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The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 film about three WWII veterans who return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
 * Directed by William Wyler. Written by Robert E. Sherwood, based on the novel Glory For Me by MacKinlay Kantor.

Filled with all the love and warmth and joy. . .the human heart can hold! (taglines)

Al Stephenson

 * [about Homer] They [the Navy] couldn't train him to put his arms around his girl - to stroke her hair.
 * [to Milly and Peggy] How 'bout we go celebrate the old man's homecoming...I want to do something, see something. I've been in jungles and around savages so long, I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again.
 * [to Mr. Novak] You'll get your loan...You look like a good risk to me. And when those tomato plants start producing, I'll come out for some free samples.
 * [to the bank president] Novak looked to me like a good bet...You see Mr. Milton, in the Army, I've had to be with men when they were stripped of everything in the way of property except what they carried around with them and inside them. I saw them being tested. Now some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on. I tell you this man Novak is okay. His collateral is in his hands, in his heart and his guts. It's in his right as a citizen.
 * I'm sure you'll all agree with me if I said that now is the time for all of us to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks, forget about the war and go fishing. But I'm not gonna say it. I'm just going to sum the whole thing up in one word. [Milly coughs loudly] My wife doesn't think I'd better sum it up in that one word. I want to tell you all that the reason for my success as a Sergeant is due primarily to my previous training in the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. The knowledge I acquired in the good ol' bank I applied to my problems in the infantry. For instance, one day in Okinawa, a Major comes up to me and he says, 'Stephenson, you see that hill?' 'Yes sir, I see it.' 'All right,' he said. 'You and your platoon will attack said hill and take it.' So I said to the Major, 'but that operation involves considerable risk. We haven't sufficient collateral.' 'I'm aware of that,' said the Major, 'but the fact remains that there's the hill and you are the guys that are going to take it.' So I said to him, 'I'm sorry Major, no collateral, no hill.' So we didn't take the hill and we lost the war.' I think that little story has considerable significance, but I seem to have forgotten what it is. And now in conclusion, I'd like to tell you a humorous anecdote. I know several humorous anecdotes, but I can't think of any way to clean them up, so I'll only say this much. I love the Cornbelt Loan and Trust Company. There are some who say that the old bank is suffering from hardening of the arteries and of the heart. I refuse to listen to such radical talk. I say that our bank is alive, it's generous, it's human, and we're going to have such a line of customers seeking and getting small loans that people will think we're gambling with the depositors' money. And we will be. We will be gambling on the future of this country. I thank you.

Fred Derry

 * [to Peggy] I think they ought to put you in mass production.
 * [to Marie] I don't want to be right back where we started. We can never be back there again. We never want to be back there.
 * [to Homer, about Wilma] Take her in your arms, and kiss her. Ask her to marry you. Then marry her. Tomorrow if you can get a license that fast. If you want anybody to stand up for you at your wedding...
 * You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work - get kicked around.

Others

 * Marie Derry: [to Fred] Oh, you're marvelous. All those ribbons. You gotta tell me what they all mean.
 * Marie Derry: [To Peggy] Never mind the romantic part of it. That takes care of itself. And I'm speaking from experience. They'll tell you money isn't everything. Well, maybe it isn't, but boy how it helps! Do you know that while Fred was away, I was drawing over five hundred dollars a month, I mean, from his Army pay and the job I had. Now the two of us got to live on what Fred gets from being a drugstore cowboy - thirty two fifty a week. Poor Fred. I guess you think he's an awful sourpuss. He didn't used to be that way, though. The Army's had an awful effect on him - knocked all the life out of him...You can't have happy marriages on that kind of dough.
 * Milly Stephenson: [to Al] All right Sergeant. Gosh, you got tough.
 * Mr. Milton: [to Al] There's considerable uncertainty in the business picture. Strikes, taxes still ruinous...Oh, things will readjust themselves in time. We want you back here in the saddle. You're the man for it...Your war experience will prove invaluable to us here. See, we have many new problems. This GI Bill of Rights, for instance. It involves us in consideration of all kinds of loans to ex-servicemen. We need a man who understands the soldier's problems. And at the same time, who's well grounded in the fundamental principles of sound banking. In other words, you.
 * Homer Parrish: [to neighborhood kids] You want to see how the hooks work? Do you want to see the freak? All right, I'll show ya! [He smashes his two hook-fists through the window] Take a good look.
 * Peggy Stephenson: [to Milly, about Fred] He said he's sorry for what happened but it was just one of those things. He said it wouldn't be fair to his wife for us to see each other anymore because I'm obviously the kind of girl that takes these things too seriously. Then he said goodbye very politely and hung up. Well, I guess you and Dad don't have to worry about me anymore. That's the end of my career as a homewrecker. Mom, I know you feel sorry for me. You think my poor little heart is broken, but you can save your sympathy. I can see things clearer now. I made a fool of myself. I'm getting some sense hammered into me now. I'm glad I'm out of that mess. I'm glad I'll never see him again.
 * Pat Derry: [to his wife, reading Fred's citations] Headquarters, Eighth Air Force. Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross...Despite intense pain, shock, and loss of blood, with complete disregard of his personal safety, Captain Derry crawled back to his bombsight, guided his formation on a perfect run over the objective, and released his bombs with great accuracy. The heroism, devotion to duty, professional skill, and coolness under fire displayed by Captain Derry under the most difficult conditions reflect highest credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States of America. By command of Lieutenant General Doolittle.

Dialogue

 * Homer: Boy, oh boy, hey, look at that. Look at those automobiles down there. You can see them so plain, you can even see the people in them.
 * Fred: Yeah, it looks like we're flying by a roadmap.

 * Homer: I didn't see much of the war...I was stationed in a repair shop below decks. Oh, I was in plenty of battles, but I never saw a Jap or heard a shell coming at me. When we were sunk, all I know is there was a lot of fire and explosions. And I was on the topsides and overboard. And I was burned. When I came to, I was on a cruiser. My hands were off. After that, I had it easy...That's what I said. They took care of me fine. They trained me to use these things. I can dial telephones, I can drive a car, I can even put nickels in the jukebox. I'm all right, but...well, you see, I've got a girl.
 * Fred: She knows what happened to ya, doesn't she?
 * Homer: Sure, they all know. They don't know what these things look like.
 * Al: What's your girl's name, Homer?
 * Homer: Wilma. She and I went to high school together.
 * Al: I'll bet Wilma's a swell girl.
 * Homer: She is.
 * Fred: Then it will be all right, sailor. You wait and see.
 * Homer: Yeah, wait and see. Wilma's only a kid. She's never seen anything like these hooks.

 * Fred: Do you remember what it felt like when we went overseas?
 * Al: As well as I remember my own name.
 * Fred: I feel the same way now - only more so.
 * Al: I know what you mean.
 * Fred: Just nervous out of the service, I guess.
 * Al: The thing that scares me most is that everybody is gonna try to rehabilitate me.
 * Fred: All I want's a good job, a mild future, a little house big enough for me and my wife. Give me that much and I'm rehabilitated [he clicks his fingers] like that.
 * Al: Well, I'd say that's not too much to ask.
 * Fred: Are you married, Al?
 * Al: Yup.
 * Fred: How long?
 * Al: Twenty years.
 * Fred: Twenty years?! Holy smoke! We didn't even have twenty days before I went over. I married a girl I met when I was in training in Texas.
 * Al: Well, now you and your wife will have a chance to get acquainted.

 * Fred: There's the golf course, people playing golf just as if nothing had ever happened.
 * Homer: Hey, there's Jackson High football field. Boy, I sure would like to have a dollar for every forward pass I threw down there. Good ol' Jackson High. Say, that must be the new airport.
 * Fred: We're turning into her now.
 * Al: Holy smoke. [They view an airfield graveyard]
 * Homer: I never knew there was so many planes.
 * Fred: And they're junking them...Boy, oh boy, what we could have done with those in '43!...Some of 'em look brand new, factory to the scrap heap. That's all they're good for now.

 * Fred: Some barracks you got here. Hey what are you, a retired bootlegger?
 * Al: Nothing as dignified as that. I'm a banker. '[to the cab driver]'' How much do I owe ya?
 * Fred: Take your hand out of your pocket, Sergeant. You're outranked.
 * Al: [saluting] Yessir, Captain, sir.

 * Hortense: [about Fred's wife Marie] Well, she's not living with us anymore, Freddy. She took an apartment downtown.
 * Fred: Why didn't anybody write me about it?
 * Hortense: Well, we were afraid it might worry you, you being so far away and everything. And it was kinda inconvenient for Marie living in this place after she took that job.
 * Pat: But we forwarded all your letters and the allotment checks.
 * Fred: She took a job? Where?
 * Pat: Uh, some nightclub, I don't know just which one.
 * Hortense: Oh the poor girl works 'til all hours.
 * Fred: Where does she live?
 * Pat: Uhm, Grandview Arms, on Pine Street.
 * Hortense: But there's nothing to worry about, Freddy. Marie's fine. We saw her last, last Christmas. She brought us some beautiful presents.
 * Pat: Marie's a good-hearted girl.
 * Fred: Do you know what time she goes out to work?
 * Pat: Uhm, 'long about supper time, I imagine.

 * Rob: Say, you were at Hiroshima, weren't you Dad?..Well, did you happen to notice any of the effects of radioactivity on the people who survived the blast?
 * Al: No, I didn't. Should I have?
 * Rob: We've been having lectures in atomic energy at school, and Mr. McLaughlin, he's our physics teacher, he says that we've reached a point where the whole human race has either got to find a way to live together, or else uhm...
 * Al: Or else...?
 * Rob: That's right. Or else. Because when you combine atomic energy with jet propulsion and radar and guided missiles, just think of the...
 * Al: I've seen nothing. I should have stayed home and found out what was really going on. What's happened to this family? All this atomic energy and scientific efficiency.
 * Peggy: Nice to have you around, dad. You'll get us back to normal.
 * Al: Or maybe go nuts myself.

 * Milly: What do you think of the children?
 * Al: Children? I don't recognize 'em. They've grown so old.
 * Milly: I tried to stop them, to keep them just as they were when you left, but they got away from me.

 * Mr. Cameron: Have you thought anything about getting a job, Homer?
 * Wilma: Father, it's much too soon for Homer to be thinking about a job. He's just out of the hospital.
 * Mr. Cameron: Yes, I know but a few months from now, the same opportunities won't exist that exist today. You might think about my business Homer, insurance. We've taken on a number of veterans. They make very good salesmen, you know. Men who have suffered from some kind of disability.

 * Homer: Wilma? What does she want?
 * Butch: You.
 * Homer: Oh, why can't they leave a guy alone?
 * Butch: Because they're fond of ya, that's why. What made you leave the house and get them all worried?
 * Homer: Oh, they, they got me nervous...well, they keep staring at these hooks, or else they keep staring away from them.
 * Butch: Do you mean, whatever they do is wrong?
 * Homer: Why don't they understand that all I want is to be treated like everybody else?
 * Butch: Give 'em time, kid. They'll catch on. You know, your folks will get used to you, and you'll get used to them. Then everything will settle down nicely, unless we have another war. Then none of us have to worry because we'll all be blown to bits the first day. So cheer up, huh?

 * Fred: You don't seem like Al's daughter.
 * Peggy: Actually, I'm not. He's my son by a previous marriage.
 * Fred: [laughing] What did you say your name was?

 * Peggy: What d'ya do before the war, Fred?
 * Fred: I was a fountain attendant...soda jerk...Surprised?
 * Peggy: Yes, a little. I betcha you mixed up a fine ice cream soda.
 * Fred: You're darn right. I was an expert behind that fountain. I used to toss a scoop of ice cream in the air, adjust for wind drift, velocity, altitude. Then wham, in the cone every time. I figured that's where I really learned to drop bombs.
 * Peggy: What do you think you'll do now?
 * Fred: I'm not going back to that drugstore. Somehow or other, I can't figure myself getting excited about a root beer float. I don't know just what I will do. I'm gonna take plenty of time looking around.
 * Peggy: I guess after all the places you've been, Boone City looks pretty dreary to you.
 * Fred: Not from where I'm sitting right now. That's not just a line. I really meant it.

 * Al: You know, I had a dream. I dreamt I was home. I've had that dream hundreds of times before. This time, I wanted to find out if it's really true. Am I really home?
 * Milly: It looks like it, and you're going to be royally treated. You're having breakfast in bed.

 * Milly: You ought to rest a while. Take a vacation.
 * Al: Got to make money. Last year it was kill Japs. And this year it's 'make money.'
 * Milly: We're all right for the time being.
 * Al: Then why do they have to bother me about problems like that the first day I get home. Why can't they give a fella time to get used to his own family?

 * Salesman: [about Fred] I'll bet he's back looking for a job.
 * Saleswoman: And he'll get it too with all those ribbons on his chest.
 * Salesman: Well, nobody's job is safe with all these servicemen crowding in.

 * Fred: [about his lack of managerial experience] I didn't do any of that. I just dropped bombs...I was only responsible for getting the bombs on the target. I didn't command anybody.
 * Mr. Thorpe: Unfortunately, we've no opportunities for that with Midway Drugs. However, we might be able to provide an opening for you as an assistant to Mr. Merkle, the floor manager...Incidentally, your work would require part-time duties at the soda fountain.
 * Fred: At what salary?
 * Mr. Thorpe: Thirty-two fifty per week.
 * Fred: Thirty-two fifty. I used to make over four hundred dollars a month in the Air Force.
 * Mr. Thorpe: The war is over, Derry.

 * Homer: What about us? We're all right, aren't we?
 * Wilma: No, listen to me, Homer.
 * Homer: I'm listening.
 * Wilma: You wrote me that when you got home, you and I were going to be married. If you wrote that once, you wrote it a hundred times. Isn't that true?
 * Homer: Yes, but things are different now.
 * Wilma: Have you changed your mind?
 * Homer: Have I said anything about changing my mind?
 * Wilma: No. That's just it. You haven't said anything about anything...I don't know what to think, Homer. All I know is, I was in love with you when you left and I'm in love with you now. Other things may have changed but that hasn't.

 * Homer: I'm sorry, Luella. It isn't your fault. Just go on and play with your friends. [To Wilma] I know Wilma, I was wrong. I shouldn't have acted like that. It wasn't her that burned my hands off. I'll be all right. I just got to work it out myself.
 * Wilma: I could help you, Homer, if you'd let me.
 * Homer: I've got to work it out myself. All I want is for people to treat me like anybody else instead of pitying me. It guess it's, it's hard for them to do that. I've just got to learn to get used to it and pay no attention.
 * Wilma: Couldn't I...?
 * Homer: No, I've got to do it myself.

 * Fred: We spent it, babe. That's what happened. I'm sorry it's so sudden. I didn't tell you the money was almost gone because every day I kept hoping I was going to land a good job. But at last, I've got it through my thick skull that I'm not going to get one so we'll just have to forget about Jackie's Hotspot and the Blue Devil and all the rest.
 * Marie: Can't you get those things out of your system?
 * Fred: Oh sure.
 * Marie: Maybe that's what's holding you back. You know, the war's over. You won't get anyplace 'til you stop thinking about it. Come on, snap out of it.
 * Fred: When we were married, babe, the Justice of the Peace said something about 'For richer, for poorer, for better, for worse.' Remember? Well, this is the 'worse.'
 * Marie: Well, when do we get going on the 'better?'
 * Fred: Whenever I get wise to myself, I guess. Whenever I wake up and realize I'm not an officer and a gentleman anymore. I'm just another soda jerk out of a job.

 * Peggy: I didn't really come in to buy anything. Dad told me you were working here and I just dropped in to say hello.
 * Fred: [as he shows her a perfume] Oh just a minute. I have - I have an hour off at one o'clock. Are you doing anything for lunch?
 * Peggy: Why no.
 * Fred: Thank you madam. [softly] I'll meet you outside in twenty minutes.

 * Fred: I knew I'd never go back to that drugstore...I dreamed I was going to have my own home. Just a nice little house with my wife out in the country, in the suburbs anyway. That's the cock-eyed kind of dream you have when you're overseas.
 * Peggy: You don't have to be overseas to have dreams like that.
 * Fred: Yeah. You can get crazy ideas right here at home.
 * [They kiss]
 * Fred: That shouldn't have happened, but I guess it had to.

 * Marie: Say, who is this Peggy Stephenson?
 * Fred: She's a girl.
 * Marie: I didn't think she was a kangaroo. Where did you meet her?
 * Fred: I told you. The night I got back when you weren't here. Al Stephenson and his wife took me home with them. She's their daughter. I'd never seen her before.
 * Marie: Or since?
 * Fred: Listen, babe, if you think you're gonna make anything out of this, you're due for a big disappointment. I just don't like to be accepting handouts when we're broke.
 * Marie: Well, if that's it, you'd better get used to it, because I don't see how we're gonna get much fun on your thirty two fifty a week.

 * Peggy: I know what you both think.
 * Al: What are we thinking?
 * Peggy: You're afraid I may be in love with Fred.
 * Al: Why I never had any such idea?
 * Milly: Shut up, Al. Are you in love with him?
 * Peggy: Yes. But I don't want to be. That's why I asked him and his wife to go out with us this evening. I think it ought to have a very healthy effect on me. Once I get to know her, well, I'm sure I'll stop being silly about the whole thing.

 * Peggy: [explaining why she invited Fred and his wife] I did it deliberately...to prove to myself that what happened this afternoon didn't really happen.
 * Fred: But it did happen. It had to happen. And if we go on seeing each other, Peggy, it will happen again.

 * Peggy: I've made up my mind...I'm going to break that marriage up. I can't stand it seeing Fred tied to a woman he doesn't love and who doesn't love him. Oh it's horrible for him. It's humiliating and it's killing his spirit. Somebody's got to help him...He doesn't love her, he hates her. I know it. I know it.
 * Al: Who are you, God? How did you get this power to interfere in other people's lives?
 * Milly: Is Fred in love with you?
 * Peggy: Yes.
 * Milly: You've been seeing him.
 * Peggy: Only once, today. Oh, it was all perfectly respectable. But when we were saying goodbye, he took me in his arms and kissed me and I knew.
 * Al: And you think a kiss from a smooth operator like Fred - you think that means anything?
 * Peggy: You don't know him. You don't know anything about what's inside him. And neither does she, his wife. That's probably what she thought when she married him. A smooth operator with money in his pockets. But now he isn't smooth any longer and she's lost interest in him.
 * Al: Whereas you're possessed of all the wisdom of the ages. You can see into the secret recesses of his innermost soul.
 * Peggy: I can see because I love him.
 * Al: So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? Are you gonna do it with an axe?
 * Peggy: It's none of your business how I'm gonna do it. You've forgotten what it's like to be in love.
 * Al: You hear that, Milly? I'm so old and decrepit I've forgotten how it feels to want somebody desperately.
 * Milly: Peggy didn't mean that, did you darling?
 * Peggy: Oh, no. I don't know what I do mean. It's just that, everything has always been so perfect for you. You loved each other and you got married in a big church, and you had a honeymoon in the south of France. And you never had any trouble of any kind. So how can you possibly understand how it is with Fred and me?
 * Milly: We never had any trouble. [To Al] How many times have I told you I hated you, and believed it in my heart. How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?

 * Al: I happen to be quite fond of Peggy, and I, uh...
 * Fred: ...don't want her to get mixed up with a heel like me.
 * Al: I haven't called you a heel, yet. I just don't want to see her get into this mess...I don't like the idea of you sneaking around corners to see Peggy, taking her love on a bootleg basis. I give you fair warning. I'm going to do everything I can to keep her away from you, to help her forget about you, and get her married to some decent guy who can make her happy.
 * Fred: Then, I guess that's it, Al. I don't see her anymore. I'll put that in the form of a guarantee. I won't see her anymore. I'll call her up and tell her so. Does that satisfy you?

 * Homer: I know what it is. How did I get these hooks and how do they work? That's what everybody says when they start off with 'Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?' Well, I'll tell ya. I got sick and tired of that old pair of hands I had. You know, an awful lot of trouble washing them and manicuring my nails. So I traded them in for a pair of these latest models. They work by radar. Look. [He takes a scoop of his ice cream sundae with a spoon] Pretty cute, hey?
 * Customer: You got plenty of guts. It's terrible when you see a guy like you that had to sacrifice himself - and for what?
 * Homer: And for what? I don't getcha Mister?
 * Customer: ...We let ourselves get sold down the river. We were pushed into war.
 * Homer: Sure, by the Japs and the Nazis so we had...
 * Customer: No, the Germans and the Japs had nothing against us. They just wanted to fight the Limies and the Reds. And they would have whipped 'em too if we didn't get deceived into it by a bunch of radicals in Washington.
 * Homer: What are you talkin' about?
 * Customer: We fought the wrong people, that's all. Just read the facts, my friend. Find out for yourself why you had to lose your hands. And then go out and do something about it.

 * Wilma: They figure you don't want me around. You don't want to see me, and if I go away for awhile, maybe I'll get all of this out of my mind...Do you want to get rid of me? Tell me the truth, Homer. Do you want me to forget about you?
 * Homer: I want you to be free, Wilma, to live your own life. I don't want you tied down forever just because you've got a kind heart.
 * Wilma: Oh, Homer! Why can't you ever understand the way things really are, the way I really feel? I keep trying to tell you.
 * Homer: But, but you don't know what it would be like to live with me. Have to face this every day, every night.
 * Wilma: I can only find out by trying. And if it turns out I haven't courage enough, we'll soon know it.
 * Homer: Wilma, you and I have been close to each other for a long time, haven't we? Ever since we were kids.
 * Wilma: Yes, Homer.
 * Homer: I'm going upstairs to bed. I wantcha, I want ya to come up and see for yourself what happens.
 * Wilma: All right, Homer.

 * Homer: I'm lucky I have my elbows. Some of the boys don't, but I can't button them up.
 * Wilma: I'll do that, Homer.
 * Homer: This is when I know I'm helpless. My hands are down there on the bed. I can't put them on again without calling to somebody for help. I can't smoke a cigarette or read a book. If that door should blow shut, I can't open it and get out of this room. I'm as dependent as a baby that doesn't know how to get anything except to cry for it. Well, now you know, Wilma. Now you have an idea of what it is. I guess you don't know what to say. It's all right. Go on home. Go away like your family said.
 * Wilma: I know what to say, Homer. I love you and I'm never going to leave you, never. [She kisses him]
 * Homer: You mean you, you didn't mind?
 * Wilma: Of course not. I told you I loved you.
 * Homer: I love you, Wilma. I always have and I always will.
 * Wilma: Good night, darling. Sleep well.

 * Marie: What do you think I was doing all those years?
 * Fred: I don't know, babe, but I can guess.
 * Marie: Go ahead. Guess your head off. I could do some guessing myself. What were you up to in London and Paris and all those places? I've given you every chance to make something of yourself. I gave up my own job when you asked me. I gave up the best years of my life, and what have you done? You flopped! Couldn't even hold that job at the drugstore. So I'm going back to work for myself and that means I'm gonna live for myself too. And in case you don't understand English, I'm gonna get a divorce. What have you got to say to that?
 * Fred: Don't keep Cliff waiting.
 * Marie: What are you gonna do?
 * Fred: I'm going away.
 * Marie: Where?
 * Fred: As far away from Boone City as I can get.
 * Marie: That's a good idea. You'll get a good job someplace else. There are drugstores everywhere.

 * Fred: [about his military citations] They're just a lot of fancy words that don't mean anything. You can throw them away...Those things came in the packages of K-rations.
 * Pat Derry: Well, we'll treasure them, my boy. How do you know it will be different anyplace else? There's a need here for fellas like yourself that fought and won the war. I know you haven't had the best of breaks since you got back, but well, it seems like you ought to stick here and slug it out a while longer on your own home ground.
 * Fred: You're all right, Pop. But I know when it's time to bail out.

 * Foreman: Hey you, what are you doing in that airplane?
 * Fred: I used to work in one of those.
 * Foreman: Reviving old memories, huh?
 * Fred: Yeah, or maybe getting some of 'em out of my system.
 * Foreman: Well, you can take your last look at these crates. We're breakin' them up.
 * Fred: Yeah, I know. You're the junkman. You get everything sooner or later.
 * Foreman: This is no junk. We're using this material for building pre-fabricated houses.
 * Fred: You don't need any help, do ya?
 * Foreman: Out of a job?
 * Fred: That's it.
 * Foreman: I see. One of the fallen angels of the Air Force. Well, pardon me if I show no sympathy. While you glamour boys were up in the wild blue yonder, I was down in a tank.
 * Fred: Listen, chum. Sometime I'd be glad to hear the story of your war experiences. What I asked you for is a job? You got one?
 * Foreman: Do you know anything about building?
 * Fred: No, but there's one thing I do know. I know how to learn, same as I learned that job up there.

 * Homer: I was afraid you wouldn't be able to stand up for me.
 * Fred: I'd stand up for you, kid, 'til I drop.

 * Peggy: Well, what have you been doing with yourself lately?
 * Fred: Working.
 * Peggy: Yes, uh, Dad told me he heard you were in some kind of building work.
 * Fred: Well, that's a hopeful way of putting it. I'm really in the junk business - an occupation for which many people feel I'm well-qualified by temperament and training. It's fascinating work.

Taglines

 * Filled with all the love and warmth and joy. . .the human heart can hold!
 * Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year!
 * Samuel Goldwyn's greatest production

Cast

 * Myrna Loy - Milly Stephenson
 * Fredric March - Al Stephenson
 * Dana Andrews - Fred Derry
 * Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson
 * Virginia Mayo - Marie Derry
 * Cathy O'Donnell - Wilma Cameron
 * Hoagy Carmichael - Butch Engle
 * Harold Russell - Homer Parrish

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The result was: keep. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

John McKay
What we have here is a page for a notable person, that's actually well-formatted (thanks to UDScott for that), but has no real content to speak of. The sole quote is "I think it's a good idea", which is hardly unique to this person (who hasn't said something like that at some point?). Putting it in the context of being asked about "his team's execution in a loss" doesn't make it any more meaningful; the only way I can get myself to make any sense of the quote is that he was suggesting that the team be killed for the loss, but to properly make sense of it, we would need to know the exact wording of the question he was answering, not just the "summarized" version that appears in the source. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:43, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: keep (one vote to keep, four votes to keep). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:43, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Keep. - PhilipR 13:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC) . "[T]he only way I can get myself to make any sense of the quote is that he was suggesting that the team be killed for the loss," -- That of course was exactly the point of the pun.   The "proper" formatting, by removing the pun from its context, probably did make the quote seem entirely pointless.    "I think it's a good idea" is entirely mundane, but in response to a question about the "execution" of the team it's often cited by the US sports media as one of McKay's clever witticisms.   Context is everything. If you follow the link I provided, you'll see that McKay produced a lot of amusing quotes about American football in his career.   I just didn't want to plagiarize half that article, or I would have added more - PhilipR 13:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Keep and tag for expansion. The quote is not exceptional but could perhaps be better formatted, but it seems to be a quoted remark, the individual concerned is notable, we can get verified quotes etc. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Keep. Concur with Fys about possibly reformatting the quote to make the pun clearer, although it's not immediately obvious to me how best to do this. Reliable sources exist for it (like ), although all the ones I've found so far are tertiary sources that maddeningly only paraphrase the instigating question — the original text could help us reformat the quote. But otherwise this seems a legitimate stub. It might help to add another quote or two to avoid putting the burden on a single awkward quote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Oddly enough, the first thing this quote put me in mind of was a very similarly worded quote ("I think it would be a good idea!") on the Mohandas Gandhi page. That quote also needed context (it was in response to someone asking him what he thought of Western Civilization) and the context was duly provided.  - InvisibleSun 19:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. It seems that I'm outnumbered on this issue (and at this point, I'm not convinced there's sufficient cause to change my vote), but it might behoove us to develop some sort of guideline for this to be incorporated into Templates/People, so that we're not giving the punch line before the setup. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:bsm, Template:Esm
These templates were created to support for Discworld articles. They could be of use in other articles as well, like Mystery Science Theater 3000, Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar (if we ever add it), and any work using smallcaps to denote deities or machines speaking. However, using two templates as bookends seems unreasonably error-prone, especially when there is a more straightforward method already in use at Wikipedia: the smallcaps template (which I've just copied over). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent). I've replaced all the uses with smallcaps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete after replacing all instances of these paired templates with smallcaps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Jeffq. ~ UDScott 18:33, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Jeff Q. 121a0012 19:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:43, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 06:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:WikiPtmp and 36 others

 * Template:WikiPtmp
 * Template:Metatmp
 * Template talk:Lts/usage
 * Template:Lts
 * Template:Indent
 * Template:Lts/Doc
 * Template:Wikisourcetmp
 * Template:W2c
 * Template:Commonstmp
 * Template:Interwikitmp usage
 * Template:Interwikitmp-grp ineligible
 * Template:S
 * Template:Tl/doc
 * Template:Interwiki class-sisterproject
 * Template:This Sister prefix
 * Template:This Sister
 * Template:IWTG size
 * Template:WikiSpeciestmp
 * Template:Interwikitmp-grp6
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 * Template:!
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 * Template:Interwikitmp-grps see also
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 * Template:WikiQuotetmp
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 * Template:Tlx
 * Template:Interwikigrps-see also
 * Template:TLX
 * Template:WD
 * Template:Interwikitmp-grpNN usage/doc
 * Template:I
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All of these templates were created by User:Fabartus for no purpose that I can find. The templates themselves, and any accompanying documentation, are so poorly written and formatted that it's impossible to tell what, if anything, these templates were supposed to to, especially the ones that have content like "Q" and "35". These templates all include each other, but as best I can tell, are not used on any pages in the main namespace. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete all except withdrawn Template:! (4 deletes for all but Template:Tlx and Template:Tl/doc without dissent; 3 deletes and 1 keep for these two). I'm closing this this way by the rules, basically, but I suspect that 121a0012's concerns about the two active WP templates that we could really use here (how many times have we wanted to use tl with multiple parameters?) didn't get much attention because of the intimidation of analyzing individual templates in this huge collection. I would suggest that, if someone wants to re-create these two templates, they do so and VfD-nominate them (or "it" if combined as suggested) separately to stir up specific discussion on them. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. to deletion: I checked the 35 templates for usage before deleting them, per standard procedure, and found that there was only 1 single use of 1 template except within the templates themselves. The one exception was the use of   by Farbartus on my talk page, and he didn't use it correctly. (He clearly thought it was supposed to refer somehow to the Meta-Wiki project, but it actually just provided Wikipedia's main article on the term "meta", which has no connection to the project. I confirmed that this is how w:Template:W2 is supposed to work, so the guy who ported it used it without even understanding what it's supposed to do.) This only strengthens my point below about needless cross-project copying. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete all. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all. ~ UDScott 16:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. With the vfd message being transcluded everywhere it is indeed difficult to understand what's going on.  (At least one of these was created by Robert, not by User:Fabartus, by the way.)  These templates comprise some utility functions, some text strings used to control other templates, and a bunch of templates common to most if not all all sister wikis.  Several of the templates are simply used for interwiki links in the template namespace.  121a0012 17:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Template:Tlx; move Template:Tl/doc to Template talk:Tl and clean up; delete the rest. 121a0012 03:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: I have withdrawn the nomination of Template:!. It seems like I was a little overzealous in my nominating earlier. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Undecided for now. [See below for my revised vote.] This is a complicated issue. Fabartus has already shown a desire to copy the most trivial templates between projects, regardless of whether they're needed, and the first template I checked in this list, Template:Interwikigrps-see also, doesn't even exist yet on WP, never mind being used. On the other hand, at least one template, Template:Indent, is in use (in a very obscure manner) on WP. I believe we need to throughly investigate what each of these templates is trying to accomplish, and whether they're actually being used by someone other than Fabartus. My general belief is that Wikiquote editing is challenging enough for our editors without introducing a slew of special-effects templates without a compelling reason, and cross-project standardization is not worth the added burden alone, because it's the hundreds of non-frequent editors who will suffer for it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:35, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * In looking at the "What links here" for these templates, I didn't notice any links outside of the Template: namespace, and while I didn't carefully study all the links, it didn't appear that any of them were being used by any templates outside of these ones (the so-called walled garden, in one sense of the term). While indent may have found a use on Wikipedia, it doesn't seem like it would be relevant to here, where we do not often (if at all) need to be able to indent text in a way that's not already provided by Wiki and/or HTML syntax (and indent would not help with the latter). —LrdChaos (talk) 20:50, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Comment: I have created a new VfD template, vfd-template, which may be used for VfD-tagging templates so that a relatively discreet and more informative alert appears on the page transclusing the candidate template. (It's adapted from the Wikipedia Template:Tfd-inline.) Although it still causes some disruption to the using page (quite a bit for the massive set of interlocking template dependencies listed here), it's much less intrusive than the standard vfd tag, and also includes the name of the trancluded template, so readers actually known which "page" is nominated for deletion. Hopefully it will also make it a bit easier to see what the intent is of all these new templates under deletion consideration. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Note: I have extended this nomination for another week, as no clear consensus has been reached and there's still one undecided vote that may change. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:40, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Here is a discussion, posted to my talk page by User:Fabartus under the heading "Xpost fm en.WP-- belated answer" in response to a requested I'd posted on his Wikipedia talk page, that sheds some light on this situation. I have posted it here between half-width horizontal lines but without any additional markup denoting copying because its use of templates for simple wiki elements is particularly illustrative. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:07, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

 * from
 * re: I'm posting a note here about this issue because you don't seem to be monitoring your en:Wikiquote account or any of your template creations there. Several dozen of your templates have been nominated for deletion. Their purpose is not adequately explained, a casual inspection doesn't make clear what need there is for them, and their creator's entire Wikiquote activity seems to be copying this material from other projects. That combination of unused infrastructure creation and lack of general quote activity usually begs deletion on Wikiquote. I admit I'm reluctant to spend the time I suspect is necessary to analyze these templates without any support from their creator. Could you at least supply us with some rationale for their existence, and pointers to where this cross-project effort is being discussed? Thank you for your assistance. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm totally swamped in RL so any and all wiki's, and even email are going unlooked at the moment. Do what you will. However, the benefit of cross-linking the newer sister's and bringing in common tools and some common 'tool' categories is and should be self-evident—it empowers the greater pool of editors in the large 800# sister to make meaningful contribs with minimal learning curves if familiar tools are available.

Admittedly, many tools in some of the wiki's are less important— when category and template analysis and management are small side tasks (Wikinews and Wikiquote being most applicable there), but the infrastructrure and interwiki linking is hardly adversely affecting anything. When in doubt, if something seems 'broken', import the new version from en.wikipedia. I'd planned on completing the evolution and documenting the newer simpler system the end of last month, and BAM, life intruded.

When I next have time to wrap my head about the problem(s) [it is a system after all], I'll be writing it up on, as I've also been asked to bring it up to the communications committee there for possible interlanguage adaption, I presume. Adverse reactions have been nil, save for a capitalization clash on wiktionary—their naming conventions favor the lowercase form.

Any examination of the merits of the system templates themselves should be to look at the Wikipedia versions, as I'm certain the versions off Wikipedia are (mostly) a version behind—there was a major revision/upgrade last time I worked them. System elements are identified in by being offset/sorted under '!'.

If you'd be so kind, drop me a status report if things get torn up. I don't have the time now to do wikitalk infighting. Thanks for the heads up! (Crosspost: )

Thanks! // Fra nkB   15:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete all. The above discussion alarms me for several reasons:
 * It shows that the person adding all this infrastructure doesn't have the time to explain it properly, leaving Wikiquote editors (even sysops) unaware of its purposes.
 * It attempts to justify making editing on other projects slightly easier for Wikipedia editors with so much experience that they freely toss around templates without bothering to see if they're actually implemented. This is exactly the wrong attitude that wiki experts should be taking. It is the people with less experience who we should try to help. Adding complex interconnected templates to save people trivial typing (like posting a link to a cross-project talk page) is actually a barrier to participation, because it subverts a key unwritten principle of Wikimedia editing: that new editors can learn how things work by examining how experts do it. Taking the "xpost" talk page example, " ", to a new editor, is rather less clear than " my wp talk ", especially when each component of the latter appears not only in other links (the " talk" convention, the colon separating namespace components, the link label separated by a pipe character) but also in the resulting page's title ("User talk:Fabartus"). Template markup, on the other hand, requires a knowledge of what each of the incredibly flexible templates is designed to accomplish, and the functions of their components vary considerably between templates.
 * Worse yet, the very convenience of changing templates to fit evolving needs makes it possible for these uses to be broken without notice. We can be far surer that "w:User talk:USERNAME" will work in the future than we can that " " won't undergo radical evolution or replacement. If the developers decide to change the former, the onus is on them to fix the problems. It's on us ordinary editors for convenience templates (as we've just demonstrated with the conversion of the VfD templates, something even most of our sysops wouldn't want to have tackled).
 * Finally, these templates needlessly use transclusion for trivial actions, like cross-project links. Templates are a great feature, so their incremental load can be justified when they provide a significant function, like making it possible to change formats of citations or collecting all pages in a maintenance category. But sprinkling them throughout basic wiki posts is absurd and unnecessary. The same effects can be accomplished by expert editors, without any server load and without confusing less experienced editors, using readily available JavaScript wiki tools or macros in text editors, something many of these experts are also familiar with. (Even if they aren't, it's a lot more reasonable to put the responsibility of learning these expert tools on the experts than it is to force newer editors to learn incredibly complex techniques to understand the content of posts from expert editors.)
 * In summary, I am against the creation of server-loading templates for the convenience of experts but the detriment to new editors, especially when their creators and users can't be bothered to integrate them fully, explain them for others, consider the maintenance issues they create, or demonstrate awareness of any of these problems. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did in adding Mark futterman, which has now been deleted. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. ~ UDScott 15:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:205.188.116.195

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did by adding Joe Webb. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. ~ UDScott 16:46, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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William G. Boykin

William G. "Jerry" Boykin (born April 19, 1948) was the United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2007 and retired general officer. During his 36-year career in the military he spent 13 years in the Delta Force and was involved in numerous high-profile missions, including the 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt, the 1992 hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia, and the Black Hawk Down incident in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is an author and teaches at Hampden–Sydney College, Virginia. He is currently executive vice president at the Family Research Council.

Quotes

 * I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
 * Remarks on the war on terror US is 'battling Satan' says general (17 October 2003)

 * Well, is he [ bin Laden ] the enemy? Next slide. Or is this man [ Saddam ] the enemy? The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He’s called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.”
 * Speech at a First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Florida General who voiced his faith cleared on major accusations, June 2003.

 * They’re after us because we’re a Christian nation.
 * NBC News, June 2003.

 * Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.
 * atheism.about.com, 2003.

 * George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.
 * Regarding President George W. Bush, "Culture War: The American Taliban",

 * Three days later we went after him again, and this time we got him. Not a mark on him. We got him. We brought him back into our base there and we had a Sea Land container set up to hold prisoners in, and I said put him in there. They put him in there, there was one guard with him. I said search him, they searched him, and then I walked in with no one in there but the guard, and I looked at him and said, "Are you Osman Atto?" And he said "Yes." And I said, "Mr. Atto, you underestimated our God."
 * Web Archives: Homestead.co, "General Boykin Bio", Jan, 2003.

Never Surrender (2008)

 * Terrorists strike like lightning- hard, fast, and without warning.
 * p. 94

 * The left can scream all it wants that the war on terror is about oil or American imperialism or George W. Bush's personal amusement. That if we weren't such big, bad bullies, the poor third world jihadists wouldn't have attacked us, and the French would like us better. But we are not the bad guys. Our motto is life and liberty. The jihadists' motto is convert or die. And no matter how much the PC crowd would like to deny it, the inalienable right to liberty that America is fighting for is part of the Judeo-Christian heritage that is the bedrock of our nation. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, the right to liberty comes from outside us, planted in our hearts by our Creator, making it not merely an American ideal, but a human ideal. America is a melting-pot society. We speak many languages, and respect many cultures and religions. But every man, woman and child deserves the freedom endowed by their creator. That's why America's cause is just. That's why we're the good guys. And that's why we will never surrender.
 * p. 350

Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020)

 * I grew up under the leadership and tutelage of a real man who taught me about respect for the flag, pride in being an American, and expecting only opportunity from this great nation. He was so proud of my brother and me because we chose to serve in the U.S. Army. My sister was married to an Army officer as well, and my dad saw his dreams for his children fulfilled as we all served in some measure. It was important to him for us to carry on with the tradition of military service. I had no choice but to love America and to show that love by serving. If you were a male in the Boykin family and carried the family name, you were expected to serve. Two of my sons followed that tradition and joined the Army. I am so proud of them. The point here is that being a man is not about education level, physical strength, annual salary, or good looks. Rather, it is about character and demonstrated values. I was blessed to be raised by a real man who taught me a great deal about life. A man who set a great example who invested in me with his time and energy. This book is not about Cecil, but I would not be writing it if it weren't for him and the influence he had on my life.
 * p. xxiii

 * Cecil's habit of providing for others wasn't limited to his immediate family. One day he got word his best friend had lost his home in a fire. At that time Cecil was struggling to pay his own bills. But that didn't stop him: he cut corners and scraped together whatever he could. And he gave his friend all the cash he could find. I remember that day- as he handed the cash to his friend- because it looked like so much money to me at the time. I would guess it was no more than a hundred dollars in various denominations of bills, but to an eight-year-old it looked like a fortune. It left a powerful impression on me and just deepened my respect and admiration for him over the years. Throughout my life my father exhibited many examples for me to follow concerning the responsibility a man has to care for those he loves and for those who are in need. My father firmly believed it wasn't the U.S. government's responsibility to take care of his parents, his children, friends, or his neighbors. In fact, in his view, it was his role as an American who loved his country to provide for others as much as possible.
 * p. 3

 * A man provides leadership. A man provides direction, caution, and advice to others. A man provides emotional and spiritual support. A man provides stability and order. A man provides companionship and good company. A man provides identity. A man provides an example. All of these things require personal sacrifices of time, dedication, and effort. And from where does the strength and inspiration for that come? Or, in other words, what is worth living for, sacrificing for, and even dying for?
 * p. 5

 * In 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, I was the Delta Force commander during the events most commonly referred to as "Black Hawk Down." Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in the city of five million people, where most of those people were starving refugees. Within thirty minutes of the first chopper being shot down, the second one was shot down. When the first chopper went down I sent every one of my soldiers who were already fighting in the city to go rescue the crew and passengers of the first crash. I was left with few options when the second helo went down over a mile away from the first crash. I had to pull together a second rescue effort using those soldiers, sailors, and airmen who were left in the base- many of whom were not combat arms specialties (they were clerks, mechanics, communicators, and supply people). To their credit, every man was eager to be part of the effort to rescue their brothers at the second crash site.
 * p. 5-6

 * Two of the Delta Force snipers, Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon, watched the second Black Hawk go down from their position in another helo. The Black Hawk helicopter carrying Shughart and Gordon was being used as an airborne sniper platform. They radioed immediately to inform us the crew in the second crash was alive but injured and it appeared they could not get themselves out of their seats. They reported, "Their backs are probably broken. Put us in and we can get them out." The answer was immediate. "We can't send you in because we have nobody to support you with. You would be going into a hornet's nest since everybody's at the first crash site. Stay above them and keep shooting- take out as many Somalis as you can." They did. But they called back in less than thirty minutes and said, "There are too many Somalis coming in. You've got to put us on the ground!" The answer was "No" for the second time. The third time they called, they sounded both adamant and desperate. "We're the only hope; put us in." It was important to question their situational awareness regarding what was happening. Did they fully understand the risks? They reported that they were well aware of what they were going into since they were watching it unfold from their perch in the help. "Yes, put us in." They went in. And they fought valiantly, but both gave their lives to save one of their own. The lone survivor from the crash told us the incredible story of Randy and Gordy, which became the narrative for the recommendations of Medals of Honor for both men.
 * p. 6-7

 * I had the honor of standing in the West Wing of the White House as the U.S. president presented the medals to the widows and families of those two incredible warriors. There is no question those two men knew they were putting their lives on the line by going into that chaotic scene. Their request was denied twice. Yet they still asked to go in. Why? The answer is because they had a transcendent cause. And what was that transcendent cause? In their case, it was part of the fifth stanza of the Ranger Creed: "Never shall I leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy. Those two men lived and died by it. That promise to their fellow soldiers was their transcendent cause. Maybe we'd like to think it was the American flag or the U.S. Constitution or the oath they took to defend that Constitution. But, no, when you get to that level of combat, it's all about the guy on your right and the guy on your left. And your transcendent cause is the commitment you've made to each other. It's just part of who you are and what you do. You know he's not going to fail you and leave you. And he knows the same about you.
 * p. 8-9

 * We fought an eighteen-hour battle that day. Most people don't realize this, but we were fighting over two of our dead comrades- the pilot and co-pilot. And we took more casualties because we refused to leave them behind. We couldn't get those two bodies extracted from that helicopter, and we were not going to leave the remains of our two men behind. We were fighting over dead bodies. But, to us, it didn't matter. Alive or dead, they were our comrades and they were coming out with us. We knew they would have been there for us were the roles reversed. When Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon made that third request to go down into the street, they knew there wasn't much chance they would come out alive. That's a transcendent cause. And so was recovering the bodies of the others who died. The question for today is this- have we assessed our lives to determine who and what it is that's worth living and dying for? One can be part of today's "give me" generation or one can be part of "I'll give to you." Shughart and Gordon were givers- not takers. And they gave their lives. But they gave their lives because they had a transcendent cause. Their cause was- at the tactical level- the same for every warrior who's ever been on the battlefield: the guy behind you, in front of you, and on your right and left.
 * p. 9

 * Even in everyday life, something bigger, deeper, and more important than self-satisfaction needs to be inside us. Having a transcendent cause is not just some vague idea in the back of our minds, something we'll hang onto just in case of a crisis or a battle. No, it has to be there day in and day out. Our lives should reflect our commitment to that cause. One example of this may be as simple as your faithfulness to some uninteresting and seemingly unrewarding job- simply because you've got to bring home a check- and not giving up on it.
 * p. 13

 * A few Christian men I've met seem to think they are somehow robbed of their manhood if their wife has a job, and it's even worse if she has a serious career of her own. That's a foolish attitude. At the same time, what is even worse is a man whose wife is compelled to work because her husband refused to get a job.
 * p. 17

 * In every case, here's the challenging bottom line: practicing tough love is- without question- toughest on the man who loves the most.
 * p. 99

 * Talk through options and offer suggestions. Don't ignore an obvious problem in your family life and in your marriage.
 * p. 103

 * Big talkers have a greater tendency to compromise you than the string, silent types who aren't so eager to transmit the latest insider gossip. You have to think about those characteristics.
 * p. 118

 * Most of us have managed to hang on to a few good friends. They may not be battle buddies, but they've found a way to stay in our lives, and we're in theirs for the long haul. When that's the case, we have certain responsibilities to them. Sometimes we have the pleasure of applauding their accomplishments or sharing happy occasions with them. But, when necessary, we also owe it to them to be truth-tellers. And we have to hope they'll be equally straightforward with us.
 * p. 119

 * Some men can become increasingly self-indulgent and you notice over time they're spending more and more money on personal pastimes. They always want the very best gear available to enhance their hobby. Fishing. Golf. Hunting. Photography. Collecting fossils. Whatever it is, once they've bought every gadget or artifact they can possibly find, they move on to the next diversion, and on it goes. Before long, your friend- or your friend's wife- is trying to figure out how to pay the bills by month's end. Of course, you can't always stop somebody from making foolish mistakes and choices, but as a friend, you really do have a responsibility to try. You may be able to protect a very good friend from making a very bad life decision, and you've got to hope someday he'll find the courage to do the same for you.
 * p. 121-122

 * We also need to be encouragers to our friends. Some of them have hopes and dreams, yet although they've prayed and watched and waited, there's been no answer from above. I think most of us want instant gratification. We even want it in our walk with Christ. Sometimes we get quick and miraculous answers to our prayers. The more typical story is one of persistence and steadfastness; pray, watch, and wait. Do you remember the story of Elijah? He was up on Mount Carmel waiting for God to send the rain He'd promised. Elijah told his servant, "Go look. Do you see any rain clouds?" His servant came back to him six times and said, "Nope." Elijah sent him out yet again. That time the servant came back and said, "Well, yeah. I did see a cloud the size of a man's fist..." After seven tries, the rain was finally on its way.
 * p. 123

Quotes about Boykin

 * General Boykin spent over thirty-six years in the United States Army. He is a man's man. His last duty was at the Pentagon as the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. He has played a role in almost every major American military operation over the last four decades, serving in Grenada, Somalia, and Iraq. From 1978-1993 he was assigned in various capacities to Delta Force. Not only was he a founding member of the Delta Force, he has also led Green Berets and other special operations units many times. Among his many successful operations was one in October of 1983- the beginning of the end of the Soviet Communist regime. A major at the time, General Boykin worked as an operations officer during Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada. During a dawn assault to free government officials, held by the Marxist People's Revolutionary Army, he was shot in the arm with a fifty-caliber round, splitting his bone completely in two. He was told he would never use his arm again, but God had the final say and today you would never even know he was injured. His citations for valor are too numerous to list.
 * Tony Perkins, Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020) by William G. Boykin, p. xii

 * God has had His hand on this man from start to finish and He is not finished with him yet. General Boykin is an author, an ordained minister, a professor, a decorated war hero for which he has my most profound respect and admiration. His courage and commitment to the truth extend beyond the physical field of battle. He not only has been willing to lay down his life for his country, he has been willing to lay down his life for his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and his reputation to serve Him. General Boykin will not shut up; he will not back up; he will not give up. He is a hero among heroes. He is the kind of man I want by my side in the spiritual war that is raging in America today.
 * Tony Perkins, Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020) by William G. Boykin, p. xiii

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In & Out

In & Out is a 1997 film about a midwestern teacher who questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
 * Directed by Frank Oz. Written by Paul Rudnick.

An out-and-out comedy.

Howard Brackett

 * Class: so, uh, where were we? Romantic poetry. Shakespeare. Talented. English. Dead.
 * This is my Peter - uh, my friend Peter. We just met at the, uh, intersexual... homosection... INTERSECTION!
 * I just came out! At my wedding!

Emily Montgomery

 * I need a heterosexual male, CODE RED!
 * Is everybody gay? Is this a Twilight Zone?

Voice on "How To Be a Man" tape

 * Excuse me, are we a little teapot?
 * For God's sake, don't shake that booty!
 * Think of John Wayne, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold doesn't dance, he can hardly walk.
 * Truly manly men do NOT dance.
 * Well, how did you do... prissy boy?

Others

 * Glenn Close: [at the Academy Awards] This is Cameron's first nomination and he's in extremely good company. Tonight he joins fellow best actor nominee Paul Newman for "Coot", Clint Eastwood for "Codger", Michael Douglas for "Primary Urges" and Steven Seagal for "Snowball in Hell".
 * Cameron: Maybe I should thank someone else. Someone who's really been there, someone who taught me a lot, about poetry and Shakespeare, and just, y'know, stayin' awake, man. Someone who's just an overall great guy, a great teacher... to Howard Brackett from Greenleaf, Indiana! And he's gay. Y'know, I've been thinking alot about this night, and I've decided to dedicate this whole night to a great, gay teacher. Mr. Brackett, WE WON!
 * Frank Brackett: [about Cameron] He used to mow our lawn. Never again.
 * Peter Malloy: A teacher in trouble. A town under siege. A journey to the heartland. Stay tuned.
 * Berniece: I need that wedding. I need some beauty and some music and some placecards before I die. It's like heroin.
 * Reporter: Should gays be allowed to handle fresh produce?
 * Sonja: I don't have time. I promised to do that photo shoot this afternoon. I have to shower and vomit!
 * Ava Blazer: [after one of the girls announces that she's gay] You can't be gay! You're a tramp!

Dialogue

 * Howard: I may sue!
 * Frank Brackett: Get Johnny Cochrane, not that woman!

 * Howard: He may be under the influence of something. He may have joined a cult!
 * Frank Brackett: That little zombie.

 * Peter: Look, everyone wants to talk to Diane Sawyer or Joan London, and my network's killing me. They want me blond!
 * Howard: With your coloring?

 * Jack: There's only two times when that kind of thing's okay: In prison where it's a substitute and guys in space.
 * Mike: Guys in space?
 * Jack: Well, not on purpose. They just float into each other.

 * Peter: What was Barbara Streisand's eighth album?
 * Howard: Color Me Barbra.
 * Peter: Stud!
 * Howard: Everybody knows that!
 * Peter: Everybody where? The little gay bar on the prairie?

 * Voice on tape: Now, repeat after me: "Yo!"
 * Howard: Yo!
 * Voice on tape: Hot damn!
 * Howard: Hot damn!
 * Voice on tape: What a fabulous window treatment!
 * Howard: What a fabu...
 * Voice on tape: That was a trick!

 * Howard: [at confession, about "a friend"] He's just never had a physical relationship with her.
 * Father Tim: Never? In three years?
 * Howard: He respects her.
 * Father Tim: He's gay!

 * Jennifer the Flower Girl: My mom says it won't last.
 * Berniece: Your mom's an alcoholic.

 * Emily: Does anybody here know how many times I had to watch Funny Lady?
 * Howard: It was a sequel. She was under contract.
 * Emily: Fuck Barbra Streisand, and you!

 * Peter: One day I just clicked. I said: "Mom, dad, Sparky, I'm gay."
 * Howard: So what happened?
 * Peter: My mom cried, for exactly 10 seconds, my boss said: "Who cares?", and my dad said: "But you're so tall...!".

 * Cameron: Eat something, I'm begging you! You look like a swizzle stick.
 * Sonja: Food?

 * Emily: I've seen all your movies.
 * Cameron: Both of them?

 * Walter Brackett: I'm a member of the community. And I'm gay.
 * Tom Halliwell: But you're Howard's brother. [pause] As you know.

Cast

 * Kevin Kline - Howard Brackett
 * Joan Cusack - Emily Montgomery
 * Tom Selleck - Peter Malloy
 * Matt Dillon - Cameron Drake
 * Debbie Reynolds - Berniece Brackett
 * Wilford Brimley - Frank Brackett
 * Bob Newhart - Tom Halliwell
 * Gregory Jbara - Walter Brackett
 * Shalom Harlow - Sonya
 * Shawn Hatosy - Jack
 * Zak Orth - Mike
 * Lauren Ambrose - Vicky
 * Alexandra Holden - Meredith

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Broken Arrow (1996 film)

Broken Arrow is a 1996 action film where terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the US military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.
 * ''Directed by John Woo. Written by Graham Yost.

Prepare to Go Ballistic taglines

Major Vic Deakins

 * I do appreciate the money that you and your associates have invested in this operation, but it is an operation. It's a military operation. And you don't know dick about that. I've been in the military for 20 years. I planned and flew over 100 missions in the Gulf. I put these boys together because they are highly trained, and they are motivated like me. This is what I do, Mr. Pritchett! And this is battle. Battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. One thing you don't do is share command. It's never a good idea.

Dialogue

 * [on whether to disclose the loss of a stealth bomber]
 * Secretary Baird: "The U.S. Air Force regrets to announce that a C-141 cargo plane went down over the Utah desert... the status of the crew have yet to be determined, yaddah yaddah yaddah..." Well, that's very nice bullshit, Rick.
 * Giles Prentice: Wait. We're making a mistake.
 * Secretary Baird: Giles? You have something you wish to share with us?
 * Prentice: Yes. Aviation Week has been following the development of the B3 for years. They have "stringers" - guys camping out in lawn chairs all night by the Whiteman perimeter fence- watching just in case one of these things take off. They're gonna know that one took off last night, and they're gonna know that it didn't come back. Now, we put out a press-release saying a C141 went down in Utah, they're going to put two and two together, Aviation Week is going to run a story, everyone's gonna know what really happened, and we're all going to look extremely... stupid. We're better off just telling the truth.
 * Baird: The truth? How'd you get this job? [The officers and officials in the room laugh. Baird speaks to an aide.] Write it down, like Giles said.
 * [After the meeting.]
 * Baird: "Guys in lawn chairs"... I don't know, Giles. Sometimes you scare me.
 * Prentice: Hell, sir. Sometimes I scare myself.

 * Riley Hale: I don't think that Aurora Project is gonna happen for me. I spoke to your buddy Taylor; he doesn't feel like I have enough fighter time to qualify.
 * Vic Deakins: And what did you say to him?
 * Hale: 'Thank you very much, sir, goodbye.'
 * Deakins: You'll never change, will you? And that, my friend, will be your downfall.
 * Hale: You know what your problem is?
 * Deakins: Yeah. I'm always right.
 * Hale: You think you're always right.
 * Deakins: That's deep.
 * Hale: You said so yourself- you should have made colonel by now, but you're too busy pushing at everybody all the time.
 * Deakins: Well. That's an awesome responsibility, isn't it?

 * Riley Hale: You're out of your mind.
 * Vic Deakins: Yeah. Ain't it cool?
 * Hale: I'm serious, Deak, your mind has taken a walk off the map.
 * Deakins: Maybe. But I'm still gonna kick your ass.

 * [Deakins has just activated the nuke]
 * Kelly: Shut that son of a bitch down. Now! I didn't sign up for this. I'm not ready to die, not for you.
 * Vic Deakins: Everybody dies, Kelly. I'm as good a reason as any.

 * Pritchett: It's still my money.
 * Vic Deakins: And if we succeed, you and your associates will get a ton of it.
 * Pritchett: If we're successful?
 * Deakins: Look, Mr. Pritchett, I will deliver the weapons to the destination. But I can't depend and I can't guarantee that those assholes in Washington won't do something stupid like... not pay.
 * Pritchett: What if they don't?
 * Deakins: Well, if they don't, the Southwest will be a quiet neighborhood for... about ten thousand years.

 * [A tunnel cave-in in the mine has separated Hale and Deakins]
 * Riley Hale: So that's what this is all about, huh? The money?
 * Vic Deakins: [Laughs] Yeah.
 * Hale: Bullshit.
 * Deakins: Well, you tell me why. Go ahead. You tell me why.
 * Hale: Because you've been passed over for promotion so many times, you want to show the bastards you're right. Maybe it's 'cause everybody's cashing out so why the hell not you? I don't know. Maybe-maybe your mother dropped you on your head when you were a baby. I mean, who the hell cares, Deak? I mean, there's no difference between you and a guy who shoots up a schoolyard. You've both got a head full of bad wiring.
 * Deakins: [Edging closer] What was that?
 * Hale: You're fucked in the head, Deak!
 * [Deakins fires wildly at Hale but fails to hit him]
 * Deakins: HA!
 * Hale: I pissed him off.

 * Vic Deakins: Hale. Pick up. Pick UP! [Hale spins around, looking at the phone Deakins is speaking through] C'mon buddy - pick up the 'phone.
 * Riley Hale: "Buddy," huh? Son of a bitch, you tried to kill me. The friendship is over.
 * Deakins: Well, that doesn't mean I don't like you. Hell - I'm impressed. I'd have figured you'd have picked up and walked off by now.
 * Hale: Yeah? Well, you figured wrong. Now I've got the nukes. Guess what, Deak? I'm gonna deactivate 'em. [begins punching random keys on the bomb's keypad, beeping is heard through Deakins' end of the line] You hear that? That's me punching in the wrong codes. Pretty soon these things are gonna be absolutely useless. Might as well turn around and drive away.
 * Deakins: [Mockingly] Outstanding, Hale! That's the spirit! Damn, I'm totally screwed now. Unless of course I already thought of that ahead of time. [The bomb arms] Didn't work, did it? I used uncoded circuit boards. You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. Setting off a nuke in this mine has been part of my plan from day one. Otherwise some D.C. civilian might say, I haven't got the guts.
 * Hale: Fuck!
 * Terry Carmichael: He's insane.
 * Deakins: You know, Hale, I considered bringing you in on this. You know why I didn't?
 * Hale: Because I would have said "no"?
 * Deakins: Nah, if you'd said "no" I'd have just killed you; I was afraid that you were going to say "yes"! 'Cause you don't have the balls to follow through with something like this, we both know that.

 * [last lines]
 * Riley Hale: My name's Riley Hale.
 * Terry Carmichael: Terry Carmichael. You know you're still under arrest, Captain.
 * Hale: [holding Terry's hand] Well, looks like you're gonna have to take me in.

Cast

 * John Travolta — Maj. Vic 'Deak' Deakins
 * Christian Slater — Capt. Riley Hale
 * Samantha Mathis — Terry Carmichael
 * Delroy Lindo — Colonel Max Wilkins
 * Bob Gunton — Pritchett
 * Howie Long — Sgt. Kelly

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Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious (May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979), born John Simon Ritchie-Beverly, was an English punk-rock musician who was bass player for the Sex Pistols.

Quotes

 * I'm not vicious really. I consider myself kind-hearted. I love my mum.
 * Daily Mirror (11 June 1977), as reported in Fred Vermorel, Judy Vermorel, Sex Pistols: The Inside Story (1987), p. 169.

 * I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
 * Daily Mirror, (11 June 1977), as reported in Fred Vermorel, Judy Vermorel, Sex Pistols: The Inside Story (1987), p. 169.

 * Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think.
 * Reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 104.

 * American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.
 * Reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.

 * The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
 * On leaving the Sex Pistols; reported in Julien Temple, The Filth and the Fury: The Sex Pistols (2000), p. 207.

 * You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music.
 * Reported in Jon Savage, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (2001), p. 220.

 * We had a death pact. I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motor cycle boots. Goodbye.
 * Reported in George Gimarc, Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982 (2005), p. 183.

 * All I did was cash in on the fact that I'm good-looking and I have a good figure and girls like me.
 * Reported in Stephen Colegrave, Chris Sullivan, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution (2005), p. 306.

 * I'm not chic, I could never be chic. I was in it from its inception.
 * Reported in Stephen Colegrave, Chris Sullivan, Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution (2005), p. 306.

 * Like Johnny Gonzales said, "I wanna live till I die".
 * Reported in the track 'From Beyond The Grave' from the interview album w:Some Product: Carri On Sex Pistols (1979). While I Wanna Live Till I Die is a real song recorded by Frank Sinatra, there is no such singer as Johnny Gonzales that has recorded it.

About Sid Vicious

 * Everybody wanted to be with Sid, but unfortunately he came with Nancy. She was unbelievably thick-skinned, one of the most unlikable people I've met. Everybody could see through her, except Sid.
 * Jordan

 * As soon as (Sid) realised how much everyone hated Nancy, man, he stuck to her like a stamp to a letter. That´s why he was called "Sid": he hated the name Sid, so everyone called him Sid. That´s what that whole scene was about. But when we got fucked up, he got very violent actually. He was shooting speed before he met Nancy, and when she got him into dope it was a very easy switch to make; then it was all over for him. He`d never been with a woman before, where she had that kind of control over him... Nancy was an opportunist. I'm not even going to say whether I liked her or not, but she had a negative effect on Sid and he didn't need that.
 * Chrissie Hynde

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John Pomfret

John Pomfret (1667 – 1702) was an English poet and clergyman.

Quotes

 * Wine whets the wit, improves its native force…
 * The Choice.

 * We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
 * Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Compare: " Bless the hand that gave the blow", John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act ii. Sc. 1.

 * Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes.
 * Verses to his Friend under Affliction.

 * We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
 * Reason: A Poem, 1700.

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Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is a British comic book and science fiction writer.

First & Only

 * Narration: Their gaze met for a few seconds. The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.
 * Commissar-General Delane Oktar: Winning is everything, but the trick is to know where the winning really is.... We're political animals, Ibram. Through us, if we do our job properly, the black and white of war is tempered. We are the interpreters of combat, the translators. We give meaning to war, subtlety, purpose even. Killing is the most abhorrent, mindless profession known to man. Our role is to fashion the killing machine of the human species into a positive force. For the Emperor's sake. For the sake of our own consciences.
 * Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt: Give any man the power of a god, and you better hope he's got the wisdom and morals of a god to match. There's nothing feeble about my moral line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I mourn every man I lose and every sacrifice I make. One life or a billion, they're all lives.

In Remembrance (2005)

 * Real truth was out there in the shattered outhabs of Vervun hive. Real truth was waiting and silence, courage and stealth. Real truth was the ability to function in extremes. To fire a cannon and miss and try again. To fix a silver blade to the end of a las-weapon and leap from safety into a shroud of smoke, prepared as you did so to really use that makeshift spear. Real truth was a tiny hole in a man's forehead.

Xenos

 * Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn: All my life, I have had a reputation for being cold, unfeeling. Some have called me heartless, ruthless, even cruel. I am not. I am not beyond emotional response or compassion. But I possess - and my masters count this as perhaps my paramount virtue - a singular force of will. Throughout my career it has served me well to draw on this facility and steel myself, unflinching, at all that this wretched galaxy can throw at me. To feel pain or fear or grief is to allow myself a luxury I cannot afford.
 * Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn: If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

title: Dan Abnett