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Space: Above and Beyond

Space: Above and Beyond is a short-lived 1990s American science fiction television show on the Fox Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong.

Opening narration

 * "T. C." McQueen: We thought we were alone. We believed the universe was ours. Until one night in 2063, on a Earth colony 16 light-years away, they struck. Now we are at war. We fight when called, in space, on land, and at sea. To lose this war means more than defeat, to surrender is to never go home. All of us must rise to the call... above and beyond.

Episode 1: Pilot Part 1 [1.1]

 * Colonial Governor Borman: Tonight we stand beneath a new heaven. After 150 years of calling out, the silence of the universe assures us that life is unique. We are alone. You and I are among the first to bring life to the stars - to this planet. The farthest any human has ever ventured. I know there are those at home who say that we are here only as a status symbol. Others say that we are fortune hunters, or that we're running away. But I know we're here because of faith - faith in each other, in a better world. The rocket fuel that brought us here can be burnt away, but our belief in ourselves, in one another, in the future, never can be; never will be.

 * Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: I am your senior drill instructor, I am here to turn you slimey civilian cesspool parasites into United States Marine Corp space aviators, invoking bowel wrenching fear into the dark hearts of your enemies

 * Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: I am a road map, i will lead and you will follow, i will teach and you will learn, when you leave my academy you will be weapons, focussed and full of purpose, Hot Rod rocket gods of precision and strength, terrorising across the cosmos and hunting for heaven

 * Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: I am not an officer, I work for a living!

Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: In space, no one can hear you scream, unless it is the war cry of the U.S. Marines!

Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: You might fly an individual rocket but you are a squadron, you are a team, and if your risk your ass you risk the teams

Secretary General of The United Nations, Spencer Chartwell:No matter where you stand on this planet, either beneath the sun's warmth, or the cold of night, the storm cloud's of war gather over our home, soon they may fall in unceasing thunder bolts, we must stand together against the deluge, we cannot possibly retreat

Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: War is what Marines pray for

Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: As part of your training, there is no commanding officer. You are on your own. From this moment until we win this war, the only easy day is yesterday.

Episode 1: Pilot Part 2
Lt. Cooper Hawkes: I never had a mother, but you sound like one.

Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: My advice, go home, see your families, could be the last time.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: Courage, Honour, Dedication, Sacrifice, these are just the words they used to get you here, now the only word that means a damn to you, is life. Yours, your buddies, the one certainty in war is that in an hour, maybe two, you'll either still be alive or you'll be dead.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: That's when we'll teach them something every human knows. Payback's a bitch.

Secretary General Chartwell: The break in the storm is momentary, the thunder shall return, the lightning will certainly strike again.

Lt. Nathan West: Elsewhere, stars are born, other star systems, older, larger, continue to breath, a solar system dies a crib death, if that what it takes, then OK, if I must wait that long, then all right, because when I think of this, nothing is more desirable then the hope of watching that last day when the sun flickers out with you beside me. We will sit alone on a dark chunk of ice on top of the world, and the stars above,beyond and between us, will never shine brighter, as we drift away, into space

Episode 3: The Farthest Man From Home
Survivor: You come here, and, you sit here, and you walk here, and you get in my head, and you, you get in my ears and you get in my eyes and I did nothing, nothing but live and OK, so I'm far from home, I'm very far from home but you, you can go home, the others have gone home, they've gone home and they have left me here, alone.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: Every life in this war is tied together.

Lt. Nathan West: In fifty years from now, on that burned spot, the trees will be back, and so will we.

Episode 4: Dark Side Of The Sun
Lt. Shane Vansen: It's inevitable, the same dream, I'm flying amongst the stars, directly towards the sun, alone, always alone. I become aware of a premonition that the sun is about to explode, and what upsets me most, is why, why did the sun have to die.

Sabrine EW 177: Faith's a bitch

Episode 5: Mutiny
Sgt. Monk: I haven't seen my wife since before the war, she's probably forgot what I look like, I know, I know in my case maybe that's a good thing

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: I don't think about what never was

Ashby: You ever try to do the right thing, but it turns out wrong?

Episode 6: Ray Butts
Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: Kind of a bummer getting your butt kicked by a dead guy.

Lt. Col. Raymond Thomas Butts: Hey I heard of you, Hell, well I didn't know what I was expecting, but it ain't you

Lt. Cooper Hawkes: How come you cant just punch a senior officer?

Lt. Shane Vansen: No one is born that mean, they either put it on for effect, or something happened, something turned them that mean, they can never go back, the worse part is, they know it

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: Whatever your doing I take one look at you and know that it's only about you, and anyone pulled in is going to die while you just drive on

Lt. Col. Raymond Thomas Butts: Maybe you can pull every string, but I pull the rope

Lt. Col. Raymond Thomas Butts: Easy as eating pancakes

Lt. Col. Raymond Thomas Butts: What are you worried about? its dark, you wont even realise you've fallen twenty eight thousand feet

Lt. Col. Raymond Thomas Butts: The first life you take is hard, the second one is harder, then after that you forget whatever it was that made it tough in the first place, but then one day, you come face to face with the other side and it bites back

Episode 7: Eyes
Opening Quote: Tell my mother I died for my country, I did what I thought was best - John Wilkes Booth

Lt. Vanessa Damphousse: No matter what we think, its all just still of our hands

Lt. Paul Wang: How can one murderer change the world with the speed of a bullet?

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: A great warrior, a better man, has fallen

Lt. Vanessa Damphousse: It makes me feel insignificant and supreme at the same time

Ambassador Diane Hayden: These are strange days colonel, there are a lot of scared people, and I must admit with good reason, and there are a lot of paranoid people with no good reason. They believe what they feel, to patronise them them is a serious miscalculation, to ignore them, to hope they will go away is very dangerous.

Lt. Cooper Hawkes: True loyalty can only be demonstrated through the display of manifest actions

Lt. Nathan West: I'd rather have the truth then the medal

Episode 8: The Enemy
Lt. Paul Wang: They say this planet didn't have what it took to become a star                                                              Lt. Vanessa Damphousse: It looks angry about it

Lt. Cooper Hawkes: They had their reasons, They might not have known them, and you might not understand it, but they had their reasons

Episode 9: Hostile Visit
Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen There is only one thing you need to know, anything that's either been learned or discovered in all the centuries of life on earth means nothing right now. Nobody can tell you what to be prepared for. Your enemy has a dark blood thirsty heart, assume everything is dangerous, if in doubt, kill... I wish I was going with you

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Look around you sir, defeat is on every face. Fear and surrender is on everyone's mind at home, the secretary general is ready to give in. I'm not.

Howard Sewell The Trojan Horse, the greatest military manoeuvre in human history and our enemy have no knowledge of its precedence, but that's why we should be studying this technology so we can build our own Trojan Horse instead of wasting it on a stupid act of bravado

Commodore Ross Who am I to tell any man what he should give his life for

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Heroes or fools? That's a determination other people will make in hindsight but by being here now that's a determination that we make for ourselves and it's neither.

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Hope falling upon the dried blood of Union brothers in the Manassas Eve still guides our path, constellations hidden by fierce pacific storms in the Bhutan sky remain obscured by green. The stars, a billion for every life laid down in Vietnam still shine on us and will guide those who follow.

Episode 10: Choice or Chance

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Frightening how much pain an in-vitro, a human body can stand, you'd like to believe the body would break before the will. I held out three days. Once when they were doing stuff to me, I heard screaming, it sounded far off down the hall. I remember thinking, that poor bastard, what must he be going through, then when I came to I realised the screams had been coming from me, save your last bullet

 * Elroy-El Wang, Paul, your boy Elroy will never hurt you again, I promise, scouts honour, but listen I want you to do something for me, it wont take long, will you do that for me?

Episode 11: Stay with The Dead

 * Dr. Kanellos They're dead colonel, they're not going to hold it against him at the tenth reunion

Episode 12: The River of Stars

 * Lt. Paul Wang It had been five months of the most horrific warfare in earth's history. A war in which rivers of blood flowed in trench's for a few yards of advancement. A cold modern war born from ancient nationalistic hatred, a war which saw the introduction of awesome technological weapons : the machine gun, the armoured tank, nerve gas and yet on December 24th 1914 German and British and French soldiers climbed out of their trench's to meet in no man's land to peacefully celebrate Christmas. They sang Christmas carol's, exchanged cigarettes and autographs, posed for pictures, buried their dead. The silence remained throughout Christmas Day, in the following three years eight million would die and less then two decades later the same armies would be engaged in the greatest loss of human life in history. The world had never seen anything like it before and 149 years later to the day its impossible to imagine ever seeing it again.

 * Lt. Paul Wang (reading Romeo and Juliet) And when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.

Episode 13: Who Monitors the Birds

 * Lt. Cooper Hawkes Earth is at war with an advanced alien enemy, my squadron are called "The Wild Cards" the 58th their the only people who've ever cared about me

Episode 14: Level of Necessity

 * Lt. Cooper Hawkes I don't want nobody telling me how I'm gonna go, I just rather it happen then be all spooked up to the moment I die"

 * Lt. Kelly Anne Winslow But that's not part of our rotation, we served our time in hell"

 * Colonel Matthew Burke I dream about your responsibility

 * Colonel Matthew Burke Everybody dies, not everybody see's, I want to see what you see.

Episode 15: Never No More

 * Lt. Shane Vansen Even if you had a detailed report you'd still be wondering why, its the most asked question, why did things turn out this way?

 * Lt. Shane Vansen Look at the moon, Tomorrow night it will set in a different spot, a week from now only half of it will shine, and in two weeks you wont even know that it's there. All that I believe is that no one can know how things can be different, how things can change, the only certainty is now, and I sure dont believe in forever.

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Sir, respectfully you are sending them into the dark without a light.
 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen There has to be something beyond this war.

 * Lt. Shane Vansen The craft has a fuselage, it was bullet shaped and I didn't get a very good look, however, the nose had been marked with writing, in English, and a crude human skull, it read "Abandon All Hope".
 * Lt. Shane Vansen John, I am so sorry that she's not here, but I'm not sorry that I am
 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen When a plane in your formation goes down you'l know your in the school yard.

 * Lt. Shane Vansen I now know that giving your life to someone doesn't mean dying.

Episode 16: The Angriest Angel

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen Who am I and whats the point. My name is Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius McQueen but I know nothing of who I am. The answer I feel is near, the defining perhaps final moment is close. Everyone, everyone in this life knows when the moment is before them. To turn away is simple, to ignore it assures survival but it is an insult to life because there can be no redemption no second chance, beyond death there's nothing. Just darkness and cold. The instance its existence was confirmed, every action, every breath in my life became horrifyingly clear. He's out there at night sending our women and our men to that cold, dark, place and nothing will stop him until I face the moment.

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen With all due respect, I dont think our maker wants to hear from me right now, because he knows im going to go out into that sky in this plane and remove one of his creations from his universe and when I return I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it were Chiggy von Richthofen's blood and celebrate his death.
 * Chaplain Amen.

Episode 17: Toy Soldiers

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: An unloaded weapon always shoots the loudest.

 * Commodore Ross: Don't be in such a hurry to die Lieutenant, you'l get your chance

 * Lt. Shane Vansen: Brothers, Sisters, they always see the difference in each other, they never realise they came from the same place

Episode 18: Dear Earth

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: Parents of marines have lost their sons for 300 years

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: I've been getting an earful of bitching and moaning about pilots getting deployed as ground-pounders, hear this c.f.b (clear as a fucking bell), this is not the Air Force, this is the Corps, air/ground, combat element of The 51st M.E.U. (Marine Expeditionary Unit), every Marine a rifleman. Therefore, you will fight on command, where needed, how needed, do I make myself clear??

 * Lt. Nathan West: And if one day you should receive a yellow envelope from The Marines, don't bother to open it, reread this letter and know how much your sons loved one another and you, and that we are once again together, with all my love, your son.

Episode 19: Pearly

 * Feliciti OH: Cant you just kill anyone without all the theatre?

 * Lt. Cooper Hawkes She's feeling better, she's starting to bitch again

Episode 20: R & R

 * Commodore Ross: Take my word for it, you are not the same person you were when you left home

 * The Host: Here you are all Gods

 * Handsome Alvin: Do you know who Clint Eastwood is, do you?

 * Suzy: Know one thing Lieutenant, every girl's weak spot is the back of her neck

Episode 21: Stardust

 * James Darkmoon: I wish I could have added to this life, instead of taking from it,but a man is what he is.

 * Lt. Shane Vansen: We are not afraid of being placed in jeopardy, but we want to know when we are being placed in it

 * Gen. Oliver Ranford: He spent to whole time trying to convince me that it was useless, that some people are born mean and that he was one of them

 * Gen. Oliver Ranford: Now in the sky he thought, I will create all around her. The stars will be all over the sky. In the past they all had names, also a direction so that nothing would go wrong where ever you where on this earth, it is still the same way that he made it. Now we will set our minds, yes we will give thanks for all the stars in the sky, this is the way he should be in our minds.

Episode 22: Sugar Dirt

 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: The right thing to do is rarely the easiest.

 * Lt. Shane Vansen: It would be a relief not to be in command any more, to be responsible for four other lives

Episode 23: And if they lay us down to rest

 * Lt. Shane Vansen: For days, everything, before there was anything, you, me the sun and all the stars we can and cannot see were together in a size smaller then this point of light, then by an inexplicable somehow it became. Ten million years later, gravity tried to pull it back creating galaxies, billions of stars, trillions and a solitary earth made of one continent. For the four hundred million years toxic erruptions spilled volcanic ash into an atmosphere devoid of oxygen. Deadly radiation heated the acidic oceans, comets and asteroids rained with force greater than all the nuclear arsenals of the twentieth century and yet by an inexplicable somehow, life became.

 * Lt. Cooper Hawkes: If none of you have the dark heart to do it, I do.

 * Lt. Paul Wang: Do you have to kill it? if it poses no threat?

 * Lt. Shane Vansen: Like that last Panda, it has no idea what's about to happen

Episode 24: Tell our Moms we done our best

 * Lt. Paul Wang:What would do if the war was over?
 * Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen: Well I'll find a quiet place, alone, and ask forgiveness for the lives I've taken, then I'l pull out the accordion, get naked and polka around the flight deck

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Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 20:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Funerals are fatal

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

The result was: . Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Funerals are fatal
No quotes. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Properly sourced quotes, if they are added, should go instead into Agatha Christie. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
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RahXephon

RahXephon (2002) is an anime TV show accompanied by a manga version (2001-2002) and followed by a movie version (2003).

Television series
Taglines:
 * Enter the new reality
 * The world, suffused with sound.

Over Lord 1

 * Quon: The tone of war... Wings creak, the sound of a beginning.
 * (Subtitle)

 * Ayato: All is well in the world, I guess.
 * (Subtitle)

 * Ayato: Who are you?
 * Haruka: Well, you could say I'm sort of like a champion of justice.
 * (Subtitle) Aya Hisakawa, who plays Haruka, also played one of the Sailor Senshis in Sailor Moon, where an often used introduction was: I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice!

 * Haruka: "Why in the world was their blood blue?" That's what you're wondering.
 * Ayato stops and turns toward her
 * Haruka: I'll tell you, if you come with me. About the blue blood. About everything in this world.
 * Ayato: turning away : Sorry, but I'm not interested in older women.
 *  Haruka raises her gun at him
 * Haruka: You shouldn't embarrass a woman.
 * Ayato: Champion of justice, my butt.
 * (Subtitle)

 * Ayato: Rah...Xephon

Awakening 2

 * Mamoru: Teacher, Kamina is always saying that it's a waste of time to study the language of countries that don't exist anymore.
 * English teacher: Look here, it's true that England, America, and so on are gone now, but novels and music written in English still exist. You guys all sing some Beatles in karaoke, don't you?
 * (Subtitle)

City of Two 3

 * Reika: Sing, RahXephon, sing your song! The song that is forbidden! Sing, RahXephon, so that someday all will become one!
 * (subtitle)

Watch the Year Hand 4

 * Quon: Dress me please.

On Earth As It Is In Heaven 5

 * Ayato won't let Haruka take him to his new home. Itsuki appears.
 * Itsuki: In that case, I will take him there.
 * Ayato: You are?
 * Itsuki: Oh, I'm not one of these people.
 * (Subtitle)

 * Ayato: Is the concentration camp still far from here?
 * (Subtitle)

 * Professor Rikudoh: I'm sure it'll take you a while to get used to things, but just pretend like you're staying over at a relatives' place and take it easy.
 * Ayato: I... I don't really know how that works, since I've never gone to visit relatives before.
 * (Subtitle)

Lost Songs Forgotten Melodies 6

 * Futagami: Well, well. What else was in Pandora's box? Hope, perhaps?
 * (ADV dub)

Small Shrine of Time 9

 * Quon: I know this place.
 * Ayato: What is this place?
 * Quon: I don't know.
 * Ayato: Deh!
 * (subtitles and audio)

Blue friend 19

 * Futagami finishes a phone call.
 * Futagami: into phone: Not at all. Goodbye.
 * Intelligence agent: Who were you calling?
 * Futagami: That Isshiki bastard.
 * Intelligence agent: with recognition: Oh, the White Snake.
 * (Subtitle)

 * A dolem has appeared
 * Ayato: I'll go defeat that thing.
 * Hiroko: Kamina, there's something I have to tell you.
 * Ayato: Don't worry. I'll come back, no matter what. So wait for me here.
 * (Subtitle)

 * Hiroko: Ayato....Ayato....Ayato...

Deus Ex Machina 25

 * Mamoru: Hiroko....

Time Enough For Love 26

 * Ayato and Quon prepare to tune the world.
 * Ayato: But what should I do?
 * Quon: Don't worry. Leave it to me.
 * Ayato: All right.
 * Quon: But in exchange... Be gentle, okay?
 * (Subtitles)

 * Haruka and Maya join the tuning. Ayato sees a glimpse of Haruka.
 * Ayato: Was someone there just now?
 * Quon: In order to regain the lost emotions... In order to find the forgotten sound... I will show you the truth.
 * Ayato: I feel like someone said that to me once before.
 * (Subtitles)

Multiple episodes

 * Quon: The world, suffused with sound.
 * (Subtitle)

 * Makoto: Don't call me a D!

 * Quon: Ra-ra?

Birth 1

 * Ayato: I can see your panties.

 * Haruka: I'm here to point out the yellow brick road. Call me the Tin Man, if you will.

The Real World 2

 * Reika: I am Ayato's real family.

Trust 5

 * Reika: But I kinda like this scar... I made friends with Ayato because of it. He calls it my "Angel's wing".

Alone 6

 * Kim: I can see your panties.

 * Reika: Ayato's going to be my new family. Not my real family ... but my only family for now.

About

 * Then there's the mysterious girl Mishima Reika who tends to pop up randomly and sporadically - like those gophers in that game at the arcade with the hammer and they keep popping up and I keep missing them and they make that high-pitched laughing sound and I cry. Damn those gophers.

 * One of these days, some enterprising company is going to market a video-game tie-in for anime titles like RahXephon that simply lets players smack the series' protagonists upside the head until they get some sense. It might not be as exciting as the usual video-game puzzle-solving and firefighting, but in some cases, it would be a lot more integrally satisfying.

 * RahXephon is in a class all its own, a class you'll want to attend.

 * A paragon of responsible storytelling, RahXephon comes full circle in the end. (...) No loose strings are left;
 * Like Evangelion, you have to bend and warp your brain around this thing, but unlike Evangelion, if you think about it, it all makes sense. Everything connects.

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Talk:Marquis de Sade

First, Philosophy in the Bedroom is invariably a mistake. The French title is Le Philosophe dans le Boudoir. "Le Philosophe" translates as "The Philosopher", Philosophy (which is "philosophie" in French) is not in the title. Thus, it should read: The Philosopher in the Bedroom.

Second, I believe I can prove that Les 120 Jours de Sodome (The 120 Days of Sodom) (henceforth: 120 Days)was NOT written by the Marquis de Sade. According to Geoffrey Gorer, the manuscript was written in 1784 on both sides of a single roll of paper 5-1/2-inchs wide and thirty-some yards long. Sade wrote it when in the Bastille. He was transferred to another prisin in less than ten doors before The Fall of the Bastille, in 1789. He neglected to take the manuscript with him. It was discovered by a man who helped perpetrate The Fall; the manuscript remained in his family until brought to the attention of Iwan Bloch in about 1895, who subsequently published it.

First, there is internal evidence. The writing is totally unlike everything else Sade ever wrote. It is very carefully structured. For example, urination. The first depiction is merely watching a girl urinate, followed by having a girl urinate on a man's hand, the, urinating on his naked body, and finally, drinking urine. Throughout the book, each variety of sexual experience follows that same pattern--watching, touching, being inundated, oral participation. It was not until Forberg's (De Veneris--the final word escapes me), published in about 1835, that sexuality was categorized. Even Kraft-Ebbing (around 1870) is not categorized. Havelock Ellis' Pscychology of Sex categorizes sexual variations--but not nearly as distinctly as is done in 120 Days.

Freud, Kinsey, Albert Ellis and Masters & Johnson utilized a categorical approach to sexuality. But, please note, that absolutely none of Sade's works follow this categorical layout.

In 1784, Sade wrote "The Priest and the Dying Man", in which he states quite clearly that there is no God. But, in 120 Days--God is portrayed as weak and senile. Contrary to every other mention of God in Sade's other works. In 120 Days, the author states that there are some actions so terrible that they should never be discussed openly. In Julitte, Sade states that there is NO human act so terrible that it should not be brought forth to the light of day. Granted, it could simply indicate a change of philosophy as he matured. In 120 Days, there is NO vaginal intercourse of any type. The characters abhor the vagina. Every other orifice is described (in vivid detail). In all of Sade's other writings, where he describes the vagina, it is with lusty enthusiasm. Again, this might simply be a change with maturation.

The name of the family which supposedly saved the manuscript is not known. This, of course, COULD BE because they did not wish to be connected to such a nefarious manuscript. OR--it COULD BE because there is no such family.

I decided to do some research on paper. Paper was first, experimentally, produced in a roll in France in 1803. Rolls of paper were not commercially available until 1820--six years after the death of the Marquis de Sade.

So, who IS the author of 120 Days. I would guess Iwan Bloch (or some acquaintance). I find it interesting that 120 Days is generally considered to be Sade's greatest work. Some of Sade's letters are still extant. If the manuscript of 120 Days still exists, I believe an examination by one or more handwriting experts should be undertaken.

I rest my case.

Julian Tebye cognut2@aol.com

In response to Tebye,

''First, the original title is 'La philosophie dans le boudoir', which translates literally to 'The Philosophy in the bedroom'. You seem to have misread the original French. Second, Marquis de Sade's writing style has inarguably changed over time. Earlier works are more often the ones to be experimented with the most until an author finds his or her style. In 120 Days, de Sade often contradicts his words in the very work itself, so contradiction with other works are irrelevant. Finally, paper scrolls have been in existence long before de Sade. I applaud an effort in questioning 120 Days of Sodom’s authorship, for the history of it is indeed dodgy. But it seems that no scholars have called the manuscript’s authorship into question. It is almost certainly the work of the Marquis de Sade.''

-S

=quality of the translations=

first off, why are only a third of the quotations presented along side originals ? this doesn't make any sense.

what is more important though are the questionable equivalents found for an older bit of sexual slang, namely 'vit', which is here rendered two different ways. "Member" or "male member" are probably better translations.

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Attributed to Philosophy in the Bedroom Jbgfour (talk) 17:36, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

 * At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

 * Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune.  You only appeared as a torment for the human race.  What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
 * On religion

 * Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

 * Friends are like women: when put to the test, the goods often prove defective.

By Jonathon Green, Nicholas J. Karolides Jbgfour (talk) 08:32, 16 December 2015 (UTC) Checking the French sources, including Wiki, all show this to be from a September 1783 letter to his wife when he was in the Bastille. « Le plus honnête, le plus franc et le plus délicat des hommes, le plus compatissant, le plus bienfaisant, idolâtre de mes enfants, pour le bonheur desquels je me mettrais au feu (…) Voilà mes vertus. Pour quant à mes vices : impérieux, colère, emporté, extrême en tout, d'un dérèglement d'imagination sur les mœurs qui de la vie n'a eu son pareil, athée jusqu'au fanatisme, en deux mots me voilà, et encore un coup, ou tuez-moi ou prenez-moi comme cela ; car je ne changerai pas » If that showed up in his will is dubious. The "again" is not kill me again, but a repetition of a theme, once again, kill me for I will not change. Jbgfour (talk) 22:22, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
 * Last Will and Testament Encyclopedia of Censorship

 * Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy... Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

 * One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

 * Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

 * Sex without pain is like food without taste.

 * Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

 * To kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible.

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"We monsters are necessary to nature also." I found this quote on the site AZQuotes and when I searched it on google I only found other quote sites with it, many in fact. Not sure if this is a case of someone translating from the original source for the quote site, a mistyping, or if the quote is entirely fictional

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Abraham

Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Modern Avraham Tiberian ʼAḇrāhām, Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm, ʼAbrəham), born Abram (c. 1900 BC?), is the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Midianites and kindred peoples, according to the three Abrahamic religions.

Quotes

 * Quotes of Abraham as portrayed in traditional sources

Bible

 * Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
 * To his nephew Lot, as quoted in Genesis 13:8 (KJV)

 * I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the highest God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich…
 * To the King of Sodom, in Hebrews 14:22 - 23 (KJV)

 * Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from Thee; shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly? … Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, who am but dust and ashes. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five? … Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there?
 * To the LORD regarding the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, in Genesis 18:22 - 32 (KJV), after which, it is recorded that the LORD responds: I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

Variant:

 * Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are 50 righteous men within the city. Will you, then, sweep them away and not pardon the place for the sake of the 50 righteous who are inside it? It is unthinkable that you would act in this manner by putting the righteous man to death with the wicked one so that the outcome for the righteous man and the wicked is the same! It is unthinkable of you. Will the Judge of all the earth not do what is right?
 * Genesis 18: 23-25, NWT

 * I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.
 * To Abimelech in the wife-sister narrative of Genesis 20:11 - 23 (KJV)

Quran

 * And when Abraham said (unto his Lord): My Lord! Show me how Thou givest life to the dead, He said: Dost thou not believe? Abraham said: Yea, but (I ask) in order that my heart may be at ease. (His Lord) said: Take four of the birds and cause them to incline unto thee, then place a part of them on each hill, then call them, they will come to thee in haste, and know that Allah is Mighty, Wise.
 * Quran 2:260, trans. Muhammad M. Pickthall.

 * Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing certainty: So when the night over-shadowed him, he saw a star; said he: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I do not love the setting ones. When he saw the moon rising in splendour, he said: "This is my Lord." But when the moon set, He said: "unless my Lord guide me, I shall surely be among those who go astray." When he saw the sun rising in splendour, he said: "This is my Lord; this is the greatest (of all)." But when the sun set, he said: "O my people! I am indeed free from your (guilt) of giving partners to Allah. Lo! I have turned my face toward Him Who created the heavens and the earth, as one by nature upright, and I am not of the idolaters.
 * Quran 6:75-79, trans. Muhammad M. Pickthall.

 * Say: "Verily, my Lord hath guided me to a way that is straight,— a religion of right— way of Abraham the faithful, and he joined not deities with God." Say: "Truly, my prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death, are (all) for The God, the Lord of the Worlds"
 * Quran 6:161-162

 * He said: Do you then understand what you worship -- You and your forefathers? -- Surely they are an enemy to me, except the Lord of the worlds, Who created me, then He shows me the way, And Who gives me to eat and to drink, And when I am sick, He heals me, And Who will cause me to die, then give me life, And Who, I hope, will forgive me my mistakes on the day of Judgment.
 * Quran 26:75-82

 * O our Lord ! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
 * Prayer during the construction of the Kaaba with Ishmael as quoted in the Quran, Al Baqara 2:127.

Book of Abraham

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

 * Now I, Abraham, built an altar in the land of Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the famine might be turned away from my father’s house, that they might not perish.
 * Book of Abraham 2:17

Genesis Rabbah

 * You are fifty years old and would worship a day[old statue!
 * Abraham in  38.13 R. Hiyya |Abraham and the Idol Shop

 * Terah, the father of Abraham and Haran, was a dealer in images as well as a worshipper of them. Once when he was away he gave Abraham his stock of graven images to sell in his absence. In the course of the day an elderly man came to make a purchase. Abraham asked him his age, and the man gave it as between fifty and sixty years. Abraham taunted him with want of sound sense in calling the work of another man's hand, produced perhaps in a few hours, his god; the man laid the words of Abraham to heart and gave up idol worship. Again a woman came with a handful of fine flour to offer to Terah's idols, which were now in charge of Abraham. He took a stick and broke all the images except the largest one, in the hand of which he placed the stick which had worked this wholesale destruction. When his father returned and saw the havoc committed on his 'gods' and property he demanded an explanation from his son whom he had left in charge. Abraham mockingly explained that when an offering of fine flour was brought to these divinities they quarrelled with each other as to who should be the recipient, when at last the biggest of them, being angry at the altercation, took up a stick to chastise the offenders, and in so doing broke them all up. Terah, so far from being satisfied with this explanation, understood it as a piece of mockery, and when he learnt also of the customers whom Abraham had lost him during his management he became very incensed, and drove Abraham out of his house and handed him over to Nimrod. Nimrod suggested to Abraham that since he had refused to worship his father's idols because of their want of power, he should worship fire, which is very powerful: Abraham pointed out that water has power over fire. 'But,' replied Abraham,' the clouds absorb the water and even they are dispersed by the wind.' 'Then let us declare the wind our god.' 'Bear in mind,' continued Abraham, 'that man is stronger than wind, and can resist it and stand against it.' Nimrod, becoming weary of arguing with Abraham, decided to cast him before his god--fire--and challenged Abraham's deliverance by the God of Abraham, but God saved him out of the fiery furnace.
 *  38, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 78.

 * The coins of Abraham had the figure of an old man and an old woman on the face of the coin, and those of a youth and a maiden on the obverse, signifying that after Abraham and Sarah had grown old their youth was renewed and they begat a son.
 *  39, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 79.

Apocalypse of Abraham

 * And the unclean bird spoke to me and said, "What are you doing, Abraham, on the holy heights, where no one eats or drinks, nor is there upon them food for men? But these all will be consumed by fire and ascend to the height, they will destroy you." And it came to pass when I saw the bird speaking I said this to the angel: "What is this, my lord?" And he said, "This is disgrace – this is Azazel!" And he said to him, "Shame on you, Azazel! For Abraham's portion is in heaven, and yours is on earth, for you have selected here, [and] become enamored of the dwelling place of your blemish. Therefore the Eternal Ruler, the Mighty One, has given you a dwelling on earth. Through you the all-evil spirit [was] a liar, and through you [come] wrath and trials on the generations of men who live impiously.
 * Apocalypse of Abraham 13:4–9

 * May you be the firebrand of the furnace of the earth! Go, Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth. For your heritage is over those who are with you.
 * Apocalypse of Abraham 14:5–6.

 * [P]utrefy in the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's tongue.
 * Apocalypse of Abraham 31:5

Quotes about Abraham

 * Ye [ Christians] are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
 * Acts of the Apostles, 3:25 KJV

 * You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.
 * Leonard Cohen, in "Story of Isaac" on Songs from a Room (1969)

 * Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
 * Genesis 11:31

 * Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
 * Genesis 12:1 - 3

 * And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
 * Genesis 12:11 - 13

 * And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
 * Genesis 13:14 - 18

 * Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
 * Genesis 15:11 NIV

 * And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram
 * Genesis 16:15 - 16

 * And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
 * Genesis 17:1 - 8

 * And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
 * Genesis 21:5 - 7

 * And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
 * Genesis 22:1 - 3 (KJV)

 * I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand on the seashore, and your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies. And by means of your offspring all nations of the earth will obtain a blessing for themselves because you have listened to my voice.
 * Jehovah, Genesis 22: 17, 18

 * After a long time the great and awful Name was forgotten and the people, men, women and children, only recognized an image of wood or stone and the temple of wood or stone which they had been brought up from infancy to serve by bowing down. ... Abraham ... knew that all were mistaken and that what caused them to err was worship of the images which drove the Truth out of their minds.
 * Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (c. 1180), Treatise 4: “Idolatry,” H. Russell, trans. (1983), pp. 72-73

 * Camels as a means of transportation abound in the Old Testament. When Abraham sends a servant to look for a bride for his son Isaac, that servant chooses Rebecca. And why? Because of her kindness in offering to water the camels. That's just one of dozens of camel cameos in the Bible, mostly in the book of Genesis, but scholars have long suspected that those camel caravans are a literary anachronism.
 * Renee Montagne in: Carol Meyers Archaeology Find: Camels In 'Bible' Are Literary Anachronisms, npr.org, 14 February 2014.

 * It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants.
 * Paul of Tarsus, Acts of the Apostles 4:22-24 ESV.

 * The next major figure in the Bible is Abraham, the spiritual ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Abraham has a nephew, Lot, who settles in Sodom. Because the residents engage in anal sex and comparable sins, God immolates every man, woman, and child in a divine napalm attack. Lot’s wife, for the crime of turning around to look at the inferno, is put to death as well. Abraham undergoes a test of his moral values when God orders him to take his son Isaac to a mountaintop, tie him up, cut his throat, and burn his body as a gift to the Lord. Isaac is spared only because at the last moment an angel stays his father’s hand. For millennia readers have puzzled over why God insisted on this horrifying trial. One interpretation is that God intervened not because Abraham had passed the test but because he had failed it, but that is anachronistic: obedience to divine authority, not reverence for human life, was the cardinal virtue.
 * Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012)

 * In short, as well as being as big a son of a bitch as the lord, Abraham was a consummate liar, ready to deceive anyone with his forked tongue, which in this case, according to the personal dictionary belonging to the narrator of this story, means treacherous, perfidious, false, disloyal and other similarly fine qualities. When he reached the place of which the lord had spoken, Abraham built an alter and placed the wood on it. He then tied up his son and lifted him on to the altar, on top of the wood. Without pausing, he took up his knife in order to sacrifice the poor boy and was just about to slit his throat when he felt a hand grip his arm and heard a voice in his ear shouting, What are you doing, you wretch, killing your own son, burning him, it's the same old story it starts with a lamb and ends with the murder of the very person you should love most, But the lord told me to do it, said Abraham, struggling, Keep still, or I'll be the one who does the killing.
 * José Saramago, Cain (2009), p. 69

 * And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
 * Account of the Binding of Isaac, Genesis 22:10 - 14 (KJV)
 * Variant translations of verse 14:
 * And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
 * Douay-Rheims Bible
 * So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
 * New International Version (1984).
 * Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means "the LORD will provide"). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
 * New Living Translation (2007)

 * O People of the Book, why do you dispute about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed till after him? Do you not understand? Behold! You are they who disputed about that of which you had knowledge; why then do you dispute about that of which you have no knowledge? And Allah knows while you know not. Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian, but he was an upright (man), a Muslim; and he was not one of the polytheists. The nearest of people to Abraham are surely those who follow him and this Prophet and those who believe. And Allah is the Friend of the believers.
 * Qur'an, Ali-Imran 64-67

 * Who can be better in religion than one who submits his whole self to Allah, does good, and follows the way of Abraham the true in Faith? For Allah did take Abraham for a friend.
 * Qur'an, An Nisa 4:125, Yusuf Ali.

 * We said, "O Fire! be thou cool, and (a means of) safety for Abraham!"
 * Quran 21:69 trans. M. H. Shakir

 * Then, when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him, he said: "O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: Now see what is thy view!" (The son) said: "O my father! Do as thou art commanded: thou will find me, if Allah so wills one practising Patience and Constancy!" So when they had both submitted their wills (to Allah), and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (for sacrifice), We called out to him "O Abraham! "Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!" - thus indeed do We reward those who do right. For this was obviously a trial- And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times: "Peace and salutation to Abraham!" Thus indeed do We reward those who do right. For he was one of our believing Servants.
 * Qur'an, As Saffat 37:102-111, Yusuf Ali.

 * Iblis, who had talent on the form of a man, said: "Where are you going, O Shaikh?" He replied: " I am going to these mountains because I must do something there'. Iblis said: "By God, I have seen that Shaytan has come to you in a dream and ordered you to slaughter this little son of yours. And you intend to do that slaughtering!" Thereupon Abraham recognised him and said: "Get away from me, enemy of God! By God, I will most certainly continue to do what my Lord has commanded". Iblis, the enemy of God, gave up on Abraham but then he encountered Ishmael, who was behind Abraham carrying the wood and the large knife. He said to him: "O young man, do you realise where your father is taking you?" He said: "To gather wood for our family from the mountains". He relied: "By God, his actual intention is to sacrifice you!" He said: "Why?!" Iblis replied: "He claims that his Lord has ordered him to do so!" Ishmael replied: "He must do what his Lord commands, absolutely!" When the young man had rebuffed him, Iblis went to Hagar, the mother of Ishmael who was still at home. Iblis said to her: "Oh mother of Ishmael! Do you realise where Abraham is going with Ishmael?" She replied: "They have gone to gather wood for us in the mountains". He said: "He has actually gone in order to sacrifice him!" She replied: "It cannot be! He is too kind and too loving towards him to do that!" Iblis said: "He claims that God has ordered him to do that!" Hagar said: "If his Lord has ordered him to do that then he must submit to the command of God!" So the enemy of God returned exasperated at not being able to influence the family of Abraham as he wished.
 * Tabari as qtd in Andrew Rippin, Jan Knappert Textual Sources for the Study of Islam University of Chicago Press, 15.10.1990 ISBN 978-0-226-72063-0 p. 63

 * When Isaac was grown, someone appeared to Abraham in a dream and said to him: "Keep your vow which you made! God bestowed upon you a boy by Sarah so that you may sacrifice him" So he said to Isaac: "Let us go offer a sacrifice to God!" So he tool a knife and some rope and went with him until they reached a place in the mountains. The boy said to him: "Oh father! Where is your sacrifice?" He replied: "Oh my son, I saw in a dream, that I will slaughter you. So pay attention to what you see". He said "Oh my father, do what you have been commanded; you will find me, if God wills, one of the patient". Isaac then said to him: "Make tight my bonds, so that I will not struggle to pull back your clothes so that none of my blood will be shed on them for Sarah will see it and be grieved. Hurry! Pass the knife over my throat so that death will be easy for me. When you come to Sarah, greet her'. Abraham began to approach him and, while crying, tied him up. Isaac too was crying such that the tears gathered by cheek of Isaac. He then drew the knife along his throat but the knife did not cut, for God had placed a sheet of copper on the throat of Isaac. When he saw that, he turned him on his forehead and nicked him on the back of the head just as God has said in Quran 37:103: When they had both submitted and he flung on his forehead, that is they had submitted the affair to God. A voice called out: 'Abraham, you have fulfilled the vision!" He turned around and behold, there was a ram. He took it and released his son and he bent over his son saying: "Oh my son, today you have been given to me". That comes in God's saying in Quran 37:107: We ransomed him with a great sacrifice.
 * Tabari as quoted in Andrew Rippin, Jan Knappert Textual Sources for the Study of Islam University of Chicago Press, 15.10.1990 ISBN 978-0-226-72063-0 p. 65

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Max Jackson and Kirk Jackson

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The result was: . Delete both. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 09:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Max Jackson and Kirk Jackson
It would appear that these are hoaxes. The one for Kirk Jackson is, as hoaxes go, fairly elaborate, using the real names of scientists (Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi) and their theory. The photo is from the WP Fred Hoyle page. - InvisibleSun 22:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: Delete both. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 09:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 22:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I've updated this nomination to reflect that the photo source has been discovered. - InvisibleSun 00:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete both unless they're identified with reliable sources, shown to be notable, and quotes sourced. The only Wikipedia presence either of these names has is a politician (Max) mentioned as a People Power candidate in South Eastern Metropolitan Region, Victoria and an English footballer mentioned in Adam Stansfield (see possible picture). Both names are incredibly common, so it's hardly surprising these people would have no connection to the apparently unnotable subjects here. I did find an image labelled "KirkJackson.jpg" (differing slightly in capitalization from Commons' image). It shows a young guy with a username of "KirkWithRedHair" on a New Zealand wiki associated with the "ElvisGroup of Computer Science and Software Engineering research group" at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, making this whole thing look like a college prank. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. Because the names are so common, the Victoria connections could just be irrelevant coincidence. But we don't have any reliable info on the putative subjects. I could find no connection between either Max or Kirk Jackson and astrophysics, philosophy, "Streg University" (which by itself doesn't show up in Google), or the steady state theory. This increases the likelihood that these are just hoax articles. The Fred Hoyle connection in particular seems to be nothing more than tacking on this fictional Kirk Jackson to a list of well-known scientists and their theory. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both. Would you guess it, there is no 'Sir Kirk Jackson' in the Knightage ('Kirk' is a very unusual first name for Britain anyway). The Max Jackson quotes are inane. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 02:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both. ~ UDScott 14:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both. —LrdChaos (talk) 17:19, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Ronnie hillier

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The result was: . Speedy delete as unremarkable subject. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 09:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ronnie hillier
No intro to identify who this is. Only Google hits on the name are on an ancestry site. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closes: 23:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote closed early, SD as unremarkable subject. ~ UDScott 14:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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Gildas

St. Gildas (c. 500–570), also known as "Gildas the Wise" or Gildas Sapiens, was a British churchman and writer. His sermon De Excidio Britanniae (On the Ruin of Britain) includes the only significant historical narrative written in Britain in the 5th or 6th centuries. The translations used here have been taken from Wikisource

De Excidio Britanniae (On the Ruin of Britain)

 * [Descriptio Britanniae] Campis late pansis collibusque amoeno situ locatis, praepollenti culturae aptis, montibus alternandis animalium pastibus maxime covenientibus, quorum diversorum colorum flores humanis gressibus pulsati non indecentem ceu picturam eisdem imprimebant, electa veluti sponsa monilibus diversis ornata, fontibus lucidis crebris undis niveas veluti glareas pellentibus, pernitidisque rivis leni murmure serpentibus ipsorumque in ripis accubantibus suavis soporis pignus praetendentibus, et lacubus frigidum aquae torrentem vivae exundantibus irrigua.
 * Translation: [Description of Britain] Its plains are spacious, its hills are pleasantly situated, adapted for superior tillage, and its mountains are admirably calculated for the alternate pasturage of cattle, where flowers of various colours, trodden by the feet of man, give it the appearance of a lovely picture. It is decked, like a man's chosen bride, with divers jewels, with lucid fountains and abundant brooks wandering over the snow white sands; with transparent rivers, flowing in gentle murmurs, and offering a sweet pledge of slumber to those who recline upon their banks, whilst it is irrigated by abundant lakes, which pour forth cool torrents of refreshing water.
 * Section 3.

 * Et tacens vetustos immanium tyrannorum annos, qui in aliis longe positis regionibus vulgati sunt, it ut Porphyrius rabidus orientalis adversus ecclesiam canis dementiae suae ac vanitatis stilo hoc etiam adnecteret: "Britannia", inquiens, "fertilis provincia tyrannorum".
 * Translation: I shall also pass over the bygone times of our cruel tyrants, whose notoriety was spread over to far distant countries; so that Porphyry, that dog who in the east was always so fierce against the church, in his mad and vain style added this also, that "Britain is a land fertile in tyrants."
 * Section 4.
 * Gildas's quotation is in fact from St. Jerome's Epistula 133.9.

 * Interea glaciali figore rigenti insulae et velut longiore terrarum secessu soli visibili non proximae verus ille non de firmamento solum temporali sed de summa etiam caelorum arce tempora cuncta excedente universo orbi praefulgidum sui coruscum ostendens, tempore, ut scimus, summo Tiberii Caesaris, quo absque ullo impedimento delatoribus militum eiusdem, radios suos primum indulget, id est sua praecepta, Christus.
 * Translation: Meanwhile these islands, stiff with cold and frost, and in a distant region of the world, remote from the visible sun, received the beams of light, that is, the holy precepts of Christ, the true Sun, showing to the whole world his splendour, not only from the temporal firmament, but from the height of heaven, which surpasses every thing temporal, at the latter part, as we know, of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, by whom his religion was propagated without impediment, and death threatened to those who interfered with its professors.
 * Section 8.

 * Interea non cessant uncinata nudorum tela, quibus miserrimi cives de muris tracti solo allidebantur.
 * Translation: Meanwhile the hooked weapons of their enemies were not idle, and our wretched countrymen were dragged from the wall and dashed against the ground.
 * Section 19.
 * Gildas here describes post-Roman Britons on Hadrian's Wall defending it against the Scots and Picts below. This bizarre image, familiar to students of British history for generations, is belied by a more recent translation which runs, "Meanwhile there was no respite from the barbed spears flung by their naked opponents, which tore our wretched countrymen from the walls and dashed them to the ground." (Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and Other Works (1978) p. 23).

 * Igitur rursum miserae mittentes epistolas reliquiae ad Agitium Romanae potestatis virum, hoc modo loquentes: "Agitio ter consuli gemitus Britannorum"; et post pauca querentes: "repellunt barbari ad mare, repellit mare ad barbaros; inter haec duo genera funerum aut iugulamur aut mergimur".
 * Translation: Again, therefore, the wretched remnant, sending to Aetius, a powerful Roman citizen, address him as follow:—"To Aetius, now consul for the third time: the groans of the Britons". And again a little further, thus:—"The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned".
 * Section 20.
 * These "Groans of the Britons" were sent to the Roman military leader Flavius Aetius in Gaul, in response to the invasion of Britain by the Angles and Saxons.
 * Tum erumpens grex catulorum de cubili laeanae barbarae, tribus, ut lingua eius exprimitur, cyulis, nostra longis navibus.
 * Translation: A multitude of whelps came forth from the lair of this barbaric lioness, in three cyuls, as they call them, that is, in their ships of war.
 * Section 23.

Quotes about Gildas

 * Gildas's On the Ruin of Britain is not an attempt at a reasoned account of his times: it is...a brilliant vitriolic diatribe on the wickedness of all things British and the virtue of all things Roman. It is a sermon, obscure, learned and immensely difficult to read, almost as though the writer's pen were choked with the fury of his words.
 * Richard Barber The Figure of Arthur (1972) pp. 42-43.

 * Considering the avowed purpose of his work, which is rather hortatory than historical, we are fortunate indeed to be given so much first-hand information by this embittered preacher.
 * J N L Myres, in R G Collingwood and J N L Myres Roman Britain and the English Settlements (1937) p. 329.

 * Prae aliis itaque Britanniae scriptoribus, solus mihi Gildas...imitabilis esse videtur.
 * Translation: Of all the British writers he seems to me to be the only one worth copying.
 * Giraldus Cambrensis Descriptio Cambriae (The Description of Wales), First Preface (1194); translation from Gerald of Wales (trans. Lewis Thorpe) The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (1978) p. 214.

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