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Phaedrus (fabulist)

Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.

Quotes

 * Fortes indigne tuli Mihi insultare: te, nature dedecus, Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori.
 * Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes Should triumph o’er my dying woes: But, scorn of nature, forced to lie And take thy taunts, is twice to die.
 * Phaedrus, 1, 21, 10. The Dying Lion to the Ass that kicked him.
 * Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 819.

Fables

 * Fabulae Aesopiae

 * Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
 * Book I, fable 2, line 31.

 * He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
 * Book I, fable 4, line 1.

 * That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
 * Book I, fable 9, line 1.

 * Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
 * Book I, fable 10, line 1.

 * By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
 * Book I, fable 13, line 13.

 * No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
 * Book I, fable 18, line 1.

 * It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles.
 * Book I, fable 25, line 3.

 * Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
 * Book I, fable 26, line 12.

 * Come of it what may, as Sinon said.
 * Book III. The Prologue, line 27.

 * Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.
 * Translation: Things are not always what they seem.
 * Book IV, fable 2, line 5.

 * Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before.
 * Book IV, fable 10, line 1.

 * A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.
 * Book IV, fable 23, line 1.

 * A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
 * Book V, fable 3, line 1.

 * Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity.
 * Book V, fable 7, line 4.

 * "I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself.
 * Book V, fable 9, line 4.

 * Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.
 * A learned man always has riches within himself.
 * Book VI, fable 22, line 1

title: Phaedrus (fabulist)


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Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Walter Michael Miller, Jr. (23 January 1923 – 9 January 1996) was an American science fiction writer, most famous for his novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel.

Quotes

 * The old man was sad as he sat on his porch. He knew so little of the Great Purpose. Why must his seed fling itself starward? He knew that it must — but he lacked a reason. His grandchildren played in the twilight, played space-games, although there was not yet a starship on the planet.
 * "The Big Hunger" (1952)

 * There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity. Tragedy has meaning, and there is dignity in it. Tragedy stands with its shoulders stiff and proud. But there is no meaning, no dignity, no fulfillment, in the death of a child.
 * "The Will" (1953)

 * Whatever you specialize in, another specialty will either gobble you, or find a way to replace you. If you get what looks like a secure niche, somebody'll come along and wall you up in it and write your epitaph on it. And the more specialized a society gets, the more dangerous it is for the pure specialist. You think an electronic engineer in any safer than an actor? Or a ditch-digger?
 * "The Darfsteller" (1955)

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

 * See also: List of Latin phrases in A Canticle for Leibowitz

Fiat Homo

 * Fiat homo means "let there be man" or "let him become man".

 * Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert. Never before had Brother Francis actually seen a pilgrim with girded loins, but that this one was the bona fide article he was convinced as soon as he had recovered from the spine-chilling effect of the pilgrim's advent on the far horizon, as a wiggling iota of black caught in a shimmering haze of heat.
 * Ch 1 (First lines).
 * Encounters between strangers in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion, and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.
 * Ch 1
 * Ch 1

 * He had never seen a "Fallout," and he hoped he'd never see one. A consistent description of the monster had not survived, but Francis had heard the legends. He crossed himself and backed away from the hole. Tradition told that the Beatus Leibowitz himself had encountered a Fallout, and had been possessed by it for many months before the exorcism which accompanied his Baptism drove the fiend away. Brother Francis visualized a Fallout as half-salamander, because, according to tradition, the thing was born in the Flame Deluge, and as half-incubus who despoiled virgins in their sleep, for, were not the monsters of the world still called "children of the Fallout"? That the demon was capable of inflicting all the woes which descended upon Job was recorded fact, if not an article of creed.
 * Ch 1

 * From the lightning and the tempest, O Lord, deliver us. From the scourge of the earthquake, O Lord, deliver us. From plague, famine, and war, O Lord, deliver us. From the place of ground zero, O Lord, deliver us. From the rain of the cobalt, O Lord, deliver us. From the rain of the strontium, O Lord, deliver us. From the fall of the cesium, O Lord, deliver us. From the curse of the Fallout, O Lord, deliver us. From the begetting of monsters, O Lord, deliver us. From the curse of the Misborn, O Lord deliver us.
 * Ch 2

 * When Brother Francis had removed the last tray, he touched the papers reverently: only a handful of folded documents here, and yet a treasure; for they had escaped the angry flames of the Simplification, wherein even sacred writings had curled, blackened, and withered into smoke while ignorant mobs howled and hailed it a triumph. He handled the papers as one might handle holy things, shielding them from the wind with his habit, for all were brittle and cracked from age. There was a sheaf of rough sketches and diagrams. There were hand-scribbled notes, two large folded papers, and a small book entitled Memo.
 * Ch 2

 * How easy it would have been flatly to have told the boy that his pilgrim was only an old tramp of some kind, and then to have commanded him not to think otherwise. But by allowing the boy to see that a question was possible, he had rendered such a command ineffective before he uttered it. Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise, and it would not obey.
 * Ch 4

 * It was said that God, in order to test mankind which had become swelled with pride as in the time of Noah, had commanded the wise men of that age, among them the Blessed Leibowitz, to devise great engines of war such as had never before been upon the Earth, weapons of such might that they contained the very fires of Hell, and that God had suffered these magi to place the weapons in the hands of princes, and to say to each prince: "Only because the enemies have such a thing have we devised this for thee, in order that they may know that thou hast it also, and fear to strike. See to it, m'Lord, that thou fearest them as much as they shall now fear thee, that none may unleash this dread thing which we have wrought." But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in secret, I shall destroy these others in their sleep, and there will be none to fight back; the earth shall be mine. Such was the folly of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge.
 * Ch 6

 * The Simplification had ceased to have plan or purpose soon after it began, and became an insane frenzy of mass murder and destruction such as can occur only when the last traces of social order are gone. The madness was transmitted to the children, taught as they were — not merely to forget — but to hate, and surges of mob fury recurred sporadically even through the fourth generation after the Deluge. By then, the fury was directed not against the learned, for there were none, but against the merely literate.
 * Ch 6

 * The monks of the earliest days had not counted on the human ability to generate a new cultural inheritance in a couple of generations if an old one is utterly destroyed, to generate it by virtue of lawgivers and prophets, geniuses or maniacs; through a Moses, or through a Hitler, or an ignorant but tyrannical grandfather, a cultural inheritance may be acquired between dusk and dawn, and many have been so acquired. But the new "culture" was an inheritance of darkness, wherein "simpleton" meant the same thing as "citizen" meant the same thing as "slave." The monks waited. It mattered not at all to them that the knowledge they saved was useless, that much of it was not really knowledge now, was as inscrutable to the monks in some instances as it would be to an illiterate wild-boy from the hills; this knowledge was empty of content, its subject matter long since gone. Still, such knowledge had a symbolic structure that was peculiar to itself, and at least the symbol-interplay could be observed. To observe the way a knowledge-system is knit together is to learn at least a minimum knowledge-of-knowledge, until someday — someday, or some century — an Integrator would come, and things would be fitted together again. So time mattered not at all. The Memorabilia was there, and it was given to them by duty to preserve, and preserve it they would if the darkness in the world lasted ten more centuries, or even ten thousand years...
 * Ch 6

Fiat Lux

 * Fiat lux means "let there be light".

 * Objective evidence is the ultimate authority. Recorders may lie, but Nature is incapable of it.
 * Ch 19

 * Reasoning which touches experimental reality nowhere is the business of angelologists and theologians, not of physical scientists. And yet such papers as these describe systems which touch our experience nowhere. Were they within the experimental reach of the ancients? Certain references tend to indicate it. One paper refers to elemental transmutation — which we just recently established as theoretically impossible — and then it says — 'experiment proves.' But how? It may take generations to evaluate and understand some of these things. It is unfortunate that they must remain here in this inaccessible place, for it will take a concentrated effort by numerous scholars to make meaning of them.
 * Ch 20

 * "Ignorance has been our king. Since the death of empire, he sits unchallenged on the throne of Man. His dynasty is age-old. His right to rule is now considered legitimate. Past sages have affirmed it. They did nothing to unseat him. "Tomorrow, a new prince shall rule. Men of understanding, men of science shall stand behind his throne, and the universe will come to know his might. His name is Truth. His empire shall encompass the Earth. And the mastery of Man ever the Earth shall be renewed. A century from now, men will fly through the air in mechanical birds. Metal carriages will race along roads of man-made stone. There will be buildings of thirty stories, ships that go under the sea, machines to perform all works. "And how will this come to pass?" He paused and lowered his voice. "In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear. And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world."
 * Ch 20

 * "Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry: But that is how I see it."
 * Ch 20

 * One never knows whether the Poet is speaking fact, fancy, or allegory. If fancy is clever enough, I doubt that the Poet would admit a difference between fancy and fact.
 * Ch 21

 * If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
 * Ch 21

 * But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
 * Ch 22

 * He was a very dispirited Poet. He had never expected the world to act in a courteous, seemly, or even sensible manner, and the world had seldom done so; often he had taken heart in the consistency of its rudeness and stupidity. But never before had the world shot the Poet in the abdomen with a musket. This he found not heartening at all.
 * Ch 23

 * The Poet could not remember ever fearing death, but he had often suspected Providence of plotting the worst for him as to the manner of his dying when the time came to go. He had expected to rot away. Slowly and not very fragrantly. Some poetic insight had warned him that he would surely die a blubbering leprous lump, cravenly penitential but impenitent. Never had he anticipated anything so blunt and final as a bullet in the stomach, and with not even an audience at hand to hear his dying quips. The last thing they had heard him say when they shot him was: "Oof!" — his testament for posterity. Ooof!
 * Ch 23

Fiat Voluntas Tua

 * Fiat voluntas tua means "thy will be done".

 * We are being protected from hysteria. Isn't that what they call it? Maniacs! The world's been in a habitual state of crisis for fifty years. Fifty? What am I saying? It's been in a habitual state of crisis since the beginning — but for half a century now, almost unbearable. And why, for the love of God? What is the fundamental irritant, the essence of the tension? Political philosophies? Economics? Population pressure? Disparity of culture and creed? Ask a dozen experts, get a dozen answers. Now Lucifer again. Is the species congenitally insane, Brother?
 * Ch 24

 * Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America — burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion, he thought.
 * Ch 25

 * The abbot snapped off the set. "Where’s the truth”? he asked quietly. “What’s to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder’s been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there’s no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is the bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our ‘police action’ in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did — or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease its government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where’s the difference?"
 * Ch 26

 * Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. 'You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.'
 * Ch 27

 * When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.
 * Ch 28

 * To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
 * Ch 29

"Listen, is anyone else alive? Get —" Melodious and solemn came her answer: "listen is anyone else alive — " She savored the words. She enunciated them distinctly. She smiled over them Her lips reframed them when her voice was done with them. '''It was more than reflexive imitation, he decided. She was trying to communicate something. By the repetition, she was trying to convey the idea: I am somehow like you. But she had only just now been born.''' And you're somehow different, too, Zerchi noticed with a trace of awe.
 * She watched him with cool green eyes and smiled innocently. The eyes were alert with wonder, curiosity, and — perhaps something else — but she could apparently not see that he was in pain. There was something about her eyes that caused him to notice nothing else for several seconds. But then he noticed that the head of Mrs. Grales slept soundly on the other shoulder while Rachel smiled. It seemed a young shy smile that hoped for friendship. He tried again.
 * Ch 29

 * He received the Wafer from her hand. She replaced the lid of the ciborium and set the vessel in a more protected spot under a jutting rock. She used no conventional gestures, but the reverence with which she had handled it convinced him of one thing: she sensed the Presence under the veils. She who could not yet use words nor understand them, had done what she had as if by direct instruction, in response to his attempt at conditional baptism. He tried to refocus his eyes to get another look at the face of this being, who by gestures alone had said to him: I do not need your first Sacrament, Man, but I am worthy to convey to you this Sacrament of Life. Now he knew what she was, and he sobbed faintly when he could not again force his eyes to focus on those cool, green, and untroubled eyes of one born free.
 * Ch 29

 * The image of those cool green eyes lingered with him as long as life. He did not ask why God would choose to raise up a creature of primal innocence from the shoulder of Mrs. Grales, or why God gave to it the preternatural gifts of Eden — these gifts which Man had been trying to seize by brute force again from Heaven since first he lost them. He had seen primal innocence in those eyes, and a promise of resurrection. One glimpse had been a bounty, and he wept in gratitude. Afterwards he lay with his face in the wet dirt and waited. Nothing else ever came — nothing that he saw, or felt, or heard.
 * Ch 29

 * They sang as they lifted the children into the ship. They sang old space chanteys and helped the children up the ladder one at a time and into the hands of the sisters. They sang heartily to dispel the fright of the little ones. When the horizon erupted, the singing stopped. They passed the last child into the ship. The horizon came alive with flashes as the monks mounted the ladder. The horizons became a red glow. A distant cloudbank was born where no cloud had been. The monks on the ladder looked away from the flashes. When the flashes were gone, they looked back. The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.
 * Ch 30

 * The last monk, upon entering, paused in the lock. He stood in the open hatchway and took off his sandals. "Sic transit mundus," he murmured, looking back at the glow. He slapped the soles of his sandals together, beating the dirt out of them.
 * Ch 30

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title: Walter M. Miller, Jr.


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Mandy Rice-Davies

Mandy Rice-Davies (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), British socialite, known for her small part in the Profumo affair.

Quotes

 * Well, he would, wouldn't he?
 * appearing as a witness in the trial of Stephen Ward (28 June 1963), in reply to the defence barrister putting it to her that one of the men on a certain list, Lord Astor, had denied any involvement with her. The court burst into laughter and the phrase entered the language, assisted by the touch of innuendo from the court case.
 * Reference: Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century, p. 253.

title: Mandy Rice-Davies


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Saul Alinsky

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American activist and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing.

Sourced

 * Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.
 * Eric Norden, "Saul Alinsky: A candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer," Playboy, 19 (3), March 1972

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)

 * Full text online at archive.org.

 * Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins—or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.
 * Epigraph, p. ix

 * Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.
 * p. xix

 * Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives—agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.
 * p. xxi-xxii

 * No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
 * p. xxiv

 * The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.
 * p. xxiv

 * The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.
 * p. 3

 * In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons—afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where "reconciliation" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it, then we have reconciliation.
 * p. 13

 * The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.
 * p. 19

 * Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
 * p. 21

 * The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
 * p. 24

 * To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt and bloody. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
 * p. 24–25

 * The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
 * p. 26

 * The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.
 * p. 34

 * The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
 * p. 35

 * It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.
 * p. 81

 * Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
 * p. 113

 * For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First the eyes; if you have organized a vast, mass-based people’s organization, you can parade it visibly before the enemy and openly show your power. Second the ears; if your organization is small in numbers, then do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does. Third, the nose; if your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.
 * p. 126

 * Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, it results in confusion, fear, and retreat. [...] The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
 * p. 126–127

 * The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
 * p. 128

 * [T]he fifth rule: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
 * p. 128

 * The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
 * p. 130

 * I have on occasion remarked that I felt confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.
 * p. 150

Misattributed

 * Power goes to two poles: to those who've got money and those who've got people.
 * The closest to this can be found in Rules for Radicals, p. 127: Power has always derived from two main sources, money and people.

Quotes about Saul Alinsky

 * With respect for Saul Alinsky, who wrote Rules for Radicals, though as Alinsky himself said over and over, there are no rules; radicalism demands extraordinary flexibility and agility. Radicals have to improvise, not kneejerk.
 * Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz “Nine Suggestions For Radicals, or Lessons From the Gulf War” in The Issue is Power (1992)

 * RYAN LIZZA: There’s a famous story. Whenever Alinsky would have a new student coming to organize, he would ask them, why do you want to be an organizer, and they would always say, well, I want to help others, you know, I want to devote my life to doing good. And he would scream back at them, no, you want to organize for power. Obama’s organizing buddy shared with me a manual that was very similar to the one that Obama used to train as an organizer, and in it, it said, we are not virtuous by not wanting power. We are really cowards for not wanting power because power is good and powerlessness is evil.

title: Saul Alinsky


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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 film about a so far faithful husband who is tempted by a beautiful neighbor when his family goes away for the summer.
 * Directed by Billy Wilder. Written by George Axelrod and Billy Wilder, based on Axelrod's play.

It TICKLES and TANTALIZES! - The funniest comedy since laughter began!

The Girl

 * When it's hot like this, you know what I do? I put my undies in the Ice Box!
 * [in Richard's fantasy] It shakes me! It quakes me! It makes me feel goose-pimply all over!
 * Oooooooohhhh! This feels just elegant!
 * So he lured me down to his apartment. He made me sit on his piano bench. Then he made me play Chopsticks. Then suddenly he turned at me. His eyes bulging. He was frothing at the mouth. Just like The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
 * Oh, do you feel the breeze from the subway. Isn't it delicious?
 * Your imagination! You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party and there's some guy in a fancy striped vest strutting around giving you that I'm-so-handsome-you-can't-resist-me look. From this she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, over in the corner. Maybe he's nervous and shy and perspiring a little. First, you look past him. But then you sense that he's gentle and kind and worried. That he'll be tender with you, nice and sweet. That's what's really exciting.

Richard Sherman

 * This thing about women and me. I walk into a room. They sense it instantly. I arouse something in them. I bother them. It's a kind of animal thing I've got. Really quite extraordinary.
 * Miss Morris, I'm perfectly capable of fixing my own breakfast. As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two whiskey sours.

Dr. Brubaker

 * My 3:00 patient jumped out of the window in the middle of his session. I have been running fifteen minutes ahead of schedule ever since.
 * Until you are able to commit a simple act of terror, I strongly advise you to avoid anything as complex as murder.

Other

 * Waitress: Nudism is such a worthy cause. We must bring the message to the people. We must teach them to unmask their poor suffocating bodies and let them breathe again. Clothes are the enemy. Without clothes, there'd be no sickness, there'd be no war. I ask you, sir, can you imagine two great armies on the battlefield, no uniforms, completely nude? No way of telling friend from foe. All brothers, together.

Dialogue

 * The Girl: Do you have any kids?
 * Richard Sherman: No. None. No kids. Well, just one. Little one. Hardly counts.

 * Richard Sherman: It's just my imagination. Some people have flat feet. Some people have dandruff. I have this appalling imagination.
 * The Girl: I think it's just elegant to have an imagination. I just have no imagination at all. I have lots of other things, but I have no imagination...Come on now, relax. You're just making this all up.
 * Richard Sherman: Let's face it. No pretty girl in her right mind wants me. She wants Gregory Peck.
 * The Girl: Is that so?...How do you know what a pretty girl wants?...You and your imagination. You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party, and there's some guy - a great big lunk in a fancy striped vest, strutting around like a tiger, giving you that 'I'm so handsome, you can't resist me' look, and from this, she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, way over in the corner. Maybe he's kind of nervous and shy, perspiring a little. First, you look past him, but then you sort of sense, he's gentle and kind and worried, and he'll be tender with you, nice and sweet. That's what's really exciting! If I were your wife, I'd be very jealous of you. I'd be very very jealous. [she kisses him] I think you're just elegant.
 * The Girl: Is that so?...How do you know what a pretty girl wants?...You and your imagination. You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party, and there's some guy - a great big lunk in a fancy striped vest, strutting around like a tiger, giving you that 'I'm so handsome, you can't resist me' look, and from this, she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, way over in the corner. Maybe he's kind of nervous and shy, perspiring a little. First, you look past him, but then you sort of sense, he's gentle and kind and worried, and he'll be tender with you, nice and sweet. That's what's really exciting! If I were your wife, I'd be very jealous of you. I'd be very very jealous. [she kisses him] I think you're just elegant.

 * The Girl: [in his fantasy] Rachmaninoff... It isn't fair... Every time I hear it, I go to pieces... It shakes me, it quakes me. It makes me feel goose-pimply all over. I don't know where I am or who I am or what I'm doing. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't ever stop! Why did you stop?
 * Richard Sherman: You know why, because now I'm going to kiss you, very quick and very hard.

 * Richard Sherman: Tell me doctor, are you very expensive?
 * Dr. Brubaker: Very!
 * Richard Sherman: I'm sure you occasionally make exceptions.
 * Dr. Brubaker: Never!
 * Richard Sherman: Well I mean, once in a while, a case must come along that really interests you.
 * Dr. Brubaker: At $50 an hour, all my cases interest me.

 * Dr. Brubaker: When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch.
 * Richard Sherman: Last night I scratched.

 * Tom MacKensie: What blonde in the kitchen?
 * Richard Sherman: Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe!

Cast

 * Marilyn Monroe - The Girl
 * Tom Ewell - Richard Sherman
 * Evelyn Keyes - Helen Sherman
 * Sonny Tufts - Tom MacKenzie
 * Robert Strauss - Kruhulik
 * Oskar Homolka - Dr. Brubaker
 * Marguerite Chapman - Miss Morris
 * Donald MacBride - Mr. Brady
 * Victor Moore - the Plumber
 * Carolyn Jones - Miss Finch
 * Doro Merande - Waitress in the vegetarian restaurant

title: The Seven Year Itch


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Talk:Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Vote for deletion notice
This article was moved from Jaden Korr as a result of a vote for that article's deletion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Jaden Korr

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The result was: move to Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Jaden Korr
Non-notable. Contains quotes by a small person in the Star Wars universe. If we go on adding quotes by every person in Star Wars, we're gonna have a tough time.--Shreshth91 07:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * VOTE CLOSED. Result: move to Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (2 Moves; 1 Keep assumed non-serious based on copious evidence from user's other postings; no other dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Move to Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, matching the corresponding Wikipedia article. I think that, for now at least, this should join our considerable collection of electronic-game quote articles, rather than be, as Shreshth91 says, a quote article devoted to a single Star Wars character know only to gamers. There is also the problem of the actual content, which seems to be more of a transcription of any old quote than a selection of pithy quotes. (Examples: "I wouldn't worry about that."; "You seem really nervous."; "I can't wait!"; etc.) But I am open to counter arguments. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Move, concur with JeffQ. ~ UDScott 14:07, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP exactly as it is - democratic yes :) 0waldo 17:56, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The above vote was registered in a block of edits as part of a concerted effort to disrupt the VfD process as part of his "continual commuted confusion" campaign. (See WQ:VFD.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP! KEEP! KEEP! KEEP! We have seen others' pages that could be deleted BUT NOT WALTER'S! And yes his quotes are notable! signed, Madeline, Sean, Phillip, and Rebecca.
 * (That above vote was meant for walter muncaster-sorry!)
 * Reformatted & struck yet more unsigned votes, not even added to the correct VFD entry. The word "signed" does not constitute a wiki signature. Please read the instructions at the top of this page for the correct process. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:28, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/InuYasha

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The result was: Redirect to Inuyasha. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

InuYasha
No quotes. ~ UDScott 21:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Redirect (3 redirect, one delete) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes are added. ~ UDScott 21:30, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete concur with UDScott, and really wanting to update our SD criteria so that "no meaningful content" is updated to clarify as "no quotations or useful context", which would finally allow us to SD this kind of stuff instead of spamming VfD with it. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:23, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Inuyasha. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect, per MosheZadka. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Inuyasha. --Aphaia 14:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Bokononism

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The result was: merge. — MosheZadka 12:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Bokononism
This is merely the wikipedia page reprinted verbatim. ~ UDScott 22:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: merge (3 merge, no dissent) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes are added and WP material removed. ~ UDScott 22:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Kurt Vonnegut, concur with Moshe. ~ UDScott 19:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Kurt Vonnegut. Merging would remove most of the editorial stuff, and retain what quotations there are there (currently). ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, per MosheZadka. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Bokononism

This article was merged into Kurt Vonnegut as a result of a vote for its deletion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:26, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Enya

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The result was: keep. — MosheZadka 12:42, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Enya
No quotes. ~ UDScott 19:23, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: keep (3 keep, one misguided delete from a new user after closing date) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:42, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes are added. ~ UDScott 19:23, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep now that quotes have been added. ~ UDScott 13:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete concur with UDScott. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep now. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:57, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep now that I've turned the article into a substantial quote article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:23, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * DELETE I'm sorry. Enya is a singer and manufactured quotes from a disco-dance era are not my ideal of notable quotes! Thumbs down to this little ex-hot tamale singer/songwriter! 0waldo 18:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC) I will, admit, secretly that I did have a crush on her because of her wooing musical talents ;)
 * The above vote was registered in a block of edits as part of a concerted effort to disrupt the VfD process as part of his "continual commuted confusion" campaign. (See WQ:VFD.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/D. Granosalis

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 09:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

D. Granosalis
See Talk:D. Granosalis, where the author implies that that these quotations are from unpublished notes, and w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. Granosalis. Uncle G 05:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * VOTE CLOSED. Result: delete (4 Deletes [1 implied]; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless verifiable evidence of notability is provided. The WP AfD is pretty convincing to the contrary. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Jeff and Uncle G. ~ UDScott 16:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Was deleted from EN WP. jni 08:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Patrick Doo Machine

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 09:22, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Patrick Doo Machine
This article appears to be nonsense. ~ UDScott 16:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:22, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless evidence of actual person or character and notability is produced. ~ UDScott 16:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this "utter nonsense" (by Wikipedia's definition). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:31, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Concur with Jeff and UDScott; it's nonsense. -- Jaxl 03:27, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete ~ Achilles † 16:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Walter Muncaster

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 09:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Walter Muncaster
Not notable. ~ UDScott 18:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; 2 Keeps; numerous unsigned anon and duplicate votes struck; no evidence provided of notability despite repeated requests). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is presented. The only link shown on the page also appears to be spam. ~ UDScott 18:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Based on a heated discussion at w:Talk:IP address and a page from a site called GDSE (apparently a computer-game development site, but they seem to have left out the standard "who we are" and "contact us" links), this person seems to be an unnotable (and egregiously self-promoting) computer developer and artist. Since he seems to be a registered WQ user as well (User:0waldo), we could encourage him to join the rest of us unnotable editors and move this personal-quote page to his as-yet uncreated user page instead of having it deleted. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:49, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Keep it! I say keep it but then again, I'm partial to myself and all of my accomplishments in life. What is wrong with a heated discussion? Maybe we should all be limp, milk toast nerds - such a preferable model yes? JeffQ: I'm WAY more notable than you - think of me as your mentor.  UDScott: The standard lame ass excuse around here 'spam' - grow up.  0waldo 00:04, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * And where is your evidence of your notability, Walter? Anyone can say they're notable, but personal testimony isn't evidence. Prove me wrong and I'll change my mind (and my vote), as I have done in the past. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not here to prove that I'm 'notable'. Think about it. Someone says: hey dik, you're not notable, prove that you are to me... I'm not here to light my own fire or to blow into a vacuum. 0waldo 14:50, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Au contraire, mon ami. Your creation of a quote article about yourself is a de facto assertion that you are notable. MediaWiki Foundation projects were established to allow anyone with an Internet connection the ability to record encyclopedic, quotation, and other information about notable subjects. That is their purpose. They require evidence of the notability of their subjects, or the information is removed. If you do not understand this, you are missing the point of the projects. There are many other similar projects on the Internet that do provide a forum for people to write about themselves, regardless of their notability. This just isn't one of them. It's nothing personal, as your personal attacks against myself and others have been. There are editors here (not me) who have been written about in the established press, so they might be considered notable. If any should choose to create a quote article about themselves, their articles would still require evidence of notability. Of course, those editors typically have a long history of useful edits and follow Wikipedia civility guidelines, so they're less likely to have to do themselves, as other editors would probably help. You, on the other hand, have no history of edits other than those relating to your own cause, and seem to be going out of your way to insult the only people in the community who are interested in reviewing your article. To use your own oft-repeated phrase, spare me. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete ~ Achilles † 16:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * cmd DELETE: "you" (along with your cardboard sword) :) 0waldo 16:27, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. nonnotable self-promoter. jni 16:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * These quotations appear to be being made up on the spot, directly in Wikiquote. There is no evidence that these quotations, or indeed any quotations by this person, have been recorded (by anyone other than the subject xyrself) outside of Wikiquote.  Delete. Uncle G 17:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * So then, since you can't find your 'evidence' then reality with respect to the matter simply ceases to exist I suppose? Spare me. 0waldo 18:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why I'm bothering, but I'll try to explain this as well. In general, we follow Wikipedia's practices about sources. Per w:Wikipedia:Citing sources: "In general, even if you are writing from memory, you should actively search for authoritative references to cite." The burden of evidence is on the contributor, not on reviewers. (That, again, is how wikis work. Editors are expected to do their own research. They can leave the hard work to others, as often happens, but they must expect that it may not get done, leaving their contributions vulnerable to removal for being unsourced.) For notable quotees, citing publications of their works provides editors the ability to review and correct, enhancing Wikiquote's goal of accuracy. When editors review articles nominated for deletion, they often attempt to determine notability and find sources as a courtesy to the many editors who may not be familiar with WQ practices (which can be read starting with FAQ and Help:Contents). But they are not required to do the research; the only people with that onus are the editors interested in keeping the article. In this case, that's you, 0waldo. Complaining about our inability to find your supposed quotes in any reliable source is, again, not helping your case. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * JeffQ:I love the dig on -spare me-. Cute and simultaneously good! That was good. Really good and I truly commend you 4it! I'm the dog with mange in the corner getting kicked around by the A.K.C.s 0waldo 01:12, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I have removed 0waldo's attempt to stack the deck on this VfD entry by adding multiple unsigned votes. They may have been meant whimsically, but we take VfDs very seriously, while 0waldo seems to be treating his experiences with Wikiquote as an extended joke. I have posted a warning on his talk page about the potential for being blocked if he continues to violate multiple WQ policies. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:42, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Jeff, Commendations! Clinically curt comments concerning cynicism communicated to crass commentators at “cut-waldo-up-corral”. Was clearly a clever conscript! Consider casa to be:  “cadre of cranky commentators”, “clique community” consistently creating crap, croaking to collateral comrades at corral commuting censure. Communiqués of ‘civility’ / ‘clean communication’ cleverly commandeered from crummy editor’s “cardboard-sword” charisma: construing crusted creampuffs, au contraire, culinary clout consisting of clearly cheap con/come-on competition.  Consequently, considering canonizing myself (if considered conceivable) thru copious coconscious-comments and/or “contrived illegal castings” to change the call of the crappy ‘clique community’ and/or ‘comrade-cowards’ from a “can him” to a “consecrate him” consortium to clearly contrive a “plus Ca change”.  Since cancelled change is a not cannon to commiserate:  I cleverly cleaved with a comely chick and consequently coined the capricious caption to close, calling closely the conspicuously callous comment to cite:
 * “Milk-toast is for the mundane while gold coins are for the conquistadors”
 * Carefully consider correlative commendable cliché creative coined by creditable concierge/cohort comely-chick-cleaver; calling on all “crass commentators”, “clique community”,  “collateral comrades” for “conscription to canonization” on chapter
 * “Walter Muncaster, Artist 1953-” contrary to: cross-out, cut, censor, cast out and/or continual commuted confusion.
 * 0waldo 17:14, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Jeff, look brother, I'm really sorry to do this but you need a legitimate reason to suspend my privileges and I'm going to give you one, right here, right now :)
 * Delete . Notorious gangster/thug.
 * Delete . Combination toaster and/or bent kitchen utensil! Delete him before he spreads butter all over the place!
 * Delete . Look can't somebody stop this communist sympathizer? Delete him, his uncle and aunt before they get a pen for GOD's sake!
 * Delete . He is just a total bum seeking notoriety, fortune and fame! AXE HIM!
 * Delete . Tom Petty: I say that he is "a rebel without a clue" delete him!
 * Delete . A sock puppet commandeer he is - get rid of him!
 * Delete . He's been huffing too much auto paint. put him out of his misery!
 * OK, that should be enough reason to ban me!!! Seven illegally cast votes all in favor of keeping me none the less! Caught in the act of voting fraud! 0waldo 18:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Struck out all unsigned, undated votes from 0waldo, who has already voted and doesn't really seem to want to change his original Keep vote. Also partially granted his wish by blocking him for 1 week. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP Keep Walter's page of quotes. SIGNED Joan Muncaster. ( please don't delete my vote again - I am entitled to vote ).
 * KEEP! KEEP! KEEP! KEEP! We have seen others' pages that could be deleted BUT NOT WALTER'S! And yes his quotes are notable! signed, Madeline, Sean, Phillip, and Rebecca Tatum.
 * Reformatted and struck more unsigned, undated anonymous votes. Please read the sections titled "Requesting deletions" and "Voting on deletions" at the top of this page for explanations of what constitutes a proper vote. (Please also note that the very first section instructs editors of this page to read this information before editing. There's only so much hand-holding other WQ editors can do for you.) None of these votes have been proper, which is why they have been and will continue to be struck. Repeated refusal to follow Wikiquote policy will result in temporary blocks. Collective attempts to use blocks of IP addresses to avoid blocking may result in a range block and a report to your Internet service provider. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Keep Maddy 13:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)I think Walter's page should be KEPT as I stated before. Personally I think his quotes are too notable for this penny anty site. And if one is to register then you should remove the sentence that it is not necessary to register at the top right hand part of the page on the login/register tab.It also appears to me that you have some personal agenda against Walter and that perhaps you are emasculated by him...just an observation.I guess you are going to revoke my hall pass now?

 * KEEP .JeffQ!!!
 * [NOTE: image irrelevant to vote removed ~ Jeff Q (talk)]
 * I vote to keep myself! (I know, again, sorry but I can't help it!). While in exile, I spent much time reflecting and came up with this personal work of art, just for you - I sincerely hope you and the others like it as much as I do (this is just a small clip from the 1200x1200 pixel version I painted that took six hours)! 0waldo 17:41, 15 January 2006 (UTC) Remember! NO BALLOT STUFFING!
 * Illegal duplicate vote struck. (I'm flattered, however, to be the subject of an 0waldo original.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. He was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947.

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 * The picture-story involves a joint operation of the brain, the eye and the heart. The objective of this joint operation is to depict the content of some event which is in the process of unfolding, and to communicate impressions. Sometimes a single event can be so rich in itself and its facets that it is necessary to move all around it in your search for the solution to the problems it poses — for the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving. Sometimes you light upon the picture in seconds; it might also require hours or days. But there is no standard plan, no pattern from which to work.
 * The Decisive Moment (1952), p. i; also in The Mind's Eye (1999)

 * I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
 * "An island of pleasure gond adrift" in LIFE magazine (15 March 1963), p. 42

Conversation. Interview with Byron Dobell (1957)
This interview, conducted May 24, 1957, was first published as “A Conversation with Henri Cartier-Bresson,” by Byron Dobell, Popular Photography 40, no. 9 (September 1957): 130-32.

 * For me, the great myth is the Greek myth of Antaeus, who had to touch Earth to regain his strength. I know I must always keep in contact with the concrete, concrete reality, the small incident and the small, specific truth, which might have wide reverberations.
 * p. 32
 * I believe creative work needs communication. So it’s extremely encouraging to be with a group of people who form a community and to know that you’re not isolated, although as individuals we must always work in an inner silence.
 * p. 34
 * Nobody at Magnum decides for the other what he should do and everyone is free to tell someone else: “Well, what about this story? I don’t like it for this and that reason — because of this picture.” It is extremely fruitful to have somebody to talk to as an equal. This give and take is a most profitable thing because we keep learning from each other. I keep learning from the younger members just as I learned from Bob [Robert] Capa and Chim [David Seymour] how to make picture stories. Cornell Capa, for instance, has a very keen journalistic sense; and as for the other photographer, each makes his own contribution. Everybody in Magnum has full freedom; there’s no doctrine, there is no school, but there is something that unites all of us very strongly — I can’t define it; it may be a certain feeling of freedom and a respect for reality.
 * pp. 34-35
 * You have to have some psychological insight, you have to know the people and you must work in a way that’s acceptable to them. There you must smile — never laugh, because that’s considered making fun. Smile, take your time, and never come bursting in with your own personality. You have to lie low. Of course you can push and perhaps raise your voice a notch, but like a sensitive emulsion, a sensitive plate. Approach gently, tenderly, and never intrude, never push. Otherwise, if you use your elbows, it will work against you. Above all, be human!
 * p. 36
 * A contact sheet is so interesting, because you see how a photographer thinks. He comes closer and closer to a subject, corrects it, looks at it again, and then with tiny movements turns around until it is in exactly the right and exact relation to him. Contact sheets may be compared to the way you drive a nail into a plank. First you give several light taps to build up a rhythm and align the nail with the wood. Then, much more quickly, and with as few strokes as possible, you hit the nail forcefully on the head and drive it in.
 * p. 37
 * I think cynicism is the worst thing because it kills everything. There’s no more honesty, no more poetry, no more freshness. Cynicism is the worst thing — a kind of smart person who’s got all the answers. This is death. It kills creation. There’s no love, no tenderness, nothing at all left. There’s no hatred even, nothing. Equally dangerous is the detached attitude that says, “Everything is fun!”
 * p. 38

To Seize Life: Interview with Yvonne Baby (1961)
First published as Yvonne Baby, “Le ‘dur plaisir’ de Henri Cartier-Bresson,” L’Express no. 524 (June 29, 1961): 34-35. The conversation was revised by Yvonne Baby for its republication in the French edition of this volume.

 * There are photographers who invent, others who discover. Personally, I am interested in discoveries, not for the trials or experiences but to capture life itself. I flee from the dangers of the anecdote and the picturesque, which are very easy and better than sensational, but quite as bad. To my mind, photography has the power to evoke, and must not simply document. We have to be abstract, just like nature.
 * p. 44
 * Anybody can take photographs. I have seen in the Herald Tribune some taken by a monkey that managed, with a Polaroid camera, as well as some camera owners. It is precisely because our profession is open to everyone that it remains, in spite of its fascinating ease, extremely difficult.
 * p. 45
 * If I am asked about the photographer’s role in our times, the power of the image and so on, I do not want to launch into explanations. I only know that people who know how to look are as rare as those who know how to listen.
 * p. 45

Only Geometricians May Enter: Interview with Yves Bourde (1974)
First published as Yves Bourde, “Un entreaties avec Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Nul ne peut entrer ici s’il n’est géomètre,” Le Monde, no. 1,350 (September 5, 1974): 13.

 * I hate looking at photography books or illustrated magazines. This is not because of contempt. I’d rather look at contact sheets: that is where you can sense the individual.
 * p. 62
 * This book [Zen in the Art of Archery], by Herrigel, which I discovered a few years ago, seems to me fundamental to our profession as photographers. Matisse wrote similarly about drawing: set a discipline, make rigor a rule, forget oneself completely. And in photography the attitude must be the same: detach oneself, do not try to prove anything at all. My sense of freedom is the same: a frame that allows any variation. This is the basis of Zen Buddhism, the evidence: that you go in with great force and then you succeed in forgetting yourself.
 * p. 65

The Main Thing Is Looking: Interview with Alain Desvergnes (1979)
Desvergnes’s conversation with Cartier-Bresson was recorded and first broadcast on the occasion of a slide show of Cartier-Bresson’s photographs during an evening at the Théâtre Antique during the Rencontres d’Arles in July 1979. Transcript: Anaïs Feyeux. Excerpts of the interview were published as: Alain Desvergnes, “HCB à la question,” Photo, no. 144 (September 1, 1979): 86, 87, 98.

 * You have to look, and looking is so difficult. We are used to thinking. We reflect all the time, well or not, but people are not taught how to look. It takes a very long time.
 * p. 70
 * Photography is solitary work. There is emulation. It is interesting to know what other people do. Even so, writers do not read everything that is published. A painter does not look at everything. You have to choose. It’s reality, it’s life that is important. We shouldn’t be sniffing around each other all the time, looking....
 * p. 75

An Endless Play: Interview with Gilles Mora (1986)
First published as “Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gilles Mora: Conversation,” Les Cahiers de la Photography, no. 18 (1986): 177-25.

 * When you use a camera, your visual concentration is intense, as it is when you draw. But if you overshoot, your contact sheet is likely to become a jumble of peelings. You need a lot of sand to discover a nugget. Shooting is a play between pickpocketing and tightrope walking; an endless play, fraught with huge tension.
 * p. 102

Photographing Is Nothing, Looking Is Everything! Interview with Philippe Boegner (1989)
First published as Philippe Boegner, “Cartier-Bresson: ‘Photographier n’est rien, regarder c’est tout!’,” Figaro Magazine, no. 13,843 (February 25, 1989): 104-10.

 * Photography has never been a problem for me, [what is important] is looking, the way of looking, of questioning with your eyes: I don’t think; I am impulsive, it is /looking/ that’s important, not photography. Now, since I have started drawing, I’ve merely switched tools, but it is still looking that’s important. To look the right way, one should learn to become a deaf-mute.
 * p. 113
 * Photography has fulfilled my adventurous side: it is a real trade. I behaved like a thief in every country where I went, in China, in Africa, in America… all things considered, our trade is situated somewhere between pickpocket and tightrope walker… yes, we steal from people, we take something that belongs to them: their image, their culture.
 * p. 114
 * We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, [we were determined] not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint.
 * p. 115

We Always Talk Too Much: Conversation with Pierre Assouline (1994)
First published as Pierre Assouline, “Henri Cartier-Bresson,” Lire, no. 226-27 (July-August 1994): 30-37.

 * But with photography as with drawing or painting, once it is done I want to know whether it holds together or not. That is the real critique. I couldn’t care less if the person to whom I show what I do likes it or not — it takes all sorts to make a world and all that. To criticize is to put oneself in someone else’s shoes and try to figure out what they wanted to do. Only the “why” of things is important to me.
 * p. 132

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Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey (Born 13 September 1954) is the lead singer of Australian independent band The Church. He is also a songwriter, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, poet and painter.

Lyrics

 * Just like you I am a wanderer Wandering, wondering Outrunning all my previous lives So cleave to me just like a tiny storm A raining and a thundering Coming out of clear blue skies - "All I Know"

 * There were many guests at the table Misfortune, jealousy, and sloth Acting fine, drink the wine Spill it on the tablecloth - "Feast"

 * And she beckons to you with her fingers and lies She says: can't you slice the price of your paradise. ~ A Month of Sundays

 * Like a womb, the night was all around ~ Disappear

 * Ugliness you have to know, beauty you can't teach ~ Disappear

 * You stare down at some crowd from your trapeze And when you fell they fell down on their knees And when you broke they scrambled for a piece And when you spoke I felt their anger freeze. ~ Metropolis

 * I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring, I couldn't take it off if I tried... ~ Hotel Womb

 * She put her foot down on the oscillation pedal, she was a transdimensional speeder... ~ Terra Nova Cain

 * The pines smell sweet in the frozen air, and their silhoutte's just fading there, the wolves crouch close, against the snow but where we're running I don't know, In villages and soft sad towns the candles sway as night comes down, cold bones creak and strange beasts cry, watching shadows in the sky... All I have, all I need, all I got.....is providence. ~ Providence

 * On this very spot a great city once stood, It oozed with evil but it felt so good... ~ City

 * It's never as good as I hoped or as bad as I feared ~ Into My Hands

 * In the space between our houses some bones have been discovered but our procession lurches on as if we have recovered... ~ Destination

 * Great cities, or the endless beautiful plains stretched out before his jaded gaze and disappeared into the nothingness of his feeling. ~ Fall in Love

 * Follow her down to worship some god Who never speaks to me, I wonder if that's odd Then he says you're never listening. ~ Lost

 * The universe is female Eluding the science of men You sway and you swagger with your neat little dagger You're gonna blow it again .... I'll prove her existence in everything The soul of her rivers and stones Her acquiescence in everything Her essence, her presence, her bones. ~ Essence

 * The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning all the rest is just bullshit. ~ Authority

 * You can't be a lover if you want to keep on using What are you using that's stronger than the love Sometimes I'm knocked out by the damage that you're doing Knocked out, locked out, push comes to shove Listen to the wind tearing at the windows Watching how the white moon melts into the cloud Important little tyrants, impotent little pharaohs Men/man of sorrows lost into the crowd ~ Richochet

 * Sometimes I wander under prehistoric skys Here she comes with a penetrating stare cold desert stars feel and sparkle like frost, they are so lost his seed of adulation is your butter and your bread, it's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red If you're alone and you're feeling blue, everyone in Persia probably feels like you do. ~ Lost

 * Why are those buildings swaying like trees? ~ Hotel Womb

 * Close to you, hear all you say Even though you're continents away ~ It Doesn't Change

 * I've got a nickname for you, I call you weakness I get a little strength out too, or is it meekness ~ Paradox

 * Everything is going wrong All my songs are coming true ~ Mistress

 * Inside the car sat a sulky blonde And on her lap the road went on and on As she dresses I look to the ground Perhaps I know where the place can be found, and on ~ The Night is Very Soft

 * Beyond that void is a place Where figments from bad dreams are banished Childhood nightmares all come seeking And adult logic nearly vanished ~ Chaos

 * Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling Had ever got below the floor Or penetrate the ceiling ~ Destination

 * So now we're cruisin' down this shuddering highway with the dead sun shining on my back. ~ Myrrh

 * Loving, we've been loving, but sometimes hate is better You can't keep out the killers with love, man Hating, we've been hating, but only love can heal up the hate ~ Nightfriends

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Steve Lyons

Stephen John Lyons, better known as Steve Lyons (born June 3, 1960), is a former Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos and former television sportscaster.

Quotes

 * Everyone flocked to the coast and built. Now the hurricanes have come back, so to speak, and the population is sitting there.

 * I think it's a big danger for the industry. I don't think it's a healthy way to run the business long-term. We felt it had run its course. We felt it was good for clearance time. I think GM was just feeling the pressure.

 * Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.
 * Referring to his 42-year-old teammate Carlton "Pudge" Fisk in 1990.

 * There's no question that demand for traditional sport utility vehicles has been affected by rising gas prices...

 * We're not thinking we're going to take a lot of people up front who are buying Toyota Camrys and Honda Accords and Nissan Altimas and suddenly tomorrow they're going to go shopping at a Ford store.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 – 79), called Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias.

Quotes

 * Fortes Fortuna iuvat.
 * Fortune favours the brave.
 * Attributed by Pliny the Younger to his uncle during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in which the Elder died
 * Quoted in
 * Commonly quoted as "Fortune favours the bold".

Naturalis Historia

 * In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
 * Book I, Dedication, sec. 22.

 * The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
 * Book II, sec. 1.

 * The only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certain—that nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu(m) sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius. Some sources have "certu", others "certum".)
 * Book II, sec. 5.

 * It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
 * Book II, sec. 20.

 * Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
 * Book II, sec. 234.

 * Haec est Italia diis sacra
 * This is Italy, land sacred to the Gods.
 * Book III, sec. 46.

 * It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
 * Book VII, sec. 1.

 * Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.
 * Book VII, sec. 2.

 * To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
 * Book VII, sec. 2.

 * Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
 * Book VII, sec. 4.

 * With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
 * Book VII, sec. 5.

 * Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?
 * Book VII, sec. 6.

 * The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
 * Book VII, sec. 8.

 * All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
 * Book VII, sec. 15.

 * It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
 * Book VII, sec. 77.

 * ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant...
 * When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
 * Book VIII, sec. 103.

 * Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
 * Book VIII, sec. 126.

 * It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
 * Book VIII, sec. 148.

 * It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
 * Book XIV, sec. 141.

 * Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill,—the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,—when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.
 * Book XVIII, sec. 20.

 * The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs…. A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.
 * Book XVIII, sec. 26.

 * Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
 * Book XVIII, sec. 44.

 * It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
 * Book XVIII, sec. 44.

 * The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.
 * Book XVIII, sec. 249.

 * Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
 * Book XIX, sec. 59.

 * Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 23.

 * The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
 * Book XVIII, sec. 31.

 * Cum grano salis.
 * Translation: With a grain of salt.
 * Book XXIII, sec. 8.

 * Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.
 * It is generally admitted that the absent are warned by a ringing in the ears, when they are being talked about.
 * Book XXVIII, sec. 5.

 * It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,—a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms…. Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, —a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.
 * Book XXXV, sec. 84.

Quotes about Pliny

 * Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
 * George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)

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