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Li Bai

Li Bai (701–762), also known as Li Po, was a Chinese poet living during the Tang Dynasty. Called the Poet Immortal, Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history.

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舉杯邀明月，對影成三人. 月既不解飲，影徒隨我身. 暫伴月將影，行樂須及春. 我歌月徘徊，我舞影零亂. 醒時同交歡，醉後各分散. 永結無情遊，相期邈雲漢. I drink alone, for no friend is near. Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon, For he, with my shadow, will make three men. The moon, alas, is no drinker of wine; Listless, my shadow creeps about at my side. Yet with the moon as friend and the shadow as slave I must make merry before the Spring is spent. To the songs I sing the moon flickers her beams; In the dance I weave my shadow tangles and breaks. While we were sober, three shared the fun; Now we are drunk, each goes his way. May we long share our odd, inanimate feast, And meet at last on the Cloudy River of the sky. I drank alone. There was no one with me— Till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon To bring me my shadow and make us three. Alas, the moon was unable to drink And my shadow tagged me vacantly; But still for a while I had these friends To cheer me through the end of spring... I sang. The moon encouraged me. I danced. My shadow tumbled after. As long as I knew, we were boon companions. And then I was drunk, and we lost one another. ...Shall goodwill ever be secure? I watch the long road of the River of Stars.
 * 花間一壺酒，獨酌無相親.
 * A cup of wine, under the flowering trees;
 * "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" (月下獨酌), one of Li Bai's best-known poems, as translated by Arthur Waley in More Translations From the Chinese (1919)
 * Variant translation:
 * From a pot of wine among the flowers
 * "Drinking Alone with the Moon" (trans. Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu)

Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.
 * 飛流直下三千尺，疑是銀河落九天.
 * Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet,
 * "Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu" (望庐山瀑布), trans. Burton Watson

不敢高声语，恐惊天上人. Here I can touch the stars with my hand. I dare not speak aloud in the silence For fear of disturbing the dwellers of Heaven.
 * 危楼高百尺，手可摘星辰.
 * Here it is night: I stay at the Summit Temple.
 * "The Summit Temple" (夜宿山寺), in The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1947), p. 173

舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉. Now, I think the ground has a frost covering. I raise my head … to view the bright moon, Then I lower my head … and I think of home. Like frost upon the ground. I look up to the mountain moon, Look down and think of home.
 * 床前明月光，疑是地上霜.
 * Before bed, the bright moon was shining.
 * "Thoughts on a Still Night" (静夜思); in Jean Ward's Li T'ai-po: Remembered (2008), p. 99
 * Variant translation:
 * Before my bed the moonlight glitters
 * "Quiet Night Thought", in Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations (2000), p. 723

Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
 * 對酒不覺暝，落花盈我衣.
 * I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
 * "Self-Abandonment" (自遣), as translated by Arthur Waley (1919)

若非群玉山头见，会向瑶台月下逢. Her balcony, glimmering with the bright spring dew, Is either the tip of earth's Jade Mountain, Or a moon-edged roof of paradise.
 * 云想衣裳花想容，春风拂槛露华浓.
 * Her robe is a cloud, her face a flower;
 * "A Song Of Pure Happiness I" (清平调之一)

Entering the ocean, never to return.
 * 君不见，黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回.
 * See how the Yellow River's waters move out of heaven,
 * "Bringing In The Wine" (將進酒)

桃花流水窅然去，別有天地非人間.
 * 問余何意棲碧山，笑而不答心自閒.
 * You ask me why do I dwell in these green mountains, But I smile without a reply, only an easy mind. The river flows away silently, bearing the fallen peach blossoms, Here is another world, but not the world of men.
 * "Question and Answer in the Mountain"

To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.
 * From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawn
 * [33] "Through the Yangzi Gorges"

A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other— Only the mountain and I. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. A single cloud, alone, calmly drifts on. Never tired of looking at each other— Only the Ching-t'ing Mountain and me.
 * All the birds have flown up and gone;
 * [38] "Alone Looking at the Mountain"
 * Variant translations:
 * The birds have vanished down the sky.
 * "Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain", trans. Sam Hamill
 * Flocks of birds fly high and vanish;
 * "Sitting Alone in Ching-t'ing Mountain", trans. Irving Y. Lo

五月西施采，人看隘若耶. 回舟不待月，归去越王家. The lotus lilies in full blossom teem. In fifth moon Xi Shi gathers them with smiles, Watchers o'erwhelm the bank of Yuoye Stream. Her boat turns back without waiting moonrise To royal house amid amorous sighs.
 * 镜湖三百里，菡萏发荷花.
 * On Mirror Lake outspread for miles and miles,
 * Ballads Of Four Seasons: Summer (子夜四时歌 夏歌)

Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.
 * 蜀道之难，难于上青天！
 * Oh, but it is high and very dangerous!
 * "Hard Roads In Shu" (蜀道难)

And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.
 * 长风破浪会有时， 直挂云帆济沧海.
 * I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves,
 * "The Hard Road" (行路難) I, trans. Witter Bynner

两岸猿声啼不住，轻舟已过万重山. I've sailed a thousand li through Canyons in a day. With the monkeys' adieus the riverbanks are loud, My skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away.
 * 朝辞白帝彩云间，千里江陵一日还.
 * Leaving at dawn the White Emperor crowned with cloud,
 * "Leaving the White Emperor Town for Jiangling", as translated by Xu Yuanchong in 300 Tang Poems: A New Translation, p. 92

Do not care if your fame will not survive!
 * 且樂生前一杯酒，何須身後千載名.
 * Enjoy a cup of wine while you're alive!
 * "Hard Is the Way of the World" III, trans. Witter Bynner

Why toil to no avail?
 * 處世若大夢，胡爲勞其生？
 * Since life is but a dream,
 * "A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime on Rising From a Drunken Slumber" (c. 750), in A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems (1976), p. 115
 * Variant translation by Arthur Waley: "Life in the World is but a big dream; I will not spoil it by any labour or care."

Quotes about Li

 * Li Po's style is swift, yet never careless; lively, yet never informal. But his intellectual outlook was low and sordid. In nine poems out of ten he deals with nothing but wine or women.
 * Wang Anshi, as quoted in Arthur Waley's The Poet Li Po (1919)

 * The world acclaims Li Po as its master poet. I grant that his works show unparalleled talent and originality, but not one in ten contains any moral reflection or deeper meaning.
 * Po Chü-i (about A.D. 816), as quoted in Arthur Waley's The Poet Li Po (1919)

Drunk in the capital, he'd lie in shops of wine. Even imperial summons proudly he'd decline, Saying immortals could not leave the drink divine. He sleeps in an inn of Ch'angan city. The Emperor sent for him and he'd not move, Saying, "I'm the God of Wine, Your Majesty!" Who slept in the taverns of the market of Chang'an. The Son of Heaven summoned him, and he couldn't stagger on the boat. Said, "Your servant is indeed an immortal in his wine."
 * Li Bai could turn sweet nectar into verses fine.
 * Du Fu, "Eight Immortal Drinkers", as translated by Yuanchong Xu in Songs of the Immortals (1994), p. xxxiv
 * Variant translations:
 * With a jar of wine, Li makes a hundred poems,
 * Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1935), p. 255
 * A hundred poems per gallon of wine—that's Li Bo,
 * Stephen Owen, "Eight Drinking Immortals", in Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations (2000), p. 721

"Tu Fu is the acknowledged king of poets," said I, "and he is taken by most people as their model. Why do you prefer Li Po?" "Of course," said she, "as for perfection of form and maturity of thought, Tu is the undisputed master, but Li Po's poems have the wayward charm of a nymph. His lines come naturally like falling flowers and flowing water, and are so much lovelier for their spontaneity. I am not saying that Tu is second to Li; only personally I feel, not that I love Tu less, but that I love Li more."
 * "Tu's poems," she said, "are known for their workmanship and artistic refinement, while Li's poems are known for their freedom and naturalness of expression. I prefer the vivacity of Li Po to the severity of Tu Fu."
 * Shen Fu, Six Chapters of a Floating Life (1809), Ch. 1: 'Wedded Bliss' (trans. Lin Yutang)

 * Li Po is China's prince of vagabond poets, with his drink, his dread of officialdom, his companionship with the moon, his love of high mountain scenery, and his constant aspiration: "Oh, could I but hold a celestial sword / And stab a whale across the seas!" Li Po's romanticism ended finally in his death from reaching for the shadow of the moon in the water in a drunken fit and falling overboard. Good, infinitely good, that the staid and apparently unfeeling Chinese could sometimes reach for the shadow of the moon and die such a poetic death!
 * Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1935), pp. 255–256

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John Keel

John A. Keel (born March 25, 1930) is a ufologist, parapsychologist, author, and journalist currently residing in New York, USA.

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 * This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and seas with monsters.
 * The Mothman Prophecies (1976)

 * I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.

 * The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job.
 * Disneyland of the Gods

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This page seems to be more than two years old. Rrupo 20:53, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, the portal has been inactive for years and the time-sensitive components are quite outdated. Perhaps it should be cleaned out or marked as "historical." ~ Ningauble 22:27, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The 2008 latest news sections etc certainly need to go but someone reasonably good at formatting needs to do it please to keep the page looking ok. --BozMo (talk) 22:19, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

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Kedar Joshi is not a notable person. User RogDel seems Kedar Joshi himself or other but he is constantly adding material to wikiquote. I request action about his behavior of this. Kedaaar Jo Sheee (talk) 18:14, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * The article on Kedar Joshi has been deleted. RogDel is a long-standing editor here.  Which of his edits are inappropriate?--Abramsky (talk) 19:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
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Also, I just wanted to point out the changes I made to the Kurt Cobain page. This is what I meant by the clean-up tag. I think it's properly formatted now -- although it might be better if the Sourced area had the actual magazines the quotes came from. As it is, they aren't truly "sourced" quotes. ~ UDScott 16:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

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Andy Richter Controls the Universe

Andy Richter Controls the Universe (2002–2003) was a FOX sitcom starring Andy Richter playing a character of the same name, about a writer 'just trying to make it in the real world'. It was cancelled after two seasons due to poor ratings.

Pilot [1.01]

 * Mr. Pickering: What kind of man calls himself a writer anyway?.. I’ll tell you what kind: the homosexual.

 * Andy: Wait! Did you have sex with my Wendy?
 * Kieth: It does not feel right to talk about it.

Grief Counselor [1.02]

 * Wendy: The real tragedy is that when he went to dial 9-1-1 he forgot to dial 9 9-1-1.

Little Andy In Charge [1.03]

 * Andy:(Voice over) I needed more information, so I came up with a foolproof anti-Semitism test. (To Leslie) Would you like a bagel, or perhaps a (with German accent) valden-riechen-lebensraum-torte?

Second Episode [1.04]

 * Andy: What are you guys doing here?
 * Jessica: You’re being stupid!
 * Andy: No, technically that would be what I’m doing here.

Twins [2.02]

 * Andy: And, now, it's time to bring my plan to its wickedly delicious conclusion!... Ok, now I just sound gay.

France [2.03]

 * Andy: Here I was, facing a problem as old as civilization itself: how to catch a drunk cat in the ceiling so I can go to France.

 * Mr. Pickering: Ahh, wishing to go to France, aren't we? I know why you really want to go to France. It's because of their loose sexual laws. But, observing your physical qualities, I must say that it will only mean that you can do more things to yourself.

Holy Sheep [2.04]

 * Andy: Uh, listen. I wasn't gonna say this before because I wanted to be supportive and non-judgemental, but your religion is laugh-out-loud stupid.

Unidentified Episodes

 * Mr. Pickering: Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish... And his wife!

 * Freddy Pickering: Have you ever eaten a six-pound lobster off the chest of a seven-pound lobster?

 * Freddy Pickering: "Well, at least she died doing what she loved... committing suicide.

 * Byron: All I know is, I hate racists. I hate everything about them, their music, their food, their so-called religion, the way their men are so skinny, and their wives are all so fat, but mostly, I hate the way they judge people based on tired stereotypes.

 * Andy: There's going to be a duct tape wedding! Cover your genitalia and run!

 * Mr. Pickering: Good for you my boy! Having your way with the help. They're bending over anyway, eh?

 * Mr. Pickering: Oh I'm sorry! It's just hard to believe you could ever be in love with something not covered in sauce.

 * Andy: I mean, sure, you can start a relationship based on four days of false information about mole-rats, but then where do you go? Am I right?

 * Jessica: Well I guess this is kind of my fault, since I only told you exactly what would happen, instead of actually living your life for you.

 * Jessica: This reminds me of that old saying: You idiot.

 * Andy: My fear of a meaningless cosmos was no match for those two theologians known as meat and cheese.

 * Byron: My mind is full of despair and my body is full of sex bugs.

 * Andy: Is it me, or is it getting dizzy in here?

 * Mr. Pickering: How does it feel, being outsmarted by a child? Let me guess: familiar?

 * Mr. Pickering: Oh cheer up! This tape could be the best thing that ever happened to you. You finally have proof that you fornicated with something you didn't pay for, or inflate.

 * Airena: Did you know if a blue whale mated with a beaver their babys would be the largest insects on the earth.

 * Keith: Other than babies, is there anyone more selfish than the dead?

 * Mr. Pickering: Why, I once murdered a man with an axe! By your liberal definition, this makes me an axe murderer!

 * (Flashback)
 * Andy's Brain: Hands down that was the second coolest thing I've ever seen. Wanna see the first coolest?
 * (Cutscene to a woman seductively approaching the camera spraying whipped cream in her hand while "Lead Me On" by Maxine Nightingale plays in the background)
 * Andy's Brain: I'd show you more...
 * (A young man stands up and blocks the view of the woman)
 * Andy's Brain: ...but her boyfriend who was actually in the room had to go and ruin everything.
 * (Young man lifts up woman and carries her off screen while the camera zooms out to Andy looking out a window with binoculars. Andy then turns around with tears in his eyes and faces the camera)
 * Andy: (sobbing) Will I ever know love?! (Commences sobbing)
 * Andy's Brain: Oops, I didn't mean to show you that part.

Cast

 * Andy Richter - Andy Richter
 * Jessica Green - Paget Brewster
 * Keith - James Patrick Stuart
 * Wendy McKay - Irene Molloy
 * Byron Togler - Jonathan Slavin

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Taps

Taps is a 1981 film about a group of teenage military school cadets who take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
 * Directed by Harold Becker. Written by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger and Darryl Ponicsan, based on the novel Father Sky by Devery Freeman.

This school is our home, we think it's worth defending.

Brigadier General Harlan Bache

 * I tell you what. Let’s drink to the one thing that never changes, to the one permanent part of a man’s life... honor, indeed. Burglar proof, weather proof, fool proof, one hundred-proof! Honor. Everything else is subject to the... powers that be. To the caprices of often inferior men. But your honor is your own, inviolate. So then- to honor.

 * Now, they'll respect the rank. But God knows- they won't respect the man, unless he earns it. And the loyalty of men is always hard to earn.

Cadet Captain David Shawn

 * [Last words, firing a machine gun] It's beautiful, man! Beautiful!

Dialogue

 * Brian Moreland: Sir, how can they do this?
 * General Bache: With the stroke of a pen, sir. Their field of honor was a desktop. They didn't consult me. Never hinted at what their plans were. They just papered it and penciled it and went ahead and did it because that's what the numbers said.
 * Brian Moreland: Sir, all they want is money. Let them raise the tuition. We'll pay it.
 * General Bache: I'm afraid it's not quite that simple, son. There's a feeling on the outside that schools like this are anachronistic, and leaders of men like you and me are dinosaurs.
 * Brian Moreland: Sir?
 * General Bache: Well, you go to the movies, you read books. A military leader is always portrayed as slightly insane. Very often more than slightly. That's because it is insane to cling to honor in a world where honor is held in contempt.
 * Brian Moreland: Sir, I don't know if I really deserve the rank of major. My first thought was for myself. I didn't think about the others or the school...
 * General Bache: Sit down, Mr. Moreland.
 * Brian Moreland: Sir. [Sits]
 * General Bache: Never be ashamed of being human. Without humanity, a leader becomes a tyrant.
 * Brian Moreland: I was relieved. I figured I had another year. I could graduate and go on to West Point.
 * General Bache: So you will. And the others too. I haven't spent a lifetime fighting just to turn over and play dead now. I came to Bunker Hill when I was twelve years old. Just like you. With the exception of those twelve years, I've been in uniform all my life. I know men younger than myself who take their pensions and put on stupid little white shirts with cut-off sleeves, alligator on the tit, and spend the rest of their days beating the hell out of a little white ball with an iron club. My God! The thought of it makes me want to puke.
 * Brian Moreland: They like it like that, civilians.
 * General Bache: Well, the one thing civilians know is their rights. And it was within their rights to push us out, to make way for their... goddamned... condominiums! But we have one little advantage on them.
 * Brian Moreland: What's that, sir?
 * General Bache: We're here. And the condos aren't. We have a foothold. You boys are my purpose. You're my family. And I'm not going to let them take you away from me.
 * Brian Moreland: We won't either, sir. We won't let them.

 * Alex Dwyer: What the hell were you doing back there?
 * David Shawn: At least I had your ass over the grinder and it's okay enough to thank me, shithead!
 * Alex Dwyer: I could kick your ass from here to Albany.
 * David Shawn: You try!
 * Brian Moreland: What's going on?
 * Alex Dwyer: He rammed a sheriffs car.
 * Brian Moreland: [entering] What's the problem?
 * Alex Dwyer: This asshole just shot up the town! I didn't buy into this to blow people away.
 * Edward West: We're here! We're not sitting in jail, we're here!
 * Brian Moreland: Did you get the food?
 * Edward West: Half of it.
 * Brian Moreland: Half is better than nothing.
 * Alex Dwyer: The guy's a maniac. He rammed a sheriff.
 * David Shawn: Damn right. Saw my duty and I did it!

 * Brian Moreland: I don't ever want to see what I just saw. We didn't train to go spastic at the first sign of trouble. Goddamn! I'm glad the General didn't see that. These cadets will follow you only if they respect you! All right. Sit down. At ease. How'd we lose the truck?
 * J.C. Pierce: It stalled. We were in a hard place.
 * Alex Dwyer: Shawn grabbed the chance to use his weapon.
 * David Shawn: We were in an explosive situation which jeopardized the mission. I defused it.
 * Alex Dwyer: Beautiful. You really have a way with words.
 * J.C. Pierce: Alex, y still be getting thrown around by those townies if he hadn't cut loose a few rounds.
 * Brian Moreland: I don't like the idea of gunplay, but the mission was successful.
 * Alex Dwyer: That's my whole point! Now, I don't call what happened a successful mission.
 * Brian Moreland: Naturally. We have to show we're serious. And we don't want to hurt anyone. What are we asking? That the school be kept open. That's all. Other kids are vandalizing their school. We want ours to stay open. If we behave like soldiers and not kids in a riot, we can win this.
 * Alex Dwyer: It's gotta be done by the book. That's all I ask.
 * Brian Moreland: It'll be done by the book. We stick together, we go the whole nine yards.

 * [after the meeting of cadet officers, Shawn blocks Dwyer from leaving the room]
 * David Shawn: When this is over, you and me are gonna to go round and round.
 * Alex Dwyer: Yeah. But first, you're gonna move your goddamned arm.

 * Brian Moreland: When my mother died, I was sitting in the hallway in the army hospital. I was worried as hell. I knew she was real sick. She had this bad kidney thing. So I'm sitting there and my father comes out of the room and tells me that she's dead. He led me to this little chapel they had there, and he sat me down and he told me I could cry for fifteen minutes. He gave me fifteen minutes to cry, and after that I wasn't supposed to cry again. So he left me alone in the chapel and came back... he came back fifteen minutes later.
 * Alex Dwyer: Jesus. What did you do?
 * Brian Moreland: Well, I did what I was told. I cried for fifteen minutes. She was a beautiful woman... my mother. She was crazy about the old man. I don't know, I guess he loved her too.

 * [Master Sergeant Kevin Moreland, leading a delegation of other Bunker Hill Military Academy parents, is meeting with his son, accompanied by Shawn and Dwyer, under flag of truce]
 * Kevin Moreland: [looking around] The old place looks different...
 * Father: Come on, Moreland. Get to the bottom line.
 * Kevin Moreland: Hold your water! Bottom line. The truth is these folks are worried about their kids. They think some of them are being held against their will.
 * Brian Moreland: Everyone's here because they want to be here.
 * Mother #2: Our son would never be involved in something like this!
 * Kevin Moreland: Lady, if my son can be involved in it, your son can be involved in it. Let's not get holier than thou.
 * Mother #1: Let us see our children, and hear it from them!
 * Mother #3: Yes.
 * Brian Moreland: Ma'am, I can't call my soldiers away from their posts just to calm down their parents; I'm sorry.
 * Mother #4: My God, you're only children!
 * Kevin Moreland: They're going to try to add kidnapping to the rest of it, kid. You oughta know that.
 * Father: We want to see our kids.
 * Brian Moreland: I'll try to arrange something.
 * Mother #2: Well, good, now we're getting somewhere!
 * Brian Moreland: It'll be done under my terms.
 * Mother #1: I hope you're very proud of yourself, Sergeant Moreland. You have fathered a perfect son of a bitch!
 * Kevin Moreland: Will you people shut up?! I can't think through all your static!
 * Father: We aren't in the Army, Sergeant.
 * Kevin Moreland: No apologies necessary. Just keep the hell quiet and let me take care of this.

 * Kevin Moreland: What am I gonna tell those people?
 * Brian Moreland: I never thought this would involve you.
 * Kevin Moreland: Let me tell 'em it was growing pains - the wrong execution of the right idea.
 * Brian Moreland: "The wrong execution of the right idea"?
 * Kevin Moreland: Yeah. They'll understand that. Look, Brian. All the men in our family have been soldiers.
 * Brian Moreland: Yeah, I know.
 * Kevin Moreland: Just plain old dogfaces with a knack for surviving. But I was hoping somebody along the line would break into brass, kid.
 * Brian Moreland: I have my command, Dad.
 * Kevin Moreland: I don't think you're thinking straight. What you have here is a bad way to lose a pretty bright future, kid.
 * Brian Moreland: [Coldly] Stop calling me "kid".
 * Kevin Moreland: [Stares silently for a few moments] Do you expect me to call you "Major"? You can forget it. Look at this operation. You got all your strength nose to nose with the cops. I mean, eventually even those bullhorn yo-yo's are gonna figure out you've got a vulnerable rear flank, and they're gonna sneak in there. [Points off to his right] Maybe over there! Over there, behind the cover of the trees, and they're just gonna throw a net over your little pink asses!
 * Brian Moreland: You can say that all you want, it doesn't matter.
 * Kevin Moreland: First canister of tear gas that pops, half your troops will wet their pants and run like rabbits! For that matter, how bright was it to let this delegation in here, huh? Look at me! Within five seconds I could break your neck, and you wouldn't be able to do a thing about it!
 * Brian Moreland: You'd be shot. My next in command would take over.
 * Kevin Moreland: I read that book, too.
 * Brian Moreland: On the other hand, we could take you all as prisoners or hostages. But we won't; we have a code of honor here!
 * Kevin Moreland: Oh, sweet Jesus, a code of honor. Is that what this is all about? Somebody's lofty load of shit about honor? Yours?
 * Brian Moreland: Yes, mine, and I learned it here. General Bache lives it, breathes it-
 * Kevin Moreland: [Interrupting] Bache! Are you kidding me! Bache is here 'cause there's no place left-
 * Brian Moreland: He's the example we all try to follow! The finest man, the finest officer-
 * Kevin Moreland: Bache has been passed over for promotion so many times...he's got a permanent stiff neck from the draft! I'll tell you about Bache! Bache is living proof that horses' asses outnumber horses!
 * Brian Moreland: Captain Shawn, escort my... escort the Sergeant off the base! [MSgt. Moreland then slaps his son in the face while he's getting to leave]
 * Brian Moreland: Muster the men on the quad. [Leaves]
 * David Shawn: Yes, sir.

 * Brian Moreland: [addressing the boys] We've pulled together well, haven't we?
 * All: Yes, sir!
 * Brian Moreland: General Bache would be proud of us. If he were here, I know he'd tell us to hold out. To finish what we've started and not to be halfway about anything. They're saying some of you are being held against your will, you don't want to be here. Either they're right or we're right. Nobody's gonna cut you down if you don't believe in what we're doing, or if you're afraid of parents or the cops. Anybody who isn't 100 percent sure of why we're here and what we're doing, take one step forward.
 * [No one moves]

 * Brian Moreland: Alex, you've been picking at this from the beginning. What's wrong with you? Things are going beautifully. We're in better shape now. Now we're a corps. General Bache used to talk about men under pressure. How they act as one. We're seeing it.
 * Alex Dwyer: Thus spake Saint Bache.
 * Brian Moreland: OK.
 * Alex Dwyer: He's only a man, Brian. Like your father, my father. Just a man. Not every word out of his mouth is some holy nugget.
 * Brian Moreland: Right. Whatever you say.
 * Alex Dwyer: Don't let that display of loyalty go to your head. It won't mean beans to anybody out there. They'll say it was brainwashing. Maybe they're right.
 * Brian Moreland: I half expected you to be the one to break ranks. Head for the comforts of home.
 * Alex Dwyer: The thought crossed my mind.
 * Brian Moreland: What stopped you?
 * Alex Dwyer: My sense of honor may be a little ragged, but I don't walk out on a friend.

 * [Colonel Kerby of the Army National Guard is meeting with Moreland and an accompanying escort of armed cadets under flag of truce]
 * Col. Kerby: So you're the fellow who started all this.
 * Brian Moreland: Major Moreland, sir, the ranking cadet.
 * Col. Kerby: Yes. I understand you're quite a leader, Major Moreland.
 * Brian Moreland: Sir, we were all well trained here at Bunker Hill. That's part of why we won't give it up.
 * Col. Kerby: I can understand that. What's another 50 condominiums, more or less?
 * Brian Moreland: Condominiums are more easily built than leaders.
 * Col. Kerby: Yeah. Exactly. Only... you and I don't have the last word on that subject.
 * Brian Moreland: But I do have something to say about it.
 * Col. Kerby: Mr. Moreland... you know and I know that it's never gonna go your way. You do know that, don't you?
 * Brian Moreland: You got something to tell me, Colonel?
 * Col. Kerby: I'm telling you. Brian, I'm no fancy negotiator with a PhD in psychology. That's not what I do for a living. I'm the Governor's muscle. I get called when he gets nervous.
 * Brian Moreland: Don't try to scare us. The police already tried that.
 * Col. Kerby: I know, and your parents didn't fare any better. But I've got to let you know what's going on out there. They don't see you guys as rebels with a good cause. They think you're home-grown terrorists, and it's got 'em scared shitless. Nice American boys don't act like this.
 * Brian Moreland: We have a home here. Something we think is worth defending. I mean, why is that so tough to understand?
 * Col. Kerby: Sure, and you have the right to defend it, in all the accepted ways. Hell, I'll help you. But you can't start by stealing government property.
 * Brian Moreland: I've seen what happens when you go the other way. We'd get up to bat and the game would be over.
 * Col. Kerby: At least you would all be alive, which at this point is all I give a damn about.
 * Brian Moreland: Don't worry about us.
 * Col. Kerby: How many kids do you have here? [Moreland hesitates to answer] Come on, for Christ's sake. It's not classified information. 30? 100? I've seen ten create a fearful momentum and you have over 100 here. With weapons. And some really don't want to be here.
 * Brian Moreland: You saw the muster yesterday. They had a chance to leave, they stayed.
 * Col. Kerby: Eleven kids did leave. [referring to cadets who climbed over the brick wall running along the school perimeter overnight]
 * Brian Moreland: Sounds like eleven boys who weren't much good to us anyway.
 * Col. Kerby: I don't care what happened here. I don't wanna see scared kids crawling over the wall in the middle of the night.
 * Brian Moreland: You won't. [to the cadet guards] Escort the Colonel back to the gate.

 * Alex Dwyer: [pretending to be a reporter] I'm here inside the walls of Bunker Hill...
 * Brian Moreland: [to all] On your feet! Let's go!
 * Alex Dwyer: ...with Major Brian Moreland, commander of the rebellious youths. Correction. Defending cadets.
 * Brian Moreland: Let's go. Come on.
 * Alex Dwyer: There seems to be some dissension...
 * Brian Moreland: No, this is a military operation.
 * Alex Dwyer: A military operation. I see. No dissension, no desertion and no...
 * Brian Moreland: Knock it off! Those of you not on station should sleep.
 * Alex Dwyer: You can't escape the press that easily.
 * Brian Moreland: Knock it off! It's not funny any more! It's getting to be a real pain in the ass! Drop it!
 * Alex Dwyer: Back to you, Walter. The Major's getting pissed off.
 * Brian Moreland: Come on. Move out.
 * Alex Dwyer: And we don't want to piss off the Major. Piss off the Major, you find yourself escorted out between two of Shawn's Red Berets.
 * Brian Moreland: You just keep going and going, don't know when to stop.
 * Alex Dwyer: Think with your brain, you'll piss off the Major. Piss off the Major and you find yourself escorted out just like the Major's father.
 * Brian Moreland: Leave my father out of this.
 * Alex Dwyer: Reason with the Major, out you go.
 * Brian Moreland: Let's go.
 * Alex Dwyer: Pretty soon there'll be nobody left but one pissed-off Major.
 * Brian Moreland: Knock it off! We've had enough!
 * Alex Dwyer: You don't wanna save this school for posterity! You wanna wear it like your own cocoon! Just you and Bache, snug as two bugs queer for each other-
 * [Brian hits him and they begin fighting]

 * [After West is severely burned while trying to start up an old school generator, the cadets and National Guard arrange for him to be sent out to the hospital under another truce]
 * Col. Kerby: You know you're responsible for that boy?
 * Brian Moreland: It was an accident.
 * Col. Kerby: I've gone to the mat with the civil authorities. I'm urging them to take into consideration your youth and the strain...
 * Brian Moreland: Cut the bullshit. Nobody in here's young any more.
 * Col. Kerby: [irritated] Excuse me if I don't shed tears over your lost youth. You've had your chances to toss it in. You've got this chance. The Governor is this close to ordering us to take you in by force. When that order comes, I'll do it and you won't ever be that unhappy again. I'll have to do it.
 * Brian Moreland: I get it. They want us to be good little boys now so we can fight some war for them in the future. Some war they'll decide on. We'd rather fight our own war right now.
 * Col. Kerby: Brian, we're talking about boys so young they haven't got hair one between their legs.
 * Brian Moreland: That's never been any qualification for a soldier.
 * Col. Kerby: Good Christ!
 * Brian Moreland: The final stage of any mobilization is the children, the seed corn.
 * Col. Kerby: [stares] What in God's name did they teach you in here? What did they turn you into?
 * Brian Moreland: A soldier! The only thing I ever wanted to be!
 * Col. Kerby: A soldier?! No, goddammit, I'm a soldier, with the career goal of all soldiers: staying alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do, but you, my friend, you're a death lover. Yes, I know the species. Seventeen years old and some son of a bitch has put you in love with death. Somebody sold you on the idea that dying for a cause is oh, so romantic. Well, that is the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit there is! Dying is only one thing. Bad. Don't find that out. Please.
 * [silence]
 * Brian Moreland: We'll reduce our demands to just one.
 * Col. Kerby: I'm listening.
 * Brian Moreland: A meeting with General Bache. Let the order come directly from him. If it does, we'll obey it.
 * [Colonel Kerby hesitates]
 * Col. Kerby: ...General Bache died last night at six o'clock.
 * Brian Moreland: [flatly] You son of a bitch. You and I have nothing more to talk about.

 * Brian Moreland: I was thinking about that basketball game we played, one on one, last winter. It was so cold, hurt to breathe, and your fingers could barely feel the ball, you know. There was no net on the hoop. We were always arguing the other's shot didn't go in. Laughing and acting crazy It was so dark you couldn't see the ball against the backboard. I love that feeling.
 * Alex Dwyer: We'll have a rematch, one on one.
 * Brian Moreland: It's gonna hurt like hell to leave it all behind.
 * Alex Dwyer: No one leaves it all behind, Brian. We're gonna take it with us.
 * Brian Moreland: Were they just words? Honor, duty, country? I loved that man. Being in his presence made me feel privileged. But there had to be something missing in all that he taught us, or this wouldn't have happened. But there had to be something missing in all that he taught us, or this wouldn't have happened. I... I've done a terrible thing.
 * Alex Dwyer: You weren't alone. We were all in it together.
 * Brian Moreland: It was my command and I was in charge. When I knelt next to Charlie, I tried to find some justification. But honor! Honor doesn't count for shit when you're looking at a dead little boy! You don't think of the Book of Remembrance or bugles or flags or twenty-one-gun salutes. All you can think of is what a neat little kid he was... and how you're gonna miss him.
 * Alex Dwyer: Declare a victory, Brian. Let's say we won the war. Let's go home.

Cast

 * George C. Scott - Brigadier General Harlan Bache, USA (Ret.)
 * Timothy Hutton - Cadet Major Brian Moreland
 * Ronny Cox - Colonel Kerby
 * Sean Penn - Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer
 * Tom Cruise - Cadet Captain David Shawn
 * Brendan Ward - Cadet Plebe Charlie Auden
 * Evan Handler - Cadet First Lieutenant Edward West
 * John P. Navin Jr. - Cadet Plebe Derek Mellott
 * Billy Van Zandt - Cadet Bug
 * Giancarlo Esposito - Cadet Captain J.C. Pierce
 * Donald Kimmel - Cadet Sergeant Billy Haris
 * Tim Wahrer - Cadet Major John Cooper
 * Wayne Tippit - Master Sergeant Kevin Moreland

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Talk:Antonio Machado

One quote mentioned here is also translated to "paths are made by walking". I found this same translation for a quote by Franz Kafka (German: Wege entstehen dadurch, dass man sie geht).

A second translation has been added, for th efollowing reasons:

I would like to add a second translation. The feeling and message of this poem depends a lot on the words “caminante” and “camino”. The first term "caminante" literally means "someone who walks", but the word “walker” does not convey the emotional content meant by the poet. This is a lone walker. And at the same time, ironically, the author implies that we all walk alone. Each of us is a “caminante”, which also implies that every one of us is a risk taker, weather we accept it or not, just by living. The second term, "camino", literally means “pathway”. However, the author refers to a very narrow type of “pathway”; more like a trail, which, to him, is a very personal and lonely trail. The reference to “estelas sobre la mar” which translates to “wakes over the sea”, means that even after walking, there is still no “camino” only illusions, and at the end; life only becomes what you make of it. This is a classic:--Cato 11:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

=== "wakes over the sea" is not English, alas. Wake on the ocean, wake on the sea, etc. are alternatives that don't quite capture the original, but are close enough to communicate the central meaning.

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 * Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

 * "How much would I pay to be as pure gold?" said a fresh cucumber, as everyone ignorant mixes up value with price.

 * There are four things that a man owns that are of no use at sea: a compass, a rudder, a sail and the fear of going down.

Source of "Caminante, son tus huellas"
It's not in the 1912 Campos de Castilla, but it is in the 1917 Poesias completas. JerryFriedman (talk) 13:42, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

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Wilderness

A wilderness is a natural environment on Earth that has been little modified by human activity. Wilderness areas are an integral part of the planet's self-sustaining natural ecosystem (the biosphere).

 * CONTENT : A - F, G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links

Quotes

 * Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

 * The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see.
 * Edward Abbey, "Down the River", Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, 1968, p. 190.

 * Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
 * Edward Abbey, "Down the River", Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, 1968, p. 190.

 * The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
 * Edward Abbey, "Shadows from the Big Woods", The Journey Home, 1977, p. 223.

 * He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness.
 * Bible, Deuteronomy 32:10, King James Version

 * I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.
 * Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899.

 * The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
 * Jim Fowler, statement

G - L

 * There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone — who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
 * Hubert Humphrey, remarks at University of Chicago, 14 January 1966, The Quotable Hubert H. Humphrey, p. 10.

 * If I had my way about national parks, I would create one without a road in it. I would have it impenetrable forever to automobiles, a place where man would not try to improve upon God.
 * Harold L. Ickes, remark on May 1933.

 * Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own.
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer,

 * Many of the attributes most distinctive of America and Americans are the impress of the wilderness. … Shall we now exterminate this thing that made us Americans?
 * Aldo Leopold, "Wilderness as a Form of Land Use", 1925. Republished in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, edited by Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott, 1991, pp. 137-138.

 * If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
 * Aldo Leopold, letter to Wallace Grange, 3 January 1948.

 * Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
 * Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons" (1949), p. 148-149.

 * Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
 * Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, "Wilderness" (1949), p. 188.

 * In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
 * Charles Lindbergh, "The Wisdom of Wilderness", Life, 22 December 1967, volume 63, number 25, p. 10.

M - R

 * Beauty is a resource in and of itself. … I hope the United States of America is not so rich that she can afford to let these wildernesses pass by, or so poor she cannot afford to keep them.
 * Margaret "Mardy" Murie, "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement", in congressional testimony concerning the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act

 * The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
 * John Muir, July 1890; Published in John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, 1938, p. 313.

 * Large events to us but to these mountains? Nothing. That's what I love about the empty places of the world; places with few people and little to see save earth, sky, mountains and cold, cold stars. They help me keep matters in perspective.
 * Richard Parks, Empty Places (2005) reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2006, p. 248

S - Z

 * If the human population of the world continues to increase at its current rate, there will soon be no room for either wild life or wild places … But I believe that sooner or later man will learn to limit his overpopulation. Then he will be much more concerned with optimum rather than maximum, quality rather than quantity, and will recover the need within himself for contact with wilderness and wild nature.
 * Sir Peter Scott, founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature, lived 1909 – 1989, in The Eye of the Wind: An Autobiography

 * We are all travelers in … the wilderness of this world … and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, 1879.

 * Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.
 * Wallace Stegner, "Wilderness Letter", 3 December 1960.

 * It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
 * Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 30 August 1856.

 * In Wildness is the preservation of the world.
 * Henry David Thoreau, essay "Walking", 1862.

 * A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a member of the natural community, a wanderer who visits but does not remain and whose travels leave only trails.
 * From an early draft of the (S. 1176, submitted to the Senate 11 February 1957, as reprinted in The Living Wilderness volume 21, number 59, Winter-Spring 1956-57, pages 26-36), by Howard Zahniser

 * A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
 * The (Public Law 88-577; 16 USC 1131-1136; approved 3 September 1964), drafted by Howard Zahniser

 * To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
 * Terry Tempest Williams, testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Forest & Public Lands Management regarding the Utah Public Lands Management Act of 1995 (Washington, D.C., 13 July 1995), published in Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (2001), p. 75.

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This article needs a cleanup, a banner at its head proclaims, and I entirely agree. For that reason, I've bent the usual Wikipedia conventions on style, but I think doing so has made the presentation of the quoations and their sources considerably clearer. 63.134.128.4 20:39, 5 January 2006 (UTC) (w:user:Simon Dodd)
 * Interesting format, I personally think that it's quite good. But generally, I think that we should seek to have the format of all the pages in wikiquote to be more or less uniform, and this one is significantly different. I'll post it in Village_pump and hopefully get more impressions from other people. iddo999 19:06, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Different, I agree, but posessing the virtue of clarity, if nothing else. When I look at other examples - Winston Churchill, for example - I find them no more or less clear than this article was when it was labeled in need of a cleanup. Which is to say, not very clear. The problem is one inherent in the nature of an encyclopaedia of quotations: it is, at root, just a series of text and text explaining text. Unless it can be broken up by something - anything! - other than text, it's always going to have the clarity problem. I'm not saying that this style (breaking up text using background color) is right, just that I've not seen any apporach which is better. Is there a particular article which is considered exemplary of how to handle large volumes of quotations within an article? 63.134.128.4 22:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)(w:user:Simon Dodd)
 * Well, in the Noam Chomsky page that I'm working on, I use the tag for source lines. How do you like it? Others think that the indentation for source lines is clear enough. I'd say that if there was an agreement that the use of colors for clarity is a good idea, then your particular version here is great. However, I suspect that some might find the use of colors to be too "disruptive". Haven't received replies yet in Village_pump, so we'll see. iddo999 18:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I think Noam Chomsky works pretty well, although I think it would be slightly clearer to indent the citation with an appropriate number of apostrophes (to create a blank indent) rather than an asterisk (to create an additional bullet point). 63.134.135.42 01:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC) (w:user:Simon Dodd)
 * The quote from Hollingsworth v. Perry was actually Justice Kennedy, not Justice Scalia, and thus was removed.

Can anyone add a citation to the 2005 quote about Futurama?

An unanswered question
At a New York University Q-and-A in 2005 (as originally reported in the New York Post, and subsequently described in the Nation, and in various books), student Eric Berndt asked Scalia about his dissent re the striking down of sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas; Scalia's response -- regarding personal privacy, the state's interest, sexual morality, etc -- did not satisfy Berndt. Berndt then asked "Justice Scalia, do you sodomize your wife?"

(Scalia refused to answer, Berndt's microphone was turned off, and I believe Berndt was removed from the event.)

Since this was said to Scalia, should it be here? DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 14:44, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Edwards v. Aguillard quote
The recently added quote from this case was actually an example of Justice Scalia quoting/summarizing what witnesses had professed rather than an original quote of his. I'm not sure that it really belongs on Scalia's page. It might make sense on a page about evolution, but I don't see that it should be here. ~ UDScott (talk) 20:38, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Excellent catch. Since that quote has appeared in a Scalia image meme, I think it may be better to correct that misunderstanding here on this quote page. Accordingly, I've added context and moved it to Misattributed. ~ Robin Lionheart (talk) 01:54, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Dreams

Arganoza My dream is to become a successful pilot

"Go confidently ... dreams ..."
The following quote is, as far as i can determine, universally attributed to Thoreau (thousands of hits on the web) -- but not to any particular work/source. It is not however addressed at all on a very extensive Wikiquote page on Thoreau. [I've posted a question there about it.] Regardless of the source, it seems to me that it would qualify under any set of criteria for this "Dreams" page:  "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
 * See Talk:Henry David Thoreau. It's from Walden, misquoted by being cut down and converted to imperative mood. Gordonofcartoon 13:24, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * These should be provided with sources before being moved back into the article.

 * It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
 * J. K. Rowling

 * We're not given dreams without the means to make them come true!
 * Jeanie Cunningham, host at The Composers Corner

 * Dreams are but the illusion that we put upon ourselves to make life in an unbearable world liveable.
 * Anonymous

 * A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
 * William Faulkner

 * Dreams are as advice given by a very wise - very drunk - old man. A wealth of knowledge behind them, yes, but always, always to be treated with cynicism.
 * M. J. Morris

 * Dreams are the things we cling to, we hold onto them for dear life hoping with all our being that we will not watch them shatter around us into the dust of a trillion stars. We never imagine that they will come true, but we relish the hope that they provide, and yet when the impossible becomes a reality… we are stunned. And then the dream becomes a building block, stronger than diamonds.
 * Jerry Grant Blakeney

 * Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.
 * George Lucas

 * Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
 * Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

 * Dreams are there to pave your way towards to success...
 * Mark Aaron A. Corrales

 * Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
 * George W. Bush

 * If you don't have a dream ... Then you'll never have a dream come true,
 * South Pacific

 * If you live your dreams, you'll never have to wake up.
 * Anonymous

 * It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else.
 * Erma Bombeck

 * Nothing happens unless first a dream.
 * Carl Sandburg

 * Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
 * Pamela Star

 * Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
 * Tupac Shakur

 * The net of the sleeper catches fish.
 * Greek proverb

 * The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
 * Hannah Arendt

 * The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
 * J.B.S. Haldane

 * Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.
 * Jonathan Swift, On Dreams

 * Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
 * Frequently misattributed to Mark Twain

 * We live, as we dream--alone...
 * Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

 * When we can't dream any longer we die.
 * Emma Goldman

 * Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
 * Oscar Wilde

 * It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
 * Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling)

 * A dream is a wish your heart makes...
 * Cinderella

 * By believing in his dreams, a man turns them into reality.
 * Hergé, Belgian writer

 * So yeah, dreams are important. And I think there are more dreamers today than ever before in the history of anything... but... they're so afraid, so many of them. Afraid to lose all their 'manageable misery.' It's all just so... so... pathetic. Pathetic... and selfish. Are you seriously telling me... that you would deny the world an exquisite painting just because the cardboard firm from down the street is hiring? That you'd stay out of politics because your mates would think you a twat? That the greatest secrets of quantum physics would go forever unearthed... because Dad thinks girls are fit only for babymaking? Does that really sound good enough for you? Really? Maddening! And don't you dare tell me I'm unrealistic. I know a body's chance of sinking their claws into a dream are fairly grim. But... not to try? To settle into the gray doldrums with nary a peep?
 * Aaron A., in Serenity Rose

 * Dreams are not what you have when you sleep, dreams are those that don't let you sleep.
 * Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former Indian President

 * A dream is a wish your heart makes!
 * Amanda Myers

 * Dreams are hopeless aspirations in hopes of coming true. Believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you.
 * TLC (Waterfalls)

Definition
The definition that was on the page was clearly someone's interpretation—perhaps a quote—and out of place. I've replaced it with the definition from the Wikipedia page on dreams. Markjoseph125 (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

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Survival

Survival is act of surviving; to stay living.

Quotes

 * Real survivalists don’t run off into the woods; they stay and work to prevent disaster.
 * Lois McMaster Bujold, “Free Associating about Falling Free” in Nebula Awards 24, edited by Michael Bishop, p. 29

 * After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value.
 * Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001

 * There walked a lonely man, silent, mute, the only man
 * Not knowing how, not knowing why was he the sole survivor
 * Why should he be alive, breathing still while others died
 * And the only question, why was he the sole survivor?
 * * Blue Oyster Cult, Sole Survivor, Fire of unknown origin, lyrics by Erik Bloom, John Trivers, and Liz Myers

 * Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe, when he landed on his Island, had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact, he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.

 * Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
 * W. Edwards Deming, Deming: The Way We Knew Him (1995)
 * Note: This quote is often cited as “Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

 * The entire modern deification of survival per se, survival returning to itself, survival naked and abstract, with the denial of any substantive excellence in what survives, except the capacity for more survival still, is surely the strangest intellectual stopping-place ever proposed by one man to another.
 * William James, review of Clifford's Lectures and Essays, Collected Essays and Reviews (1920), p. 143 (1879)

 * Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
 * John F. Kennedy. This is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.

 * What doesn't kill you makes you stranger.
 * The Joker Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan

 * Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
 * Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. 1984. : Essays and Speeches. Ed. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press. 110-114. 2007

 * Survival is the greatest gift of love.
 * Audre Lorde, Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,

 * Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
 * Dora Russell, in The Religion of the Machine Age (1983)

 * During the darkest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when Republicans and religious conservatives controlled the federal government and were doing everything in their power to harm the sick and dying, queers organized and protested and volunteered and mourned. We also made music and theater and art. We took care of each other, and we danced and loved and fucked. Embracing joy and art and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us feel better—it kept us sane—and it had the added benefit of driving our enemies crazy. They couldn’t understand how we could be anything but miserable, given the challenges we faced—their greed, their indifference, their bigotry—but we created and experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this awful disease. We turned to each other—we turned to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers—and said, "Fuck them. Now fuck me."
 * Dan Savage, Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016

 * If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.
 * Rod Serling, speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)

 * The survival of the fittest.
 * Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, III, ch.12 p. 165

 * Until now, human intelligence, which is no more than a minute aspect of universal intelligence, has been distorted and misused by the ego. I call that “intelligence in the service of madness.” Splitting the atom requires great intelligence. Using that intelligence for building and stockpiling atom bombs is insane or at best extremely unintelligent. Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous. This intelligent stupidity, for which one could find countless obvious examples, is threatening our survival as a species.
 * Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,  (2005)

 * Most humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it. They will experience increasing confusion, conflict, violence, illness, despair, madness. Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you will go down with it. The collective egoic mind is the most dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this planet.
 * Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, p. 67, (2005)

 * Humanity is under great pressure to evolve because it is our only chance of survival as a race. This will affect every aspect of your life and close relationships in particular. Never before have relationships been as problematic and conflict ridden as they are now. As you may have noticed, they are not here to make you happy or fulfilled. If you continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again. But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world. For those who hold on to the old patterns, there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion, and madness.Most humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it. They will experience increasing confusion, conflict, violence, illness, despair, madness. Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you will go down with it.
 * Eckhart Tolle in ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, p. 101, (2005)

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