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Fred Jelinek

Fred Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing.

Quotes

 * Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up.
 * Although its fame and iconic status are undisputed, the quip's context is unknown and its specific wording and dating are unclear. According to Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Jelinek himself recalled the quote as "Anytime a linguist leaves the group the recognition rate goes up" and dated it to December 1988 (Wayne, Pennsylvania), further noting that the quote did not appear in the published proceeding,  whereas Roger K. Moore gave the wording as "Every time we fire a phonetician/linguist, the performance of our system goes up" and dated it to an IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding workshop held in 1985.

 * It is generally believed that scientific talent reveals itself in early youth. [...] This was certainly not my case. I somehow slid into my scientific profession. My mother wished for me to become a physician, just like my father. [...] I myself wanted to be a lawyer, defender of the unjustly accused. But my career is the result of political circumstances, academic possibilities, and lucky accidents.
 * Talking about his life in a 2001 speech Jelinek, Frederick. "How I Got Here" Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia (November 22, 2001). Retrieved on December 17, 2010. Honoris causa degree acceptance speech.

 * It's easier to say something stupid than write something stupid.

Quotes about Jelinek

 * He was not a pioneer of speech recognition, he was the pioneer of speech recognition.
 * Steven Young, 2010, "Frederick Jelinek 1932–2010: The Pioneer of Speech Recognition Technology". Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee Newsletter

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Talk:Time

(Fruit flies like a banana)
According to the discussion at Language Log, "Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana" was circulating in the 1960s, and wasn't attributed to Chico Marx until 1982, and Groucho until 2000. It's probably due to Noam Chomsky, but that's just a guess.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1717#more-1717

John Roth
 * Chomsky is indeed a likely possibility, but also look into the writings of Anthony G. Oettinger & Susumu Kuno (jointly and severally), of Harvard, c. 1963-'65. And look for forms w/ e.g. "...like bananas" which may be the earliest form. --65.96.76.164 09:05, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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 * I think the second you stop fighting it, time really is on your side.
 * J.D., Scrubs, unidentified episode

 * What is time? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I know not.
 * Augustine of Hippo

 * Time spent with cats is never wasted.
 * Colette

 * Time spent Wishing is Time Wasted
 * Janitor

 * What Difference does it make? Whether Twenty Seconds or Twenty Years,it doesn't have the Faintest Echo or Slighest Whisper in the Thunderstorm of Time
 * The Outer Limits

 * Time wounds all heels.
 * Jane Ace

 * Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.
 * Jenny Diski

 * To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
 * Emily Dickinson

 * Forever is composed of nows.
 * Emily Dickinson

 * How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
 * Annie Dillard

 * Time goes, you say? Ah no, alas, time stays, we go.
 * Henry Austin Dobson

 * Time is what keeps the light from reaching us.
 * Meister Eckhart

 * Time is an illusion.
 * Albert Einstein

 * The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
 * Albert Einstein

 * The only thing that really makes me waste my time is to think on my wasted time.
 * Francisco Cordova

 * Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
 * Michael Ende

 * Time is the accident of accidents.
 * Epicurus

 * Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.
 * Benjamin Franklin

 * Lost time is never found again.
 * Benjamin Franklin

 * Spend some time alone every day.
 * Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

 * It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding.
 * Vincent Van Gogh

 * Each day a day goes by.
 * Carlo Goldoni

 * Our true home is the present moment.' To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment.
 * Thich Nhat Hanh

 * Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others, go flowing on. Time is a child, moving counters in a game; the royal power is a child's.
 * Heraclitus

 * Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
 * Jesse Jackson

 * Time is on my side, yes it is.
 * Mick Jagger

 * You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
 * Janis Joplin

 * The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
 * Leon Kennedy

 * Truth is always new, therefore timeless.
 * Jiddu Krishnamurti

 * Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
 * Stephen Leacock

 * Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
 * John Lennon

 * The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
 * C. S. Lewis

 * Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
 * Horace Mann

 * Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
 * Martial

 * I've been on a calendar but I have never been on time.
 * Marilyn Monroe

 * I confess that I do not believe in time. I like to unfold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness — in an landscape selected at random — is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstacy, and behind the ecstacy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love.
 * Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory

 * Time makes more converts than reason.
 * Thomas Paine

 * Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
 * Mary Parrish

 * By labor we can find food and water, but all of our labor will not find for us another hour.
 * Kenneth Patton

 * Nature's Time is Cubic and perpetual. Linear Time is wrong and suicidal.
 * Gene Ray

 * We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual.
 * Paul Ricoeur

 * Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
 * Will Rogers

 * Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
 * Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

 * This I offer to the secret of great Truth: Do not waste time!
 * The Sandokai

 * Alone I suffer, alone I wait. Waiting for time. Time the healer.
 * Steve Sayles

 * There's a gude time coming.
 * Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy

 * Veritum dies aperit.
 * Time discovers the truth.
 * Seneca in De Ira

 * We must trust time to reveal all things.
 * "Maiev Shadowsong", in Warcraft III

 * The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.
 * Gail Sheehy

 * Each moment is a place you've never been.
 * Mark Strand

 * The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
 * James Taylor (American Singer, Song Writer and Guitarist, b.1948)

 * The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
 * Henry David Thoreau

 * Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
 * Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

 * Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
 * Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

 * They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
 * Andy Warhol

 * Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
 * Alan Watts

 * Events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
 * Eudora Welty

 * I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
 * H.G. Wells

 * All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.
 * Buddhist chant

 * An inch of gold won't buy an inch of time.
 * Chinese proverb

 * Pulling at an olive won't make it ripen faster.
 * Italian proverb

 * Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
 * variant: Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. Space is what prevents everything from happening to me.
 * Variously attributed to Woody Allen, Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Anonymous
 * A google books search shows the phrase "everything from happening at once" appears on p. 148 of the 1954 book The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction, edited by Leo Margulies and Oscar Jerome Friend, so it dates back at least that far (the page of search results shows that the book contains a snippet saying: "Time," he said, "is what keeps everything from happening at once." "Very clever," laughed the Chemist. The Doctor leaned forward earnestly. "I should say," he began, "that time is the rate at which we live — the speed at which we). Also, on the google books search for "everything from happening at once" with the date range to 1980 or earlier, none of the results I saw attributed it to Wheeler, Einstein, or Woody Allen; in fact adding "Wheeler" or "Einstein" or "Woody" as an additional term reduced the number of 1980-or-earlier results from 48 to zero. Hypnosifl 23:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Found an even earlier one that I somehow missed on my earlier search--"The Man Who Mastered Time" by Ray Cummings, from 1929, which on p. 1 says: "Time," said George, "why I can give you a definition of time. It's what keeps everything from happening at once." Probably the later appearance of the phrase in the 1954 anthology above was in another story by Ray Cummings, "The Girl in the Golden Atom" which according to the table of contents of the 1954 book starts on p. 113, 35 pages before the quote about time. Hypnosifl 00:01, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * "The Girl in the Golden Atom" is on Project Gutenberg here, the quote about time appears in Chapter V, in the paragraph that starts "The Big Business Man smiled." And this page says it's a combination of a story published in 1919 and another published in 1920, which were combined to make the finished novel which was published in 1923. So, the quote goes back at least to 1923, maybe 1919. Hypnosifl 00:26, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

 * The more time we lose, the more memories we make.
 * Anonymous

 * All things end in unending time.
 * Anonymous, Latin graffito scratched into a brothel's wall, Pompeii.

 * Living is entirely too time consuming to last.
 * Irene Peter, Quotations for our time (1977), by Laurence Peter

 * Time. Time is an artificial construct. An idea based on the theory that events occur in a linear direction, at all times. Always forward, never back. Is the concept of time correct? Is time relevant?
 * Sheogorath, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Quotation from the book of Ecclesiastes attributed to Solomon
I'll let this stand for the moment, because of tradition and because I am not desirous of becoming engaged in a bootless firefight with Fundamentalists.

BUT, Biblical scholars are as well-nigh unanimous that the book of Ecclesiastes and the quote herein were not written by Solomon but by Koheleth or Qoheleth, depending on one's orthographic preference.

Vide the Wikipedia article on Ecclesiastes.

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Protagoras

 * For the dialogue by Plato, see Protagoras (dialogue)

Protagoras (c. 481 BC – c. 420 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. He was a pre-Socratic philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato, who in his dialogue of the same name credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of "virtue".

Quotes

 * Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.
 * As quoted in Theaetetus by Plato section 152a

 * There are two sides to every question.
 * As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51

 * As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.
 * Opening lines of Concerning the Gods (DK 80 B4).
 * Variant translation: "As to the Gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, or if they do, what they are like."

 * The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
 * As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

 * When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.
 * As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

 * You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
 * As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

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Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz (26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born Australian biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry.

Quotes

 * Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.
 * Cited in: Jack Huberman (2008). Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political ...

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Chord (music)

Chord, music

 * "A chord is by no means an agglomeration of intervals. It is a new unit which, although dependent on the formative power of the single interval, is felt as being self-existent and as giving to the constituent intervals meanings and functions which they otherwise would not have."
 * Paul Hindemith (1952: 72). A Composer's World. Cambridge, Mass.

 * Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming then, But I struck one chord of music Like the sound of a great Amen.
 * Adelaide Anne Procter, Lost Chord. (As set to music, 5th line reads, "I know not what I was playing.").

 * [ Tonality is] the special meaning [functions] that chords receive through their relationship to a fundamental sonority, the tonic triad.
 * Hugo Riemann, cited in Gurlitt, W. (1950). "Hugo Riemann (1849-1919)".

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Talk:Learning

"... involve me and I will learn"
Any idea where this popular quote comes from: "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn." It is frequently attributed to Benjamin Franklin, although I can't imagine him using "involve" in this context. I have also seen it attributed to Confucius. Thanks, Maikel 20:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

This quote comes up in this discussion of the origins of "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” --Hughh (talk) 16:54, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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 * The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing.
 * Tao Te Ching, also attributed to Lao Tzu

 * "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." ~Abigail Adams, 1780.

 * "A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did?' Don't do that.'"  ~Douglas Adams

 * "The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it." ~Bayazid Bistami.

 * "I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." ~Agatha Christie.

 * Thought without learning is perilous.
 * Confucius,.

 * "I've known joy and sorrow, gladness in achieving a dream and the frustration that comes with failure. I've known what it is to feel like the world is falling around you and what it is to feel as though nothing could ever go wrong. I've known all these things and, while I've learned much from these experiences, I still haven't learned all that I can about them." -A. Curry

 * "Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in." ~Leonardo Da Vinci

 * "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." ~Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

 * "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~Albert Einstein (1879-1955).

 * "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." ~Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993).

 * "A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't" ~Saul Gorn

 * "Learning is like a ladder. In order to reach the top rung, to create the next revolutionary idea, to dream up an epic adventure, we must first step on the bottom rung and learn our ABCs." ~Alex Hope

 * "Enlightenment is intimacy with all things." ~Jack Kornfield

 * "The adventure of knowledge is just as important as the knowledge of adventure." ~Delvin Lee

 * "If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13." ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 * "I am still learning." ~Michelangelo's motto

 * "To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand." ~José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955).

 * "First, master your instrument. Then forget all that #*$&%& and play!"  ~Charlie Parker

 * "Sure, you might learn something new every day... but you'll never remember it all." ~Keelan Rantanen

 * "For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who don't want to learn - much." ~W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman

 * "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851).

 * "My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself." ~George Bernard Shaw

 * "It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom." ~Shunryu Suzuki.

 * "The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." ~Leo Tolstoy

 * "Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn." ~Mark Twain

 * "It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding." ~Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890).

 * "At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it than at any other time." ~Jane Wagner

 * "A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered 'How am I supposed to know?'
 * 'How do you know? You're a Zen master!' exclaimed the samurai.
 * 'Yes, but not a dead one,' Hakuin answered." ~Zen mondo

 * "The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear."  ~Zen saying

 * "If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut."
 * * Persian Proverb

 * To look for something meaningful is the begining of a life long search.
 * * Anonymous.

 * You learn when you understand. You understand when you learn.
 * * Anonymous.

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Boasting

Boasting is to speak with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities.

Quotes

 * Αὐτοῦ γὰρ καὶ Ῥόδος καὶ πήδημα.
 * Hic Rhodus, hic salta.
 * Here is Rhodes, jump here!
 * Reply to an athlete boasting about a stupendous long jump on the island of Rhodes, in Aesop's "The Boastful Athlete".

 * Forgetting that their pride of spirit, Their exultation in their trial, Detracts most largely from the merit Of all their boasted self-denial.
 * Byron, “Granta” (1806), Poetical Works, Volume 1

 * Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strengthor the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.
 * The Bible, Book of Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV

 * Enten, you should not boast about your superior strength after you have explained the grounds for your boasting. […] Don't speak with a gaping mouth of your superior strength -- I will make known its shape and essence.
 * Emesh, in , mid to late . Text online at.

 * Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.
 * Charles Kingsley, Hereward the wake, 1866.

 * A man who cannot climb a tree will boast of never having fallen out of one.
 * Ludwig Klages, Rhythmen und Runen (Leipzig: 1944), p. 466

 * If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
 * Paul of Tarsus, 2 Corinthains 11:30 NIV

 * To those who are given to virtue, the boast of titles is wholly alien and distasteful.
 * Petrarch, “On the Various Academic Titles,” De remediis utriusque fortunae, C. Rawski, trans. (1967), p. 73

 * As long as the boasters haven't departed, their mouths make me uneasy.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection III at,.

 * To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Vain men delight in telling what honours have been done them, what great company they have kept, and the like, by which they plainly confess that these honours were more than their due, and such as their friends would not believe if they had not been told: whereas a man truly proud thinks the greatest honours below his merit, and consequently scorns to boast.
 * Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects”

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Disposition

A disposition is a natural or deliberately learned habit or tendency to act in a specified way.

Quotes

 * I hold virtue, in general, or the virtues severally, to be only in the disposition, each a feeling, not a principle.
 * Byron, Letter to R. C. Dallas, January 21, 1808

 * To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions they demand, is to fall into superstition.
 * Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), § 2111

 * We cannot avoid moodiness; but we may turn to account, as does the poet, the various dispositions of the mind, or give them form and shape, as the sculptor his marble.
 * Ernst Feuchtersleben, Dietetics of the Soul

 * In the “fulfilment” of both the laws and duty, ... the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law, and therefore this correspondence of law and inclination is life and, as the relation of differents to one another, love.
 * Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate

 * There is a principle, supposed to prevail among many, which is utterly incompatible with all virtue or moral sentiment; and as it can proceed from nothing but the most depraved disposition, so in its turn it tends still further to encourage that depravity. This principle is, that all benevolence is mere hypocrisy, friendship a cheat, public spirit a farce, fidelity a snare to procure trust and confidence; and that while all of us, at bottom, pursue only our private interest, we wear these fair disguises, in order to put others off their guard, and expose them the more to our wiles and machinations.
 * David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), Appendix 2

 * Not the observance of outer civil or statutory churchly duties but the pure moral disposition of the heart alone can make man well-pleasing to God. ... From a small beginning in the sharing and spreading of such dispositions, religion, like a grain of seed in good soil, or a ferment of goodness, would gradually, through its inner power, grow into a kingdom of God.
 * Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Book IV, Part 1, Section 1

 * Your beauty should not be an external one, consisting of braided hair or the wearing of gold ornaments and dresses. Instead, it should be the inner disposition of the heart, consisting in the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which God values greatly.
 * 1 Peter 3:3-4

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Effort

Effort, in physical terms, is the amount of work involved in performing an activity; in general use it is also synonymous with Endeavor, which implies a deliberate exertion, and to use more energy than usual in an activity.

Quotes

 * In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.
 * James Allen, As A Man Thinketh, Visions and Ideals (1902)

 * Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete!
 * Robert Browning (1812–1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, Bk. 11, l. 1560 (1868–1869)

 * Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
 * Robert Browning, "Andrea Del Sarto," The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (1895), p. 346

 * I didn't think that working hard and wanting something that's out of your control would be that bothersome to people. It was just really disappointing for me.
 * Alessia Cara, interview with Patrick Ryan of USA Today (June 2018)

 * Struggling. How many people in life have it easy? I don't care what you do for a living. I don't believe I'm gifted, like Clemente, or Cedeno, or Mantle. About 10% of the ballplayers are gifted. For the other 90% of us, it's a struggle.
 * , in response to sportswriter 's query, "How's it going?"; as quoted in "Young Ideas: The Hoss That Nobody Bets," New York Daily News (August 18, 1972), p. 77

 * To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
 * Confucius, Analects, § 6.20.

 * Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
 * Democritus (ca. 4th century BCE). Tr. Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1948)

 * Those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes.
 * Albert Einstein, ' (1949) ' New York (May 1949)

 * Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one wouldn't say so till he'd tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.
 * Edgar Albert Guest, "It Couldn't Be Done," stanza 1, Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest (1934), p. 285

 * The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Ideals and Doubts", Collected Legal Papers (1937), p. 305

 * Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it — so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business sometimes prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
 * Elbert Hubbard, as quoted from Electrical Review (c. 1895) without further attribution in The Search for the North Pole (1896) by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, p. 520, this was later published as part of various works by Hubbard, including FRA Magazine : A Journal of Affirmation (1915), and An American Bible (1918) edited by Alice Hubbard.

 * What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
 * Samuel Johnson, quoted in Biographia by William Seward (1799)

 * If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.
 * Jigoro Kano, as quoted in Black Belt : Judo Skills and Techniques (2006) by Neil Ohlenkamp, p. 36

 * He has called on the best that was in us. There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school—we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. “After you have done the best you can,” he used to say, “the hell with it.”
 * Robert Kennedy, tribute to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. Read at Joseph Kennedy’s funeral by Senator Edward Kennedy, November 20, 1969. — Congressional Record, November 25, 1969, vol. 115, p. 35877

 * The smallest effort is not lost, Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; Each struggle lessens human woe.
 * Charles Mackay, The Old and the New, Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1857)

 * Give Me leisure, all the time Maecenas found For Horace and his Virgil, and I'll try To build a masterpiece destined to live And save my name from ashes. When the ground Is poor, the ox works listlessly; rich soil Tires, but there's satisfaction then in toil.
 * Martial, Epigrammata, translated by James Michie

 * To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.
 * William Osler, as quoted in Wisdom for the Soul (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 678

 * Verily, the Hour is coming but I am about to make it manifest so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives.
 * Quran 20:15

 * And that the human being attains only what he strives for.
 * Quran 53:39

 * The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward (1933), chapter 2, p. 51

 * It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910.—“Citizenship in a Republic,” The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 21, p. 510 (1926)

 * Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.
 * Walter Russell, THINK - IBM Lecture Series

 * Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
 * George Santayana, in The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

 * These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.
 * Alexander H. Stephens, remarks in the House, February 15, 1881, upon Vermont’s presentation of a statue of Jacob Collamer to Statuary Hall. — Congressional Record, vol. 11, p. 1611

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Forethought

Quotes about forethought

Quotes

 * Cautious silence is where prudence takes refuge.
 * Baltasar Gracián. In Maxim 3, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647).

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Heathen

Heathen or pagan

Quotes

 * HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

 * If I had been a Heathen, I'd have crowned Neaera's curls, And filled my life with love affairs, My house with dancing girls.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Song Of The Strange Ascetic.

 * O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
 * T.S. Eliot (Murder in the Cathedral).

 * Though every prospect pleases    And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strewn, The heathen in his blindness     Bows down to wood and stone.
 * Reginald Heber, "Missionary Hymn", (1819).

 * The editor perhaps may consider himself justified by numerous precedents among the several partisans of different Christian sects in applying the name of heathen to one who takes the Precepts of Jesus as his principal guide in matters of religious and civic duties; as Roman Catholics bestow the appellation of heretics or infidels on all classes of Protestants; and the Protestants do not spare the title idolater to Roman Catholics; Trinitarians deny the name Christian to Unitarians, while the latter retort by stigmatising the worshippers of the son of man as Pagans who adore a created and dependent being.
 * Ram Mohan Roy (founder of the Brahma Sabha) His reply after being called a heathen by John Marshman. Quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 8 ISBN 9788185990354

 * When the Christian Sunday schools teach the children that ‘the heathens cannot enjoy the blessings of salvation’ they foster an attitude in the impressionable child mind that all heathens or non-Christians must be had, ignoble, or inferior and there must be something fundamentally wrong in them. This attitude grows; and only a few, in their maturity after great efforts, succeed to free themselves from this prejudice based upon ignorance and false teachings.
 * Dr. Taraknath Das, Ph.D., in the “Modern Review” for April 1931. in The Modern Review, vol 49 Ramananda Chatterjee Prabasi Press Private, Limited, 1931

 * Very many Americans have an offensive habit of referring to natives as `heathen.' Mahommedans and Hindus are heathen alike in their eyes.
 * R Kipling, (From Sea to Sea vol. 2, p. 61):    quoted in Ibn, W. (2009). Defending the West: A critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books.

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Laziness

Laziness is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so.

Quotes

 * As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
 * Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

 * LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

 * Bhikkhus, the lazy person dwells in suffering, soiled by evil unwholesome states, and great is the personal good that he neglects. But the energetic person dwells happily, secluded from evil unwholesome states, and great is the personal good that he achieves. It is not by the inferior that the supreme is attained; rather, it is by the supreme that the supreme is attained. Bhikkhus, this holy life is a beverage of cream; the Teacher is present. Therefore, bhikkhus, arouse your energy for the attainment of the as-yet-unattained, for the achievement of the as-yet-unachieved, for the realization of the as-yet-unrealized.
 * Gautama Buddha, in Saṃyutta Nikāya, Book 2, Sutta 12, Verse 22, as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (Wisdom Publications: 2000), p. 553

 * I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
 * Agatha Christie, An Autobiography (1977)

 * My ambition is handicapped by my laziness
 * Charles Bukowski, Factotum (1975)

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
 * Absence of occupation is not rest,
 * William Cowper, Retirement (1782), Line 623

As useless when it goes as when it stands.
 * An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
 * William Cowper, Retirement (1782), line 681

 * Idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them – their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author. From a letter to his daughter, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, July 7, 1938, The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnball, pub. Charles Shribner’s Sons (1967)

 * Sleepiness and laziness in a man are the beginning of his misfortune.
 *  17, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 69

 * Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
 * Horace, Satires

 * [M]an when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.
 * George Trumbull Ladd In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908), page 292

 * An ingenious theory has arisen regarding the catapultic bat of Babe Ruth, which may explain how it is possible this early in the season for a batter to pile up twenty-three home runs. It seems Babe is a human being built on colossal proportions and that he is not overly fond of running bases at the fast and furious gait of his contemporary, Ty Cobb. To save his lumbering body the effort, therefore, he hits the ball over the fence and makes the circuit of the four bases at his leisure. That is as satisfactory an explanation as any other. The ways of laziness are indeed clever. Some there are who contend that most of the labor-saving devices that have revolutionized modern industries have sprung from the fertile brains, set in inactive bodies, of lazy men. Constructive laziness is, according to that school of thinking, a boon to humanity and a blazer of progress. Ruth, finding base-running inconvenient, devises a means of overcoming it and is hailed as the home run king of the world, admired of thousands and becomes the recipient of fat pay checks at whose figures the merely industrious man gasps.
 * Louisville Courier-Journal, unsigned editorial published the day after Babe Ruth had, for the second straight day, homered into the Polo Grounds' never-before-reached centerfield bleachers, "Lazy Babe Ruth" (June 15, 1921), p.4

 * People standing on escalators!  And that is a testimony to human laziness! I mean, the guy who invented the escalator is just, probably, kicking himself in the ass.  Do you think the guy made the escalator so people—and they're made like stairs—just so people stand on it so you go up and down?  You're supposed to walk on 'em so you get there faster.  You know?  And then people stand on there.  So every time I'm on an escalator, I'm just like, "Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, pardon me…."  You know?  That's my pet peeve, right there.  And I'm gonna do something about it, and I'm urging you to do something about it!  Write your congressman, get a group together, get together, and—I think we can do something about this.
 * Krist Novoselic, video interview, early 1990s

 * The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
 * Friedrich Schiller, The Aesthetic Education of Man, Eighth Letter

 * The lazy are always wanting to do something.
 * Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims (1746)

 * There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
 * Zig Ziglar See You at the Top (2000)

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

 * Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

 * Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.
 * Frederic Dan Huntington, p. 344.

 * At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!
 * William Mountford, p. 344.

 * The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
 * Elias Lyman Magoon, p. 345.

 * The idle man is the devil's cushion.
 * Bishop Hall, p. 345.

 * If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.
 * Henry Ward Beecher, p. 345.

 * Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.
 * Hugh Blair, p. 345.

 * An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim — that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.
 * Richard Cecil, p. 345.

 * Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
 * Charles Spurgeon, p. 345.

 * Be always employed about some rational thing that the devil find thee not idle.
 * Jerome, p. 345.

 * A good many people are complaining all the time about themselves, and crying out, "My leanness! my leanness!" when they ought rather to say, " My laziness! my laziness!"
 * Dwight L. Moody, p. 346.

 * I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one."
 * Charles Spurgeon, p. 346.

 * The worst idleness is that of the heart. Think of the condition and prospects of a voiceless, thankless, prayerless heart.
 * Elias Lyman Magoon, p. 346.

 * When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self-indulgence, God " stirs up our nests;" and bids us fly upward.
 * Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 346.

 * The only cure for indolence is work; the only cure for selfishness is sacrifice; the only cure for unbelief is to shake off the ague of doubt, by doing Christ's bidding; the only cure for timidity is to plunge into some dreaded duty before the chill comes on.
 * Samuel Rutherford, p. 346.

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Old age

Old age is the range of ages for people nearing and surpassing life expectancy. People of old age are also referred to as: old people, elderly, elders, seniors, senior citizens, or older adults.

Quotes

 * The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
 * Chinua Achebe,  Things Fall Apart (1958), ch. 13

 * I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
 * Anne Reeve Aldrich, "An Evening With Callender", A Village Ophelia and Other Stories (1899)

 * To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.
 * Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Leaves from a Note Book", Ponkapog Papers (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903), p. 46

 * There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
 * Simone De Beauvoir The Coming of Age (1970)

 * Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made
 * Robert Browning. "Rabbi ben Ezra"

 * What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
 * Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1798), stanza 98

 * It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem — and in my esteem age is not estimable.
 * Lord Byron, from The Works of Lord Byron, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1901), vol. V: Letters and Journals, ch. XXIII: "Detached Thoughts" (1821-10-15 – 1822-05-18), paragraph 72 (p. 445)

 * One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're tired.
 * George Carlin, It's Bad for Ya (2008)

 * On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
 * J. P. Donleavy, The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners (New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1975) p. 278.

 * It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
 * George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)

 * Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
 * Euripides, Alcestis

 * All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
 * Billy Graham, Newsweek, Aug. 14, 2006

 * Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.
 * G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (1904), p. 235. The reference to “Gross” is apparently to Karl Groos, Die Spiele der Thiere (The Play of Animals), 1896, p. 68, "die Thiere spielen nicht, weil sie jung sind, sondern sie haben eine Jugend, weil sie spielen müssen." (“The animals do not play because they are young, but they have a youth because they must play.”)
 * Variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr or Jr), Herbert Spencer, or George Bernard Shaw, but this is apparently the original source.
 * Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

 * And the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who sits on the throne and said: “Amen! Praise Jah!” Also, a voice came from the throne and said: “Be praising our God, all you his slaves, who fear him, the small ones and the great.”
 * John the Evangelist, Revelation 19: 4-5, NWT

 * Maybe theoretical physics is degenerating but I don't know into what. Let me just say something first. I have noticed when I was younger, that lots of old men in the field couldn't understand new ideas very well, and resisted them with one method or another, and that they were very foolish in saying these ideas were wrong — such as Einstein not being able to take quantum mechanics. I'm an old man now, and these are new ideas, and they look crazy to me, and they look like they're on the wrong track. Now I know that other old men have been very foolish in saying things like this, and, therefore, I would be very foolish to say this is nonsense. I am going to be very foolish, because I do feel strongly that this is nonsense! I can't help it, even though I know the danger in such a point of view. So perhaps I could entertain future historians by saying I think all this superstring stuff is crazy and is in the wrong direction.
 * Richard Feynman, interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown

 * Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!"
 * Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932), ch. 3

 * Every child, at birth, is the Universal Man. But, as it grows, we turn it into "a petty man." It should be the function of education to turn it again into the original "Universal Man."
 * Kuvempu, Vishwa-Manava [translated as "Universal Man", "Universal Humanity", or "The Universal Man"], as quoted in Epic in Indian Literature (1985) by Harōgadde Mānappa Nāyaka, p. xix; also in Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature (2013), edited by E. V. Ramakrishnan, Harish Trivedi, and Chandra Mohan, p. 71
 * Variant translations:
 * Every child is a Universal Man at birth. We reduce him into a "Little Man" as he grows up. The duty of education should be to make him "The Universal Man" once again.
 * As quoted in Life and Literature of Sri Kuvempu 26:42
 * Every child, at birth, is the universal man. But, as it grows, we turn it into a "petty man" (through caste, creed, religion and race). It should be the function of education to turn it into the original "universal man".
 * As quoted in "'Vishwamanava Express', and story behind the name", Deccan Herald (27 May 2017)

 * One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
 * Marquise de Lambert, An Essay on Old Age (1732), p. 121

 * The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
 * Doris Lessing, The Sunday Times, May 10, 1992

 * For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Morituri Salutamus"

 * You never lose who you were, you just grow around you, like a tree.
 * Joanna Lumley, English actress, as stated in Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure. Siberia to Moscow, Episode 3. (ITV TV mini series, Burning Bright Productions, 2015)

 * The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
 * Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

 * The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
 * W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up (1938)

 * The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
 * H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series (1922)

 * The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.
 * Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913)

 * Women of the 24th century consider a man in his early fifties like Picard has having just entered his best years. Active duty Starfleet males, (and females for that matter) have the double attractiveness of being in prime physical condition usually through their seventies and being more aware most humans of the rich variety of personal relationships.
 * Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek: The Next Generation Bible

 * Getting older was definitely preferable to an up close and personal meeting with the Grim Reaper.
 * JoAnn Ross, No Safe Place (2007)

 * No man loves life like him that's growing old.
 * Sophocles, Acrisius

 * It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
 * Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (1996)

 * Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.
 * Theocritus, "The Love of Thyonichus"

 * Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
 * Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile—1935 (1958)

 * The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

 * There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
 * Dennis Wolfberg, Humorous Quotes for All Occasions

 * An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing.
 * William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium", The Tower (1928)

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Strife

Strife is violent conflict, usually brief or limited in nature.

Quotes

 * Although we live by strife, We're always sorry to begin it, For what, we ask, is life Without a touch of Poetry in it?
 * Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Act I (1880)

 * Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy.
 * James Weldon Johnson, Fifty Years and Other Poems, Lazy, St. 1 (1917)

 * Still a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
 * Robert E. Lee, letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.—John William Jones, Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee, p. 137 (1876).

 * The victories of Right Are born of strife. There were no Day were there no Night, Nor, without dying, Life.
 * Sir Lewis Morris, The Ode of Evil, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.
 * John Henry Newman, A Martyr Convert, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 * Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
 * Proverbs 17:1, American Standard Version

 * Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face?
 * The Thin Red Line, Private Edward P. Train, written by Terrence Malick, based on the novel by James Jones (1998)

 * There is no advance without strife.
 * Philip Wylie, Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer, After Worlds Collide (1934)

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Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also the capital of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, Republic of Srpska entity as well as the center of the Sarajevo Canton. Nestled within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans.

Although settlement in the area stretches back to prehistoric times, the modern city arose as an Ottoman stronghold in the 15th century. In 1914, it was the site of the assassination of the Archduke of Austria that sparked World War I. For nearly four years, from 1992 to 1996, the city suffered the longest siege of a city in the history of modern warfare during the Bosnian War for independence.

Quotes

 * When you go to Sarajevo what you experience... is life.
 * Mike Leigh, as quoted in "Sarajevo opens 10th film festival" in BBC News (20 August 2004)

 * In Sarajevo, I ate a lot of sweets, drank plenty of water and read Nero Wolfe.
 * Richard Burton, as quoted in

 * The people of Bosnia -- meaning Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs -- could each say they're speaking their own, individual language. They say that it's their national language, and that it's not for Europe, Belgrade, or Zagreb to decide differently... The same is true for Montenegrins. If they think Montenegrin is a distinct language, then basically it is. If on the other hand they decide to share a language with Serbs or Croats, that would work just as well. But the tendency here is to see each of these languages as special and distinct.
 * August Kovacec, as quoted in "Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Or Montenegrin? Or Just 'Our Language'?" (21 February 2009), by Ljudmila Cvetkovic and Goran Vezic, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

 * Sarajevo had the best organized Winter Games in Olympic history ... Goodbye dear Sarajevo.
 * Juan Antonio Samaranch, as quoted at the Closing Ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo []

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Green Day

Green Day is a band from California, consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals and guitar as well as the occasional harmonica), Mike Dirnt (born Michael Ryan Pritchard; bass, backing vocals), and Tré Cool (born Frank Edwin Wright III; drums, percussion, backing vocals). Since their sixth album, Warning, the band has included close friend Jason White as a back-up guitarist for live shows. Green Day is credited, along with The Offspring and Rancid, with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest of punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s.

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 * Maybe we'll meet again someday... Someday!
 * At The Library

 * I do not mind if all I am is just a friend to you, but all I want to know right now is if you think about me too.
 * Paper Lanterns

 * I take a look around and all these things I found, I call it blind hatred.
 * Road to Acceptance

 * So I can Rest my head...
 * Rest

 * Then again it seems much more than that but i'm not sure exactly what you're thinking
 * Going To Pasalacqua

 * Well I toss and turn all night thinking of your ways of affection/ But to find that it's not different at all/ So I throw away my past mistakes and contemplate my future/ That's when I say/ What the hey!/ Would it last forever?/ You and I together hand in hand we run away/ Far away!
 * Going to Pasalacqua

Kerplunk (1991)

 * I hold my breath and close my eyes and... / (Dream about her) / 'Cause she's 2000 light years away...
 * 2,000 Light Years Away

 * Juliet's trying to find out what she wants, but she don't know/ Experience has got her down...
 * One For The Razorbacks

 * My mental stability reaches its bitter end / And all my senses are coming unglued / Is there any cure for this disease someone called love / Not as long as there are girls like you.
 * 80

 * If anyone can hear me slap some sense in me/ But you turn your head/ And I end up talking to myself
 * "80"

 * There's a boy who fogs his world and now he's getting lazy/ There's no motivation and frustration makes him crazy/ He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting/ Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting
 * Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?

Dookie (1994)

 * I don't know you, but I think I hate you
 * Chump

 * I declare I don't care no more
 * Burnout

 * Throw my emotions in the grave, hell who needs them anyway
 * Burnout

 * I'm not growing up, I'm just burnin' out.
 * Burnout

 * Do you ever think back/ To another time?/ Does it bring you so down that you thought you lost your mind?/ Do you ever wanna lead a long trail of destruction/ And mow down and bullshit that confronts you?/ Do you ever build up all the small things in your head/ To make one problem that adds up to/ Nothing/ To me it's nothing"
 * "Having A Blast

 * Let's nuke the bridge we've torched 2,000 times before. / This time we'll blast it all to hell!
 * F.O.D.

 * You're just- a fuck! I can't explain it 'cause I think you suck. I'm taking pride in telling you to fuck off and die
 * ''F.O.D."

 * I went to a whore / he said my life's a bore / so quit my whining cause it's bringing her down
 * Basket Case

 * Do you have the time/ to listen to me whine/ about nothing and everything all at once.
 * Basket Case

 * I am one of those melodramatic fools/ neurotic to the bone/ no doubt about it.
 * Basket Case

 * Grasping to control/ So I better hold on
 * Basket Case

 * Bite my lip and close my eyes / Take me away to paradise / I'm so damn bored I'm going blind / And I smell like SHIT
 * Longview

 * When masturbation's lost its fun you're fucking lonely.
 * Longview

 * Some say to quit or I'll go blind / But it's just a myth.
 * Longview

 * I'm just roamin' for the moment / Sleazin' my backyard so don't get / So uptight, you've been thinkin' about ditchin' me
 * When I Come Around

 * Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes/ Some call it slums, some call it nice.
 * Welcome To Paradise

 * For now I lay 'round/ Hell, that's all I can really do/ She takes good care of me/ Just keep sane, my love is true
 * Pulling Teeth

 * Are you locked up in a world that's been planned out for you?/ Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?/ Scream at me/ Until my ears bleed/ I'm taking heed/ Just for you
 * She

 * Well I'm a waste like you/ With nothing else to do/ May I waste your time too?
 * Sassafras Roots

 * Secrets collecting dust, but never forget/ Skeletons come to life in my closet.
 * Coming Clean

 * It wasn't long ago/ That I was just like you/ And now I think I'm sick and I wanna go home.
 * Emenius Sleepis

 * How long will he last/ Before he's a freak in your past/ And you stand here alone once again?
 * In the End

Insomniac (1995)

 * I'm getting pissed / I'm a worthless pessimist
 * Armatage Shanks

 * Elected/ The rejected/ I perfect the science of the idiot/ No meaning/ No healing/ Self loathing freak and introverted deviant
 * Armatage Shanks

 * ''Find another pleasure fucker / Drag them down to hell
 * Stuck with Me

 * I'm not part of your elite, / I'm just alright!
 * Stuck With Me

 * Wish in one hand / Shit in the other and / See which one gets filled first.
 * Geek Stink Breath

 * I'm on a roll / No self control / Blowing off steam with methamphetamine.
 * Geek Stink Breath
 * You better swallow your pride or/ You're gonna choke on it/ You better digest your values/ Because they turn to shit.
 * No Pride

 * I've got a knack for fucking everything up, / My temper flies and I get myself all wound up
 * Bab's Uvula Who?

 * The world is a sick machine/ Breeding a mass of shit/ With such a desolate conclusion/ Fill the void with I don't care
 * Panic Song

 * Always move forward / Going straight will get you nowhere / There is no progress / Evolution killed it all, / I found my place in nowhere
 * Jaded

 * I'm taking one step sideways leading with my crotch / Got a fucked up equilibrium
 * Jaded

 * Do as I say, not as do / Because my shit's so deep you can't run away.
 * Walking Contradiction

 * Talk is cheap and lies are expensive / My wallet's fat and so is my head.
 * Walking Contradiction

 * So stand aside and let the next one pass / Don't let the door kick you in the ass.
 * 86

 * Fucked up and spun out in my room / On my own, here we go!
 * Brain Stew

 * My mind is set on overdrive, / The clock is laughing in my face.
 * Brain Stew

 * Destiny is dead in the hands of bad luck / Before it might have made some sense / But now it's all fucked up!
 * Stuart and the Ave.

 * Seasons change as well as minds/ And I'm a two-faced clown
 * Stuart and the Ave

 * Boxed up / All of her favorite things / Sold the rest at a rainy yard sale / Big plans and leaving friends and A westbound sign.
 * Westbound sign

Nimrod (1997)

 * "Red eye, code blue, / I'd like to strangle you."
 * Platypus (I Hate You)

 * "Dickhead, fuck-face, cock-smoking, motherfucking, asshole, dirty twat, waste of semen, I hope you die ~ HEY!"
 * Platypus (I Hate You)

 * "You ain't worth the shit under my shoes or the piss on the ground"
 * Platypus (I Hate You)

 * "No one loves you and you know / And you know it / Don't pretend that / You enjoy it / Or you don't care / Cause now I wouldn't lie / Or tell you all the things you wanna hear / Cause I hate you!"
 * "Platypus (I Hate You)

 * "Glory days don't mean shit to me / I drank a six-pack of apathy"
 * The Grouch

 * "Life's a bitch and so am I / The world owes me, so fuck you"
 * The Grouch

 * "[failed arpeggio] Aw, fuck."
 * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

 * "It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. / I hope you had the time of your life."
 * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

 * "So take the photographs and still frames in your mind / Hang them on a shelf in good health and good times / Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial / For what it's worth, it was worth all the while"
 * "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

 * "What's the difference between you and me? / I do what I want, and you do what you're told."
 * Reject

 * "There's a drought at the fountain of youth / now I'm dehydrating."
 * Hitchin' A Ride

 * "Fucked without a kiss again and dragged it through the mud"
 * Worry Rock

 * "Where do we go from here / And what did you do with the directions? / Promise me no dead end streets / And I'll guarantee we'll have the road"
 * Worry Rock

 * "I got a new start on a dead end road/ Peaked, peaked out on reaching new lows/ Owed, payed off all my debts to myself/ Perfect picture of bad health"
 * Uptight

 * "Uptight, I'm a nag with a gun / All night, suicide's last call"
 * Uptight

 * "I fucked up again, it's all my fault"
 * Jinx

 * "Don't pat yourself on the back / you might break your spine"
 * Nice Guys Finish Last

 * "Pressure cooker, pick my brain and tell me I'm insane / I'm so fucking happy I could cry"
 * Nice Guys Finish Last

 * "We're living in repetition / Content in the same old schtick again"
 * Redundant

 * "'Cause I love you's not enough / I'm lost for words."
 * Redundant

 * "Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn't made for only girls / GI Joe in panty hose is making room / for the one and only / King for a Day, Princess by dawn / King for a Day -- in a leather thong..."
 * King for A Day

 * "Loose ends tied in knots leaving a lump down in my throat / I'm gagging on a souvenir / Lodged to fill another year / Well dragging on and on until my skin is ripped to shreds / I'm leaving myself open wide/ Living out a sacrifice"
 * Scattered

Warning (2000)

 * "CAUTION: POLICE LINE, YOU BETTER NOT CROSS! Is the cop or am I the one that's really dangerous?"
 * Warning

 * "Sanitation, expiration date, QUESTION EVERYTHING!/ Or shut up and be a victim of authority."
 * Warning

 * "Waiting in a room / All dressed up and bound a gagged / Strapped to a chair / It's so unfair / I won't dare to move / For the pain she puts me through is what I need / So make it bleed"
 * Blood, Sex, and Booze

 * "I here by solemnly swear to tell the whole truth/ And nothing but the truth is what I'll ever hear from you."
 * Church On Sunday

 * "Trust is a dirty word that comes from such a liar / But respect is something I will earn if you have faith"
 * Church on Sunday

 * "Stepped out of the line/Like a sheep runs from the herd"
 * Minority

 * "I wanna be the minority / I don't need your authority / down with the moral majority / 'cause I wanna be the minority'
 * Minority

 * "A free-for-all / FUCK 'EM ALL! / You are your own sight!"
 * Minority

 * "It's a lifetime guarantee/Stuffed in a coffin 10% more free".
 * Macy's Day Parade

 * "Dawning of a new era / Calling, don't let it catch you/ Falling, ready or not at all"
 * Waiting

 * "I've been waiting a lifetime / For this moment to come I'm / Destined for anything at all / Dumbstruck, color me stupid / Good luck, you're gonna need it / Where I'm going if I get there at all / Wake up / Better thank your lucky stars"
 * Waiting

American Idiot (2004)

 * Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't wanna nation under the new media and can you hear the sound of hysteria The subliminal mind-fuck America. Welcome to a new kind of tension all across the alien nation Where everything isn't meant to be okay In television dreams of tomorrow We're not the ones who're meant to follow. Don't wanna be an American idiot One nation controlled by the media Information age of hysteria It's calling out to idiot America.
 * American Idiot

 * "Maybe I'm the faggot America, / I'm not part of a redneck agenda."
 * American Idiot

 * "Now everybody do the propaganda, / and sing along to the age of paranoia."
 * American Idiot

 * "I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies"
 * Holiday

 * "I'm the son of rage and love, / The Jesus of Suburbia"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia)

 * "And there's nothing wrong with me / This is how I'm supposed to be / In a land of make-believe / That don't believe in me"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (Jesus of Suburbia)

 * "It says: home is where your heart is / But what a shame / 'Cause everyone's heart / doesn't beat the same"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (City of the Damned)

 * "I read the graffiti / In the bathroom stall / Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall / And so it seemed to confess / It didn't say much / But it only confirmed / That the center of the earth / Is the end of the world / And I could really care less"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (City of the Damned)

 * "Everyone's so full of shit / born and raised by hypocrites"
 * "Jesus of Suburbia (I Don't Care)"

 * "I don't care if you don't."
 * "Jesus of Suburbia (I Don't Care)"

 * "Dearly beloved are you listening? / I can't remember a word that you were saying"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)

 * "Are we demented or am I disturbed? / The space that's in between insane and insecure"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)

 * "Oh therapy can you please fill the void? / Am I retarded of am I just overjoyed?"
 * Jesus of Suburbia (Dearly Beloved)

 * "To live and not to breathe / is to die in tragedy / To run, to run away / To find what you believe"
 * ''Jesus of Suburbia (Tales of Another Broken Home)"

 * "And I walked this line / A million and one fucking times / But not this time"
 * ''Jesus of Suburbia (Tales of Another Broken Home)"

 * Another protester has crossed the line To find, the money's on the other side
 * Holiday

 * to the, Bombs Away is your punishment! Pulverize the s Who criticize your government! Bang-bang goes the broken glass, and Kill all the fags who don't agree! , setting fire Is not a way that's meant for me!
 * Holiday

 * "I walk this empty street/ On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams/ Where the city sleeps/ and I'm the only one and I walk alone"
 * Boulevard or Broken Dreams

 * "Read between the lines, what's fucked up and everything's alright"
 * Boulevard or Broken Dreams

 * "Starry nights, city lights coming down over me"
 * Are We The Waiting

 * "My name is Jimmy / and you'd better not wear it out / Suicide commando that your momma talked about"
 * St. Jimmy

 * "Cigarettes and ramen and a little bag of dope / I am the son of a bitch and Edgar Allan Poe"
 * St. Jimmy

 * "Are you talkin' to me? I'll give you something to cry about!"
 * St. Jimmy

 * "Give me a long kiss goodnight, and everything will be alright / Tell me Jimmy, I won't feel a thing"
 * Give Me Novacaine

 * "She's a rebel / She's a saint / She's the salt of the Earth and she's dangerous"
 * She's a Rebel

 * "She's a rebel, vigilante / Missing link on the brink of destruction"
 * She's a Rebel

 * "Nobody likes you, everyone left you / They're all out without you having fun"
 * Letterbomb

 * "Where have all the bastards gone? / As your city's motto gets pulverized"
 * Letterbomb

 * "So strike the fucking match to light this fuse"
 * Letterbomb

 * "Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself? / and where will we all go when it's too late?"
 * Letterbomb

 * "You're not the Jesus of Suburbia / The Saint Jimmy is a figment of / Your father's rage and your mother's love / made me the idiot America"
 * Letterbomb

 * "Summer has come and passed, / the innocent can never last, / wake me up / when September ends."
 * Wake Me Up When September Ends

 * "Here comes the rain again / falling from the stars / drenched in my pain again / becoming who we are
 * Wake Me Up When September Ends

 * "He says, 'We're fucked up, but we're not the same/ and mom and dad are the ones you can blame.'"
 * Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)

 * "There's a glow of light / The St. Jimmy is the spark in the night / bearing gifts and trust / the fixture in the city of lust"
 * Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)

 * "Jimmy died today / he blew his brains out into the bay / In the state of mind / It's my own private suicide"
 * Homecoming (Death of St. Jimmy)

 * "Nobody likes you / Everyone left you / They're all out without you / Having fun."
 * Homecoming (Nobody Likes You)

 * "Somebody Get me out of here / Anybody get me out of here / Somebody get me out of here / Get me the fuck right out of here"
 * Homecoming (East 12th Street)

 * "I play the shit out the drums / and I can play the guitar"
 * Homecoming (Rock and Roll Girlfriend)

 * "Here they come / marching down the street / like a desperation murmur of a heartbeat."
 * Homecoming (We're Coming Home Again)

 * "And in the darkest night / If my memory serves me right / I'll never turn back time / Forgetting you, but not the times"
 * Whatsername

 * "From the bible of / None of the above / On a steady diet of / Soda Pop and Ritalin"
 * Jesus of Suburbia

 * "Rage and love / story of my life."
 * Are we the Waiting

Bullet in a Bible (2005)

 * "I want you to sing so loud that every fucking red-neck in America hears you tonight, alright!"
 * ''American Idiot [Live]

 * "That's my name and don't you fucking wear it out"
 * ''St. Jimmy [Live]

 * "This song is not anti-American, it's anti-war!"
 * Holiday [Live]

 * "Why are there no clouds in the sky? Because God wants to see his favorite band again!"
 * -Tré

 * "Roll roll roll a joint, twist it at the ends. Light it up, and take a puff, and pass it to your friends."
 * -Tré

 * "Orange mocha frappuccino!"
 * -Tré

 * "This next song's a big 'fuck you' to all the politicians! This song's called...'Holiday'!!!"
 * Holiday [Live]

 * "You have the fucking power, we are the fucking leaders: don't let these bastards dictate your life or try to tell you what to do, alright!"
 * Minority [Live]

 * Tré Cool: This is a place of worship! A place of rock!

Mike Dirnt: What kind of place is this?

Tré Cool: This is a holy place!

Mike Dirnt: Why are there no clouds in the sky?

Tré Cool: Because God wants to watch his favorite band again!
 * -Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt

 * I'M SO BEAUTIFUL! FUCK!
 * Tré Cool (While putting on eyeliner)

Mike Dirnt: Form of a super group!
 * Tré Cool: Rock and roll outfits... commence!
 * -Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt

 * Fuck the dog - The dog's dead. People are freaking out!
 * -Billie Joe Armstrong

 * Hmm... Dirty... That's hot... This is my favorite...!
 * -Billie Joe Armstong (While looking at pictures of the band)

 * Wait! They don't love you like I love you! Wait! They don't love you like I love you! Wait! Wait!
 * Mike Dirnt (Pretending to sob)

 * Bill Schneider: There's gonna be front tress fireworks that come off the top.

Billie Joe Armstrong: Good job.

Mike Dirnt: You did good.

Billie Joe Armstrong: That's good. I like it.

Tre Cool: Good explaining.

Billie Joe Armstrong: That was good explaining, Bill Schneider. You're a good 'splainer.
 * Bill Schneider, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, and Mike Dirnt

 * "We're Green Day from Oakland, California, but I just want to say that England is now the official home of Green Day from now on."
 * Minority [Live]

 * "to do something that you feel in your heart that's great you need to make a lot of mistakes, everything successful is a series of mistakes."
 * Billie Joe

 * "American Idiot is a whole take on the planet sort of vibe, you should do it at least once in your life."
 * Tre

 * "No man can eat 50 eggs"
 * Tre

 * "I judge all you drummers, I'm watching you, hey."
 * Tre

"Thers nothing wrong with being a looser... it just depends on how good you are at it." Billie Joe Armstrong
 * "I fully promote and love watching Tre be the best drummer in the world."
 * Billie Joe
 * " Tre Cool plays the drums in Green Day and he snorts...doughnut sprinkles"
 * Tre

 * "And my name's George W. Bush.... actually my name's ass hole"
 * Billie Joe

 * "Tré Cool is the greatest drummer in the history of rock music."
 * Billie Joe

 * "Music to me it's uhh... the air that I breathe, the blood that pumps through my veins, that keeps me alive, y'know? So uhh, without it, I - I dunno what I'd do - I mean, I'd probably have a job or something... people say to me, 'What would you do if you didn't have Green Day?' - Or you know, people say, 'What do you think of people that only talk to you or like you because you're in Green Day?' And I say, 'Well, I AM Green Day. That is me... that is, my life.'
 * Billie Joe

 * HMM HMMM HMMM... You like that bitch?
 * Billie Joe

21st Century Breakdown (2009)

 * "Bringing on the fury / The choir infantry / Revolt against the honor to obey"
 * Know Your Enemy
 * "I'm here to honor you/If I lose everything in the fire/Did I ever make it through?"
 * Last Night on Earth
 * "The insurgency will rise / When the blood's been sacrificed / Don't be blinded by the lies / In your eyes"
 * "Know Your Enemy"
 * "Lay down your arms/Give up the fight"
 * "21 Guns"
 * "A fire burns today/Of blasphemy and genocide"
 * "East Jesus Nowhere"
 * "Did you try to live on your own?/When you burned down the house and home/Did you stand too close to the fire?/Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone"
 * "21 Guns"
 * "You're a victim/Of the system/You are your own worst enemy/Know your enemy"
 * "Restless Heart Syndrome"
 * "Now call the assassin/The orgasm/ A spasm of love and hate"
 * "Peacemaker"
 * "She smashed her knuckles into winter/ As autumn's wind fades into black/She is the saint of all the sinners/ The one who's fallen through the cracks"
 * "¡Viva La Gloria!
 * "You made your bed in salad days amongst the ruins / Ashes to ashes of our youth"
 * "¡Viva La Gloria!
 * "Little girl, Little girl you dirty liar/ You're just a junkie preaching to the choir"
 * "¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
 * "The traces of blood always follow you home / Like the mascara tears from your getaway"
 * ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
 * "I was made of poison and blood"
 * "21st Century Breakdown"
 * "You're in ruins"
 * "21 Guns"
 * "We are the cries of the class of '13!/ Born in the era of humility!"
 * "21st Century Breakdown"
 * "I think I'm losing whats left of my mind/to the 20th century deadline"
 * 21st Century Breakdown
 * "My name is no-one, the long lost son/Born on the fourth of July/Raised in the era of heroes and cons/That left me for dead or alive!"
 * 21st Century Breakdown
 * "I am a nation, a worker, of pride/My debt to the status quo/The scars on my hands are a means to an end/It's all that I have to show!"
 * 21st Century Breakdown
 * "I praise liberty/ the freedom to obey/ it's the song that strangles me!/
 * 21st Century Breakdown
 * "I set the fire, just to see the flame."
 * See The Light
 * "I am a nation without bureaucratic ties/Deny the allegations – as it’s written, fucking lies!"
 * 21st Century Breakdown

American Idiot the Musical (2010)
American Idiot

 * (Johnny) Don't want to be an American Idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media!

 * (Will) And can you hear the sound of hysteria! The subliminal mind-fuck America!

 * (Tunny) Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the idiot nation. Where everything isn't meant to be okay!

 * (All three) Television dreams of tomorrow. They're not the ones meant to follow.

 * (Someone from Jingletown) Well maybe I'm the faggot America! Not apart of the Redneck agenda!

Jesus of Suburbia

I: (Johnny) I'm the so. Of rage and love. The Jesus of suburbia. From the bible of none of the above on a steady diet of. Dow pop and Ritalin. No one ever died for my sins in hell. As far as I can tell, at least the ones I got away with. But there's nothing wrong with me. This is how I'm supposed to be. In a land of make believe that don't believe in me!

(Will) Get my television fix. Sitting on my crucifix. (both) In my living room, in my private room. Will the moms and brads are away. (Johnny) To fall in love, (Will) And fall in debt, (Johnny) to alcohol and cigarettes. (Both) and Mary Jane. To keep me insane. Doing someone else's cocaine. (Both) But there's nothing wrong with me. This is how I'm supposed to be. In a land of make believe that don't believe in me!

II: City of the Damned: (Tunny) At the center of the earth in the parking lot of the 7-11 where I was taught. The motto was just a lie. It said home is where your heart it but what a shame cause everybody's heart doesn't beat the same. It's besting out of time. City of the dead, at the end of another lost highway. Signs miss leading to no where. City of the damned, lost children with dirty faces today. No one really seems to care.

(Tunny) I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall. (Johnny) Like the holy scriptures in a shopping mall. (Both) And so they seemed to confess. (Will) It didn't way much but it only confirmed, (Tunny) That the center of the earth is the end of the world. (All three) And I could really care less. City of the dead. At the end of another lost highway. Signs miss leading to no end. City of the damned  Lost children with dirty faces today. No one really seems to care

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