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Talk:Samuel Johnson

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 * Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
 * Attributed in The Tickler magazine, 1818.
 * An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere

More attributed Samuel Johnson quotes

Racism
i do not know the behind the inclusion of johnson's racist quotations, but they have been removed. they are not his best quotes and are out of place on here.

I think you have to accept that Johnson's "racist quotes" were a product of his time. To delete them is to attempt to rewrite history and to make out that Johnson was a different man than the one he was.

Good and original
Regarding the misattributed quote "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good": Something similar was used by politician Arthur Balfour, but with "trite" and "true" in place of the adjectives found here.

Famous Lines
"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. " This is my favorite line here.

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Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson (born 7 October 1959) is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and novelist.

Quotes

 * — all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?
 * SF Site Interview

Gardens of the Moon (1999)

 * All page numbers from the mass market paperback first edition published by Tor (January 2005)

 * “Heed the lesson there, son.” “What lesson?” “Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don’t notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.” “I want to be a soldier. A hero.” “You’ll grow out of it.”
 * Prologue (p. 5)

 * “Since when is speaking the truth presumptuous?” “You are young, aren’t you?”
 * Chapter 1 (p. 25)

 * As for presumption, I honestly couldn’t care less. Truth can’t be danced around, not out here, not now, not ever again.
 * Chapter 1 (p. 25)

 * Do I want you to talk to me, old friend? Do I need your reminders, your wry confirmation that faith is for fools?
 * Chapter 2 (p. 82)

 * “The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.” “Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.”
 * Chapter 3 (p. 90)

 * I look at you and I see a man because that’s what men are capable of—I don’t hunt for excuses because I don’t like to think that that’s how nasty we can get. We look at Sorry and we see reflections of ourselves. Hood take it, if we don’t like what we see.
 * Chapter 4 (p. 124)

 * The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
 * Chapter 4 (p. 125)

 * Hunger for vengeance poisoned the soul.
 * Chapter 4 (p. 153)

 * Your guest is mundane, a restless personage whose thoughts are thick with greed and treachery. A demon crouches on his shoulder, named Ambition.
 * Chapter 6 (p. 187)

 * Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality.
 * Chapter 7 (p. 208)

 * “An item,” he said softly, his eyes on the disc, “that passes without provenance, pursued by many who thirst for its cold kiss, on which life and all that lay within life is often gambled. Alone, a beggar’s crown. In great numbers, a king’s folly. Weighted with ruin, yet blood washes from it beneath the lightest rain, and to the next no hint of its cost. It is as it is, says Kruppe, worthless but for those who insist otherwise.”
 * Chapter 7 (pp. 233-234)

 * “A god intervened, Captain Paran. Returned the life to you. You might think it was on your behalf, but I’m afraid there wasn’t any altruism involved. Are you following me?” “I’m being used,” Paran stated flatly. She raised an eyebrow. “That doesn’t bother you?” Paran shrugged and turned away. “It’s nothing new,” he muttered.
 * Chapter 9 (p. 263)

 * Should you ever outrun the guilt within your past, Sorceress, you will have outrun your soul. When it finds you again it will kill you.
 * Chapter 9 (p. 292)

 * Kallor said: “I walked this land when the T’lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?” “Yes,” said Caladan Brood, “you never learn.”
 * Chapter 10 (p. 302)

 * “What do you mean by a tyrant?” “One whose blood was poisoned by the ambition to rule over others.”
 * Chapter 10 (p. 309)

 * Lorn stared at Tool. “Was that an attempt at humor?” she asked. The T’lan Imass adjusted his helmet. “That depends on your mood, Adjunct.”
 * Chapter 10 (p. 325)

 * “Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?” The Imass shrugged before replying. “I think of futility, Adjunct.” “Do all Imass think about futility?” “No. Few think at all.” “Why is that?” The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. “Because, Adjunct, it is futile.”
 * Chapter 10 (p. 325)

 * “The dead never interrupt,” said the mason, “they but arrive.”
 * Chapter 11 (p. 329)

 * He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.
 * Chapter 11 (p. 341)

 * In the empty eyes of this child, he’d seen the withering of his own soul. The reflection had been unblemished, with no imperfections to challenge the truth of what he saw.
 * Chapter 11 (p. 341)

 * “The mewling, petty acts,” he’d say, “of a short-lived and short-sighted species, Crokus, can do nothing to mar the Great Cycles of Life.”
 * Chapter 11 (p. 344)

 * Celebrating Gedderone’s Rite of Spring shouldn’t be an excuse to avoid the pressures of reality. It wasn’t just a harmless escape: it was a means of delaying the probable and making it inevitable.
 * Chapter 11 (p. 344)

 * Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost.
 * Chapter 13 (p. 399)

 * Paran shook his head, his only surprise the realization that nothing surprised him anymore.
 * Chapter 15 (p. 446)

 * Have any of these thoughts been my own? Look at me—my every move seems a desperate search for someone to blame, always someone else. I’ve made being a tool of a god an excuse, a justification for not thinking, for simply reacting. And others have died for it.
 * Chapter 15 (p. 446)

 * Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt for the privilege of being able to predict the shape of our lives.
 * Chapter 16 (p. 457)

 * Prediction had become a privilege now lost to her. Never mind the outside world, she could not even guess her own actions, or the course of her thoughts. Was this the true nature of emotion? she wondered. The great defier of logic, of control—the whims of being human. What lay ahead?
 * Chapter 16 (p. 457)

 * He who would dominate must learn early that those resisting his command should be destroyed.
 * Chapter 20 (p. 554)

 * The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.
 * Chapter 20 (p. 555)

 * A title as meaningless as the woman bearing it. The Empress—just another face she’d seen somewhere before, a mask behind which someone hid from mortality. “No use hiding,” she whispered, frowning down at the dead leaves and branches around her. “No use.”
 * Chapter 21 (pp. 562-563)

 * As with most unwitting servants of the gods, once the game was done so was the servant’s life.
 * Chapter 21 (p. 563)

Memories of Ice (2001)

 * The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.
 * Final thoughts of Treach, the Tiger of Summer

 * 'They've had a long time to think,' Paran murmured. 'Sometimes, that's all there's needed. The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.'

 * Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

 * Memories belong in the soil, in stone, in wind. They are the land's unseen meaning, such that touches the soul of all who would look — truly look — upon it. Touches, in faintest whisper, old, almost shapeless echoes — to which a mortal life adds its own.

 * To grieve is the gift of the living — a gift so many of our kin have long lost

House of Chains (2002)

 * Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

 * "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."

 * From the sun-drenched south slopes of Gris, where grow the finest grapes this world has seen. Is mine an informed opinion, you are wondering? Most assuredly so, lass, since I hold a majority interest in said vineyards —

 * With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

 * An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.

 * The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

 * But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.

 * Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

Midnight Tides (2004)

 * Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

 * "You leave me without hope," Brys said. "I am sorry for that. Do not seek to find hope among your leaders. They are the repositories of poison. Their interest in you extends only so far as their ability to control you. For you, they seek duty and obedience, and they will ply you with the language of stirring faith. They seek followers, and woe to those who question, or voice challenge."

 * Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

 * Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

 * Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

 * If one could always choose the right question, then every answer could be as obvious.

 * "What war is this?" "A pointless one." "They are all pointless Denier. Subjugation and defeat breed resentment and hatred, and such things cannot be bribed away." "Unless the spirit of the defeated is crushed," Trull said.

 * "Indeed Bugg. is it because, do you think, at the human core, we are naught but liars and cheats?" "Probably." "With no hope of ever overcoming our instinctive nastiness?" "Hard to say. How have we done so far?"

The Bonehunters (2006)

 * You cannot fight unreason, and as these dead multitudes will tell you — are telling you right now — certitude is the enemy.

 * "Keep a watch out, fools! There are things out there and you know what happens when things arrive!"

 * "I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures."

 * "Oh," the figure settled back down, "those reasons. Well, yes. Clever, even. But still profoundly stupid."

 * The world, Ahlrada Ahn knew, was indifferent to the necessity of preservation. Of histories, of stories layered with meaning and import. It cared nothing for what was forgotten, for memory and knowledge had never been able to halt the endless repetition of wilful stupidity that so bound peoples and civilizations.

 * We are contrary creatures, us humans, but that isn't something we need be afraid of, or even much troubled by. And if you make a list of those people who worship consistency, you'll find they're one and all tyrants or would-be tyrants. Ruling over thousands, or over a husband or a wife, or some cowering child. Never fear contradiction, Cutter, it is the very heart of diversity.

 * Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.

 * So much had changed inside him. He was no believer in causes, not any more. Certainty was an illusion, a lie. Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one's soul was bound in chains?

 * Mappo Trell, I believe motivations prove, ultimately, irrelevant. Upon either side of the battlefield the face grins with blunt stupidity, even as smoke fills the sky from horizon to horizon, even as crops whither and die, even as sweet land turns to salt. Inequity ends, Trell, when no-one and no thing is left standing.

 * A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilisation. Thus a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.

 * Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers — and let us not be coy here — naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.

Reaper's Gale (2007)

 * 'For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp, 'that is precisely the point. That's their value — their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.'

Toll the Hounds (2008)

 * Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed ... reminding.

 * Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

 * History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity. Oh, there were moments of greatness, of bright deeds, but how long did the light of such glory last? From one breath to the next, aye, and no more than that. No more than that. As for the rest, kick through the bones and wreckage for they are what remain, what lasts until all turn to dust.

 * Killers among your kind, among my kind, are just that — the savagery of beasts mated with intelligence, or what passes for intelligence. They dwell in a murky world, sir, confuse and fearful, stained dark with envy and malice. And in the end, they die as they lived. Frightened and alone, with every memory of power revealed as illusion, as farce.

 * The righteous will claim sole domain on judgment. The righteous are the first to make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.

 * Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?

 * When undeniable crime had been committed, justification was the act of a coward. And it was cowardice that permitted such crimes in the first place. No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.

 * She walked alongside him, saying nothing. Thinking. At last, she sighed. 'It is said that only one's will can fight against chaos, that no other weapons are possible.'

 * 'Necessity, now there's a word to feed every outrage on decency.'

 * ‘I can see your reasons, my love. But won’t you get thirsty?’ — Inscription found beneath capstone of household well, Lakefront District, Darujhistan

Dust of Dreams (2009)

 * 'Just so,' agreed the King. 'So accept the escort, Adjunct, or I shall hold my breath until I achieve a most royal shade of purple.'
 * 'Now, it's just occurred to me that we're missing something crucial. Ah, yes, an artist! Bugg, have we a court artist? We need an artist! Find us an artist! Nobody move!'
 * Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.

The Crippled God (2011)

 * No, do not look at me that way, you of smooth and subtle thought, you give your sympathy too quickly and therein hide your belief in your own superiority. I do not deny your cleverness, but I question your compassion.

 * We are sickened by the unknown, but knowledge can prove poisonous.

 * If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom, I will pray for wings with my last breath.

 * 'If by our sacrifice — yours and mine,' said Onos T'oolan, 'the pain of one life can be ended; if, by our deaths, this one can be guided home ... we will judge this a worthy cause.'
 * 'This Crippled God — he is a stranger to us all.'
 * 'It is enough that in the place he calls home, he is no stranger.'

Forge of Darkness (2013)

 * 'But we're different from hawks and wolves, Ville. We can actually figure out the consequences of what we do, and that makes us ... oh, I don't know the word ...'
 * 'Culpable?' Rint suggested.
 * 'Yes, that's the word all right.'

 * '... In elegant remoteness, she arrives like a work of high art, and you may well desire to edge ever closer, seeking flaws in the maker's hand, but the closer you get, the more she blurs before your eyes.'

 * 'Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow. No, the world made its demands upon mortals and they were immediate ones, pressingly, ferociously so, and even knowing a reasonable course was not enough to alter a mad plunge into disaster.'

 * 'Words were no gift, said Haut. They were tangled nets snaring all who ventured into their midst, until an entire people could hang helpless, choking on their own arguments, even as dissolution closed in on all sides.
 * The Jaghut had rejected that path. Defying the eternal plea for communication among peoples, in the name of understanding, peace or whatever, they had stopped talking, even with each other. And their city was abandoned, home now to a single soul, the Lord of Hate, the one who had laid bare the brutal truth of the future awaiting them all.'

 * 'Peace did not serve order; order served peace, and when order became godlike, sacrosant and inviolate, then the peace thus won became a prison, and those who sought their freedom became enemies to order, and in the elimination of such enemies, peace was lost.'

 * 'What worth peace when it was maintained by threat?
 * It was only the fearful who knelt in worship before order, and Galar refused to leave in fear.'

 * 'I think I understand. Before there can be disdain, there must be pride.
 * One day I will find something to be proud of, and then I will find this taste of disdain, and see if it suits me. Should I not think this, being my father's son?
 * And yet, I do not. Pride needs no claws, no scaled armour about itself. Not every virtue must be a weapon.
 * These thoughts are my own. I will not crush them.'

 * 'This swirl of stars,' Draconus suddenly said, 'marks the plunge of light into darkness. These stars, they are distant suns, shihing their light down upon distant, unknown worlds. Worlds, perhaps, little different from this one. Or vastly different. It hardly matters. Each star swirls its path towards the centre, and at that centre is death - the death of light, the death of time itself.'

 * 'Do not let the title of scholar, or poet, or lord, intimidate you overmuch. More importantly, do not delude yourself into imagining that such men and women are loftier, or somehow cleverer or purer of intgrity or ideal than you or the other commoner. We live in a world of facades, but the grins behind them are all wretched.'

 * 'Then, does everyone lives in fear?'
 * The firelight barely reached the huge man standing beside Raskan, and the deep voice that came from that vague shape sounded loose, unguarded. 'I would say, most of the time, yes. Fear that our opinion might be chalanged. Fear that our way of seeing things might be called ignorant, self-serving, or indeed evil. Fear for our persons. Fear for our future, our fate. Our moment of death. Fear of failing in all that we set out to achieve. Fear of being forgotten.'

 *  'Wealth,' they said, 'is a false measure. Honour cannot be hoarded. Integrity cannot adorn a room. There is no courage in gold. Only fools build a fortress of wealth. Only fools would live in it and imagine themselves safe.'

 * Art is the language of the tormented, but the world is blind to that, for ever blind.

 * T'riss sat down opposite the Warden, her expression thoughtful. 'Is civilisation nothing but an illusion, then?'
 * 'Crowd control.'
 * 'Excuse me?'
 * 'That's all civilisation is, T'riss. A means by which we manage the proliferation of our kind. It increases in complexity the more of us there are. Laws keeps us muzzled and punishment delivers the necessary message when those laws are broken. Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity.'

 * 'It is the legacy of most intelligent beings to revel in slaughter for a time,' Haut replied. 'In this we play at being gods. In this, we lie to ourselves with delusions of omnipotence. There is but one measure to the wisdom of a people, and that is the staying hand. Fail in restraint and murder thrives in your eyes, and all your claims to civilization ring hollow.'

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I don't understand why all the edits from this IP are being made, nor why, if you are going to add something at the bottom you just don't paste the link to the template, which has bars and functional links, as this page demonstrates, rather than just "". Just to weigh in on the matter I also think that the tilde with space at each end works best as seperator of quotes and author's names, rather than hypen, double hypen, mdash or tilde without spaces. ~ Achilles 04:37, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (16 February 1871 - 23 March 1946) was a British politician, writer, and social activist.

Quotes

 * I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.
 * Letter to Herbert Bryan (19 May 1916).

 * It is the intention of His Majesty's Government to lay on the table of both Houses of Parliament every treaty, when signed, for a period of 21 days, after which the treaty will be ratified and published and circulated in the Treaty Series. In the case of important treaties, the Government will, of course, take an opportunity of submitting them to the House for discussion within this period. But, as the Government cannot take upon itself to decide what may be considered important or unimportant, if there is a formal demand for discussion forwarded through the usual channels from the Opposition or any other party, time will be found for the discussion of the Treaty in question.
 * Part of the statement that became known as the Ponsonby Rule (1 April 1924).

 * Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.
 * Statement (1 April 1924).

Falsehood in Wartime (1928)

 * Full title: Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War

 * When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. books.google
 * This famous quotation is similar to the one Philip Snowden used in his introduction to Truth and the War, by E. D. Morel. London, July 1916: "'Truth,' it has been said, 'is the first casualty of war.'" Samuel Johnson expressed a similar idea: "Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages." Cf. Aeschylus.

Introduction

 * The object of this volume is not to cast fresh blame on authorities and individuals, nor is it to expose one nation more than another to accusations of deceit.
 * First lines of the introduction.

 * Falsehood is a recognized and extremely useful weapon in warfare, and every country uses it quite deliberately to deceive its own people, to attract neutrals, and to mislead the enemy. The ignorant and innocent masses in each country are unaware at the time that they are being misled, and when it is all over only here and there are the falsehoods discovered and exposed. As it is all past history and the desired effect has been produced by the stories and statements, no one troubles to investigate the facts and establish the truth.

 * Lying, as we all know, does not take place only in war-time. Man, it has been said, is not "a veridical animal," but his habit of lying is not nearly so extraordinary as his amazing readiness to believe. It is, indeed, because of human credulity that lies flourish. But in war-time the authoritative organization of lying is not sufficiently recognized. The deception of whole peoples is not a matter which can be lightly regarded. A useful purpose can therefore be served in the interval of so-called peace by a warning which people can examine with dispassionate calm, that the authorities in each country do, and indeed must, resort to this practice in order, first, to justify themselves by depicting the enemy as an undiluted criminal; and secondly, to inflame popular passion sufficiently to secure recruits for the continuance of the struggle. They cannot afford to tell the truth. In some cases it must be admitted that at the moment they do not know what the truth is.

 * People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of "propaganda."

 * The use of the weapon of falsehood is more necessary in a country where military conscription is not the law of the land than in countries where the manhood of the nation is automatically drafted into the Army, Navy, or Air Service. The public can be worked up emotionally by sham ideals. A sort of collective hysteria spreads and rises until finally it gets the better of sober people and reputable newspapers.

 * A Government which has decided on embarking on the hazardous and terrible enterprise of war must at the outset present a one-sided case in justification of its action, and cannot afford to admit in any particular whatever the smallest degree of right or reason on the part of the people it has made up its mind to fight. Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed, and a picture presented which by its crude colouring will persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question. A moment's reflection would tell any reasonable person that such obvious bias cannot possibly represent the truth. But the moment's reflection is not allowed; lies are circulated with great rapidity. The unthinking mass accept them and by their excitement sway the rest. The amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism in war-time in all countries is sufficient to make decent people blush when they are subsequently disillusioned.

 * At the outset the solemn asseverations of monarchs and leading statesmen in each nation that they did not want war must be placed on a par with the declarations of men who pour paraffin about a house knowing they are continually striking matches and yet assert they do not want a conflagration. This form of self-deception, which involved the deception of others, is fundamentally dishonest.

 * War being established as a recognized institution to be resorted to when Governments quarrel, the people are more or less prepared. They quite willingly delude themselves in order to justify their own actions. They are anxious to find an excuse for displaying their patriotism, or they are disposed to seize the opportunity for the excitement and new life of adventure which war opens out to them. So there is a sort of national wink, everyone goes forward, and the individual, in his turn, takes up lying as a patriotic duty. In the low standard of morality which prevails in war-time, such a practice appears almost innocent.

 * In calm retrospect we can appreciate better the disastrous effects of the poison of falsehood, whether officially, semi-officially, or privately manufactured. It has been rightly said that the injection of the poison of hatred into men's minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in war-time than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body. A fuller realization of this is essential.

 * Another effect of the continual appearance of false and biased statement and the absorption of the lie atmosphere is that deeds of real valour, heroism, and physical endurance and genuine cases of inevitable torture and suffering are contaminated and desecrated; the wonderful comradeship of the battlefield becomes almost polluted. Lying tongues cannot speak of deeds of sacrifice to show their beauty or value. So it is that the praise bestowed on heroism by Government and Press always jars, more especially when, as is generally the case with the latter, it is accompanied by cheap and vulgar sentimentality. That is why one instinctively wishes the real heroes to remain unrecognized, so that their record may not be smirched by cynical tongues and pens so well versed in falsehood.

 * When war reaches such dimensions as to involve the whole nation, and when the people at its conclusion find they have gained nothing but only observe widespread calamity around them, they are inclined to become more sceptical and desire to investigate the foundations of the arguments which inspired their patriotism, inflamed their passions, and prepared them to offer the supreme sacrifice. They are curious to know why the ostensible objects for which they fought have none of them been attained, more especially if they are the victors.

 * When the generation that has known war is still alive, it is well that they should be given chapter and verse with regard to some of the best-known cries, catchwords, and exhortations by which they were so greatly influenced. As a warning, therefore, this collection is made. It constitutes only the exposure of a few samples. To cover the whole ground would be impossible.

 * There is the concealment of truth, which has to be resorted to so as to prevent anything to the credit of the enemy reaching the public. A war correspondent who mentioned some chivalrous act that a German had done to an Englishman during an action received a rebuking telegram from his employer: "Don't want to hear about any good Germans"; and Sir Philip Gibbs, in Realities of War, says: "At the close of the day the Germans acted with chivalry, which I was not allowed to tell at the time."

 * In Vienna an enterprising firm supplied atrocity photographs with blanks for the headings so that they might be used for propaganda purposes by either side.

 * Atrocity lies were the most popular of all, especially in this country and America; no war can be without them. Slander of the enemy is esteemed a patriotic duty. An English soldier wrote (The Times, September 15, 1914): "The stories in our papers are only exceptions. There are people like them in every army." But at the earliest possible moment stories of the maltreatment of prisoners have to be circulated deliberately in order to prevent surrenders. This is done, of course, on both sides. Whereas naturally each side tries to treat its prisoners as well as possible so as to attract others. The repetition of a single instance of cruelty and its exaggeration can be distorted into a prevailing habit on the part of the enemy.

 * Contempt for the enemy, if illustrated, can prove to be an unwise form of falsehood. There was a time when German soldiers were popularly represented cringing, with their arms in the air and crying "Kamerad," until it occurred to Press and propaganda authorities that people were asking why, if this was the sort of material we were fighting against, had we not wiped them off the field in a few weeks.

 * A good deal depends on the quality of the lie. You must have intellectual lies for intellectual people and crude lies for popular consumption, but if your popular lies are too blatant and your more intellectual section are shocked and see through them, they may (and indeed they did) begin to be suspicious as to whether they were not being hoodwinked too. Nevertheless, the inmates of colleges are just as credulous as the inmates of the slums.

 * The narrowest patriotism could be made to appear noble, the foulest accusations could be represented as an indignant outburst of humanitarianism, and the meanest and most vindictive aims falsely disguised as idealism. Everything was legitimate which could make the soldiers go on fighting.

 * War is fought in this fog of falsehood, a great deal of it undiscovered and accepted as truth. The fog arises from fear and is fed by panic. Any attempt to doubt or deny even the most fantastic story has to be condemned at once as unpatriotic, if not traitorous. This allows a free field for the rapid spread of lies. If they were only used to deceive the enemy in the game of war it would not be worth troubling about. But, as the purpose of most of them is to fan indignation and induce the flower of the country's youth to be ready to make the supreme sacrifice, it becomes a serious matter. Exposure, therefore, may be useful, even when the struggle is over, in order to show up the fraud, hypocrisy, and humbug on which all war rests, and the blatant and vulgar devices which have been used for so long to prevent the poor ignorant people from realizing the true meaning of war.

 * It must be admitted that many people were conscious and willing dupes. But many more were unconscious and were sincere in their patriotic zeal. Finding now that elaborately and carefully staged deceptions were practised on them, they feel a resentment which has not only served to open their eyes but may induce them to make their children keep their eyes open when next the bugle sounds.

 * Between nations, where the consequences are vital, where the destiny of countries and provinces hangs in the balance, the lives and fortunes of millions are affected and civilization itself is menaced, the most upright men honestly believe that there is no depth of duplicity to which they may not legitimately stoop. They have got to do it. The thing cannot go on without the help of lies. This is no plea that lies should not be used in war-time, but a demonstration of how lies must be used in war-time. If the truth were told from the outset, there would be no reason and no will for war. Anyone declaring the truth: "Whether you are right or wrong, whether you win or lose, in no circumstances can war help you or your country," would find himself in gaol very quickly. In war-time, failure to lie is negligence, the doubting of a lie a misdemeanour, the declaration of the truth a crime.

 * When the people of one country understand how the people in another country are duped, like themselves, in war-time, they will be more disposed to sympathize with them as victims than condemn them as criminal, because they will understand that their crime only consisted in obedience to the dictates of authority and acceptance of what their Government and Press represented to them as the truth.

 * There is nothing sensational in the way of revelations contained in these pages. All the cases mentioned are well known to those who were in authority, less well known to those primarily affected, and unknown, unfortunately, to the millions who fell. Although only a small part of the vast field of falsehood is covered, it may suffice to show how the unsuspecting innocence of the masses in all countries was ruthlessly and systematically exploited.

 * There are some who object to war because of its immorality, there are some who shrink from the arbitrament of arms because of its increased cruelty and barbarity; there are a growing number who protest against this method, at the outset known to be unsuccessful, of attempting to settle international disputes because of its imbecility and futility. But there is not a living soul in any country who does not deeply resent having his passions roused, his indignation inflamed, his patriotism exploited, and his highest ideals desecrated by concealment, subterfuge, fraud, falsehood, trickery, and deliberate lying on the part of those in whom he is taught to repose confidence and to whom he is enjoined to pay respect.

 * None of the heroes prepared for suffering and sacrifice, none of the common herd ready for service and obedience, will be inclined to listen to the call of their country once they discover the polluted sources from whence that call proceeds and recognize the monstrous finger of falsehood which beckons them to the battlefield.


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Boats

A boat is a watercraft, usually smaller than most ships. Some boats are commonly carried by a ship or on land using trailers.

Quotes

 * From the earliest times man has turned to the waters to carry goods and passengers. Through the centuries he has harnessed many different forms of energy to move his cargoes on rivers, bays, and seas. He has built rafts to move upon the currents, galleys rowed by men, sailing ships of great variety to tap the strength of the winds, and steam and motor ships driven by the energy of coal and oil. Now man is ready to use the primordial source of power, the conversion of matter into energy, to send his merchant vessels on their voyages.
 * Warren H. Donnelly, “Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping”, “U.S. Atomic Energy Commission”, (1965), p.1

 * Man has profited whenever he found new sources of energy to speed the movement of passengers and goods upon the seas. His efforts reached one culmination in the nineteenth century when swift and wonderfully graceful American clipper ships sailed the long reaches of the oceans. Yet the heyday of these ships lasted less than the lifespan of a man. Long before the superb Flying Cloud made her record 374 miles in 24 hours under sail on her famous passage from New York to San Francisco in 1851, a noisy, dirty, dangerous machine — the steam engine—was taking to the seas and soon was to relieve mariners from their age-old dependence on the favor of the winds. Early in 1819 a small sailing ship, the Savannah, made the first crossing of the Atlantic with the assistance of a steam engine. Hers was a daring pioneering accomplishment sponsored by American merchants. But the shipping industries of the world were not ready for her, and the SS “Savannah” (the letters SS stand for "steamship") was a commercial failure, ending her days as a simple sailing ship. Change came slowly, and not until 20 years later did the first vessel, the British ship “Sirius”, cross the ocean propelled entirely by steam. This venture pointed the way for the development of the great British steam merchant ship fleet.
 * Warren H. Donnelly, “Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping”, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, (1965), p.2

 * Stop for a moment and ask yourself what would happen if the merchant fleets of the world were suddenly to vanish. How would raw materials, fuel, food, medicines, publications, and manufactured products move from one continent to another? No nation is completely self-sufficient; all find advantage in foreign trade. For example, 15 of the materials used in making a telephone in the United States must be imported. The industrialization now beginning in developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America foretells increasing foreign trade, to be carried by the merchant marine.
 * Warren H. Donnelly, “Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping”, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, (1965), p.20

 * Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
 * William Shakespeare; Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 3

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Beavis and Butt-head

Beavis and Butt-head (1993 – 1997, 2011, 2022 – present) is an American animated sitcom that originally aired on the cable television channel MTV. It followed the misadventures of two dimwitted teenagers, Beavis and Butt-head.

Seasons 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • Specials • Music video commentary • Feature film • Main

Pilots

 * Frog Baseball (1992)

Cast

 * Mike Judge—Beavis
 * Mike Judge—Butt-head
 * Mike Judge—Thomas T. "Tom" Anderson
 * Mike Judge—David Van Driessen
 * Tracy Grandstaff—Daria Morgendorffer
 * Mike Judge—Principal McVicker
 * Adam Welsh—Stewart Stevenson
 * Mike Judge—Coach Buzzcut
 * Rottilio Michieli—Todd Ianuzzi

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Cheers

 * Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | Main

Cheers (1982–1993) was a long-running situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show was set in a Boston bar, where a colorful group of locals would come to sit, drink, state daft facts, complain, and play elaborate practical jokes on the devotees and owner of a rival bar in town. The show also spawned the character Frasier Crane, who went on to a TV show of his own, Frasier, after Cheers ended. On May 1993, NBC cancelled the series after 11 seasons.

For the spin off series that aired on NBC, see Frasier.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10
 * Season 11

Cast

 * Ted Danson - Sam Malone
 * Shelley Long - Diane Chambers
 * Kirstie Alley - Rebecca Howe
 * Rhea Perlman - Carla Tortelli
 * Nicholas Colasanto - Ernie "Coach" Pantusso
 * Woody Harrelson - "Woody" Boyd
 * George Wendt - Norm Peterson
 * John Ratzenberger - Cliff Clavin
 * Kelsey Grammer - Frasier Crane
 * Bebe Neuwirth - Lilith Sternin

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Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat (4 August 1929 or 24 August 1929 or 14 August 1929 – 11 November 2004) was co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004), and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.

1970s

 * We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed… The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations… the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects… We don’t want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel’s destruction and nothing else.
 * Quoted in the Washington Post (29 March 1970)

 * all our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations… Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: ‘Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.
 * Statement from Wafa, Beirut (9 June 1974) as quoted in Journal of Palestine Studies (1974), p. 224.

 * I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.
 * Quoted in the Associated Press (12 March 1979).

Speech to UN General Assembly (1974)

 * Speech to UN General Assembly, 13 November 1974.

 * Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence.

 * The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples would also be terrorism, and many of you who are in this Assembly hall were considered terrorists.

 * Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

1980s

 * Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations… We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.
 * Quoted in The Times, UK (5 August 1980).

 * Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state. I’m a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel. Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can’t demolish five million Palestinians. They can’t annihilate them. We are not the Red Indians.
 * In an interview published in "The New York Review of Books" (11 June 1987).

1990s

 * The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.
 * In a speech given on 6 August 1995, at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter, reported in Haaretz (6 September 1995) and in The Jerusalem Post (7 September 1995).

 * The PLO will now concentrate on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps... We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews. We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under Arab rule.
 * In a speech to Arab diplomats in Stockholm as quoted in the Jerusalem Post (23 February 1996).

 * We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
 * In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996 as quoted  in “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History”,  by Andrew Bostom,  Prometheus Books, c.2008, pg. 682.

2000s

 * Amanpour: Secretary of State Colin Powell has spoken to you, I understand. He has also spoken publicly. He called on you to rein in the violence. What do you make of that statement, and can you and will you rein in that violence? Arafat: Are you asking me while I am under complete siege? You are a wonderful journalist. You have to respect your profession.… No, you have to be accurately when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. Be quiet! … You are covering, with such questions, the terrorist activities of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli crimes. Take care not to make these fatal mistakes. Thank you. Bye, bye!
 * Exchange with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour (29 March 2002) during Operation Defensive Shield

 * This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.
 * On Palestinian Authority Television (15 January 2002).

 * I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.
 * As quoted at OneJerusalem.org (21 January 2002)

 * This is my homeland; no one can kick me out.
 * As quoted in The Daily Iowan (11 September 2003), Yasser Arafat's reply to Ariel Sharon's threat to expel him from the occupied territories.

 * What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
 * As quoted in "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh in The New York Times (1 August 2010).

Quotes about Arafat

 * [he] has a public appearance that is not very appealing,” she told The Toronto Star after their meeting. “But that quickly disappears. He is a good listener. Very quick. Humorous and gentle. He was a very worried man when I saw him.”
 * Yael Dayan (1993) quoted here

 * I find it shameful that many Italians and many Europeans have chosen as their standard-bearer the gentleman (or so it is polite to say) Arafat. This nonentity who thanks to the money of the Saudi Royal Family plays the Mussolini ad perpetuum and in his megalomania believes he will pass into History as the George Washington of Palestine. This ungrammatical wretch who when I interviewed him was unable even to put together a complete sentence, to make articulate conversation. So that to put it all together, write it,  publish it, cost me a tremendous effort and I concluded that compared to him  even Ghaddafi sounds like Leonardo da Vinci. This false warrior who always goes around in uniform like Pinochet, never putting on civilian garb, and  yet  despite this has never participated in a battle. War is something he sends,  has always sent, others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent who playing the part of Head of State caused  the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation. No-no-I-want-Jerusalem-all-to-myself. This eternal liar who has a flash of sincerity only when (in  private) he denies Israel’s right to exist, and  who as I say in my book contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays  the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is, so that you can never trust him. Never! With him you will always wind up systematically betrayed. This eternal terrorist who knows only how to be a terrorist  (while keeping himself safe) and who during the Seventies, that is when I interviewed him, even trained the terrorists of Baader-Meinhof. With them, children ten years of age. Poor children. (Now he trains them to become suicide bombers. A hundred baby suicide bombers are in the works: a hundred!). This weathercock who keeps his wife at Paris, served and revered like a queen, and keeps his people down in the shit. He takes them out of the shit only to send them to die, to kill and to die, like the eighteen year old girls who in order to earn equality with men have to strap on explosives and disintegrate with their victims. And yet many Italians love him, yes. Just like they loved Mussolini. And many other Europeans do the same.
 * Oriana Fallaci on Anti-Semitism (April 12, 2002) I Find it Shameful.

 * I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!... The stupid fool is a zealot, a warrior, and a clever one. But he doesn't accomplish anything.
 * Muammar Gaddafi, as quoted in Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa (1987) Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (Regnery Gateway, p. 110), ISBN 0895265702.

 * Palestine continued to live in the collective consciousness of millions of Arabs, and Palestinian refugees now lived among them, in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, mostly in tented settlements and shantytowns. The Palestinians had had enough of these large Arab armies that kept losing precious land. The time had come to intensify guerrilla warfare. The man who had risen to lead them was Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian from Gaza, who had become chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. Armed Palestinian factions that had battled the Israelis alone and alongside the Arabs began to consolidate their grip on the refugee population in Jordan and Lebanon, filling their ranks with more fighters and launching attacks into Israel. The king of Jordan would have none of it—his army crushed the PLO ruthlessly in 1970. More Palestinian fighters, and more refugees, headed to Lebanon.
 * Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020)

 * He lied all the time. And he knew it. I'd say, 'Abu Ammar [Yasser Arafat's war name], cut the crap. Let's talk serious.' And then he could either talk serious or not talk serious. He'd say nonsense.
 * Terje Roed Larsen, United Nations Special Coordinator for peace negotiations in the Middle East, Quoted in

 * What good have all of Arafat's compromises done for the Palestinian people? What came out of the recognition of Israel, of the settling for a on 22 percent of the territory, of the negotiations with Zionism and the United States? Nothing but the entrenchment of the Israeli occupation and the strengthening and massive development of the settlement project.
 * Gideon Levy, This Biography Makes It Clear: The Founder of the Palestinian Popular Front Was Right (April 15, 2018), .

Reactions to Yasser Arafat's Death

 * For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolised in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people.
 * UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

 * The stature of a leader is not simply determined by the size of his achievements, but also by the size of the obstacles he had to overcome. In this respect, Arafat has no competitor in the world: no leader of our generation has been called upon to face such cruel tests and to cope with such adversities as he.
 * Uri Avnery, Israeli Politician and Peace Activist response to Arafat's death
 * I respected him as a Palestinian patriot, I admired him for his courage, I understood the constraints he was working under, I saw in him the partner for building a new future for our two peoples. I was his friend.
 * Uri Avnery, Israeli Politician and Peace Activist response to Arafat's death
 * He was the father of the modern Palestinian nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Palestinians united behind him in their pursuit of a homeland. While he provided indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement and was instrumental in forging a peace agreement with Israel in 1993, he was excluded from the negotiating role in more recent years.
 * Jimmy Carter,.
 * Eternal honor and glory to the unforgettable and heroic combatant Yasser Arafat. Nothing can erase your name from the history of those great fighters who have struggled for the freedom of the peoples.
 * Fidel Castro, Cuban President.

 * With him disappears a man of courage and conviction who for 40 years incarnated the Palestinians' fight for recognition of their national rights. [...] I came to bow before President Yasser Arafat and pay him a final homage.
 * French President Jacques Chirac.
 * Yasser Arafat was one of the outstanding freedom fighters of this generation, one who gave his entire life to the cause of the Palestinian people.
 * Nelson Mandela, Former South African President and freedom fighter against Apartheid in South Africa.

 * A great political leader of international significance.
 * Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 * An outstanding leader of the Palestinian cause and... an outstanding politician. He was deeply respected and supported by the Palestinian people and enjoyed great prestige among the international community.
 * Chinese President Hu Jintao.

 * (It is) good that the world is rid of him... The sun is shining in the Middle East.
 * Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres.

 * Jassir Arafats Streben war zeit seines Lebens darauf gerichtet, die Palästinenser in die Unabhängigkeit zu führen und einen souveränen, lebensfähigen palästinensischen Staat zu errichten.
 * As long as he lived, Yasser Arafat directed his efforts towards leading the Palestinians to independence and founding a sovereign viable Palestinian state.
 * German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, letter of condolence to the then prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority Ahmed Qurei, 11 November 2004, quoted on zeit.de.

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Talk:Arabic proverbs

Could somebody who speaks grammatical English please put these proverbs into it? I can only guess at what some of these mean.

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 * I might throw up a boym:

Through here I come I come *****  With you my love my love *****  All bad has gone has gone *****  I see your smile your smile *****  and I feel so high so high ***** chorus:

I dont regret or try I dont forsee my cry I do realize my self I cant control ........... *****

Right there you are you are *****  You be my good very good *****  You have my soul my soul *****  You take me home O!             <--  [my sister] ***** repeat chorus: *****

um, wouldnt it be preffered if non English quotes were writting in both english and the original language?

Definitely! Originals please...

We need translations
The Arabic proverbs should be translated into English. Waseem7 22:15, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Arabic proverbs that were just added also seem to have format problems that need to be corrected, and until there are translations into English available for them perhaps they should go in their own section, as ==Untranslated proverbs== with a small comment that they need translations. ~ Kalki 22:24, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * P.S. Most of the format problems I noticed were already addressed, even as I typed my comment. Now we just need translations. ~ Kalki 22:28, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I agree with you that proverbs which do not have English translations should go in their own section, though my only concern with that is that that I have put all of the proverbs in alphabetical order and if they get moved to another section and then moved back this alphabetical order might get lost. Maybe we should keep them the way they are and try to translate what we can for the next month or so, and then move the ones that don't have a translation to their own section. What do you think? Waseem7 05:31, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * With this, and some of the larger proverbs pages in other languages, it might be desirable to permanently have two sections, or eventually even two pages, one ordered alphabetically by English and the other ordered by the original language expressions, both of which could be useful for easily finding phrases and expressions. The English section could have English expressions first, and the other section or page, could have the non-English expressions first. ~ Kalki 13:20, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Is there an easy way to maintain this list? Waseem7 15:33, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Could anyone confirm or deny "O! my brother Who fucks a woman from another religion may god be with you." I tried to see who added it but I don't have the time or the patience right now, it just seems completely suspect, considering, you know, typical Islamic views on premarital sex (and if it was marriage, why not say marriage). 128.135.6.101 15:58, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Explanation Needed
Could someone explain what the table of contents means? It may be clear in Arabic is confusing for people who don't speak Arabic.

 * The current TOC is using Arabic letters, which is in keeping with the current practice of presenting non-English quotes in their original language first, then including a translation line. The problem, of course, is that most en:Wikiquote readers won't be able to use the TOC to find quotes, but will have to rely on browsing and browser-searching for the English text to find a specific quote. To the best of my knowledge, this obvious issue has not yet been discussed in the community. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm very grateful for this reference. I do see a problem with having an Arabic TOC as well as English. Because of this problem, perhaps two pages are necessary?

I would like to see published sources added. For example, the English publications by Arander and Skipwith. There must be traditional Arabic sources as well. What about those found in Hadith literature, or even Shia sources such as Nahjul Balagha? During a visit to the Türk Hat Muzesi in Beyazit, Istanbul, I saw an Ottoman levha calligraphy panel with a saying attributed to John the Baptist. There must be other Christian sources as well.

In addition, I think that it is necessary to provide not only a literal translation, but also describe the connotation. This is the format used on the [Persian proverbs] page. A Romanized transliteration would also be very helpful to students of Arabic like myself. This can easily be done by using the US extended keyboard, that has all the necessary diacriticals.Jemiljan 00:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Proverbs should be organized after their theme!
It's not wise to order the proverbs after their first alphabet. Its more better to organize them after the theme e.g. Love, life, courage, etc. I will wait for comments before I change it. Jidan 06:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, I am a native arabic speaker.Jidan 06:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree; in the article's current state, it is unreadable.

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NOTE:All of the below quotes require sources before moving back to the page.

I want to add a comment after I read the below proverbs,, " some are wrong, some have'nt the accurate meaning, and others, never heard about it before"I wish weather you make sure of what are you writing or remove it.thx. Areej from Jordan.

This page list center Arabic proverbs.

 * "The dogs bark, but the caravan rolls on."
 * "Haste is the devil."
 * "Hunger is the finest spices."
 * "Much to flap its wings, after it we broke."
 * "Who wants a beautiful woman smart and rich, like the three women."
 * "Revenge is a dish eaten cold."
 * "Enemy of my enemy - my friend."
 * "Every dog Beejy day." ("Every dog his day comes.")
 * "Do not take advice, bald man with glasses and a belly."
 * "I against my brother. I and my brother against my cousin. I, my brother and my cousin against the world."
 * "Who did not enter the mouth closed all the fly."
 * "A word cloud and rain action."
 * "Too little lie." ("Legs do not lie.")
 * "When you shoot the arrow of truth, dip its point in honey, please."
 * "Four things can not stay hidden for long: knowledge, stupidity, wealth and poverty."
 * "Death can not forget you for one day, but he can not forget you the next."
 * "Who steal eggs, steal a camel."
 * "A woman can hide her love for forty years, but her anger even one day."
 * "Love sees well. Hatred sees better. But jealousy sees better because she is loved and hated at the same time."
 * "Asl day, the day the basket." ("Honey Day, a day in the shade.")
 * "Of course Allah, but do not forget to tie the camel."
 * "All things are difficult before they become easy."
 * "Talk about a good deed that caused his death."
 * "The right belongs to those who starts, though who continues succeeds better."
 * "To sell to good things. To buy to do bad things."
 * "If you want to buy for the market and watched, and bought way back."
 * "To love a lover like living should die tomorrow."
 * "When the door locks of love for the golden door."
 * "Love lasts as long as the reproaches."
 * "All we glance at the past we must look both at the future."
 * "Destroys the body's fatigue and anxiety is killing the soul."
 * "Bum playing with the devil."
 * "Anyone who wants everything loses everything."
 * "Hurrying to answer - wrong."
 * "On the ball he was born - dead hero / first ball when he was born, died last hero / gun when he was born dead heroes."
 * "When hunting, the dog taking a piss."
 * "If I am a prince and you're a prince, who would do donkeys?" (You can not all be managers.)
 * "Monkey To his mother - a deer."
 * "Dog - Sheikh Sheikh." (The dog of the Sheik is Sheik.)
 * "Perhaps Pat - dead." (What happened - dead.)
 * "If money equals speech, silence is golden."
 * "Where diplomacy fails, successful woman."
 * "There is no great trouble than ours."
 * "Who is waiting without work, plowing without sowing."
 * "Paradise of this world is a woman's lap, on horseback, and on the pages of a book."
 * "Shake the lucky one to the river and he came out with a fish in his mouth."
 * "Talker does not want the company of another talker."
 * "One dream does not contain the whole truth."
 * "The devil does not appear, but to those who fear him."
 * "The time will become masters of one who has no master."
 * "Measure the depth of the river before you plunge yourself into the water."
 * "Life is a woman as a camel."
 * "Do not tell others about your troubles; eagle and the hawk swooping down on wounded moaning."
 * "Tell Kagan as we carry in our pocket."
 * "It is still closed, as a package of paper."
 * "Small body often contains a great soul."
 * "One learns more from the fool who before his eyes, than the words of the wise."
 * "The lace! Do not be jealous."
 * "Death is a black camel that lies the doorstep of every door."
 * "Diligence is the mother of success."
 * "Do not be afraid because God-fearing man." / "Who did not fear God is to be feared" (Ely Ma Afu Afu from but sex)
 * "You have to judge the man by reputation of his enemies."
 * "Do not Judge not on a ship which is still being built at the shipyard."
 * "No one can be a good doctor, if not there before."
 * "Search for knowledge even if you go to China."
 * "Silence is the best answer to his questions of the ignorant."
 * "Fishing is catch fish rash."
 * "Chameleon does not leave the tree, unless there's another tree."
 * "Change like the rest."
 * "A thoroughbred is not harmed by the fact that he had an old saddle."
 * "The argument can not survive."
 * "We are aware of her error, better than a hidden truth."
 * "The secret like a dove: when it leaves the hand is flying."
 * "Ramrod sense of humor helps as we go on the rope acrobats of life."
 * "Smart people in the company of scoundrels, makes foil."
 * "Arrogance interferes wisdom."
 * "Arrogance like a weed growing on a pile of junk."
 * "You'd better consult with an experienced person than with a scholar."
 * "Believe mirror eyes, and do not rely on the meaning of lips."
 * "Eat what you want, but dressed as fashion."
 * "Every ambitious man like him as a POW, and chases money like a pauper."
 * "As the sun sets."
 * "Who is peering in the windows of others, risks losing his sight."
 * "Who sows thorns can hope to pick roses."
 * "Anyone who sees the troubles of others, he realized that his troubles himself very easily."
 * "There are many ways that did not lead to the heart of man."
 * "Laughter is meaningless indication of poor education."
 * "We can not clap with one hand."
 * "Beautiful patience."
 * "Sayings like them like a lamp that illuminates the things."
 * "Seek advice from those who made you cry, and who makes you laugh."
 * "Quiet is the fruit of peace of mind."
 * "Infecting words worse than that of the sword."
 * "Before logging in, it's how you go."
 * "What we learn Baristno, stayed with us until we die."
 * "The broken pot, cover the curve."
 * "To rain, to see clouds."
 * "Who is that his house is made of glass houses should not throw stones at his neighbor" (the house moguls Kazzaz Ma Aidrb Hajjar Ala Jaro)
 * "Burrowing womb and Bangui's just a" - "Not all that glitters is gold inside outsider" = to look at the pitcher, but what is inside.
 * "Anharda Plus was read detective" - now you're ready to pay lots of money on the scoop, when tomorrow everyone knew the secret is not worth a penny.
 * Meant that those who keep a secret telling him, tomorrow we'll know what your secret.
 * "Iatlo to Throw and used Bgnsto" - a group of villains who murder and dare to attend the funeral, as if they are not guilty. Looking for your mind, hit you and Mtmmim as if you did not do anything wrong.
 * "Guy Ichhlh insisted that" - came to embellish her but instead spoil her beauty.
 * "It shall bruise His eye Asofk Bell Bell Antn" - if you approve of me, I see you two pretty poor.
 * "Evelyn and Leah Trdini" - accept me or feed me well.
 * "Schnabel to Gomaa velayat to Saturday rouge" - who bothers on Friday will eat on the Sabbath.
 * "Llsbr Hodod" - an end to patience.
 * الباب اللي يجي منه ريح، سدُهُ واستريح.
 * Translation: The door that the wind comes from, close it and relax.
 * اترك اللي مايفيدك ياخذ منك ولايزيدك
 * Leave what you don't benefit from; it takes from you but doesn't give you.
 * إذا غاب القط العب يافار
 * When the cat is absent then play 'o mouse.
 * English equivalent: When the cat's away, the mice will play.
 * Meaning: When those in authority positions are gone, people will not do what they should be doing.
 * أصابع يدك مهي سوى
 * Your fingers aren't of an equal length.
 * العين ماتعلى على الحاجب
 * The eye doesn't go higher than the brow.
 * English equivalent: Each man rises to his level of incompetence.
 * Meaning: No one can go above their status in life.
 * اللي في البير ايطلعه المغرف
 * What's in the well the bucket gets out.
 * اللي في الجدر يطلعه الملاس
 * What's in the pot the spoon gets out.
 * اللي في بطنه ريح مايستريح
 * He with gas in his belly never rests.
 * اللي في قلبه الصلاه ماتفوته
 * He with prayer in his heart never misses it [The prayer].
 * الدبس مايلطا الا بشارب لاحسه
 * The honey only sticks to the mustache of the one who licked it.
 * الرجال مخابر ماهي بمناظر
 * Manhood is by knowledge, not by looks.
 * اللي يده بالنار موب مثل اللي يده في الماي
 * He whose hand in fire isn't like him whose hand is in water.
 * النار ماتحرق الا رجل واطيها
 * Fire only burns he who approaches it.
 * English equivalent: If you play with fire you will get burned.
 * Meaning: Doing something dangerous has consequences.
 * علمناهم الطراره سبقونا على البيبان
 * We taught them how to beg and they raced us to the doors.
 * أم لقمان تعرف لغة عيالها
 * The mother of Luqman knows the language of her sons.
 * ثوبه زري يرطخ وماعنده قدر يطبخ
 * His clothes are glittery and shiny but he doesn't have a pot to cook in.
 * جَود لي وأقطع لك
 * Hold it for me and i'll cut for you.
 * جيتك عون وصرت علي فرعون
 * I came to you with help and you became a pharaoh on me.
 * رَخ ايدك تلقى الناس عبيدك
 * Loose your hand and you'll find people your slaves.
 * كلٍ ايقّرب الضو صوب قرصه
 * Everybody's gathering the coals around his own bread.
 * لاصرت أمير وأنا امير من بيسوق الحمير
 * If you become a prince and I become a prince then who rides the donkeys?
 * English equivalent: You a lady and I a lady, who will put the sow out?
 * وش على السما من نبح الكلاب
 * Why should the heavens care about the barking of dogs?
 * English equivalent: Life goes on.
 * Meaning: One cannot stop progress no matter how much they protest.
 * ربعـٍ تعاونوا ما ذلوا و لا جاهم المطر ما ابتلوا
 * Friends who take care of each other never get scared, and when rain pours they're never wet.
 * قرصـه في نـاره و عيـنـه في جـاره
 * His bread is on his fire and his eyes are on his neighbour.
 * Meaning: You aren't paying attention to what's important.

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Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model.

Quotes

 * Ayn Rand is a stupid piece of shit!
 *  (September 11, 1991)

 * The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, "Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.
 *  (August 23, 1999)

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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier (17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892) was an American Quaker poet and abolitionist.

Quotes

 * Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said.
 * Barbara Frietchie (1863); reported in Diane Ravitch, The American Reader: words that moved a nation (2000), p. 259. The lines are based on an folkloric account of the real Barbara Fritchie, said to have made a similar challenge to Confederate invaders of Maryland during the American Civil War.

 * The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.
 * My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.
 * The Beautiful, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.
 * Worship, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Press bravely onward! — not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  Your peaceful zeal shall find.
 * To the Reformers of England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
 * Ichabod, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * When faith is lost, when honor dies The man is dead!
 * Ichabod, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Making their lives a prayer.
 * To A. K. On receiving a Basket of Sea-Mosses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic’s stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"
 * Line on Burns, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.
 * Brown of Ossawatomie, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.
 * The Mantle of St. John de Matha, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
 * The eternal Goodness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Again the shadow moveth o'er The dial-plate of time.
 * The New Year, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man;
 * The Chapel of the Hermits, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * We lack but open eye and ear To find the Orient's marvels here; The still small voice in autumn's hush, Yon maple wood the burning bush.
 * The Chapel of the Hermits; comparable to Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book vii

 * Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
 * Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
 * Mary Garvin, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * The Night is Mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling.
 * A Dream of Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Beauty seen is never lost.
 * Sunset on the Bearcamp, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * God blesses still the generous thought, And still the fitting word He speeds, And Truth, at His requiring taught, He quickens into deeds.
 * Channing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Each crisis brings its word and deed.
 * The lost Occasion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * The Beauty which old Greece or Rome Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
 * To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * We seemed to see our flag unfurled, Our champion waiting in his place For the last battle of the world, The Armageddon of the race.
 * Rantoul, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.
 * To Charles Sumner, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls.
 * To James T. Fields, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.
 * The Tent on the Beach, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * The harp at Nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play; The song the stars of morning sung Has never died away.
 * The Worship of Nature, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago.
 * Calef in Boston, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
 * Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * All hearts confess the saints elect, Who, twain in faith, in love agree, And melt not in an acid sect The Christian pearl of charity!
 * Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Life is ever lord of Death And Love can never lose its own.
 * Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Let the thick curtain fall; I better know than all How little I have gained, How vast the unattained.
 * My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * Sweeter than any sung My songs that found no tongue; Nobler than any fact My wish that failed of act. Others shall sing the song, Others shall right the wrong,— Finish what I begin, And all I fail of win.
 * My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

 * God is and all is well.
 * My Birthday, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Pippa Passes''.

 * Their right(colored Americans), like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship.
 * Quoted in The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, by William Cooper Nell, p. 339. (1855)

 * The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
 * "At Port Royal"

Maud Muller (1856)

 * Maud Muller, on a summer's day, Raked the meadows sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health.

 * So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone. But the lawyers smiled that afternoon, When he hummed in court an old love-tune.

 * He wedded a wife of richest dower, Who lived for fashion, as he for power. Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow, He watched a picture come and go: And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes Looked out in their innocent surprise.

 * A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, "It might have been".

 * Weary lawyers with endless tongues.

 * Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
 * Bret Harte wrote a famous parody of this famous poem, "Mrs. Judge Jenkins" in which the Judge marries Maud, and which he ends with the lines: ''Maud soon thought the Judge a bore, With all his learning and all his lore; And the Judge would have bartered Maud's fair face For more refinement and social grace. If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been," More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be".

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

 * Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

 * God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait.
 * P. 282

 * As yonder tower outstretches to the earth The dark triangle of its shade alone When the clear day is shining on its top; So, darkness in the pathway of man's life Is but the shadow of God's providence, By the great Sun of wisdom cast thereon; And what is dark below is light in heaven.
 * P. 282

 * For they the mind of Christ discern Who lean, like John, upon His breast.
 * P. 399

 * Strike! Thou the Master, we Thy keys, The anthem of the destinies! The minor of Thy loftier strain, Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain — "Thy will be done!"
 * P. 513

Attributed

 * Somehow not only for Christmas But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to make you glad.
 * First published in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24 (1901), p. 29

Quotes about John Greenleaf Whittier

 * In the poem of 'Snow-Bound' there are lines on the death of the poet's sister which have nothing superior to them in beauty and pathos in our language. I have read them often with always increasing admiration. I have suffered from the loss of those near and dear to me, and I can apply the lines to my own case and feel as if they were written for me. 'The Eternal Goodness' is another poem which is worth a crowd of sermons which are spoken from the pulpits of our sects and churches, which I do not wish to undervalue. It is a great gift to mankind when a poet is raised up among us who devotes his great powers to the sublime purpose of spreading among men principles of mercy and justice and freedom. This our friend Whittier has done in a degree unsurpassed by any other poet who has spoken to the world in our noble tongue. I feel it a great honor that my bust should stand in your hall near the portrait of your great poet.
 * John Bright, letter to the presentation of Edgar Parker's portrait of Whittier to the Friends' School at Providence (1884), quoted in Samuel T. Pickard, Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume II (1894), pp. 704-705

 * Most of the books published during the five-year period leading up to, during, and after the invasion of Mexico were war-mongering tracts. Euro-American settlers were nearly all literate, and this was the period of the foundational "American literature," with writers James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville all active-each of whom remains read, revered, and studied in the twenty-first century, as national and nationalist writers, not as colonialists. Although some of the writers, like Melville and Longfellow, paid little attention to the war, most of the others either fiercely supported it or opposed it...Opposition to the Mexican War came from writers who were active abolitionists such as Thoreau, Whittier, and Lowell. They believed the war was a plot of southern slave owners to extend slavery, punishing Mexico for having outlawed slavery when it became independent from Spain.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

 * I have in my hand a poem which our own beloved poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote almost fifty years ago, in the darkest hour of the midnight which brooded over our country. You are most of you, perhaps all, familiar with it. It is addressed to Mr. Garrison. Shall I read a single stanza? I do it to illustrate a point strongly put by our brother who has just taken his seat; that is, the power of a single soul, alone, of a single soul touched with sacred fire, a soul all of whose powers are enlisted the thought, the feeling, the susceptibility, the emotion, the indomitable will, the conscience that never shrinks, and always points to duty-I say, the power which God has lodged in the human mind, enabling to do and to dare and to suffer everything, and thank God for the privilege of doing it. To show also how, when one soul is thus stirred in its innermost and to its uttermost, it is irresistible; that wherever there are souls, here and there, and thick and fast, too, not merely one, and another, and another, of the great mass, but multitudes of souls are ready to receive the truth and welcome it, to incorporate it into their thought and feeling, to live and die for it. That was the effect of Garrison upon the soul of Whittier. He here gives us his testimony. The date of this is 1833-almost fifty years ago. He says in the third stanza: "I love thee with a brother's love,/I feel my pulses thrill/To mark thy spirit soar above/The cloud of human ill./My heart hath leaped to answer thine,/And echo back thy words,/As leaps the warrior's at the shine/And flash of kindred swords!"
 * Theodore Dwight Weld, eulogy for William Lloyd Garrison (1879)

 * The belief has been constantly expressed in England that in the United States, which has produced William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, James Russell Lowell, John G. Whittier and Abraham Lincoln there must be those of their descendants who would take hold of the work of inaugurating an era of law and order. The colored people of this country who have been loyal to the flag believe the same, and strong in that belief have begun this crusade.
 * Ida B. Wells, The Red Record (1895)

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Talk:Charles Lamb

B. 10 February 1775-D. 29 December 1834 A British poet, critic, and wit of the Enlightenment and early Romantic era, Lamb suffered from bouts of mental illness early in his life. Lamb associated with the likes of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Coleridge. He collaborated on several essays with his sister, who lived under his guardianship after she murdered their mother in a fit of madness. Works include:

Blank Verse (1798) Pride's Cure (1802) Tales from Shakespeare (1807) Adventures Of Ulysses (1808)

Sources used: http://www.online-literature.com/lamb/

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Talk:Henry Rollins

I think a lot of these are from the Shock and Awe DVD, I'll be viewing it again soon so will hopefully remember to update this page.

Re-Added the quotes below. Unsourced quotes from live shows, etc. are acceptable under wiki rules.
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 * Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character.

 * Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

 * If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outlearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

 * Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred

 * It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew

 * Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

 * Half of life is fucking up - the other half is dealing with it.

 * D.J. Fuckface puts on a record of someone else's music and calls himself a musician. No.  He's a record-player-player.

 * And he busts all the French he knows. Entrepreneurs.  Courageous...Space...Entrepreneurs. Presumably, these astronauts are actually men who buy and sell quantities of the heavens.

 * SYRIA? - I mean honestly - SYRIA???

 * When in doubt, go toward the smoke. on approaching a riot during his 2007 visit to Islamabad, Pakistan. [3/15/2008 - Fargo, ND]

 * My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.

 * Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have.

 * It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

His Nietzesche quote is real & listed on Nietzesche's page, should it be linked to? Friedrich Nietzsche > Twilight of the Idols (1888) > Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum. [Without music, life would be a mistake.] Maxims and Arrows, 33.

 * I grew up in D.C....and I worked at this theater, and my manager was gay. He used to make me stand out by the ticket booth and any time someone who looked like Yul Brynner walked by I was supposed to bang on the glass. And he would come look. If the guy was hot, he'd make a face. If the guy was ugly, though, he's say 'Henrietta! What were you thinking?' Then one day he got fired and I didn't understand why. My friends were like, 'Because he's gay, Henry.' And I was like 'Yeah, and...?' I just didn't get it. And I got so angry then, and I felt the injustice, it's the same injustice that I'm feeling today.
 * Anecdote told at "WedRock" benefit concert for gay marriage equality.

 * ...And I was standing there screaming "Fuck" at the top of my lungs
 * Referring to a 1999 trip to the Via Dolorosa, regarding his amazement at seeing one of the last places where Jesus Christ was seen walking.

title: Talk:Henry Rollins