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DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow (born June 29, 1972) is a prominent musical producer and turntablist. He is most noted for his experimental and abstract style of hip-hop as well as his insightful outlook on his profession and the hip-hop scene. DJ Shadow's first full length album, Endtroducing....., is featured in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the "First Completely Sampled Album".

From the documentary Scratch

 * "Being a DJ, I take the art of digging seriously...it has almost a karmic element of, 'I was meant to find this on top.' or, 'I was meant to pull this out because it works so well with this.' So it has a lot of meaning for me personally."

On Sampling

 * "Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it."

 * "Producers like Organized Noize mix samples and live instruments really well, but for me, it almost feels like a cop-out, because I'm a collage artist. It's like, 'Damn, if only I could find this one part. Well, maybe if I just had somebody paint it, and then I'll put it out.' That almost feels like cheating. Lots of times, I have trouble finding bass lines, because it's not very often on a record that there are good open bass lines. Sometimes I wish I could just have somebody come in and do what I want him to do on a bass line. It would be so easy. But what I do just keeps things much more challenging, I guess."

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Talk:NCIS (TV series)

Come On People...
Lets get some quotes on here...I'm averaging about two episodes a night of adding quotes, so by like...August i'll be caught up! Batman2005 03:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Also need a comprehensive place to list THE RULES, up to 51 plun "the unspoken rule".

Minimum Security (1.8)
It says that Paula Cassidy was undercover as a bar owner, but she never was, at least that's not the impression I got. I have the episode on DVD, so I'll re-watch it later to double check, but for now, I just commented out the section.

The Boneyard (2.5)
Thanks to whoever put up the paternity test exchange with Kate and Tony. I was going to do that myself when I had time. I.M.Fearless

Copyright Cleanup Project
I'm a big long-time NCIS fan, so was disappointed to see it flagged for copyright. If any Copyright Cleanup Project volunteer editors see this, I'm already working on trimming the quotes down so that not too many fan-favorite lines are chopped! For those unfamiliar, please see Limits on quotations for more information. Thank you! NougatCat 12:17, 22 September 2010

Long Article
9th Longest article on wikiquote. Trim, split or both? The limit for this series should be 5 quotes per episode. Soph (talk) 21:39, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Robert Maynard Hutchins

Robert Maynard Hutchins (17 January 1899 – 17 May 1977) was an educational philosopher, a president (1929–1945) of the University of Chicago and its chancellor (1945–1951).

 * Many colleges of liberal arts and the researches of many scholars in the humanities and the social studies are important only to those whose livelihood depends upon them.
 * In: The Great Conversation (1952), p.56

Address to the University of Chicago graduating class of 1929

 * Journal of Education, Volume 109, Page 17

 * My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a  hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts,  theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make  them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to  think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.

Education for Freedom (1943)

 * Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943
 * (N.B. The preface of the book indicates that most of it was based on his address for the Edward Douglas White lectures at the Louisiana State University in April, 1941. )

 * Now what I want to know is why I should have had to wait until age forty-three to get an education somewhat worse than that which any sophomore ought to have. The liberal arts are the arts of freedom. To be free a man must understand the tradition in which he lives. A great book is one which yields up through the liberal arts a clear and important understanding of our tradition. An education which consisted of the liberal arts as understood through great books and of great books understood through the liberal arts would be one and the only one which would enable us to comprehend the tradition in which we live. It must follow that if we want to educate our students for freedom, we must educate them in the liberal arts and in the great books. And this education we must give them, not by the age of forty-three, but by the time they are eighteen, or at the latest twenty.
 * p. 14

 * We know now that mechanical and technical progress is not identical with civilization. We must conclude, in fact, that our faith that technology will take the place of justice has been naive. Technology supplies the goods we want, for material goods are indubitably goods. Technology can give us bigger, brighter, faster, and cheaper automobiles. It cannot tell us who ought to have them, or how many, or where they should go. The notion that a just and equitable distribution of goods will be achieved by the advance of technology or that by its aid we shall put material goods in their proper relation to all others is reduced to absurdity by the coincidence of the zenith of technology and the nadir of moral and political life.
 * p. 40

 * The degree now has little significance in terms of education. It is the recognition accorded a person who has passed through an eight-year elementary school, a four-year high school, and a four-year college. These institutions are regarded as fixed and immutable, to be eternally crowned by the bachelor’s degree. What goes on in them is not important. The degree does not stand for education; it stands for a certain number of years in educational institutions, and this is not the same thing.
 * p. 67

 * We do not seem to get very far by talking about democracy. We know that Germany is not one. She says so. We know that Russia is not one, though Stalin says she is one. We are not sure about some elements in the government of England and France. We are not altogether sure about this country. The reason is, of course, that we do not know what a democracy is or grasp the fundamental notions on which it rests. [...] Is democracy a good form of government? Is the United States a democracy? If we are to prepare to defend democracy we must be able to answer these questions. I repeat that our ability to answer them is much more important than the quantity or quality of aeroplanes, bombs, tanks, flame-throwers, and miscellaneous munitions that we can hurl at the enemy.
 * pp. 80-81

 * It is doubtful, too, whether we can achieve free minds by concentrating our efforts on making our pupils economically independent. We want free minds which will seek the goods in their order. Those who seek primarily their private economic interests may become enslaved to them and try to enslave the rest of us as well.
 * p. 90

 * The great problem of our time is moral, intellectual, and spiritual. With a superfluity of goods we are sinking into poverty. With a multitude of gadgets we are no happier than we were before. With a declining death rate we have yet to discover what to do with our lives. With a hatred of war we are now deeply engaged in the greatest war in history. With a love of liberty we see much of the world in chains.
 * p. 92

 * The political organization must be tested by its conformity to these ideals. Its basis is moral. Its end is the good for man. Only democracy has this basis. Only democracy has this end. If we do not believe in this basis or this end, we do not believe in democracy. These are the principles which we must defend if we are to defend democracy. Are we prepared to defend these principles? Of course not. For forty years and more our intellectual leaders have been telling us they are not true. In the whole realm of social thought there is nothing but opinion. Since there is nothing but opinion, everybody is entitled to his own opinion. There is no difference between good and bad; there is only the difference between expediency and inexpediency. We cannot even talk about good and bad states or good and bad men. There are no morals; there are only the folkways. the folkways. Man is no different from the other animals; human societies are no different from animal societies. The aim of animals and animal societies, if there is an aim, is subsistence. The aim of human beings and human societies, if there is one, is material comfort. Freedom is simply doing what you please. The only common principle that we are urged to have is that there are no principles at all.
 * p. 93

 * All this results in a colossal confusion of means and ends. Wealth and power become the ends of life. Men become merely means. Justice is the interest of the stronger. This, of course, splits the community in two. How can there be a community between exploited and exploiters, between those who work and do not own and those who own and do not work, between those who are weak and those who are strong? Moral and intellectual and artistic and spiritual development are not with us the aim of life; they receive the fag ends of our attention and our superfluous funds. We seldom attempt to justify education by its contribution to moral, intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth.
 * pp. 93-94

 * Since we are confused about ends, we do not know how to employ means. Though our means of improving the material conditions of existence exceed those of any previous generation, we could not use them, in the great depression, to protect our fellow-citizens from starvation and despair. The means of improving the material conditions of existence are now diverted to the extermination of mankind on a greater scale than ever before.
 * p. 99

 * Civilization is not a standard of living. It is not a way of life. Civilization is the deliberate pursuit of a common ideal. Education is the deliberate attempt to form human character in terms of an ideal. The chaos in education with which we are familiar is an infallible sign of the disintegration of civilization; for it shows that ideals are no longer commonly held, clearly understood, or deliberately pursued.
 * p. 104

Congressional Testimony on Football

 * Oral History Research Office The Reminiscences of Chester C. Davis (1952) Page 66

 * Well, it seems to me it might be better if the colleges had race horses. The jockeys could wear the school colors and they could ride the races, and the horses wouldn't have to pass the entrance examinations.

Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)

 * Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954) by Robert M. Hutchins, Simon & Schuster, New York

 * Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to education lay through great books. No man was educated unless he was acquainted with the masterpieces of his tradition. There never was much doubt in anybody's mind about which the masterpieces were. They were the books that had endured and that the common voice of mankind called the finest creations, in writing, of the Western tradition.

 * In the course of history ... new books have been written that have won their place in the list. Books once thought entitled to belong to it have been superseded; and this process of change will continue as long as men can think and write. It is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great Conversation. ... the West needs to recapture and reemphasize and bring to bear upon its present problems the wisdom that lies in the works of its greatest thinkers and in the discussion that they have carried on.

 * The Great Conversation began before the beginnings of experimental science. But the birth of the Conversation and the birth of science were simultaneous. The earliest of the pre-Socratics were investigating and seeking to understand natural phenomena; among them were men who used mathematical notions for this purpose. Even experimentation is not new; it has been going on for hundreds of years. But faith in experimentation as an exclusive method is a modern manifestation. ... It is now regarded in some quarters ... as the sole method of obtaining knowledge of any kind.

 * We are told ... statements that are not mathematical or logical formulae may look as if they were necessarily or certainly true, but they only look like that. They cannot really be either necessary or certain.

 * It is sometimes admitted that many propositions that are affirmed by intelligent people, such as that democracy is the best form of government or that world peace depends upon world government, cannot be tested by the method of experimental science.

 * Since many propositions in the Great Conversation have not been arrived at by experiment ... or empirical verification, we often hear that the Conversation, though perhaps interesting to the antiquarian as setting forth the bizarre superstitions entertained by "thinkers" before the dawn of experimental science, can have no relevance to us now, when experimental science and its methods have at least revealed these superstitions for what they are.

 * One voice in the Great Conversation itself announces this modern point of view. In the closing paragraph of his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume writes: "When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume ... let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." ... the positivists of our own day, would commit to burning or, what is the same, to dismissal from serious consideration ... Those books ... argue the case against the kind of positivism that asserts that everything except mathematics and experimental science is sophistry and illusion. ... The Great Conversation ... contains both sides of the issue.

 * Only an unashamed dogmatist would dare to assert that the issue has finally been resolved now, in favor of the view that, outside logic or mathematics, the method of modern science is the only method to employ in seeking knowledge. The dogmatist who made this assertion would have to be more than ashamed. He would have to blind himself to the fact that his own assertion was not established by the experimental method, nor made as an indisputable conclusion of mathematical reasoning or of purely logical analysis.

 * The Great Books show ... that even those thinkers of the past who are now often looked upon as the most reactionary, the medieval theologians, insisted, as Aristotle had before them, that the truth of any statement is its conformity to reality or fact, and that sense experience is required to discover the particular matters of fact that test the truth of general statements about the nature of things.

 * "In the knowledge of nature," Aristotle writes, the test of principles "is the unimpeachable evidence of the senses as to the fact." He holds that "lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the admitted facts. Hence those who dwell in the intimate association with nature and its phenomena grow more and more able to formulate, as the foundation of their theories, principles such as to admit of a wide and coherent development; while those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations." Theories should be accredited, Aristotle insists, "only if what they affirm agrees with the facts."

 * The facts are indispensable; they are not sufficient. To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. Even the experimental scientist cannot avoid being a liberal artist, and the best of them, as the great books show are men of imagination and of theory as well as patient observers of particular facts. ... critics have themselves frequently misunderstood the scientific method and have confused it with the aimless accumulation of facts.

 * The great books ... afford us the best examples of man's efforts to seek the truth, both about the nature of things and about human conduct, by methods other than those of experimental science; and because these examples are presented in the context of equally striking examples of man's efforts to learn by experiment ... the great books provide us with the best materials for judging whether the experimental method is or is not the only acceptable method of inquiry into all things.

 * The contemporary practices of scientific research, as well as the scientific efforts that the great books record, show beyond doubt that the method of controlled experiment under artificial conditions is not the only method used by men who regard themselves and are regarded as scientists. ... as the work of astronomers, biologists, and social scientists reveals, experiment in the strict sense is not always possible.

 * The rise of experimental science has not made the Great Conversation irrelevant. ... Science itself is part of the Great Conversation.

 * Because of experimental science we know a very large number of things about the natural world of which our predecessors were ignorant. In the great books we can observe the birth of science, applaud the development of the experimental technique, and celebrate the triumphs it has won. But we can also note the limitations of the method and mourn the errors that its misapplication has caused. We can distinguish the outlines of those great persistent problems that the method ... may never solve and find the clues to their solutions offered by other methods and other disciplines.

 * Liberal education was aristocratic in the sense that it was the education of those who enjoyed leisure and political power. If it was the right education for those who had leisure and political power, then it is the right education for everybody today.

 * All should be well acquainted with and each in his measure actively and continuously engaged in the Great Conversation that man has had about what is and should be.

 * Criticisms that I have mentioned come to the same thing: that liberal education is too good for the people.

 * The more logical and determined ... critics will confess that they believe that the great mass of mankind is and of right ought to be condemned to a modern version of natural slavery. Hence there is not use wasting educational effort upon them. They should be given training as will be necessary to enable them to survive.

 * Because the bulk of mankind has never had the chance to get a liberal education, it cannot be "proved" that they can get it. Neither can it be "proved" that they cannot. The statement of the ideal, however, is of value in indicating the direction that education should take.

 * The products of American high schools are illiterate; and a degree from a famous college or university is no guarantee that the graduate is in any better case. One of the most remarkable features of American society is that the difference between the "uneducated" and the "educated" is so slight.

 * The business of saying, in advance of a serious effort, that people are not capable of achieving a good education is too strongly reminiscent of the opposition of every extension of democracy. This opposition has always rested on the allegation that the people were incapable of exercising the power they demanded. Always the historic statement has been verified: you cannot expect the slave to show the virtues of the free man unless you first set him free. When the slave has been set free, he has, in the passage of time, become indistinguishable from those who have always been free.

 * There appears to be an innate human tendency to underestimate the capacity of those who do not belong to "our" group. Those who do not share our background cannot have our ability. Foreigners, people who are in a different economic status, and the young seem invariably to be regarded as intellectually backward.

 * In education ... whenever a proposal is made that looks toward increased intellectual effort on the part of students, professors will always say that the students cannot so the work. My observation leads me to think that what this usually means is that the professors cannot or will not do the work ... When, in spite of the opposition of the professors, the change is introduced, the students, in my experience, have always responded nobly.

 * Great books are great teachers; they are showing us every day what ordinary people are capable of. These books come out of ignorant, inquiring humanity. They are usually the first announcements for success in learning. Most of them were written for, and addressed to, ordinary people.

 * If many great books seem unreadable and unintelligible ... it may be because we have not for a long time learned to read by reading them. Great books teach people not only how to read them, but how to read all other books.

 * There is a sense in which every great book is always over the head of the reader: he can never fully comprehend it. That is why these books are great teachers; they demand the attention of the reader and keep his intelligence on the stretch.

 * As Whitehead has said "If it were easy, the book ought to be burned; for it is cannot be educational. In education, as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place."

 * We do not confine people to looking at poor pictures and listening to poor music. We urge them to look at as many good pictures and hear as much good music as they can, convinced that this is the way in which they will come to understand and appreciate art and music.

 * If only the specialist is to be allowed access to these books, on the ground that it is impossible to understand them without "scholarship," ... then we shall be compelled to shut out the majority of mankind from some of the finest creations of the human mind. This is aristocracy with a vengeance.

 * The dogma of individual differences. This is one of the basic dogmas of American education. It runs something like this: all men are different; therefore, all men require a different education; therefore, anybody who suggests that education should be in any respect the same has ignored the fact that all men are different; therefore, nobody should suggest that everybody should read some of the same books; some people should read some books, some should read others. This dogma has gained such a hold ... that you will often now hear a college president boast that his college has no curriculum. Each student has a course of study framed, or "tailored" ... to meet his own individual needs and interests.

 * Educators ought to know better than their pupils what an education is. If the educators do not, they have wasted their lives. The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not. The task of educators is to discover what an education is and then to invent the methods of interesting their students in it.

 * Is there any such thing as "an education"? The answer that is made by the devotees of the dogma of individual differences is No; there are as many different educations as there are different individuals; it is "authoritarian" to say that there is any education that is necessary, or even suitable, for every individual.

 * So Bertrand Russell once said to me that the pupil in school should study whatever he liked. I asked whether this was not a crime against the pupil. ... Should he be allowed to grow up without knowing Shakespeare? ... Lord Russell replied that he would require a boy to read one play of Shakespeare; if he did not like it, he should not be compelled to read any more.

 * If any common program is impossible, if there is no such thing as an education that everybody ought to have, then we must admit that any community is impossible. All men are different; but they are also the same. As we must all become specialists, so we must all become men. ... The West needs an education that draws out our common humanity rather than our individuality. Individual differences can be taken into account in the methods that are employed and in the opportunities for specialization that may come later.

 * Recall the dictum of Rousseau: "It matters little to me whether my pupil is intended for the army, the church, or law. Before his parents chose a calling for him, nature called him to be a man. ... When he leaves me, he will be neither a magistrate, a soldier, nor a priest; he will be a man."

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User:Jeffq/Templates/Votes for deletion archive

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Face Off

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 04:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Face Off
No quotes, just what appears to be a single line from a review. —LrdChaos 15:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent; no quotes added). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 15:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. Note: If this page survives, it should be moved to Face/Off, which is the proper title of the film, and matches the WP page. ~ UDScott 15:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with UDScott on both points. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with UDScott. - InvisibleSun 16:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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No quotes. ~ UDScott 12:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent; no quotes added). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:35, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. ~ UDScott 12:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with UDScott. - InvisibleSun 14:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes added. Intro should be trimmed to 1-3 sentences, too, and linked to the WP article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes are added. I'm still not sure why I tagged this for cleanup instead of nominating it for deletion at the time. —LrdChaos 15:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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Shane Fender
Search for name reveals no evidence of notability. Search for quotes yields zero results. - InvisibleSun 11:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 11:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've put vanity-warn onto the talk page for the page's creator (User:Rockinmoshin); perhaps this page should be userfied. —LrdChaos 11:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
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Superman Returns

Superman Returns is a 2006 film directed by Bryan Singer, centering around the character Superman who returns to Earth after a five year absence.

''Screenplay by Dan Harris & Michael Dougherty. Story by Dan Harris, Michael Dougherty & Bryan Singer from DC Comics characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.''

Dialogue

 * Kitty Kowalski: Lex, your friends give me the creeps.
 * Lex Luthor: Prison is a creepy place, Kitty. One needs to make creepy friends in order to survive. Even a man with my vast talents is worth less inside than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal in your pocket. [walks over to his bookshelves] Do you know the story of Prometheus? No, of course, you don't (as Kitty is about to answer). Prometheus was the god who stole the power of fire from the other gods and gave control of it to mortals, in essence, he gave us technology, he gave us power.
 * Kitty Kowalski: So, we're stealing fire? In the Arctic?
 * Lex Luthor: Actually, sort of. You see whoever controls technology controls the world. The Roman empire ruled the world because they built roads. The British Empire ruled the world because they built ships. America; the atom bomb. And so on and so forth. I just want what Prometheus wanted.
 * Kitty Kowalski: Sounds great, Lex. But you're not a god.
 * Lex Luthor: Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their powers with mankind. No, I don't want to be a god, I just want to bring fire to the people. And I want my cut.

 * Jor-El: My son. You do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.
 * Lex Luthor: He thinks I'm his son?
 * Jor-El: Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.
 * Kitty Kowalski: Can he see us?
 * Lex Luthor: No, he's dead.
 * Jor-El: There are many questions to be asked. Here, in this Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together. So, my son...Kal-El...speak.
 * Lex Luthor: Tell me everything. Starting with crystals.

 * Jimmy Olsen: Look who's back?
 * Perry White: Kent?
 * Clark Kent: Hey. Chief! Thank you for giving me my job back.
 * Perry White: Don't thank me. Thank Norm Palmer for dying!
 * Jimmy Olsen: It was his time.

 * Jimmy Olsen: [leans over an unsuspecting Clark who is holding a family photo of Lois Lane, her fiancé Richard White and Lois' son Jason, ] Ha! Yeah! He looks just like his mom. Already takes after her too, especially when it comes to getting into trouble.
 * Clark Kent: Mother?
 * Jimmy Olsen: Oh yeah, well I guess you've been gone. Fearless reporter Lois Lane is a mommy.
 * [Clark cracks the glass of the photo frame with his thumb]
 * Jimmy Olsen: [taking the photo from Clark] I'll just take that...
 * Clark Kent: Sorry.
 * Jimmy Olsen: No, it's okay, she's got tons.
 * Clark Kent: Wait, she's married?
 * Jimmy Olsen: Yes. No! Not really, It's more like a prolonged engagement. But don't ask Miss Lane when they're tying the knot 'cause she hates that question...

 * Bartender: Must be tough coming back.
 * Clark Kent: Coming back?
 * Bartender: To work.
 * Clark Kent: Well, you know, things change. Well, of course things change. But somethings that you thought wouldn't change could change. Take Lois. A woman like her, I never thought she'd settle down.
 * Jimmy Olsen: If you ask me, 'cause she'd never tell you this, but if you ask me? She's still in love with you-know-who.

 * [During Lex's experiment with the train set]
 * Kitty Kowalski: Wow, that's really something Lex.
 * Lex Luthor: Wait for it.
 * [nothing happens]
 * Kitty Kowalski: Wow, that's really something, Lex. It's freakin' Gone with the Wind.

 * Jason White: Hi.
 * Clark Kent: Hello.
 * Jason White: Who are you.
 * Clark Kent: Oh, I'm Clark Kent. I'm an old friend of your mom's, from before you were born.
 * Jason White: Really? She never mentioned you.
 * Clark Kent: Really? Never?
 * Jason White: Nope.

 * [Lois introducing Clark to Richard]
 * Lois Lane: Clark, Richard. Richard, Clark.
 * Richard White: Richard White.
 * Lois Lane: Richard's an assistant editor who basically saved our international section. He's also a pilot and he loves horror movies. Clark is... well, he's Clark.
 * Richard White: Good to finally meet you, I've heard so much.
 * Clark Kent: Oh, you have?
 * Richard White: Yeah, Jimmy just won't shut up about you.

 * Lois Lane: Can I ask you something? Have you ever met someone and it's almost like you're from totally different worlds, but you share such a strong connection that you knew you were destined to be with each other, and then he just takes off, without explaining why or without even saying goodbye? [turns around] Sounds cheezy, I know. Taxi!
 * Clark Kent: Well, maybe it was hard to say goodbye because he had to go and... he wanted to say goodbye but... maybe it was too difficult for him.
 * Lois Lane: Difficult? How is it difficult? What's wrong with goodbye?
 * Clark Kent: Who are we talking about again?

 * Richard White: So, I've noticed you've been acting a little different lately.
 * Lois Lane: Have I?
 * Richard White: You know, Lois... that article that you wrote-
 * Lois Lane: "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman"?
 * Richard White: No, no, no. No, the other one from years ago, before we met?
 * Lois Lane: Well, which article? I wrote dozens about him. I was practically his press agent.
 * Richard White: "I Spent the Night with Superman".
 * Lois Lane: Richard. Come on. It was the title of an interview. Plus, it was your Uncle Perry's idea.
 * Richard White: No, I know. It's okay.
 * Lois Lane: Richard... it was a long time ago.
 * Richard White: Were you in love with him?
 * Lois Lane: He was Superman. Everyone was in love with him.
 * Richard White: But were you?
 * Lois Lane: [long pause] No.

 * Kitty Kowalski: [slaps Lex] I was going to pretend the brakes were out! Pretend! Like we talked about! You didn't actually have to do that to them!
 * Lex Luthor: Of course I did. A man can always tell when a woman is pretending, especially Superman.

 * Lois Lane: Eh.
 * Perry White: Eh? These are iconic, and they were taken by a 12 year-old with a camera phone. What've you got, Olsen?
 * [Jimmy shows White a grainy photograph of a pair of buildings.]
 * Jimmy Olsen: ...I got those...
 * [In response to Perry's look, Jimmy points at a small dot, everyone gathers around.]
 * Jimmy Olsen: Look, in the sky, Chief.
 * Lois Lane: It's a bird.
 * Perry White: It's a plane.
 * Jimmy Olsen: No, look, it's...
 * Clark Kent: [Knocking and entering] Uh, you wanted to see me?

 * Lois Lane: But there are dozens of other stories out there!
 * Perry White: Yeah? Name one.
 * Lois Lane: Well, there was a museum robbery last night. Even Superman missed that one. [Taps photo of Superman with Kitty in his arms.] He was too busy saving this hooker.

 * Jimmy Olsen: Why don't you guys track down Lex Luthor? I mean, no one's seen him since his fifth appeal and he has more bad history with Superman than anyone, maybe he's got something to say?
 * Perry White: Luthor is yesterday's news.
 * Clark Kent: Jimmy, how did Lex Luthor get out of prison?
 * Jimmy Olsen: Well, the appeals court called Superman as a witness and he wasn't around. How much do you think that pisses off Superman?
 * Clark Kent: [seething with anger] A lot?
 * Jimmy Olsen: A lot.

 * Richard White: So with the Super-Hearing does he hear each sound by itself or everything all at once?
 * Lois Lane: Both.
 * Richard White: He's certainly a lot taller than I thought.
 * Lois Lane: 6'4".
 * Richard White: I love that he can see through anything. I'd have fun with that.
 * Lois Lane: Anything but lead.
 * Richard White: I bet he's-
 * Lois Lane: 225 pounds, faster than a speeding bullet, draws his powers from the sun, invulnerable to anything but Kryptonite, and he never lies.
 * Richard White: Kryptonite?
 * Lois Lane: Radioactive pieces of his homeworld. It's deadly. To him.

 * Lois Lane: Let's start with the big question. Where did you go?
 * Superman: To Krypton.
 * Lois Lane: But you told me it was destroyed ages ago.
 * Superman: It was. But when astronomers thought they found it... I had to see for myself.
 * Lois Lane: Well, you're back. And everyone seems to be pretty happy about it.
 * Superman: Not everyone. I read the article, Lois.
 * Lois Lane: Yeah, so did a lot of people. Tomorrow night, they're giving me the Pulitzer-
 * Superman: Why did you write it?
 * Lois Lane: How could you leave us like that? I moved on. So did the rest of us. That's why I wrote it. The world doesn't need a savior and neither do I.

 * Lois Lane: Clark said the reason you left without saying goodbye was because it was too unbearable for you. Personally, I think that's a load of crap.
 * Superman: Clark?
 * Lois Lane: Just a guy I work with.
 * Superman: Maybe Clark's right.
 * Lois Lane: You know my... [hesitates] Richard. He's a pilot. He takes me up all the time.
 * Superman: Not like this.

 * [Superman is flying high above Metropolis with Lois Lane]
 * Superman: Listen. What do you hear?
 * Lois Lane: Nothing.
 * Superman: I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior. But everyday I hear people crying for one.

 * Richard White: We're having beef, honey. You want the tofu wrap or the veggie wrap? [notices Lois' disheveled look and silence] You okay?
 * Lois Lane: Uh-huh!
 * Richard White: Where've you been?
 * Lois Lane: [awkward pause] I was...up on the roof! Getting some air.
 * Richard White: Tell the truth now. [looks around at Clark and Jimmy. Jimmy awkwardly stuffs his face] Were you smoking?
 * Lois Lane: ....No.

 * (Lois is sneaking on board Lex Luthor's ship)
 * Jason Kent: Mommy, are we trespassing?
 * Lois Lane: No... yes... shhh.

 * Lex Luthor: And what is your name?
 * Jason White: I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.
 * Lex Luthor: Cute kid, and smart.
 * Lois Lane: Thanks.
 * Lex Luthor: But we're not really strangers, are we? This is kind of a little reunion, isn't it? Heck, I'm a fan! I love your writing... and your dress.
 * Lois Lane: I love your boat. How'd you get it? Swindle some old widow out of her money?
 * Lex Luthor: [laughs] Hey, didn't you win the Pulitzer Prize for my favorite article of all time "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman?"
 * Lois Lane: Didn't you have a few more years to go on that double life sentence?
 * Lex Luthor: Yes, well, we can thank the Man of Steel of that; I mean, he's really good at swooping in and catching the bad guys, but he's not so hot at the little things like Miranda Rights, due processing... making your court date.

 * Lex Luthor: What do you know about crystals?
 * Lois Lane: They make great chandeliers.
 * Lex Luthor: This crystal may seem unremarkable, but so is the seed of a redwood tree. It's how our mutual friend in tights made his arctic getaway spot. Cute, but a little small for my tastes.
 * Lois Lane: You're building an island?
 * Lex Luthor: You're not seeing the big picture here, Miss Lane. Let me enlarge it for you. [brings down another map] Not just an island. An entirely new continent. An extinct world, reborn, on our own.
 * Lois Lane: Why?
 * Lex Luthor: [confused] Land, Miss Lane. I mean- Kitty, what did my father used to say to me?
 * Kitty Kowalski: You're losing your hair?
 * Lex Luthor: No, before that.
 * Kitty Kowalski: Get out?
 * Lex Luthor: He said, "You can print money, manufacture diamonds and people are a dime a dozen, but people will always need land." It's the one thing we aren't making anymore.
 * Lois Lane: But the United States...
 * Lex Luthor: [brings down another map] Will be underwater. It's simple physics, Miss Lane. Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
 * Lois Lane: And the rest of the world will just let you keep it? They'll...
 * Lex Luthor: They'll... what? I'll have advanced alien technology. Thousands of years beyond what anyone can throw at me. Bring it on!
 * Lois Lane: But millions of people will die.
 * Lex Luthor: Billions! Once again the press underestimates me. Come on, let me hear you say it, just once, come on.
 * Lois Lane: You're insane!
 * Lex Luthor: No! [laughing] Not that, no, the other thing. I know it's just dangling off the tip of your tongue, let me hear it just once, please?
 * Lois Lane: Superman will never-
 * Lex Luthor: WROOOONNG!!!
 * [''Lex shows Lois a piece of Kryptonite]
 * Lois Lane: What is that?
 * Lex Luthor: I think you know exactly what this is. Mind over muscle, Miss Lane. Mind over... [noticing Jason's looking at the Kryptonite] Who is that boy's father?
 * Lois Lane: [swallowing] Richard.
 * [Luthor is about to speak when his henchman calls through the radio]
 * Thug: Mr. Luthor, we're reaching the coordinates.
 * Lex Luthor: [looking at Lois] Are you sure?
 * Thug: [through the radio] Yes, sir.

 * Lois Lane: How did you get here?
 * Richard White: I flew.

 * Lex Luthor: [The crystal] It's like a seed, and all it needs is water.
 * Kitty Kowalski: Like... uhh... sea monkeys?
 * Lex Luthor: [sighs] Exactly, Kitty. Like sea monkeys.

 * Lex Luthor: See anything familiar?
 * Superman: I see an old man's sick joke.
 * Lex Luthor: Really? Because I see my new apartment. And a place for Kitty. One for my friends. And the place over there, I'll rent out. But, you know, maybe you're right. You know, maybe it- it is a little cold. It's, uh... uh, What's the word I'm searching for? It's a little... alien. It lacks that human touch.

 * Kitty Kowalski: Lex?
 * Lex Luthor: Mmm-hmm?
 * Kitty Kowalski: Are billions of people really going to die?
 * Lex Luthor: [casually] Yes.

 * [Lex Luthor and Kitty are stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean. Lex angrily throws a coconut into the ocean.]
 * Kitty Kowalski: Lex, we only had six of those!
 * Lex Luthor: Six? I would trade three hundred THOUSAND coconuts and every ounce of your blood, FOR A QUART OF GASOLINE! [points at their useless helicopter]
 * Kitty Kowalski: But what would we have to eat?
 * [Lex looks hungrily at Kitty's dog]

 * [last lines]
 * Lois Lane: Will we see you... around?
 * Superman: I'm always around. Goodnight, Lois.

About

 * What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see The Devil Wear Prada, which may have been something I wanted to address. But when you're making a movie, you're not thinking about that stuff, you're thinking, 'Wow, I want to make a romantic movie that harkens back to the Richard Donner movie that I loved so much.' And that's what I did.
 * I've always felt that the origin of Superman is the story of Moses -- the child sent on a ship to fulfill a destiny. And this was a story about Christ -- it's all about sacrifice: The world, I hear their cries. So what happens? He gets the knife in the side and later he falls to the earth in the shape of a crucifix. It was kind of nailing you on the head, but I enjoyed that, because I've always found the myth of Christ compelling and moving. So I hoped to do my own take, which is heavy's for a summer movie.
 * Director Bryan Singer "Bryan Singer: Why 'Superman Returns' Didn't Work", The Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2011.

 * I thought he'd make a really gay Superman but he didn't; it was more Jesus' Superman...a lot of Messianic poses and what not and I was hoping for a little more gay action.
 * Kevin Smith, A Complete History of American Comic Books by Shirrel Rhoades p.66

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January 16

January 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love... I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (Martin Luther King Day 2006 in U.S.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same. ~ Susan Sontag (born January 16, 1933)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
 * proposed by 151.48.89.127

 * 2010
 * Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction. We measure truth in terms of the cost to the writer in suffering — rather than by the standard of an objective truth to which a writer's words correspond. Each of our truths must have a martyr. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feelings… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Clement Greenberg · Paul Nitze · Susan Sontag

Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. ~ Clement Greenberg (born January 16, 1909)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. ~ Clement Greenberg
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with lean toward 4.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with STRONG lean toward 4.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with lean toward 4.
 * 3 Gartamar27 (talk) 19:34, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

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February 16

February 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ e. e. cummings
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ Henry Adams (born 16 February 1838)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ~ Henry Adams (born 16 February 1838)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain. And so the chauvinists of all times and places go their appointed way: plucking the easy fruits, reaping the little triumphs of the day at the expense of someone else tomorrow, deluging in noise and filth anyone who gets in their way, dancing their reckless dance on the prospects for human progress, drawing the shadow of a great doubt over the validity of democratic institutions. And until people learn to spot the fanning of mass emotions and the sowing of bitterness, suspicion, and intolerance as crimes in themselves — as perhaps the greatest disservice that can be done to the cause of popular government — this sort of thing will continue to occur. ~ George F. Kennan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It may be true, and I suspect it is, that the mass of people everywhere are normally peace-loving and would accept many restraints and sacrifices in preference to the monstrous calamities of war. But I also suspect that what purports to be public opinion in most countries that consider themselves to have popular government is often not really the consensus of the feelings of the mass of the people at all, but rather the expression of the interests of special highly vocal minorities — politicians, commentators, and publicity-seekers of all sorts: people who live by their ability to draw attention to themselves and die, like fish out of water, if they are compelled to remain silent. ~ George F. Kennan
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * All experience is an arch, to build upon. ~ Henry Brooks Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. ~ Henry Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ~ Henry Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. ~ Henry Adams
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015 :

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki for the start of the Chinese Year of the Earth Dog

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of her recent death.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. ~ Fidel Castro proclaimed Prime Minister of Cuba 16 February 1959.
 * 4 if only because there is a dearth of entries relating to people who were born or died on this date. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:58, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 0 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC) 1 Kalki 19:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 20:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC) Though I might rank this a 3 or more on a date with a more notable linkage. I generally prefer to do birthdays and highly notable anniversaries when possible, and am disinclined to use death dates save where birthdates are unknown, and minor linkages only when no great quotes can be found with stronger ones. I also think this would be a good quote to use whenever he actually does die, which is probably something that isn't all that far away. I do not believe it sufficiently appropriate at all for a QOTD on this particular date, as of 2012·02·14.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 because this is another of my strong beliefs. History finds ways to absolve. This is another of my favorites and I wish I had brought it up myself. Also, it should be moved to Castro's birth or death date instead. Zarbon 22:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

There is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name. ~ George F. Kennan
 * 3 Kalki 20:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I certainly have enough self-confidence...I told myself that I shall either be a general at thirty, or that I shall not be alive by then. ~ Mikhail Tukhachevsky
 * 3 because the strong hint of do or die trying lives inside this quote. Zarbon 02:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ~ Henry Adams
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:41, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:41, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:41, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:41, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 16 February 2023 (UTC) 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC) ; deferred to a revision for this year.

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March 16

March 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Do not say, "I follow the one true path of the Spirit", but rather, "I have found the Spirit walking on my path", for the Spirit walks on all paths. ~ Khalil Gibran
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. ~ Richard Stallman (born 16 March 1953)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * proposed by IP 220.233.188.149

 * 2007
 * If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ~ James Madison (born 16 March 1751)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. ~ James Madison
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (from The Scarlet Letter first published on this date in 1850)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~ James Madison (born 16 March 1751)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * One can start from the perspective of a religious naturalist or from the perspective of the world religions and arrive at the same place: a moral imperative that this Earth and its creatures be respected and cherished. ~ Ursula Goodenough
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ~ James Madison
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: René Daumal · Ursula Goodenough · James Madison · Richard Stallman.

The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan gave us the Taliban. The American occupation of Saudi Arabia gave us bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The Israeli occupation of Lebanon gave us Hezbollah. Let us see what the American occupation of Iraq is going to give us. ~ As'ad AbuKhalil
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:18, 16 March 2016 (UTC) 2 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ~ René Daumal
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. ~ Tobias Smollett
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Death is the price paid to have trees, and clams and birds and grasshoppers, and death is the price paid to have human consciousness, to be aware of all that shimmering awareness and all that love. ~ Ursula Goodenough
 * 2 Zarbon 02:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 09:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:38, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

 * Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

 * proposed by 0XxFairyTailxX0
 * This was initially misplaced on the page, and is actually a paraphrase of a statement by C. S. Lewis; I would probably rank the corrected statement a 3 were it a proposed for Lewis's birthdate of November 29. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

title: March 16