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Flora Thompson

Flora Jane Thompson (December 5 1876 – May 21 1947) was an English author and poet, most well-known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy, Lark Rise to Candleford and her posthumously published novel Still Glides the Stream.

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 * Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author.. reasoning powers must be brought to reinforce imagination.
 * The Catholic Fireside Articles November 1924 Gillian Lindsay - The Story of the Lark Rise Writer 1990 ISBN 9781873855539

 * Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above all a quiet mind.
 * Letter in a private collection quoted in Gillian Lindsay - The Story of the Lark Rise Writer 1990 ISBN 9781873855539

 * Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.
 * Letter in a private collection quoted in Gillian Lindsay - The Story of the Lark Rise Writer 1990 ISBN 9781873855539

Still Glides the Stream

 * And so with us, she thought. We come, we go, and, as individuals, we are forgotten. But the stream of human life goes on, ever changing, but ever the same, and as the stream is fed by well-springs hoarded by Nature so the stream of humanity is fed by the store of accumulated wisdom and effort and hard-won experience of past generations.
 * Concluding paragraph to novel

Lark Rise

 * 'Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had the merit of giving credit where credit was due. — (ch. 1, Poor People's Houses)

 * 'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise people. — (ch. 1, Poor People's Houses)

 * Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? — (ch. 8,  'The Box' )

 * There was no Victoria in the school ... That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by period novelists of today. — (ch. 11, School)

 * The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations. — (ch. 15, Harvest Home)

Heatherly

 * Pale purple as the bloom on a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches, just turning yellow, with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.
 * Chapter 1
 * A grasshopper shrilled in a tuft at her feet and was answered by other shrillings among the gorse bushes; a solitary rook flapped heavily overhead, and a pair of goldfinches twittered among the thistle-down; there was no other sound except the scarcely perceptible never-ceasing sighing of the wind in the pines and its rustling of acres of heath-bells.
 * Last chapter

The Peverel Papers

 * Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed ", and I think he was right.
 * January Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * No age can have everything and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.
 * May Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * Some kind of contact with earth, however second hand or muffled, is still a prime necessity of humankind. We each of us have our own particular earthly paradise, a spot on earth for which our thoughts turn while our bodies are far distant, as the one place in all the world we would rather be..
 * Other days, other ways! For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery. No housewife would wish to the return to the era when everything, had to be made at home by candlelight and which lost to us who knows how many women poets and painters!
 * August Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.
 * August Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.
 * August Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.
 * August Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
 * September Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.
 * October Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
 * November Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.
 * November Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.. Colour gives way to form. every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.. new vistas obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.
 * December Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.
 * February Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.
 * February Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986
 * What is charm, it is not a moral quality.. it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even.. it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.
 * February Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986

 * It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
 * January Chapter The Peverel Papers - A yearbook of the countryside ed Julian Shuckburgh Century Hutchinson 1986

Dashpers (unfinished, unpublished novel)

 * "I don't believe in folks making a sort of mystery of themselves. I believe in being neighbourly, I do".
 * Chapter One - The House
 * It was a hard life, but, physically, they throve on it, the men standing up well to the hard labour of the fields and the women, in addition to their washing, scrubbing and cooking and nursing, bearing a child almost annually.
 * Chapter Two - A House is built
 * The children did not remain children long. Boys of seven or eight went to work in the fields... Girl children of ten or eleven sent out into service...
 * Chapter Two - A House is built
 * They didn't want votes, either. A vote wasn't going to raise wages or make bread cheaper. What did it matter to them what Government was in power.
 * Chapter Two - A House is built
 * It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.
 * Chapter Two - A House is built
 * "Coming events cast their shadows before" quoted the clergyman...
 * Chapter Two - A House is built

Poetry

 * and so the shadows ripple on until it's time to part
 * Shallows- a poem in the anthology Bog Myrtle & Peat (1921)
 * Our poet's singing lips are dumb: This his last gift, to us has brought The pain pressed vintage of his thought His life of song, his life of pain, And, being dead, he speaks again.
 * From On Reading a Posthumous book Gillian Lindsay -Biography of Flora Thompson 1990 ISBN 9781873855539

Quotes about Flora Thompson

 * Flora Thompson, who in the guise of Laura, the stonemason's daughter, has given us in Lark Rise to Candleford (first published in 1945) a truly remarkable evocation of Oxfordshire village and small-town life at the turn of the nineteenth century; probing profoundly into mentalités before that concept had even been invented, and depicting unforgettably how an organic society, with its special customs and ways of expression, yielded to the new economic and cultural forces of modernity. If the definition of greatness on the part of historians includes durability, then Flora Thompson, more widely read now than ever before, certainly qualifies, along with seemingly more exalted figures in the pantheon.
 * John Clive, 'Preface' (June 1988), Not By Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History (1989), p. xii

 * The trilogy enables us to appreciate for the first time what she has done both for literature and social history. By the playing of these soft pipes the hamlet, the village, and the small market town are reawakened at the very moment when the rich, glowing life and culture of an immemorial design for living was passing from them, at the precise point of meeting when the beginnings of what was to be touched the last lingering evidences of what was departing.
 * H. J. Massingham, 'Introduction' to Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945; 1973), pp. 8-9

 * In this tripartite book we distinguish three strata of social and economic period, cross-hatched by differences of social degree. In terms of geological time, the lowest stratum is the old order of rural England surviving rare but intact from a pre-industrial and pre-Enclosure past almost timeless in its continuity. The middle stratum, particularly represented in Lark Rise, discloses the old order impoverished, reduced in status, dispropertied but still clinging to the old values, loyalties, and domestic stabilities. The top stratum, symbolized in the row of new villas that began to link up Candleford Green with Candleford Town, is modern suburbia. This wholly novel class in itself had shed the older differentiations and possessed no rural background other than the accident of place. It was the vanguard of the city blackcoats and proletariat, governed by the mass-mind.
 * H. J. Massingham, 'Introduction' to Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945; 1973), p. 9

 * What Flora Thompson depicts is the utter ruin of a closely knit organic society with a richly interwoven and traditional culture that had defied every change, every aggression, except the one that established the modern world. It is notable that, though husbandry itself plays little part in the trilogy, it is the story of the irreparable calamity of the English fields. In the shell of her concealed art we hear the thunder of an ocean of change, a change tragic indeed, since nothing has taken and nothing can take the place of what has gone.
 * H. J. Massingham, 'Introduction' to Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945; 1973), p. 10

 * [P]erhaps the best memoir of a Victorian country up-bringing, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (Oxford, 1945).
 * Janet Phillips and Peter Phillips, Victorians at Home and Away (1978), pp. 208-209

 * [F]rom none will he savour so keenly the tang of the earth and feel so strongly the grip of its tyranny over most of those who lived by it, as from the trilogy of Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945).
 * Rowland Prothero, English Farming Past and Present (6th ed. 1961), p. xcvi

 * [I]t was her three autobiographical novels that brought her fame—"Lark Rise" (1939), "Over to Candleford" (1941), and "Candleford Green" (1943). In this trilogy is preserved a picture of rural life of the 70's and 80's which has perhaps never been more truthfully or enchantingly portrayed.
 * 'Miss Flora Thompson', The Times (21 July 1947), p. 7

 * The story of Lark Rise is told in a quiet, easy and unpretentious style. We are told that the author left the hamlet at fourteen, and because these are childhood memories some readers may find the book occasionally tedious. But the vivid memory and faithful portrayal of a way of life that has almost passed will make this book a welcome contribution to the social history of the English countryside.
 * The Times Literary Supplement (13 May 1939), p. 278

 * [Over to Candleford is the] very essence of English life, faithful embroidery on the larger pattern of English history.
 * The Times Literary Supplement (12 July 1941), p. 338

 * Faithfully, shrewdly, she has set down her records, and it is hard to say which is the more remarkable—the exactness and detail of the outward scene or the rare objectivity.
 * Review of Candleford Green in The Times Literary Supplement (13 March 1943), p. 128

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Jack Baker
No intro, no corresponding WP page, and very little point in Googling the name, it being so common. So is he notable? Who can say? We're not told precisely what each quotation refers to, but they're generally comments on the state of financial markets, with all the ephemerality that that implies. Antiquary 21:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 22:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete unless notability evidence provided. I've sourced one quote, which also identifies this Jack Baker as "head of equities at Putnam Lovell Securities". I added a link to Jack Baker, which is a disambiguation page that doesn't include this person. I also checked WP for pages beginning with "Wikipedia:Articles for discussion/Jack Baker" and found nothing. Considering there is also no WP article for "Putnam Lovell Securities", "Putnam Lovell", or even PL's parent "National Bank Financial" (according to List of investment banks), I have doubts we'll get any compelling notability evidence for a second-tier manager of the company. On the other hand, if more of these quotes are found to be sourceable, one might make an argument for notability by frequent quotation. In other words, maybe he's a "go-to" guy for investments news who has a lot of visibility in the press. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Some of the quotes are scarcely worth having, but that's no argument to delete the whole page. We're here to build a collection of original, pithy quotes, not to be poodles to Wikipedia.--Poetlister 16:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and above.--H*bad 19:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 18:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Just because it doesn't exist on Wikipedia means nothing. The quanitity is enough to oppose deletion. Xania 12:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Quantity is irrelevant, as without sources we have no way to know whether the quotes are legitimate, and not merely promoting someone unnotable. The best way to get folks to change from "delete" to "keep" is to source a few more quotes to show this person isn't a one-quote wonder in an obscure context. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: I've sourced two more quotes, and I see a pattern developing. Baker seems to be a business executive that someone at CNN tagged as a person to ask for opinions on transient market issues. This does not encourage me to change my vote, especially given that the quotes are about passing events, supplied without any context to make them meaningful. (The contexts can be extracted from the sources, but the more context a quote needs, the less valuable it tends to be.) I also have to wonder whether this person wasn't more than a flash-in-the-pan, given that 3 randomly-picked quotes all occurred within 8 months, all from one news agency; several other quotes had no Google presence except our own article; and we still have no other independent info about who he is. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep At least the sourced quotes.--Cato 21:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Boogie Nights is a 1997 period comedy drama film. Set in California's San Fernando Valley, it focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, charting his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s and his fall during the excesses of the 1980s.
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Dirk Diggler

 * [to his mother] You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! You don't know I'm good! I have good things that you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't fucking tell me I'm not!
 * What can you expect when you're on top? You know? It's like Napoleon. When he was the king, you know, people were just constantly trying to conquer him, you know, in the Roman Empire. So, it's history repeating itself all over again.
 * You're not the boss of me, Jack. You're not the king of Dirk. I'm the boss of me. I'm the king of me. I'm Dirk Diggler. I'm the star. It's my big dick and I say when we roll. You know what? I'm the biggest star here, man. That's the way it is!  I want to fuck! It's my big dick!  So, everybody get ready fuckin' NOW!
 * [practicing his lines in a mirror] "I've been around this block twice now looking for something - a clue. Been looking for clues and something led me back here, yeah, so here I am. Could've been me who was at Ringo's place when the shit went down. Hey, I know how it is, I've been there. We've all done bad things. We've all had those guilty feelings in our hearts. You wanna take your brain out of your head and wash it and scrub it and make it clean. Well, no, but I'm gonna help you settle this. First we're gonna check for holes and see what we can find. Then, we're gonna get nice and wet, so you're gonna spread your legs. Oh, that's good, so you know me, you know my reputation. Thirteen inches is a tough load, I don't treat you gently. That's right. I'm Brock Landers. So I'm gonna be nice, and I'm gonna ask you one more time: where the fuck is Ringo?" I'm a star. I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a star. I am a big, bright shining star. Yeah, that's right.

Jack Horner

 * [to Dirk] I got a feeling that behind those jeans is something wonderful just waiting to get out.
 * We're about to make film history, right here... on videotape.

Reed Rothchild

 * [as Chest Rockwell] Let's go get some of that Saturday night beaver.
 * Want to hear a poem I wrote? "I love you, you love me. Going down the sugar tree. We'll go down the sugar tree, and see lots of bees. Playing. Playing. But the bees won't sting, because you love me." That's it.

Dialogue

 * Jack Horner: But you gotta get the people in the theater. You know, you need the big dicks, the big tits...
 * Amber Waves: Uh oh, here we go.
 * Jack Horner: How do you keep them in the theater after they've come? The beauty and the acting. No, I understand you've got to get 'em in the theater. You know, you've got to get the seats full. But I don't want to make a film where they show up, they sit down, they jack off, and they get up and they get out before the story ends. It is my dream, it is my goal, it is my idea to make a film where the story just sucks them in. And when they spurt out that joy juice, they've got to just sit in it. They can't move until they find out how the story ends. You know, I want to make a film like that. And I understand, they have to make films...I've made them myself, you know where there's a few laughs, everyone fucks their brains out. And that's fine. But it's my dream to make a film that is true and right and dramatic.

 * Jack Horner: The Colonel here puts up all the money for our films. It's an important part of the process.
 * Eddie Adams: Great.
 * Colonel James: I'm looking forward to seeing you in action. Jack says you've got a great big cock.
 * Eddie Adams: Well, I don't know, I guess so.
 * Colonel James: May I see it?
 * Eddie Adams: Really?
 * Colonel James: Please! [stares as Eddie lowers his shorts]
 * Colonel James: Thank you, Eddie.
 * Eddie Adams: No problem.
 * [the Colonel continues to stare as Eddie walks away]

 * Young Stud: [sobbing] This is TWICE in two days that a chick has OD'd on me!
 * Colonel James: Well, do you think this means that maybe ya oughta think about getting some new shit? Whaddya think?
 * Young Stud: [contritely] Yes, sir.

 * Eddie Adams: Jack, I was thinking about my name, y'know?
 * Jack Horner: Yeah?
 * Eddie Adams: I was wondering if you had any ideas.
 * Jack Horner: I've got a few, but you tell me.
 * Eddie Adams: Well, my idea was, y'know, I want a name, I want it so it can cut glass, y'know, razor sharp.
 * Jack Horner: Tell me.
 * Eddie Adams: When I close my eyes, I see this thing. A sign. I see this name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline. And this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign...it just blows up because the name is so powerful. It says, "Dirk Diggler." What do you think?
 * Jack Horner: I think...that's a great name.

 * [in a scene from "Brock Landers: Angels Live In My Town"]
 * Jessie St. Vincent: I could die of starvation before I get something in my mouth.
 * [cut to bedroom]
 * Dirk Diggler: [as Brock] You still hungry?
 * Jessie St. Vincent: Starving.
 * Dirk Diggler: [unzipping his pants] Why don't you feast on that?

 * Floyd Gondolli: This is the future. Videotape tells the truth.
 * Jack Horner: Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? That it's amateurs and not professionals? I'm a filmmaker, which is why I will never make a movie on tape. I'll tell you something else. I will never, ever loan out any of the actors that I have under contract.
 * Floyd Gondolli: Wait, Jack, I'm not a complicated man. I like cinema. In particular, I like to see people fucking on film. But I don't want to win an Oscar, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I like simple pleasures...like butter in my ass, lollipops in my mouth. That's just me. That's just something that I enjoy. Call me crazy, call me a pervert, but there's one little thing I want to do in this life, and that is to make a dollar and a cent in this business. I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm trying to help you stay one step ahead of the game.

 * [Amber and Rollergirl are high on cocaine]
 * Amber Waves: I miss my two sons, you know. I miss my little Andrew... and I miss my Dirk. I always felt like Dirk was my baby. My new baby. Don't you miss Dirk?
 * Rollergirl: Yeah.
 * Amber Waves: He's so fucking talented, the bastard. You know, I just...I love him, Rollergirl. I really love the stupid jerk. [laughs]
 * Rollergirl: [in tears] I love you, Mom. I want you to be my mom, Amber. Are you my mom? I'll just...I'll ask you if you're my mom, and you say yes, okay? Are you my mom?
 * Amber Waves: [smiles] Yes, honey. Yes, yes. [They embrace, both crying]

 * [Colonel James is in jail after being arrested for cocaine possession and attempted statutory rape]
 * Jack Horner: Alright, you didn't know how old she was, and you just brought her back to your place, that's all. You didn't do anything.
 * Colonel James: No.
 * Jack Horner: You didn't do anything, right?
 * Colonel James: No! You know me, Jack.
 * Jack Horner: Alright.
 * Colonel James: It's just...they found something else at the house.
 * Jack Horner: What?
 * Colonel James: Well, it's just...it's my fucking weakness, Jack. They're so cute. They're so small. They're so adorable.
 * Jack Horner: [disgusted] Ah, Jesus...
 * Colonel James: I don't touch them, Jack! I don't touch them in any way! Now you think I'm an asshole. Now, I love you, Jack, you know that. Now, there's just one thing I wanna know. Are you gonna be my friend? Are you my friend, Jack?
 * Jack Horner: Alright. [puts the phone down and gets up to leave]

 * Dirk Diggler: Look, man, all we need is the tapes, alright?
 * Record Producer: No. You don't get the tapes until you've paid.
 * Dirk Diggler: In our situation, that doesn't make any fucking sense.
 * Reed Rothchild: Look, we cannot pay for the tapes unless we take the tapes to the record company and get paid.
 * Dirk Diggler: Hello? Exactly.
 * Record Producer: That's not an MP, that's a YP, your problem. Come up with the money, or forget it.
 * Reed Rothchild: Okay, now you're talking above my head. I don't know all of this industry jargon, YP, MP, whatever. All I know is that I can't get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That fucking heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don't own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they're waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like assholes, man.
 * Dirk Diggler: Let me explain to him in simple arithmetic. One, two three! Because you don't fuckin' get it, Burt! You give us the tapes, we get the record contract, we come back and give you your fuckin' money. Have you heard the tapes? Have you even heard them? We're guaranteed a record deal. Our stuff is that good!
 * Record Producer: Now I get it. Now I understand. You want it to happen...but it's not going to happen. Because it's a Catch-22.
 * Dirk Diggler: What the fuck does that mean? What is a Catch-22, Burt?
 * Record Producer: Catch-22, gentlemen. Think about it.
 * [pause]
 * Dirk Diggler: You know what I'm thinking about, man? I'm thinking about kicking some fuckin' ass!

 * Amber Waves: What are you looking at?
 * Jack Horner: I'm looking at you.
 * Amber Waves: You're staring.
 * Jack Horner: You know what I'm staring at? I'm staring at the foxiest bitch in the whole world.

Taglines

 * Everyone has one special thing.
 * The life of a dreamer, the days of a business, and the nights in between.

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 * Mark Wahlberg - Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler
 * Julianne Moore - Amber Waves
 * Burt Reynolds - Jack Horner
 * Don Cheadle - Buck Swope
 * John C. Reilly - Reed Rothchild
 * William H. Macy - Little Bill
 * Heather Graham - Roller Girl
 * Nicole Ari Parker - Becky Barnett
 * Robert Ridgely - The Colonel James
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman - Scotty J.
 * Ricky Jay - Kurt Longjohn
 * Melora Walters - Jessie St. Vincent
 * Philip Baker Hall - Floyd Gondolli
 * Thomas Jane - Todd Parker

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Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001. He ran for re-election in 2005 and won a second term. He was frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate in the 2008 Presidential Election, but did not run.

Education

 * “By any yardstick, a higher percentage of New York City high school students are graduating now than at any time in decades. The rate has risen every year during this administration and is an important validation of our reforms, w:Chancellor Klein’s leadership, and the hard work of our students, principals, and teachers. The rate obviously remains far too low, but the gains demonstrate that our hard work to raise student achievement is paying off, and we are beginning to turn around a failing system.”
 * On his performance in college: "I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible."

 * The whole purpose of college is to learn how to deal with difficult situations, not to run away from them. A micro-aggression is exactly that : micro. But in a macro sense, one of the most dangerous places on a college campus is the so-called 'safe space', because it creates a false impression that we can isolate ourselves from those who hold different views. We can't, and we shouldn't try—not in politics or in the workplace. Graduates, in the global economy, and in a democratic society, an open mind is the most valuable asset you can possess.
 * Commencement Address given at the Universiy of Michigan, Ann Arbor (30 April 2016), as recorded on Youtube

Energy Reform

 * "We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy."
 * "In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we’ve done nothing — even as technology has moved at light speed."
 * "Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. … We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit."

Environment

 * "If they don't act, we will. Shame on them but we cannot sit around and watch our environment deteriorate and put this world in jeopardy. We are willing to stand up, we think it is one of the seminal issues of our time."

 * "As the city continues to grow, the costs of congestion – to our health, to our environment, and to our economy – are only going to get worse. The question is not whether we want to pay but how do we want to pay. With an increased asthma rate? With more greenhouse gases? Wasted time? Lost business? And higher prices? Or, do we charge a modest fee to encourage more people to take mass transit?"

 * "In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab."

Faith Based Science

 * "It boggles the mind that nearly two centuries after Darwin, and 80 years after John Scopes was put on trial, this country is still debating the validity of evolution."
 * Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don’t happen to agree with their agendas. Some call it "pseudo-science," others call it "faith-based science," but when you notice where this negligence tends to take place, you might as well call it "political science."
 * "It's scary in this country, it's probably because of our bad educational system, but the percentage of people that believe in Creationalism is really scary for a country that's going to have to compete in the world where science and medicine require a better understanding."

Gun Control

 * "Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies."

 * "Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state – and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws."

Homeland Security

 * On fears arising after the foiling of an alleged plot to blow up a fuel pipeline beneath JFK airport: "There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life."

Honesty

 * "What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out."

Illegal Immigration

 * "We're not going to deport 12 million people, so let's stop this fiction."
 * "Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.”
 * "I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington."

Intelligent Design Theory

 * "Creationism by another name."

New York City

 * "We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you."
 * "We're the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated."
 * "New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy."
 * "If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man."

Optimism

 * "There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I've said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I’ve said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I've always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life."

Philanthropy

 * "My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me."
 * "Most people won’t have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who’s now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count."

Politics

 * In response to criticism from Democratic mayoral candidates for appearing at a 2004 event for the Independence Party: "To all the critics who are rushing out to criticize me tonight, criticize me for being here tonight, let me point out that this night is about the one million New Yorkers who are denied the most basic rights by the two major political parties."
 * "We all know that election reform takes time. That’s because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we’re going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so."
 * “I don't know if Bernie Madoff got his idea from there, but if there's ever a Ponzi scheme, people say Madoff was the biggest? Wrong. Social Security is, far and away,"
 * Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.
 * Press conference, 20 June 2007; presumably meaning "pariah", not "piranha"
 * CBS Evening News, "Campaign '08" segment, 20 June 2007

2008 Presidential Debates

 * "The press really is not doing its job of holding [the candidates'] feet to the fire. … The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?"

Presidential Prospects

 * "Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States."

Election Reform

 * "If you want to get the best people to run for office, we’ve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot."
 * "Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!"

Health Care

 * "...[W]e’re paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it."

On His Declaration to Leave the GOP

 * "Although my plans for the future haven't changed, I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment with how I have led and will continue to lead our city."

Partisanship

 * "I believe we can turn around our country’s current, wrong-headed course, if we start basing our actions on ideas, shared values, and a commitment to solve problems without regard for party."
 * "When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air – the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest."
 * "Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy."
 * "Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute."

Running a Business vs. Running a City

 * "One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite."
 * "Too often, failing government agencies get bigger budgets, while successful agencies have their budgets cut – because government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they’re screaming about. In business, it’s exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren’t performing."

State of America

 * "Our reputation has been hurt very badly in the last few years. We've had a go-it-alone mentality in a world where because of communications and transportation, you should be going exactly in the other direction."
 * "Leading from the front: It’s what built America. But these days, the federal government isn’t at the front – it’s cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices."

Why He Was Elected Mayor

 * "I was elected to be independent. I was elected because I owed no political debts. I was elected to “do the job,” and not to spend my first four years in office campaigning. I’ve kept that promise -- and that’s why we face the future with renewed optimism."

 * “Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent -- or confronting any obstacle -- that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.”

Poverty

 * "The federal poverty measurement … hasn't been changed since it was first introduced in 1964. … [T]he formula [doesn't] indicate that we've made any gains in fighting poverty. … [Yet] we have made real progress in fighting poverty and raising living standards since the 70s. … The poverty formula … is bankrupt."
 * On his controversial initiative "Opportunity NYC": "Now, you might say, 'why should we pay people for doing what they're supposed to do?' It's a fair question -- but think of it this way. Every other anti-poverty program that's been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent. … Why shouldn't we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders -- capitalism?"
 * "Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it."

Speaking Out

 * "I’ve always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake... and develop my own point of view. But the first thing you’ve got to do is you’ve got to let people speak and you’ve got to listen. And that’s what the first amendment is all about. That’s what really distinguishes this country from others."

Stem Cell Research

 * Despite the potential to lead us to new cures, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines – putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. The consequences of this decision have not only driven thousands of scientists overseas in search of more money and greater opportunity – but also put the brakes on the march of medicine. I’ve always wondered how these legislators would act if their health – or their children’s health – was on the line and stem cell research might lead to a cure."
 * "Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines – putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government’s most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions."

Taxes
,,,
 * "Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."

2007

 * Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself...or success as a team. You have to share the pain... and the responsibility... and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.
 * Speech at Tufts University

Quotes about Bloomberg

 * If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
 * Harvey Weinstein, as quoted in Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting by Pamela McClintock, HollyWood Reporter, July 26, 2012

 * A guy who didn’t have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn’t know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn’t. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael.
 * Donald Trump, at an interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd. (July 29, 2016)

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Federico Hernández Denton

Federico Hernández Denton (born April 12, 1944) is the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Hernández received his Law Degree from Harvard University in 1969. He began his career as Legal Advisor to the President of the University of Puerto Rico.

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 * Slow justice is not justice.
 * Interview with Caribbean Business (May 17, 2007)

 * Advanced planning is another area which the private sector has excelled, but not government. However, today's changing market conditions, increasing demands, shrinking budgets and even globalization force us to look at the way we provide our judicial services in a different light. It is no longer enough that we do our job, we now have to do it with a greater sense of purpose and accountability every step of the way.
 * Discussing needed changes to the Puerto Rico Judicial System, in an interview with Caribbean Business (May 17, 2007)

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Sila María Calderón

Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) was the seventh Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005. She is the only woman ever elected to that office. Prior to being Governor, Calderón held various positions in the Government of Puerto Rico, including Secretary of State and Chief of Staff. She was also Mayor of San Juan, the Capital of Puerto Rico.

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 * I have never felt like a second-class citizen. I consider myself a U.S. citizen. I appreciate and treasure my U.S. citizenship. I would never renounce or consider losing that citizenship. I want my children and their children to always have it.
 * Interview with Caribbean Business (December 3, 1998)

 * The people from Puerto Rico already decided they want to be permanently linked to the United States. There's nothing else to be said about that matter.
 * Interview with Caribbean Business (December 3, 1998)

 * ...Puerto Ricans treasure their citizenship and are faithful to democratic principles, but “We are, above everything, Puerto Ricans first and foremost."
 * On Women's eNews

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Aníbal Acevedo Vilá

Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá (born February 13, 1962) was the eighth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. As such, he was a member of the National Governors Association, the Southern Governors' Association, and the Democratic Governors Association. Acevedo has served in many political posts in Puerto Rico, including being member of the House of Representatives (1993–2001) and Resident Commissioner (2001–2005).

Quotes

 * We should not be forced to give up our children's U.S. citizenship so that we can get a fuller measure of self-government.
 * U. S. Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings on sovereignty under S. 472 (June 23, 1998)

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Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής, Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, Qoheleth, Koheleth) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Ecclesiastes 1

 * הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים אָמַר קֹהֶלֶת, הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים הַכֹּל הָבֶל
 * Ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, εἶπεν ὁ ἐκκλησιαστής, ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης.
 * Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes; vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas.
 * Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
 * 1:2; King James Version
 * "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
 * 1:2; New International Version

 * What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
 * 1:3-5; King James Version

 * All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
 * 1:8; World English Bible

 * The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
 * 1:9-10; KJV
 * Variant translation:
 * What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
 * 1:9-10; NIV

 * There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.
 * 1:11; American Standard Version

 * I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
 * 1:12-15; New International Version

 * I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
 * 1:16-18; King James Version

Ecclesiastes 2

 * I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
 * 2:1; Douay-Rheims Bible

 * "Laughter," I said, "is foolish. And what does pleasure accomplish?"
 * 2:2; New International Version

 * Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
 * 2:11; King James Version

 * I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both. Then I thought in my heart, "The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?" I said in my heart, "This too is meaningless." For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered; in days to come both will be forgotten. Like the fool, the wise man too must die!
 * 2:13-16; New International Version

 * For what profit comes to mortals from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which they toil under the sun? Every day sorrow and grief are their occupation; even at night their hearts are not at rest. This also is vanity.
 * 2:22-23 New American Bible Revised Edition

 * There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
 * 2:24; King James Version

Ecclesiastes 3

 * To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
 * 3:1-8; King James Version

 * He hath made everything beautiful in its time.
 * 3:11; American Standard Version

 * I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil--this is the gift of God.
 * 3:12-13; New International Version

 * I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
 * 3:14; New International Version

 * That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.
 * 3:15; Darby's English Translation

 * And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
 * 3:16; American Standard Version

 * For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
 * 3:19-20; King James Version

Ecclesiastes 4

 * Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed-- and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors-- and they have no comforter. And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
 * 4:1-3; New International Version

 * Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
 * 4:6; King James Version

 * Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
 * 4:9-12; New International Version

 * Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning.
 * 4:13; New International Version

Ecclesiastes 5

 * Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
 * 5:2; King James Version

 * When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
 * 5:4-5; King James Version

 * If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
 * 5:8-9; King James Version

 * Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.
 * 5:10; New International Version

 * The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
 * 5:12; King James Version

 * As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
 * 5:15; American Standard Version

 * Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work--this is a gift of God. He seldom reflects on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with gladness of heart.
 * 5:19-20; New International Version

Ecclesiastes 6

 * A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man.
 * 6:3-5; New International Version

 * Do not all go to one place?
 * 6:6; King James Version

 * All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
 * 6:7; King James Version

Ecclesiastes 7

 * A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.
 * 7:1; New International Version

 * It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart.
 * 7:2; New International Version

 * It is better to heed a wise man's rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
 * 7:5; New International Version

 * Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
 * 7:8; King James Version

 * Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
 * 7:9; King James Version

 * Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
 * 7:13; King James Version

 * All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
 * 7:15; King James Version

 * Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
 * 7:16-17; King James Version

 * Wisdom makes one wise man more powerful than ten rulers in a city.
 * 7:19; New International Version

Ecclesiastes 8

 * Who is like the wise man? Who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance.
 * 8:1; New International Version

 * Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
 * 8:5; King James Version

 * There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
 * 8:8; King James Version

 * All of this I have seen, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, during the time that man has dominated man to his harm.
 * 8:9; New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

 * Because sentence against a bad deed has not been executed speedily, the heart of men becomes emboldened to do bad.
 * 8:11; New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

 * Although a wicked man commits a hundred crimes and still lives a long time, I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God.
 * 8:12; New International Version

 * There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.
 * 8:14; New International Version

 * Then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.
 * 8:17; New International Version

Ecclesiastes 9

 * So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him.
 * 9:1; New International Version

 * All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
 * 9:2-3; King James Version

 * Anyone who is among the living has hope--even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
 * 9:4; New International Version

 * For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they no longer have any share in what is done under the sun.
 * 9:5-6; New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

 * Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
 * 9:9; King James Version

 * Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
 * 9:10; King James Version

 * I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
 * 9:11-12; New International Version

 * The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.
 * 9:17; New International Version

Ecclesiastes 10

 * Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
 * 10:1; King James Version

 * There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler: Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones. I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
 * 10:5-7; New International Version

 * By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
 * 10:18; American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 11

 * Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
 * 11:1; King James Version

 * As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
 * 11:5; King James Version

 * Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
 * 11:7-8; King James Version

 * Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
 * 11:9-10; King James Version

Ecclesiastes 12

 * Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened
 * 12:1-2; King James Version

 * Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
 * 12:7; New International Version

 * Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.
 * 12:9-10; New International Version

 * Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
 * 12:13-14; King James Version

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 * The first existentialist was not Sartre, though he coined the term. Nor was it Kierkegaard or Nietzsche, though most of the textbooks say so. Nor was it even Pascal, though he foreshadowed half of Kierkegaard and was the first to write about the fundamental existential experience of cosmic anxiety and meaninglessness. It was not even Saint Augustine, whose Confessions stands out as the profoundest example of depth psychology and existential autobiography ever written. It was not even Socrates, who alone among philosophers totally existed his philosophy. Rather, the first existentialist was Solomon, or whoever wrote Ecclesiastes.
 * Peter Kreeft, Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes: Life as Vanity, Job: Life as Suffering, Song of Songs: Life as Love, p. 18

 * The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. "All is vanity." ALL.
 * Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (ch. 96) (1851)

 * Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.Here it is in modern English:Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.
 * George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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Hosea

Hosea was an 8th century BC prophet in Israel who authored the book of prophecies bearing his name.

Quotes

 * For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
 * 8:7 KJV
 * The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad.
 * 9:7 KJV

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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi (born 26 November 1939) is a Malaysian politician who served as prime minister from 2003 to 2009.

Quotes

 * Much of the prejudice against Islam in the West stems from a lack of understanding of the true nature of Islam as a religion professed by 1.4 billion people in the world.
 * http://www.ikna.ir/en/news_detail.php?ProdID=126709
 * Malaysian PM derides West on Islam, Mideast

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Socko. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Socko~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Socko~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:152.157.78.173

H*bad 18:30, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

- InvisibleSun 17:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

title: User talk:152.157.78.173


text:
User talk:Arien~enwikiquote

H*bad 18:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Arien. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Arien~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:17, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:42, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Arien~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:RAJIV7801

H*bad 18:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

title: User talk:RAJIV7801


text:
User talk:Amit krchoudhary

H*bad 18:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

title: User talk:Amit krchoudhary