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Survivor (American TV series)

Survivor is a popular reality television program produced by many countries throughout the world.

Jeff's repeated lines

 * Sixteen Americans, abandoned/marooned ... (followed by a description of the game site)
 * They must learn to adapt or they'll be voted from the tribe. In the end, only one will remain, and claim the million dollar prize.
 * Everybody drop your buffs.
 * We are Switching tribes.
 * Previously on... Survivor...
 * 36 days ago...
 * 39 days, (number of castaways) people, ONE... SURVIVOR!
 * Who will have what it takes to outwit, outplay, and outlast all the rest? This is SURVIVOR! (name of season number; from Seasons 41 and onward)
 * Come on in, guys! (from Seasons 1-40)
 * Come on in! (from Seasons 41-onward)
 * (tribe's name), getting your first look at the new (tribe's name) tribe, (player's name) voted out at the first/last tribal council.
 * Let's get to today's reward/immunity challenge.
 * First thing's first, gotta take back immunity.
 * Once again, immunity is back up for grabs.
 * For today's challenge... (Jeff explains the rules)
 * On my go... (Jeff explains the rules)
 * Here is how it works./Here is how it's gonna work.
 * Make sense?
 * Want to know what you're playing for?
 * Worth playing for?
 * (food reward) and all the fixins!
 * Take your spots, wait for my Go!
 * This is for reward/immunity!
 * Survivors ready... GO!
 * And this challenge... is on.
 * (tribe's name) I've got nothing for you, grab your stuff and head back to camp.
 * (amount of castaways left) are left. Who will be voted out tonight?
 * Behind each of you is a torch. Grab a torch and approach the flame. Dip it in and get fire. This is part of the ritual of tribal council, because in this game, fire represents life. Once your fire is gone, so are you.
 * ... can not be voted out tonight, everybody else is fair game.
 * It is time to vote. (Contestant name), you're up.
 * I'll go tally the votes.
 * (starting from Season 14) If anybody has a hidden immunity idol and you want to play it, now would be the time to do so.
 * OK. Once the votes are read, the decision is final. The person voted out will be asked to leave the tribal council area immediately. I'll read the votes.
 * First vote... (name of contestant)
 * (from Seasons 1-6) Last vote... (name of contestant)
 * We're tied.
 * That's enough. No need to read the other votes.
 * (numbers of votes) votes (contestant's name), (numbers of votes) votes (other contestant's name). One vote left.
 * 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/etc. person voted out of "Survivor" (season name)... (name of contestant)
 * You need to bring me your torch.
 * (contestant's name), the tribe has spoken. Time for you to go.
 * (from the seasons that have Redemption Island) You will have a chance to get back into this game. Grab your torch, head for Redemption Island.
 * You can head back to camp.
 * Next time on... Survivor...
 * Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.
 * (tribe's name), this is your first look at the new (other tribe's name), (contestant's name) voted out last night.
 * (contestant/team's name) wins the reward/immunity! (not regularly used in Seasons 1-4)
 * Now, we'll bring the members of our jury...
 * Two will go on to face the jury... ONE will outlast all the rest... and become the Sole Survivor!
 * You WANT to see your name on the parchment.
 * There are seven votes, it takes four to win.
 * There are eight votes. it takes five to win,
 * There are nine votes. it takes five to win,
 * The winner of (survivor season)... (name of contestant)
 * (usually for individual immunity challenges when it's an endurance challenge): Whatever's left in your tank, you need to use it right now!
 * You have to dig!

Survivor: Borneo

 * Rudy: I don't like her.  And I never will!
 * Rudy: Me and Richard got to be pretty good friends. Not in a homosexual way, that's for sure.

Episode 205
(Kimmi and Alicia are fighting over chickens.)
 * Kimmi: Don't wave your finger in my face!
 * Alicia: I will ALWAYS wave my finger in your face.

 * Jeff Probst: (after Kimmi was voted out at a rainy Tribal Council) The tribe and mother nature has spoken.

Episode 214
(crying to his mother while dining with her after winning numerous challenges)

 * Colby: You know what I ate today? Four spoonfuls of rice. Twice a day, everyday.

Survivor: Marquesas

 * Neleh (several times): Oh my heck!

 * John (after being injured from a sea urchin): I need someone who can pee on my hand!

Survivor: Thailand

 * Ted: I'm not even attracted to you!

Episode 504
[At Tribal Council]
 * Jeff: For the first time ever, I have no idea who a ballot is for.  Who wrote 'Bye Bye Denver Diva'?
 * Clay: It's supposed to be for Ghandia.
 * Jeff: In the future, guys, just write a name down on your ballot.  Enough with the nicknames.

Episode 607

 * Rob: (voting for Roger) Here comes tonight's long distance dedication. It goes out to Rob from New York. He writes, 'Dear Casey, there is a mean old man in my life that's about to leave. Can you please play something appropriate for me?' Well, Rob, here's your request—Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.

Episode 704

 * Jeff: Jon, what are you basing your vote on tonight?
 * Jon: Astrological signs!
 * Jeff: Are you loaded?

Episode 705

 * Jeff: What is this about?
 * Johnny Fairplay: This this... that's ... that's Johnny Fairplay right there. That's the "F", that's the "Y". I'm all in between. Johnny Fairplay. I play fair. No cheating.

Drake Tribal Council

 * Jon: (voting confessional against Shawn) F*** you.

Morgan Tribal Council

 * (After the discussion about Osten deciding to quit the game, Jeff and the tribe ultimately honor his wishes)

 * Jeff: Well, Osten - I don't pretend to know what you're thinking either, but I know this: I've been to about a hundred Tribal Councils. Never, ever seen anybody lay down their torch. So, this is a first for me. Seems unanimous. I just want to make sure. Savage - you're going to indulge Osten, sending him home?
 * Andrew: Yes.
 * Jeff: Darrah?
 * Darrah: Yeah.
 * Jeff: Rhino?
 * Ryan O.: Yep.
 * Jeff: T?
 * Tijuana: Yes.
 * Jeff: No need to vote and waste any more time. Grab your torch.

 * (Osten grabs his torch and places it into the ceremonial holder)

 * Jeff: Osten, per your wishes (he snuffs out the torch)...go home."

(Osten leaves the Tribal Council area and Jeff pulls his torch out of the holder and throws it to the ground)
 * Jeff: With all due respect to Osten, people work too damn hard to stay in this game and fight to stay alive. He wants to lay his torch down? So it shall be. Who knows? Maybe this is the best thing to happen to the Morgan tribe. All I know is, you will head back to camp. Soon, a new tribe member will arrive, and I can promise you this: That person wants to be in this game. Grab your torches, head on back. Good night.

Episode 711

 * Jon (Jonny Fairplay): How's Grandma?

 * Dan ("Thunder" Dan Fields), Jon's friend: She died, dude. (Jon's grandmother was actually alive and well; this exchange was a deliberately staged ploy to get sympathy from the other contestants.)

 * Jon: My grandmother's sitting home watching Jerry Springer right now. (laughs)

Episode 802

 * Colby: We got an overweight, gay, naked man walking around, and no one seems to let it bother them.

Episode 803

 * Colby: Is it possible to call a gay man a stud?

Episode 804

 * Amber: I'm out here to play Survivor. I'm not out here to play a dating game. (Amber went on to win the game and, afterwards, marry runner up Rob Mariano.)

Episode 805

 * Rupert: Our camp was Hobo Junction; theirs is the Taj Mahal.

 * Rich: I've been bamboozled!

Episode 806

 * Shii Ann: Captain America with his good teeth, nice smile, handsome guy... he doesn't respect my game, I don't necessarily respect his.

 * Jeff Probst: Before we get to today's challenge, I want to address something that happened yesterday. Richard Hatch sorta being inappropriate?

 * Sue Hawk: Sorta

 * Jeff: Anybody have any comments?

 * Sue: I was sexually violated. To have some guy come up, he passed a half a dozen people on platforms and never touched um.

 * Jeff: Sue, I'm, I'm..

 * Sue: And he went too far, and he crossed the line, and he crossed the line with me.

 * Jeff: Well..

 * Sue: OK, I know you don't know, and you didn't see it because his back was to you and he's too big of a F****** slob to see around. I WAS VIOLATED, HUMILIATED, DEHUMANIZED AND TOTALLY SPENT, JEFF! IT WASN'T SORTA, JEFF! Cause your, his back was to you, Jeff. That's all I' saying, and I'm F****** spent, and I'm done with this F****** game. There is no way that I can continue with my F****** emotions pushing the ground that much.

 * Jeff: So, OK so when you say you're done with the game, as in, you want out of the game?

 * Sue: I'm done, I'm walking away.

 * Jeff: Let me ask you guys, did anything come up at your camp about it?

 * Mogo Mogo Tribe: No, we didn't know.

 * Sue: It was all done in front of our platform.

 * Colby Donaldson: Yeah, I saw it Sue, and the thing is were, trust me, I mean, you know from the first season, maybe you guys don't, living with a guy being naked sucks because he's naked all the time.

 * Sue: I don't give a sh** that he is naked, if he would have just walked by me and never F****** touched me it would have been fine. But he did, and that is the F****** point.

 * Jeff: Does it have any impact that he is out of the game, or not?

 * Sue: No, I, I, no, my mind left this game 24 hours ago.

 * Jeff: Lets, uh, if we can bring in the boat, A.S.A.P

 * Shii Ann Huang: I'm so sorry Sue, I'm so sorry. I didn't see him, I'm so sorry

 * Sue to Chapera: You guys, good luck.

[Chapera gives to Sue and she walks with Jeff to the boat.]

 * Kathy Vavrick O' Brien: Boy, is that discouraging.

Episode 807

 * Ethan: You're either the hero or you're the goat.

Episode 808

 * Jerri: That's the bellboy and he just took all my baggage away. My Survivor closet is now clean.

Episode 810

 * Rob: You take care of her; I'll take care of you.

Episode 811

 * Rob: I won't stick a knife in your back.

Episode 813

 * Rob: Au revoir, adios, arrivederci, sayonara, and as we say in Boston, see ya later!

Episode 814

 * Shii Ann: If you can't go all the way, you gotta go all the way fighting.

Episode 815

 * Amber: I was under the assumption that the game would be easier in the end, because I knew we had our strategy set in the beginning and that we weren't really gonna have to worry about it too much in the end. But I was completely wrong.

Episode 1308

 * Ozzy: Mutineers are the first to die!

Episode 1402

 * Dreamz: Boo will hurt himself out of the game.

Episode 1410

 * Cassandra : Random?
 * Jeff: It's not random.

 * Jeff: She [Cassandra] knocks Dreamz' whole name off the board!

 * Yau-Man: How many lives does that man have?

 * Yau-Man: This is the first time I've been to Tribal Council with a regular heart-rate and normal blood pressure.

Episode 1414

 * Jeff: (giving the Final 3 a generic notice that all 9 votes would be for the same person) One of you have been successful and the other two have not.

Unknown Episode

 * Yau-Man: Love Many, Trust Few, Do Wrong to None

Episode 1501

 * Jeff Probst: First person voted out of Survivor: China; Chicken.
 * Chicken: DAMN!
 * Jeff Probst: That's four. That's enough. You need to bring me your torch. Chicken. Tribe has spoken.
 * Chicken: I heard'em.

Episode 1502

 * Jean-Robert: Put your top back on, Amanda!
 * Amanda: Oh, my god! My mom is going to kill me!

Tenth Tribal Council

 * Todd: If this works, wow, if not, I'm scared for my life.

Episode 1514

 * Todd: I just feel like it's going to go girl power tomorrow and I will probably be the one that's gone.

Fourth Tribal Council

 * Jason: (referring to Chet) Please, leave the island.

Episode 1609

 * Eliza: It's just a stick!
 * Jason: It's got a face on it. Don't worry!
 * Eliza: It's a *bleep* stick!
 * Jason: I know right!

Episode 1610

 * James: I thought I was the dumbest survivor ever.

Episode 1611

 * James: (after Erik volunteers to lick Cirie's fingers after she ate the cake) Something's wrong with that boy.

Episode 1612

 * Amanda: Can I first hug my sister goodbye?
 * Jeff: Nope!

Twelfth Tribal Council

 * Erik: I wanna give the Immunity Necklace to Natalie!

 * Cirie: My mother always told me, you may not be able to beat them with these (points at her muscles) all the time, but you can always beat them with this (points to head).

 * Parvati: You're crazy! You'll officially go down as the dumbest Survivor ever. In the history of Survivor. Ever.

 * James: I've lost my reign as "Dumbest Survivor Ever"!!

Episode 1705

 * Crystal: Eat your rice!

Fifth Tribal Council

 * Crystal: You (G.C.) wanted to go home, so you get your wish.

Sixth Tribal Council

 * Sugar: I think you (Kelly) are a moron and I really hope you are dunzo before me.

 * Crystal: F***ing forget you (Kelly), go home!

Seventh Tribal Council

 * Crystal: (on Ace) You are one of the snakes I have to get rid of, go home!

Tenth Tribal Council

 * Randy: (on Crystal) Bitch!

Episode 1710

 * Sugar: (to Susie when she got out of her bath early) What the hell are you doing, woman?!

Eleventh Tribal Council

 * Sugar: You (Randy) are a disgusting, old, hot-headed, chauvinistic, alcoholic bigot, and you need to grow up before you die alone! And a loser.

 * Crystal: (In a very loud voice towards Randy) YOU HAVE MADE MY LIFE HELL FROM DAY 1! FORGET YOU, GO HOME, GOODBYE!

 * Corinne: I'm holding this up for a minute so it seems like I am voting for Randy. I'm voting for you, Susie, because payback is a bitch.

Finale

 * Corinne: (Talking to Sugar) You are an unemployed, uneducated, leech on society. And the only thing I would vote to give you, is a handful of anti-depressants so that nobody has to be subjected to your constant crying anymore. And maybe if you got some, it may seem more sincere when you are crying about your dead father. You don't deserve the million.

Episode 1801

 * Joe: I wrote down "Grammy".
 * Jeff Probst: Who's Grammy?
 * Joe: Grammy's gonna be the uh, the older lady.
 * Jeff Probst: What's your name?
 * Sandy: Sandy.
 * Jeff Probst: Sandy.
 * Taj: Two for Sandy.
 * Jeff Probst: OK, that's two for Sandy.
 * Sydney: Guy with glasses and peachy orange shirt.
 * Stephen: Stephen.
 * Jeff Probst: Stephen. That's two for Sandy, one vote for Stephen.
 * Spencer: Three for Sandy.
 * Jeff Probst: OK, that's three for Sandy.
 * Carolina: The older lady, Sandy, I'm sorry.
 * Jeff Probst: That is four for Sandy, one for Stephen.
 * Stephen: Older lady, Sandy, I'm sorry!
 * Jeff Probst: That's five, there's only eight, five is enough. (to Sandy) Sandy, over here with me!

First Tribal Council

 * Jeff Probst: I'll read the votes

(picks vote for Sandy)
 * Jeff Probst: First vote.......Sandy.

(picks vote for Carolina)
 * Jeff Probst: Carolina.

(picks vote for Carolina)
 * Jeff Probst: Carolina. Two votes Carolina, one vote Sandy.

(picks vote for Carolina)
 * Jeff Probst: Carolina. Three votes Carolina, one vote Sandy.

(picks vote for Carolina)
 * Jeff Probst: Carolina. Four votes Carolina, one vote Sandy.

(picks 5th and final vote)
 * Jeff Probst: First person voted out of Survivor Tocantins....Carolina. That's five, that's enough, need to bring me your torch.
 * Carolina: (gives torch to Jeff Probst)
 * Jeff Probst: Carolina, your tribe has spoken. (puts out flame)

Second Tribal Council

 * Jeff Probst: I'll read the votes
 * (picks vote for Candace)
 * Jeff Probst: First vote.......Candace.
 * (picks vote for Sierra)
 * Jeff Probst: Sierra. One vote Candace, one vote Sierra.
 * (picks vote for Candace)
 * Jeff Probst: Candace. Two votes Candace, one vote Sierra.
 * (picks vote for Candace)
 * Jeff Probst: Candace. Three votes Candace, one vote Sierra.
 * (picks vote for Candace)
 * Jeff Probst: Candace. Four votes Candace, one vote Sierra.
 * (picks 5th and final vote)
 * Jeff Probst: Second person voted out of Survivor Tocantins....Candace. That's five, that's enough, need to bring me your torch.
 * Candace: (gives torch to Jeff Probst)
 * Jeff Probst: Candace, your tribe has spoken. (puts out flame)

Third Tribal Council

 * Jeff Probst: I'll read the votes

(picks vote for Jerry)
 * Jeff Probst: First vote.......Jerry.

(picks vote for Jerry)
 * Jeff Probst: Jerry. Two votes Jerry.

(picks vote for Erinn)
 * Jeff Probst: Erinn. Two votes Jerry, one vote Erinn.

(picks vote for Jerry)
 * Jeff Probst: Jerry. Three votes Jerry, one vote Erinn.

(picks 4th and final vote)
 * Jeff Probst: Third person voted out of Survivor Tocantins....Jerry. That's four, that's enough, need to bring me your torch.
 * Jerry: (gives torch to Jeff Probst)
 * Jeff Probst: Jerry, your tribe has spoken. (puts out flame)

Survivor: Samoa

 * Erik: Like our tribe name, Aiga, means extended family. Bleh! What's Samoan for get the hell off my island?

 * Russell H.: I call it my dumb-ass girl alliance.

 * Jeff: Is baseball your sport?
 * Dave: No, making love's my sport.

 * Russell H.: These people are so stupid.

 * Russell: It's a bird, for crying out loud!

 * Dave: Erik's running after the chicken, and he gets clothes lined, by the clothes line. It was pure comedy.

 * Erik: This tribe sucks.

 * Shambo: Screw yoga, man!

Episode 2003

 * Jeff: Rupert has Coach. Coach, get your hand on the bag!

(Coach pushes Rupert into mud)

 * Jeff: No, no! Replay it! No! No! No!

(Coach yells victoriously)

 * Jeff: Coach! Coach!
 * James: Coach! No! No karate chopping!
 * Jeff: Coach! Coach! No! Do-over! Coach, inadvertent or not, you used your arm!

(Coach flips him off)

 * Jeff: Take that anger and point it to the pirate, not me!

Episode 2003

 * Jeff: Rupert has Coach. Coach, get your hand on the bag!

(Coach pushes Rupert into mud)

 * Jeff: No, no! Replay it! No! No! No!

(Coach yells victoriously)

 * Jeff: Coach! Coach!
 * James: Coach! No! No karate chopping!
 * Jeff: Coach! Coach! No! Do-over! Coach, inadvertent or not, you used your arm!

(Coach flips him off)

 * Jeff: Take that anger and point it to the pirate, not me!

Episode 2009

 * J.T's letter : Russell, (READ IN COMPLETE PRIVACY). This is a huge turning point in this game. This is not fake, I wouldn't waste your time or mine. Just by competing against you and the few handshakes we've had I feel I can trust you. That's hard to find in this game. Hopefully we are on the same page. Play the idol tonight and save yourself. All the girls should be writing your name down, so act like you know you're going home. You can stand up and play it right before Jeff starts reading the votes. I think you should write Parvati's name down and send her home. No matter what, when you play the idol, you're safe for the entire tribal council. We will most likely merge at ten people and then you will be completely safe with us. Our five plus you will remain strong until the girls are done with. We can then work on getting ourselves into the final three. Hopefully I can trust you and you're not truly a Villain. Let's do this together. See you soon. Destroy this right when you finish reading!

 * Russell: Now I don’t even need to find idols. People are actually giving me idols. You don’t hand the enemy the idol, especially when his name is Russell Hantz. You don’t do that. That’s a no-no.

 * Parvati: *while laughing* Russell, read in complete privacy. This is a huge turning point in this game. This is not fake, I wouldn't waste your time or mine. Play the idol tonight...
 * Russell: For sure.
 * Parvati: ...and save yourself. Because clearly you're on the outside of an all-devouring female alliance. *To Russell* I put that in myself. *continue reading* So act like you are going home....*Stop reading* I can't believe he's writing all of this?!
 * Russell: "He's telling me what to do. He's giving me pointers
 * Russell (in the commentating area): How do you give the idol king an idol? "Here Mr. Russell, here’s an idol, this one’s just for you". Why thank you. You know what I think that J.T. have just handed to me a million dollars. Hey, I guess he can afford it.
 * Parvati: I think you should write Parvati's name down and send her home...*Stop reading* Why's everyone throwing me under the bus and not knowing what's going on over here?! *continue reading* Our five plus you will remain strong. We can then work on getting ourselves into the final three.*Stop Reading* Big promises, J.T. *Continue reading* Hopefully I can trust you and you're not truly a Villain.
 * Russell: Yes I am!
 * Parvati: Let's do this together. See you soon. BFF Forever. XOXO. Destroy this right when you finish reading! *Starts to crack up after reading it* Oh my god! I can't believe he wrote you a letter. What are we, in fifth grade? He's passing notes? What is wrong with this kid? I can't believe that kid won.

 * Parvati: Why would you hand a Villain your heart? J.T. gave Russell his heart today, and Russell is just going to stab it *laughing* a million times over, and hand it to me. And I’m going to eat it. *laughs*.

Survivor: Redemption Island

 * Jeff Probst: Whatever you have in your tank, you need to use it right now!

Episode 2401

 * Jeff Probst: (in the absence of Redemption Island of this season) That means when you are voted out this season, there is no second chance. You go home.

Episode 2406

 * Colton: I don't really care if Christina knows she's going home next. There's nothing that can save her.

 * Colton: (to Christina) You can enjoy your last two days, you can quit, or you can jump in that fire. Whichever is more convenient for you.

 * Colton: I got this pain and it literally feels like somebody's got a knife cutting from my belly button to the right side.

 * Jeff Probst: (at tribal council; tells to what is now final twelve) You are now one tribe. Twelve people fighting for a million bucks.

 * Colton: Tell Sabrina thanks for the souvenir.

Episode 2501

 * Russell: The last time I played, Survivor smacked me in the chops, and this time, I'm smacking back.

 * Jonathan: Thirty-nine days from now, I will make a million dollars.

 * Dawson: (on Jeff Kent) I used to spend time with a guy who is really into baseball, so I know who Jeff Kent is. There is no mention of him being a former professional athlete who made probably $30,000,000 in his career. I don't think the other tribe members know, and I think Jeff likes it that way, but I will tell him that I know, as soon as it becomes valuable to me.

 * Lisa: We filmed the last episode of The Facts of Life in March of '88. I got married in July of '88. After that, I left show business behind. I lost all the money that I made from The Facts of Life. A bunch of money invested, a lot of it kinda went the way of the 80's crash. Being on Survivor at this season of my life is just a godsend. Because I've been running and running from the time I was a little kid, to slow down and go inside and find out: Who am I? Am I more than a mom? Am I more than a child star? So I am just excited because I love the game. But in a whole new level, I'm really excited of what will change inside me.

Episode 2502

 * Malcolm: (commenting on his cuddling with Angie) When I first saw Angie, I kept having to remind myself, "Don't get booty blinded. Don't get booty blinded. You're here to play Survivor."

 * Abi: I notice that you and Mike are very close and it's starting to worry me.
 * R.C.: Mike's like my father.
 * Abi: This is a game. It doesn't matter if you like Mike or not. You go off together and whispering...
 * R.C.: Yeah, but I feel the same way about you and Pete.
 * Abi: But we don't switch conversations when people walk up to us. (to camera) If she screws me over, that's it, she's dead to me.

 * Denise: I think part of it is just a 24-year-old guy (Malcolm) snuggling up to something that is really nice to snuggle up to, but now it's like there's these huge targets on their back.

Episode 2503

 * Russell: If Denise decides to hitch her wagon to the young ones, then I'm dead.

Episode 2505

 * Malcolm: I got an immunity idol this morning and a new tribe in the afternoon and I feel like I got my swag back.

Eighth Tribal Council

 * Lisa: Well, I said that you (Jeff) were Plan B, but I think this was actually Plan D or E.

Eleventh Tribal Council

 * Abi: I hope you (Denise) go home tonight. Look who's judging you now!

Twelfth Tribal Council

 * Abi: You're patronizing, judgemental, you're just not a good person. I really don't like you (Denise).

 * Denise: Abi, if this vote doesn't go as planned, there is seriously something wrong in the universe.

Thirteenth Tribal Council

 * Malcolm: It sounds like it's either you (Denise) or me tonight.

During the immunity challenge

 * Jeff Probst: Keep fighting! YOU GOTTA DIG!

During the tribal council

 * Jeff Varner: Why haven’t you told anyone you’re transgender?

During the first tribal council

 * Sarah: If a woman lies or cheats or steals, then she's fake and phony and a bitch. If a guy does it, it's good gameplay. What it is, it's a gender bias - it holds me back, it holds other women back from playing the game the way we should be allowed to play the game. I, for two years, have been so hard on myself, from Game Changers, that I felt like I was such a bad person, and I'm not.

title: Survivor (American TV series)


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Historian

A  is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

Quotes

 * History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past.
 * Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?

 * The choice of narrative is an important way of making the facts speak. But this was rarely recognised by nineteenth-century historians, many of whom were oblivious to the nature and consequences of the narrative choices available to them. They believed, instead, that at some point all facts would be known and thus to provide an archival truth. There are traces of this today where narrative choices, centred for instance on biography, style or social history, stem from the belief that an empirical reiteration of the facts presents reality.
 * Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?

 * What really happens is that the author discards the human persona but replaces it by an 'objective¿ one; the authorial subject is as evident as ever, but it has become an objective subject … At the level of discourse objectivity, or the absence of any clues to the narrator, turns out to be particular form of fiction, where the historian tries to give the impression that the referent is speaking for itself.
 * Roland Barthes, ‘Le discours de l’histoire’ trans. as ‘Historical Discourse’ in M. Lane (ed.) Structuralism: A reader, London, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 149–154.

 * Take one of Voltaire's swift shining shafts of wit: "History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead." Ah, yes, how true it is, we say; and we are astonished that Voltaire could have been so profound. Then we realize that he did not really mean it. To him it was a witticism intended to brand dishonest historians, whereas we perceive that it formulated, in the neatest possible way, a profound truth — the truth that all historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
 * Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), Ch. II. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 43–4.

 * HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

 * Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Introduction, Chapter I.

 * In a certain sense all men are historians.
 * Thomas Carlyle, Essays, On History.

 * Historians . . . proceed inferentially. They investigate evidence much as lawyers cross-question witnesses in a court of law, extracting from that evidence information which it does not explicitly contain.
 * Paul Connerton, “How Societies Remember” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 13. as quoted on Thomas R. Kearns (August 2002). History, Memory, and the Law. University of Michigan Press.as quoted in p.3 Footnote 7

 * The treatment of the period of Reconstruction reflects small credit upon American historians as scientists. We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans.
 * W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935), p. 713

 * Historians are really great at predicting the past. But the future is for prophets, and the track records of most prophets is dismal.
 * Joseph J. Ellis, interviewed in TIME, (October 29, 2018), p. 52.

 * For her class of people, a “professional historian” is a historian with academic status. They are very status-conscious and constantly pull rank, especially when faced with informed arguments. For a scholar, this is weak, but for sophomores, it is uppermost in their minds: climbing the status ladder. When you know the academic circles, you become far less inclined to be over-awed by academic status: many professors have obvious ideological prejudices and bend their findings to suit their presuppositions. Moreover, in many countries to some extent, and certainly in India, scholars in the humanities are selected for ideological conformity with the dominant school. After nearly half a century, this has led to a situation where a post of “eminence” is simply equivalent with ideological conformity, at least passively (not raising your head), often actively (furthering the dominant paradigm).
 * Elst, Koenraad. Forever Ayodhya (2023).

 * The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.
 * François Fénelon Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, sect. 8, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3, p. 240; translation by Patrick Riley, from Hans Blom et al. (eds.) Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007) p. 86.

 * Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
 * Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men, p.76

 * The historian must have...some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.
 * E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (1935)

 * [T]his historian who seeks to mine the various quarries of the past in the belief that good history is a good foundation for a better present and future.
 * John Hope Franklin, Preface to Race and History: Selected Essays 1938-1988, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1989. As quoted by encyclopedia.com (2005): Franklin, John Hope 1915– by Thomson Gale.

 * Though I cannot claim to be an authority on the subject, I myself have been horrified at the way in which reputable historians have accepted as evidence isolated statements by one peasant extracted under interrogation and torture.
 * Arthur Guirdham in The Cathars and Reincarnation p. 108 (1970)

 * [H]istorians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to the heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. So my profession, which has always been mixed up in politics, becomes an essential component of nationalism.

 * The long historian of my country's woes.
 * Homer, The Odyssey, Book III, line 142. Pope's translation.

 * The historian’s task is to present what actually happened. The more purely and completely he achieves this, the more perfectly has he solved this problem. A simple presentation is at the same time the primary indispensable condition of his work and the highest achievement he will be able to attain. Regarded in this way, he seems to be merely receptive and productive, not active and creative.
 * Wilhelm von Humboldt, "The Historian’s Task" (1821).

 * There can be no one historical narrative that renders perfect justice (just as perhaps there is no judicial outcome that can capture the complexity of history)…. [T]he historian would like to do justice; the judge must establish some version of history . . . . If good judges and historians shun the tasks, they will be taken on by prejudiced or triumphalist ones.
 * Charles Maier

 * This world tendency to make history the vehicle of certain definite political, social and economic ideas, which reign supreme in each country for the time being, is like a cloud, at present no bigger than a man’s hand, but which may soon grow in volume, and overcast the sky, covering the light of the world by an impenetrable gloom. The question is therefore of paramount importance, and it is the bounden duty of every historian to guard himself against the tendency, and fight it by the only weapon available to him, namely by holding fast to truth in all his writings irrespective of all consequences. A historian should not trim his sail according to the prevailing wind, but ever go straight, keeping in view the only goal of his voyage—the discovery of truth. (p. xxx)
 * R. C. Majumdar, Volume 6: The Delhi Sultanate [1300-1526]

 * Interpretations of the past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new questions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time. [...] The unending quest of historians for understanding the past — that is, "revisionism" — is what makes history vital and meaningful.
 * James M. McPherson, "Revisionist Historians" (September 2003), Perspectives, American Historical Association.

 * I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
 * Boyd K. Packer Quinn (ed), Faithful History: Essays On Writing Mormon History, p 103, fn 22

 * The historian... has to conform to official interpretations of the past, the philosopher to dogmas, the writer to stereotypes of human action, the craftsman to “production-schedules.
 * John Passmore (1971) The Perfectibility of Man

 * All historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others.
 * Polybius The Histories

 * The forensic historian . . . searches the past for material applicable to a current issue. The purpose of the advocate . . . is to use the past for the elucidation of the present, to solve some contemporary problem or, most often, to carry an argument. It is the past put in the service of winning the case at bar.
 * John Philip Reid, “The Jurisprude of Liberty: The Ancient Constitution in the Legal Histiography of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, in “the Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitutions, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law”, ed. Ellis Sandox (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 167. as quoted on Thomas R. Kearns (August 2002). History, Memory, and the Law. University of Michigan Press. p.3

 * Historians must break out of the prison of ideas.
 * Dave Renton,

 * Classical historians take as their subject the conflict between great political powers, for example, Greece and Persia (Herodotus), Athens and Sparta (Thucydides), Rome and Carthage (Livy), Rome and Greece (Polybius), or the struggle for power within a particular state, for example, Athens (Thucydides), republican Rome (Sallust), imperial Rome (Tacitus).

 * Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet.
 * The historian is a prophet facing backwards.
 * , Anthenaem Fragments (Poetic Fragments fragment 80) 27, in Friedrich Schlegel's "Lucinde" and the Fragments (1971) ed. & Tr., p. 170.

 * Some historians' reluctance to utilize victim testimony in their con-struction of Holocaust history may be a result of a prejudice among them to utilize only 'official documents' or to combat accusations of Holocaust deniers by being able to demonstrate the facts through the words of the Nazis themselves.
 * Helene J. Sinnreich, as quoted in Silence lifted: The untold stories of rape during the Holocaust (June 24, 2011) by Jessica Ravitz, .

 * Unfortunately, far too many historians these days don't believe in evidence. They argue that since absolute truth must always elude the historian's grasp 'evidence' is inevitably nothing but a biased selection of suspect 'facts.' Worse yet, rather than diminishing the entire historical under-taking as impossible, these same people use their disdain for evidence as a license to propose all manner of politicized historical fantasies or appealing fictions on the grounds that these are just as 'true' as any other account. This is absurd nonsense. Reality exists and history actually occurs. The historian's task is to try to discover as accurately as possible what took place. Of course, we can never possess absolute truth, but that still must be the ideal goal that directs historical scholarship. The search for truth and the advance of human knowledge are inseparable: comprehension and civilization are one.
 * , “Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome”, (Oct 31, 2006), pp. 1-2

 * I would not care whether truth is pleasant or unpleasant, and in consonance with or opposed to current views. I would not mind in the least whether truth is, or is not, a blow to the glory of my country. If necessary, I shall bear in patience the ridicule and slander of friends and society for the sake of preaching truth. But still I shall seek truth, understand truth, and accept truth. This should be the firm resolve of a historian.
 * Sir Jadunath Sarkar, quoted in Meenakshi Jain, "Flawed Narratives – History in the old NCERT Textbooks" (2001), and quoted in R.C. Majumdar, The History and Culture of the Indian People, Vol. 7, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1984, pp. xiii (quoted from a Presidential speech given at a historical conference in Bengal, 1915).

 * “I have looked at Nauvoo as a writer, not as a historian. There is a difference. A writer lives by ideas, while a historian isn’t allowed to have one.
 * Samuel W. Taylor, quoted in Sam Taylor’s Ghost, Michael Hicks, 2022

 * Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
 * A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14

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I categorized him as "religious leader" because he organized monks in the desert and seemed their abbot. But I feel "Category:Saints" suitable too, and doubt if "religious people" applys only to high hierarchies. And also I wonder why we have no category for Saints or Christian saints (I think however the latter is redundant - Catholic saints or Category:Orthodox saints would be meaningful though), which Wikipedia have already. I would like to know if there is any reason we don't have them yet. --Aphaia 00:23, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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 * A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

Source: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, trans. Benedicta Ward. #25 of Anthony's "38 sayings."

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 * Our life and our death are with our neighbour. If we gain our brother we have gained God; but if we scandalise our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
 * I no longer fear God, I love him.
 * Do not be afraid to hear about virtue and do not be a stranger to the term. For it is not distant from us nor is it external to us; its realisation lies within us and the work is easy if only we want it. The Greeks leave home and cross the seas in order to gain an education, but there is no need for us to go away on account of the Kingdom of God nor need we cross the sea in search of virtue. For the Lord has told us, "The Kingdom of God is within you." All that is needed for goodness is that which is within, the human heart.
 * I saw all the snares that the enemy spreads over the whole world and I said, groaning, "What can get through such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility."

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Hi,, welcome back to Wikiquote ;-) Here are some useful links:
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Shortly be bold and enjoy!, by the way your nick came from K. Hepburn or not, if I may ask you. Cheers, --Aphaia 00:26, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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I wonder if it is better to merge it into philosophy. Both seem to me stubs. --Aphaia 00:34, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Sathya Sai Baba

Many of these quotes are paragraphs long and violate the Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust copyrights. Who has obtained permission to duplicate these long quotes from the Trust and where has this information been divulged? SSS108 20:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Flagged For Copyright Violations
I have flagged this article for copyrights violations. Most of the quotes have been taken from Sathya Sai Baba's discourses which have been published in books called "Sathya Sai Speaks". These books are copyrighted to the Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust and chapters are prefaced with the following disclaimer: SSS108 20:55, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "The copyright and the rights of translation in any language are reserved by the Publisher. No part, para, passage, text or photo-graph or art work of this book should be reproduced, transmitted or utilised, in original language or by translation, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo copying, recording or by any information, storage or retrieval system, except with and prior permission, in writing from The Convener Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam, (Andhra Pradesh) India, except for brief passages quoted in book review. This book can be exported from India only by Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam (India).", etc.

Controversial Quote
The controversial quote that Andries and others keep trying to include is not even sourced to the right discourse. Andries admitted he has not read the hard copy and the real discourse does not provide the words for the quote. See. SSS108 talk-email 01:39, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

 * The correct citation was given by me. You mistakenly cited the wrong speech and this quote is also available in Sathya Sai literature. Ekantik 17:18, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

 * If there is a problem with this quote than you can move it down to the attributed section until further notice. No need for deleting. Please keep revert wars away from this page. Ekantik 17:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Ekantik, you have never seen this quote for yourself. You are basing it on the very same premise that Andries is basing it on, i.e., speculation. The quote came from a Telugu Poem which was not translated, but summarized. It is not a quote and until you provide an actual quote from the actual book it is going to be removed. SSS108 talk-email 18:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Don't be so sure that I haven't seen the quote. Please keep your battlegrounds with Andries on Wikipedia away from Wikiquote. If you have a problem with the quote then move it into the attributed section instead of removing it like I told you. Any simple Google search will obtain results, you should check out the speech of 21st October 1993. Now enough. Ekantik 01:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

 * In future, place disputed quotes into a new Misattributed section as per Wikiquote policy in FAQ. Ekantik 01:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

If you saw the quote, why didn't you say so? You have not seen the quote, that much is certain. The discourse you cited contains a summary and is not an actual quote. Until you get the actual quote, it isn't an actual quote. Period. The quote in question is not an misattribution. SSS108 talk-email 05:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * On Wikipedia you were arguing that all of SSB's discourses are online and for the wrong citation, now you are arguing that SSB's online discourse contain summaries. The quote stays and is moved to a misattributed section. We have done enough research into the matter. Do not tamper with the page. Ekantik 06:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The file record states that the quote is an excerpt from the speech. Therefore it is a quote albeit an excerpt from the full speech which doesn't appear to have been transcribed fully. The quote is no longer misattributed and thus returned to the sourced section. Ekantik 06:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like the quote has been changed considerably from my version. There may be variants, SSS108 what are you talking about? This quote is sourced all over the place in Baba's literatures. Stop vandalizing the page. SaiSlayer 23:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

SSS108 is carrying on a battle with Andries that has spilt over from Talk:Sathya Sai Baba|Wikipedia over the quote that he claims is unsourced. He removed the original quote which he claims is not in the hard copy (not having seen it himself), and when I found a variant version that is available in the online records of the Baba's speeches (which SSS108 agrees are a proper record) he objects that it is a summary when the record says it is an excerpt. I've also asked him to stop reverting the page which is a violation of WikiQuote policy (see FAQ link above) and to create a Misattributed section for disputed quotes. He still stubbornly refuses to agree. This page needs cleanup anyway. Ekantik 02:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks Ekantik. I'll look into possible disciplinary measures as conflicts from other Wiki-projects are frowned upon. I have corrected the quote according to a published source. This quote is well known in Sai books and is sourced in many places. SaiSlayer 17:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

One-sided:Self-puffery
I think there is a major issue with the quotes here - all circle around a theme of self-puffery. We need a more academically informative cross-section of the persons quotes. I'll try to fix this perceived problem. Researcher 31 11:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree the quotes are somewhat one-sided. Other quotes should be added. But SSB was a remarkable guru, among others because he made claims of divinity (self-puffery) so often and so explicitly and the quotes should reflect that. Andries 11:47, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
 * On second thoughts, SSB's teaching are just undistinctive eclectic mainstream Hinduism plus self puffery. I see little added value in writing down mainstream Hinduism here. Andries 16:32, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * On third thoughts, the interesting question is on what basis did he acquire and retain for so long so many followers? He was not the only miracle worker and godman around in India, as the anthropologist Lawrence Babb wrote, but only he became very famous and popular among the Indian upper higher class and abroad in the 1980s and 1990s. Clearly, self-puffery (claims of avatarhood to put it more friendly) was one aspect of the reasons why he became famous and popular and so should be quoted here. His use of mainstream Hindu theology was another aspect, but I still do not think that his use of mainstream Hinduism is remarkable or interesting enough to quote here. Another aspect, that merits to be quoted is his relation to the various organizations that bear his name and other individuals. Yet another aspect that is remarkable and deserves to be quoted is his claim to unit all religions. Andries (talk) 11:45, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Sathya Sai Baba. --Antiquary 19:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Come and stay at Prasanthi Nilayam. Move with Me and experience My company and conversation. I never utter a word that does not have significance or do a deed without beneficial consequence. Listen to Me, watch Me. Then form your conclusions. Dive in and know the depth. Eat and know the taste.

 * Come to me, eager to learn, to progress, to see yourself in Me, and I shall certainly welcome you and show you the way. You will indeed be blessed.

 * Dharma protects those who protect Dharma

 * Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience bliss.

 * Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.

 * Help ever, hurt never.

 * I do not need any publicity. What are you daring to publicize? What do you know about Me, let Me ask you! You speak one thing about Me today, and another tomorrow! Your faith has not been rendered unshakable. You praise Me when things go well; you blame Me when things go wrong. You flit from one refuge to another.

 * I know the agitations of your hearts, the aspirations, the waves and whirlpools; but, you do not know My heart. I react to the pain you undergo, the joy that you feel. For, I am in every heart. That is the temple where I dwell.

 * Love all, serve all.

 * Love is God, Live in Love.

 * Hands in the Society, Head in the Forest.

 * 3Ds = Duty, Devotion, Discipline

 * WATCH = watch your Words + Actions + Thoughts + Character + Heart

 * The whole world is Reflection, Reaction & Resound.

 * Seva is the best sadhana.

 * My life is My message.
 * This has usually been attributed to Mahatma Gandhi

 * Sow an action, reap a tendency; Sow a tendency, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny. You are the maker of your destiny. You can do or undo it.

 * Swami today tells us about the vocabulary of love.

 * Take one step towards Me; I shall take a hundred towards you.

 * The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

 * There is only one nation, the nation of humanity; There is only one religion, the religion of love; There is one language, language of the heart; There is only one God and He is Omnipresent.

 * This body of Mine is filled with attraction power from top to toe. It is the divine magnetic power. You are under the mistaken notion that Swami is having pain in His legs and therefore He is unable to walk comfortably... This attraction power in Me is increasing day by day. Whatever I touch with My hand, gets stuck to it.
 * Sai Baba discourse, March 16, Sai Ramesh Hall, Brindavan [Better sourcing by year is needed here.]

 * Where there is Love, there is Peace.

 * Why does the sun rise and set every day without delay or disruption? Why do these streams and rivers roar, murmur, and gossip over rock, pebble, and sand, as they meander to the parent sea? This is the answer: Know that I am the One who has ordained that these be such and shall behave so.

 * Why fear when I am here?

 * Time waste, is life waste.
 * Notice on the wall in his Ashram's canteen.

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Frank Crane

Dr. Frank Crane (1861–1928) was a Presbyterian minister, speaker, and columnist who wrote a set of ten volumes of "Four Minute Essays" which were published in 1919. Previously, in 1918, he published the book "21", from an article he had written for American Magazine, called "If I Were Twenty-One". He later penned a much longer treatise entitled "Everyday Wisdom", which was published in 1927. This leather-bound book was subtitled 'A page for every day of the year', and consisted of 365 Four Minute Essays and 52 Little Talks on How to Live. Only scarce remnants of his works on positive thinking and a populist political philosophy have survived for reflection by modern readers. However his 1921 syndicated column "Dr Crane Says" entitled "Just for Today", published May 29, 1921 in Boston Globe among other newspapers did survive has been modified and republished usually without correct attribution by Dale Carnegie, Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon Family Groups and many others. Dale Carnegie attributed Just for Today to Sybil Partridge, in his 1948 book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Ms. Partridge was the author of an unrelated song of that title. Dr. Crane also wrote an Introduction to "The Lost books of the Bible", (also known as the "Apocryphal New Testament"); this introduction was included in the 1979 edition of "The Lost books of the Bible", issued by Bell Publishing Company in 1979.

Quotes

 * You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough
 * As quoted in Business Education World, Vol. 15 (1935) p. 172.

The Human Heart

 * The human heart is a wide moor under a dull sky, with voices of invisible birds calling in the distance.

 * The human heart is a lonely lane in the evening, and two lovers are walking down it, whispering and lingering.
 * The human heart is a great green tree, and many strange birds come and sing in its branches; a few build nests, but most are from far lands north and south, and never come again.
 * The human heart is a deep still pool; in it are fishes of gold and silver, darting playfully, and slow-heaving slimy monsters, and tarnished treasure hoards, the infinite animalcular life; but when you look down at it you see but your own reflected face.
 * The human heart is an undiscovered country; men and women are forever perishing as they explore its wilds.
 * The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.
 * The human heart is a tangled wood wherein no man knows his way.
 * The human heart is a roaring forge where night and day the smiths are busy fashioning swords and silver cups, mitres and engine-wheels, the tools of *labor, and the gauds of precedence.
 * The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all.
 * The human heart is a meadow full of fireflies, a summer western sky of shimmering distant lightnings, a shore set round with flashing lighthouses, far-away voices calling that we cannot understand.
 * The human heart is a band playing in a park at a distance; we see the crowds listening, but we catch but fragments of the music now and again, and cannot make out the tune.
 * The human heart is a great city, teeming with myriad people, full of business and mighty doings, and we wander its crowded streets unutterably alone; we do not know what it is all about.
 * The human heart to youth is a fairy-land of adventure, to old age it is a sitting room where one knows his way in the dark.
 * The human heart is a cup of love, where some find life and zest, and some drunkenness and death.
 * The human heart is the throne of God, the council-chamber of the devil, the dwelling of angels, the vile heath of witches' Sabbaths, the nursery of sweet children, the blood-spattered scene of nameless tragedies.
 * Listen! You will hear mothers' lullabies, madmen's shrieks, love-croonings, cries of agonized terror, hymns of Christ, the roaring of lynch mobs, the kisses of lovers, the curses of pirates.
 * Bend close! You will smell the lily fragrance of love, the stench of lust, now odors as exquisite as the very spirit of violets, and now such nauseous repulsions as words cannot tell.
 * Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black — the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem.

Clean Business

 * Better than big business is clean business. To an honest man the most satisfactory reflection after he has amassed his dollars is not that they are many but that they are all clean. What constitutes clean business? The answer is obvious enough, but the obvious needs restating every once in a while. "A clean profit is one that has also made a profit for the other fellow." This is fundamental moral axiom in business. Any gain that arises from another's loss is dirty. Any business whose prosperity depends upon damage to any other business is a menace to the general welfare. That is why gambling, direct or indirect, is criminal, why lotteries are prohibited by law, and why even gambling slot-machine devices are not tolerated in civilized countries. When a farmer sells a housekeeper a barrel of apples, when a milkman sells her a quart of milk, or the butcher a pound of steak, or the dry-goods man a yard of muslin, the housekeeper is benefited quite as much as those who get her money. That is the type of honest, clean business, the kind that helps everybody and hurts nobody. Of course as business becomes more complicated it grows more difficult to tell so clearly whether both sides are equally prospered. No principle is automatic.  It requires sense, judgment, and conscience to keep clean; but it can be done, nevertheless, if one is determined to maintain his self-respect. A man that makes a habit, every deal he goes into, of asking himself, "What is there in it for the other fellow?" and who refuses to enter into any transaction where his own gain will mean disaster to some one else, cannot go for wrong. And no matter how many memorial churches he builds, nor how much he gives to charity, or how many monuments he erects in his native town, any man who has made his money by ruining other people is not entitled to be called decent. A factory where many workmen are given employment, paid living wages, and where health and life are conserved, is doing more real good in the world than ten eleemosynary institutions. The only really charitable dollar is the clean dollar.<brAnd the nasty dollar, wrung from wronged workmen or gotten by unfair methods from competitors, is never nastier than when it pretends to serve the Lord by being given to the poor, to education, or to religion.  In the long run all such dollars tend to corrupt and disrupt society. '''Of all vile  money, that which is the most unspeakably vile is the money spent for war; for war is conceived by the blundering ignorance and selfishness of rulers, is fanned to flame by the very lowest passions of humanity, and prostitutes the highest ideal of men; zeal for the common good; to the business of killing human beings and destroying the results of their collective work.

A School for Living
Here are the subjects in which a public-school pupil ought to be drilled:
 * How to control my temper.
 * How to use my imagination so as to strengthen me instead of making me weak.
 * How to improve and toughen my will.
 * How to find pleasure in common things.
 * How to get joy out of nature.
 * How to curb my selfishness and develop my altruism.
 * How to play fair.
 * How to work so as to make work a pleasure.
 * How to be a good fellow without being a fool.
 * How to get stimulation out of simple food and water drink, and not alcohol.
 * How to control my sex instinct so as to make it conduce my permanent happiness and not to disease, mental misery, and the wrecking of my career.
 * How to make friends and keep them.
 * How to handle enemies and those who wrong or offend me.
 * How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact.
 * How to value my own self-esteem more than the praise of others.

God's Whisper

 * God always whispers. At least to the soul. He may thunder to nations and speak to armies in the lightning. But to the individual His message is not in the mighty wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but in the still, small voice.
 * Go into the silence. Give your soul time to calm. Let the hurly-burly die down, the crash of passion, the struggle of doubt, the pain of failure, the ranklings of wrong, the clamor of ambition. Cease from self. Be still.
 * No man can tell what the whisper says. Each soul must hear for itself.

Just for Today (1921)

 * Just for Today. I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life-problem at once. I can do some things for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt I had to keep them up for a lifetime.
 * Just for Today. I will Adjust myself to what is, and not try to Adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my family, my business and my luck as they come and fit myself to them.

Fear (1921)

 * No one thought in all the world is of more value to put life and cheer and power into a man than the thought that the great Being who made this universe is FOR us and not AGAINST US.

Everyday Wisdom (1927)

 * THERE is a passage of Holy Writ that exhorts us that if there be any good things, such as love, virtue, truth, and so on, we ought to think on these things.
 * The fact that seems to underlie this exhortation is that we become what we think about.
 * Thoughts are given us, not only to chew over for ourselves, but to communicate to others. And if we can find a man that is ready to receive them, and a suitable occasion, there is nothing more pleasurable than giving them.

 * Preface.

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Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was a writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.

The Book of The Damned (1919)

 * The Book of The Damned (1919) online text at resologist.net The Book of The Damned online text at sacred-texts.com PDF at Google Books

 * A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them — or they'll march. Some of them livid and some ofttp://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damn/damn01.htm Ch. 1 at sacred-texts.com]

 * It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.
 * Ch. 1, part 2 at resologist.net

 * Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.
 * Ch. 1, part 4 at resologist.net

 * Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete--By Truth I mean the Universal.
 * Ch. 1, part 4 at resologist.net

 * By Realness, I mean that which does not merge away into something else, and that which is not partly something else: that which is not a reaction to, or an imitation of, something else. By a real hero, we mean one who is not partly a coward, or whose actions and motives do not merge away into cowardice. But, if in Continuity, all things do merge, by Realness, I mean the Universal, besides which there is nothing with which to merge.
 * Ch. 1, part 9 at resologist.net

 * The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
 * Ch. 2, part 2 at resologist.net

 * The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest — Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. "Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival." Darwinism: That survivors survive.
 * Ch. 3, part 1 at resologist.net

 * The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
 * Ch. 3, part 2 at resologist.net

 * Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
 * Ch. 5, part 1 at resologist.net

 * My own pseudo-conclusion: That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their caprices upon us; that clowns, with buckets of water from which they pretend to cast thousands of good-sized fishes have anathematized us for laughing disrespectfully, because, as with all clowns, underlying buffoonery is the desire to be taken seriously; that pale ignorances, presiding over microscopes by which they cannot distinguish flesh from nostoc or fishes' spawn, have visited upon us their wan solemnities. We've been damned by corpses and skeletons and mummies, which twitch and totter with pseudo-life derived from conveniences.
 * Ch. 9, part 1 at resologist.net

 * My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike ever to mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way. Anything that assimilates with one explanation, must have assimilable relations, to some degree, with all other explanations, if all explanations are somewhere continuous.
 * Ch. 11 at resologist.net Ch. 11 at sacred-texts.com

 * Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property"
 * Ch. 12 at resologist.net

New Lands (1925)

 * New Lands (1925), online text at resologist.net New Lands online text at sacred-texts.com

Some day I shall publish data that lead me to suspect that many appearances upon this earth that were once upon a time interpreted by theologians and demonologists, but are now supposed to be the subject-matter of psychic research, were beings and objects that visited this earth, not from a spiritual existence, but from outer space. That extra-geographic conditions may be spiritual, or of highly attenuated matter, is not my present notion, though that, too, may be some day accepted.
 * Ch. 6 at resologist.net

An unknown vegetable substance falls from the sky. The datum is buried: it may sprout some day.
 * Ch. 7 at resologist.net

Lo! (1931)

 * Lo! (1931), online text

 * If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
 * Pt 1, Ch. 1

 * I believe nothing. I have shut myself away from the rocks and wisdoms of ages, and from the so-called great teachers of all time, and perhaps because of that isolation I am given to bizarre hospitalities. I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs. But I accept, with reservations that give me freedom to ridicule the statement at any other time, that showers of an edible substance that has not been traced to an origin upon this earth, have fallen from the sky, in Asia Minor.
 * Pt 1, Ch. 3; part of this has sometimes been misquoted as: "I cannot accept that the products of the mind are subject-matter for belief."

It is the problem of continuity-discontinuity, which perhaps I shall have to take up sometime.
 * If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree can not find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time. For whatever is supposed to be meant by progress, there is no need in human minds for standards of their own: this is in the sense that no part of a growing plant needs guidance of its own devising, nor special knowledge of its own as to how to become a leaf or a root. It needs no base of its own, because the relative wholeness of the plant is relative baseness to its parts. At the same time, in the midst of this theory of submergence, I do not accept that human minds are absolute nonentities, just as I do not accept that a leaf, or a root, of a plant, though so dependent upon a main body, and so clearly only a part, is absolutely without something of an individualizing touch of its own.
 * Pt 1, Ch. 4

 * Witchcraft always has a hard time, until it becomes established and changes its name. We hear much of the conflict between science and religion, but our conflict is with both of these. Science and religion always have agreed in opposing and suppressing the various witchcrafts. Now that religion is inglorious, one of the most fantastic of transferences of worships is that of glorifying science, as a beneficent being. It is the attributing of all that is of development, or of possible betterment to science. But no scientist has ever upheld a new idea, without bringing upon himself abuse from other scientists. Science has done its utmost to prevent whatever science has done.
 * Pt 1, Ch. 4

 * There are cynics who deny the existence of human gratitude. But it seems that I am no cynic. So convinced am I of the existence of gratitude that I see in it one of our strongest oppositions. There are millions of persons who receive favors that they forget: but gratitude does exist, and they've got to express it somewhere. They take it out by being grateful to science for all that science has done for them, a gratitude, which, according to their dull perceptions won't cost them anything. So there is economic indignation against anybody who is disagreeable to science. He is trying to rob the people of a cheap gratitude. I like a bargain as well as does anybody else, but I can't save expenses by being grateful to Science, if for every scientist who has perhaps been of benefit to me, there have been many other scientists who have tried to strangle that possible benefit.
 * Pt 1, Ch. 4

 * If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.
 * Pt 1, Ch. 5

Wild Talents (1932)

 * Wild Talents (1932) online

 * My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?
 * Ch. 2

 * Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.
 * Ch. 4

 * One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.
 * Ch. 6

 * Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded. The monks of science dwell in smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles. Or some of them do. Nowadays a good many of them are going native.
 * Ch. 13

 * I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
 * Ch. 22; sometimes paraphrased "I can conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is anything more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."

 * My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians. … Considering modern data, it is likely that many of the fakirs of the past, who are now known as saints, did, or to some degree did, perform the miracles that have been attributed to them. Miracles, or stunts, that were in accord with the dominant power of the period were fostered, and miracles that conflicted with, or that did not contribute to, the glory of the Church, were discouraged, or were savagely suppressed. There could be no development of mechanical, chemical, or electric miracles — And that, in the succeeding age of Materialism — or call it the Industrial Era — there is the same state of subservience to a dominant, so that young men are trained to the glory of the job, and dream and invent in fields that are likely to interest stockholders, and are schooled into thinking that all magics, except their own industrial magics, are fakes, superstitions, or newspaper yarns.
 * Ch. 27

 * "Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.”
 * p279

 * Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement — that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.
 * Speaking of a dog's homing skills, in Ch. 27

 * I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.
 * Ch. 27

Misattributed

 * If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?
 * This has become widely attributed to Fort, but originates with Damon Knight, who in Charles Fort : Prophet of the Unexplained (1970) used the expression to sum up the nature of some of Fort's ideas or inquiries.

Quotes about Fort

 * As a humorist-scientist, Fort both aligns himself with all scientists, making them guilty by association with him — they are quacks too, anyone driven to belief by a system is a quack — and he always leaves himself a few curious exits.
 * Paul Mann in Masocriticism (1999)

 * A patron of cranks ...[throughout his work runs] the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
 * Colin Wilson, in Mysteries (1978)

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Koichi Tohei

Koichi Tohei (20 January 1920 – 19 May 2011) was a 10th Dan aikidoka and founder of the Ki Society and its style of aikido, officially Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido (literally "aikido with mind and body unified"), but commonly known as "Ki-Aikido".

Quotes

 *  Ki is a very complex word... and even more difficult to translate to westerners.
 * Aikido: The Co-Ordination of Mind and Body for Self-Defence (1966), as quoted in "What is Ki?" at Brisbane Aikido Republic

Book of Ki (1976)

 * Book of Ki : Coordinating Mind and Body in Daily Life (1976)

All of the forces of science have been unable to conquer nature because it is too mystic, too vast, too mighty. It intensely pervades everything around us. Like the fish that, though in the water, is unaware of the water, we are so thoroughly engulfed in the blessings of nature that we tend to forget its very existence.
 * Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as God, some call it the Buddha, others call it truth. Still others convert nature into a philosophy by which they attempt to sound its deepest truth. Such attempts to define the power of nature are no more than striving to escape its effects.
 * p. 106

'The very name Aikido indicates its dependence on the laws of nature, which we term ki''. Aikido means the way to harmony with ki. That is to say, Aikido is a discipline to make the heart of nature our own heart, to understand love for all things, and to become one with nature. Techniques and physical strength have limits; the great way of the universe stretches to infinity.'''
 * Only those with their eyes open to the world of nature are capable of uncovering its truth. Everything springs from a sense of gratitude toward nature. Aikido, though praised as a healthful system of self-defense techniques, would be nothing apart from the laws of the great universe. The martial way begins and ends with courtesy, itself an attitude of thankfulness to and reverence for nature. To be mistaken on this basic point is to make of the martial arts no more than weapons of injury and death.
 * p. 106

Ki Sayings (2003)

 * Online text at Villa Rica Aikido · Online English text with links to Japanese pages · PDF at Northside Aikido

Four major principles to unify mind and body:
 * '''Let us have a universal spirit that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop. To unify mind and body and become one with the universe is the ultimate purpose of our study.
 * 1. keep one-point
 * 2. relax completely
 * 3. keep weight underside and
 * 4. extend ki.
 * 1 : Motto

 * Our lives are born of the Ki of the Universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a Universal Mind. Let us pledge to fulfil our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the Universe.
 * 2 : The value of our existence

 * The absolute universe is one. We call this ki. Our lives and our bodies are born of the ki of the universe. Study thoroughly the principles of the universe and practice them. We are one with the universe. There is no need to despond, no need to fear. The way we follow is the way of the universe, which no difficulty nor hard-ship can hinder. Let us have the courage and say, "if I have a clear conscience and a calm spirit, I dare to face an enemy of ten million."
 * 3 : The way to union with ki

 * Mind and body were originally one. Do not think that the power you have is only the power you ordinarily use and moan that you have little strength. The power you ordinarily use is like the small visible segment of an iceberg. When we unify our mind and body and become one with the universe, we can use the great power that is naturally ours.
 * 4 : Unification of mind & body

 * Like the calm still surface water that reflects the moon and a flying bird, true living calmness is the condition of our mind that reflects all things clearly. This is our original and natural state. By understanding these principles, we can acquire true living calmness.
 * 7: Living calmness

 * The absolute universe is one. Then two opposing forces appeared, and the relative world was born. In the orient this dualism is called ‘yin’ and ‘yang’, in the west, ‘plus’ and ‘minus’.
 * 8 : Plus life

 * The subconscious mind acts as a storehouse of knowledge and past experiences. The materials stored in the subconscious mind form the conscious mind. Henceforth let us cease putting any minus materials into the subconscious. Let us always extend plus ki and live our life with a positive attitude.
 * 9 : The subconscious

 * There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world. If we unify our mind and body become one with the universe, others will follow us gladly. Do not say that this is a world where we must struggle to live each day. The true way to success is exactly one and the same as the principle of non-dissension, and that is the way of peace.
 * 10 : The principle of non-dissension

 * We begin with the number one in counting all things. It is impossible that this one can ever be reduced to zero. Because just as something cannot be made of nothing, one cannot be made from zero. Ki is like the number one. Ki is formed from infinitely small particles, smaller than an atom. The universal ki condensed becomes an individual, which further condensed becomes the one point in the lower abdomen, which in turn infinitely condensed never becomes zero, but becomes one with the universe. Thus we understand the essence of ki.
 * 11 : The definition of ki

 * It is easier to coordinate mind and body when we are sitting or standing still than when we are in motion. But true unification means to maintain the coordination of mind and body even when we are moving.
 * 12 : Ki development exercises

 * Just as tops spinning violently and rapidly becomes steady, the most rapid movements results in calm. Like the eye of the typhoon, which, is always peaceful, inner calm results in great strength of action. Calm and action are exactly one. Only when we keep our one point and unify our mind and body, can we find spare time even when we are busy. Keep a calm mind and you will be able to perform to the best of your ability, even in an emergency or when facing important tasks.
 * 13 : The unity of calm and action

 * True "fudoshin" is not a rigid, immobile state of mind, but the condition of stability, which comes from the most rapid movement. In other words, like the steadiness of a spinning top, the state of perfect spiritual and physical stability arises from movement, which continues infinitely and is so infinitely rapid that it is imperceptible.
 * 14 : Fudoshin

 * Breathe out, so that your breath travels infinitely to the ends of the universe: breathe in, so that your breath reaches your one point and continues infinitely there. The ki breathing methods are an important way of unifying mind and body. At night when all is quiet and calm, do this alone, and you will feel that you are the universe and that the universe is you. It will lead you to supreme ecstasy of being one with the universe. At this moment the life power that is rightfully yours is fully activated.
 * 15 : Ki breathing exercises

 * We have learned coordination of mind and body and the "ki breathing methods". Therefore we can bring the ki of the universe into our bodies at anytime. When a water pump is dried out, no water can flow from the well up through the pump. To start this flow again we must put some water back into the pump. In the same way, ki does not flow strongly in a person suffering from illness or misfortune. Let us practice "kiatsuho" to put back into these people, stimulate their own flow of ki, and give them a fresh start to happiness.
 * 16. Kiatsuho - pressing with ki

 * We are blessed with a spirit that is one with the spirit of the universe. This spirit is called "reiseishin". The moon is clearly reflected in the water when the water is calm. In the same way when our mind and body are unified and calm, our "reiseishin" manifests itself completely. Once this happens all suffering and wicked desires fall away, and the universal spirit of love and protection for all things appears in us. Let us strive to realise our "reiseishin".
 * 17 : Reiseishin - the universal mind

 * We call the mind that wants to make the way of the Universe clear and to put it into practice the mind that seeks truth. However clever a dog or a monkey may be, they cannot realize the universal mind. Only human beings have the privilege and capacity to realize it. If you have a mind that seeks truth, you are happy because this is the proof that you are a real human being.
 * 18 : The mind that seeks truth

 * An old oriental saying tells us, ‘when our willpower is concentrated upon a stone, it can pass through it. When our willpower is focused and in harmony with the universe, it can command the wind, rain and thunder’. But from where does our willpower come? Those who understand and answer this question are those who accomplish important tasks. When we coordinate mind and body by stilling the waves of our mind to imperceptible, infinitely decreasing ripples, we can send forth our great willpower that moves the universe.
 * 19 : Willpower

 * Just as the number one never can be reduced to zero, once we act or speak, our action or speech is never completely erased. An old oriental saying tells us, "sow good, and the harvest will be good. Sow evil and reap evil". We must understand that everything we do comes back to ourselves. Therefore before wishing for our own happiness and welfare and that of our children, we must do good in secret. To do good in secret means to act without seeking attention and praise, to act without any hope of reward. This is called "intoku". Among the various ways of performing intoku, to walk the way of the universe and to lead others along this way is best.
 * 20. Intoku - good done in secret

 * Selfish people have never understood and travelled the way of the universe in the past. Therefore when we realise the principles and the way of the universe, the universe gives us the responsibility to spread them to the world. Do not think that you cannot help another person. What you learn today, you can teach another the next day. The world is full of people who have lost the way of the universe and suffer illness. Let us do our best to explain the correct principles of the universe to them.
 * 21 : Setsudo - teaching the way of the universe

 * Ki tests are not founded on the idea of testing for strength or weakness. The most important factor in ki testing is to accurately inform the person of the state of his or her mind. Thus, the person performing ki tests must truly understand and exhibit oneness of mind and body from the outset and then perform the tests correctly.
 * 22 : The treasure of ki testing

 * Nature appears to us in four seasons. The spring is bright and warm, the summer lazy and hot. The fall is decked with colour with a trace of sadness, and the winter frosted and severe. Similarly, the movement of shin shin toitsu aikido are rich and varied. There is both severity and kindness, speed and calmness. It is designed to express the many moods and characteristics of men and women, young and old. But if it for one moment varies from the principles of the universe, it is no longer aikido with ki.
 * 23

 *  "Do nothing" does not mean "don’t do anything", "mu" or "nothing" is not merely the lack of something. It refers to the state in which the mind has grown imperceptibly calm, and then allowed things to take their natural course. If you can leave things entirely up to the universe and not put up the slightest resistance, then you can pass the highest level of ki tests.
 * 24

 * Things appear very complex but underneath they are quite simple. People complicate things by super-imposing their own viewpoints and advantages. If you remove all that is superfluous, most problems have very simple solutions.
 * 26

 * When you teach people it is useless to try to change their character. Correct their bad habits first, then their true character can come through. Teachers must have a positive mind. If their attitude is negative, it infects their students. Students cannot learn from bad examples until they develop their own powers of judgement.
 * 27

 * Until you can clearly make up your mind, you are better off not doing something. Make a habit of being decisive in your daily affairs. Some people can be heard to say, "what will I do if I get killed?!" If you die, there is nothing you can do. Whatever you have to do, do it now, while you are still living. You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.
 * 28

 * Human beings cannot grow without feeling gratitude. Gratitude towards things is an attitude which fosters growth.
 * 29

 * The ki of the universe is absolute. There is no such thing as strong ki verses weak ki. Correctly speaking, ki is strong only because it is strongly extended, weak only when it is not extended strongly. There is no limit to how strong your ki can become if you train yourself to extend ki strongly.
 * 31

 * The ki of the universe has never for a moment stopped moving. We call this continuous growth and development. Do you think it strange that human beings seem to be the only one trying to stop the movement of ki?
 * 34

 * Even if you learn something quickly with your conscious mind, you will easily forget it after you stop practicing. That which is learned with the subconscious mind is not easily forgotten. Therefore to learn something with the subconscious mind, requires months and years of training. Just because you were able to do it before, do not assume that you can do it as well the second time. Each time you do something, you must return to your beginner’s mind, and give it your best.
 * 40

 * You must not think of what you learned as belonging to you. Your learning was only possible because of the people who taught you. If you forget this, before you know it you fall under the illusion that you are the only one who can do it, or the only one who understands. This is called being full of yourself. It is wrong to think, ‘I am strong’, because this strength is nothing but weakness turned inside out. You must think how to act within universal principles.
 * 41

 * Instructors must always be positive. Even if someone fails at something, you must have the energy to help them turn it into success. When teaching, always compare the correct way with the incorrect way, side by side. Then the reasons for the correct way become obvious. You must know both.
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 * If you throw a stone into a lake, it makes waves on the surface. Eventually the waves disappear, but just because you can longer see them does not mean that they are really gone. They have just become too small for us to see them. In the same way, we calm our mind by half, half, half... and the waves of the mind become infinitely calm. They never actually stop.
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 * When learning something new, you must never be critical at the beginning. Always do your thinking after trial and error. Most people make up their mind one way or the other before they even get started. The most important step is to remove your coloured glasses and get a clear view.
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 * When your techniques are rough it means you are forcing against the principles; proof that you are still immature. You will not be able to stand up to a stronger opponent — you must try to follow the principles. Your character comes out in your techniques. So do the habits of your mind. By correcting the techniques, you can correct the bad habits of your mind. If you constantly collide with others in your practice, your mind will develop a habit of clashing with other people.
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 * The purpose of ki-aikido is not self-defence; that is a mere by product. It is far more important to learn to control the mind and body. It is too late to try to calm the mind after you take up the sword. First you must calm the mind and then take up the sword. When you raise the sword up overhead, do not cut your ki. Continue to calm the mind by half, half, half and create a living calmness in that infinite reduction. When practicing cutting with the sword, you will find infinitely more value in cutting just five to ten times with ki fully extended, than you would in cutting a thousand time with mere physical strength.
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 * Some people are quick to find reasons and excuses why they cannot do things. This cuts their Ki and in times stifles their motivation altogether. Motivation is extending Ki, not receiving it. People today are more concerned with what they can get, than what they can give or do for others. That is why they cannot extend Ki.
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 * Until you change the sub conscience mind, you cannot say that you have learned something. If something is worth learning, you should stick with it until you have changed your subconscious mind.
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 * If you hold a wooden staff with a tight grip and try to raise it overhead, it feels quite heavy. If you hold it lightly it feels light. In the same way you should not approach things with too serious an attitude. Take a lighter point of view. In other words, think positively.
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title: Koichi Tohei