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Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver is a 1988 biographical-drama film directed by written and directed by Ramon Menandez. Stand and Deliver is based on a true story of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school teacher, who helped 18 Hispanic students in Los Angeles, California learn calculus well enough to pass the Advanced Placement mathematics exam, even though originally many of them struggle with such elementary principles as multiplication and fractions.A true story about a modern miracle. (Taglines)

Jaime Escalante

 * You only see the turn, you don't see the road ahead.

Dialogue

 * Jaime Escalante: If I teach you sex, I'll have to give you sex for homework.

 * Jaime Escalante: [to his students] There will be no free rides, no excuses. You already have two strikes against you: your name and your complexion. Because of these two strikes, there are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do. Math is the great equalizer... When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems; ergo, neither do I. You're going to work harder here than you've ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is ganas. Desire.
 * [Passing one boy, he ruffles up the students hair]
 * Jaime Escalante: And maybe a haircut. [Everyone laughs] If you don't have the ganas, I will give it to you, because I'm an expert.

 * Jaime Escalante: Did you know that neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero? It was your ancestors, the Mayans, who first contemplated the zero. The absence of value. True story. You burros have math in your blood...
 * Thug: Hey Kimo sabe todo ehh? The man knows everything. (Calling him) Hey Kimo Sabe.
 * Jaime Escalante: (Approving) Órale. Now, a negative times a negative equals a positive. Why? [The whole class looks at him blankly; he sighs deeply and shakes his head] We're gonna need a lot of Kleenexes - There's gonna be a lot of bloodshed.

 * Tito: Just don't ever let her know that you dig her. That's, like, the worst thing you can do with a woman.

 * [Escalante wakes a sleeping Tito in class]
 * Tito: I dreamed I was swimming with dolphins whispering imaginary numbers and searching for the fourth dimension.
 * Jaime Escalante: Good! Go back to sleep.

 * Jaime Escalante: Go to woodshop and make yourself a shoeshine box. You're gonna need it.
 * Angel Guzman: You're the man, you know? Why don't you put them in college, huh? So dumb taco venders like me can pick their vegetables for them, collect their garbage, clip their poodles' toenails. I may be a sinner, but I'm willing to pay for my sins.
 * Jaime Escalante: Right. See you at three.
 * Angel Guzman: I got more bad news for you, profe. I know this is really gonna trip you out, but... I forgot my pencil.
 * [Ana produces a pencil for him]

 * [Jaime is eating at the Delgado family's restaurant, speaking with them about Ana's decision to drop out of Garfield High]
 * Jaime Escalante: She'll just be a fat winch, waste her life away in your restaurant. You have to understand - she's top student.
 * Mr. Delgado: I started washing dishes for a nickel an hour. Now I own this place. Did I waste my life?
 * Jaime Escalante: I washed dishes, too, when I first came to this country.
 * Mr. Delgado: Good! Why don't you put on an apron and give us a hand?
 * Jaime Escalante: Ana could go to college, come back, and teach you how to run this place.
 * Mr. Delgado: [He tears up the tab for Jaime's dinner] Professor Escalante, I don't want your money. And I don't need your business.
 * Jaime Escalante: [He reaches into his wallet, dropping the money on the table anyway] Tip, for Ana. By the way, I notice you put hot chillies in your dip to sell extra beer - don't you?

 * Jaime Escalante: That's right. Tough guys don't do math; tough guys deep fry chicken for a living.

 * Claudia Camejo: You're worried that we'll screw up royally tomorrow, aren't you?
 * Jamie Escalante: Tomorrow's another day. I'm worried you're gonna screw up the rest of your lives.

 * Angel Guzman: We're busted, why don't we just admit it?
 * Dr. Ramirez: How'd you do it?
 * Angel Guzman: I got the test ahead of time. I passed it out to all the others.
 * Dr. Pearson: How did you get the test?
 * Angel Guzman: The mailman [pause] I strangled him and his body's decomposing in my locker.
 * [The other students laugh]

 * [Angel and the little vato enter the classroom, trailed by another]
 * Jaime Escalante: Are your friends auditing?
 * Thug: I audited them to come with me.

 * [Angel doesn't want anyone to see him carrying books around]
 * Jaime Escalante: Wouldn't want anyone thinking you're intelligent, would you?

 * [Jaime is using girlfriends as the variables in an algebraic equation]
 * Raquel Ortega: Can you have negative girlfriends?
 * Jaime Escalante: No, only negative boyfriends. Forgive them, for they not know what they do.

 * Angel Guzman: Hey, aren't you proud of me? I'm the first one here! [pause] What's calcoolus?

 * Angel Guzman: Yeah, I have the same answer as gordita.
 * Guadalupe "Lupe" Escobar: Don't call me gordita, pendejo.

 * Jaime Escalante: Do you want me to do it for you?
 * Pancho: Yes.
 * Jaime Escalante: You're supposed to say no.

 * Jaime Escalante: You're like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat there isn't there.

 * Jaime Escalante: [about Claudia] This girl's gotta do some work from the neck up. We're going to have to stay late again. Of course you know, we have pizza because they deliver. We can get fried chicken, hamburgers with cheese. We'll need donations. No, really, you owe me money anyway. You don't deserve the grades you're getting.
 * [Claudia gets up and leaves]
 * Jaime Escalante: Where are you going? Late for another date? She's got more boyfriends than Elizabeth Taylor.
 * Claudia Camenjo: I don't appreciate you using my personal life to entertain this class.

 * Jaime Escalante: What you got?
 * Pancho: I got a core.
 * Jaime Escalante: You owe me a hundred percent. And I'll see you in the People's Court.

 *  Guadalupe "Lupe" Escobar: Kemo, we're seniors. This is our year to slack off.

 * Jaime Escalante: You think you got it, Johnny? Think you have the answer?
 * Johnny: Juan is X, Carlos is Y, Pedro is X + Y. Is Pedro bisexual or straight.
 * Jaime Escalante: Sometimes I worry about you.

 * Jaime Escalante: It's not that they're stupid, it's just that they don't know anything.

 * Jaime Escalante: [before confronting the ETS investigators] You know what kills me... it's that they lost the confidence in the system they're now finally qualified to be a part of. I don't know why I'm losing sleep over this. I don't need it. I could be making more money, with less hours, and have people treat me with respect.
 * Fabiola Escalante: Respect? Jaime, those kids love you.

 * Jaime Escalante: Do you think the students cheated?
 * Raquel: Mr. Escalante, you put these kids under an awful lot of pressure. They would have gone to any lengths to please you.
 * Jaime Escalante: You didn't answer my question.
 * Raquel: Well... every night when I go to bed, I watch the television news. I see a lot of people go on trial. They always deny everything, or their lawyers say they were insane at the time. A lot of them get off. But I believe that most people who get caught today are guilty. Don't you?
 * Jaime Escalante: [angrily] Yup. I know what you mean.

 * Pancho: I don't need no math. I got a solar calculator with my dozen donuts.

 * [Angel reaches for a pen in Jaime's shirt pocket; Jaime grabs his wrist]
 * Jaime Escalante: I wouldn't do that if I was you. Might lose a finger and won't be able to count to ten.

 * Jaime Escalante: [to Chuco and Company] I am El Cyclone,... from Bolivia. One-man gang. This classroom is my domain. Don't give me no gas, or I'll jump on your face and tattoo you chromosomes... If the only thing you know how to do is add or subtract, you will only be prepared to do one thing: Pump gas.

 * Jaime Escalante: Now you got a ticket to watch the show.

 * Jaime Escalante: Students will rise to the level of expectation, Senor Molina.

 * Jaime Escalante: I'm Jaime Escalante. I'm the A.P. Calculus teacher from Garfield High.
 * Dr. Pearson: I'm Dr. Pearson and this is Dr. Ramirez.
 * Jaime Escalante: I feel, uh, I have a right to know why you think my students cheated.
 * [Dr. Pearson looks to Dr. Ramirez for a beat]
 * Dr. Pearson: Mr. Escalante, I'm sorry you drove all the way out here...but we're not at liberty to discuss the controversy with you.
 * Jaime Escalante: I would just like to see the test, that's all.
 * Dr. Ramirez: Mr. Escalante, I understand what you're going through here...but I repeat, the problem is between the E.T.S. and the students.
 * Jaime Escalante: I would just like to see what kind of mistakes were made. Once again, I'm their teacher. I know my kids.
 * Dr. Pearson: Mr. Escalante, have a seat.
 * Jaime Escalante: No no, thank you.
 * Dr. Pearson: There were some...unorthodox, even illogical, computations for students of this caliber. Mistakes in simple math.
 * Jaime Escalante: Maybe they all made the same mistakes because they all have the same teacher teaching them the same program. I taught them step by step, all the same way.
 * Dr. Pearson: Look, your students averaged fewer than four wrong on the multiple choice...where other schools average, what, 14 to 18 incorrect answers? And we found out that most of your kids finished the test with time to spare.
 * Jaime Escalante: They should be rewarded, not punished.
 * Dr. Ramirez: [looks away] Mr. Escalante, the Educational Testing Service...does not act capriciously. Every major university in the United States subscribes to our service.
 * Jaime Escalante: I would just like to see the proof of wrongdoing. I would like to see the tests.
 * Dr. Ramirez: [looks away] Let me reiterate, there has been no proof of wrongdoing here, only a suspicion of cheating.
 * Jaime Escalante: In this country one is innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.
 * Dr. Pearson: If you are so confident of your students' abilities, why not encourage them to retest?
 * Jaime Escalante: Why should I?
 * Dr. Pearson: If they don't, everyone will assume they cheated.
 * Jaime Escalante: Everyone will assume they cheated if they do. I want to see the test, please!
 * Dr. Ramirez: We're going around in circles here. Mr. Escalante, we are psychometricians, thorough to the point of boring. We're not out to get anybody.
 * Jaime Escalante: Not so fast. If this was a simple situation of two students cheating, that's one thing. But by making a blanket accusation, you're saying that there was a conspiracy. Every conspiracy has a leader. Who better qualify to be the leader than the teacher?
 * Dr. Ramirez: Mr. Escalante, nobody is accusing you here of anything.
 * Jaime Escalante: Not only me...the school, the parents, the entire community.
 * Dr. Ramirez: Scores this high, I guarantee you, will be questioned regardless of the school.
 * Jaime Escalante: Yes, but if this was Beverly Hills High School they wouldn't have sent you two to investigate.
 * Dr. Ramirez: [beat, looks away] Mr. Escalante, I hope you're not insinuating that we haven't earned our position here. 'Cause no one has given me a damn thing. I suggest...[points to Escalante] you're letting your emotions get the best of you.
 * Jaime Escalante: If no one has given you a damn thing, you should not be taking it away from my kids!
 * Dr. Ramirez: [raising his voice] The identity— [composes himself] of the students were concealed until it was determined that irregularities existed.
 * Jaime Escalante: Those scores would have never been questioned if my kids did not have Spanish surnames and come from barrio schools! You know that!
 * Dr. Ramirez: [beat, looks away] All right. We've been patiently explaining our position and listening to your complaints, but now...our conversation is over.
 * Jaime Escalante: There's something going on here that nobody is talking about! And you know what that is!
 * Dr. Ramirez: [beat, looks at Escalante] No one has the right to accuse me of racism. [shouting] NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO ACCUSE ME OF RACISM!
 * Jaime Escalante: I KNOW WELL HOW TO SPELL DISCRIMINATION! I thought this was over a long time ago. Are you doing it this to my kids?
 * Dr. Pearson: [looks away, composed] There are two kinds of racism, Mr. Escalante: Singling out a group because they're members of a minority, [looks at Escalante] and not singling out a group because they're members of a minority.
 * Jaime Escalante: My kids could teach you a thing or two, Johnny!
 * Dr. Pearson: I'm gonna call security if you can't control yourself, Escalante.
 * Jaime Escalante: Go for it! You didn't show me the test! You didn't prove anything! My kids didn't do anything! I'm gonna prove you guys wrong.
 * Dr. Ramirez: I hope you do, because it's not between you and me.
 * Jaime Escalante: Maybe not. But if I catch you on the street, I'm gonna kick the shit out of you.

 * (to a thug)
 * Jaime Escalante: You know the times tables?
 * Thug: I know the ones, the twos...the threes (shows him The Finger)
 * Jaime Escalante: (whispering) Ahhh The Fingerman ehh?. I am The Fingerman too; you know what I can do? I can multiply by nine. Three times nine? (starts counting with his fingers) one..two..three, what do you got? (shows fingers) twenty seven; six times nine, one..two..three..four..five..six, what do you got? (shows fingers again) fifty four; how about something more difficult? How about eight times nine? one..two..three..four..five..six..seven..eight, what do you got? (shows fingers a third time) seventy two.

 * Jaime Escalante: It will be harder. You can count on that. Just go step by step and play defense. Don't bring anything. No pencils, no erasers, nothing. Don't wear clothes with too many pockets. Don't let your eyes wander. No spacing out. Don't give them any opportunity to call you cheaters. You are the true dreamers. And dreams accomplish wonderful things. You're the best. Tomorrow you'll prove that you're the champs. Start with Chapter 1.

 * Jesse Molina: (on phone) Yes, uh, this is Mr. Molina calling again. I speak to Dr...Yes, I did. Oh you do? Yes! Uh, yes! I-I'd like that very much, uh. Uh, one moment. Yes, um, yes I'm aware of the scoring. Three is uh, uh a passing grade, five is a perfect grade. Yes, I'm ready. Go ahead. Diaz, Maria, four. Sinfuentes, Mark, five. Narvarra, Jose, four.
 * Jaime Escalante: I want the original scores reinstated.
 * Jesse Molina: Santos, Daniel, four. Escobar, Guadalupe, five. Camejo, Claudia, four. Ana Delgado, four. Garcia, Francisco, three. Fuentes, Rafaela, four. Javier Perales, five. Guitaro, Armando, four. Angel Guzman...five. Estelle, tell them to hold the meeting. We coming with great news. Um, Pernajas, Juliana, five. Hernandez, Alejandro, four. Castro, Monica, four.

 * Ending Text:
 * In 1982 Garfield H.S. had 18 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam.
 * In 1983 Garfield H.S. had 31 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam.
 * In 1984 Garfield H.S. had 63 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam.
 * In 1985 Garfield H.S. had 77 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam.
 * In 1986 Garfield H.S. had 78 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam.
 * In 1987 Garfield H.S. had 87 students pass the A.P. Calculus Exam.

Cast

 * Edward James Olmos - Jaime Escalante
 * Lou Diamond Phillips - Angel Guzman
 * Rosanna DeSoto - Fabiola Escalante
 * Andy García - Ramirez

Taglines

 * In 1982, a new troublemaker hit Garfield High... He was tough. He was wild. He was willing to fight. He was the new math teacher.
 * At a tough school one teacher and one class proved to America they could...Stand and Deliver.
 * A true story about a modern miracle.

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Talk:Wildfire (TV series)

JUnior:What's the deal with win? Kris: Where's molly Junior: I don't care Kris: well u should, because you have lipstick all over your face Junior: you know i dont,...let's talk

Junior: did she say he was an old friend? Mat: no, an old old, OLD friend JUnior: think theres a difference Matt: i hope so

Junior: I think i'm in love with you Kris:[pause]no...you can't be...you don't even know me Junior: But i will get to kno you...and i won't quit. We jack russels are a pretty determined breed

Junior:Kris, please don't go...i love you

Junior:I just thought i'd roadtest that porsche on every surface before i sold it Matt: Thats so stupid, theres so much mud back there Junior: I know Dani: Maybe you didn't think you could sell it, so you wrecked it Junior: Thanks Dr. Phil, but i need the money

Kerry: Do you mind if i take Kris from you JUnior: I do, but here you go, thanks for the dance [to Kirs]

Kerry: Am I interupting something? Junior: No we were... Kris: We were just... Junior: Ahh, i'll see you later

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David Hockney

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s.

1980s

 * When conventions are old, there's quite a good reason, it's not arbitrary. So Picasso discovered that, as it were, and I'm sure that for him that was probably almost as exciting as discovering Cubism, rediscovering conventions of ordinary appearance, one-point perspective or something. The purists think you're going backwards, but I know you'd go forward. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same. The Renaissance is not the same as ancient Greece; the Gothic revival is not the same as Gothic. It might look like that at first, but you can tell it's not. The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
 * From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981) ISBN 0-500-20291-5, p. 112

 * Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about, he thought of them as working drawings. I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there. And then when you come to use line, if you know what you're looking at, it's much easier to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution to what you want to depict.
 * From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 185

 * What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
 * From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 207

 * I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
 * "Portrait of the Artist as a Naughty Boy," interview with John Mortimer, In Character (1983) ISBN 0-14-006389-7 p. 97

 * In one gallery they actually had a notice which said "No Sketching." How obnoxious! I said, "How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?"
 * "Portrait of the Artist as a Naughty Boy," interview with John Mortimer, In Character (1983), p. 97

 * Television is becoming a collage — there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
 * Interview with Paul Joyce, New York, November 1985, quoted in Hockney on Photography, ed. Wendy Brown (1988)

 * If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
 * Interview with Paul Joyce, New York, (September 1986) quoted in Hockney on Photography, ed. Wendy Brown (1988)

1990s

 * We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
 * The Observer (London) (9 June 1991)

2000s

 * In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
 * Interview with Martin Gayford, "Hockney and the secrets of the Old Masters" The Telegraph (22 September 2001)

 * I usually only draw myself in down periods. I do, actually. I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, "Let's have a look in the mirror." When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?
 * Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney" The Telegraph (15 November 2001)

 * He [Hockney's father] hardly ever left Bradford. He was a member of CND and a socialist with a rather romantic and naive idea of what Soviet Russia was like, all cornfields and ballet. He would have gone mad for email because he was always sending letters to world leaders — Eisenhower, Mao, Stalin — telling them what was what. I think he imagined the Politburo would hold up his letter and say, "Hold everything, Kenneth Hockney has written again!"
 * Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney," The Telegraph, (15 November 2001)

 * It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
 * Interview with Nigel Farndale, "The talented Mr. Hockney," The Telegraph, (15 November 2001)

 * Interviewer: Love is certainly at the center of tolerance. They're intertwined, in a certain way. It helps you appreciate difference. Hockney: Yes. And that's probably why I do portraits. Everybody's different; they look different, and are different. Maybe deep, deep down we're all the same. But on the surface we seem to be different, don't we?
 * Interview with Lester Strong" 'Love is the only serious subject' " Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, (May/June 2004)

 * With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
 * Interview with Martin Gayford, " 'Photography is crumbling,' " The Telegraph, (18 May 2004)

 * I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
 * Interview with Marion Finlay, "Hockney on … politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places" FOREST Online (28 July 2004)

 * I'm aware it's now a hostile city [New York City]. I feel I'm in school, actually. There are signs everywhere you don't get in any other city. When you see all the smokers outside a building in New York, I just think the building is full of bad-mannered people who haven't thought, "We'll give them a little room to smoke in." That's what a reasonable person, a person with good manners, would do.
 * Interview with Marion Finlay, "Hockney on … politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places," FOREST Online (28 July 2004)

 * There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.
 * Interview with Marion Finlay, "Hockney on … politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places," FOREST Online (28 July 2004)

 * How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
 * Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people" The Sunday Times (London)

 * Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.
 * Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people," The Sunday Times (London) (2 October 2005)

 * The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication.
 * Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people," The Sunday Times (London) (2 October 2005)

 * All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
 * Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration" Boston Globe (26 February 2006)

 * How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
 * Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration," Boston Globe (26 February 2006)

 * Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
 * Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration," Boston Globe (26 February 2006)

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Moses

Moses מֹשֶׁה (Móshe Standard Hebrew, Mōšeh Tiberian Hebrew, موسى Mūsa Arabic) is prominent figure appearing in the Torah as the Hebrew leader, liberator, intercessor, lawgiver, and prophet.

Exodus

 * Quotations of Moses from the book Exodus (שמות, Shemot: "Names") from the Torah (תּוֹרָה) of the Jewish and Christian scriptures.

 * And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
 * 2:22 (KJV)
 * A sojourner have I become in a foreign land.
 * Everett Fox translation (1983)
 * I have been a stranger in a foreign land.
 * Jewish Publication Society translation (1985; 1999)

 * I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
 * 3:3 (KJV)

 * Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
 * 3:11 (KJV)

Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
 * Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?'''
 * 3:13 As recorded in 3:14-15 God responds: I AM THAT I AM (אהיה אשר אהיה Ehyeh asher ehyeh)

 * But for this very reason I have kept you in existence: to show you my power and to have my name declared in all the earth.
 * Jehovah, 9:16, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

 * O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
 * 4:10 (KJV)

 * Jehovah will rule as king forever and ever.
 * Exodus 15:18, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

 * What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
 * 17:4 (KJV)

 * Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
 * 20:20 (KJV)

 * I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
 * 33:13 (KJV)

 * If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
 * 23:4 (KJV)

Numbers

 * And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
 * 12:6-8

 * And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'Heal her now, O God, I beseech Thee.
 * 12:13

 * And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
 * 31:13–18, (KJV)

Deuteronomy
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
 * Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
 * 1:12 - 18 (KJV)

 * Ask now of the days that are past which were before thee, since the day God created man upon earth.
 * 4.32 (KJV) as quoted in  1, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 57

 * You yourselves have been shown these things so you will know that Jehovah is the true God; there is no other besides him. Know, therefore, on this day, and take it to heart that Jehovah is the true God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. There is no other.
 * 4:35, 39 (NWT)

 * Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart, And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
 * 6:4 - 9 (KJV)

Book of Moses

 * Quotations of Moses from the Book of Moses from the Pearl of Great Price of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints scriptures.

 * But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.
 * Book of Moses 1:11

Legend of the Jews

 * God gave you the Torah and wrought marvels for you, in order, through this and through the observances of the laws which He imposed upon you, to distinguish you before all other nations on earth. Consider, however, that whereas up to this time you have been ignorant, and your ignorance served as your excuse, you now know exactly what to do and what not to do. Until now you did not know that the righteous are to be rewarded and the godless to be punished in the future world, but now you know it. But as long as you will have a feeling of shame, you will not lightly commit sins.
 * cited in Louis Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews" Moses Chosen as Intermediator, Vol. II Chapter II, "The Legend of the Jews"

 * O Lord of the world! Let me see by what law Thou dost govern the world; for I see that many a just man is lucky, but many a one is not; many a wicked man is lucky, but many a one is not; many a rich man is happy, but many a one is not; many a poor man is happy, but many a one is not
 * cited in Louis Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews" The Inscrutable Ways Of The Lord, Vol. II Chapter II

 * Dost thou not know that I am the son of Amram, that came circumcised out of my mother's womb, that at the age of three days not only walked, but even talked with my parents, that took no milk from my mother until she received her pay from Pharaoh's daughter? When I was three months old, my wisdom was so great that I made prophecies and said, 'I shall hereafter from God's right hand receive the Torah.' At the age of six months I entered Pharaoh's palace and took off the crown from his head. When I was eighty years old, I brought the ten plagues upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians, slew their guardian angel, and led the sixty myriads of Israel out of Egypt. I then clove the sea into twelve parts, led Israel through the midst of them, and drowned the Egyptians in the same, and it was not thou that took their souls, but I. It was I, too, that turned the bitter water into sweet, that mounted into heaven, and there spoke face to face with God! I hewed out two tables of stone, upon which God at my request wrote the Torah. One hundred and twenty days and as many nights did I dwell in heaven, where I dwelled under the Throne of Glory; like an angel during all this time I ate no bread and drank no water. I conquered the inhabitants of heaven, made known there secrets to mankind, received the Torah from God's right hand, and at His command wrote six hundred and thirteen commandments, which I then taught to Israel. I furthermore waged war against the heroes of Sihon and Og, that had been created before the flood and were so tall that the waters of the flood did not even reach their ankles. In battle with them I bade sun and moon to stand still, and with my staff slew the two heroes. Where, perchance, is there in the world a mortal who could do all this? How darest thou, wicked one, presume to wish to seize my pure soul that was given me in holiness and purity by the Lord of holiness and purity? Thou hast no power to sit where I sit, or to stand where I stand. Get thee hence, I will not give thee my soul.
 * cited in Louis Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews" Samael Chastised by Moses, Vol. II Chapter VII,

The Ascension of Moses

 * In the last heaven Moses saw two angels, each five hundred parasangs in height, forged out of chains of black fire and red fire, the angels Af, "Anger," and Hemah, "Wrath," whom God created at the beginning of the world, to execute His will. Moses was disquieted when he looked upon them, but Metatron embraced him, and said, "Moses, Moses, thou favorite of God, fear not, and be not terrified," and Moses became calm. There was another angel in the seventh heaven, different in appearance from all the others, and of frightful mien. His height was so great, it would have taken five hundred years to cover a distance equal to it, and from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet he was studded with glaring eyes. "This one," said Metatron, addressing Moses, "is Samael, who takes the soul away from man." "Whither goes he now?" asked Moses, and Metatron replied, "To fetch the soul of Job the pious." Thereupon Moses prayed to God in these words, "O may it be Thy will, my God and the God of my fathers, not to let me fall into the hands of this angel."
 * Louis Ginzberg, The Ascension of Moses, Chapter IV, "The Legend of the Jews"

Quran

 * Moses said to him: "May I follow thee, on the footing that thou teach me something of the (Higher) Truth which thou hast been taught?" (The other) said: "Verily thou wilt not be able to have patience with me!" And how canst thou have patience about things about which thy understanding is not complete?" Moses said: "Thou wilt find me, if Allah so will, (truly) patient: nor shall I disobey thee in aught." He said: If you would follow me, then do not question me about any thing until I myself speak to you about it. So they both proceeded: until, when they were in the boat, he scuttled it. Said Moses: "Hast thou scuttled it in order to drown those in it? Truly a strange thing hast thou done!" He answered: "Did I not tell thee that thou canst have no patience with me?" Moses said: "Rebuke me not for forgetting, nor grieve me by raising difficulties in my case." Then they proceeded: until, when they met a young man, he slew him. Moses said: "Hast thou slain an innocent person who had slain none? Truly a foul (unheard of) thing hast thou done!" He answered: "Did I not tell thee that thou canst have no patience with me? (Moses) said: "If ever I ask thee about anything after this, keep me not in thy company: then wouldst thou have received (full) excuse from my side." Then they proceeded: until, when they came to the inhabitants of a town, they asked them for food, but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall on the point of falling down, but he set it up straight. (Moses) said: "If thou hadst wished, surely thou couldst have exacted some recompense for it!" He answered: "This is the parting between me and thee: now will I tell thee the interpretation of (those things) over which thou wast unable to hold patience. "As for the boat, it belonged to certain men in dire want: they plied on the water: I but wished to render it unserviceable, for there was after them a certain king who seized on every boat by force. "As for the youth, his parents were people of Faith, and we feared that he would grieve them by obstinate rebellion and ingratitude (to Allah and man). So we desired that their Lord would give them in exchange (a son) better in purity (of conduct) and closer in affection. As for the wall, it belonged to two youths, orphans, in the Town; there was, beneath it, a buried treasure, to which they were entitled: their father had been a righteous man: So thy Lord desired that they should attain their age of full strength and get out their treasure - a mercy (and favour) from thy Lord. I did it not of my own accord. Such is the interpretation of (those things) over which thou wast unable to hold patience."
 * Quran, sura 18:66-18:82; as translated by, Qur'an, the Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary, 1939-1940.

 * And mention in the Book, Moses. Indeed, he was chosen, and he was a messenger and a prophet. And We called him from the side of the mount at [his] right and brought him near, confiding [to him]. And We gave him out of Our mercy his brother Aaron as a prophet.
 * Quran, Surah 19:51-53

 * And Pharaoh's wife said: A refreshment of the eye to me and to thee – slay him not; maybe he will be useful to us, or we may take him for a son. And they perceived not.
 * Quran, Surah 28 9

Quotes about Moses

 * Alphabetized by author or source

 * my first childhood memory of the name Moses came from hearing Paul Robeson singing of him, in the unmistakable deep bass that was his voice alone: "Go down Moses/Way down in Egypt land/Tell ol' Pharaoh/To let my people go"
 * Bettina Aptheker Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989)

 * The supreme law-giver, who received from God that remarkable code upon which the religious, moral, and social life of the nation was so securely founded… [and] one of the greatest human beings with the most decisive leap forward ever discernable in the human story.
 * Winston Churchill (November 8, 1931), "Moses", Sunday Chronicle, National Churchill Museum, Thoughts, 205.

 * And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. … And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
 * Deuteronomy 34 (KJV)

 * I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust. Who can doubt that Moses was a better leader of humanity than Machiavelli?
 * Albert Einstein, in "Moral Decay" (1937) in Out of My Later Years (1950)

 * Even the man Moses, the meekest of men, was wrathful sometimes.
 * George Eliot, Adam Bede, Ch. 50

 * Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance", in Essays and English Traits (1841)

 * And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
 * Exodus 2:10 (KJV)

 * Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?
 * Exodus 2:14 (KJV)

 * And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
 * Exodus 34:29-30 (KJV)

 * In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to have the fact of God's help constantly before him. Since his sons would be with him, and he would often address them or call them by name, he would remember his gratitude to God.
 *  1, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 89

 * Moses, when tending Jethro's flock in the wilderness, proved himself a tender shepherd. He was not above carrying a little lamb, becoming footsore in its search for water, on his shoulder back to the flock. God said, 'This tender shepherd of man's flock shall be the shepherd of my own flock.'
 * Moses, leading Jethro's flock into the wilderness, was typical of his leading God's flock in the wilderness. Sheltering, feeding, and getting drink for the sheep were the forerunners of his obtaining for Israel the sheltering protection of the pillars of fire and cloud, and a supply of manna, quails, and water in the wilderness.
 *  2, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 91

 * I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
 * The Lord in Deuteronomy 9:13-14 (KJV)

 * By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
 * The Epistle to the Hebrews 11:24-27 (KJV)

 * The divine authority of Moses and the prophets was admitted, and even established, as the firmest basis of Christianity.
 * Edward Gibbon, in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2'' (1880) p. 78

 * Who through deserts and wanderings guided the emigrant nations. Yea, I could even believe I were speaking with Joshua or Moses.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea (1797)

 * the greatest leaders the world has known were never charismatic or dependent on their public's falling in love with them. Moses, the greatest leader of all generations, who led the Hebrews out of Egypt, wandered with them in the desert for forty years, made them into a nation, and gave them the Torah, the law whose principles bind us to this very day, was not a charismatic personality. He was the most humble of men, a stutterer, inelegant of speech, who needed an interpreter; he was a man with whom the people were most certainly not enthralled, calling him "that man Moses," complaining without cease, barely accepting his rule over them.
 * Shulamith Hareven "Against Charisma" in The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

 * Here he had studied and written; here gone through fast and vigil, and come forth half alive; here striven to pray; here borne a hundred thousand agonies! There was the Bible, in its rich old Hebrew, with Moses and the Prophets speaking to him, and God’s voice through all!
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Ch. XX

 * After the establishment of settled life in Egypt in early times, which took place, according to the mythical account, in the period of the gods and heroes, the first... to persuade the multitudes to use written laws was Mneves [Moses], a man not only great of soul but also in his life the most public-spirited of all lawgivers whose names are recorded.
 * Hecateus of Abdera as quoted by Droge, Arthur J (1989), Homer or Moses?: Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture, Mohr Siebeck.

 * The true God may be personated. As He was, first, by Moses, who governed the Israelites, that were not his, but God’s people, not in his own name, with hoc dicit Moses, but in God’s name, with hoc dicit Dominus.
 * Thomas Hobbes, Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, Ch. XVI : Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated

 * The shamir was the seventh of the ten marvels created in the evening twilight of the first Friday (Ab. v. 6; comp. Pes. 54a; Sifre, Deut. 355; Mek., Beshallaḥ, 5 [ed. Weiss, p. 59b; ed. Friedmann, p. 51a]), and it was followed, significantly enough, by the creation of writing, the stylus, and the two tables of stone. Its size was that of a grain of barley; it was created after the six days of creation. Nothing was sufficiently hard to withstand it; when it was placed on stones they split in the manner in which the leaves of a book open; and iron was broken by its mere presence. The shamir was wrapped for preservation in spongy balls of wool and laid in a leaden box filled with barley bran.
 * With the help of this stone Moses engraved the names of the twelve tribes on the breastplate of the high priest, first writing on the stones with ink and then holding the shamir over them, whereupon the writing sank into the stones.
 * Jewish Encyclopedia, Shamir

 * Whoever speaks of his own originality is seeking his own glory; but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him, this one is true and there is no unrighteousness in him. Moses gave you the Law, did he not? But not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?” The crowd answered: “You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?” In answer Jesus said to them: “One deed I performed, and you are all surprised.
 * Jesus, Gospel of John 7:18-21, NWT

 * What is this? Eighth and ninth book of Moses. Secret of all secrets. Seal of King David.
 * James Joyce, Ulysses, 10.844

 * Whitman, the one man breaking a way ahead. Whitman, the one pioneer. And only Whitman. No English pioneers, no French. . . The same in America. . . Whitman, like a strange, modern, American Moses.
 * D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) p. 179

 * And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
 * Abraham in Gospel of Luke 16:31

 * Looking first to those who have become Princes by their merit, and not by their good fortune, I say that the most excellent among them were Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and the like … And if their actions and the particular institutions of which they were the authors be studied, they will be found not to differ from those of Moses, instructed though he was by so great a teacher.
 * Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Ch. VI

 * Riley: Yo, Huey, look at this! You talk about how bad the NRA is, well check out who’s down… It’s that Moses guy from that movie –
 * Huey: First of all, Moses isn’t just a character in a movie, second, he wasn’t white, third … I’ll check the old testament, but I’m pretty sure Moses wasn’t packin’ heat.

 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (6/12/2000).

 * Let us therefore be more considerate builders, more wise in spiritual architecture, when great reformation is expected. For now the time seems come, wherein Moses the great prophet may sit in heaven rejoicing to see that memorable and glorious wish of his fulfilled, when not only our seventy elders, but all the Lord’s people are become prophets.
 * John Milton, Areopagitica

 * The next remove must be to the study of politics; to know the beginning, end, and reasons of political societies; … After this they are to dive into the ground of law and legal justice; delivered first, and with best warrant by Moses.
 * John Milton, Tractate on Education

 * I do not understand the request of Moses, 'Show me thy glory,' but if he were here . . . after allowing him time to drink the glories of flower, mountain, and sky, I would ask him how they compared with those of the Valley of the Nile . . . and I would inquire how he had the conscience to ask for more glory, when such oceans and atmospheres were about him.
 * John Muir, John of the Mountains : The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (1938) edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, p. 24

 * Moses, I believe, was too good a judge of such subjects to put his name to that account. He had been educated among The Egyptians, who were a people as well skilled in science, and particularly in astronomy, as any people of their day; and the silence and caution that Moses observes in not authenticating the account, is a good negative evidence that he neither told it nor believed it The case is, that every nation of people has been world-makers, and the Israelites had as much right to set up the trade of world-making as any of the rest; and as Moses was not an Israelite, he might not choose to contradict the tradition..
 * Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Part First (1793), Sect. IV

 * It is somewhat curious that the three persons whose names are the most universally recorded were of very obscure parentage. Moses was a foundling; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.
 * Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Part First (1793), Ch. VII

 * Jacob’s descendants, the Israelites, find their way to Egypt and become too numerous for the Pharaoh’s liking, so he enslaves them and orders that all the boys be killed at birth. Moses escapes the mass infanticide and grows up to challenge the Pharaoh to let his people go. God, who is omnipotent, could have softened Pharaoh’s heart, but he hardens it instead, which gives him a reason to afflict every Egyptian with painful boils and other miseries before killing every one of their firstborn sons. (The word Passover alludes to the executioner angel’s passing over the households with Israelite firstborns.) God follows this massacre with another one when he drowns the Egyptian army as they pursue the Israelites across the Red Sea. The Israelites assemble at Mount Sinai and hear the Ten Commandments, the great moral code that outlaws engraved images and the coveting of livestock but gives a pass to slavery, rape, torture, mutilation, and genocide of neighboring tribes. The Israelites become impatient while waiting for Moses to return with an expanded set of laws, which will prescribe the death penalty for blasphemy, homosexuality, adultery, talking back to parents, and working on the Sabbath. To pass the time, they worship a statue of a calf, for which the punishment turns out to be, you guessed it, death. Following orders from God, Moses and his brother Aaron kill three thousand of their companions.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)

 * The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate families. Warlords slaughter civilians indiscriminately, including the children. Women are bought, sold, and plundered like sex toys. And Yahweh tortures and massacres people by the hundreds of thousands for trivial disobedience or for no reason at all. These atrocities are neither isolated nor obscure. They implicate all the major characters of the Old Testament, the ones that Sunday-school children draw with crayons. And they fall into a continuous plotline that stretches for millennia, from Adam and Eve through Noah, the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, Saul, David, Solomon, and beyond. According to the biblical scholar Raymund Schwager, the Hebrew Bible “contains over six hundred passages that explicitly talk about nations, kings, or individuals attacking, destroying, and killing others. . . . Aside from the approximately one thousand verses in which Yahweh himself appears as the direct executioner of violent punishments, and the many texts in which the Lord delivers the criminal to the punisher’s sword, in over one hundred other passages Yahweh expressly gives the command to kill people.” Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist who keeps a database with the estimated death tolls of history’s major wars, massacres, and genocides, counts about 1.2 million deaths from mass killing that are specifically enumerated in the Bible. (He excludes the half million casualties in the war between Judah and Israel described in 2 Chronicles 13 because he considers the body count historically implausible.) The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total. The good news, of course, is that most of it never happened. Not only is there no evidence that Yahweh inundated the planet and incinerated its cities, but the patriarchs, exodus, conquest, and Jewish empire are almost certainly fictions. Historians have found no mention in Egyptian writings of the departure of a million slaves (which could hardly have escaped the Egyptians’ notice); nor have archaeologists found evidence in the ruins of Jericho or neighboring cities of a sacking around 1200 BCE. And if there was a Davidic empire stretching from the Euphrates to the Red Sea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, no one else at the time seemed to have noticed it.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)

 * Now let us imagine the situation of Moses if he had not resisted evil and had allowed the worst and crudest elements to destroy the best—the one which was able to assimilate the ideas of morality and order. What would have happened to his task? His duty as a leader and an earthly lawgiver was to protect his people and to maintain order. Therefore, the resistance to evil was basically necessary. All teachings of antiquity declare active resistance to evil. Thus, the well-known sage and lawgiver of China, Confucius, used to say, "God for good, but for evil—justice."
 * Helena Roerich, Letters of Helena Roerich Volume I: 1929-1935  (26 May 1934)

 * However weak, foolish, and even criminal parents may be, a child ought to honour them as Moses commanded, for the injunction is, and should be, entirely unconditional.
 * Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), Catherine Furze (1893), Ch. 13

 * It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
 * Huston Smith, The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions (1991), p. 271

 * An Egyptian priest named Moses, who possessed a portion of the country called the Lower Egypt, being dissatisfied with the established institutions there, left it and came to Judaea with a large body of people who worshipped the Divinity. He declared and taught that the Egyptians and Africans entertained erroneous sentiments, in representing the Divinity under the likeness of wild beasts and cattle of the field; that the Greeks also were in error in making images of their gods after the human form. For God [said he] may be this one thing which encompasses us all, land and sea, which we call heaven, or the universe, or the nature of things.... By such doctrine Moses persuaded a large body of right-minded persons to accompany him to the place where Jerusalem now stands..
 * Strabo, The Geography, XVI 35, 36, Translated by H.C. Hamilton and W. Falconer, pp. 177–78,

 * A motley crowd was thus collected and abandoned in the desert. While all the other outcasts lay idly lamenting, one of them, named Moses, advised them not to look for help to gods or men, since both had deserted them, but to trust rather in themselves, and accept as divine the guidance of the first being, by whose aid they should get out of their present plight.
 * Tacitus, The Histories, Volume 2, Book V. Chapters 5, 6 p. 208.

on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
 * Life is not hurrying
 * R. S. Thomas, in "The Bright Field" in Laboratories of the Spirit (1975), p. 60

 * After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him because I don't take no stock in dead people.
 * Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch. I

 * While Moses on the top of Mount Sinai conversed with God, the rebellious people on the plain below adored the golden calf. Notwithstanding my youth, my spirit has no fears of falling into a like rebelliousness. I might commune with God in full security, if the enemy did not come to attack me in the sanctuary itself.
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John C. "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor and business magnate. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group and is credited with inventing the index fund.

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 * The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.
 * Princeton thesis, 1951

 * Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors’ to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"… all of us.
 * Speech to Financial Analysts of Philadelphia, February 15, 2001

 * The courage to press on regardless—regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us—is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.
 * Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, April 16, 2001

 * Beating the market is a zero-sum game for investors. Money managers, as a group, must provide the market return... But that return comes only before their exorbitant fees, operating expenses, and portfolio turnover costs are deducted. The zero-sum game before costs becomes a loser’s game after costs.
 * Gilbert Lecture, Princeton University, Feb 21, 2013

Quotes about Bogle

 * … Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool’s game.     There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good – though in the short run, it’s difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors – large and small – should instead read Jack Bogle’s The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.
 * Warren Buffett,

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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (in Pashto خان عبد) الغفار خان)) (date of Birth 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Badshah Khan ("King Khan") was a pashtun non-violent activist. He is also noted for his association with Mahatma Gandhi, which earned him the name "Frontier Gandhi". He led his non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar movement against the British Raj in the 1930s and 1940s. Post partition he fought for state/provincial rights as well as the eventual unification of Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand line.

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 * [There is] ‘an open conspiracy with the Muslim League to bathe the province in blood’... ‘he (the Governor) wanted to hand over power to the Muslim League, whose followers have been indulging in the murder of innocent men, women and children.’ .... “if the Governor wants he can stop all lawlessness in the Frontier in two days, but how can he when he himself is guiding the violent and communal League movement?”
 * Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, in a statement on May 6, 1947 accusing the Frontier Governor Sir Olaf Caroe. quoted in Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus inthe Punjab, 1947. Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.   p. 120

 * Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.
 * Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, A Man to Match his Mountains: Bacha Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam (Nilgiri Press, Petaluma, 1984), p. 25.

 * Whenever I had an opportunity to address the people in different parts of our province, I told them clearly that indeed, I was of the opinion that India should not be divided because today in India we have witnessed the result. Thousands and thousands of young and old, children, men, and women were massacred and ruined. But now that the division is an accomplished fact, the dispute is over. " I delivered many speeches against the division of India, but the question is: has anybody listened to me? You may hold any opinion about me, but I am not a man of destruction but of construction. If you study my life, you will find that I devoted it to the welfare of our country. We have proclaimed that if the Government of Pakistan would work for our people and our country the Khudai Khidmatgars would be with them. I repeat that I am not for the destruction of Pakistan. In destruction lies no good. "Neither Hindus nor Muslims, nor the Frontier, not Punjab, Bengal or Sindh stands to gain from it. There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destruction. If any constructive programme is before you, if you want to do something constructive for our people, not in theory, but in practice, I declare before this House that I and my people are at your service... (February 1948)
 * Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: A True Servant of Humanity by Girdhari Lal Puri pp -188 ? 190

 * My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.
 * Quoted from the Progressive February 2002

 * There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.
 * Author : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
 * Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).

 * “It is my inmost conviction,” Badshah Khan said, “that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat” – selfless service, faith, and love.
 * Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).

 * Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.
 * Zareef, Adil Saturday, (January 28, 2006) The Demise of a Dream. The Daily Times

 * "In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’."
 * p 245 (writing in reference to Dr. Khan Sahibs support for the One Unit.
 * Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia
 * by Victoria Schofield

 * I have one great desire.

I want to rescue these gentle, brave, patriotic people from the tyranny of the foreigners who have disgraced and dishonored them.

I want to create for them a world of freedom, where they can live in peace, where they can laugh and be happy.

I want to kiss the ground where their ruined homes once stood, before they were destroyed by savage strangers.

I want to take a broom and sweep the alleys and the lanes, and I want to clean their houses with my own hands.

I want to wash the stains of blood from their garments.

I want to show the world how beautiful they are, these people from the hills, and then I wan to proclaim: “Show me, if you can, any gentler, more courteous, more cultured people than these.”

 * BADSHAH KHAN [http://anp.org.pk/BadshahKahn.htm Badshah Khan A man to match his mountains
 * EKNATH EASWARAN]

Famous speeches
“Where is the democracy that British gave us? Ayub Khan robbed us of it. And what did he give us in return ? He gave us his own version of democracy which does not even deserve the name of democracy.

Look at our financial position, look at our language, culture, society. He has taken it all. Look at our schools, our colleges, the education and instruction of our children. And look at his manners. I am always surprised at these people who keep telling us:”We are making such progress. Pakistan has a target and we are fast approaching it.” Actually there are several jokes in circulation about that. I will tell you one. It goes like this:

A woman said to her husband, warmly embracing him: “Darling, I want a diamond nose-ornament!” The husband replied: “Actually I was considering how I could cut off your nose altogether.”

All we are asking is for a nose ornament, it does not even have to be diamond. But Pakistan is thinking how they can cut off our nose altogether.”“I want you and the Pakistani leaders to take a look at the misery which our Balochi brothers are living in. They have been asking and crying and shouting for their rights for the last twenty years. When nobody listened to them they had no choice but to take up arms. You all know what happened to them, the tyranny they had to suffer, the cruelties that were committed. Now Pakistan has found that the question cannot be solved by cruelty and oppression, and these poor people are told; Come on, let us sit down together and settle our dispute. It did not take me long to find out that in the heart of Pakistan there is no room for any Baluchi or Sindhi or Bengali or Pakhtun. Therefore I want my Baluchi brothers to know that the Sindhis and the Pakhtuns are just as oppressed and that our aim and objectives are the same. Pakistan's real design will be clear if you look at Punjab. The Punjab leaders met and had discussions and consultations with their Jirga. They said “look at the Pakhtuns, they are all very rich. They have electricity you know. Then they said; look at the Sindhis, they have so much land. About the Baluchis they said, they have in their country wealth of mineral resources and gas.

Brothers, all this is trickery and they are only saying all this because they want it for themselves: the electricity of Pathans, the land of Sindhis and the minerals of Baluchis. Then they have this idea of “one unit”. Work it out for yourselves, is this in harmony with Islamic belief? Does Islam tell you to rob one brother of electricity, another brother of his fertile land and take possessions of the mines and minerals of another?

And you, ignorant and misguided Pathans, you do not even stop to think whether this is Islam or not, you just swallow anything you are told.”
 * [Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan by Gayatri Srinivasan http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume11/gayatri.html]

One time the Pakistani Minister of Foreign affairs Manzur Qadir had come to see him over a statement made by Russian Prime Minister Khrushchev about Pakhtuns.

“He talked for four hours. First about democracy. He said, “Because here in Pakistan democracy did not work, we do not give the people democracy anymore”

I asked him, “Where was this democracy in the first place ? You never had democracy, so how do you know whether it works or not? In India they have had three or four elections. When did you last have elections in Pakistan? Did you ever? Have you ever asked the people what kind of government they want ?”
 * [Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan by Gayatri Srinivasan http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume11/gayatri.html]

 * Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.
 * As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer

Quotes about Khan

 * It seems to me that in spite of his close contact with Gandhi, Badshah Khan failed to understand the wisdom of his great leader. When Gandhi thought of the problems of the Hindus he could not do so without also thinking of the interests of the Muslims; when he thought of the problems of India, he could not forget those of the world. With Badshah Khan it is the other way round. When he thinks of the Hindus, he cannot forget that he is a Muslim - a Khudai Khidmatgar, no doubt, but a Muslim nonetheless; when he thinks of the Muslims, he cannot forget that he is a Pathan.
 * Hamid Dalwai's "Muslim Politics in Secular India

 * Unfortunately, Muslim society in India has not yet produced its own Gandhi. Indeed, it will not be able to do so till the ground is prepared by a generation of men who subject the religion and culture of the Muslims to ruthless scrutiny in the light of modern values.  Badshah Khan is a great and good Muslim, and also a follower of Gandhi.  But he is no Gandhi himself.  Therein lies the cause of his failure.
 * Hamid Dalwai's "Muslim Politics in Secular India

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Why do all of the "edit" links actually point to the subsequent section? For example, clicking on the "edit" button that looks like it's associated with Act II, Scene I takes you to the edit page for Act II, Scene II.
 * The edit function for Act II, Scene II is on the same line as the section title "Act II, Scene II." Edit functions are designed to be on the same lines as the titles of the sections they edit.  - InvisibleSun 18:29, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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Nigel Short

Nigel Short (born June 1, 1965) is a British chess grandmaster and chess writer.

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 * Rublevsky is not a sexy player.
 * on Sergei Rublevsky in his Guardian column.

He is warned by FIDE
 * They could start by removing some personnel: the head-butting, move-retracting, tournament-rigging, Zurab Azmaiparashvili for instance. He is a disgrace to the organisation. But never let it be said that he is a dunderhead.
 * When asked how the World Chess Federation FIDE could be improved (Nigel Short on FIDE: 'Either they don't know or they don't care'). Short had not long before been warned by the FIDE Ethics Commission for calling Azmaiparashvili a "dunderhead".

 * It is curious that it is far easier to maintain a high "manners" rating if, like Kasparov, you simply don't speak to anyone. I still have much to learn from the great man...
 * From his current personal profile at ChessBase Internet server, where he uses to play blitz. (08/05/2008)

 * A friend of mine recently joked that his mobile phone will beat Magnus Carlsen. I said, ‘What are you talking about? My microwave could beat Magnus Carlsen.'
 * Washington Post (April 14, 2015)

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User:CrestvilIe

Go to for a fight and a pint.

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User talk:CrestvilIe

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
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 * The above posting is actually from this user itself, who forged my signature. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:08, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

STOP
STOP VANDALIZING

- InvisibleSun 22:02, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

This person isn't me. His page links to my wikipedia account but it isn't me, etc. etc. It's boring now.--Crestville 00:17, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * For the record, this user has engaged not only in vandalism, but also signature forging and user impersonation. (Note the odd spelling, CrestvilIe, which looks identical to Crestville in many sans-serif fonts, like the one used for the default Monobook style for Wikiquote.) Based on coordinated activity against the latter user on Wikipedia, under the name w:User:Wazzawazzawaz, combined with a similar 2-user coordinated pattern (1 feigned newbie, 1 vandal) from our own User:Wazzawazzawaz, it is suspected that these are the same editor. I have therefore made this block indefinite. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:08, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Empire Records

Quotes

 * Eddie: This music is the glue of the world, Mark. It's what holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless.

 * Mark: Hey, did you hear about Lucas?
 * Eddie: Hey Lucas man, I hear you went to Vegas and you married a mobster's wife and now you've got a hit on you and stuff. Is that true?
 * Lucas: Not entirely true.
 * Eddie: Well outlaw man, we salute you.
 * Lucas: Thank you, Eddie.
 * Eddie: No problem.

 * AJ: Mark, listening to this crap is guaranteed to make you sterile.
 * Mark: Maybe I wanna be sterile.

I swear you get smarter the shorter your skirt gets.

I have to tell Corey I love her by 1:37.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Kai Parkinson

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. — Jeffq 00:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Kai Parkinson
Non-notable vanity page. Google only turns up 14 hits on the name, and the username of the page's creator is "Kparkinson". I've posted vanity-warn on their talk page. —LrdChaos 17:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 Deletes; no dissent; no response from creator). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos 17:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 17:53, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 21:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 05:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Koweja 15:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I got 6 unique Google hits, all of them in Greek, and only two (related) ones from a potentially reliable source. If this is an English translation of a Greek quote from the person or persons in those pages, they don't seem notable enough even for el:Wikiquote. Either way, we need evidence of notability. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Andrew lafree

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. — Jeffq 00:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Andrew lafree
Notability not demonstrated. - InvisibleSun 20:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 05:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Koweja 15:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Only four hits on Google (all from the oxy.edu domain), no Wikipedia page. —LrdChaos 16:10, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sole contribution of inanely common quote from likely university student who can't follow English capitalization rules, the most common form of vanity page. These people can't even be unique, let alone notable. Makes one fear for the state of higher education. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 19:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.