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Die Hard with a Vengeance

Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 film about a New York cop who finds himself in a fight for his life as he races around New York, playing a bomber's deadly game.
 * Directed by John McTiernan. Written by Johnathan Hensleigh & Roderick Thorp.

Think Fast. Look Alive. Die Hard. taglines

Dialogue

 * [Simon reveals that he didn't ever intend to blow a school full of children]
 * Simon: Of course not. I'm a soldier, I'm not a monster, even though I do sometimes work for monsters.

 * John McClane: [prepares to shoot a wire down on Simon's helicopter] Say hello to your brother! [shoots down the wire]
 * Simon Gruber: [sees what McClane did] Get out of here!
 * [As Gruber's helicopter flies away, with Simon shooting, the wire gets tangled in its rotor, causing it to crash and explode]
 * John McClane: Yippie-ki-yay motherfucker!

 * [McClane shows up to stop Simon while he's having sex with Katya]
 * John McClane: Hey, dickhead. Did I come at a bad time?
 * [Katya, furious, shoots at McClane's helicopter. Zeus laughs]
 * Zeus Carver: I think she's pissed at you, McClane!

 * [McClane is flung out of a hole in the ground which Zeus, driving by, notices]
 * Zeus Carver: You've got a hell of a way of flagging somebody down!

 * John McClane: [to Jerry after thinking he's one of Simon's men] Are you a truck driver?
 * Jerry: [sarcastically] No, I'm a beautician! Of course I'm a truck driver!

 * [While transporting McClane to Harlem]
 * Ricky Walsh: Next, fourteen dump trucks stolen from a yard in Staten Island. Fourteen! Jesus! Somebody starting a construction company?
 * Joe Lambert: No, it was John's landlady, gonna clean his apartment.

 * Zeus Carver: How do Catholics do their thing?
 * John McClane: North, South, West, East. [Zeus crosses himself in those directions] How much time?
 * Zeus Carver: 27 minutes.
 * John McClane: Ha! 72nd and Broadway to Central Park South in three minutes! It's gotta be a fuckin' record!

 * [Zeus's nephews visit their uncle at his electronics store with a new stereo]
 * Raymond: Yo, uncle!
 * Dexter: Come look at this!
 * Zeus Carver: [looks at watch] It's ten after 9:00. Why aren't you in school?
 * Raymond: Tony wants to sell you this.
 * Zeus Carver: Tony? That no-neck dude they call "Bad T"?
 * Dexter: He says he found it in a dumpster.
 * Zeus Carver: If he keeps stealin' from people, they're gonna find him in a dumpster.
 * Raymond: No, he didn't steal it! He says his uncle gave it to him.
 * Zeus Carver: Mmmm-hmmm? Hand me that newspaper over there.
 * [Raymond hands Zeus the paper, who slaps him over the head]
 * Zeus Carver: Don't ever let people use you. You're running all over town with stolen property! If you get caught, you get in trouble while he gets to deny the whole thing and walk away.
 * Dexter: Y-You mean, you want us to take it back to Tony?
 * Zeus Carver: No, I'll take it back to Tony … with a message.

 * Zeus: Now, where you going?
 * Dexter: School.
 * Zeus: Why?
 * Raymond: To get educated.
 * Zeus: Why?
 * Dexter: So we can go to college.
 * Zeus: And why is that important?
 * Dexter: To get 'espect.
 * Zeus: Respect. Now, who's the bad guys?
 * Dexter: Guys who sell drugs.
 * Raymond: Guys who have guns.
 * Zeus: And who's the good guys?
 * Dexter: We're the good guys.
 * Zeus: Who's gonna help you?
 * Raymond: Nobody.
 * Zeus: So who's gonna help you?
 * Dexter: We're gonna help ourselves.
 * Zeus: And who do we not want to help us?
 * Dexter and Raymond: White people!
 * Zeus: That's right. Now get on out of here. Go to school.

 * [Zeus and his nephews see McClane across the street from their electronics store sporting a sandwich board that says "I HATE NIGGERS"]
 * Zeus Carver: Dial 9-1-1. Tell the police to get up here quick. Somebody's about to get killed. And get your butts to school, you hear me?
 * Raymond Carver: [casually] Yeah.
 * Dexter Carver: Yeah.
 * [Zeus goes out, notices a black gang across the street, then walks across to speak to McClane]
 * Zeus Carver: Morning.
 * John McClane: Good morning.
 * Zeus Carver: You having a nice day, sir? You feelin' all right? [A car passing by honks its horn in response to McClane's message] Not to get too personal, but a white man standing in the middle of Harlem wearing a sign that says "I Hate Niggers" has either got some serious personal issues, or not all his dogs are barking. [McClane yawns] Hey, I'm talking to you! Now you've got about ten seconds before those guys see you, and when they do, they will kill you, you understand? You are about to have a very bad day.
 * John McClane: Tell me about it, Sir this is a police matter, for your own safety I'm gonna have....
 * Zeus Carver: You damn right it's a police matter, for you're own safety I suggest you hide your butt in my shop till the police get here.
 * Black Gang Member: WHAT THE FUCK?!
 * Zeus Carver: [looks to see the Gang Member at McClane with the sign] Oh shit.

 * John McClane: Listen, I'm a cop.
 * Zeus Carver: What?
 * John McClane: I'm on a case. Somebody blew Bonwit Teller's an hour ago. Did you hear about that on the news?
 * Zeus Carver: Yeah.
 * John McClane: The same asshole that did that said I gotta come to Harlem and do this, or he's gonna blow up somethin' else, do you understand?
 * Zeus Carver: [muttering] Shit, shit...
 * John McClane: Listen I got a gun.
 * Zeus Carver: They got ten guns.
 * John McClane: When you get across the street, you should get across the street.
 * Zeus Carver: Look, start acting crazy, alright?
 * John McClane: What?
 * Zeus Carver: Like Looney Tunes, you know like Bellevue?
 * [A black gang has seen McClane with the "I hate niggers" sign and is surrounding him and Zeus]
 * Black Gang Leader: Hey, Zeus. Is he a friend of yours?
 * Zeus Carver: He look like a friend of mine? I think this dude has just escaped from some hospital. You know, like Bellevue?

 * [McClane and Zeus escape the black gang in a taxi cab]
 * John McClane: That cut deep?
 * Zeus Carver: How the hell would I know?
 * John McClane: Just keep pressure on it. Jesús, right? John McClane. Thanks for covering my ass back there. I owe you one.
 * Zeus Carver: Damn right, you owe me one! Do you have any idea what those guys are doing to my shop right now?
 * John McClane: Chill out, Jesús.
 * Zeus Carver: Chill out? What the fuck? Are you trying to relate to me? Talk like a white man!
 * John McClane: Look, Jesús, I'm sorry you got involved!
 * Zeus Carver: Why're you calling me "Jesús"? Do I look Puerto Rican to you?
 * John McClane: The guy back there called you Jesús.
 * Zeus Carver: He didn't say "Jesús," he said "Hey, Zeus!" My name is Zeus.
 * John McClane: Zeus?
 * Zeus Carver: Yes! As in Father of Apollo? Mount Olympus? Don't-fuck-with-me-or-I'll-shove-a-lightning-bolt-up-your-ass Zeus! You got a problem with that?
 * John McClane: No...no, I don't have a problem.

 * [McClane and Zeus have just carjacked a taxi]
 * Zeus Carver: I used to drive a cab. The fastest way to – [yells as McClane speeds off; McClane runs a red light, barely avoiding collision with several cars]
 * John McClane: You were saying?
 * Zeus Carver: I was saying, I used to drive a cab, and 9th Avenue is the fastest way south. But we seem to be going east.

 * Dr. Fred Schiller: These people don't like to work anonymously. They want you to know who's doing it to you. So this name Simon is probably not an alias. It's probably Simon or some variation.
 * Joe Lambert: [reads information off of a rap sheet] Simon, Robert E. Busted in '86. Extortion. Kidnapping. 10 to 15. Did 7 years for good behavior. Released on a state work furlough two months ago.
 * Inspector Cobb: Check it. [Rick tosses something to McClane]
 * John McClane: Thanks, Rick. Bob Simon was a bankrupt businessman who kidnapped his partner's daughter. He's a fuck-up, not a psycho. The guy we're looking for is nuts.
 * Charles Weiss: [comes in] A nut who knows a lot about bombs. We found this in a playground. Professional. Very cool stuff! You know … [thuds the bomb on Cobb's desk] Boom!
 * Inspector Walter Cobb: You think you should slam it around like that, Charlie?
 * Charles Weiss: It's unmixed. You can't hurt it. This stuff is cutting edge. It's a binary liquid.
 * Inspector Walter Cobb: A what?
 * Charles Weiss: Like epoxy. Two liquids. [puts a dab of the clear liquid on Cobb's desk] Now, either one by itself … [hits it with his shoe] you got nothing. But, mix 'em … :[dabs a paperclip in the red liquid, swirls it into the clear] Ricky? [Ricky Walsh moves aside and Charlie throws the paperclip at a chair. The mixture explodes and pops the chair up, startling Connie]
 * Connie Kowalski: Charlie, you're gonna be wearin' that chair up your ass!!
 * Inspector Walter Cobb: Christ almighty, Charlie!
 * Charles Weiss: [pretending to have not heard them] Like I said, very cool stuff. Now, with a package like this, you get a warning. Now, the bomb has to arm itself. You'll see the red liquid pump into the clear before it detonates.
 * John McClane: How long before?
 * Charles Weiss: Ten seconds, two minutes, it could be anything. But once it's mixed...be somewhere else.

 * John McClane: Hey, can you pick locks?
 * Zeus Carver: Is this one of those black things again?
 * John McClane: Will you stop with that racist shit?

 * John McClane: Listen, you fail, I cover your ass. I fail, you cover my ass.
 * Zeus Carver: And if we both fail?
 * John McClane: Then we're both fucked! Go now, drive. Get to that phone booth by 10:20! Go!
 * Zeus Carver: [mutters to himself] My lucky fucking day...

 * [After McClane and Zeus "requisition" of a man's car]
 * Zeus Carver: Hey, who was the twenty-first President?
 * Man: Go fuck yourself!
 * Zeus Carver: That dude was pissed!
 * John McClane: He'll feel better when he looks in the back seat.
 * Zeus Carver: Oh, shit, that was my gold bar!

 * [While John McClane and Zeus Carver navigates through to the next bomb location]
 * Zeus Carver: Wall Street is south!
 * John McClane: Stop yelling! I got a headache! And the best way south is not 9th Avenue. It's through the park.
 * Zeus Carver: [sees a narrow gap between two cars] Oh, dear.
 * [John drives through the gap to see the traffic backed up]
 * Zeus Carver: I told you Park Drive is always jammed!
 * John McClane: I didn't say "Park Drive". [turns the cab and drives onto the sidewalk, cutting through Central Park] I said "through the park".

 * [McClane and Zeus are speeding through Central Park in a taxicab]
 * Zeus Carver: Watch-it, watch-it, watch-it, watch-it--Are you aiming for these people?
 * John McClane: No! [Wilhelm scream is heard from a pedestrian jumping out of the way] Maybe that mime.

 * [To reach the payphone at the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line's Wall Street station, Zeus jumps the turnstile and is seen by a transit cop, who chases him and trains a Glock on him]
 * Zeus Carver: [slowly] I have to answer that phone.
 * Transit Cop: Get 'em up!
 * Zeus Carver: Look, if you have to shoot me, then you go ahead, and you shoot me! But I have to answer this phone, alright?!' [picks up the receiver] I'm here.
 * Simon Gruber: And McClane?
 * Zeus Carver: He's on his way. Uh, you know, he's a little slow. He's kinda outta shape.
 * Simon Gruber: The rules applied to both of you. I'm afraid this is noncompliance. Goodbye. [hangs up. The screeching of wheel flanges can be heard from inside the tunnel]
 * Zeus Carver: Trust me guys. Duck. [He immediately assumes the brace position. The downtown #3 train that the bomb has been planted in enters the station. At the back of the tenth car, McClane smashes the panel on the door and throws the bomb out onto the tracks. As he does that, the front wheels of the first car pass over a trip wire over the inner rail that activates the detonator. The bomb goes off in midair, causing the last car to separate from the wheel bogies. The carbody slides along the island platform, taking out the station columns and signs, emitting a large plume of dust at the station entrances on the street. The transit cop stands still, petrified at the scene]
 * Zeus Carver: Get down! [He pulls the transit cop under the stairs. The derailed car hits the stairway and turns on its side]

 * [A bystander is asking Walsh why all of the police are leaving]
 * Ricky Walsh: Come on, Pamela, look at your watch! It's coming up on shift change! The bean counters are worried about overtime, so we're sending everybody back to the precinct to punch out! The next shift's gonna be here in a minute.
 * Pamela: You are so full of shit, Walsh!
 * Ricky Walsh: [Bows to her] Thank you. [He hears a low rumble and walks over to the corner, trying to find out what the noise is] What the hell?
 * [A parade of fourteen dump trucks come trundling around the corner. They pass Walsh, ignoring him waving his hands frantically]
 * Ricky Walsh: Hey, whoa! Whoa-whoa! [Simon approaches him]
 * Simon Gruber: Detective! [flashes his identification] Bob Thompson. City Engineer's office. We'd like to get an idea of the damage. [Mathias Targo jumps onto the next passing truck]
 * Ricky Walsh: Man, you guys really got here fast!
 * Simon Gruber: [with faux-American accent] Well … it's Wall Street, sir. A lot of money here. Lot of opinion makers--the mayor doesn't want to piss off, you know. Is this it?
 * [They reach the plaza above the station. Simon pretends shock]
 * Simon Gruber: Holy Toledo! Somebody had fun! [turns to Walsh] I'd appreciate it if you'd show my associates the way down. [smiles and exchanges eye contact with Walsh. After a pause, Walsh gives in]
 * Ricky Walsh: Yeah! Yeah, sure. [turns to two cops by the police barricades] Jimmy! You got the flashlight? Murphy, come on, you too! [Two cops are waved over to lead two of Simon's thugs and Otto down the stairs into the wreckage]

 * [McClane and Zeus are arguing]
 * Zeus Carver: You were gonna call me a nigger, weren't you?
 * John McClane: No, I wasn't!
 * Zeus Carver: Yes, you were!
 * John McClane: No!
 * Zeus Carver: Then what were you gonna call me?!
 * John McClane: ASSHOLE! How's that, asshole?! What, you got some fuckin' problem with me 'cause I'm white, Zeus?! Is that it?! Have I oppressed you?! Have I oppressed your people somehow?! I'll tell you what your fuckin' problem is! You're a racist!
 * Zeus Carver: [Stunned] What?!
 * John McClane: You're a racist! You don't like me 'cause I'm white!
 * Zeus Carver: I don't like you because you're gonna get me killed!

 * [Walsh leads three of Simon's henchmen into the subway station]
 * Ricky Walsh: Yeah, yeah we snapped a couple of the steam pipes, it's like a sauna. We got the subway guys to shut down the third rail. [We see two of Simon's men using syringe guns on the two cops sent to escort them]
 * Foreman: Emergency lighting?
 * Ricky Walsh: And there's still some … [He hears Otto drawing a pistol] HEY! [Otto shoots him twice]
 * Foreman: No shooting!! [Otto replies in German] Speak English! [The two other henchmen, who have donned the cops' uniforms, step past Otto]
 * First "Cop": Otto doesn't speak English! Do ya, Otto?
 * "Foreman": Where the hell did we get this guy?
 * Second "Cop": He's one of Targo's thugs!

 * [One of the guards has been trapped by Simon's men in his office and doesn't see Katya opening the door into the room. He manages to contact the front desk, not knowing that the front desk guard has been replaced by one of Simon's men]
 * Mischa: Front desk.
 * Federal Reserve Guard #2: Yes, call the police! Get your ass down here right now! I'm under attack!
 * Mischa: Hey, just relax mate! Maybe you'll live through this!
 * [The guard, not trusting Mischa, grabs a shotgun and starts firing towards the door behind which Simon and his men are standing, calmly waiting. As he fires with no success, he fails to see Katya pull out a long curved knife, and she slashes it through his neck. As he begins to fall, she slashes a second time through his neck, spins around, and stabs him in the chest. As he doubles over, she stabs him in the back. Before she can stab the guy any more, Simon grabs her, twists her hand, and pins her against the wall, restraining her. He glares disapprovingly at her]
 * Simon Gruber: I think he's dead, my dear.

 * [Two Reserve guards are talking with two maintenance workers]
 * Federal Reserve Guard #1: Whaddaya think, guys? Will you have to fix it?
 * Deputy Marshal #1: [inspecting the alarms] Yeah it's tippin' alright.
 * Federal Reserve Guard #1: I'll be right back. [He opens the door and finds Simon pointing a gun at his head. He immediately dives to the floor and draws his gun, but the two repairmen are now pointing submachine guns at him and his comrade]

 * [Simon and his henchmen enter the vault]
 * Simon Gruber: One hundred forty billion dollars! Ten times what's in Kentucky! Fort Knox? HA! It's for tourists! [tosses a gold brick to one of his comrades, who nearly drops it because of the weight]

 * [McClane opens a truck door and a dead body falls out]
 * Zeus: What are you doing?
 * McClane: Interrogating him.
 * Zeus: And what's he gonna tell you? "I'm dead"?
 * McClane: Well, I ain't gonna know 'til I ask him, now, am I?

 * John McClane: There's gold in the Federal Reserve, and they took a shitload of it! They're heading north in dump trucks!
 * Inspector Cobb: Have you been drinking, McClane?
 * John McClane: No, not since this morning.

 * FBI Agent in van: Does the name Gruber mean anything to you, Lieutenant?
 * [Flashback to Hans Gruber falling off the top of Nakatomi Tower]
 * John McClane: It rings a bell, yeah.

 * [Disguised as a workman, McClane approaches two terrorists waiting in their dump truck to ambush him]
 * Terrorist in Truck: Wait until he gets alongside the door. [He and his comrade get their weapons ready]
 * John McClane: Hey fellas! Mickey O'Brien, aqueduct security. Hey, listen, we got a report of a guy coming through here with, uh, eight reindeer! [empties his gun into the henchmen. McClane opens the bullet-riddled driver's side door and a dead body falls out. McClane inserts another magazine into his weapon] Yeah they said he was a … jolly old fat guy with a snowy white beard; cute little red and white suit. I'm surprised you didn't see him! [chuckles]

 * [Simon is in one of his dump trucks driving gold through the unfinished aqueduct]
 * Simon Gruber: [on the phone] Rear guard, you can close up now. [pauses, not getting an answer] We've reached the dam, you can come up now. [pauses again] Nils? You can close in now. Nils? [McClane's voice comes over the walkie-talkie]
 * John McClane: Attention! Attention! Nils is dead. I repeat, Nils is dead, fuckhead. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars. Your boys at the bank, they're gonna be a little late.
 * Simon Gruber: John...In the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. I wonder, would a deal be out of the question?
 * John McClane: Yeah, I got a deal for you: Crawl out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
 * Simon Gruber: How colorful.

 * Gang Member: [pops up] Nicht schießen! ["Don't shoot!"]
 * John McClane: [shoots him twice] What was that?
 * Mathias Targo: [kicks McClane out from behind] He said "Don't shoot".

 * Mathias Targo: I see you all day, little man. Policeman … [kicks McClane] and you don't go away!
 * John McClane: Yeah, I'm the fucking Energizer bunny. [stabs him in the leg]

 * [Trying to prevent panic as to the fact that there is a bomb in the school, the police have chosen a cover story]
 * Principal Martinez: Hi kids. I know you usually have assembly on Fridays, but today's special. Mr. Lambert here is from the fire department and today he wants us to practice a brand new fire drill. So, I want you to divide in half, and I want half of you to go over here - teachers will help them - and line up against the wall. The other half will go in this direction. Please do it very quietly and very quickly, alright? Everybody up please. Teachers, please help them. [Kids start to stand up and are gathered against the wall. Raymond and Dexter, Zeus's nephews, are skeptical about the story - and especially about Joe Lambert's appearance]
 * Raymond Carver: Fire drill, my ass. That guy ain't from the fire department.
 * Dexter Carver: Maybe it's cuz of the radio.
 * Raymond Carver: You mean, like, they're after us? Nah.
 * Dexter Carver: Tony squealed on us!
 * Raymond Carver: No, he didn't.

 * [Zeus draws a gun on Simon, who is eating an egg]
 * Zeus Carver: Don't fucking move!
 * Simon Gruber: [turns around] Oh, the Samaritan.
 * Zeus Carver: Gimme the goddamn code!
 * Simon Gruber: Code? [realizes what Zeus is talking about] Oh, you mean for the school. I'm sorry, I can't do that.
 * Zeus Carver: You call in that code right now, or I'll blow your sick ass into the next world!
 * Simon Gruber: If that's what you gotta do.
 * [Zeus pulls the trigger on his gun and nothing happens. Simon casually takes the gun from Zeus]
 * Simon Gruber: You forgot to take the safety catch off. [shoots Zeus in the leg]
 * Zeus Carver: Argh! God!
 * Simon Gruber: See, that works. Now, where's McClane?

 * Simon Gruber: [into radio] Bridgeport coast guard, come in, please. [to McClane] They put you on hold?
 * John McClane: She told me to stay on the line. [chuckles]
 * Simon Gruber: [laughing] Oh God, I love this country.
 * John McClane: You know, your brother was an asshole.
 * Simon Gruber: [looks up sharply, then laughs] He was an asshole. You – you got his number.

 * Zeus Carver: Didn't you say you didn't even like your brother?
 * Simon Gruber: There's a difference between not liking one's brother, and not caring when some dumb, Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.
 * Zeus Carver: Hey, I didn't even know the motherfucker!
 * Simon Gruber: I never invited you aboard this ship.
 * Zeus Carver: No riddle's going to stop this motherfucker?
 * Simon Gruber: No code, no riddle, no fancy countdown. [Attempts to leave the ship]
 * John McClane: [While tied to a large bomb] Hey fuckhead. [Simon stops instantly and turns around] Yeah, you, fuckhead. There's just one thing I gotta know. You got any aspirins? I've had a bad fucking headache all day long.
 * Simon Gruber: [laughs and throws him a bottle of aspirin] Must be your lucky day. Keep the bottle!

 * Zeus Carver: If I hadn't've saved your fuckin' ass, I wouldn't be sittin' here with you about to blow up with 100 billion dollars in fuckin' gold.
 * John McClane: Yeah, well, I got some bad news, you're only gonna blow up with me.
 * Zeus Carver: What?
 * John McClane: No gold on this boat.
 * Zeus Carver: How do you know that?
 * John McClane: Cuz I know the man, I know the family. The only thing better than blowing up $100 billion dollars worth of gold is making people think you did.

 * [The bomb starts beeping]
 * Zeus: What the fuck is that?
 * John McClane: I think I made it mad.

 * [Addressing his men after the bullion theft]
 * Simon Gruber: Yesterday we were an army with no country. Tomorrow we have to decide which country we want to buy!

Cast

 * Bruce Willis as Lieutenant John McClane
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Zeus Carver
 * Jeremy Irons as Simon Peter Gruber
 * Graham Greene as Joe Lambert
 * Colleen Camp as Connie Kowalski
 * Larry Bryggman as Inspector Walter Cobb
 * Anthony Peck as Ricky Walsh
 * Nicky Wyman as Mathias Targo
 * Sam Phillips as Katya
 * Kevin Chamberlin as Charles Weiss
 * Richard E. Council as Otto

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Ignorantia non est argumentum
"Ignorantia non est argumentum." Translation: "Ignorance is no argument." Source: Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata et in quinque parses distincta, Part 1, Addendum; Amsterdam, 1677.

I have not found this particular quote in any paragraph of part 1 in Ethics. I have seen it on the internet more often (even on the BBC Web site), but it seems to me that it is not an actual quote, but rather an idea of Spinoza put in a quick "tag-line"

The closest I could find was:

"We must not omit to notice that the followers of this doctrine, anxious to display their talent in assigning final causes, have imported a new method of argument in proof of their theory--namely, a reduction, not to the impossible, but to ignorance; thus showing that they have no other method of exhibiting their doctrine."

Source: Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (1677) Translated from the Latin by R.H.M. Elwes (1883) MTSU Philosophy WebWorks Hypertext Edition

Mcmvanbree 20:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The actual quote "ignorantia non est argumentum" is attributed to Friedrich Engels in Anti-Duhring (Herrn Eugen Dühring's Umwälzung der Wissenschaft ("Anti-Dühring"), Kap. IX, Moral und Recht. Freiheit und Notwendigkeit): "Worauf wir nur mit Spinoza antworten können: Ignorantia non est argumentum, die Unwissenheit ist kein Beweisgrund." 218.186.15.10 08:36, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

[comment by A.Waschbüsch:

This is _not_ the first mention. Marx used the phrase in his doctoral thesis 1841 („Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Naturphilosophie nebst einem Anhange, Zweiter Teil: Über die Differenz der demokritischen und epikureischen Physik im einzelnen, Zweites Kapitel: Die Qualitäten des Atoms“, page 285):

„Spinoza sagt, die Ignoranz sei kein Argument. Wollte jeder die Stellen, die er in den Alten nicht versteht, ausstreichen, wie bald hätte man tabula rasa!“

cf.: http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Marx,+Karl/Differenz+der+demokritischen+und+epikureischen+Naturphilosophie/2.+Teil.+Über+die+Differenz+der+demokritischen+und+epikureischen+Physik+im+einzelnen/2.+Die+Qualitäten+des+Atoms

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 * To aid in the defense of myself against a very few people who have sometimes sought to belittle, remove or destroy my work for some years now, it should be noted that this anonymous comment was made after I had worked extensively on it, and it was in this state (+ a few images which have been deleted at the commons). Most of these were removed by people I believe over-zealous to suppress graphic presentations of significant ideas, until recently when I have begun restoring some of the images others had removed in a campaign of leveling and destruction which I found disgusting, but was too busy with many other things to do very much about at the time. Part of the page is also now at Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated (1677), where I have also restored much. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:09, 25 January 2014 (UTC) + tweaks
 * Kalki: You are fantastic!!! Just watched the linked version of the 2007 Spinoza page. I hope that you will restore the Spinoza page to the greatest extent possible so that it will become as fantastic as it was in the linked version of the 2007 Spinoza page. I encourage you to do so because you are superb contributor!!! --P3Y229 (talk) 00:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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 * I extended on that addition, but restored the previous variant on the theme, with mention that it might be an improperly cited paraphrase of the quote provided. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:19, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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I have a comment, The foreshortened quote inside the image box of the IXOYE cross incorrectly expresses the intent that Spinoza believes in Jesus Christ, which when you take the entire quote into account will see is not the case.as Spinoza says…"the case is far otherwise."

 * I believe that Spinoza, like I myself, certainly believed Jesus to have been a very real human being, and a clearly great human being who declared that all who did the will of Abba (the Father) and simply behaved justly with love for one another, were his brothers and sisters, and fellow children of Abba. Spinoza in his great monist understandings of many things clearly perceives in Jesus a great spiritual genius, and the greatest of all history, though he rejects many of the assumptions of those who would embrace or oppose divisive and destructive creeds born of shallow understandings of them, or who would seek to impose them upon others, and often seek to forbid or prevent any respectful attention be provided to any ideas which they do not understand or accept.

 * Spinoza declares: "I do not think it necessary for salvation to know Christ according to the flesh: but with regard to the Eternal Son of God, that is the Eternal Wisdom of God, which has manifested itself in all things and especially in the human mind, and above all in Christ Jesus, the case is far otherwise."

 * Here he is addressing errors which shallow, ignorant and confused interpreters of the words and ways of Jesus, (quite often intent on establishing or developing various power and control structures based upon definite ideologies such as can be expressed and formulated in words), have been making for millennia. 'Jesus, at his greatest and best was clearly a very insightful poetic and practical genius who exercised such principles in his magnificent career among mortals in a way as might today be called pragmatic, but were always a very'' profound pragmatism, dealing with the ultimate nature of all things, of humanity and the ALL which was ever one, and not merely the shallow selfish and social pragmatism of those most obsessed with personal pleasures, public displays, pomp, pretensions and power of various kinds.

 * Against the great spiritual tradition of well determined acceptance, forgiveness, and grace expressed and exemplified by a very great man there have arisen a great many divisive and destructive creeds and ideologies, such as those developed by those who (still filled with much fear and hatred of their fellow beings) would implicitly or explicitly assert that those who do not agree sufficiently with their particular understandings of God and this great man, and such will and attitudes as these understandings engender, are damned and doomed to endless torments and punishments.

 * From the start there have been those who opposed and resisted such corruptions, and took measures against them, such as the early apostles and Augustine of Hippo, but much ignorance and confusion persisted and prevailed among many, until such heroes and saints as Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi and Giordano Bruno resurrected much of the profound fervor of the Eternal Spirit of Christ which has always endured and can never perish, and defied established traditions, assumptions, and began to follow the inclinations of their heart more boldly and courageously, rather than bowing down abjectly to the asinine and dictatorial assumptions and presumptions of those who had never developed much awareness beyond their personal desires, fears and hatreds, or had been extensively corrupted to ignore little other than these. In the capacity of most of humanity to clearly and understandingly respect and follow the ever living examples of such great people as Jesus and Spinoza (rather than any set formulations, such as even Spinoza himself became devoted to creating and offering to others, in a spirit of Liberty, but NOT imposing upon others with a spirit of intolerant will to dominate over others, without any regard to notions of Justice but their own), may True Eternal Grace ever grow amidst all, and show them the way to ultimate Happiness and Virtue and Peace. ''So it goes… ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:44, 13 January 2014 (UTC) + tweaks

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
I can not find a source for this quote, which is attributed to Spinoza many places online. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 22:56, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * IOHANNVSVERVS, I think this is another translation of Letter 48. According to translation of Samuel Shirley, the quote is this. --Y-S.Ko (talk) 01:37, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I do not know within what limits the freedom to philosophise must be confined if I am to avoid appearing to disturb the publicly established religion. For divisions arise not so much from an ardent devotion to religion as from the different dis positions of men, or through their love of contradiction which leads them to dis tort or to condemn all things, even those that are stated aright. Now since I have already experienced this while leading a private and solitary life, it would be much more to be feared after I have risen to this position of eminence. So you see, most Honourable Sir, that my reluctance is not due to the hope of some better fortune, but to my love of peace, which I believe I can enjoy in some measure if I refrain from lecturing in public.
 * Thank you very much, Y-S.Ko! IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 05:46, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician best known for his classic book Two Years Before the Mast.

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 * Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er the waves dost fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice!
 * The Little Beach-Bird

Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

 *  Tuesday, January 13, 1835: We made the land at Point Conception... the point of Santa Barbara, to which we were bound, lying about fifty miles to the southeast of this point, we continued sailing down the coast during the day and the following night, and on the next morning. On the whole coast of California there was not a lighthouse, a beacon, or a buoy, and the charts were made up from old and disconnected surveys by British, Russian, and Mexican voyagers. Birds of prey and passage swooped and dived about us, wild beasts ranged through the oak groves... herds of deer came to the water's edge.

 * January, 14th, 1835: We came to anchor in the spacious bay of Santa Barbara. There was only one vessel in the port.  Beside the vessel, there was no object to break the surface of the bay... directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low plain, but little above the level of the sea, covered with grass, though entirely without trees, and surrounded on three sides by an amphitheater of mountains, which slant off to the distance of fifteen or twenty miles.  The mission stands a little back of the town, and is a large building, or rather a collection of buildings, in the center of which is a high tower, with a belfry of five bells.  The whole, being plastered, makes quite a show at a distance, and is the mark by which vessels come to anchor. The town lies a little nearer to the beach — about half a mile from it — and is composed of one-story houses built of sun-baked clay, or adobe, some of them whitewashed, with red tiles on the roof.  I should judge that there was about a hundred of them...  The town is finely situated, with a bay in front, and an amphitheater of hills behind.

 * I shall never forget the impression which our first landing on the beach of California make upon me. The sun had just gone down; it was getting dusky; the damp night wind was beginning to blow, and the heavy swell of the Pacific was setting in, and breaking in loud and high "combers" on the beach... we put our oars in the boat, and, leaving one to watch it, walked about the beach to see what we could of the place.  The beach is nearly a mile in length between the two points, and of smooth sand... It was growing dark, so that we could just distinguish the dim outlines of the two vessels in the offing; and the great seas were rolling in in regular lines, growing larger and larger as they approached the shore, and hanging over the beach upon which they were to break, when their tops would curl over and turn white with foam, and, being at one extreme of the line, break rapidly to the other, as a child's long card house falls when a card is knocked down at one end.

 * If the women but have little virtue, the jealousy of their husbands is extreme, and their revenge deadly and almost certain. A few inches of cold steel have been the punishment of many an unwary man, who has been guilty, perhaps, of nothing more than indiscretion.  The difficulties of the attempt [to copulate with a married woman] are numerous, and the consequences of discovery fatal, in the better classes.  With the unmarried women, too, great watchfulness is used.  The main object of the parents is to marry their daughters well, and to this a fair name is necessary.  The sharp eyes of a duena, and the ready weapons to a father or brother, are a protection which the characters of most of them — men and women — render by no means useless; for the very men who would lay down their lives to avenge the dishonor of their own family would risk the same lives to complete the dishonor of another.
 * Referring to the Mexican residents of Santa Barbara in 1835 (p. 162)

 * An overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men. This often gives an appearance of want of feeling, and even of cruelty. From this, if a man comes within an ace of breaking his neck and escapes, it is made a joke of; and no notice must be taken of a bruise or cut; and expression of pity, or any show of attention, would look sisterly, and unbecoming a man who has to face the rough and tumble of such a life. From this cause, too, the sick are neglected at sea, and, whatever sailors may be ashore, a sick man finds little sympathy or attention, forward or aft.  A man, too, can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship; for all the nicer feelings they take pride in disregarding, both in themselves and others. A "thin-skinned" man could hardly live on shipboard.  One would be torn raw unless he had the hide of an ox.
 * p. 236-237

 * Referring to a professor aboard ship: This passenger — the first and only one we had had, except to go from port to port on the coast — was no one else than a gentleman whom I had known in my smoother days, and the last person I should have expected to see on the coast of California — Professor Nuttall of Cambridge. I had left him quietly seated in the chair of the Botany and Ornithology Department at Harvard University, and the next I saw of him, he was strolling about San Diego beach, in a sailors' pea jacket, with a wide straw hat, and barefooted, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, picking up stones and shells... I was often amused to see the sailors puzzled to know what to make of him, and to hear their conjectures about him and his business... The Pilgrim's crew called Mr. Nuttall "Old Curious," from his zeal for curiosities; and some of them said that he was crazy, and that his friends let him go about and amuse himself this way. Why else would (he)... come to such a place as California to pick up shells and stones, they could not understand.   One of them, however, who had seen something more of the world ashore said, "Oh, 'vast there!... I've seen them colleges and know the ropes.  They keep all such things for cur'osities, and study 'em, and have men a purpose to go and get 'em... He'll carry all these things to the college, and if they are better than any that they have had before, he'll be head of the college. Then, by and by, somebody else will go after some more, and if they beat him he'll have to go again, or else give up his berth.  That's the way they do it.  This old covery knows the ropes. He has worked a traverse over 'em, and come 'way out here where nobody's ever been afore, and where they'll never think of coming." This explanation satisfied Jack; and as it raised Mr. Nuttall's credit, and was near enough to the truth for common purposes, I did not disturb it.
 * p. 267

Twenty-Four Years After (1869)

 * Passing round Point Conception, and steering easterly, we opened the islands that form, with the mainland, the canal of Santa Barbara. There they are, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, and there is the beautiful point, Santa Buenaventura; and there lies Santa Barbara on its plain, with its amphitheater of high hills and distant mountains.  There is the old white mission with its belfries, and there the town, with its one-story adobe houses, with here and there a two-story wooden house of later build; yet little is it altered — the same repose in the golden sunlight and glorious climate, sheltered by its hills; and then, more remindful than anything else, there roars and tumbles upon the beach the same grand surf of the great Pacific... the same bright-blue ocean, and the surf making just the same monotonous, melancholy roar, and the same dreamy town.

 * It had been the winter of 1835-6 that the ship, Alert, in her voyage for hides on the remote and almost unknown coast of California, floated into the vast solitude of the bay of San Francisco. All around was the stillness of nature.  One vessel, a Russian, lay at anchor there, but during our whole stay not a sail came or went.  Our trade was with remote missions, which sent hides to us in launches manned by their Indians... Over a region far beyond our sight there was no other human habitations, expect that an enterprising Yankee, years in advance of his time, had put up, on the rising ground above the landing, a shanty of rough boards, where he carried on a very small retail trade between the hide ships and the Indians. On the evening of Saturday, the thirteenth of August, 1859 (I again sailed into) the entrance to San Francisco, (now) the great center of worldwide commerce.

 * We bore round the point toward the old anchoring ground of the hide ships, and there, covering the sand hills and the valleys... flickering all over with the lamps of its streets and houses, lay a city of one hundred thousand inhabitants. The dock into which we drew, and the streets about it, were densely crowded with express wagons and handcarts...  Though this crowd I made my way, along the well-built and well-light streets, as alive as by day, where boys in high-keyed voices where already crying the latest New York papers.  When I awoke in the morning, and looked from my windows over the city of San Francisco, with its storehouses, towers, and steeples; its courthouses, theaters, and hospitals, its daily journals, its well-filled learned professions, its fortresses and lighthouses; its wharves and harbor... when I saw all these things, and reflected on what I once saw here, and what now surrounded me, I could scarcely keep my hold on reality at all, or the genuineness of anything.

 * As we made the high point off San Diego, Point Loma, we were greeted by the cheering presence of a lighthouse. As we swept round it in the early morning, there, before us, lay the little harbor of San Diego, its low spit of sand, where the water runs so deep; the opposite flats, where the Alert grounded in starting for home; the low hills, without trees, and almost without brush; the quiet little beach; but the chief objects, the hide houses, my eye looked for in vain.  They were gone, all, and left no mark behind. I wished to be alone, so I let the other passengers go up to the town, and was quietly pulled ashore in a boat, and left to myself. The recollections and the emotions were all sad... and only sad.

 * The past was real. The present, all about me, was unreal, unnatural, repellent. I saw the big ships lying in the stream... the home of hardship and hopelessness; the boats passing to and fro; the cries of the sailors at the capstan or falls; the peopled beach; the large hide houses, with their gangs of men; and the Kanakas interspersed everywhere.  All, all were gone!  Not a vestige to mark where one hide house stood.  The oven, too, was gone.  I searched for its site, and found, where I thought it should be, a few broken bricks and bits of mortar.  I alone was left of all, and how strangely was I here!  What changes to me!  Where were they all? Why should I care for them — poor Kanakas and sailors, the refuse of civilization, the outlaws and the beachcombers of the Pacific!  Time and death seemed to transfigure them.  Doubtless nearly all were dead; but how had they died, and where?  In hospitals, in fever climes, in dens of vice, or falling from the mast, or dropping exhausted from the wreck "When for a moment, like a drop of rain/He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan/Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."  The lighthearted boys are now hardened middle-aged men, if the seas, rocks, fevers, and the deadlier enemies that beset a sailor's life on shore have spared them; and the then strong men have bowed themselves, and the earth or sea has covered them. How softening is the effect of time!  It touches us through the affections.  I almost feel as if I were lamenting the passing away of something loved and dear — the boats, the Kanakas, the hides, my old shipmates!  Death, change, distance, lend them a character which makes them quite another thing.

 * On the morning of January 11th, 1860, I passed, for the eighth time, through the Golden Gate... As the shores of California faded in the distance, and the summits of the Coast Range sank under the blue horizon, I bade farewell — yes, I do not doubt, forever — to those scenes which, however changed or unchanged, must always possess an ineffable interest for me.

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Rick Warren

Richard Duane Warren (born 28 January 1954) is an American Evangelical Christian pastor, global strategist, theologian, philanthropist, and author.

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Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.

 * Be willing to let people leave the church. And I told you earlier the fact that people are gonna leave the church no matter what you do. But when you define the vision, you're choosing who leaves. You say, "But Rick, yes, they're the pillars of the church." Now, you know what pillars are. Pillars are people who hold things up … And in your church, you may have to have some blessed subtractions before you have any real additions.
 * "Building a Purpose Driven Church" seminar, Saddleback Church (January 1998), quoted in "The Church Growth Movement: An Analysis of Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven" Church", in Foundation Magazine (March-April 1998)

 * In 1939, in a stadium much like this, in Munich Germany, they packed it out with young men and women in brown shirts, for a fanatical man standing behind a podium named Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil. And in that stadium, those in brown shirts formed with their bodies a sign that said, in the whole stadium, "Hitler, we are yours." And they nearly took the world. Lenin once said, "give me 100 committed, totally committed men and I'll change the world." And, he nearly did. A few years ago, they took the sayings of Chairman Mao, in China, put them in a little red book, and a group of young people committed them to memory and put it in their minds and they took that nation, the largest nation in the world by storm because they committed to memory the sayings of the Chairman Mao. When I hear those kinds of stories, I think 'what would happen if American Christians, if world Christians, if just the Christians in this stadium, followers of Christ, would say 'Jesus, we are yours'? What kind of spiritual awakening would we have?
 * Speech at the Anaheim Angels sports stadium (17 April 2005); transcript and video

 * Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. … Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith. And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.
 * As quoted in Myths of the Modern Megachurch at The Pew Forum on Religion (23 May 2005)

Now let me say this really clearly: we support Proposition 8 — and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8. I never support a candidate, but on moral issues I come out very clear. This is one thing, friends, that all politicians tend to agree on. Both John McCain and Barack Obama, I flat out asked them "what is your definition of marriage?" and they both said the same thing. It is the traditional, historic, universal definition of marriage: one man and one woman, for life. … There are about 2% of Americans are homosexual or gay, lesbian people. We should not let 2% of the population determine — to change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture, and every single religion, for 5,000 years. … So I urge you to support Proposition 8, and pass that word on. I'm going to be sending out a note to pastors on what I believe about this, but everybody knows what I believe about it, and they heard me at the civil forum when I asked both Obama and McCain on their views.
 * The election's coming just in a couple of weeks, and I hope you're praying about your vote. One of the propositions, of course, that I want to mention is Proposition 8, which is the proposition that had to be instituted because the courts threw out the will of the people. And a court of four guys actually voted to change a definition of marriage that has been going for 5,000 years.
 * regarding California Proposition 8 to amend the state constitution to not recognize same-sex marriage, as quoted in "News & Views 10/23/2008 Part 3 (Prop 8)" in Pastor Rick's News and Views (23 October 2008)

Steven Waldman: Do you think, though, that they are equivalent to having gays getting married? Rick Warren: Oh, I do.
 * Rick Warren: The issue to me, I'm not opposed to that as much as I'm opposed to redefinition of a 5,000 year definition of marriage. I'm opposed to having a brother and sister being together and calling that marriage. I'm opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that marriage. I'm opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.
 * ** Response to the question: "What about partnership benefits in terms of insurance or hospital visitation?", as quoted in "Rick Warren’s Controversial Comments on Gay Marriage" by Steven Waldman at Beliefnet (17 December 2008)

Rick Warren: Yeah, I just never campa— I never campaigned for it. I never — I'm not an anti-gay activist — never have been. Never participated in a single event. I just simply made a note in a newsletter, and of course, everything I write, it's the road.
 * I am not an anti-gay or anti-marriage activist. Never have been, never will be. The whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement. Never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going — the week before the vote, somebody in my church said, "Pastor Rick, what do you think about this?" And I sent a note to my own members that said, I actually believe that marriage is really, should be defined. If that definition should be saved between a man and a woman and then all of a suddenly out of it they made me, you know something that I really wasn't.
 * Larry King: So you did ask your people who worship with you to vote that way?
 * Interview on Larry King Live on CNN (6 April 2009), as quoted in "Rick Warren says he's not an anti-gay-marriage activist" by John Amato at Crooks and Liars (1 August 2011), Larry King Live: Pastor Rick Warren - Part 1 --- April 6, 2009 at YouTube

 * Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you’re acting like an atheist. You’re saying, “It all depends on me.” That’s just not in the Bible.
 * "Word of the Day: God’s Provision: Trust God" in Electronic Urban Report (3 August 2010)

 * HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they’re happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.
 * Twitter tweet (25 July 2011), as quoted in David Atkins at Hullabaloo (26 July 2011)

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)

 * The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days...
 * A Journey with a Purpose : Your Next 40 Days, p. 7

 * It's not about you.
 * Ch. 1 : It All Starts with God, p. 17

 * Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
 * Ch. 2 : I'm Not an Accident

The ultimate goal of the universe is to show the glory of God. It is the reason for everything that exists, including you. God made it all for his glory. Without God's glory, there would be nothing.
 * It's all for him.
 * The Purpose of Life, p. 53

 * The smile of God is the goal of your life. Since pleasing God is the first purpose of your life, your most important task is to discover how to do that. The Bible says, "Figure out what will please Christ, then do it." Fortunately, the Bible gives us a clear example of a life that gives pleasure to God. The man's name was Noah.
 * What Makes God Smile?

 * Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
 * Day 19: Cultivating Community

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Jenna Jameson

Jenna Jameson (born Jennifer Marie Massoli on 9 April 1974) is an American pornographic actress.

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale (2004)
by Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss ISBN 0060539097

 * Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.

 * I know that when I do get pregnant, I won't step one foot in the adult industry again.

 * Though watching porn may seem degrading to some women, the fact is that it's one of the few jobs for women where you can get to a certain level, look around, and feel so powerful, not just in the work environment but as a sexual being. So, fuck Gloria Steinem.

 * To this day, I can't watch my own sex scenes.

About Jenna Jameson

 * If she feels so powerful as a sexual being, why can't she watch her own sex scenes? If her work environment is so satisfying, why does she say that if she had a daughter, she would lock her in the house before she'd let her get involved in the sex industry?  Why does she refer to her vagina as a 'ding-ding'?  I'm not sure any of this is Gloria Steinem's fault.
 * Ariel Levy, in Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2005)  ISBN 0743249895, on Jameson's "fuck Gloria Steinem" quote.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

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 * W. Guerney Benham, A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1914), pp. 106–107

 * We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
 * The Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesly (1697).

 * Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
 * The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702).

 * Hail, hieroglyphic State machine, Contrived to punish fancy in; Men that are men in thee can feel no pain, And all thy insignificance disdain!
 * Hymn to the Pillory (1703).

 * Next, bring some lawyers to thy bar, By innuendo they might all stand there; There let them expiate that guilt, And pay for all that blood their tongues have spilt. These are the mountebanks of state, Who by the sleight of tongues can crimes create, And dress up trifles in the robes of fate, The mastiffs of a Government, To worry and run down the innocent.
 * Hymn to the Pillory (1703).

 * Reason, it is true, is D ICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.
 * An Essay upon Publick Credit (1710).

 * All men would be tyrants if they could.
 * Jure divino: a satyre, Introduction, l. 2 (1706).

 * The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
 * Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley (1715).

 * 'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.
 * A System of Magick (1726).

 * It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
 * The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies (1741)
 * See also Mrs. Christian Davies

 * Wise men affirm it is the English way Never to grumble till they come to pay.
 * Britannia, l. 84.

 * The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
 * Character of the late Dr. S. Annesley.

 * We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
 * Character of the late Dr. S. Annesley.

 * Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
 * The Kentish Petition (1701), Addenda. l. 11.

 * In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled.
 * The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

 * A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation.
 * The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

The History of Projects (1697)

 * The art of war, which I take to be the highest perfection of human knowledge.
 * Introduction.

 * Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
 * Of Projectors.

 * Women, in my observation, have little or no difference in them, but as they are or are not distinguished by education.
 * Of Academies.

The True-Born Englishman (1701)

 * Henry Morley, ed., The Earlier Life and the Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1889), pp. 175-218

 * The grand contention's plainly to be seen, To get some men put out, and some put in.
 * Introduction.

 * Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
 * Pt. I, l. 1. Compare: "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, section 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.

 * From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
 * Pt. I, ll. 132–133

 * The royal refugee our breed restores With foreign courtiers and with foreign whores, And carefully repeopled us again, Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign.
 * Pt. I, l. 233-236
 * Referring to Charles II

 * That heterogeneous thing, an Englishman.
 * Pt. I, l. 280.

 * Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
 * Pt. I, l. 360-363.

 * Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
 * Pt. I, l. 374.

 * In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
 * Pt. II, l. 104.

 * No panegyric needs their praise record; An Englishman ne'er wants his own good word.
 * Pt. II, l. 152.

 * Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise; But Englishmen do all restraint despise.
 * Pt. II, l. 206.

 * For Englishmen are ne'er contented long.
 * Pt. II, l. 244.

 * And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
 * Pt. II, l. 299.

 * When kings the sword of justice first lay down, They are no kings, though they possess the crown. Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
 * Pt. II, l. 313.

 * For justice is the end of government.
 * Pt. II, l. 368.

 * But English gratitude is always such To hate the hand which doth oblige too much.
 * Pt. II, l. 409.

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

 * He told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing - viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches. He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
 * Ch. 1, Start in Life.

 * I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz. they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent. Not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which can only make them be esteemed wise men.
 * Ch. 1, Start in Life.

 * All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
 * Ch. 5, First Weeks on the Island.

 * And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.
 * Ch. 6, Ill and Conscience-stricken.

 * Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
 * Ch. 9, A Boat.

 * In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.
 * Ch. 9, A Boat.

 * I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that He has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
 * Ch. 9, A Boat.

 * We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.
 * Ch. 10, Tames Goats.

 * It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
 * Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

 * To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
 * Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

 * Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
 * Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.

 * It is never too late to be wise.
 * Ch. 12, A Cave Retreat.

 * How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
 * Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.

 * What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.
 * Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.

 * There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its impetuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable.
 * Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.

 * My man Friday.
 * First appears in Ch. 14, A Dream Realized.

The Education of Women (1719)

 * I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence; while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.

 * The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear. And ’tis manifest, that as the rational soul distinguishes us from brutes; so education carries on the distinction, and makes some less brutish than others.

 * A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.

 * For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

Quotes about Daniel Defoe

 * Robinson Crusoe did not deal with love. Defoe's other stories, which are happily forgotten, are bad in their very essence. Roxana is an accurate example of what a bad book may be. It relates the adventures of a woman thoroughly depraved, and yet for the most part successful, -- is intended to attract by licentiousness, and puts off till the end the stale scrap of morality which is brought in as a salve to the conscience of the writer. Putting aside Robinson Crusoe, which has been truly described as an accident, Defoe's teaching as a novelist has been altogether bad.
 * Anthony Trollope, "Novel-Reading" The Nineteenth Century, January 1879, in David Dowling, Novelists on Novelists (1983)

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Velvet Goldmine

Velvet Goldmine is 1998 film about a British journalist who investigates the life of a 1970s rock star in order to write about it for an American newspaper.
 * ''Directed by Todd Haynes. Written by Todd Haynes and James Lyons.

Brian Slade

 * I knew I should create a sensation, gasped the Rocket, and he went out. (Oscar Wilde - from the Remarkable Rocket)

Curt Wild

 * Everyone’s into this scene because it’s supposedly the thing to do right now. But you just can’t fake being gay. You know, if you’re gonna claim that you’re gay you’re gonna have to make love in gay style, and most of these kids... just aren’t going to make it. That line, ‘Everybody’s bisexual’, that’s a very popular thing to say right now. Personally, I think it’s meaningless.

 * He thought he fucking was Maxwell Demon in the end – you know? And Maxwell Demon...he thought he was God.

 * The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. (Oscar Wilde - from the Picture of Dorian Gray)

 * See yourself on stage, inside-out. Tangled garlands in your hair. Of course, you are pleasantly surprised.

 * Heroin used to be my main man. You could be my main man.

Mandy Slade

 * You all know me – subtlety’s my middle name. It’s as subtle as the piece of skin between my vagina and my anus – ooh la! la! Now what’s that called, I can never quite remember...No man’s land? Oh gosh – my guiche, dah-ling!

 * It's funny how beautiful people look when they're walking out the door.

 * I knew it was over. I just didn't know it was up to me to make it stop.

 * Time, places, people,... they're all speeding up. So, to cope with this evolutionary paranoia, strange people are chosen who, through their art, can move progress more quickly.

Arthur Stuart

 * Softly, he said, "I will mangle your mind".

Others

 * Opening Text: Although what you are about to see is a work of fiction, it should nevertheless be played at maximum volume.

 * Female Narrator: Histories like ancient ruins are the fictions of empires. While everything forgotten hangs in dark dreams of the past, ever threatening to return.

 * Oscar Wilde: I want to be a pop idol.

 * Young Boy: Put out the torches. Hide the moon. Hide the stars.

 * Female Narrator: For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes, a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous.

 * Female Narrator: Childhood, adults always say, is the happiest time in life. But as long as he could remember, Jack Fairy knew better.

 * Child on Subway: Yesterday upon a stair, I saw a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, How I wish he'd go away.

 * Trevor: Rock music has always been a reaction against accepted standards. And homosexuality has been going on for centuries. At the moment having a ‘gay’ image is the ‘in’ thing, just like a few years ago it was trendy to wear a long grey coat with a Led Zeppelin record under your arm.

 * Lou: I want you because you remember.

 * Cecil: He was elegance, walking arm in arm with a lie.

 * Cecil: Style always wins out in the end.

 * Cecil [about Curt]: The doctors guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him. But all it did was make him bonkers everytime he heard electric guitar.

Dialogue

 * Curt Wild: A real artist creates beautiful things and... puts nothing of his own life into them. Okay?
 * Arthur Stuart: Is that what you did?
 * Curt Wild: No. No. We set out to change the world and ended up... just changing ourselves.
 * Arthur Stuart: What's wrong with that?
 * Curt Wild: Nothing... If you don't look at the world.

Cast

 * Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Brian Slade
 * Christian Bale - Arthur Stuart
 * Ewan McGregor - Curt Wild
 * Toni Collette - Mandy Slade
 * Micko Westmoreland - Jack Fairy
 * Eddie Izzard - Jerry Devine
 * Emily Woof - Shannon
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

Quotes

 * The idle story of the Pretender's having been introduced in a warming-pan, into the Queen's bed, though as destitute of all probability as of all foundation, has been much more prejudicial to the cause of Jacobitism, than all that Mr. Locke and others have written, to show the unreasonableness and absurdity of the doctrines of indefeasible hereditary right, and unlimited passive obedience.
 * Letter to his son (7 February 1749), quoted in The Life of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, His Poems and the Substance of the System of Education Delivered in a Series of Letters to His Son (1774), p. 183

 * I foresee, that before the end of this century, the trade of both King and Priest will not be half so good a one as it has been.
 * Letter to his son (13 April 1752), quoted in Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden, Vol. III (1774), p. 289

 * The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
 * To Solomon Dayrolles (16 February 1753)

 * I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
 * The World, No. 101 (5 December 1754)

It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
 * Unlike my subject will I frame my song,
 * Epigram on ("Long") Sir Thomas Robinson

The sun like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear: But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time; Take the hint, and let life be improv'd in its prime.
 * At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year,
 * "Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley

And calm with your joys gently glide thro' the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun — Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
 * Cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay,
 * "Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley

Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure along. All cares, but of love, banish far from your mind; And those you may end, when you please to be kind.
 * Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song,
 * "Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley

 * I see that you are in fears again from your White Boys, and have destroyed a good many of them; but I believe, that if the military force had killed half as many landlords, it would have contributed more effectually to restore quiet. The poor people in Ireland are used worse than negroes by their Lords and Masters, and their Deputies of Deputies of Deputies. For there is a sentiment in every human breast that asserts man's natural right to liberty and good usage, and that will, and ought to rebel when oppressed and provoked to a certain degree.
 * Letter to Richard Chenevix, the Bishop of Waterford and Lismore (1 October 1764), quoted in The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, with the Characters, Vol. III, ed. John Bradshaw (1893), pp. 1313–1314

 * Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
 * Letter to his godson, No.112 (undated)

 * Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
 * Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

 * Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
 * Detached Thoughts, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)

 * The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
 * Character of Pulteney; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
 * Character of Bolingbroke; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

 * Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
 * 19 November 1745

 * Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
 * 10 March 1746

 * The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
 * 4 October 1746

 * An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
 * 9 October 1746

 * There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
 * 14 April 1747

 * I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
 * 21 September 1747

 * Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
 * 2 October 1747

 * The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
 * 2 October 1747

 * Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
 * 9 October 1747

 * Take the tone of the company you are in.
 * 16 October 1747

 * I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
 * 6 November 1747

 * The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”
 * 24 November 1747

 * I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
 * 1747

 * Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to refuse, without offending; or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation: dexterity enough to conceal a truth, without telling a lie: sagacity enough to read other people’s countenances: and serenity enough not to let them discover anything by yours; a seeming frankness, with a real reserve. These are the rudiments of a politician; the world must be your grammar.
 * 15 January 1748

 * Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
 * 29 January 1748

 * Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
 * 22 February 1748

 * Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
 * 22 February 1748

 * Sacrifice to the Graces.
 * 9 March 1748

 * In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
 * 9 March 1748

 * I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
 * 9 March 1748

 * The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.
 * 17 March 1748

 * Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
 * 1 July 1748

 * Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
 * 5 September 1748

 * Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.
 * 6 December 1748

 * A strong mind sees things in their true proportions; a weak one views them through a magnifying medium, which, like the microscope, makes an elephant of a flea: magnifies all little objects, but cannot receive great ones.
 * 10 January 1749
 * Sometimes quoted as: "A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones." The first publication of this form yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851)

 * The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.
 * 7 February 1749

 * Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
 * 22 May 1749

 * I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
 * 22 May 1749

 * Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
 * 20 July 1749

 * Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.
 * 10 August 1749

 * Style is the dress of thoughts.
 * 24 November 1749

 * Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
 * 19 December 1749

 * We must not draw general conclusions from certain particular principles, though, in the main, true ones. We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will therefore always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in the pursuit of it. No. We are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.
 * 19 December 1749

 * Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
 * 26 December 1749

 * Dispatch is the soul of business.
 * 5 February 1750

 * I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
 * 5 February 1750

 * Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
 * 8 May 1750

 * Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
 * 1 November 1750

 * The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
 * 1751

 * You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.
 * 18 March 1751

 * It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.
 * 6 February 1752

 * Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
 * 6 February 1752

 * Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
 * 16 March 1752

 * It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.
 * 11 May 1752

 * A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
 * 15 January 1753

 * There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest; but there is seldom one in which a man should tell all. Great skill is necessary to know how far to go, and where to stop.
 * 15 January 1753

 * The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.
 * 15 January 1753

 * People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
 * 25 December 1753

 * Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct—never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.
 * 26 March 1754

 * Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
 * 14 December 1756

 * In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.
 * 16 March 1759

 * It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
 * Letter

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 * You foolish man, you do not understand your own foolish business.
 * Attributed to Chesterfield by George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, in his 1833 edition of Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, similar statements have been attributed to many others, such as Lord Chief Justice Campbell, William Henry Maule (in the form "You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business"), Sir William Harcourt, Lord Pembroke, Lord Westbury, and to an anonymous judge, and said to have been spoken in court to Garter King at Arms, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, or some other high-ranking herald, who had confused a "bend" with a "bar" or had demanded fees to which he was not entitled. George Bernard Shaw uses it in Pygmalion (1912) in the form, "The silly people dont [sic] know their own silly business." Similar remarks occur in Charles Jenner's The Placid Man: Or, The Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville (1770): "Sir Harry Clayton ... was perhaps far better qualified to have written a Peerage of England than Garter King at Arms, or Rouge Dragon, or any of those parti-coloured officers of the court of honour, who, as a great man complained on a late solemnity, are but too often so silly as not to know their own silly business." "Old Lord Pembroke" (Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke) is said by Horace Walpole (in a letter of 28 May 1774 to the Rev. William Cole) to have directed the quip, "Thou silly fellow! Thou dost not know thy own silly business," at John Anstis, Garter King at Arms. Edmund Burke also quotes such a remark in his "Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq." on 7 May 1789: "'Silly man, that dost not know thy own silly trade!' was once well said: but the trade here is not silly."

 * Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
 * The French attribute this to the painter Nicolas Poussin (born 15 June 1594) "Ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait vaut la peine d'être bien fait"

 * [On sex] The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, the expense damnable.
 * In an article commemorating 40 years of Quote... Unquote (BBC Radio 4), a panel game compiled and hosted by Nigel Rees, Rees stated this comment, commonly attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, could not be verified.

Quotes about Chesterfield

 * It wasn't until I grew up and read Lord Chesterfield that I began my education. He became my tutor and the public library my university.
 * Catherine Cookson, interview with Caroline Moorehead, quoted in The Times (15 August 1983), p. 7

 * For my part, I like more straight-forward work.
 * George III on Chesterfield's Letters, as recorded in Frances Burney's journal (April or May 1774), quoted in The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768–1778: With a Selection from Her Correspondence, and From the Journals of Her Sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney, Vol. I, ed. Annie Raine Ellis (1889), p. 305

 * They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
 * Samuel Johnson on Chesterfield's Letters, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791), p. 1754

 * To my great surprise they seem really written from the heart, not for the honour of his head, and in truth do no great honour to the last, nor show much feeling in the first, except in wishing for his son's fine gentleman-hood.
 * Horace Walpole on Chesterfield's Letters; letter to Rev. William Mason (9 April 1774), quoted in The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William Mason, Now First Published from the Original Mss, Vol. I, ed. J. Mitford (1851), p. 141


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Kyle Katarn

Kyle Katarn is a character in the video game Star Wars: Dark Forces and its sequels.

Dark Forces

 * "A new stormtrooper that can take out a Rebel base that quickly? I shoulda kept working for the Empire." (briefing for the Dark Trooper project)

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

 * "I'm not interested in petty political struggles." (to 8t88, Nar Shaddaa)
 * "The dark side? I've been there. Do your worst." (to 8t88, Nar Shaddaa)
 * "Leaving so soon?" (to 8t88 who is striding up its shuttle's loading ramp and ready to flee before Kyle whips out his Bryar blaster, Nar Shaddaa)
 * "Whenever I need to find you, you're always in some sort of trouble." "Jan! What a pleasant surprise." "What would you do without me, Kyle?" "I'd be a content old man." (rescued by Jan Ors on Nar Shaddaa)
 * "This has got to be bad for my health." (navigating across the acid pools of a power station, Sulon)
 * "Let's see what this saber can do..." (obtaining his first lightsaber)

Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

 * "Well, you look like an overgrown Kowakian monkey-lizard, so I guess looks don't count for much." (to Desann after being told he looks more like a bantha herder)
 * "Why can't you Jedi ever do things the simple way?" (to Luke Skywalker)
 * "I'm no Jedi. I'm just a guy with a lightsaber and a few questions." (to the Chiss bartender, Nar Shaddaa)
 * "Never trust a bartender with bad grammar." (after the bartender proves to be a crook)
 * "You should have known that it would take a failed Jedi to take out another failed Jedi." (to Luke Skywalker, during the war with Desann)

Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

 * "Kyle Katarn, at your service." (first meeting with Jaden Korr, Yavin 4)
 * "I sense a disturbance in the Force." "You always sense a disturbance in the Force...but yeah, I sense it too." (Luke and Kyle, after the incident with cultists on Yavin 4)
 * "Five thousand years, are you serious...?! Wait, you're always serious." (to Luke Skywalker, on learning of the Sith cult)
 * "They always lock the door. You’d think they’d have learned by now. Doesn’t look like there’s a key – that would be too easy. The console to unlock the door is probably hidden in some room twelve floors up or something...how does that make sense?" (to Jaden, attempting to enter Bast Castle on Vjun)
 * "Ugh! Of course, it has to be a garbage pit, doesn't it?  Well, let's go…no one ever said being a Jedi was glamorous." (to Jaden, entering Bast Castle on Vjun)

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