with test1. The ~ in the templates below cause the time and your signature to be added to the warning.

The "subst" causes the template text to be pasted into the talk page as if you had typed it out, instead of leaving visible when editing the page. This makes the messages more personal to the user, and thus, more friendly. Also, if someone vandalizes the template, then the vandalism will not affect every page that uses the text from the template.
 * ~ (a variant suitable for blanking vandalism) :
 * ~ (a variant suitable for blanking vandalism) :
 * ~ (a variant suitable for blanking vandalism) :

If the vandal strikes again, list them at Vandalism in Progress. The blocking admin leaves this on the vandal's talk page:

Remember to sign and timestamp your warnings by leaving four tildes (like this: ~ ).

Trace IP
Also, consider tracing the IP. Find owners by using ARIN, RIPE or APNIC (if an address is not in one, it will probably be in another), then add to the talk pages of users who vandalise.

Types of vandalism
These are the most common forms of vandalism on Wikipedia:
 * Blanking: Removing all or large parts of articles (commonly replacing the text with profanities) is a common vandal edit.
 * Spam: Adding inappropriate external links for advertisement and/or self-promotion.
 * VandalBot: A script or "robot" that attempts to vandalize or spam massive numbers of articles (hundreds or thousands), blanking, or adding commercial links. Another type of VandalBot appears to log on repeatedly with multiple random names to vandalize an article.
 * Childish vandalism: Adding graffiti or blanking pages.
 * Silly vandalism: Users will sometimes create joke articles or replace existing articles with plausible-sounding nonsense, or add silly jokes to existing articles. A better place for content that is intentionally of a joking or nonsensical nature is the Uncyclopedia.
 * Sneaky vandalism: Vandalism which is harder to spot. Adding misinformation, changing dates or making other sensible-appearing substitutions and typos.
 * Attention-seeking vandalism: Adding insults, using offensive usernames, replacing articles with jokes etc. (see also No personal attacks)
 * User page vandalism: Replacing User pages with insults, profanity, etc. (see also No personal attacks)
 * Image vandalism: Uploading provocative images, inserting political messages, making malicious animated GIFs, etc. Repeatedly uploading images with no source and/or license information after notification that such information is required may also constitute vandalism.
 * Abuse of tags: Bad-faith placing of vfd or speedy-deletion tags on articles that do not meet such criteria, or deceptively placing protected-page tags on articles.
 * Template vandalism: Adding any of the above to templates.
 * Page move vandalism: Moving pages to offensive or nonsense names. Most infamous example was Willy on Wheels. However, Wikiquote now only allows users with 25 edits or above to make page moves, and the reason must be stated.
 * Redirect vandalism: Redirecting articles or talk pages to offensive articles or images.
 * Link vandalism: Rewriting links within an article so that they appear the same, but point to something irrelevant or ridiculous (e.g. France ).
 * Avoidant vandalism: Removing vfd, copyvio and other related tags in order to conceal or avoid entries to risk deletion.
 * Removing warnings: Removing vandalism warnings from one's talk page is also considered vandalism.
 * Random character vandalism: Replacing topical information with random characters, or just adding random characters to a page. "aslkdjnsdagkljhasdlkh," for example.
 * Changing people's comments: Editing signed comments by another user to substantially change their meaning (e.g. turning someone's vote around). Signifying that a comment is unsigned is an exception. e.g. (unsigned comment from user)
 * Improper removing other people's dispute tags: Dispute tags are important way for people to show that there are problems with the article. Do not remove them unless you are sure that the dispute is settled. As a general rule, do not remove other people's dispute tags twice during a 24 hour period.
 * Talk page vandalism: Deleting the comments of other users from article Talk pages, or deleting entire sections thereof, is generally considered vandalism.
 * Official policy vandalism: Deleting or altering part of a Wikiquote official policy with which the vandal disagrees, without any attempt to seek consensus or recognize an existing consensus. Improving or clarifying policy wording in line with the clear existing consensus is not vandalism.
 * Copyrighted material vandalism: Knowingly adding copyrighted material to Wikiquote articles in violation of Wikiquote policy is vandalism. Because users may be unaware that the information is copyrighted, or of Wikiquote policy in this regard, such action only becomes vandalism if it continues after the relevant policy and copyrighted nature of the material have been established.
 * Account creation vandalism: Creating accounts with deliberately offensive terms in the username is considered vandalism, whether the account is used or not.

What vandalism is not
Although sometimes referred to as such, the following things are not vandalism and are therefore treated differently:

 * Newbie test: New users who discover the "Edit this page" button sometimes want to know if they can really edit any page, so they write something inside just to test it. This is not vandalism! On the contrary, these users should be warmly greeted, and given a reference to the Sandbox (e.g. using the test template message) where they can keep making their tests. (Sometimes they will even revert their own changes.)

 * Learning wiki markup and the manual of style: Some users require some time to learn the wiki-based markup, and will spend a little time experimenting with the different ways to make external links, internal links, and other special characters. Rather than condemning them as vandals, just explain to them what our standard style is on the issue in hand — perhaps pointing them towards our documentation at How to edit a page, and the like.

 * NPOV violations: The neutral point of view is a difficult policy for many of us to understand, and even Wikiquote veterans occasionally accidentally introduce material which is non-ideal from an NPOV perspective. Indeed, we are all blinded by our beliefs to a greater or lesser extent. While regrettable, this is not vandalism.

 * Bold edits: Wikiquotians often make sweeping changes to articles in order to improve them. Most of us aim to be bold when updating articles. While having large chunks of text you wrote removed, moved to talk, or substantially rewritten can sometimes feel like vandalism, it should not be confused with vandalism.

 * Mistakes: Sometimes, users will insert content into an article that is not necessarily accurate, in the belief that it is. By doing so in good faith, they are trying to contribute to the project and improve it. If you believe that there is inaccurate information in an article, ensure that it is, and/or discuss its factuality with the user who has submitted it.

 * Bullying or stubbornness: Some users cannot come to agreement with others who are willing to talk to them on an article's talk page, and repeatedly make changes opposed by everyone else. This is a matter of regret, and you may wish to see our dispute resolution pages to get help. However, it is not vandalism.

 * Harassing or making personal attacks: We have a clear policy on Wikiquote of no personal attacks, and harassing other contributors is not allowed. Some forms of harassment are also clear cases of vandalism, such as home page vandalism. However, harassment is not in general vandalism.

How to spot vandalism
The best way to detect vandalism is through w:recent changes patrolling. Once you've found it, w:revert the page to an earlier version.

Related pages

 * Vandalism in Progress
 * w:Wikipedia:RC patrol
 * Anti-vandalism ideas
 * Vandalbot
 * Wikipedia vandalism

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Wikiquote:Patent nonsense

Wikiquote writers and editors contribute lots of brilliant prose, but occasionally some patent nonsense. This falls into two categories:

 * 1) welcome to the shit show - i.e. text or random characters that have no assignable meaning at all. This includes things like "1`- 5bl[9 1vn]304 0=10am[0v9a1     7", where random keys of the keyboard have been pressed.
 * 2) Content that, while apparently meaningful after a fashion, is so completely and irredeemably confused that no intelligent person can be expected to make any sense of it whatsoever.

Not to be confused with...
The following, while often regrettable, are not patent nonsense. Check the Deletion policy for information on how to handle these things.
 * content or copyrighted works (nonsense or not)
 * Poorly written content (See How to copy-edit)
 * Partisan screed, or opinion masquerading as fact
 * Religious
 * Incompetent and/or immature material
 * Flame bait entries
 * remarks
 * Vandalism
 * Libel, defamatory, or slanderous comments.

Dealing with patent nonsense
There are various ways to deal with total nonsense - use your good judgement to decide which is most appropriate:

 * Replace it with brilliant prose.
 * Move it to the article's talk page.
 * Move it to the user's talk page.
 * Remove it from the article if there is anything left in the article after that.

However, if anybody objects, because they believe that the content is not total nonsense, then it's best to discuss the issue with them, and try to reach a consensus. In particular, if someone says that they think they can rework the "nonsense" into something worthwhile, then please give them some time and space to do so.

If an article contains nothing but patent nonsense, use your good judgment to decide whether to:
 * list it on Votes for deletion
 * delete it straight away (only if you are an administrator)
 * add the tag   which automatically lists it on Category:Candidates for speedy deletion

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Wikiquote:Talk page

Talk pages are a special type of namespace pages, used to discuss changes on the corresponding "main" article or page. All Wikiquote articles, personal user pages, policy pages, templates, etc. have an associated talk page (linked on the English Wikiquote as "discussion" in the top menu).

 * Article talk pages are used to discuss changes to the particular article. They may also contain unsourced quotes that have been moved from the article.
 * User talk pages are used to leave messages for particular users. A message box stating "You have new messages" is automatically displayed to a user at the top of any Wikiquote page, until they view their user talk page.
 * Wikiquote talk pages are used to discuss existing and developing policies and guidelines, and proposals. The Wikiquote namespace was orignially considered a "meta namespace," for any Wikiquote-related discussion, while in current usage it is most limited to active and updated information regarding the process of editing articles. (See Wikimedia Meta-Wiki for more open related discussion).

The "discussion" link references a page in the same namespace as the article, userpage, or template with an additional "talk" before the colon separator, for example: Talk:Foo, User talk:Foo, or Template talk:Foo (where foo is a placeholder).

Basic rules for all talk pages

 * Sign your comments (unless you are using the Reply tool) - You can use three or four tildes (like this and ~ ), which are automatically converted to your username or IP.
 * Log in. (Read why here.)
 * Use coherent formatting.
 * Copy formatting from others.
 * Indent with colons, not with tabs.
 * Break up very large paragraphs.
 * Be civil at all times.
 * Don't make personal attacks
 * Don't SHOUT

Usage
On Wikiquote, the purpose of a talk page is to help to improve the contents of the main page, from a neutral point of view. Questions, challenges, excised text (due to truly egregious confusion or bias, for example), arguments relevant to changing the text, and commentary on the main page are all fair play.

Wikiquotians generally oppose the use of talk pages just for the purpose of partisan talk about the main subject. Wikiquote is not a soapbox. In other words, talk about the article, not about the subject. It's only the habits we encourage that keep Wikiquote from turning into another h2g2 or. See also: Wikiquette

It's entirely natural that partisan disputes take place on talk pages. It is the purpose of talk pages that such disputes be resolved on the talk page rather than in the article itself.

User talk pages
Each user page also has a corresponding talk page. New additions to your own talk page will alert you with a "You have new messages" banner at the top of any Wikiquote page.

To leave a message for another user on their talk page, click the discussion link on the top of the page when you view the user page. On the list of recent changes and on your watchlist, you can directly access a user's talk page by following the (Talk) link behind the user's name or IP address. Many users have a link to their talk page built directly into their signature, as well.

Can I do whatever I want to my own user talk page?
Most users treat their user talk pages like regular talk pages, and archive the contents periodically to a personal subpage. Others delete comments after they have responded to them.

Actively erasing personal messages without replying (if a reply would be appropriate or polite) will probably be interpreted as hostile. In the past, this kind of behavior has been viewed as uncivil. Redirecting your user talk page to another page (whether meant as a joke or intended to be offensive or to send a "go away" message), except in the case of redirecting from one account to another when both are yours, can also be considered a hostile act. However, reverting such removals or redirects is not proper and may result in a block for edit warring. If someone removes your comments without answering consider moving on. This is especially true for vandalism warnings - removing them from one's talk page is also considered vandalism.

If you feel that your user talk page is getting too large and is taking a long time to load, you may archive it. You may then remove comments from your talk page, but please make sure that those comments are readily accessible on another page.

Feel free to decorate your personal pages as you see fit, but keep in mind that your user talk page has the important function of allowing other editors to communicate with you. People will get upset if they cannot use it for that purpose.

How to keep a two-way conversation readable
If you are writing messages back and forth between user talk pages, the resulting text can be hard to follow. Here are two systems for making what would otherwise be disjointed comments easier to follow:

 * Copy the text you are replying to from your user talk page to the other person's user talk page. Put your reply right underneath it, but indent the reply section so it stands out. (Just like a regular talk page.)
 * Or: Put a notice on your user talk page that you will reply there unless they ask otherwise. Do this for conversations that other people start.
 * Watchlist the other person's user talk page and tell them they can reply there. Do this for conversations you start.

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User talk:66.97.29.92

Thanks for experimenting with Wikiquote. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will normally be reverted quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our compendium of quotations. Thanks.--DooMDrat 05:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did to The Colbert Report. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. —LrdChaos 13:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

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Template:Nutshell

This template is used to provide a very quick summary of policies for the casual reader. These summaries are also collected at Policies and guidelines.

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Joseph Lewis

Joseph Lewis (11 June 1889 – 1968) was an American freethinker, and atheist who was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

Quotes

 * [Atheism] believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
 * The Philosophy of Atheism

 * A precept claiming infallibility should certainly possess the universality of the law of gravitation and the perfection of the arithmetical table. If it fails to possess these undeviating qualities, its imperfection is self-evident and its value either greatly diminished or useless.
 * The Ten Commandments

 * If Atheism writes upon the blackboard of the Universe a question mark, it writes it for the purpose of stating that there is a question yet to be answered. Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved? Does not the word "God" only confuse and make more difficult the solution by assuming a conclusion that is utterly groundless and palpably absurd?
 * The Philosophy of Atheism

 * Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
 * The Philosophy of Atheism''

 * Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
 * An Atheist Manifesto

 * As superstition is the weed of the brain, it grows perfusely, once started.
 * The Ten Commandments

 * Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.
 * Ingersoll the Magnificent (Memorial Dedication Address, August 11, 1954)

 * Of the ten crimes which Biblical Hebrew law punished by stoning, nine have ceased to be offenses in modern society.
 * The Ten Commandments ("The Eighth Commandment")

 * Imagine using as an authority in the matter of marriage the opinion of a celibate priest!
 * The Philosophy of Atheism

 * When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.
 * Ingersoll the Magnificent (Memorial Dedication Address, August 11, 1954)

 * On too many occasions, especially in matters concerning purported conversations and messages from gods, mystery has been employed by charlatans to hoodwink the people.
 * The Ten Commandments

 * Changing a rod into a serpent and the serpent back into a rod may be clever magic, but how does such a demonstration prove that Moses spoke to God? If the only thing necessary to prove the truth of an extraordinary claim were to demonstrate an ability to bewilder, there would be no more mysteries to solve. If a person claims that he can bring the dead back to life, and in proof of that power pulls a rabbit out of a hat, that is hardly a demonstration of the truth of his claim; it is merely an example of his ability in the art of deception. If he claims that he can fly without wings and without the use of mechanical help of any kind, and in proof of his ability pulls another rabbit out of another hat, that is not proof of his ability to fly, but of his ability to lie, and he will without much hesitation be condemned as a faker. The demonstration of one thing has absolutely no bearing in proving the truth of the other, when there is no relationship between them.
 * The Ten Commandments

 * Religion is all profit. They have no merchandise to buy, no commissions to pay, and no refunds to make for unsatisfactory service and results.... Their commodity is fear. They blackmail their parishioners with threats of hell and damnation. These poor deluded people give them their hard earned money to save them from a hell that does not exist, and from eternal torment that was invented by the perverted minds of priests to rob the living and in addition, they are exempt from taxation! Insult to injury! Let me tell you that religion is the cruelest fraud ever perpetrated upon the human race. It is the last of the great scheme of thievery that man must legally prohibit so as to protect himself from the charlatans who prey upon the ignorance and fears of the people. The penalty for this type of extortion should be as severe as it is of other forms of dishonesty.
 * Ingersoll the Magnificent (Memorial Dedication Address, August 11, 1954)

 * With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others.
 * An Atheist Manifesto

 * The Bible is not a divine revelation from God. It is not inspired; on the contrary, it is a wicked book .... It has been responsible for more suffering and torture than any other volume ever printed……”
 * Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.

 * It is because of the Biblical curse on man's search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages, and its detrimental effect upon progress, that makes the Bible the most wicked, the most detestable, the most pernicious, and the most obnoxious book ever published. ... We will never achieve intellectual liberty until the wickedness of this book has been discarded with the belief in the flatness of the earth.
 * AN ATHEIST MANIFESTO BY JOSEPH LEWIS

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Wikiquote:Sign your posts on talk pages

Signing your posts (on all Wikiquote talk pages) is an important aspect of Wikiquote's developed etiquette, and an essential aspect of the community communication that helps articles to be formed and developed. Discussion helps other users who are reading talk pages to understand the progress and evolution of a dialogue, and to better offer their help, and to easier judge users who are accountable to their comments.

Because of this necessity, Wikiquote developers created a very easy way to create signatures. To automatically sign your posts with a date-stamp, add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of your message. Rarely, you may find it convenient to add just your signature, without the timestamp; this is done by adding three tildes. Also, five tildes will generate a timestamp without a signature. Some editors have a special key or menu selection for inserting a Wikiquote signature. (e.g., there is a Wikimedia Extension available for the browser which adds this and many other Wikimedia project-specific functions to the right-click menu whenever you are editing a Wikiquote article.)

Basics
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See also: Automatic conversion of wikitext in Help.

If you chose to contribute to Wikiquote without logging in, the tildes will be converted to your to be displayed as your signature. (An username account actually provides you with more anonymity, if you are concerned about IP privacy issues.) You can also consider manually signing your posts with a pseudonym or tag such as --anon (although your IP address will still be stored in the page history if you edit without logging in).

If your preferred signature consists of non-ASCII characters (Chinese for example), you are encouraged to use ASCII characters in them as well. This is because not everyone can view certain characters, and instead may find a box or other replacement where the non-ASCII character would properly be.

Customizing your signature
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If you want to use a more complex signature (for instance, including a link to your talk page), you can choose the "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" checkbox in your Preferences. Just fill the "Your nickname" field with your desired signature, exactly as you want it to be substituted for the tildes.

Please note that the inclusion of images in your signature is strongly discouraged -- it is distracting to many users, puts a small but unnecessary drain on the servers, and can badly distort the normal display of talk pages (especially if the image link should become broken, or the viewer has images turned off in their browsers). Likewise, un-susbstituted templates (i.e., templates without the subst: prefix) are also highly discouraged, as any change to the template will force the servers to recache every page where the template is displayed. For a prolific contributor, this may require recaching thousands of pages.

Note that the talk link is somewhat "disguised" in some signatures -- it might look like a last name, or even the last letter of a name, or a single symbol. Hovering the mouse pointer over the link should tell you (in a tooltip, browser status bar, or other) whether the link is pointing to "User", "User talk", or something else.

Images
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Appearance
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However, images in the signature are discouraged for several reasons:
 * they use additional server resources
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 * in most browsers, images do not scale with the text, making lines with images higher than those without.

Your signature also should not blink, as this annoys many other editors. Neither should it be too long (long signatures with lots of HTML/wikicode may make page editing more difficult), nor contain  tags (produces big text), or line breaks (  tags)

Length
Please try to keep signatures short, because very long signatures cloud up the page source in edit mode, making it harder for other editors to find where your comment stopped. Both images and long signatures carry the danger of giving undue prominence to that user's contribution. Reduce it to the minimum necessary.

Transclusion/template
Avoid using page transclusion or templates for signatures (like those which appear as  , for example). These are avoidable drains on server resources. Transcluded signatures require extra processing and, whenever you do change your signature source, all talk pages you've posted on must be re-cached. One can imagine the impact if these kinds of signatures were in common use. Signature templates are also vandalism targets, and will be forever, even if the user leaves the project. Simple text signatures, which are stored along with the page content, use no more resources than the comments themselves and avoid these problems.

If you really must use a userpage as a source of boilerplate for your signature, at least substitute it so it is only transcluded once, for example  .

More about Talk pages
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This is the official user page of User:Perry8331 on Wikipedia

Perry8331

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User talk:70.119.240.18

~ UDScott 12:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:JackO'Lantern2

Thanks for adding all those actor pages, but I have one request. Please follow the template for people pages. I've gone back and fixed your pages, adding a wikipedia link, a category, and cleaning up the formatting. Please use my cleanup efforts as an example for how the pages should look. Thanks. ~ UDScott 12:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:213.27.30.55

~ UDScott 13:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I work only Russian Wikiquote. (213.27.30.55 11:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC))

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User:Bjelleklang

Hi there. I'm mostly to be found at the english wikipedia, so if you want/need to see my userpage, please stop by there!

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