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José Rizal

José Rizal (June 19 1861 – December 30 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, doctor, writer, and polymath whose works and martyred death made him a hero of the Philippine Revolution.

Quotes

 * Consummatum est (it is finished).
 * José Rizal's last words, quoted by Austin Coates, in Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr, Oxford University Press,  (1968)

 * In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.
 * Letter to Fr. Pastells (11 November 1892)

 * To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
 * Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)
 * No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.
 * Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)
 * I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess... but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side — mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.
 * Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

 * Each one writes history according to his convenience.
 * Letter to Blumentritt, written at Leipzig,(22 August 1886)

 * Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest!
 * Letter to Blumentritt (24 December 1886)

 * Is it not sad, I said to my countrymen, that we have to learn from a foreigner about ourselves? Thanks to the German scholars we get accurate information about ourselves, and when everything in our country has been destroyed and we wish to verify the historical correctness of certain facts we shall have to come to Germany to search for these facts, in German museums and books!
 * Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)

 * The Philippines should be grateful to you if you would write a complete history of our country from an impartial point of view.. But don't expect thanks and laurels--crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people. But perhaps your children may gather the fruit of what the father planted.
 * Letter to Blumentritt (13 April 1887)

 * We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.
 * Letter to Blumentritt, (31 January 1887)

 * One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
 * Letter to Mariano Ponce, (1890)

 * To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.
 * Letter to his family, Dapitan (c. 1884)

 * ...Does your Excellency know the spirit of (my) country? If you did, you would not say that I am "a spirit twisted by a German education," for the spirit that animates me I already had since childhood, before I learned a word of German. My spirit is "twisted" because I have been reared among injustices and abuses which I saw everywhere, because since a child I have seen many suffer stupidly and because I also have suffered. My "twisted spirit" is the product of that constant vision of the moral ideal that succumbs before the powerful reality of abuses, arbitrariness, hypocrisies, farces, violence, perfidies and other base passions. And "twisted" like my spirit is that of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who have not yet left their miserable homes, who speak no other language except their own, and who, if they could write or express their thoughts, would make my Noli me tangere very tiny indeed, and with their volumes there would be enough to build pyramids for the corpses of all the tyrants...
 * Open letter to Barrantes on the Noli, published in La Solidaridad (15 February 1890)

 * Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
 * Toast to the artists Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo: Madrid, Spain (25 June 1884)

 * It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.
 * "Laughter and Tears", an essay (c.1884)

 * Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing! (God speaking to the angel Gabriel)
 * "The Lord Gazes at the Philippine Islands", an allegory. (date unknown)

 * Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
 * "Como se gobiernan las Filipinas" (How one governs in the Philippines), published in La Solidaridad (15 December 1890)

 * Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
 * Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
 * No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.
 * Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - translated by Austin Craig

 * The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway lands; Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings And when at the end of day my faith has failed me My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands.
 * "Mi Retiro", st.6 - translated by Nick Joaquin.

 * The world laughs at another man's pain.
 * "Song of the Wanderer", st.8 - translated by Nick Joaquin.

 * He who would love much has also much to suffer.
 * "To My__" (December 1890)
 * Muse who in the past inspired me to sing of the throes of love: Go and repose. What I need is a sword, rivers of gold, and acrid prose.
 * "To My__" (December 1890)- translated by Nick Joaquin

 * No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.
 * Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
 * The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
 * Letter to the Young Women of Malolos (22 February 1889) - translated from Tagalog by Gregorio Zaide

 * Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
 * "Indolence of the Filipino" in La Solidaridad (1890)

 * Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
 * Virtue lies in the middle ground.
 * God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
 * Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
 * "Los Viajes"

 * He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return
 * "Los Viajes" in La Solidaridad (15 May 1889)- translated from the Spanish by Nick Joaquin

 * Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
 * "The Philippines: A Century Hence"

 * Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
 * "The Philippines: A Century Hence"

 * The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.
 * "The Philippines: A Century Hence" in La Solidaridad (1889-90) - translated from the Spanish by Charles Derbyshire

 * It breaks immortality's neck Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous nations And makes of savages, champions.
 * "Por La Education" (To Education, c. 1876) - translator unknown

 * Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, To die to give you life, to rest under your sky; And in your enchanted land forever sleep.
 * "Mi Ultimo Adios", st. 5
 * I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; Where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.
 * "Mi Ultimo Adios" st. 13 - poem written on the eve of his execution (29 December 1896) - translated from the Spanish by Charles Derbyshire.

Noli me Tangere

 * The Social Cancer (1887) - translated from the Spanish by Charles Derbyshire - Full text online

 * I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!
 * Truth does not need to borrow garments from error. (Also translated as: Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.)

 * Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.
 * Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future.
 * Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers.
 * Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers!

El Filibusterismo

 * The Reign of Greed (1891) - translations from the Spanish by Charles Derbyshire - Full text online

 * There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

 * Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

 * It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice.

 * You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark.

 * The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

 * The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

 * Pure and spotless must the victim be if the sacrifice is to be acceptable.

 * De nobis, post haec, tristis sententia fertur!:After all this, you still speak ill of us!

“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.” “I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.” “He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”
 * [Noli Me Tángere]*

Disputed

 * He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish.
 * This has long been attributed to Rizal as part of a poem, titled Sa Aking Mga Kabata (To My Fellow Children), he wrote at the age of 8, as quoted in " Community Celebrates Rizal Day" in 'Asian Journal USA (31 December 2007), but this has become disputed as highly unlikely in "Did young Rizal really write poem for children?" by Ambeth R. Ocampo, in Philippine Daily Inquirer (22 August 22 2011)

Quotes about Rizal

 * In recognition of the aspirations of the Filipino nation and in proclaiming its noble and patriotic sentiments, I hereby decree.
 * Article 1. In memory of the Filipino patriots, Dr. Jose Rizal and the other victims of the past Spanish domination, I declare the 30th of December as a national day of mourning.
 * Article 2. On account of this, all national flags shall be hoisted at half-mast from 12:00 noon on December 29, as a sign of mourning.
 * Article 3. All offices of the Revolutionary Government shall be closed during the whole day of December 30.
 * Given in Malolos, December 20,1898
 * Signed) Emilio Aguinaldo
 * Declaration of Rizal as a national hero by Pres. Aguinaldo of the First Philippine Republic (1898)

 * And now, gentlemen, you must have a national hero.
 * Governor William Howard Taft to the Philippine Commission (1901)

 * Taft quickly decided that it would be extremely useful for the Filipinos to have a national hero of their revolution against the Spanish in order to channel their feelings and focus their resentment backward on Spain. But he told his advisers that he wanted it to be someone who really wasn’t so much of a revolutionary that, if his life were examined too closely or his works read too carefully, this could cause us any trouble. He chose Rizal as the man who fit his model.
 * Charles Bohlen, former Ambassador to the Philippines, in Portrait of A Cold Warrior by Joseph B. Smith (1976)

 * Under what clime or what skies, has tyranny claimed a nobler victim?
 * Congressman Henry Cooper of Wisconsin, at the House of Representatives on a debate whether to grant autonomy to the Philippines, and right after reciting Rizal's valedictory poem, "Mi ultimo adios" in English: before members of U.S. Congress (1902)

 * It is eminently proper that Rizal should have become the acknowledged national hero of the Philippine people. Rizal never advocated independence, nor did he advocate armed resistance to the government. He urged reform from within by publicity, by public education, and appeal to the public conscience.
 * Governor W. Cameron Forbes, The Philippine Islands

 * The American decision to make Rizal our national hero was a master stroke.
 * Renato Constantino, Filipino historian, Dissent and Counter-Consciousness (1970)

 * Although the Americans encouraged the hero-worship of Rizal, the man was already a national hero to the Filipinos long before the Americans sponsored him as such.
 * Ambeth R. Ocampo, Filipino historian, in "Rizal Without the Overcoat" (1995)

 * There is no doubt that we would have made Rizal one of our heroes even without American intervention.
 * Renato Constantino, Filipino historian, Insight and Foresight (1997)

 * Rizal's greatest misfortune was becoming a national hero of the Philippines. He is everywhere and therefore nowhere.
 * Ambeth R. Ocampo, Filipino historian, in "Meaning and History" (2001)

 * The first Filipino.
 * Leon Ma. Guerrero, Rizal's biographer and historian, The First Filipino: Biography of Jose Rizal (1963)

 * To echo the first Filipino, you get the Rizal you deserve.  (alluding to Rizal's statement, 'You get the government you deserve')
 * E. San Juan, author, in his essay "Rizal in our Time" (1997)

 * One of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.
 * Benedict Anderson, historian and political theorist, in his book The spectre of Comparison: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World (1998)

 * Rizal is the spirit of contradiction; a soul that dreads the revolution, although deep down desires it.
 * Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher-writer, in his essay "Rizal, the Tagalog Hamlet", in Rizal: Contrary Essays (1990)

 * A gem of a man. (Un perla de hombre.)
 * Reinhold Rost, renowned 19th century philologist and head of the India Office, British Museum

 * His coming to the world is like the appearance of a rare comet, whose brilliance appears only every other century.
 * Ferdinand Blumentritt, Philippinologist and Rizal's best friend, in his book Biography of Rizal, translated from German by Howard Bray (1898)

 * The life Rizal lived is a more abiding gift than the things he said and wrote. His life will forever be of inestimable importance.
 * Frank Laubach, in his book Rizal: ** Man and Martyr (1936)

 * Sleep in the shadows of nothingness Redeemer of an enslaved land — Don't weep in the mystery of the tomb Nor grieve the momentary triumph of the Spaniard; For if the bullet ravaged your skull Your idea vanquished an empire!'''
 * Cecilio Apostol, Filipino poet, "Rizal, a Eulogy", on the 2nd anniversary of Rizal's death (30 December 1898)

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Dean Martin
You wrote:
 * Dean Martin quotes, I looked them up, is unsourced suppused to mean I just made them up, have I to go to Mr Martins friends and ask them 'Hi do you remember Dean saying this?'--McNoddy 19:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sourced refers to those quotes that cite a specific work that can be checked for accuracy, while Unsourced would be those quotes without a specific source cited. In this case, I would imagine that most of these quotes by Dean Martin will not ever be able to be properly sourced, since they probably were just said in conversation. If, however, they were captured in an article, for example, if you would cite the publication and the date it was said (along with a link to the article if you can), then it could probably be moved to the Sourced section. The point is that just because a quote is pulled from a quote site does not mean that it is a sourced quote. You may also refer to Sourced and Attributed sections if you have more questions. ~ UDScott 16:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I just wanted to call your attention to the last bit of formatting cleanup I did on this page, after you had completed your dleanup efforts and removed the cleanup tag. I was about to repost the tag, but I decided to perform the necessary cleanup myself to show you what else was needed beyond what you had previously done to the page. One other note, I looked at some of your other pages and you have a tendency to bold all wikipedia-linked words, but we do not normally do this. Thanks for your contributions. ~ UDScott 16:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Know how to do it now, cheers McNoddy

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Discussion page editing
Might I ask that you be a bit more careful about formatting your posts to talk pages? In particular: Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * When you add a new post to a discussion, make sure you use an appropriate means to separate your post from others. For most discussions, this means indenting your post with one or more colons. (More details on wiki formatting are at Help:Editing.)
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 * Always preview your edits by using the "Show preview" button before saving. This allows you to ensure that your edit looks the way you want it to before it is committed.

 * Sorry, McNoddy, but I am somehow not quite communicating things adequately. I did not mean to suggest you should create a new topic just to respond to a post. This actually is more confusing, because regular wiki readers won't necessarily realize that the new topic is connected to the old topic.

 * Please take a look at w:Wikipedia:Talk page, which shows a decent example of how colons are used to format ongoing discussions. Please note, however, that the example doesn't use full signatures, probably to avoid cluttering the main idea of formatting. We still ask editors to fully sign their posts with four tildes. If you have any questions about any of this, please ask. I apologize again for being insufficiently clear. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:56, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:ASAP
Thank you for your notice! I put one day blocking on that IP address, wishing it'll be taken a clear warning for further disruptions. This kind of information could go also WQ:VIP a/o WQ:AN. Also you would like to warn those guys with some warning templates (test etc). Just for your information. --Aphaia 17:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Aphaia --McNoddy 08:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

saikano
on my saikano page, am i doing a fair job or is it likely to be removed?--Saikano 17:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Saiyuki
Could you provide the reason you determined "Saiyuki" is taken from Saiyuki (manga)? Besides I don't know how available the manga version you referred to is in English, there are several Saiyuki manga and anime (see 西遊記), and I would like how you determined. --Aphaia 20:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your information. I replied you on my talk. --Aphaia 10:15, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
For helping with the vandalism - I got a steward to block the user, regards -- Herby talk thyme 16:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

For info
I blocked that IP - I don't like attack vandals! Thanks for catching it, regards -- Herby talk thyme 13:45, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Glad to help--McNoddy 13:45, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

By the way
As an active member of this community you may wish to take a look at the requests for Checkuser rights for Jeff & Aphaia here and vote maybe. It will help the community to deal with vandalism (I am not standing but both the users are long serving members of the community). Regards -- Herby talk thyme 14:09, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * So you have - sorry, just trying to make sure there are 25 votes!! -- Herby talk thyme 14:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Sledging (cricket)
I appreciate the work you did creating this page, but I nominated it for deletion. You can see my argument and the arguments of others, and also cast your own vote, at Votes for deletion/Sledging (cricket).

Liza Tarbuck
Please do not remove PROD notices; only admins should do that. I most certainly agree that it should be removed.--Cato 00:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems I owe you an apology; the draft policy does not say that only admins can remove PROD notices.--Cato 19:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy
If you see something that's definitely a speedy, such as an article with no quotes or an uncontroversially non-notable subject, use to request a speedy. No need to put it to a vote unless there are possible issues. --Ubiquity 12:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC) http://www.queenarchives.com/viewtopic.php?t=27 Wladyslaw Sikorski
 * Thanks didn't know how to do that--McNoddy 12:33, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Copying from Wikipedia
McNoddy, when you copy material from Wikipedia, please include a link to the Wikipedia article you're excerpting in the edit summary, like so:
 * transferred quotes from Dick Armey

Every time someone copies over Wikipedia material without (A) going through the formal Transwiki process, or (B) at least including a simple link to the relevant article, they are violating Wikipedia's GFDL license. Just because we're a sister Wikimedia project doesn't mean we are allowed to fail to give credit to the editors who wrote the material that we are using. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

 * No problem, i'll have to remember that one--McNoddy 10:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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Hello JeffQ, I was just wondering if its the same vice versa?--McNoddy 11:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Not sure what you mean:
 * Do you need to include a link back to Wikiquote for material moved to Wikipedia? Most certainly. The idea is that without an imported or cut-and-pasted edit history, the destination project is no different from any other website that must credit the originating Wikimedia page and include a link back to that page. Technically, one might argue that the link shouldn't be in the edit summary but in the article itself, although that is not appropriate content for our articles. We're really just trying to use this shortcut to a full transwiki or cumbersome history-copy to stem the flood of GFDL violations, and we're hoping this is better than nothing.
 * Do you need to point to the Wikiquote article you moved the material to? I don't think so, since the action is merely a deletion of material on WP. But it's a good idea to do so, especially as a courtesy to the editors whose material has been moved. The formal transwiki process requires a link to the target page on the project one is moving material to.
 * Hope this helps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcoming IPs
Hello. Wonder if you know about Anon for welcoming IPs?--Yehudi 12:53, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, just type Anon or  .--Yehudi 15:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Nice Articles
I liked your pages on Henry Hill, Lulu and Dith Pran. I made some minor changes so that they better fit our current standards that you might want to be aware of. I'll mention three points you might want to remember in the future: Keep up the good work! --Ubiquity 12:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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VFDs
McNoddy, can I ask a favor from you when you are nominating new VFDs (and by the way, thanks for looking out for those pages that need it!)? Please list the date of the nomination (in a comment, as you see other days being listed), and also, when you save the final edit (step three of the process) to the VFD page, please list what page has been nominated in the summary description. These both make it easier to keep track of the new nominations and when they have been nominated. Thanks. ~ UDScott 19:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll do my best UDScott, thanks--McNoddy 07:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry to nitpick again, but for the recent nominations you made, you listed the date of the nom in the final edit summary (for the last step in the process, you edit the full VFD page), but not the title of the page being nominated. Please include this. Also, in the vfd page, please also add the comments about the date of the nomination (not just in the edit summary, but in the page itself - just copy the examples already listed there e.g. ). Thanks. ~ UDScott 20:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

cite web
Don't worry about it. The important thing is to name the sources, and to try to conform to wikiquote standards and practices. The templates are just there to help. You don't have to use them if you can achieve the same results without them. --Ubiquity 11:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Stubs, etc
Well done on your additions of stubs, intros and categories. However, please don't add people-stub if there is already a more explicit stub; it's unnecessary. Also, it's a good idea to add before the categories. Keep it up!--Cato 21:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If you have a page for John Smith, an entry like will show up by default on the Category page alphabetised as John Smith.  If you want it under Smith, you can manually add a catsort .  However, if there are several categories, it is better to add  (note the block capitals) which changes the default to "Smith, John" for all categories.  I hope that's clear.--Cato 20:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Topic headings
Might I suggest that when you post a new topic to a discussion page, like your "Vandalism in progress" topics at WQ:AN, you provide a unique and more informative heading? Besides some technical difficulties that duplicate headings cause (edit history links don't work properly), tables of contents are rendered confusing or even useless by indistinguishable headings. For "ViP", it's common to include the username or IP address in question. (Your "Vandal 124.179.173.138" was a reasonable example. If you want to assume good faith [i.e., report a suspicious but not blatant problem], you might just say "Editor X" or even just the username or IP alone. Some use, which provides a list of useful links, as a heading, but I recommend leaving links and macros out of headings and putting them instead in the text itself because those special elements cause other problems.) I hope you find this suggestion useful. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you JeffQ--McNoddy 14:02, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * And as long as I'm being a nudge, could you include the page title you're nominating in the edit summaries of your VfD nominations? Edit summaries are most useful when they succinctly identify what was changed, so "+Crunch Bandicoot" is much more useful when reviewing WQ:VFD's edit history than "VFD 25/04/2008". Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:13, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yea thats no problem,--McNoddy 14:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

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Good Job!! I was about to work on this but you beat me to it!---Jondel-10:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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Category talk:Themes

There are far too many themes. Themes ought to be general categories encompassing a wide variety of quotes. Just because you have a quote that you want to put under a theme does not mean you should create your own specific theme. For example: "Flag of South Africa" is a poor excuse for a theme, it could probably be put under "patriotism" or make a more general category "flags" so that content will accumulate faster and we won't have so many stubs to sort through.

Madness
I think we should add madness as a theme. I've seen many many quotations about crazy ppl, being crazy, being mad..... Soul infector 03:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

What about Epigraphs?
Both quotes about epigraphs and epigraphs themselves... They deserve a place... Gmg

Risk
What does everyone think about creating a theme page about risk? There are plenty of enough good quality quotes for there to be a substantial amount of information on it.

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Robert Lucas Jr.

Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr. (September 15, 1937 – May 15, 2023) was an American economist at the, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995. He is widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroeconomics.

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 * The main development I want to discuss has already occurred: Keynesian economics is dead [maybe ‘disappeared’ is a better term]. I don’t know exactly when this happened but it is true today and it wasn’t true two years ago. This is a sociological not an economic observation, so the evidence for it is sociological. For example, you cannot find a good, under 40 economist who identifies himself and his work as ‘Keynesian’. Indeed, people even take offense if referred to in this way. At research seminars, people don’t take Keynesian theorizing seriously any more—the audience starts to whisper and giggle to one another. Leading journals aren’t getting Keynesian papers submitted any more.
 * Robert E. Lucas, "The Death of Keynesian Economics", in Issues and Ideas (Winter 1980).

 * I do not see how one can look at figures like these without seeing them representing possibilities. Is there some action a government of India could take that would lead the Indian economy to grow like Indonesia's or Egypt's? If so, what exactly? If not, what is it about the "nature of India" that makes it so? The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
 * Robert E. Lucas, "On the Mechanics of Economic Development." Journal of Monetary Economics. 22 July, 1988, pp. 5: On economic growth

 * So I am skeptical about the argument that the subprime mortgage problem will contaminate the whole mortgage market, that housing construction will come to a halt, and that the economy will slip into a recession. Every step in this chain is questionable and none has been quantified. If we have learned anything from the past 20 years it is that there is a lot of stability built into the real economy.
 * Robert E. Lucas, "Mortgages and Monetary Policy", The Wall Street Journal WEDNESDAY, September 19, 2007

 * I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole.
 * Robert E. Lucas, to Justin Fox, quoted in Bob Lucas on the comeback of Keynesianism (2008).

"After Keynesian macroeconomics" 1978
Robert E. Lucas and Thomas J. Sargent, "After Keynesian macroeconomics", in: After the Phillips Curve: Persistence of High Inflation and High Unemployment (1978); reprinted from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Spring 1979

 * For policy, the central fact is that Keynesian policy recommendations have no sounder basis, in a scientific sense, than recommendations of non-Keynesian economists or, for that matter, non-economists.

 * In the present decade, the U.S. economy has undergone its first major depression since the 1930’s, to the accompaniment of inflation rates in excess of 10 percent per annum. These events have been transmitted [...] to other advanced countries and in many cases have been amplified. These events did not arise from a reactionary reversion to outmoded, 'classical' principles of tight money and balanced budgets. On the contrary, they were accompanied by massive government budget deficits and high rates of monetary expansion, policies which, although bearing an admitted risk of inflation, promised according to modern Keynesian doctrine rapid real growth and low rates of unemployment. That these predictions were wildly incorrect and that the doctrine on which they were fundamentally flawed are now simple matters of fact, involving no novelties of economic theory. The task now [...] is to sort through the wreckage, determining which features of that remarkable intellectual event called the Keynesian Revolution can be salvaged and put to use and which others must be discarded.”
 * As contained in The Rational Expectations Revolution: Readings From the Front Line, Preston J. Miller, MIT Press (reprint 1994), pp. 5-6

 * The Keynesian Revolution was, in the form in which it succeeded in the United States, a revolution in method. This was not Keynes’s intent, nor is it the view of all of his most eminent followers. Yet if one does not view the revolution in this way, it is impossible to account for some of its most important features.

 * A key element in all Keynesian models is a ‘trade-off between inflation and real output: the higher is the inflation rate; the higher is output (or equivalently, the lower is the rate of unemployment).

Quotes about Robert Lucas Jr.

 * When I was on the economics faculty in Chicago, I had a sign in my office that said, “No smoking, except for Bob Lucas.” It was worth enduring the smoke to talk to Bob but not to any other economist-smoker. This behavior accorded with my view that his selection for a Nobel Prize was a great idea, one that had been anticipated by most economists for several years.
 * Robert Barro, Nothing Is Sacred (2002), Ch. 1 : Thoughts on Friends and Other Noteworthy Persons

 * The Keynesian econometric methodology developed by Klein and associates was criticized by Lucas in his 1976 “Critique of Econometric Policy Evaluation” on the grounds that microfounded structural equations should contain expectations of future variables. Since the parameters of these expectations should depend on the parameters of the rules followed by the policy authorities, Lucas argued that the rational expectations assumption would invalidate the practice of using fixed parameter models as policy guides. The profession responded to the Lucas critique in two different ways. The first, introduced to economists in the book Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice, was to develop appropriate econometric methods to estimate parameters in rational expectations environments. The second, explained most clearly in Kydland and Prescott’s (1996) article, “The Computational Experiment,” was to develop a new methodology,calibration, that lowered the standards of what it means for a model to be successful by requiring that a good model should explain only a limited set of empirical moments.
 * , Expectations, Employment and Prices, Ch. 5 A New Way to Understand Business Cycle Facts

 * Lucas's name, unlike Friedman's, is hardly a household word. He is neither a prolific writer nor easy to read; although he can write clear, forceful English when he chooses, he prefers to express himself through dense mathematics, leaving it to others to popularize his ideas. Where Friedman used his academic notoriety as a stepping stone to a wider public role, Lucas has in recent years seemed to retreat to safe, increasingly technical issues of theoretical economics. And yet for most of the 1970s there was little question that Robert Lucas was having more impact on economic thought, both through his own writings and through the extraordinary devotion of his intellectual disciples, than any other working economist. Above all, he became identified with a much stronger form of Friedman's argument against active monetary policy. Where Friedman argued that such policy would in practice do more harm than good, Lucas argued that in principle it could do nothing but harm.
 * Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity (1994), Ch. 1 : The Attack on Keynes

 * How could such a difficult, technical intellectual structure acquire the force first of a crusade, then of a dogma? [...] First, Lucas's approach to macroeconomics seemed to offer a way to heal a deep wound in the heart of economic theory. [...] When Lucas seemed to be able to do was derive business cycles from microeconomic model. [...] Second, the technicality and difficulty of Lucas's theory [...] was, in the world of academic economic, an asset rather than a liability. [...] Finally, we cannot ignore the role of political bias in making rational expectations macroeconomics attractive.
 * Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity (1994), Ch. 1 : The Attack on Keynes

 * In the 1970s, Lucas and disciples take it up a notch, arguing that we should assume rational expectations: people make the best predictions possible given the available information. But in that case, how can we explain the observed stickiness of wages and prices? Lucas argued for a “signal processing” approach, in which individuals can’t immediately distinguish between changes in their wage or price relative to others — changes to which they should respond by altering supply — and overall changes in the price level. [...] In the 1980s, the Lucas project failed — pure and simple. It became obvious that recessions last too long, and there are too many sources of information, for rational confusion to explain business cycles. Nice try, with a lot of clever modeling, but it just didn’t work.
 * Paul Krugman, "Lucas In Context (Wonkish)" (2011)

 * I think Lucas is an extremely capable man, and an undisputed intellectual leader of the school. On top of that, I think he's a very interesting and impressive human being. But I disagree with him, and I think I also disagree with his interpretation of his results. I have many, many objections.
 * Franco Modigliani, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer

 * A lot of the Lucas critiques were the sort of thing that some of us used in debunking Friedman's positivism on the stable money supply. I thought that Lucas's Nobel Prize was richly deserved and even overdue. But it was not because of the boldness and the correctness of the New Classical theory and rational expectations (that there is some kind of expected value that a group mind gets as a result, and which is in some sense "correct"). I don't believe in macro efficiency of securities markets. I believe in their micro efficiency. Convertibles are priced about right. Black-Scholes derivatives are priced about right, because you can make a lot of money in correcting any deviation. You can't make money in a bubble, by fighting the bubble. You will lose your shirt. That means the bubble can go on, and bubbles go in both directions. Usually maybe they do not last as long in the downward direction because the correction is more severe. In fact, the supply shocks of the 1970s which made either fiscal or central policy very difficult to administer, gave poor performance to the macro system. And since the Keynesians had implicitly been boastful about the good performance, if you take credit for the sun you got to expect to be blamed for the rain. And not only was that puncturing the reputation of Keynesianism, but it was puncturing the self-esteem of economists and of Keynesian economists in particular. Because we always are looking in the mirror of the public to form our impression of how important we are.
 * Paul Samuelson, Interview with Parker in Randall E. Parker (ed.), Reflections on the Great Depression (2002)

 * Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. Now, Bob Lucas and Tom Sargent like nothing better than to get drawn into technical discussions, because then you have tacitly gone along with their fundamental assumptions; your attention is attracted away from the basic weakness of the whole story. Since I find that fundamental framework ludicrous, I respond by treating it as ludicrous – that is, by laughing at it – so as not to fall into the trap of taking it seriously and passing on to matters of technique.
 * Robert Solow, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer, p. 146

 * He didn't really discuss my interpretations and criticisms of new classical economics. Instead he took the opportunity of the review to say that Keynesian economics was discredited by the stagflation of the '70s, as he and Sargent had already argued in their polemical piece "After Keynesian Economics" at the Nantucket conference in 1978. The idea seems to be that we were very wrong about the 1970s and therefore had no standing to criticize the new classical macroeconomics. Of course, I do not agree with that interpretation of the events of the last 15 years. In that review article Lucas didn't explain anything new. He just restated his point of view.
 * James Tobin, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer

 * Lucas says: "You don't know anything," and in his more humble moments: "I don't know anything either, and therefore the government shouldn't do anything." Well, there is no well-defined criterion of the government's not doing anything. What he says the government should do and calls doing nothing is doing something very different from what the government has been doing for the last 40 years. Why is making a radical change of regime suddenly doing nothing? You see, we have had a regime that can be associated with the most successful period of capitalism in recorded history. Suddenly, he calls for a constant money growth rule. How, possibly, can one conclude that? I say, if he doesn't want "to do anything", then we should keep doing what we have been doing, for we haven't been doing that badly. To make a radical change in regime all of a sudden, gives us what we have now; a new depression. Right? We have a new regime now, or maybe we have if it is not overturned, partly because these guys come along saying that compensatory policy, that is Keynesian policy, got us in all kinds of trouble. But it didn't get us in all kinds of trouble. In effect, they say that if you don't know what you are doing, you should do something entirely different from what you have been doing. I don't understand why that is a conservative or risk-avoiding policy.
 * James Tobin, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer

 * Lucas’s “Mechanics” Lectures caught the profession by surprise. His argument enraged some economists and startled or puzzled others. It was his first word on the subject of growth. It seemed to have come completely out of the blue. And even though his interest in the possibility of market failure seemed curiously in tune with fifty years of the Keynesian tradition, it was unfamiliar enough when expressed in the vernacular of Freshwater economics that the lectures at first caused more consternation than anything else, and in most quarters they were studiously ignored. A few young researchers, however, were galvanized into immediate action. The notion that trade and migration must be strongly linked to economic growth was hardly new. Nor was the insight that cities must be central to economic progress. Perhaps the real news from Lucas’s lectures was his identification of lock-in as a potentially serious puzzle.
 * David Warsh, Knowledge and The Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery (2006), Ch. 19 : Recombinations

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Richard Seed

Richard Seed (born in 1928) is a physicist in Chicago who is best known for his announcement of plans to start human cloning.

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 * I've said many times that you can't stop science... God made man in his own image. God intended for man to become one with God. We are going to become one with God. We are going to have almost as much knowledge and almost as much power as God. Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in becoming one with God.
 * National Public Radio (1998-01-07)

 * We are going to become Gods, period. If you don't like it, get off. You don't have to contribute, you don't have to participate but if you are going to interfere with me becoming a God, you're going to have trouble. There'll be warfare.
 * TechnoCalyps - Part II - Preparing for the Singularity (2008-11-14)

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Talk:Baltasar Gracián

I posted the following comment at the English Wikipedia, and am willing to wait on responses there before making any changes here, which would not be so much of a trouble as they would be on the WIkipedia articles:
 * This author is almost universally referred to as Gracián, not Gracián y Morales, and the page title should reflect that, as it does on the Spanish Wikipedia's article: Baltasar Gracián. The situation is complicated because the page for Baltasar Gracián already exists and was made into a redirect for this one. ~ Kalki 14:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see it restored to the more common name as well. I didn't even know about the longer name until I was working on this page the other day and made the link to Wikipedia.  I changed the name in order to match  the one that had been chosen for WP. I should note that I had made three redirects to this page: Baltasar Gracián, Baltasar Gracian and Baltasar Gracian y Morales. - InvisibleSun 21:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * As there were no objections at Wikipedia to the move, I went ahead and did it there, and the process isn't as complicated here, as we have not had two separate pages in development at any point. I had been meaning to get around to working on this page for some time, and have some files I will probably draw from in the next few days. I've lost track of my favorite hardback translation of the text, which I have marked heavily and might work from in adding a few quotes, once I find it. ~ Kalki 22:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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John Dolmayan

John Dolmayan (born July 15, 1972) is a musician, best known as the drummer for the Armenian-American alternative metal band System of a Down.

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 * For the longest time, I didn't know the name of anyone in Led Zeppelin. I didn't care about what they looked like or ate. I wanted to listen, not read about them. I've always had that philosophy. I never started playing drums to get chicks or money or anything else. Long before I had concepts of those things, I wanted to be a drummer. That's the basic concept of what I do. I'm a drummer. I play drums. We are artists as drummers, and people should realize that. Not everyone can sit down and use all four of your limbs simultaneously to create something out of wood and plastic. We're creating something beautiful, and it may not sound pretty, but if you listen with the right ear, it sounds very pretty. If you try and listen to a song without drums, you haven't got anything.

 * We never expected anything, actually. I think we still don't expect anything. We were proud of the album when we finished it, so whatever success it has we are just like, 'Wow, cool.' It's not going to change the way we work or think. I'm as proud of this record now as I was when we finished it.
 * Craine, Charlie Hip Online Article September 2001

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