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James Clerk Maxwell

 (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, who formulated the classical theory of, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon.
 * See also: "On Action at a Distance", Matter and Motion, The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Theory of Heat,

Quotes

Happy is the man who can recognise in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life and an embodiment of the work of Eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises because the present is given him for a possession. Thus ought Man to be an impersonation of the divine process of nature, and to show forth the union of the infinite with the finite, not slighting his temporal existence, remembering that in it only is individual action possible; nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man cannot endure to contemplate until eternal Truth enlighten it.
 * He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. Not yesterday's work, lest he fall into despair; nor to-morrow's, lest he become a visionary—not that which ends with the day, which is a worldly work; nor yet that only which remains to eternity, for by it he cannot shape his actions.
 * Paper communicated to (1854) Æt. 23, as quoted in Lewis Campbell, William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings (1884) pp. 144-145, and in, James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics (1896) pp. 39-40.

 * And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, — nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
 * Essay "Analogies in Nature" (February 1856), reprinted in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 edited by P.M. Harman, p. 376 (the quote appears on p. 383)

 * Velocity of transverse undulations in our hypothetical medium, calculated from the electromagnetic experiments of 'MM'. Kohlrausch and Weber, agrees so exactly with the velocity of light calculated from the optical experiments of M. Fizeau, that we can scarcely avoid the conclusion that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
 * Lecture at Kings College (1862) as quoted by F. V. Jones, "The Man Who Paved the Way for Wireless," New Scientist (Nov 1, 1979) p. 348 & Andrey Vyshedskiy, On The Origin Of The Human Mind 2nd edition

 * The general equations are next applied to the case of a magnetic disturbance propagated through a non-conductive field, and it is shown that the only disturbances which can be so propagated are those which are transverse to the direction of propagation, and that the velocity of propagation is the velocity v, found from experiments such as those of Weber, which expresses the number of electrostatic units of electricity which are contained in one electromagnetic unit. This velocity is so nearly that of light, that it seems we have strong reason to conclude that light itself (including radiant heat, and other radiations if any) is an electromagnetic disturbance in the form of waves propagated through the electromagnetic field according to electromagnetic laws.
 *  (1864) Introduction, p. 466, §20.

 * I have also cleared the electromagnetic theory of light from all unwarrantable assumption, so that we may safely determine the velocity of light by measuring the attraction between bodies kept at a given difference of potential, the value of which is known in electromagnetic measure.
 * Letter to C. Hockin, Esq. (Sept 7, 1864) as quoted by Lewis Campbell, William Garnett, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Writings (1884)

 * I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
 * Letter to C. H. Cay, (Jan 5,1865) as quoted in , 44(8), page 470, 1976-08

 * This characteristic of modern experiments — that they consist principally of measurements — is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will then be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals. If this is really the state of things to which we are approaching, our Laboratory may perhaps become celebrated as a place of conscientious labour and consummate skill, but it will be out of place in the University, and ought rather to be classed with the other great workshops of our country, where equal ability is directed to more useful ends. But we have no right to think thus of the unsearchable riches of creation, or of the untried fertility of those fresh minds into which these riches will continue to be poured. It may possibly be true that, in some of those fields of discovery which lie open to such rough observations as can be made without artificial methods, the great explorers of former times have appropriated most of what is valuable, and that the gleanings which remain are sought after, rather for their abstruseness, than for their intrinsic worth. But the history of science shews that even during the phase of her progress in which she devotes herself to improving the accuracy of the numerical measurement of quantities with which she has long been familiar, she is preparing the materials for the subjugation of the new regions, which would have remained unknown if she had been contented with the rough methods of her early pioneers. I might bring forward instances gathered from every branch of science, shewing how the labour of careful measurement has been rewarded by the discovery of new fields of research, and by the development of new scientific ideas. But the history of the science of terrestrial magnetism affords us a sufficient example of what may be done by experiments in concert, such as we hope some day to perform in our Laboratory.
 * Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics held at Cambridge in October 1871, re-edited by W. D. Niven (2003) in Volume 2 of The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Courier Dover Publications, p. 241; this has sometimes been misquoted in a way which considerably alters its intent: "in a few years, all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and … the only occupation which will then be left to the men of science will be to carry these measurement to another place of decimals."

 * We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
 * Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics held at Cambridge in October 1871, re-edited by W. D. Niven (2003) in Volume 2 of The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Courier Dover Publications, p. 243.

 * The whole science of heat is founded Thermometry and, and when these operations are understood we may proceed to the third step, which is the investigation of those relations between the thermal and the mechanical properties of substances which form the subject of Thermodynamics. The whole of this part of the subject depends on the consideration of the Intrinsic Energy of a system of bodies, as depending on the temperature and physical state, as well as the form, motion, and relative position of these bodies. Of this energy, however, only a part is available for the purpose of producing mechanical work, and though the energy itself is indestructible, the available part is liable to diminution by the action of certain natural processes, such as conduction and radiation of heat, friction, and viscosity. These processes, by which energy is rendered unavailable as a source of work, are classed together under the name of the Dissipation of Energy.
 * Theory of Heat "Preface" (1871)

 * The vast interplanetary and interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe, which the Creator has not seen fit to fill with the symbols of the manifold order of His kingdom. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full, that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of Space, or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.
 * "On Action at a Distance" Nature (Mar. 6, 1873) Vol VII, Issue 175, p. 343.

 * Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations of their minds.
 * "Thomson & Tait's Natural Philosophy" in Nature, Vol. 7 (Mar. 27, 1873) A review of  (1873) by Sir W. Thomson, P. G. Tait. See Nature, Vol. 7-8, Nov. 1872-Oct. 1873, pp. 399-400, or The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, p. 328.

 * It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...
 * A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), Preface, p. xiii.

 * We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.
 * A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873), §36.

 * Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
 * Maxwell, in a letter to William Thomson, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 (1990), p. 245.

 * The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
 * in a letter to Lord Rayleigh, as quoted in John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1924), p. 47.

 * Aye, I suppose I could stay up that late.
 * Maxwell, on being told on his arrival at Cambridge University that there would be a compulsory 6 a.m. church service, as quoted in Spice in Science : The Best of Science Funnies (2006) by K. Krishna Murty

 * The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.
 * Encyclopedia Brittanica article, quoted by in Science A Four Thousand Year History (2009) citing Simon Schaffer article in The Values of Precision (1995) ed. M. Norton Wise

A Paradoxical Ode After Shelley (1878)

 * The last poem of Maxwell, written to Hermann Stoffkraft, Ph.D. in 1878. Published in The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882) by Lewis Campell and William Garnett, it is pastiche of a passage from the lyrical drama, Prometheus Unbound, by the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

My soul’s an amphicheiral knot Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, While thou dost like a convict sit With marlinspike untwisting it Only to find my knottiness abiding; Since all the tools for my untying In four-dimensioned space are lying, Where playful fancy intersperses Whole avenues of universes; Where Klein and Clifford fill the void With one unbounded, finite homaloid, Whereby the Infinite is hopelessly destroyed.
 * I

II But when thy Science lifts her pinions In Speculation’s wild dominions, I treasure every dictum thou emittest; While down the stream of Evolution We drift, and look for no solution But that of the survival of the fittest. Till in that twilight of the gods When earth and sun are frozen clods, When, all its energy degraded, Matter in æther shall have faded, We, that is, all the work we’ve done, As waves in æther, shall for ever run In swift-expanding spheres, through heavens beyond the sun.

III Great Principle of all we see, Thou endless Continuity! By thee are all our angles gently rounded; Our misfits are by thee adjusted, And as I still in thee have trusted, So let my methods never be confounded! O never may direct Creation Break in upon my contemplation, Still may the causal chain, ascending, Appear unbroken and unending, And, where that chain is lost to sight Let viewless fancies guide my darkling flight Through Æon-haunted worlds, in order infinite. ∂p/∂t

The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
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 * Quotations from The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882) by and, Full text online.

 * I believe, with the Westminster Divines and their predecessors ad Infinitum that "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever." That for this end to every man has been given a progressively increasing power of communication with other creatures. That with his powers his susceptibilities increase. That happiness is indissolubly connected with the full exercise of these powers in their intended direction. That Happiness and Misery must inevitably increase with increasing Power and Knowledge. That the translation from the one course to the other is essentially miraculous, while the progress is natural. But the subject is too high. I will not, however, stop short, but proceed to Intellectual Pursuits.
 * Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 158

 * In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
 * Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 159

 * I maintain that all the evil influences that I can trace have been internal and not external, you know what I mean—that I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me, and that if I escape, it is only by God's grace helping me to get rid of myself, partially in science, more completely in society, — but not perfectly except by committing myself to God as the instrument of His will, not doubtfully, but in the certain hope that that Will will be plain enough at the proper time. Nevertheless, you see things from the outside directly, and I only by reflexion, so I hope that you will not tell me you have little fault to find with me, without finding that little and communicating it.
 * Letter to Rev. C. B. Tayler ( 8 July 1853) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 189

 * I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.
 * Draft of a reply to an invitation to join the Victoria Institute (1875), in Ch. 12 : Cambridge 1871 To 1879, p. 404

Were he now to see his blunder, When he put his reason under The control of worldly Pride.
 * How the learned fool would wonder
 * Part III Poems, "A Vision Of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy. " (November 10, 1852)

Questions strange I shout for ever, While echoes far and wide Seem to mock my vain endeavour; Still I shout, for though they never Cast my borrowed voice aside, '''Words from empty words they sever— Words of Truth from words of Pride.'''
 * By the hollow mauntain-side
 * Part III Poems, "Reflection from Various Surfaces" (April 18, 1853)

How shall those you love be blest," Ask at once eternal Rest,    Peace and assurance giving. Rest of Life and not of death, Rest in Love and Hope and Faith, Til the God who gives their breath     Calls them to rest from living.
 * Ask no more, then, "what is best,
 * Part III Poems, "On St. David's Day. To Mrs. E. C. Morrieson." (March 1, 1854)

Is mingling its notes with our own! The discord is vanishing slowly, And melts in that dominant tone. And they that have heard it can never Return to confusion again, Their voices are music for ever, And join in the mystical strain.'''
 * '''But listen, what harmony holy
 * Part III Poems, To the Air of "Lörelei." (January, 1858)

And '''life may be labour in vain; But I'd rather be silly than lazy''', And would not quit life for its pain.
 * The world may be utterly crazy
 * Part III Poems, Tune, Il Segreto per esser felice (March 24, 1858)

Quotes about Maxwell

 * Pisarro explained the Neo-Impressionist theories to his dealer Durand-Ruel in a letter written towards the end of 1886. He stressed the importance of Seurat's role as inventor of the theory, and described the new function of colour, which replaced the mechanical mixtures of pigments with optical mixtures, where colours partially fused in the spectator's eye. The component parts of each optical colour mixture were to be painted in separate touches so that they retained their colour purity. When colours were mixed on the palette, they could only be combined with close neighbors on the colour circle, so as to avoid excessive dulling of the hues. Pissaro noted that the great colour theorists who had influenced Seurat's thinking were Chevreul, the Scott Maxwell, and the American Ogden Rood. Optical colour mixtures, they argued, were more luminous than mixed pigments.
 * Anthea Callen, Techniques of the Impressionists (1982) p. 138.

 * The influence of Quetelet's ideas spread throughout the sciences, even to the physical sciences. The two primary founders of the modern kinetic theory of gases, based on considerations of probability, were James Clerk Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann. Both acknowledged their debt to Quetelet. ...historians generally consider the influence of the natural sciences on the social sciences, whereas in the case of Maxwell and Boltzmann, there is an influence of the social sciences on the natural sciences, as Theodore Porter has shown.
 * I. Bernard Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life (2005)

 * In order to appreciate the nature of Maxwell's contributions, let us recall how matters stood in his day. ... ...states that a variable magnetic field generates an electric field. Maxwell, however, considered that this law, standing alone, lacked symmetry; so he formulated the hypothesis that conversely a variable electric field should generate a magnetic one, and proceeded to construct his theory... no experimental results could be claimed to have justified any such assumption... His celebrated equations of electromagnetics represented, therefore, the results of experiment, supplemented by this additional hypothetical assumption. The advisability of making this hypothesis was accentuated when it was found to ensure the law of conservation of electricity. ...In the particular case of free space in which only fields but no charges or currents are present, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetics, termed field-equations (since they describe the state of the electromagnetic field), can be written:
 * where E represents electric field intensity, H magnetic field density, t denotes time, and c a most important constant... (2) represents Faraday's law of induction, while (4) constitutes the hypothetical law postulated by Maxwell... Prior to Maxwell's investigations the fourth equation would have been written "curl H = 0"...From his field equations, Maxwell... was able to deduce the two additional ones:

If two magnetic poles of equal strength, situated in empty space... one centimetre apart, attract or repel each other with a force of one dyne, either pole is said to represent one unit of magnetic pole strength in the electromagnetic system of units. Owing to the interconnections between magnetism and electricity, we can deduce therefrom the unit of electric charge also in the electromagnetic system. Likewise, if two electric charges of equal strength... in empty space at a distance of one centimetre apart, attract or repel each other with a force of one dyne, either charge is said to represent one unit of electric charge in the electrostatic system of units. From this we can derive the unit of magnetic pole strength in the electrostatic system. Precise measurements... then proved that the value of this ratio was about 186,000 miles per second; whence it became necessary to assume that periodic perturbations in the strains and stresses of the field would be propagated in the form of waves moving through the ether with this particular speed. But this velocity was precisely that of light waves propagated through the luminiferous ether.
 * ...these last two equations connote that varying electric and magnetic intensities will be propagated through the ether in wave form with a velocity c... This discovery removed all possibility of action at a distance, since the field perturbations now appeared to be propagated from place to place with a finite velocity. It was... of interest to determine the precise value of c. ...Physicists ...were unable, in Maxwell's day, to devise a means of performing such delicate experiments. ...Maxwell remarked that it would be given by the ratio of the magnitude of any electric charge, measured in terms of electrostatic units (based on electricity), and then of electromagnetic units (based on magnetism).
 * A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927) pp. 126-127.

Yet, had men realised that our world was one of four-dimensional Minkowskian space-time, and not one of separate space and time, things would have been different. By extending the well-known stationary laws to four-dimensional space-time, through the mere addition of time components to the various trios of space ones, we should have written out inadvertently the laws governing varying fields, or, in other words, we should have constructed Maxwell's celebrated equations. Electromagnetic induction, discovered experimentally by Faraday, the additional electrical term introduced tentatively by Maxwell, radio waves, everything in the electromagnetics of the field, could have been foreseen at one stroke of the pen. A century of painstaking effort could have been saved. We are assuming that a four-dimensional vector calculus would have been in existence; but this is purely a mathematical question.
 * In the study of electricity and magnetism we may consider phenomena in which conditions do not vary as time passes by; the electric charges and the magnets remain at rest, and the currents flowing in fixed wires do not vary in intensity. Conditions are then termed stationary [static]; it is as though time played no part. The laws which govern this type of phenomena were discovered empirically over a century ago, and were expressed mathematically in terms of spatial vectors. The problem of ascertaining how electric and magnetic phenomena would behave when conditions ceased to be stationary was one that could not be predicted; further experimental research was necessary before the general laws could be obtained. Even so, the difficulties were considerable, and it needed Maxwell's genius to establish the laws from the incomplete array of experimental evidence then at hand. All this work extended over nearly a century; it was slow and laborious.
 * A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927) pp. 319-320.

 * The first clear sign of a breakdown in communication between physics and mathematics was the extraordinary lack of interest among mathematicians in James Clerk Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electromagnetism. Maxwell discovered his equations, which describe the behavior of electric and magnetic fields under the most general conditions, in the year 1861, and published a clear and definitive statement of them in 1865. This was the great event of nineteenth century physics, achieving for electricity and magnetism what Newton had achieved for gravitation two hundred years earlier. Maxwell's equations contained, among other things, the explanation of light as an electromagnetic phenomenon, and the basic principles of electric power transmission and radio technology. ...But in addition to their physical applications, Maxwell's equations had abstract mathematical qualities which were profoundly new and important. Maxwell's theory was formulated in terms of a new style of mathematical concept, a extending throughout space and time and obeying coupled partial differential equations of peculiar symmetry. ...If they had taken Maxwell's equations to heart as Euler took Newton's, they would have discovered, among other things, Einstein's theory of special relativity, the theory of s and their linear representations, and probably large pieces of the theory of hyperbolic differential equations and functional analysis. A great part of twentieth century physics and mathematics could have been created in the nineteenth century, simply by exploring to the end the mathematical concepts to which Maxwell's equations naturally lead.
 * Freeman Dyson, "Missed opportunities" (1972) Gibbs Lecture, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (1972) Vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 635--652.

 * If the idea of physical reality had ceased to be purely atomic, it still remained for the time being purely mechanistic; people still tried to explain all events as the motion of inert masses; indeed no other way of looking at things seemed conceivable. Then came the great change, which will be associated for all time with the names of Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, and Hertz. The lion's share in this revolution fell to Clerk Maxwell. He showed that the whole of what was then known about light and electro-magnetic phenomena was expressed in his well known double system of differential equations, in which the electric and magnetic fields appear as the dependent variables. Maxwell did, indeed try to explain, or justify, these equations by intellectual constructions. But... the equations alone appeared as the essential thing and the strength of the fields as the ultimate entities, not to be reduced to anything else.
 * Albert Einstein, "Clerk Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality" in Essays in Science (1934)

 * The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
 * Albert Einstein, as quoted in New Scientist, Vol. 130 (1991), p. 49

 * The work of James Clerk Maxwell changed the world forever.
 * Albert Einstein, as quoted at "James Clerk Maxwell" at BBC History

 * '''From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now — there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.
 * Richard Feynman, in  (1964) Volume II, 1-6

 * What does distinguish Maxwell to a great degree is a strong intuition, rising at times to divination, which goes hand in hand with rich power of imagination. For the latter quality much evidence can be cited: his predilection for diagrams, his use of roll-curves [Rollkui'Ven], of stereoscopic figures, of reciprocal force-planes [Kraefteplaenen].
 * , in Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century, Volume 9, pg. 229

 * He achieved greatness unequalled.
 * Max Planck

 * I want to talk about thought experiments and how they can work, and I want to do that by talking about my favorite example which is Maxwell's equations, the laws of electromagnetism. Again, these are more equations, but it's ok because they're on a T-shirt. So these laws govern the behavior of electric and magnetic fields, but actually, when Maxwell was a boy... there was a missing term. ...When Maxwell got into the field these were the equations, and they had been discovered experimentally, and I want to say a little bit about them. So this bit here is Gauss's law $$\nabla \cdot \mathbf{D} = \rho_\mathrm{v}$$ it says that electric charges produce electric fields. This bit is Ampere's law $$\mathbf{\nabla} \times \mathbf{H} = \mathbf{J}$$ it says that a electric currents produce magnetic fields. Faraday's law $$\nabla \times \mathbf{E} = -\frac{\partial \mathbf{B}} {\partial t}$$ says that oscillating magnetic fields can also produce electric fields... These were discovered and confirmed by a tremendous amount of data. They were consistent with all known measurements/observations of electromagnetism in Maxwell's day, but there are a problem, and the problem was exposed by a . The thought experiment is simply to consider a rapidly oscillating current with a break in the circuit, a ... and the problem is that if you use those equations to calculate the magnetic field next to the capacitor you don't get definite answer, you get two different answers, depending on how you use the equations. So there is something wrong. Even without doing this experiment you know that there is something wrong with those equations, and from this clue and a lot more reasoning... Maxwell was able to figure out that he could fix this by adding one more term [to Ampere's law]... $$\nabla \times \mathbf{H} = \mathbf{J} +\frac{\partial \mathbf{D}} {\partial t}$$ and with this the equations are mathematically and physically well posed. They give unambiguous answers to questions like the one I mentioned. Now, Maxwell got a huge bonus because... Faraday's law says that an oscillating magnetic field produces an electric field. Maxwell's new term says that an oscillating electric field produces a magnetic field. So each can produce the other, and so you can get a disturbance which is self-sustaining, and which doesn't just sustain... but moves... Faraday, Maxwell, Faraday, Maxwell... you get a self-sustaining disturbance which moves at a velocity that you get from the equations, and the velocity is the speed of light. So Maxwell got a huge bonus for understanding the unification of electricity and magnetism. He understood the nature of light! When I first heard about this in high school I thought this was the coolest thing, and I still do. It's what we're all trying to do.
 * Joseph Polchinski, "Space-time versus the Quantum" (November 25, 2014) 59th Annual Faculty Research Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara (aired Nov 16, 2015)

 * One reason for the success of Maxwell's teaching texts, and those of Thomson and Tait, is that they were... expounding in clear and persuasive language the new understanding in basic physics that their authors had been responsible for developing... In a way, Maxwell's contributions to the great ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica were a natural development of his zeal for teaching. They covered Atom, Attraction, Capillary action, Constitution of bodies, Diagrams, Diffusion, Ether, Faraday, Harmonic analysis, and Physical sciences. ...Maxwell deserves to be remembered as one of the nineteenth century's notable pedagogues. ...His expertise was built upon understanding, enthusiasm, hard work, and experience.
 * John S. Reid, "Maxwell at Aberdeen" in James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on His Life and Work (2014) p. 27, ed. Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker.

 * Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
 * Carl Sagan

 * In electromagnetism... the law of the inverse square had been supreme, but, as a consequence of the work of Faraday and Maxwell, it was superseded by the field. And the same change took place in the theory of gravitation. By and by the material particles, electrically charged bodies, and magnets which are the things that we actually observe come to be looked upon only as "singularities" in the field.
 * Willem de Sitter, "Relativity and Modern Theories of the Universe," Kosmos (1932)

 * Maxwell's importance in the history of scientific thought is comparable to Einstein's (whom he inspired) and to Newton's (whose influence he curtailed)

In studying the problem of Galactic rotation we are almost entirely dependent on the determination of velocities in the line of sight, which can be measured spectroscopically by the. ...On the theory of Galactic rotation stars which are further from the centre than the sun will tend, in general, to move more slowly, i.e. relative to the sun they will lag behind, whereas stars nearer to the centre will race ahead.
 * In a famous memoir, Clerk Maxwell showed nearly a hundred years ago that Saturn's rings would be unstable if they were solid, and that they must consist of a swarm of separate bodies. In a system of particles rotating about a centre of gravitational attraction the innermost particles will rotate more rapidly than the outermost, in order to counteract the stronger gravitational pull towards the centre.
 * Gerald James Whitrow, The Structure of the Universe: An Introduction to Cosmology (1949)

 * Changing electric fields produce magnetic fields, and changing magnetic fields produce electric fields. Thus the fields can animate one another in turn, giving birth to self-reproducing disturbances that travel at the speed of light. Ever since Maxwell, we understand that these disturbances are what light is.
 * Frank Wilczek, The Lightness of Being (2008)

A Beautiful Math (2006)

 * : John Nash, Game Theory, and the Quest for a Modern Code of Nature by Tom Siegfried

 * [I]n the mid-19th century math seemed... useless for physicists pondering the complexities of molecular motions in gases. ...How could anyone grasp the inner workings of a mass of molecules too numerous to count and too small to be seen? Yet... Maxwell found a way, by using statistics—mathematical descriptions of large groups of molecules. ...Maxwell got the idea to use statistics in physics from social scientists applying math to society!

 * Maxwell... mastered electricity and magnetism, light and heat, pretty much mopping up all the major areas of physics beyond those that Newton had... taken care of—gravitation and the laws of motion. ...Maxwell detected an essential shortcoming in Newton's laws of motion, too. They worked... for macroscopic objects, like cannonballs and rocks. But what about the submicroscopic molecules from which such objects were made? ...Newton's laws ...did you no good because you could not possibly trace the motion of an individual molecule ...Maxwell applied the sort of statistical thinking that Quetelet had promoted.

 * Maxwell probably first encountered Quetelet in an article by... John Herschel... (...familiar with Quetelet as a fellow astronomer). Later, in 1857, Maxwell read a newly published book by... Henry Thomas Buckle. Buckle, himself clearly influenced by Quetelet, believed that science could discover the "laws of the human mind" and that human actions are a part of "one vast system of universal order." ...Though Maxwell found Buckle's book "bumptious," he recognized it as a source of original ideas, and the statistical reasoning Buckle applied to society seemed just the thing... needed to deal with molecular motion.

 * The essential feature of Maxwell's work was showing that the properties of gases made sense not if gas molecules all flew around at a similar "average" velocity, as Clausius had surmised, but only if they moved at all sorts of speeds, most near the average, but some substantially faster or slower, and a few very fast or slow. ...Just as Quetelet's average man was fictitious, and key insights into society came from analyzing the spread of features around the average, understanding gases meant figuring out the range and distribution of molecular velocities around the average. And that distribution, Maxwell calculated, matched the bell-shaped curve describing the range of measurement errors.

 * Maxwell... during the 1860s... showed that when the velocities reached the bell-shaped distribution, no further net change was likely. (...Ludwig Boltzmann further elaborated... and strengthened Maxwell's results). Any specific molecule would speed up or slow down, but... other molecules would change in speed to compensate. When a gas reached that state... the gas was at equilibrium. ...[T]his notion of equilibrium is precisely analogous to the Nash equilibrium in game theory. ...[J]ust as the Nash equilibrium is typically a mixed set of strategies, a gas seeks an equilibrium state with a mixed distribution of molecular velocities.

The success... has driven the belief among many physicists that it could be applied with similar success to society. ...[E]verything from the flow of funds in the stock market to the flow of traffic on interstate highways ...
 * Maxwell, and then Boltzmann, and then... J. Willard Gibbs consequently expended enormous intellectual effort in devising..., or... . The uses... extend far beyond gases... describing electric and magnetic interactions, chemical reactions, phase transitions... and all other manner of exchanges of matter and energy.

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Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American songwriter and musician.

Quotes

 * I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.
 * in Strange Parallel (1998).

 * [when asked about cigarettes] I don't recommend them... but I smoke them.
 * seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N33SPjRvgpQ

 * I don't intend to write depressing songs and I'd probably rather write happy ones
 * in Spongey Monkey #3.

 * Here's a song I made up while I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess with the sound off. It's a fact. I had a secret crush on Xena. It was a secret to me too. I wouldn't admit it. She's pretty fuckin' tough. She has a good yell... she kills the stupid gladiators with the log-trap. Release the log-trap! She releases the log-trap and they all get... crushed. They'd all wanna be with her if they could, but unfortunately they're not on her side. It's a lot better with the sound off. Really, it is. And the song didn't have anything to do with Xena... but... I was about half a bottle through Jameson's... if that makes any sense.
 * before playing "Between the Bars" at a concert in 1996. http://www.archive.org/details/esmith2006-09-25..flacf.

 * There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_XNghTKvq8.

Roman Candle (1994)

 * I'm a roman candleMy head is full of flamesI want to hurt himI want to give him painAnd make him feel this pretty burn.
 * Roman Candle.
 * Church bells and now I'm awakeAnd I guess it must be some kind of holidayI can't seem to join in the celebrationBut I'll go to the serviceAnd I'll go to prayAnd I'll sing the praises of my maker's nameLike I was as good as she made me...
 * Last Call.

Elliott Smith (1995)

 * Your hand on his arm, the hay stack charm around your neck, strung out and thin, calling some friend trying to cash some check, he's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect. * I can't beat myselfI can't beat myselfAnd I don't want to talk.I'm taking the cure so I can be quietWhenever I want.So leave me aloneYou ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks.
 * Needle in the Hay.

 * You turned white, like a saint
But I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold...
...Flecked paint.
 * The Biggest Lie.

 * I'm a junkyard full of false starts
And I don't need your permission
To bury my love under this bare light bulb.
The moon is a sickle cell
It'll kill you in time.
 * Coming Up Roses.
 * I'm looking at a hand full of broken plans
And I'm tired of playing it down
You just want her to do anything to you
There ain't nothing you won't allow
You wake up in the middle of the night
From a dream you won't remember flashing on like a cop's light
You say she's waiting and I know what for
The white lady loves you more
 * The White Lady Loves You More.

Either/Or (1997)

 * Drink up, baby, look at the stars
I'll kiss you again
Between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there
With your hands in the air
Waiting to finally be caught
Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine...
 * Between the Bars.

 * I could make you satisfied in everything you do,
All your secret wishes could right now be coming true
And be forever with my poisoned arms
Around you.
No one's gonna fool around with us.
 * Angeles.

 * I'm going out now like a baby
A naïve unsatisfiable baby
Grabbing onto whatever's around
For the soaring high or the crushing down
With hidden cracks that don't show, but that constantly just grow.
 * 2:45.

 * Crooked spin can't come to rest,
I'm damaged bad at best.
 * Say Yes.

 * I'm in love with the world,
Through the eyes of a girl,
Who's still around the morning after.
 * Say Yes.

XO (1998)

 * It's a picture perfect evening
And I'm staring down the sun
Fully loaded, deaf, and dumb
And done waiting for sedation to disconnect my head
Or any situation where I'm better off than dead
 * Sweet Adeline.

 * They took your life apart
And called your failures art
They were wrong, though
They won't know
'Til tomorrow
 * Tomorrow Tomorrow.

 * She appears composed
So she is, I suppose
Who can really tell?
She shows no emotion at all
Stares into space like a dead china doll
 * Waltz #2 (XO).

 * London Bridge is safe and sound
No matter what you keep repeating
Nothing's gonna drag me down
To a death that's not worth cheating
 * Baby Britain.

 * The first time I saw you
I knew it would never last
I'm not half what I wish I was
I'm so angry
I don't think it'll ever pass
And I was bad news for you just because
I never meant to hurt you
 * Pitseleh.

 * I waited for a bus
To separate the both of us
And take me off far away from you
'Cause my feelings never change a bit
I always feel like shit
I don't know why; I guess that I "just do"
 * I Didn't Understand.

Figure 8 (2000)

 * Bored in a role, but he can't stop
Standing up to sit back down,
and lose the one thing found.
Spinning the world like a toy top
'till there's a ghost in every town.

 * Can't Make A Sound.

 * Everything here is free
Everything but you and me
This painting never dries
Stupidity tries

 * Stupidity tries.

 * What I used to be will pass away, and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me.

 * Happiness.

 * The first true love that folded at the slightest touch,
brought down like an old hotel,
people digging through the rubble for things they can resell.

 * Junk Bond Trader.

From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)

 * This is the place you end up when you lose the chase,
Where you're dragged against your will from a basement on a hill,
And all anybody knows, is you're not like them,
So they kick you in the head...and send you back to bed.

 * Memory Lane.

 * I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chart
And I take what's given me, most cooperatively
I do what people say and lie in bed all day
Absolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied

 * Memory Lane.

 * So I wait for confirmation
That you're never gonna use your starting gun.

 * Coast to Coast.

 * I met a girl, snowball in hell
she was hard and as cracked as the liberty bell.

 * Don't Go Down.

 * I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy
the cold comfort of the in between
a little less than a human being
a little less than a happy high
a little less than a suicide
the only things that you really tried.

 * Fond Farewell.

 * Veins full of disappearing ink
Vomitting in the kitchen sink.

 * Fond Farewell.

 * The scraping subjects, ruled by fear, they told me
whiskey works better than beer.
 * King's Crossing.

 * This is the place where time reverses.
Dead men talk to all the pretty nurses.
Instruments shine on a silver tray
Don't let me get carried away.
 * King's Crossing.

 * Gimme one good reason not to do it
(because we love you), so do it.
 * King's Crossing.

 * Because your candle burns too bright
well, I almost forgot it was twilight.
Even if I think that you are right,
well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight.
You're wonderful, and it's beautiful,
but I'm already somebody's baby.
And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too.
 * Twilight.

 * Haven't laughed this hard in a long time
I better stop now before I start crying
Go off to sleep in the sunshine
I don't want to see the day when its dying.
 * Twilight.

 * You don't deserve to be lonely,
but those drugs you got won't make you feel better.
Pretty soon you'll find it's the only
little part of your life you're keeping together.
 * Twilight.

 * My mama told me 'baby stay clean
there's no in between.'
but all you ladies and you gentlemen,
between is all you've ever seen or been.
 * A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free.

 * You disappoint me,
all you people raking in on the world.
The devil's script sells
you the heart of a blackbird.
 * A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free.

 * Shine on me, baby
cause it's raining
in my heart.
 * A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free.

New Moon (posthumous, 2007)

 * And though you'd rather see me gone
then to see there come the day,
I'll be waiting for you anyway

 * Miss Misery (Early version).

 * Next door, the TV's flashing
blue frames on the wall.
It's a comedy from the seventies
with a lead no one recalls.
He vanished into oblivion
it's easy to do
and I cried a sea when you talked to me
the day you said we were through.
But it's all right, some enchanted night
I'll be with you

 * Miss Misery (Early version).

 * I'd say you make the
perfect angel in the snow
all crushed out on the way
you are, I'd better stop before
it goes too far.

 * Angel in the Snow.

 * Don't you know that I love you?
sometimes I feel like
only a cold still life
only a frozen still life
that fell down here to lay beside you.

 * Angel in the Snow.

 * Your arsenal of excuses
you never told her
when you walked out on the savannah shoulder
with your veins all full of beer
thinking 'well at least now everything is clear'

 * Georgia, Georgia.

 * Here come your pride and joy
The comic little drunk you call your boy,
Making everybody smile

 * All Cleaned Out.

 * I'm sorry you seem so stung,
and I'm sorry you feel you have to hold your tongue
when you're so pretty and smart

 * All Cleaned Out.

 * Wearing clothes that clash
Wondering 'is this treasure, is this trash?'
Still trying to decide

 * All Cleaned Out.

 * The clock moved a quarter of a turn,
the time it took a cigarette to burn

 * Going Nowhere.

 * Elliott: "Do you want to hear a happy or a sad song?"
Crowd: "Happy!"
Elliott: "Old or new?"
Crowd: "Old!"
Elliott: "Happy and old, that's a strange choice."

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Manasa Tugia

Manasa Tugia is a former Fijian politician, who served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2006, Chairman of Parliament's Justice, Law, and Order Committee, and leading member of the Conservative Alliance, a right-wing political party.

Parliamentary speech, 5 August 2003
''Source: Daily Post, 5 August 2003. The speech relates to the constitutional provisions for a compulsory multi-party Cabinet, which Tugia opposes.''

 * We know that the simplistic, almost childlike naivety or perhaps the intellectual senility of the architects of this concept have not taken into consideration the practical difficulties and impracticalities of sharing power for the sake of sharing power in our society with political parties that are diametrical opposed to each other.

 * The reality of a democracy is that the political party with a majority in Parliament has the mandate to run the country for a selected number of years because of popular choice - that is the nature of good democracy. "The other political parties are left as opposition parties as alternative Government.

 * It (a multi-party cabinet) will waste a lot of public funds, and make up for a weak and unstable Government through internal bickering, and brinkmanship that could see shifting alliance in Government, rising and falling coalition that will undermine the stability of Government. This will have adverse effects on the levels of confidence in the country which certainly will manifest itself in many forms including declining investor confidence and lowering the morale of the citizenry at large.

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Brazil (1985 film)

Brazil is a 1985 film about a bureaucrat in a retro-future world who tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
 * Directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown.

It's only a state of mind. Taglines

Sam Lowry

 * Yes... No... I don't know. I don't know what I want.
 * Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval. Mr. Helpmann, I'm dying to get at this woman... no, no, no.
 * Yes, I always used to wonder if she wore falsies. False ears...
 * Have you got a 27B stroke 6?
 * Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedures?
 * I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms.
 * [to Jill] You won't believe this, I know it's going to sound incredible, but I've been dreaming about you. No, not like that. I mean, I love you - in my dreams - I love you. And, uh...Extraordinary, isn't it?

Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle

 * Well, that's a pipe of a different color.
 * Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six... bloody paperwork.
 * Listen, kid, we're all in it together.

Mr. Helpmann

 * Jill? Yes... Sam I think I ought to tell you. I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavilion. Thrown in the towel.
 * All I can say is don't fall at the last fence. The finishing post's in sight. See you in the paddock... keep your eye on the ball.
 * 'Ere I am, J.H. ...The ghost in the machine.

Others

 * Arresting Officer: That is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt.
 * Bill, Department of Works: Mistakes? We don't make mistakes.
 * Charlie, Department of Works: Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us.
 * Guard: Don't fight it, son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.
 * Mr. Warrenn: There you are, your own number on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office! Welcome to the team, DZ-015.
 * Mr. Warrenn: And what the hell is this mess. An empty desk is an efficient desk...I don't know what's going on here, Lowry, but don't think you can intimidate us with your friends and relatives in high places. NOW SHAPE UP!
 * Kurtzmann: It's been confusion from the word go! He's been overcharged for Information Retrieval Procedures and someone somewhere is trying to make us carry the can.
 * Jack Lint: We've always been close, haven't we? Well, until this whole thing blows over, just stay away from me.
 * Jack Lint: This is information retrieval not information dispersal.
 * Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Can you believe it? Just me and my little knife. Snip, snip, slice, slice...But this is just the beginning...You've seen her with her clothes off. Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. No hairlines.
 * Dr. Chapman: That technique...I've tried it. A nice effect, but highly unstable. In six months, she'll look like Grandma Moses.
 * Spoor: Where'd you get this from, eh? Out yer nostril?
 * Spoor: All you've got to do is blow your nose and it's fixed, in't it?
 * Holly: Put it on, big boy. I won't look at your willy.
 * Mrs. Terrain: My complication had a little complication. But Dr. Jaffe says I'll soon be up and bounding about like a young gazelle.

Dialogue

 * Singers: [TV commercial jingle] Central Services: We do the work, you do the pleasure.
 * TV commercial pitchman: Hi, there. I want to talk to you about ducts. Do your ducts seem old fashioned, out of date? Central Services' new duct designs are now available in hundreds of different colors to suit your individual tastes.

 * Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
 * Mr. Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game, they'd get a lot more out of life.
 * Interviewer: Nevertheless, Mr. Helpmann, there are those who maintain that the Ministry of Information has become too large and unwieldy...And the cost of it all, Deputy Minister? Seven percent of the gross national product.
 * Mr. Helpmann: I understand this concern on behalf of the tax payers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principle of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and for the Information Retrieval Procedures used in their interrogation.
 * Interviewer: Do you believe that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?
 * Mr. Helpmann: Oh, yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs. We're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game.

 * Mr. Helpmann: Why should decent law-abiding citizens have to subsidize criminals?
 * Interviewer: But Mr. Helpmann, the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.
 * Mr. Helpmann: Beginner's luck.

 * Sam Lowry: Remember me to Alison and the twins.
 * Jack Lint: Triplets.
 * Sam Lowry: Triplets? God, how time flies.

 * Sam Lowry: Excuse me, Dawson, can you put me through to Mr. Helpmann's office?
 * Dawson: I'm afraid I can't sir. You have to go through the proper channels.
 * Sam Lowry: And you can't tell me what the proper channels are, because that's classified information?
 * Dawson: I'm glad to see the Ministry's continuing its tradition of recruiting the brightest and best, sir.
 * Sam Lowry: Thank you, Dawson.

 * Sam Lowry: It's not the machine. There's a mismatch on the personnel code numbers... Tuttle should have had £31.06, debited against his account, not Buttle!
 * Kurtzman: [horrified] Oh my God, a mistake!
 * Sam Lowry: Well at least it's not ours.
 * Kurtzman: [eagerly] Isn't it? Whose is it?
 * Sam Lowry: Information Retrieval.
 * Kurtzman: [smiling] Oh, good!

 * Sam Lowry: I don't want dessert. I don't want a promotion. I don't want anything.
 * Mrs. Lowry: Of course you want something. You must have hopes, wishes, dreams.
 * Sam Lowry: No, nothing. Not even dreams!

 * Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
 * Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
 * Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they've got the whole country sectioned off. You can't move without a form.

 * Sam Lowry: Better still, send it to Buttle, after all it's his cheque.
 * Kurtzmann: I've tried that. Look at this/ [shows Sam a file] You see? The population census has got him down as dormanted. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as deleted...
 * Sam Lowry: Hang on. [goes to computer terminal and begins typing]
 * Kurtzman: ...Information Retrieval has got him down as inoperative. And there's another one - Security has got him down as excised. Administration's got him down as completed...
 * Sam Lowry: He's dead.
 * Kurtzman: L... [pause] Dead? Well, that's awful!
 * [Kurtzman sits down and looks at refund cheque]
 * Kurtzman: [desperately] We'll never get rid of the damn thing now! What are we going to do Sam?

 * Sam Lowry: It's a refund, actually. There was a mistake.
 * Mrs. Buttle: Mistake?
 * Sam Lowry: Yes, they don't usually make mistakes, but, uh, well, I suppose we're all human...Actually, you know, my coming here is rather unorthodox, bringing you this check as any payments are normally made through central computer, but, uhm, well, as there were certain difficulties, we thought, well, rather than cause delay, uh, we'd let you have it now - you know, it being Christmas and all.
 * Mrs. Buttle: My husband's dead, isn't he?
 * Sam Lowry: Uhm, I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. But if you do have any complaints you wish to make, I'd be, well, only too happy to send you the appropriate forms.
 * Mrs. Buttle: What have you done with his body?...
 * Sam Lowry: Uhmm, I don't know anything about that, Mrs. Buttle. I'm really just delivering the check. So if, uhm, look, if you wouldn't mind just signing these two receipts, I'd be only too happy to, uh, to leave you in peace...
 * Mrs. Buttle: He hadn't done anything. He was good! What have you done with his body?

 * Harvey Lime: [bragging] Computers are my forte.
 * Sam Lowry: Let me see. [He grabs the page] Gillian Layton. Coloring white. Hair blonde. Eyes blue. Height, five-foot, four. Distinguishing marks, scar on left...Is this all you got?
 * Harvey Lime: Best to take things slowly where some women are concerned.

 * Sam Lowry: I only know you got the wrong man.
 * Jack Lint: Information Transit got to wrong man. I got the right man. The 'wrong man' was delivered to me as the 'right man.' I accepted him on good faith as the 'right man.' Was I wrong?
 * Sam Lowry: You killed Buttle?
 * Jack Lint: Sam, there are very rigid parameters laid down to prevent such things happening. It wasn't my fault that Buttle's heart condition didn't appear on Tuttle's file... We're going to have to bring Mr. Tuttle in, aren't we? And interrogate him at the same voltage as Mr. Buttle - and juggle the books in electrical banking.
 * Sam Lowry: What has Tuttle done?
 * Jack Lint: We suspect him of, uh, free lance subversion. Then all I need to wrap up the case is the Layton woman.
 * Sam Lowry: What has she done?
 * Jack Lint: Oh, she witnessed the Tuttle, uhm, the Buttle arrest and essentially is going around making wild allegations, obviously trying to exploit the situation. She's working for someone and I don't think it's us.
 * Sam Lowry: [softly to himself] A terrorist?

 * Sam Lowry: My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
 * Porter - Information Retrieval: Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
 * Sam Lowry: Um... don't you want to search me?
 * Porter - Information Retrieval: No sir.
 * Sam Lowry: Do you want to see my ID?
 * Porter - Information Retrieval: No need, sir.
 * Sam Lowry: But I could be anybody.
 * Porter - Information Retrieval: No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval.

 * Sam Lowry: Are you alright?
 * Jill Layton: Yeah.
 * Sam Lowry: Well, you don't deserve to be!

 * Sam Lowry: Is that one of your triplets?
 * Jack Lint: Yeah, probably.

 * Santa Claus: What would you like for Christmas?
 * Little girl: [on his lap] My own credit card.

 * Jill Layton: Get out of my cab.
 * Sam Lowry: What? Just drive!
 * Jill Layton: You touched me, nobody touches me.

 * Sam Lowry: Anyway, if I want you to trust me, it's only fair that I should trust you, right?
 * Jill Layton: Doesn't it bother you the sort of things you do at Information Retrieval?
 * Sam Lowry: What? I suppose you'd rather have terrorists?
 * Jill Layton: How many terrorists have you met, Sam? Actual terrorists?
 * Sam Lowry: Actual terrorists?
 * Jill Layton: Yeah.
 * Sam Lowry: Well, it's only my first day.

 * Jill Layton: What do you think? Is it me? Well?
 * Sam Lowry: You don't exist anymore. I've killed you. [(Shows picture of Jill Layton's file with the words "DELETE" on it] Jill Layton is dead.
 * Jill Layton: [smiles] Care for a little necrophilia? Hmmm?

 * Mr. Helpmann: He's got away from us, Jack.
 * Jack Lint: 'Fraid you're right, Mr. Helpmann. He's gone.

Taglines

 * Loose talk is noose talk.
 * The truth shall make you free.
 * It's only a state of mind.
 * We're all in it together.
 * It's about flights of fantasy. And the nightmare of reality. Terrorist bombings. And late night shopping. True Love. And creative plumbing.
 * Have a laugh at the horror of things to come.
 * Suspicion breeds confidence.
 * Be safe be suspicious.
 * Relax in a panic free atmosphere.
 * Don't suspect a friend, report him.
 * Trust in haste, regret at leisure.
 * Eagle eyes can save a life.

About Brazil (1985 film)

 * When I made "Brazil" I'd never read [George Orwell's] "1984".
 * Terry Gilliam Filmscouts

Cast

 * Jonathan Pryce - Sam Lowry
 * Robert De Niro - Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle
 * Katherine Helmond - Mrs. Ida Lowry
 * Ian Holm - Mr. M. Kurtzmann
 * Bob Hoskins - Spoor
 * Michael Palin - Jack Lint
 * Ian Richardson - Mr. Warrenn
 * Peter Vaughan - Mr. Helpmann
 * Kim Greist - Jill Layton
 * Jim Broadbent - Dr. Jaffe
 * Barbara Hicks - Mrs. Alma Terrain
 * Charles McKeown - Harvey Lime

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. Somerset Maugham

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Traffic Department 2192

Traffic Department 2192 is a top down action game created by P-Squared Productions published by Safari Software, and initially released in 1994 for DOS. Below is a list of quotes from the game.

Dialogue

 * Dispatcher: What's the magic word?
 * Velasquez:Death.
 * Dispatcher: Clearance granted.

 * Velasquez: Who needs luck! Luck is for the dipshit who doesn't know his ass from the cleft in his chin!''"
 * Dispatcher: Well I -- Hey! I resemble that remark!

 * Velasquez: "If I want your opinion, numbstick, I'll beat it out of you."

 * Dispatcher: That's what I admire about you, Vel. You always say what's on your mind.''"

 *  Velasquez: And here you are, wishing you had a mind to begin with.''"

 * Velasquez: Who the hell are you?''"
 * Aron Demeter: Why, your wet dream sugar tits. How about getting me a hot cup of coffee?''"

 * Dispatcher: I'll get Flannery and Dickle on deck. Hope you like rookies!
 * Velasquez: Dickle?!?! I've got a partner named Dickle?!?!?  I'll just tell the Vultures that and they'll fly into each other, they'll be laughing so hard!

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Talk:Gloria Estefan

Cleanup: Need to separate quotes into Sourced, Attributed, and About Gloria Estefan ~ UDScott 23:12, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Did the separation however I saw no quotes "About Gloria Estefan" I am unsure whether your talking about quotes by others on her which I saw none, or her comments on her life which I saw plenty.

DFA 23:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:The Colbert Report

Openers
Actually, some of the quotes should go in the openers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.180.144.59 (talk • contribs) 02:51, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Quotes merged from the Wikipedia article
I have moved the following raw data improperly transwikied into this article over to the talk page, so it may be properly merged instead of cluttering up the article itself. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

''These quotes have been placed in a seperate section to avoid duplicate quotes. Please integrate these into the main article. ''

 * “Talking to an Ohio CongresswomanTwenty-two astronauts are from Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?”
 * “As I understand it, this how you breed NASCAR fans; you get them to ingest more lead. You take the lead outta your gas and those same fans are just gonna lose interest and waste all their entertainment dollars at the art museum.”
 * “Lincolnish.”
 * “What were the Montagues and the Capulets but Crips and Bloods in tights?”
 * “Joe Camel. He didn’t just teach me about smooth taste, he did it with a head shaped like a penis.”
 * “What kind of a father lets his 16-year-old roam around a war zone? This is unacceptable… for two more years! After that, he’ll be of legal recruitment age, so sign him up, 'cause we're gonna need more troops.”
 * “Nation, wasps are just bees that are too lazy to make honey.”
 * “Who the hell does Sigmund Freud think he is? I for one, had no idea who he is, so I did a thorough study, read the entire Wikipedia entry (even the accurate parts). According to Freud, we’re motivated by thoughts and emotions that we’re not even conscious of.  They’re called ‘subconscious thoughts’ and I don’t like ‘em.  Having a subconscious encourages self-examination. Self-examination, in my opinion, is only good for prostates and breasts. Otherwise, folks, it is dangerous. Socrates believed the unexamined life was not worth living. He believed in asking questions about ourselves and look what it got him -- a hemlock smoothie.”
 * “I know the Pope’s infallible, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make mistakes. This is one huge Pontifical boner.”
 * “The ‘Id’ police out there would say that all my political beliefs can be explained by Freudian motivations, but folks, that’s just crazy. I’ve got perfectly rational reasons for what I believe. I’m in favor of missile defense, yes, not because missiles remind me of a penis; I like them for their power, their thrust, the explosive impositions of our will into the fertile deltas of another country. Iran’s begging for it.”
 * “If Germans are happy, it means someone else is miserable.”
 * “When you’re hiking, you put this little bell on your clothes and it jingles. That makes the bears think it’s Christmas, which they hate because they are godless killing machines.”
 * “Normally, I don’t support anything Bipartisan. Actually, I don’t support anytthing with the prefix ‘bi’. Bilingual, bisexual, bicycle — they all smack of moral weakness. You wanna send a strong message? Make love to a member of the opposite sex, while speaking English, on a unicycle.  It’s harder than it sounds.”
 * “Congressmen are gonna need a hell of a name. Something bold. Something sexy. Something with a little more zazz than F.E.M.A. Here’s what I propose: the Storm, Accident and Viral Emergency Unconditional Relief-Support and Emendation of Loss Federation (S.A.V.E. U.R.S.E.L.F.)”
 * “Signing statements. It’s a complex topic but it boils down to this: leadership. Here’s how it works: Congress debates, refines and ultimately passes a bill and the President signs it into law. Now, with most Presidents that’s the end of the story but sometimes a President goes a step further and issues a signing statement. It’s an official document that says, ‘A law applies exactly as written EXCEPT (and this is important) when the president doesn’t feel like it.’  Before George W. Bush, they’d only been used 322 times in presidential history. Bush alone has issued 750… Adding the word ‘not’ to the end of a sentence negates everything that comes before it.  A signing statement is the Presidential equivalent.  Now, the President uses more formal language like, ‘I don’t think the Constitution protects certain types of prisoners’ (the arrested kind).  This way the President can make sure a law is applied the way the Founders intended, specifically, the Founders of the Bush administration (i.e. Karl Rove).  It leaves nothing to chance (or the Judiciary)...  Laws are full of complicated clauses and Latin mumbo-jumbo (like Habeas Corpus).  Signing statements replace all that with a message even a child could understand (‘You’re not the boss of me!’)… Congress, think of passing laws as putting ideas into the Presidential suggestion box; he’ll have someone read every one (good way to get Gitmo prisoners to learn English).”
 * "Take Adam! First thing Adam did was kill the dinosaurs, fossilize them and bury them. (they looked at his woman)"
 * "Outrage is the only thing that separates us from Canadians. (that and real bacon)"
 * "Without hideous generalizations none of us would get to say, 'You’re wrong! I know some Irish people who are not drunks!'(name one.)"
 * "'Sarcasm' is when you mean the opposite of what you are saying, like, 'I’m so proud of you, son.'"
 * "If we call it the long war, who can really criticize it for not being short? It’s right there in the name."
 * "Dont read ANYTHING-- you never know when you'll see something you'll not like."
 * "Need I remind you, if the Democrats take control of congress, democrats will be in control of congress!! I always thought a Democratic conress was a myth like global warming (or WMDs)"
 * "Thankfully the republicans have finally woken up. (naked next to Jack Abramoff)"
 * "Without our hefty heroes there would be no songs about fat-bottomed girls or lovely lady lumps. ( and operas would never end)"
 * "Pull a man from the water, he survives one hurricaine. Teach a man to row, he could survive global warming. (He'll have to teach himself to fish)"
 * "Romance languages lead to pre-marital sex. (chicks dig accents)."
 * "David Lee Roth is only good at one thing - - singing 'Panama.'"
 * "Hey kid, wanna get morally high?"

Episode listing
I have moved this mess of non-quote material from the article to the talk page so that it might be used for properly sourcing quotes. (I have also reformatted it into a more useful form, eliminating redundancy and making the dates unambiguous. I have not verified that it is accurate.) Wikiquote is not a dumping ground for such material. Please do not add long tracts of show information to articles just because it's possible. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 * 2005-10-17: Flu the Coop
 * 2005-10-18: Drop the Prom
 * 2005-10-19: Mother of all Snoozers
 * 2005-10-20: We Might Be Giant
 * 2005-10-24: Quagmiers
 * 2005-10-25: Bernanke
 * 2005-10-26: Naan-Issue
 * 2005-10-27: Withdrawal Method
 * 2005-10-31: Fitz and Sass
 * 2005-11-01: Smokin Bowles
 * 2005-11-02: Pet Sounds
 * 2005-11-03: Noises Off
 * 2005-11-07: Burning Down La Maison
 * 2005-11-08: Eaglemaniac
 * 2005-11-09: Hasta La Vista
 * 2005-11-10: Oiling Point
 * 2005-11-14: Desperate Housewife
 * 2005-11-15: Touring Japanese
 * 2005-11-16: Operation Enduring Pressure
 * 2005-11-17: Truly Manly Deeply
 * 2005-11-28: Combat Iraq
 * 2005-11-29: Martin Smartin
 * 2005-11-30: Mission Re-Accomplished
 * 2005-12-05: KC Masterpieces
 * 2005-12-06: Elder Bury
 * 2005-12-07: Little Drummer Boyscout
 * 2005-12-08: Trading Postage
 * 2005-12-09: 1000 Points of Death
 * 2005-12-12: Clear and Present Manger
 * 2005-12-13: Sideline Psychos
 * 2005-12-14: Presidential Sealed
 * 2005-12-15: Release Navidad
 * 2006-01-10: Generation Gasp
 * 2006-01-11: Advise and Confound
 * 2006-01-12: Missed Congeniality
 * 2006-01-16: File Under 'F'
 * 2006-01-17: Prophets and Loss
 * 2006-01-18: Special education
 * 2006-01-19: Orwell That Ends Well
 * 2006-01-23: Truce or Consequences
 * 2006-01-24: If These Walls Could Talk
 * 2006-01-25: Northern Rights
 * 2006-01-26: Shock and Ow
 * 2006-01-30: Oprahs Least Favorite Thing
 * 2006-01-31: Serious George
 * 2006-02-01: Labor Party
 * 2006-02-02: Jerrold Mandering
 * 2006-02-06: State of the Union 76
 * 2006-02-07: Flame That Toon
 * 2006-02-08: Bunsen Burnout
 * 2006-02-09: Smells Like Olympic Spirit
 * 2006-02-21: Red White and Bronze
 * 2006-02-22: Emirate Domain
 * 2006-02-23: Mardi Grades
 * 2006-02-27: Bible Beltway
 * 2006-02-28: Bourbon Renewal
 * 2006-03-01: Lent Ills
 * 2006-03-02: Unnatural Selection
 * 2006-03-06: Auto Asphyxiation
 * 2006-03-07: Nom de War
 * 2006-03-08: Mortgaging Our Future
 * 2006-03-09: Independence Day
 * 2006-03-13: Bada-Bigotry
 * 2006-03-14: The Fastow and the Furious
 * 2006-03-15: Seminal Work
 * 2006-03-16: You Snooze You Gain
 * 2006-03-20: Getting Warmer
 * 2006-03-21: Land of the Rising Run
 * 2006-03-22: Sunshine State of the Spotless Mind
 * 2006-03-23: Tradition Edition
 * 2006-03-27: Clobberin Time
 * 2006-03-28: Spring Offensive
 * 2006-03-29: Married to the Mob
 * 2006-03-30: That Time of the Year
 * 2006-04-03: My Little Clone-y
 * 2006-04-04: Marsh Attacks
 * 2006-04-05: Delay Reaction
 * 2006-04-06: Poll Dance
 * 2006-04-17: Water Into Whine
 * 2006-04-18: General Malaise
 * 2006-04-19: Warm Mongering
 * 2006-04-20: Romeo in Joliet
 * 2006-04-24: Cheques and Balances
 * 2006-04-25: Van Failin
 * 2006-04-26: Star Mangled Banner
 * 2006-04-27: Snow Informer
 * 2006-05-01: O Brother Shut Up Thou
 * 2006-05-02: Immigrant Throng
 * 2006-05-03: Relief Bitchers
 * 2006-05-04: Fried Rites
 * 2006-05-08: Check Imbalanced
 * 2006-05-09: Freud Rage
 * 2006-05-10: Slap on the Wristband
 * 2006-05-11: House of Blues

Cleanup and copyright issues
This article seems to be getting worse, not better. I beg the current editors to read Templates/TV shows, as mentioned in the tv-cleanup tag, to learn how to properly format a TV-show article.

In addition, the entire "opening quotes" section needs to be reformatted properly (read How to edit a page for basic guidelines. especially the section on "wiki markup") and severely edited down. Wikiquote is NOT a repository for the complete contents of any element of a copyrighted work, as this violates copyright law. Fan websites may be able to get away with this, but the Wikimedia Foundation will not allow its resources to be used for this purpose. Articles should contain a select subset of interesting quotes. If Wikiquotian fans of the show don't do this themselves, someone who knows little about the show will eventually come along and axe most of the material anyway, so I urge interested editors to make the reductions themselves. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:31, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Aside from the other obvious issues, seeing as every single opening line is listed in the episode guide on Wikipedia, there's really no reason to have any other than perhaps the funniest or most memorable ones here. Just my two cents.Shoemoney2night 08:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

It's French, bitch
In one of the promos for the show, Stephen says "It's French, bitch!". During an interview in the first season an interviewee ask Stephen wether his name originates from France. Colbert again responds "Oh yeah, it's French, bitch". It can be considered a classic quote~, and should be added, but I am unable to figure out in which episode it occured. Does anyone have a clue? 80.202.221.193 23:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Season 2
In the last quote (where Stephen is talking to Uncle Sam) it says: "...and already they've already got us stuck ..." One of the two "alreadys" should be removed. Dont know the original quote, so dont know which one it is. WikiMot 11:32, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hello & Welcome Everybody, or "Assalam alikom" like we say in Arabic. I'd like to welcome everyone who'd reached my space no matter what.

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Carl Schurz

Carl Christian Schurz (2 March 1829 – 14 May 1906) was a German revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He immigrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–49 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil service reform. Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and was the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.

Quotes

 * We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
 * "State Rights and Byron Paine," Albany Hall, Milwaukee, (23 March 1859)

 * Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
 * Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859)

 * I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
 * Letter to Theodore Petrasch (12 October 1864)

 * The animosities inflamed by a four years' war, and its distressing incidents, cannot be easily overcome. But they extend beyond the limits of the army, to the people of the north. I have read in southern papers bitter complaints about the unfriendly spirit exhibited by the northern people — complaints not unfrequently flavored with an admixture of vigorous vituperation. But, as far as my experience goes, the "unfriendly spirit" exhibited in the north is all mildness and affection compared with the popular temper which in the south vents itself in a variety of ways and on all possible occasions. No observing northern man can come into contact with the different classes composing southern society without noticing it. He may be received in social circles with great politeness, even with apparent cordiality; but soon he will become aware that, although he may be esteemed as a man, he is detested as a "Yankee," and, as the conversation becomes a little more confidential and throws off ordinary restraint, he is not unfrequently told so; the word "Yankee" still signifies to them those traits of character which the southern press has been so long in the habit of attributing to the northern people; and whenever they look around them upon the traces of the war, they see in them, not the consequences of their own folly, but the evidences of "Yankee wickedness." In making these general statements, I beg to be understood as always excluding the individual exceptions above mentioned. It is by no means surprising that prejudices and resentments, which for years were so assiduously cultivated and so violently inflamed, should not have been turned into affection by a defeat; nor are they likely to disappear as long as the southern people continue to brood over their losses and misfortunes. They will gradually subside when those who entertain them cut resolutely loose from the past and embark in a career of new activity on a common field with those whom they have so long considered their enemies.
 * Report on the Condition of the South (1865)

 * The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
 * Remarks in the Senate (29 February 1872) He was here responding to the famous slogan derived from a statement of Stephen Decatur: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."

 * What is the rule of honor to be observed by a power so strongly and so advantageously situated as this Republic is? Of course I do not expect it meekly to pocket real insults if they should be offered to it. But, surely, it should not, as our boyish jingoes wish it to do, swagger about among the nations of the world, with a chip on its shoulder, shaking its fist in everybody's face. Of course, it should not tamely submit to real encroachments upon its rights. But, surely, it should not, whenever its own notions of right or interest collide with the notions of others, fall into hysterics and act as if it really feared for its own security and its very independence. As a true gentleman, conscious of his strength and his dignity, it should be slow to take offense. In its dealings with other nations it should have scrupulous regard, not only for their rights, but also for their self-respect. With all its latent resources for war, it should be the great peace power of the world. It should never forget what a proud privilege and what an inestimable blessing it is not to need and not to have big armies or navies to support. It should seek to influence mankind, not by heavy artillery, but by good example and wise counsel. It should see its highest glory, not in battles won, but in wars prevented. It should be so invariably just and fair, so trustworthy, so good tempered, so conciliatory, that other nations would instinctively turn to it as their mutual friend and the natural adjuster of their differences, thus making it the greatest preserver of the world's peace. This is not a mere idealistic fancy. It is the natural position of this great republic among the nations of the earth. It is its noblest vocation, and it will be a glorious day for the United States when the good sense and the self-respect of the American people see in this their "manifest destiny." It all rests upon peace. Is not this peace with honor? There has, of late, been much loose speech about "Americanism." Is not this good Americanism? It is surely today the Americanism of those who love their country most. And I fervently hope that it will be and ever remain the Americanism of our children and our children's children.
 * Speech at the Chamber of Commerce, New York City, New York (2 January 1896)

 * The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting.
 * "About Patriotism," Harper’s Weekly (16 April 1898)

 * I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country — when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."
 * Speech expanding upon his famous statement in the Senate many years before, at the Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago, Illinois (17 October 1899)

Quotes about Carl Schurz

 * Du Bois quotes the German American reformer Carl Schurz, who observed, “Wherever I go-the street, the shop, the house, the hotel, or the steamboat-I hear the people talk in such a way as to indicate that they are yet unable to conceive of the Negro as possessing any rights at all. Men who are honorable in their dealings with their white neighbors, will cheat a Negro without feeling a single twinge of their honor. To kill a Negro they do not deem murder; to debauch a Negro woman, they do not think fornication; to take the property away from a Negro they do not consider robbery."
 * Cristina Beltrán Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (2020) p 59

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Katie Melua

Ketevan "Katie" Melua (Georgian: ქეთევან "ქეთი" მელუა) (born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian-born, Belfast-raised, British singer-songwriter.

Quotes

 * წითელი ღვინო, სტალინი, შევარდნაძე, ქეთი მელუა.
 * Translation:"Red wine, Stalin, Shevardnadze, Katie Melua."
 * About being from Georgia.

 * It's so funny because when you do smoke weed and write a song, you're like, 'Yeah, this is brilliant, this is excellent!' - and the next morning you go back and often find that really it's not very good at all... I've never done anything like acid or cocaine and I hope I don't. But I guess you have to try things once in a while... just once. I think you have to be very wary of falling into that trap of getting addicted.
 * About smoking cannabis.

 * A fucking good tune
 * Referring to Bohemian Rhapsody during a performance at the Oxford Union.

 * When I was 14 or 15 I was into the whole Spice Girls and I was a huge fan, but two years ago I heard The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and I was like - fucking hell, I've been born in the wrong bloody decade!

 * Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

 * I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff... Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].

 * As a family, we have been very fortunate to find a happy lifestyle in this country and we feel we belong. We still consider ourselves to be Georgian, because that is where our roots are, and I return to Georgia every year to see my uncles and grandparents, but I am proud to now be a British citizen.
 * About becoming a British citizen.

 * I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.

 * I think I am easy to make fun of. I try not to pay too much attention. You can't let critics dictate what you do... The thing that fascinates me, is the emotion in music, the way it can make me cry or laugh or be angry. I'm not trying to be hip or cool, and I'm not scared to put everything I have into songs. Passion is the greatest thing that music can evoke. We live in a society where I think people often find it hard to express themselves, but sometimes a song can do that for you. It might not be groundbreaking, but there is something about the simplicity of presenting songs where it's all about the lyric and the melody. People don't need to get through a whole lot of production to get to the root of the song. It's just music doing what music does best... A lot of things in the mainstream are repetitive and soulless and have been churned out without any real conviction. It is really unfair to call Coldplay insufferable, when they obviously care about what they do. James [Blunt] too. Too much of the music industry is controlled by lawyers and businessmen, making music like it's a product on the factory line. That's what I call insufferable.

 * Of course [Kate Bush] is still relevant. I wasn't actually in the country when her music first came out, so I only discovered it three or four years ago. What's amazing is that something like "Wuthering Heights" still sounds so different. I actually saw her about nine months ago, we were just passing at an industry event and I went up to her and said I was a big fan and asked her about the new record. She was really excited about it but quite nervous because she felt that everyone was hyping it up a bit and she just wanted to bring out an album. You know, she's a musician.
 * About meeting Kate Bush.

 * Promo? It's a fucking nightmare!

 * I spend eight to nine months working abroad and cram in a holiday when I have the odd week off. This year, three of those months were spent in America playing gigs with my band, so we got to visit all kinds of places from Arizona to New York. After a few weeks, I really began to miss family and friends not to mention baked beans!

 * Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel. I bought a great one in America called An Incomplete Education, which covers everything from fashion to philosophy in quite a humorous way. It’s a bluffer’s guide, but pretty extensive. Because I never went to university, it’s my attempt to bone up on subjects I don’t know much about.

 * I don't think I could see myself with someone who's famous. I don't like the lifestyle and everything it stands for. Too superficial. That attention is too much. For me to go home and be surrounded by that sounds like a fucking nightmare. But a musician or someone who's into music is different.

 * Some people think it's got a double meaning, but as my mum's in the audience tonight, it doesn't.
 * About "Halfway Up The Hindu Kush"

 * ...after all we don't want the radio star to kill video.
 * About the decline of the music video.

 * The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

 * Don't come into the music industry. It's almost inevitable that you'll psychologically be quite screwed up. Fame isn't a natural, human, behavioural thing. You get alienated. You're not really surrounded by truth.

 * I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am.

Attributed

 * Wanking housewives
 * Melua's alleged description of Il Divo's audience.
 * Some days later, Melua's manager, Mike Batt, wrote in The Guardian and denied the quote had ever been said.
 * Some days later, Melua's manager, Mike Batt, wrote in The Guardian and denied the quote had ever been said.

 * Earth is my home!
 * Variant: "I'm from Earth."
 * Said in many interviews, usually when asked where the Georgian-born, Belfast-raised, British singer feels she belongs.
 * German Video interview

 * I just think war is fucked up
 * Said to a group of Danish journalists when asked about the 2008 South Ossetia War.

About

 * "She is one of the most intelligent singers I've worked with for a very long time, - there are little reminders in her voice, of all sorts of other singers like Eartha Kitt and Edith Piaf, - of whom she has never heard. She exudes a modest confidence, she is completely sure of herself and has a maturity far in advance of her age."
 * Mike Batt
 * about.com

 * "She enjoys extremes, but in life her emotions are always in check."
 * Mike Batt

 * I'm a songwriter but she [Melua] has her songs written for her... She must think it's her fucking lucky day... It's not like she's singing old songs like Jamie [Cullum], she's singing shit new songs that her manager writes for her.
 * Amy Winehouse

 * The only trouble is that there's absolutely no passion, no soul and no excitement to be found here...Yet all good music should provoke some sort of emotion, and this [Nine Million Bicycles] provokes none whatsoever.
 * John Murphy

 * [Melua] makes music that's easy on the ear and even easier on the brain. She's the perfect good girl in the middle of the road. I'm not keen to make things too easy for anyone.
 * Thea Gilmore

Lyrics

 * I've got a ticket, To the fast city, Where the bells don't really ring, Getting off the plane the cold air, Rushes like bullets through my brain, And I'm divided between penguins and cats, But it's not about what animal you've got, It's about being able to fly, It's about dying nine times.
 * Belfast, from Call Off The Search (2003)

 * Because the line between, Wrong and right, Is the width of a thread, From a spider's web. The piano keys are black and white, But they sound like a million colours in your mind.
 * Spider's Web, from Piece By Piece (2005)

 * We are 12 billion light-years from the edge. That's a guess — no-one can ever say it's true, but I know that I will always be with you.
 * Nine Million Bicycles, from Piece By Piece (2005)

 * We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.
 * Nine Million Bicycles, alternative lyrics, written by scientist Simon Singh.

title: Katie Melua