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Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, headquartered in Warwick, New York, is the main legal entity used by the Jehovah's Witnesses religious faith. It is often referred to as The Watchtower, which is also the name of its best-known publication. This corporation usually holds copyrights to literature published by Jehovah's Witnesses.

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 * There are probably as many as a hundred colored brethren on the Watch Tower lists, some of them very clear in the truth, and very earnest in its service, financially and otherwise. We have received letters from several of these, who had intended engaging in the volunteer work, expressing surprise that in the call for volunteers in the March 1st issue we restricted the inquiry to the white Protestant churches. They rightly realized that we have not the slightest of race prejudice, and that we love the colored brethren with just the same warmth of heart that we love the white, and they queries therefore why such a distinction should be made in the call. The reason is that so far as we are able to judge, colored people have less education that whites - many of them quite insufficient to permit them to profit by such reading as we have to give forth. Our conclusion therefore is based upon the supposition that reading matter distributed to a colored congregation would more than half of it be utterly wasted, and a very small percentage indeed likely to yield good results. We advise, therefore, that where Watch Tower literature is introduced to colored people it be not by promiscuous circulation, but only to those who give evidence of some ear for the truth.

 * While it is true that the white race exhibits some qualities of superiority over any other, we are to remember that there are wide differences in the same Caucasian (Semitic and Aryan) family; and also we should remember that some of the qualities which have given this branch of the human family its preeminence in the world are not such as can be pointed to as in all respects admirable... The secret of the greater intelligence and aptitude of the Caucasian undoubtedly in great measure is to be attributed to the commingling of blood amongst its various branches; and this was evidently forced in large measure by circumstances under divine control.

 * "Can the Ethiopian change his skin?" We answer, No. But all will admit that what the Ethiopian cannot do for himself God could readily do for him. The difference between the races of men and the differences between their languages have long been arguments against the solidarity of the human family. The doctrine of restitution has also raised the question. How could all men be brought to perfection and which color of skin was the original? The answer now provided. God can change the Ethiopian's skin in his own due time.

 * If nature favors the colored brethren and sisters in the exercise of humility it is that much to their advantage, if they are rightly exercised by it. A little while, and our humility will work out for our good. A little while, and those who shall have been faithful to their Covenant of Sacrifice will be granted new bodies, spiritual beyond the veil, where color and sex distinctions will be no more. A little while, and the Millennial Kingdom will be inaugurated, which will bring restitution to all mankind - restitution to the perfection of mind and body, feature and color, to the grand original standard, which God declared "very good," and which was lost for a time through sin, but which is soon to be restored by the powerful kingdom of Messiah.

 * From a criminal viewpoint the desirability of sobering the southern negro speaks volumes for national prohibition.

 * We know that the days of divine inspiration are over. They ended when John gave to the church a record of the wonderful visions of Patmos. But Satan has at intervals thrust upon the world during the centuries following works claiming divine origin. A good modern example is Mrs. Eddy's "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures". Not one single book of the Bible was written by a woman.

 * Centuries before, anticipating the settlement of North America by a liberty-loving people, and the founding of a government favorable to enlightenment, Satan had sought to forestall it through the voyages of Columbus and the resulting effort to people it with Spaniards and other backward races under the influence of Rome. This undertaking failed.

 * [The medical profession is] an institution founded on ignorance, error, and superstition. Some day so-called medical science will discover that all its "discoveries" have disclosed nothing but its own ignorance.

 * It is generally believed that the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race. Certain it is that when Noah said, "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren," he pictured the future of the Colored race. They have been and are a race of servants, but now in the dawn of the twentieth century, we are all coming to see this matter of service in its true light and to find that the only real joy in life is in serving others; not bossing them. There is no servant in the world as good as a good Colored servant, and the joy that he gets from rendering faithful service is one of the purest joys there is in the world.

 * It is falsely charged by our enemies that we have received financial support for our work from the Jews. Nothing is farther from the truth. Up to this hour there never has been the slightest bit of money contributed to our work by Jews. We are the faithful followers of Christ Jesus and beheve upon Him as the Savior of the world, whereas the Jews entirely reject Jesus Christ and emphatically deny that he is the Savior of the world sent of God for man's good. This of itself should be sufficient proof to show that we receive no support from Jews and that therefore the charges against us are maliciously false and could proceed only from Satan, our great enemy.

 * The greatest and the most oppressive empire on earth is the Anglo-American empire. By that is meant the British Empire, of which the United States of America forms a part. It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the people of many nations.

 * For many years our organization has put forth an unselfish and persistent effort to do good to the people. Our American brethren have greatly assisted in the work in Germany, and with money freely contributed, and that at a time when all Germany was in dire distress. Now because it appears that Germany may soon be free from oppression and that the people may be lifted up, Satan, the great enemy, puts forth his endeavors to destroy that benevolent work in this land.

 * Let us remind the government and the people of Germany that it was the League of Nations compact that laid upon the shoulders of the German people the great unjust and unbearable burdens.

 * The people of Germany have suffered great misery since 1914 and have been the victims of much injustice practiced upon them by others. The Nationalists have declared themselves against all such unrighteousness and announced that 'Our relationship to God is high and holy'. Since our organization fully endorses these righteous principles and is engaged solely in carrying forth the work of enlightening the people concerning the Word of Jehovah God, Satan by subtilty endeavors to set the government against our work and destroy it because we magnify the importance of knowing and serving God.

 * Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows the seed of syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccination is a crime, an outrage and a delusion.

 * "It clearly appears that Jehovah by Christ Jesus is doing his work on earth among his people and hence is guiding his people in the right way according to his promise... Thus the Lord declares he has entrusted his people with the privilege and obligation of telling his message... Jehovah having thus favored his people, they must be true to him and speak his word to others... The Lord does not say to speak the words of wisdom of man, nor to be influenced or guided by the word of man. Those who are convinced that The Watchtower is publishing the opinion or expression of a man should not waste time in looking at it at all, because a man's opinion proves nothing except when that opinion is based wholly upon the Word of God. Those who believe that God uses The Watchtower as a means of communicating to his people, or of calling their attention to his prophecies, should study The Watchtower with thankfulness of heart and give Jehovah God and Christ Jesus all the honor and credit and give neither honor nor credit to any man. The prophecy of Obadiah shows clearly that the identity of the persons or individuals engaged in God's service is not now material.

 * Any saving of life accomplished by transfusion is short-lived. And doing it in disobedience of God's commands could cost one eternal life. No temporary good done could justify this permanent great loss.

 * The matter of vaccination is one for the individual that has to face it to decide for himself. Each individual has to take the consequences for whatever position and action he takes toward a case of compulsory vaccination, doing so according to his own conscience and his appreciation of what is for good health and the interests of advancing God's work. And our Society cannot afford to be drawn into the affair legally or take the responsibility for the way the case turns out. After consideration of the matter, it does not appear to us to be in violation of the everlasting covenant made with Noah, as set down in Genesis 9:4, nor contrary to God's related commandment at Leviticus 17:10-14... Hence all objection to vaccination on Scriptural grounds seems to be lacking.

 * What happened to the perfect fleshly body of Jesus after his death? Was it preserved so that in time men will look upon it in worship? or does Jesus still have this fleshly body in the heavens, "spiritualized" so that it can be seen and worshipped? Neither. The Scriptures answer: It was disposed of by Jehovah God, dissolved into its constituent elements or atoms... The Devil wanted to obtain the fleshly body of Jesus after his death to induce some to worship it and use it for indecent false religious purposes, thus reproaching Jehovah God... So God caused Jesus' body to disappear, but not corrupt, meaning that it was dissolved, disintegrated back into the elements from which all human bodies are made.

 * The first essential for study is the right condition of mind and heart, appreciating that Jehovah grants understanding only to the meek, and not to the stiff-necked. If we have love for Jehovah and for the organization of his people we shall not be suspicious, but shall, as the Bible says, 'believe all things,' all the things that The Watchtower brings out, inasmuch as it has been faithful in giving us a knowledge of God's purposes and guiding us in the way of peace, safety and truth from its inception to this present day.

 * In recent years in many lands a beard or long hair on a man attracts immediate notice and may, in the minds of the majority, classify such a person undesirably with extremists or as rebels against society. God's ministers want to avoid making any impression that would take attention away from their ministry or hinder anyone from listening to the truth. They know that people are watching true Christians very critically and that to a great extent they judge the entire congregation and the good news by the minister's appearance as a representative of the congregation.

 * Those who submit to such operations [organ transplants] are thus living off the flesh of another human. This is cannibalistic... Jehovah God did not grant permission for humans to try to perpetuate their lives by cannibalistically taking into their bodies human flesh, whether chewed or in the form of whole organs or body parts taken from others.

 * The features as noted about this "strong angel" combine to indicate that he represents or stands for the glorified Lord Jesus Christ, who before his human birth was the archangel Michael... Is there any question as to who is this Michael the archangel? He is no one else but Jesus Christ the only-begotten Son of God! He is the one who, before our Common Era began, was the heavenly prince of Jehovah's people, including Daniel. Never did he renounce the right to that heavenly name, even when he became a perfect man here on earth in order to work for the interests of God's Messianic kingdom and to ransom all mankind by offering himself to God for a perfect human sacrifice. After his resurrection from the dead and his return to heaven, he resumed that heavenly name.

 * Extreme hair styles can easily lead one into a trap of the Devil also, and cause others to stumble. For example, a young man in the United States was making fine progress in his study of the Bible, and he was moved to share with an experienced Witness in preaching to others about the good things he was learning from the Bible. From early youth he had let his beard grow, and since some in the business community wore beards, he felt that his wearing one in preaching to others would be acceptable generally. But in speaking to a lady he was unable to do more than introduce himself, when she said: "I'm sorry, young man, I do not want to become involved in student revolt." No amount of explanation after this sufficed to clear up the misimpression. After the conversation ended with the closing of the door, he asked the experienced Witness what had happened. He was invited to consider his appearance in relation to what he claimed to be, a servant of God. Not wanting to be responsible for even one person's being stumbled so as to miss the way to everlasting life, this new Kingdom publisher shaved off his beard. Would you be willing to do the same or to make similar adjustments if your appearance gave the wrong impression in a certain community?

 * Avoid independent thinking... questioning the counsel that is provided by God's visible organization.

 * The disgusting idolatry of the religions of Christendom and pagandom has been set aside by Jehovah's restored people. Their worship is not distributed to three gods in one, the so-called godhead of some mysterious Trinity, but they are united as the one people who worship the one God, Jehovah.

 * It may be argued, too, that organ transplants are different from cannibalism since the "donor" is not killed to supply food... While the Bible specifically forbids consuming blood, there is no Biblical command pointedly forbidding the taking in of other human tissue. For this reason, each individual faced with making a decision on this matter should carefully and prayerfully weigh matters and then decide conscientiously what he or she could or could not do before God.

 * Why have Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowshipped (excommunicated) for apostasy some who still profess belief in God, the Bible, and Jesus Christ? […]  Approved association with Jehovah's Witnesses requires accepting the entire range of the true teachings of the Bible, including those Scriptural beliefs that are unique to Jehovah's Witnesses. What do such beliefs include? That the great issue before humankind is the rightfulness of Jehovah's sovereignty, which is why he has allowed wickedness so long. (Ezekiel 25:17) That Jesus Christ had a prehuman existence and is subordinate to his heavenly Father. (John 14:28) That there is a "faithful and discreet slave" upon earth today 'entrusted with all of Jesus' earthly interests,' which slave is associated with the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses. (Matthew 24:45-47) That 1914 marked the end of the Gentile Times and the establishment of the Kingdom of God in the heavens, as well as the time for Christ's foretold presence. (Luke 21:7-24; Revelation 11:15-12:10) That only 144,000 Christians will receive the heavenly reward. (Revelation 14:1, 3) That Armageddon, referring to the battle of the great day of God the Almighty, is near. (Revelation 16:14, 16; 19:11-21) That it will be followed by Christ's Millennial Reign, which will restore an earth-wide paradise. That the first to enjoy it will be the present "great crowd" of Jesus' "other sheep."-John 10:16; Revelation 7:9-17; 21:3, 4.
 * Q&A from

 * When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.

 * TV creates a world wherein actions are blissfully free of consequences. The laws of conscience, of morality, and of self-control are replaced by the law of instant gratification.
 * Awake! 5/22/91

 * TV not only defines what is reality, but much more importantly and disturbingly, TV obliterates the very distinction, the very line, between reality and unreality.”
 * Awake! 5/22/91

 * These words may sound alarmist to those who think they are impervious to television’s influence. ‘I don’t believe everything I see,’ argue some. Granted, we may tend to distrust TV. But experts warn that this knee-jerk brand of skepticism may not protect us from the subtle ways TV plays on our emotions. As one writer put it: “One of TV’s best tricks is to never let on just how much it affects our psychic mechanisms.”
 * Awake! 5/22/91

 * In former times thousands of youths died for putting God first. They are still doing it, only today the drama is played out in hospitals and courtrooms, with blood transfusions the issue.

 * Neuroscientists say that during our present life span, we use just a small part of our potential brain power, only about 1/10,000, or 1/100 of 1 percent, according to one estimate. Think about it. Is it reasonable that we would be given a brain with such miraculous possibilities if it was never to be used fully? Is it not reasonable that humans, with the capacity for endless learning, were actually designed to live forever?

 * Jehovah's Witnesses have been targets of false accusations - barefaced lies and twisted presentations of their beliefs... The accusation that numerous children of Jehovah's Witnesses die each year as a result of refusing blood transfusions is totally unfounded.

 * Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that they have successfully reestablished first-century Christianity, the form of Christianity that Jesus’ apostles practiced.

What Does the Bible Really Teach? (2014 ed.)

 * As noted earlier, some religions teach that if a person lives a bad life, after death he will go to a place of fiery torment to suffer forever. This teaching dishonors God. Jehovah is a God of love and would never make people suffer in this way. (Read 1 John 4:8.) How would you feel about a man who punished a disobedient child by holding his hands in a fire? Would you respect such a man? In fact, would you even want to get to know him? Definitely not! You would likely think that he was very cruel. Yet, Satan wants us to believe that Jehovah tortures people in fire forever - for countless billions of years!
 * p. 64

 * These 144,000 Christians, including Jesus' faithful apostles, are raised to life in heaven. When does their resurrection take place? The apostle Paul wrote that it would occur during the time of Christ's presence. (1 Corinthians 15:23) As you will learn in Chapter 9, we are now living in that time. So those few remaining ones of the 144,000 who die in our day are instantly resurrected to life in heaven. (1 Corinthians 15:51-55) The vast majority of mankind, however, have the prospect of being resurrected in the future to life in Paradise on earth.
 * p. 74

 * Here is another truth about God's Kingdom: Jesus will not rule alone. He will have corulers. For example, the apostle Paul told Timothy: "If we go on enduring, we will also rule together as kings." (2 Timothy 2:12 Yes, Paul, Timothy, and other faithful ones who have been selected by God will rule together with Jesus in the heavenly Kingdom.
 * p. 78

 * Since the days of the apostles, God has been selecting faithful Christians in order to complete the number 144,000.
 * p. 78

 * During the 19th and 20th centuries, sincere Bible students progressively discerned that the waiting period would end in 1914... World events that began in 1914 confirm that the understanding of these sincere Bible students was correct. The fulfillment of Bible prophecy shows that in 1914, Christ became King and God's heavenly Kingdom began to rule. Hence, we are living in the "short period of time" that Satan has left.
 * pp. 84-5

 * Today, angels no longer appear visibly to God's people on earth. Although invisible to human eyes, God's powerful angels still protect his people, especially from anything spiritually harmful.
 * p. 98

 * Although [demons] are now unable to take on human bodies, they still exercise a very bad influence over humans. In fact, with the help of these demons, Satan "is misleading the entire inhabited earth."
 * p. 100

 * To mislead people, the demons use spiritism. The practice of spiritism is the involvement with the demons, both in a direct way and through a human medium. The Bible condemns spiritism and warns us to keep free from everything connected with it.
 * p. 100

 * Although many people think that practicing divination is harmless, the Bible shows that fortune-tellers and wicked spirits work together.
 * pp. 100-1

 * Wicked spirits not only mislead people but also frighten them. Today, Satan and his demons know that they have only "a short period of time" left before they are put out of action, and they are now more vicious than ever.
 * p. 103

 * People who want to serve Jehovah need to get rid of everything related to spiritism. That includes books, magazines, movies, posters, and music recordings that encourage the practice of spiritism and make it seem appealing and exciting.
 * p. 103

 * What about the life of an unborn child? Well, according to the Mosaic Law, causing the death of a baby in its mother's womb was wrong. Yes, even such a life is precious to Jehovah. (Read Exodus 21:22, 23; Psalm 127:3.) This means that abortion is wrong.
 * p. 127

 * Does the command to abstain from blood include blood transfusions? Yes. To illustrate: Suppose a doctor were to tell you to abstain from alcoholic beverages. Would that simply mean that you should not drink alcohol but that you could have it injected in your veins? Of course not! Likewise, abstaining from blood means not taking it into our bodies at all. So the command to abstain from blood means that we would not allow anyone to transfuse blood into our veins.
 * p. 130

 * Because of the connections that Christmas has with false religion, however, those who want to please God do not celebrate it or any other holiday that has its roots in pagan worship.
 * pp. 158-9

 * Maybe you feel that the origins of holidays have little to do with how they are celebrated today. Do origins really matter? Yes! To illustrate: Suppose you saw a piece of candy lying in the gutter. Would you pick up that candy and eat it? Of course not! That candy is unclean. Like that candy, holidays may seem sweet, but they have been picked up from unclean places. To take a stand for true worship, we need to have a viewpoint like that of the prophet Isiah, who told true worshipers: "Touch nothing unclean!" - Isiah 52:11.
 * p. 159

 * Jesus himself set the example by being baptized in water. He was not sprinkled with water, and he did not just have some water poured over his head. (Matthew 3:16) The word "baptize" comes from a Greek term meaning "dip under water". Christian baptism therefore means being fully dipped, or immersed, in water.
 * p. 175

 * In replacing God's name with titles, Bible translators make a serious mistake. They make God seem remote and impersonal, whereas the Bible urges humans to cultivate "close friendship with Jehovah". (Psalm 25:14)
 * p. 196

 * Clearly, the name Jehovah belongs in the Bible. Knowing its meaning and using it freely in our worship are powerful aids in drawing closer to our heavenly Father Jehovah.
 * p. 197

Quotes about Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

 * When the experts accuse Jehovah’s Witnesses for their teachings, they do not realize that they are actually making accusations against the Bible.
 * Dr. N. S. Gordienko, professor of religious studies at the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg.

 * They would choose to die rather than kill someone. Consequently, I am sure if only Jehovah’s Witnesses lived on the earth then wars would not break out anywhere.
 * Ring magazine (November 4, 1992).

 * They do not abuse alcohol, they do not smoke, they are not money hungry, they do not break their promises, nor give false witness . . . It is not a mysterious sect, but law-abiding citizens. [They] are respectable, happy people, interested in history, literature, art, and life in all its aspects. To alter Voltaire’s words, we could say that if Jehovah’s Witnesses did not exist, we would do well to invent them.
 * Professor Anatoly P. Zilber, chairman of the Department of Intensive Care and Anesthesia, Petrozavodsk University and Republican Hospital of Karelia, Russia.

 * Jehovah’s Witnesses inculcate in their children high moral principles. They teach their children to avoid behavior, actions and even attitudes that, [while] considered in today’s world as normal, can be harmful to the children themselves and others. Therefore they warn their children about the dangers of using drugs, smoking and the abuse of alcohol. They recognize the importance of honesty and hard work. . . . Jehovah’s Witnesses teach their children moral qualities, to respect the authorities, other individuals and their property and to be law abiding citizens.
 * The History of Religion in Ukraine, edited by Professor Petro Yarotskyi.

 * When they read in the Bible, they believe God is talking to them. Whenever problems appear in their lives, they take God’s Word and search in it for a solution. . . . For them, God’s Word is still alive.
 * Catholic clergyman Benjamin Cherayath, Münsterländische Volkszeitung newspaper, Germany.

 * I often say that the best prevention for AIDS is for one to become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, for the members of that religion are neither homosexuals nor bisexuals, they are loyal to their marriage—they associate it with reproduction—don’t use drugs and, to complete the picture, they don’t accept blood transfusions.
 * Professor Vicente Amato Neto, Brazilian expert on infectious diseases.

 * The conventions and arrangements they have are almost perfect in their form and order. Nothing is left to chance. The success of sports teams and youth-group projects is often dependent on the willingness of each member to lend a hand. These should take note of the way Jehovah’s Witnesses organize their projects. Much can be learned by observing the willing spirit they display. It is almost unbelievable.
 * Troms Folkeblad (Norwegian newspaper) July 15, 1986.

 * No Jehovah’s Witness will ever go to war. . . . If everyone in the world in position of power had been of this faith, [World War II] would never have happened.
 * Holocaust Educational Digest.

 * It ought to be said that Jehovah’s Witnesses are the first to live the faith they preach: They don’t get angry, they don’t smoke, they don’t accumulate riches, they keep out of political discussions, . . . they pay the taxes, they follow a virtuous and honest life-style, they are happy and obliging. All of this has made them well liked.
 * Catholic magazine Mondo erre (March 1986).

 * Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted for who they were. The Witnesses were persecuted wholly for their religious beliefs and because they did not believe in racism, in swearing allegiance to an evil, worldly dictator. And they didn’t believe in fighting his war. . . . Jews struggled to maintain their values and their faith against tremendous opposition. The museum celebrates such spiritual resistance. For that reason, this institution also acknowledges and admires the faith of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi era.
 * Historian Dr. Jud Newborn of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City.

 * Big mother is alive and well and living in Brooklyn, New York! Her "children" live with the constant reminder of that fact. While the Christian is taught to have faith in Jesus Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses are told to put faith in an organization. An individual Witness has no direct personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Their hope of eternal life depends not upon Jesus alone but upon a chain of salvation in which the organization is an essential link.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 109

 * A Witness who dies either naturally or at the battle of Armageddon without reconciliation with the organization goes immediately into eternal death, along with all mankind who do not come to God's true spirit-directed organization.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 109

 * Truth, as understood by Jehovah's Witnesses, changes continually as "new light shines forth." They are conditioned to expect and accept change as a normal consequence of advancing or progressive truth. Witnesses accept this phenomenon even thought the change may reverse a belief long held dear and may be very costly to the individual Witness. As with the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's society, the Watch Tower organization sanitizes its history and eliminates anything that discredits it. These adjustments by the "faithful slave" organization are made continually and are passed off as increasing "light" or a refinement of understanding.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 115

 * When a person is disfellowshipped from the organization, he is treated like a leper. He must be totally shunned by Witnesses. He cannot even be greeted on the street. Should a Witness decide to ignore this rule and associate withe the disfellowshipped friend or relative, he in turn will be disfellowshipped.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 124

 * Jesus never taught that God's kingdom was a government composed of Himself and 144,000 co-rulers from the earth. He never taught a two-stage coming with a protracted invisible presence culminating in a destructive cataclysm. He never taught that His heavenly bride of associates would engage in a cleansing and perfecting of manking. He did not teach that there would be two classes of believers- heavenly and earthly. He certainly never taught that God's kingdom rule would not have His personal visible oversight here on the planet but instead would be ruled by Witness elders or "princes" during the millennial reign. And He most certainly did not suggest that people would be separated into two classes of sheep and goats based on a parabolic faithful and discreet slave's spiritual food as offered and served by door-to-door consumer/publishers.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 143-44

 * A person who is initially exploring the Witnesses will not immediately learn what is really believed about Jesus. The use of familiar Christian terminology might lead some to believe that the Witnesses' Jesus is the same as the traditional Jesus. But that is not the case. The Jesus of the Watch Tower is actually Michael the archangel!
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 145

 * ... to Jehovah's Witnesses, there is a strange preoccupation with anything remotely related to demons. Persons who oppose the Watch Tower are referred to as "demonized". Should a Witness develop a nervous condition, the demons are immediately suspect. Demons continually come up in normal conversation among Witnesses. Their literature and discourses also make reference to demons on a continual basis. In the Watch Tower Publications Index, published in 1986, there are approximately 5000 references to the occult.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 159

 * The New American Standard Bible renders the verse "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." This verse is one of the strong statements in the Bible concerning the deity of Jesus Christ, and all legitimate, recognized translations have a similar rendering. However, the Watch Tower renders the last phrase "and the Word was a god." In other words, he is a lesser god - one of many. This effectively denigrates Christ's deity.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 169

 * The really important question is: Do Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood on scriptural grounds or because the Watch Tower organization tells them to? We believe that if the organization published a different interpretation of the Bible verses which they use in support of their stand on blood, Jehovah's Witnesses would agree to take blood transfusions without any hesitation. Why do we say this? Because as soon as the Watch Tower leadership reversed its teaching on vaccination, organ transplants, and blood serums and fractions, thousands of Witnesses abandoned their conscientious refusal. They were really following the changeable Watch Tower organization's instructions rather than the Scriptures, which never change.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 189

 * If blood is essentially an organ transplant, and organ transplants are now permissible for Jehovah's Witnesses, does it follow that perhaps the Governing Body will eventually change their rules on blood transfusion? Unfortunately, we feel they will not. They have dug themselves into a deep hole with this teaching. The Watch Tower leadership will never directly say that taking blood is up to the individual's conscience, because of the serious reaction they would receive from members who have let a loved one die. Parents would realize that their children had died needlessly and might be tempted to storm the doors of Watchtower headquarters.
 * Leonard & Marjorie Chretien (1988), Witnesses of Jehovah: A Shocking Exposé of What Jehovah's Witnesses Really Believe, Harvest House Publishers, p. 190

 * In many ways the Witnesses have become ossified. For many decades now they have pursued the same missionary techniques with little adjustment for either societal or technological changes. More and more they have become hostile to new intellectual developments, the intellectual world, and to independent-minded intellectuals in their own ranks. And more significantly, their leadership has become a self-perpetuating caste which refuses to open itself to new and constructive criticism of any sort.
 * M. James Penton (2015), Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, Third Edition, University of Toronto Press, pp. 8-9

 * At first congregational judicial committees acted largely against persons who disagreed openly with the society's teachings and policies. Such were those who "created divisions" or "promoted sects" as described by Romans 16:17, 18 and Titus 3:10, 11. However, this focus changed from 1952 forward for many years. What the society became primarily concerned with from that date until the late 1970s was "keeping the organization clean." Consequently, through congregational committees, it began to disfellowship fornicators, adulterers, drunkards, and persons guilty of other immoral practices. As time went by, it broadened the number of offences for which one could be cast out of the Witness community. For example, associating with a disfellowshipped person was, for a dedicated Jehovah's Witness, declared a ground for disfellowshipment as was the taking of a blood transfusion after 1961. Disfellowshipment became a terrible weapon. Witnesses in good standing were not to speak to disfellowshipped persons or even to greet them. In business dealings, they were to relate to them as little as possible. When they died, they were not to attend their funerals. To all intents and purposes they were regarded as eternally damned.
 * M. James Penton (2015), Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses, Third Edition, University of Toronto Press, pp. 118-119

 * There is nothing in the English-speaking world to compare with the system presented in the books for error. The great heretical leaders of the early centuries were not more daring, more blasphemous or more destructive than is the author of these books. They contradict almost every fundamental of evangelical faith by a bold denial of the proper deity, incarnation, resurrection, ascension and high priestly intercession of Jesus Christ.
 * Rev. J. J. Ross (1913), Some Facts about the Self-Styled "Pastor" Charles T. Russell (of Millennial Dawn Fame), Philadelphia School of the Bible, Inc., p. 7

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Talk:Alan Greenspan

I found, what I believe is an accurate quote, but I really have no backup for it. If anyone can help us find out where and when it was printed or spoken, please let me know the source. Many FairTax supporters will be very pleased if you can help us. Thanks in advance!

"A consumption tax would be an excellent alternative to our current overly burdensome and complicated federal income tax system. It would create the economic growth, capital investment and savings that the United States so desperately requires." - Alan Greenspan

 * If you don't get any response here, you can also post your request at Reference desk. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

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Ronin Warriors

Ronin Warriors is the North American dubbed version of Yorodien Samurai Troopers, © to Graz Entertainment. It is an anime (Japanese cartoon) depicting the adventures of five young men, the Ronin Warriors, and their friends, such as Mia Koji, White Blaze the tiger and the little boy Yuli as they face Talpa, Evil Emperor of the Nether Realm Dynasty, and his four dark Warlords in a fight to save civilization. The television show is 39 episodes in length, and there were three animated films made to show what happened after the show ended. (Gaiden, Legend of the Inferno Armor and Message).

Ryo Sanada

 * You want trouble? come and get it!

 * So, Sekhmet, your power isn't just overwhelming body odor, but sleight of hand, too!

 * Yuck, Talpa has bad taste. Needs color.

 * If you want this armor so bad, you'll have to pay the price! Try it on first, if it fits, it's yours!

 * Ah, excuse me, but we do know how to fight, and we don't need you to tell us what to do.

 * Ugh, man, I can barely move. Rowen, you didn't happen to get that license plate number of the truck that hit me, didja?

 * [To Sekhmet] Your mother wears army boots!

 * That does it, I don't wanna end up like sliced salami!

 * Hey, whoa, wait a minute Kento! What you talkin' about?

 * They're juiced!

 * Now I'm jammin'!

 * Listen! Listen to me everyone, before it's too late!

 * That thing's got juice!

 * Demon, I will never allow you or your master to win!

 * I can't- No, I won't fail!

 * I'm on fire from the inside out, but my body's more powerful than ever.

 * Let's go, metal head!

 * If I'm going down, ugly, you're going with me!

 * [Referring to Yuli watering his mother's wilted plants] It's kind of pointless to water plants when they're almost dead.

 * [trying to tell Mia she does not need to wrack her brain at the moment] Mia, your grandfather just died.

 * This place reminds White Blaze of his home in the Himalayas.

 * I'm going to shut your face up for good, diesel breath.

 * Come on, think, Ryo, think.... Okay, if I can sense where he is maybe I can dodge him. Now, where is he? I can't find him! If I can't find him, I'm finished. I'm dead!

 * With my armor on, I can swim like a fish.

 * Let's kick it!

 * Talpa, we're coming for you!

 * Talpa, you're mine! - The Legend of the Armor

 * I can't die until I've killed you first, Talpa!

 * If I kill Talpa, my friends will die, but if I don't, he will destroy the world!

 * Kento does suffer from chronic hunger.

 * The Ronin Warrior armors might have been formed from Talpa's evil armor and they might get their power from him, but I am going to destroy that evil and protect the human world from it, no matter what it takes. I'll use this armor, and I won't doubt myself any more. I've made my pledge. Ancient One, I will save this world from Talpa.

 * (before summoning the Inferno for the first time) To win we must have Trust and Wisdom and Justice merged with Life Force. Then I will have the power!

 * She is like mega fast, man.

 * One down, ten-thousand to go.

 * Sorry, babe, you're not on our list today.

 * We're here to rescue our friends, and you can't stop us.

 * I just want a shot at one particular Dynasty babe!

 * I'm not afraid.

 * [Ully saves his life and kills Talpa] Thanks Ully, I couldn't have done it without you. You saved my life.

Sage Date

 * Whoa, check out ugly! I'm Sage of the Halo. My power seeks wisdom!

 * Big talk for a tin can! Can ya back it up?

 * Mia, you'd just slow me down. I gotta go check it out by myself.

 * Ryo, no need to get bummed out. You took care of Talpa, so we'll take care of this. Don't worry, everything will be all right.

 * Listen up, freak face! There's nothing we wanna hear from you!

 * That's right! As soon as Ryo brings Rowen back, the five of us are going to finish you off, once and for all!

 * [To Mia] Don't worry, I'll think of something! [after a moment] Run!

 * I think Lord Faceless is really playing with Ryo's head.

 * Hey guys, do we have a plan? This is bad, we're like sitting ducks up here!

 * Well, I guess they've been taking their vitamins.

 * [To Ryo] I'm sorry I caused you so much trouble.

 * Well, I didn't really need the beauty sleep, but I guess my armor needed some time to recharge its power.

 * If I catch the sun's rays and reflect them correctly from the blade of my sword into his eyes, I may be able to restore his sight.

 * [To Kento] Yeah, and you need your beauty sleep!

 * Let's jam it.

 * [To Kento] All you've got on your mind right now is a fight!

 * You really think you can shut me down with this shallow darkness?

 * Now, I'm going to fill you full of hot light!

 * We're going to regroup and take Talpa down. We'll win.

 * This is intense.

 * Give me a break, will ya? I had it under control.

 * I'm not going to leave you!

 * [to Ryo] Our souls are in your hands! Take your best shot!

 * I am not like you! I'm fighting for the safety of the mortal world, not the destruction of it! No matter what it takes, I won't let you win!

 * If you give up now, you'll be doing exactly what Talpa wants you to do. So don't. We can't let him win. If we wait, our chance will come.

 * Kayura, you better find a new home because the Dynasty's going to crumble.

 * That was a cheap shot, even for the three of you.

 * If the Ronin Warriors come up against Kayura again, Anubis, it's over for her.

 * Let's get armed and smoke all those tin heads.

 * We won't give up fighting till we stop you. You ought to know that by now.

Cye Mouri

 * Up here, buckethead! I'm Cye of the Torrent. Trust is my symbol!

 * Chill out, Kento, the food's not going anywhere.

 * Sorry for the waterworks, my friends, but it should drain off any second- whoooooaaaa!

 * [about the poison Sekhmet tried to use against him] Ah, Sekhmet, I wouldn't put it on the menu. It's a little bland for me.

 * Yeah, this is easy! Just like shooting the rapids, at level four!

 * What for? You can already beat up sand dunes.

 * He's gonna work this thing out. I know Ryo; he'll pull himself together.

 * Heh, like Ryo needs help from someone as rock-headed as you are, Kento.

 * He sure takes his work seriously!

 * Of all the low-down, dirty tricks to pull!

 * So, have you been raiding the fridge at night again, Kento?

 * That's right, and Kento didn't even have his lunch yet!

 * Every creature on this earth will suffer, that is if Talpa ever gets his way.

 * [Inquiring after Rowen] Can't we go on without him?

 * It's just like shooting fish in a barrel.

 * So, do we knock?

 * Give my best to Talpa!

 * to Kento] We know you're a pig.

 * '[to the poisonous doppelganger of his armor]'' You've got a lot of nerve calling yourself Torrent, when you're the one polluting the water, mate!

 * I had to fight for my life against a Dark Warlord, but it was nothing I couldn't handle.

 * Hey, don't worry! I'll look after Kento!

 * Hey guys! The surf's up!

 * Energy bomb! Talpa's making waves!

 * Real strength comes from the support of true friends

Kento Rei Faun

 * Hey, buddy! You're saving the fun all for yourself? Call me Kento of Hardrock. Justice is my reward!

 * Man, your squawkin' is enough to make a guy hurl! Put a lid on it, or am I gonna hafta come up there?!

 * You won't stand a chance, fathead!

 * Man, I'll make sand castles outta your goons!

 * Yeah, what scumbag? You gonna pull a rabbit outta your hat?

 * Well, it won't matter much if we don't hurry up and get there.

 * I doubt it.

 * Oh boy.... I, uh- I can't swim!!

 * Open wide, 'cause I'm gonna make you eat your words!

 * Scumbag! You better give it up!

 * [To Cye] Are you reality impaired, or what, dude?

 * You really shoulda finished us off when you had the chance!

 * Aw, I'm starving! What's takin' Mia so long? I'll probably be dead and buried by the time she gets here and fixes us something to eat.

 * Why'd you wake me up? I was having this great dream.

 * Four against two, those are my kinda odds!

 * Dude needs a reality check. Let's finish him off, come on!

 * Talpa, you big maggot!!

 * Man, I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore....

 * '[upon seeing a subway car filled with Netherworld soldiers]'' Whoa, Soldier Express.

 * You've run out of illusions now, Mr. Hocus Pocus.

 * Eat concrete!

Rowen Hashiba

 * You were going to introduce us to your friends, would you? I am Rowen of the armor Strata.  These are my friends, heads-up!

 * [To Kento] Eh, I heard ya stomach growlin' a mile away.

 * The Warlords changed right before my eyes. I could almost see 'em turn good. You could see it on their faces.

 * I'm gonna smash your swords to pieces with my Arrow of Life Force.

 * Ugh, I can't believe ya blocked all my arrows. What's up with that?

 * Hey, Ryo's my friend, too, but until he gets his head straight, we can't depend on him.

 * Lady Kayura! She's a girl!

 * [to Anubis of Cruelty] Huh? You! You're.... a man! A human being like us!

 * Ryo, what happened? You look like you've been in a dog fight!

 * [mocking] Looks like I'm fallin' for ya Kayura!

 * An eye for an eye, that's all I want.

 * [To Anubis] It's my turn to kick your butt.

 * Talpa must be losing his touch.

 * Rowen of the Strata and Kento of Hardrock at your service.

 * We heard all the blastin' and bashin'.

 * Let's jam! He needs that new armor like yesterday!

 * You'll get yours!

 * Doesn't he know the dungeon look is out?

 * How can you be so evil, Kayura?

 * Sorry we're late. We missed the exit on the freeway.

 * She's more beast than beauty.

Anubis, Warlord of Cruelty and Disciple of the Ancient One

 * You are weak, Wildfire. This is no contest! Come now, you are really starting to bore me.

 * [To Kento] You jest boy! You cannot fight me without your armor!

 * It makes no difference! You are my enemy, and I must fight you!

 * [To Talpa] No, Master! I can win!!!

 * Enough! I will no longer obey Talpa's evil commands!

 * Talpa was wrong about one thing; He and the Nether World are not my destiny.

 * That is.... truly sad.

 * Ryo of the Wildfire. It's been a long time.

 * You have to understand that in Talpa's world, your will is taken from you. There is no freedom, in body or soul. You cannot fight it, even if you want to. I would have been evil all my life if I hadn't been freed and saved from Talpa's hold by the Ancient. And now, I have found the Truth, and I found my true self as well.

 * For the ones who really must be saved, it may already be too late, for they have given up their souls to the Dynasty.

 * Young lady, stars shine only in the sky, and those that fall to Earth never shine again.

 * It is my tongue that speaks the Truth.

 * I have sworn to the Ancient that I will break Badamon's hold on you. For you are the last descendant of his clan. That is my destiny.

 * Four hundred years ago, I was a warrior in my small village. During that time, I was a restless young man. I had great ambitions, though. I was going to be the greatest warrior the world had ever seen. I was determined to bring honor to myself and to my family, but my successes were never enough. I was impatient, greedy. The more power I won, the more power I wanted. Honor was no longer important to me: Power was. Talpa came at a time when I was ripe for his dark promises. I was so wild, so easily seduced into Talpa's Dark Nether World.

 * Ancient, are you telling me to fight again? If this is what you wish from me, then I will become the Ogre once more! TO ARMS!

 * Make ready, for this is our first and final battle!

 * As you wish, Kayura. Feel my fury!!

Sekhmet, Warlord of Venom

 * This is not your affair, Ronin Rodents.

 * My swords of venom can rip through bones and flesh without even touching them! Enjoy the experience.

 * I won't finish you off, yet. I want to have a little fun first.

 * There is a fine line between caution and cowardice.

 * And I always say one good sword deserves another!

 * It appears our three, oh, sorry, two friends are in trouble.

 * Let's see how well you speak without your tongue, then.

 * Relax, Wildfire, and enjoy the excruciating agony!

 * Oh, I'm offended that you think so little of my clever manuevers. Perhaps I'm being a little too subtle for you?

 * Sire, I would not call it fear. If we could just crush the last two!

 * The end is near, Ryo of the Wildfire. Can you feel it?

 * Say your prayers, Ronin Dogs!

 * You are wasting your last breath.

 * My Snake Fang Sword rots anything it touches, including stupid little boys.

 * Don't mess with me.

 * [To Talpa] You were using us to get the 9 armors!

Cale, Warlord of Darkness and Corruption

 * You are making this too easy! I prefer my prey to be more of a challenge.

 * Aww, look! My sword searches for his heart.

 * Don't resist. Can you not see it is too late to escape your destiny? Stand up and fight me, now!

 * I've come to put the fear of darkness in your heart!

 * [To Talpa] Yes, Master! And since they are alone, they are more vulnerable. They can not engage the Armor of Inferno. One by one, they will join us.

 * We do not need your assistance now.

 * She's not better than us! We are Dark Warlords of the Dynasty and she is just a mere girl.

 * It looks like you failed to protect them, Anubis! Now what will you do, traitor?

 * Welcome to my world, Cye of Torrent. The dreaded darkness is closing all around you like death. Are you ready to welcome it?

 * You've become what you feared! Now you are developing an evil mind, Sage. But perhaps you need more guidance?

 * We must obey. It is Talpa's will.  Even if we are sacrificed, it will bring great honor to the Evil Dynasty!

 * [To Talpa] Liar! What you offered was not immortality!

Dais, Warlord of Illusion

 * Do you like to play games?!

 * Once you drink in the madness, all else will vanish!

 * You have the subtelty of a bulldozer, Kento of Hardrock. You can throw yourself against the Dynasty's army with all your might, but still we are unstoppable!

 * Kento of Hardrock, I am sorry to disappoint you once again, but you'll never get it through your thick skull that your brute force is nothing to me, especially when I wasn't even there to feel it!

 * A valiant effort, but it will do you no good!

 * Come along, Ronin, you're lagging. Too slow, too little, too late!

 * Ah, but I think you will find that reality has a bite!

 * Hmph. You don't trust your own eyes?

 * Do it! I don't need any pity from the likes of you!

 * It's too late for regrets. My own selfishness has led me to this.

 * All that I'm hearing from you is more talk than action.

 * [To Talpa] Your wish is my command, Master.

 * Nonsense! This is sheer humiliation! What great rewards do you think you'll gain serving as his paper weight?

 * What a temper! Another one of your weaknesses, little man.

 * [To Talpa] I was a fool for following you, but now I see the truth!

Lord Talpa

 * So, Anubis is awakening to a power other than the Dark Realm. He must be watched...closely.

 * SILENCE!! I will not listen!

 * Anubis, your heart is no longer true to the Dynasty. You have failed me!

 * By my command, close the castle gates!

 * The armors are filled with savageness, evil, and vengeance. As a warrior fights, he will gain more power and bloodlust from his battles. It is that drive that will guide your will.

 * I think I have shown that your armor is only capable of destruction.

 * There are no battles fought by heroes.

 * Your armors are cast of the same metal as my four Warlords.

 * Destroy their flesh! Spare only the armor!

 * Your battle was lost before it started!

 * [after Ryo emerges from his body after being absorbed] Ah, you still live? Good! It will be my greatest pleasure to kill you again!

 * I can see power in your eyes. It is strong, Kayura, stronger than the others, but I hope not too strong.

 * The deed is done. The nine armors are back where they belong. My empire is secure. It is time for the Human World to be consumed by the Nether World. I will rule it all. I hope you can hear this, Ancient One, even if only a sliver of your soul still exists. I have won! I have beaten you! And, after a thousand years, I, Talpa, am back to rule the Mortal World!

 * How dare you defy me! After I offered you the gifts of power and immortality!

 * There is nothing, now, that can prevent me from realizing my ambitions!

 * Already, people are starting to let greed and hatred take them over.

 * That, Warlords, will not change you. I made you and I could destroy you!

 * I am Talpa, the new ruler of your world! I have fought my way from the dark side of the Nether Realm to conquer you! Anyone willing to join my army will experience the untold riches of power and immortality!

 * The Dark Warlords are not strong enough to overthrow the Ronin Warriors. But that will not matter, when the Dark Realm destroys them all! (laughing maniacally)

 * [To Sabre-Stryke and Black Blaze] Stupid beast, you have craved to same fate as your master. Lord Sabre-Stryke, you are always too noble of a swordsman to be any use to me. You have failed the Dynasty no more. (Laughs Evilly)

Lady Kayura

 * I guess I should be considerate and let you get in a couple of good licks; then it can't be said you gave up without a struggle.

 * You know I'll only break your heart.

 * Oh, and now are the big, strong Ronin Warriors going to give me the thrashing I deserve? Two against one hardly seems fair; perhaps if I just use one hand.

 * Oh, is that so? Well, remember to check your armor at the door, because you can check into the Dynasty hotel, but you can never check out.

 * Talpa offers unimaginable gifts.

 * Your tricks won't work at all.

 * Star Sword Scream!

 * Are you boys going to come peacefully, or am I going to have to beat you into submission?

 * You aren't the wise old man I had expected to find.

 * If you leap without looking, the game will be over before you have even begun to play.

 * I am only here to serve your, Master Talpa.

 * There, there.... Poor baby.

 * You're certainly a sorry sight, aren't you?

 * Come on, boys. You gotta be a lot quicker than that if you want to catch me.

 * I advise you to submit. It will be easier for you.

 * And the last little Ronin was blown away. Then, there were none.

 * I'm quite sure I couldn't have thought of something so nimble-minded on my own.

 * Talpa will have all your armor!

 * [regaining the memories of her life before Talpa's reign] Please, no more. I can't....

 * Let it begin.

 * Your arrogance will be rewarded with despair.

 * You will suffer for this, fool!

 * Is that all you have to offer?

 * Anubis, the funeral barge awaits only you.

 * Do you dare defy me?

 * Your confidence is revolting. What chance do you really have, and are you sure you're willing to risk it?

 * I would like to see you endure the most painful death possible.

 * I will follow the will of Anubis. It is my duty as the last descendant of the clan of the Ancients.

 * I'm a warrior for humanity, now.

 * Yuli, the Jewel of Life has great power. It holds the secret to put an end to the evil of the Dynasty.

 * You want to spread your evil over the mortal world, but I won't let you. Talpa, you don't control me any more!

 * You have forgotten that I am descended from the clan of the Ancient One! Your existence will end once and for all!

 * You did it, Ronins! You saved the mortal world! Now that the evil no longer exists, we can return to the Nether Realm. Take care of this world, and farewell, Ronin Warriors.

Mia Koji

 * That is mystical armor!

 * Ryo's armor is the Wildfire. The volcano's heat will power him to fight this Dark Warlord.

 * We fell off a cliff.

 * I'm not like extra baggage.

 * [Referring to Kento] I hope he's wearing his thermal underwear.

 * Forget about me!

 * I have a charge account here. They can't lock us in!

 * Great, Sage!

 * It'll get worse before it gets better.

 * (when Ryo summons the Inferno for the first time) The five Armors have joined together!

Yulie

 * Smokin'!

 * Hey mister, is that a real tiger?

 * Hey, Ryo, put on your armor right now!

 * My mom and dad can run real fast.

 * The Dynasty doesn't just attack the people. They attack everything. - The Counter Attack

 * [After Ryo slaps him] I wish I never met you!

 * While you work, I'm gonna go have some fun.

 * Sage, you smoked 'em.

 * I guess Kento fights better on a full stomach.

 * [playing pretend with White Blaze] I am Yuli of the Wind, and I am ready for battle now!

 * We'll smash our way into Talpa's castle!

 * I wonder if the Ancient One knows that we're helping to save the world from Talpa.

 * That staff is really something.

 * Back off, metal heads! The Jewel of Life will protect us! I dare you to come near me! Don't come one step closer, bucket heads!

 * Don't let 'em get us!

 * Save it for Talpa.

 * (after Ryo emerges from Talpa to fight once more) I knew he could do it.

 * [after the Ronin Warriors seriously wound the Ryo-possesed Talpa] No! Save Ryo!  [the Jewel of Life he carries fires a blast of energy that destroys Talpa and saves Ryo]

 * Goodbye, Lady Kayura! Bye! Bye! Bye!

The Ancient

 * Sage of Halo, listen to me carefully. In the stone called the Throne of the Gods, Kento of Hardrock is in need of your help, but the rock won't be broken by force alone. Sage of Halo, now's the time to realize the full power of your armor: the Thunder Bolt Cut. But, to acquire it, you must achieve the concentration of both mind and body. You must believe the power is inside you now.

 * You must conquer the demons within before battling the ones outside."

 * Try as you might, I will not let you win this battle!" - Wildfire in the Sky

 * Ronin Warriors, hear me, you must trust in the power of your armor. It will answer to what is in your heart. It works according to how your feel.

 * The armors; all are splintered from one spirit. There's virtue, and justice, and wisdom.... and life-force, and also trust.

 * What you see is the soul of your armor.

 * Look inside and listen! You are the one who can feel it! If you live according to the true spirit of the armor, it will guard you and be faithful to you.

 * Open your heart and be transformed by what you find! This is your path. Make it a journey.

 * I will be the bridge to Talpa's domain.

 * Even if you destroy me, they will surely destroy you!

 * I will not allow you to claim this world as your own, demon. Fight me!

 * Ronin Warriors, you have done well. The battle between Talpa and I is destiny. But, I was mistaken to involve you in it. The armors sought you out because of your strength and courage. This battle was inevitable, but not this end.

 * As long as feelings of despair and hopelessness exist in this world, I cannot win.

 * Forgive me.... All of you. I had no right to sacrifice your lives. Your fight is over." - Wildfire's Fight Against Fate

 * The battle between the dark and light powers is neverending. You have to fight with your heart.

 * Kento of Hardrock, the armor will support you if you work with it in harmony.

 * Kento of Hardrock, you are the strongest among the Ronin Warriors, but one great force cannot ruin another. Use the spirit of the armor to push your way through the sands of deception, so you can know them and see what is not there.

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What's Up, Tiger Lily?

What's Up, Tiger Lily? is the first film directed by Woody Allen, who also wrote the script and appeared in the 1966 comedy, which utilized clips from Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (International Secret Police : Key of Keys), a 1965 Japanese spy film. Instead of translating the film, Allen added completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original Japanese film. By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about a secret egg salad recipe.

Phil Moscowitz

 * Saracen pig! Spartan dog! Take this! And this! Roman cow! Russian snake! Spanish fly! Anglo-Saxon Hun!

 * I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Others

 * Wing Fat: Don't tell me what I can do, or I'll have my mustache eat your beard.
 * Shepard Wong: I didn't order any fumigation! It's Wing Fool, you fat! I mean... it's Wing Fat, you fool!

Dialogue

 * High Macha Of Rashpur: Good afternoon. I am the Grand Exalted High Macha of Raspur, a non-existent but real-sounding country.
 * Phil Moscowitz: Uh-huh.
 * High Macha Of Rashpur: Yes. We're on a waiting list. As soon as there's an opening on the map, we're next.

 * High Macha Of Rashpur: [displaying a printed floor plan] This is Shepherd Wong's home.
 * Phil Moscowitz: He lives in that piece of paper?
 * High Macha Of Rashpur: No, you idiot. He's got a regular house!

 * Suki Yaki: I'm such a great piece!
 * Teri Yaki: I wish Phil would get here. It's getting awfully late.
 * Suki Yaki: [Running to answer a knock at the door] It's Phil, bringing the promise of joy and fulfillment in its most primitive form!
 * Teri Yaki: I hope he brought the vibrator.

 * Interviewer: Woody, because the story is a little bit difficult to follow, would you give the audience and myself a brief rundown on what's going on so far?
 * Woody Allen: No.

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Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – July 7, 1881) was an American poet, novelist and musician. Lanier died from complications of tuberculosis; aged thirty-nine.

Quotes

 * Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
 * Preface to The Science of English Verse 1880
 * 'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'
 * From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier)
 * Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.
 * Special Pleading 1875 (Lanier's poem on Time).
 * My principle is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
 * Letter to the poet's father May 6 1876.
 * Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.
 * Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton, New York 1867
 * On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him (Poe) was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet.
 * On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt.
 * On William Morris - He caught a crystal cupful of the yellow light of sunset, and persuading himself to dream it wine, drank it with a sort of smile.
 * On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.
 * From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier)

Poetry

 * O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead! The time needs heart — 'tis tired of head.
 * "The Symphony" (1875).

 * And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred: O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word.
 * "The Symphony" (1875).

 * Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn.
 * "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).

 * The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.
 * "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).

 * Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
 * "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).

 * The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time.
 * "Clover", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Sylvia Browne

Sylvia Browne (October 19, 1936 − November 20, 2013) was a self-proclaimed psychic and medium, the author of numerous books on spirituality.

Quotes

 * Well, I don't even want his million dollars. I don't want his million dollars. I mean, the reason I came on is because he kept you know, my web site, yeah, yeah, and said I would never come on and face him. But I don't care about his million dollars. I mean, I don't need his million.
 * Referring to James Randi's offer of $1 million dollars to test her psychic ability.
 * September 3, 2001 Larry King Live, CNN interview

 * You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. That's interesting you should ask that, because I've never seen angels around bad people.
 * May 16, 2003 Larry King Live, CNN interview

 * A ghost, Larry, is someone who hasn't made it -- in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their -- let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.
 * December 5, 2003 Larry King Live, CNN Interview

 * Noory: [Referring to the Sago Mine disaster] Of course, this is after the fact, with the 12 or 13 coal miners they found successfully.
 * Browne: I know.
 * Noory: Had you been on the program today, and had they not been found, would you have felt as if, because they had heard no sounds, that this was a very gloomy moment, and they might have all died?
 * Browne: No, I knew they were going to be found. Uh, you know, I hate people who say something after the fact. It's just like I knew when the Pope was dead and I said it on, thank God I was on Montel's show, and I said, according to the time, it was 9-something and whatever Rome time was, and I said he's gone, and he was.
 * January 3, 2006, on the U.S. radio program Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
 * Ultimately incorrect: the miners were found dead. January 8, 2006 Fox News Interview

Quotes about Browne

 * Let's look back to just one particularly cruel hoax perpetrated by this woman Browne. Years ago on Montel Williams' show, she spoke to the grandmother of a local missing child, a six-year-old named Opal Jo Jennings who disappeared from her home in north Texas in March of 1999. Browne told the distraught woman that the child was still alive but had been sold into white slavery and was currently being held in Japan. She even gave a city name, but there is no such city in Japan. Moving ahead three years and nine months, we find that the body of little Opal was recovered — just seven weeks ago; she had been killed by a blow to the head. Currently, there is a man in prison in Texas who has confessed to, and been convicted of, Opal Jo's abduction and murder.
 * By James Randi, March 5, 2004 http://www.randi.org/jr/030504newsweek.html#10

 * It's difficult to get involved with her, I try to get her out of my mind as much as possible, but the evil that she spews out there, and the damage she does to people - unsuspecting people that are in crisis situations - is just atrocious.
 * Gary Dufresne, Browne's former husband of 13 years http://stopsylviabrowne.com/articles/interview_dufresnes.shtml

Then Sylvia says: "I hate this when they're in water. I just hate this. She's not alive, honey." What? Why did she say that? Mom's face just drops. I start crying and shouting at the TV. I'm not dead! I'm alive and I'm right here! ... She is a fraud. Now my poor mother is going to be convinced I'm dead, because she trusts Sylvia. This is going to crush her. She has to ignore what she was told and keep believing I'm alive and fighting to bring me home. If she doesn't, how can I keep hoping?
 * "Can you tell me if they'll ever find her?" Mom asks. "Is she out there?"
 * Amanda Berry, kidnapping victim, on seeing Browne tell her mother that she was dead on The Montel Williams Show, in Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (2015)

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006) is a video game developed by Rockstar Leeds in association with Rockstar North, published by Rockstar Games.

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Ricardo Diaz

 * At last, someone who isn't the missing link.

Phil Cassidy

 * Drop your pants and prepare to cry. I'm gonna give you a shotgun suppository.

Marty Jay-Williams

 * Why would I hire a dog, then bark myself?

Victor Vance

 * ME BOSS, You Not ( when you are recruiting a gang member)

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and writer of short stories. He was a pioneer in the writing of detective fiction.

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 * I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
 * Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] (p. 130)
 * Also in Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot by Carolyn Oulton [Springer, 2002, ISBN 0-230-50464-7] (p. 136)

 * People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.
 * Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz] (p. 57)
 * Also in Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Collins & Catherine Peters [Oxford University Press, 1998] (p. 139)

 * Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
 * Man and Wife - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870] (p. 235)
 * Also in Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein [International Universities Press, 2003, 0-823-66681-6] (p. 155)

 * "A very remarkable work... in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells a story. It 's quite incredible, I know. Try the book. It has another extraordinary merit, it isn't written by a woman."
 * The Works of Wilkie Collins: The Black Robe [P.F. Collier, 1900] (p. 328)
 * Also in Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life by Graham Law & Andrew Maunder [Springer, 2008, ISBN 0-230-22750-3] (p. 15)

 * "Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."
 * The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice [Rose-Belford, 1878] (p.288)
 * Also in The Supernatural And English fiction by Glen Cavaliero [Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-192-12607-5] (p. 39)

 * I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story; and I have never believed that the novelist who properly performed this first condition of his art, was in danger, on that account, of neglecting the delineation of character — for this plain reason, that the effect produced, by any narrative of events is essentially dependent, not on the events themselves, but on the human interest which is directly connected with them. It may be possible in novel-writing to present characters successfully without telling a story; but it is not possible to tell a story successfully without presenting characters: their existence, as recognizable realities, being the sole condition on which the story can be effectively told. The only narrative which can hope to lay a strong hold on the attention of readers is a narrative which interests them about men and women — for the perfectly obvious reasons that they are men and women themselves.
 * Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3]  (p. xiv)

The Law and the Lady (1875)

 * The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason
 * Vol. I [Chatto & Windus, 1875] (p. v)
 * Also in Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock by Eleanor Salotto [Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-137-11770-2] (p. 32)

 * No man under Heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace — they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship — they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel.
 * Vol. I [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] (p. 194)
 * Also in The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction edited by Andrew Mangham [Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 1-107-51169-0] (p. 82)
 * The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters [Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 1-400-86345-7] (p. 224)
 * Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, and Ingeborg Bachmann by Sara Lennox [University of Massachusetts Press, 2006, ISBN 1-558-49552-5] (p. 227)

 * I confess I have often fancied myself transformed into some other person, and have felt a certian pleasure in seeing myself in my new chracter. One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.
 * The Law and the Lady [Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1875] ([https://books.google.com/books?id=qPmE-w86r0AC&pg=PA195 p. 195)
 * Also in Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock by Eleanor Salotto [Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-137-11770-2] (p. 39)

The Moonstone (1868)

 * We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
 * The Moonstone [Street, 1868] (p. 49).
 * Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] (p. 22)

 * Rosanna Spearman had been a thief, and not being of the sort that get up Companies in the City, and rob from thousands, instead of only robbing from one, the law laid hold of her, and the prison and the reformatory followed the lead of the law.
 * [Street, 1868] (p. 54)
 * Also in Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England by Anne Schwan [University of New Hampshire Press, 2014, ISBN 1611686725]  (p. 82)

 * Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.
 * [Street, 1868] (p. 86)
 * Also in Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century by Leonard Sweet [Zondervan, 2009, ISBN 0-310-83380-9]

 * Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.
 * [Street, 1868] (p. 50)
 * Also in Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England by Albert D. Pionke [Ohio State University Press, 2004, 0-814-20948-3] (p. 98)

The Woman in White (1859)

 * London: Chatto & Windus, 1896

 * The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
 * Epoch 1, Walter Hartright, ch. VIII
 * Also in The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries by Sophia Andres [Ohio State University Press, 2005, 0-814-20974-2] (p. 86)

 * We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in joy, only in books. Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world, which modern poetry so largely and so eloquently describes, is not, even in the best of us, one of the original instincts of our nature. As children, we none of us possess it. No uninstructed man or woman possesses it. Those whose lives are most exclusively passed amid the ever-changing wonders of sea and land are also those who are most universally insensible to every aspect of Nature not directly associated with the human interest of their calling. Our capacity of appreciating the beauties of the earth we live on is, in truth, one of the civilised accomplishments which we all learn as an Art; and, more, that very capacity is rarely practised by any of us except when our minds are most indolent and most unoccupied. How much share have the attractions of Nature ever had in the pleasurable or painful interests and emotions of ourselves or our friends? What space do they ever occupy in the thousand little narratives of personal experience which pass every day by word of mouth from one of us to the other? All that our minds can compass, all that our hearts can learn, can be accomplished with equal certainty, equal profit, and equal satisfaction to ourselves, in the poorest as in the richest prospect that the face of the earth can show. There is surely a reason for this want of inborn sympathy between the creature and the creation around it, a reason which may perhaps be found in the widely-differing destinies of man and his earthly sphere. The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality.
 * Epoch 1, Walter Hartright, ch. VIII

 * Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
 * Epoch 1, Walter Hartright, ch. IX

 * Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
 * Epoch 2, Marian Halcombe, ch. VIII
 * Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters (p. 224)

 * I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.
 * Epoch 2, Frederick Fairlie
 * Also in The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine Gallagher & Thomas Walter Laqueur (p.110)
 * The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities by Dennis Walder [Routledge, 2013, ISBN 1-136-75006-1] (p.89)

 * My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
 * Epoch 3, Walter Hartright, ch. III
 * Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] (p. 169)

Quotes about Collins

 * What brought good Wilkie's genius nigh perdition? Some demon whispered — 'Wilkie! have a mission.'
 * Algernon Swinburne in The Fortnightly Review (November 1889)
 * Also in Faulks on Fiction (Includes 2 Vintage Classics): Great British Villains and the Secret Life of the Novel by Sebastian Faulks [Random House, 2011, ISBN 1-446-41629-1]
 * Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life by Graham Law & Andrew Maunder [Springer, 2008, ISBN 0-230-22750-3] (p. 124)
 * Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists: Walking the Moral Hospital by Graham Law & Andrew Maunder [Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-838-63444-3] (p. 129)

 * He is very suggestive, and exceeding quick to take my notions. Being industrious and reliable besides, I don't think we should be at an additional expense of £20 in the year...
 * Charles Dickens writing to W. H. Wills in September 1856.
 * Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters [Princeton University Press, 2014, ISBN 1-400-86345-7] (p. 167)

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:55, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

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I've finally completed the conversion from the old vfd-archive-tagged discussions to the new system, using vt and vb as brackets. No pages remain that use this (except now, of course, this VfD nomination). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:39, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:55, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:39, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 02:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 12:16, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 13:57, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 14:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Definitions of anarchism

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The result was: move to Anarchism. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Definitions of anarchism
This page is largely just definitions of "anarchy" or "anarchism" from various dictionaries and encyclopedae. While I suppose you could say that it's quoting the dictionaries, I generally don't think that Wikiquote is a meta-dictionary. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: move to Anarchism (over redirect) (6 moves and keeps that allow moves; 1 keep that is accomodated by a move w/ redirect). Trimming, merging Politics segment, and other redirects can be accomplished as needed. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Trim and move to Anarchism (replacing redirect). I think I managed to completely miss the content of the "Theorists" section after seeing the title, Dictonary and Encyclopediae sections. —LrdChaos (talk) 19:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with LrdChaos. This page has always been a source of controversy and edit wars, and in the end is not really a page with quotes, in the truest sense of the word. ~ UDScott 20:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Move, concur with InvisibleSun and Jeffq. ~ UDScott 12:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This is used often as a resource at Wikipedia, esp. the Anarchism article. (which has a link to it)
 * Keep. - The Dictionary and Encyclopedia sections don't serve much purpose here; but the Theorists section is more than just definition, it seems to me, because the definitions also serve as descriptions or even visions of what anarchism means to its exemplars. There's a bit of overlap with the Anarchism section in Politics, which in fact was where I was redirected when I entered the word "anarchism" in a Wikiquote search. I'd as soon ditch everything but the Theorists section and call the article Anarchism, allowing it to expand in turn and include more than attempts at definition.   - InvisibleSun 22:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Cleanup and rename as InvisibleSun suggests. 121a0012 02:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Move to Anarchism per InvisibleSun. To clarify and expand on InvisibleSun's search comment, the current use of "Anarchism" is a redirect to Politics that would be better accomodated by a "See also" entry. The redirect should be deleted to make way for the move . Add a redirect from Anarchy and we've got a decent parallel to Anarchism. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:24, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, move to Anarchism, split out whatever is relevant from Politics (which is too long anyhow). BD2412 T 20:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: speedy delete (Unremarkable subject). —LrdChaos (talk) 02:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Anthony Antony
Not notable. ~ UDScott 20:44, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed early. Result: speedy delete (Unremarkable subject). —LrdChaos (talk) 02:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 20:44, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 22:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedily delete: unremarkable subject. 121a0012 02:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: Speedy delete (Unremarkable subject). ~ UDScott 11:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

C3
I could not make head nor tail of who this is. According to the first quote it is the nickname of a wrestler, but there is no such wrestler found on Wikipedia; a google search suggested it may be computer simulation of wrestling. The quotes are almost meaningless. David | Talk 22:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed early: Result:Speedy delete (Unremarkable subject) ~ UDScott 11:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. David | Talk 22:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 22:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * . Fails to identify subject or make any assertion of notability, and basic checks uncover no meaningful information. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Template:Ute
This template isn't used by anything, and the poorly-written description gives me no idea what it's for. User:Fabartus created a huge number of templates (including this one) with no discernable purpose; I intend to nominate those for deletion as soon as I can make sure that they're not somehow all dependent on each other and in use somewhere hidden (there are > 50 of them, so it might be a while). —LrdChaos (talk) 15:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia has exactly one use of this template in the entire project — a 12 Sep 2006 post to w:User talk:Radiant! that says "Try a message to Pfctdayelise, for directions", posted unsurprisingly by w:User:Fabartus (aka "FrankB"). The usage is  , and it is a link to commons:User talk:Pfctdayelise. It's an interesting idea, but I see several problems with it. First, I have to wonder if there aren't already similar templates in wider use. Second, I'm not crazy about a template whose syntax saves practically no typing for the user, but does enable ignorance of proper cross-project linking. (One can leave out 6 uncommon characters — 4 braces and 2 vertical bars — by typing  commons:User talk:Pfctdayelise  instead, and everyone  will know or learn how to create this link.) I have other objections, but those are two showstoppers. I am also concerned that this user may have established a bunch of personal-convenience templates that duplicate existing functionality. I'll probably review my vote before this discussion closes to see if we have more info on this and the other templates. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:06, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
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Gary L. Francione

Gary Lawrence Francione (born May 1954) is an American legal academic well known for his writings on animal rights theory and animals and the law.

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 * The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all animal products, is more than a matter of diet or lifestyle; it is a political and moral statement in which the individual accepts the principle of abolition in her own life. Veganism is the one truly abolitionist goal that we can all achieve—and we can achieve it immediately, starting with our next meal.
 * Abolition of Animal Exploitation: The Journey Will Not Begin While We Are Walking Backwards,

 * There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.
 * Veganism: The Fundamental Principle of the Abolitionist Movement,

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title: User talk:Brightbeam


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User talk:Z~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Z. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Z~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:01, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Z~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Charally1

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title: User talk:Charally1


text:
User talk:Helluo

Welcome
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title: User talk:Helluo