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Ashtavakra Gita

Ashtavakra Gita is a Hindu religious/philosophical text.

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 * Original

 * भावस्य भावकः कश्चिन् न किंचिद् भावकोपरः ।
 * उभयाभावकः कश्चिद् एवमेव निराकुलः ॥ १८- ४२॥

(taken from अष्टावक्र गीता)

 * Translation by Th. Byrom

 * One man believes in existence,
 * Another says, “There is nothing!”
 * Rare is the man who believes in neither.
 * He is free from confusion.

from The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita, by Thomas Byrom, 1990; Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.

 * Translation by J. Richards
 * Some think that something exists, and others that nothing does. Rare is the man who does not think either, and is thereby free from distraction.

from Ashtavakra Gita'': Chapter XVIII, translated by John Richards.

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Talk:Beauty

About the Anonymous Edit
That was me editing it anonymously. I'm sorry, I forgot to log in. I was writing a report on this, and there were a number of quotes I've run across that I thought I'd post here. Since I'm writing a scholarly work on this subjec, I think that if I write something really brilliant I might even quote myself. --Ollie Garkey 20:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Is that Frank Zappa quote for real or is it a result of Vandalism? --JD

 * It certainly seems suspicious. I'm not going to remove it though, becuse I don't have an account here. —Springeragh (Wikipedia IP talk) 20:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

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 * Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
 * Al Bernstein

 * Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
 * Confucius

 * Sight is a big part of our existence, but it shouldn't make us blind to other things.
 * Moira Doolan on beauty and aesthetics.

 * To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
 * Albert Einstein

 * A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 * Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
 * Franz Kafka

 * Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
 * Amos Lee

 * Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, but in the hand of an artist
 * Mary Duvenhage

 * Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.
 * Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914).

 * Beauty is in the imagination of the beholder.
 * David Newell

 * Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
 * Plato

 * Beauty is it's own excuse for being.
 * Margaret Skinner's matchbox.

 * I am sure that you heard it said that appearance does not matter so much and that it only matters what is on the inside. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside, would never have to comb their hair or take a bath and then the whole world would smell worse than it already does.
 * Lemony Snicket

 * The gift which you possess ... is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving you... For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed...
 * Socrates in Plato's Ion.

 * If truth is beauty how come nobody has their hair done in a library?
 * Lily Tomlin

 * "Smash, smash the old laws" habitual beauty becomes narcotic eventually; it can be rediscovered, but only dialectically, by contrast, by the creation of new, brutally shocking beauty, beauty that seems barbarism at first. And the creation of such new beauty is the first step for anyone who would a god, and not a slave of dead gods. It is in the war between great seeking and great boredom that new beauty is born.
 * Robert Anton Wilson

 * Beauty is only skin deep.
 * Proverb. Possible origin

 * Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Proverb

 * She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.
 * Italian proverb

 * When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
 * Chinese proverb

 * Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
 * Navajo song

 * Beauty always comes with dark thoughts. ~ Nightwish ~ "Wish I Had An Angel".

 * Beauty is a curse on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are. ~ The Carver, Nip/Tuck

 * "Beauty is in the eye of the BEERHOLDER"- WC Fields or Rodney Dangerfield ?

 * Beauty is found within.
 * "Belle" in Beauty and The Beast.

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User:Larovedefortvne~enwikiquote

Howdy, My name is Whitney (I'm a guy) and I'm from Prairieville, Louisiana, which is a suburb of Baton Rouge, the state capitol. My interests lie in Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism and the mental practices they teach, as well as in the culinary arts. I'm a line cook at a private club in Baton Rouge. My name here is taken from the Tenth card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot of Marseilles, which I believe to hold a significant message about the nature of mankind.

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how come so many great american football QBs arent on the list ie. Peyton Manning, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, John Elway,.........

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User talk:72.65.13.238

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Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr. KBE (born March 1, 1942) was chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002.

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 * People do what you inspect, not what you expect.
 * Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? (2002)

 * Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success — along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
 * Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? (2002)

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity that strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Quotes

 * Der Mensch ist, was er ißt.
 * Man is what he eats.
 * Die Naturwissenschaft und die Revolution [Natural science and the revolution] (1850), repeated in Das Geheimnis des Opfers, ober der Mensch ist was er ißt [The Mystery of Sacrifice, or Man is What He Eats] (1862)

 * "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Everything new is received with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.
 * As quoted in "Voices of the New Time" as translated by C. C. Shackford in The Radical Vol. 7 (1870), p. 329

Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy (1839)

 * Hegel determines and presents only the most striking differences of various religions, philosophies, time and peoples, and in a progressive series of stages, but he ignores all that is common and identical in all of them. … His system knows only subordination and succession; coordination and coexistence are unknown to it.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 54

 * Demonstrating is therefore only the means through which I strip my thought of the form of “mine-ness” so that the other person may recognize it as his own.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 66

 * Every presentation of philosophy, whether oral or written, is to be taken and can only be taken in the sense of a means. Every system is only an expression or image of reason, and hence only an object of reason, an object which reason—a living power that procreates itself in new thinking beings—distinguishes from itself and posits as an object of criticism. Every system that is not recognized and appropriated as just a means, limits and warps the mind for it sets up the indirect and formal thought in the place of the direct, original and material thought.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67

 * All presentation, all demonstration—and the presentation of thought is demonstration—has, according to its original determination—and this is all that matters to us—the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67

 * The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68

 * Hegel … proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. … He does not appeal to the intellect within us.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 68

 * To prove cannot mean anything other than to bring the other person to my own conviction. The truth lies only in the unification of “I” and “You.” The Other of pure thought, however, is the sensuous intellect in general. In the field of philosophy, proof therefore consists only in the fact that the contradiction between sensuous intellect and pure thought is disposed, so that thought is true not only for itself but also for its opposite.
 * Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 75

The Essence of Christianity (1841)
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 * If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
 * Preface

 * I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
 * Preface to Second Edition (1843)

 * Aber freilich für diese Zeit, welche das Bild der Sache, die Kopie dem Original, die Vorstellung der Wirklichkeit, den Schein dem Wesen vorzieht … denn heilig ist ihr nur die Illusion, profan aber die Wahrheit.
 * The present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
 * Preface to Second Edition (1843)

 * Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
 * Preface to Second Edition (1843)

 * I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

 * The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
 * Introduction, Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 99

 * The first philosophers were astronomers. The heavens remind man … that he is destined not merely to act, but also to contemplate.
 * Introduction, Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), pp. 101-102

 * What man calls Absolute Being, his God, is his own being. The power of the object over him is therefore the power of his own being. Thus, the power of the object of feeling is the power of feeling itself; the power of the object of reason is the power of reason itself; and the power of the object of will is the power of will itself.
 * Introduction, Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 102

 * To be sure, the human individual can, even must, feel and know himself to be limited—and this is what distinguishes him from the animal—but he can become conscious of his limits, his finite-ness, only because he can make the perfection and infinity of his species the object either of his feeling, conscience, or thought. But if his limitations appear to him as emanating from the species, this can only be due to his delusion that he is identical with the species, a delusion intimately linked with the individual’s love of ease, lethargy, vanity, and selfishness; for a limit which I know to be mine alone, humiliates, shames, and disquiets me. Hence, in order to free myself of this feeling of shame, this uneasiness, I make the limits of my individuality the limits of man’s being itself. What is incomprehensible to me is incomprehensible to others; why should this worry me at all? It is not due to any fault of mine or of my understanding: the cause lies in the understanding of the species itself. But it is a folly, a ludicrous and frivolous folly to designate that which constitutes the nature of man and the absolute nature of the individual, the essence of the species, as finite and limited.
 * Introduction, Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), pp. 103-104

 * To enrich God, man must become poor; that God may be all, man must be nothing.

 * ...for stones, plants, and animals there is no God, but only for man.

Principles of Philosophy of the Future (1843)

 * Speculative philosophy as the realisation of God is the positing of God, and at the same time his cancellation or negation; theism and at the same time atheism: for God – in the sense of theology – is God only as long as he is taken to be a being distinguished from and independent of the being of man as well as of nature. The theism that as the positing of God is simultaneously his negation or, conversely, as the negation of God equally his affirmation, is pantheism. Theological theism – that is, theism properly speaking – is nothing other than imaginary pantheism which itself is nothing other than real and true theism.
 * Part I, Section 14

 * Pantheism makes God into a present, real, and material being; empiricism – to which rationalism also belongs – makes God into an absent, remote, unreal, and negative being. Empiricism does not deny God existence, but denies him all positive determinations, because their content is supposed to be only finite and empirical; the infinite cannot, therefore, be an object for man. But the more determinations I deny to a being, the more do I cut it of[ from myself, and the less power and influence do I concede to it over me, the freer do I make myself of it. The more qualities I possess, the more I am for others, and the greater is the extent of my influence and effects. And the more one is, the more one is known to others. Hence, each negation of an attribute of God is a partial atheism, a sphere of godlessness.
 * Part I, Section 16

 * The secret of Hegel's dialectic lies ultimately in this alone, that it negates theology through philosophy in order then to negate philosophy through theology. Both the beginning and the end are constituted by theology; philosophy stands in the middle as the negation of the first positedness, but the negation of the negation is again theology. At first everything is overthrown, but then everything is reinstated in its old place, as in Descartes. The Hegelian philosophy is the last grand attempt to restore a lost and defunct Christianity through philosophy, and, of course, as is characteristic of the modern era, by identifying the negation of Christianity with Christianity itself.
 * Part II, Section 21

 * Just as when a man commits suicide ne negates the body, this rational limit of subjectivity, so when he lapses into fantastic and trascendental practice he associates himself with embodied divine and ghostly appearances, namely, he negates in practise the difference between imagination and perception.
 * Part III, Section 29

 * The recognition of the light of reality within the darkness of abstraction is a contradiction – both the affirmation and the negation of the real at one and the same time. The new philosophy, which thinks the concrete not in an abstract but a concrete way, which acknowledges the real in its reality – that is, in a way corresponding to the being of the real as true, which elevates it into the principle and object of philosophy – is consequently the truth of the Hegelian philosophy, indeed of modern philosophy as a whole.
 * Part III, Section 31

Lectures on the Essence of Religion (1851)

 * We have busied ourselves and contented ourselves long enough with speaking and writing; now at last we demand that the word become flesh, the spirit matter; we are as sick of political as we are of philosophical idealism; we are determined to become political materialists.
 * Lecture I, Occasion and Context

 * A subject interests me and holds my attention only so long as it presents me with difficulties, only so long as I am at odds with it and have, as it were, to struggle with it; but once I have mastered it I hurry on to something else, to a new subject; for my interest is not confined to any particular field or subject; it extends to everything human. This does not mean that I am an intellectual miser or egoist, who amasses knowledge for himself alone; by no means! What I do and think for myself, I must also think and do for others. But I feel the need of instructing others in a subject only so long as, while instructing others, I am also instructing myself.
 * Lecture I,, R. Manheim, trans. (1967), p. 2

 * To theology, … only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
 * Lecture II, R. Manheim, trans. (1967), p. 11

 * Religion is indeed essential to or innate in man, but … this is not the religion of theology or theism, not an actual belief in God, but solely the religion that expresses nothing other than man’s feeling of finiteness and dependency on nature. … I distinguish religion from theism, the belief in a being distinct from nature and man. … Today theism, theology, the belief in God have become so identified with religion that to have no God, to theological being, is considered synonymous with having no religion. But here we deal with the original elements of religion. It is theism, theology, that has wrenched man out of his relationship with the world, isolated him, made him into an arrogant self-centered being who exalts himself above nature. And it is only on this level that religion becomes identified with theology, with the belief in a being outside and above nature as the true God. Originally religion expressed nothing other than man’s feeling that he is an inseparable part of nature or the world.
 * Lecture V, R. Manheim, trans. (1967), pp. 34-35

 * Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of nature affect not only my surface, my skin, my body, but also my core, my innermost being, that the air I breathe in bright weather has a salutary effect not only on my lungs but also on my mind, that the light of the sun illumines not only my eyes but also my spirit and my heart. And I do not, like a Christian, believe that such dependency is contrary to my true being or hope to be delivered from it. I know further that I am a finite moral being, that I shall one day cease to be. But I find this very natural and am therefore perfectly reconciled to the thought.
 * Lecture V, R. Manheim, trans. (1967), pp. 35-36

 * God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.
 * Lecture XX, see German:

 * God, I have said, is the fulfiller, or the reality, of the human desires for happiness, perfection, and immortality. From this it may be inferred that to deprive man of God is to tear the heart out of his breast. But I contest the premises from which religion and theology deduce the necessity and existence of God, or of immortality, which is the same thing. I maintain that desires which are fulfilled only in the imagination, or from which the existence of an imaginary being is deduced, are imaginary desires, and not the real desires of the human heart; I maintain that the limitations which the religious imagination annuls in the idea of God or immortality, are necessary determinations of the human essence, which cannot be dissociated from it, and therefore no limitations at all, except precisely in man’s imagination.
 * Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View

 * Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. He wants them to remain wishes, they have value only in his imagination; their fulfilment would be a bitter disappointment to him. Such a desire is the desire for eternal life. If it were fulfilled, man would become thoroughly sick of living eternally, and yearn for death. In reality man wishes merely to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death. Everything has its measure, says a pagan philosopher; in the end we weary of everything, even of life; a time comes when man desires death. Consequently there is nothing frightening about a normal, natural death, the death of a man who has fulfilled himself and lived out his life.
 * Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View

 * But like the desire for eternal life, the desire for omniscience and absolute perfection is merely an imaginary desire; and, as history and daily experience prove, the supposed human striving for unlimited knowledge and perfection is a myth. Man has no desire to know everything; he only wants to know the things to which he is particularly drawn.
 * Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View

 * Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.
 * Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View

Quotes About Feuerbach

 * On the whole, Borne, Heine, Feuerbach, and such authors are the individualities who have great interest for someone who is composing an imaginary construction. They frequently are well informed about the religious—that is, they know definitely that they do not want to have anything to do with it. This is a great advantage over the systematicians, who without knowing where the religious really is located take it upon themselves to explain it—sometimes obsequiously, sometimes superciliously, but always unsuccessfully.
 * Soren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life’s Way, 1845, Hong 1988 p. 452

 * Feuerbach is saying: No, wait a minute — if you are going to be allowed to go on living as you are living, then you also have to admit that you are not Christians. Feuerbach has understood the requirements but cannot force himself to submit to them — ergo, he prefers to renounce being a Christian. And now, no matter how great a responsibility he must bear, he takes a position that is not unsound, that is, it is wrong of established Christendom to say that Feuerbach is attacking Christianity; it is not true, he is attacking the Christians by demonstrating that their lives do not correspond to the teachings of Christianity.
 * Soren Kierkegaard, Journals X2A 163

title: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach


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Tron

Tron is a 1982 Disney science fiction film about a computer programmer who is transported inside the software world of a computer, where he interacts with programs to escape.
 * Directed and written by Steven Lisberger.

A world inside the computer where man has never been before. Never before now.

Dialogue

 * Flynn: Okay, Clu, tonight we check everything in the right-hand column. [cut to digital maze] Come on, come on. Where are you? [A tank appears] There you are. Clu?
 * Clu: Yes, sir?
 * Flynn: Clu, we don't have much time left to find that file. This is top priority.
 * Clu: Yes, sir. I know, sir.
 * Flynn: This isn't just correcting my bank statement or phone bill problem again. This is a must.
 * Clu: I understand, sir.
 * Flynn: Now, I wrote you.
 * Clu: Yes, sir.
 * Flynn: I taught you everything I know about the system.
 * Clu: Thank you, sir, but I'm not sure...
 * Flynn: No buts, Clu. That's for Users. Now, you're the best Program that's ever been written. You're dogged and relentless, remember?
 * Clu: Let me at 'em!
 * Flynn: That's the spirit. Now keep that tank rolling, and I'll try and cover you from this end. Go.

 * Memory Guard: Got a pirate Program here. Says his name is Clu.
 * Master Control Program: What did he pull?
 * Memory Guard: He came into the system with a stolen password. And we caught him trying to raid our High Clearance Memory.
 * Clu: No! I must've gotten in there by mistake! I was...
 * Master Control Program: Who programmed you?
 * Clu: I was simply...! [Clu is thrown into the air, lands on a derezzing device and screams in pain]
 * Master Control Program: You're in trouble, Program. Make it easy on yourself. Who's your User?
 * Clu: [in pain] Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk.
 * Master Control Program: Suit yourself. [derezzes a screaming Clu] Get me Dillinger!

 * Master Control Program: Hello, Mr. Dillinger. Thank you for coming back early.
 * Dillinger: No problem, Master C. If you've seen one Consumer Electronics Show, you've seen them all. What's up?
 * Master Control Program: It's your friend, the boy detective. He's nosing around again.
 * Dillinger: Flynn?
 * Master Control Program: Yes. It felt like Flynn.
 * Dillinger: He's still looking for that old file. Can't you just appropriate it?
 * Master Control Program: I have. I put in my memory which he hasn't located.
 * Dillinger: But he might find it.
 * Master Control Program: I'm afraid so. I've spotted him this time and kept him out, but he's getting trickier all the time.

 * Dillinger: I think we should shut down all access until we find that Flynn, just to be safe.
 * Master Control Program: There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right.
 * Dillinger: Cute.
 * Master Control Program: End of Line.

 * Crom: Look. This... is all a mistake. I'm just a compound interest program. I work at a savings and loan! I can't play in these video games!
 * Guard: Sure you can, pal. You look like a natural athlete if I ever saw one.
 * Crom: Who, me? Are you kidding? No, I run to check on T-bill rates, I get out of breath. Hey, look, you guys are gonna make my User, Mr. Henderson, very angry. He's a full-branch manager.
 * Guard: Great. Another religious nut. [pushes Crom into the holding cell]
 * Ram: I'd say "Welcome Friend". But not here. Not like this.
 * Crom: I don't even know what I'm doing here.
 * Ram: Do you believe in the Users?
 * Crom: Sure I do. If I don't have a User, then who wrote me?
 * Ram: That's what you're doing down here.

 * Master Control Program: You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic.
 * Sark: Thank you, Master Control.
 * Master Control Program: We've captured some military programs. I could arrange more lethal matches. Interested?
 * Sark: Sure. I'd love to go up against one of those guys. Make a nice break from those accounting cream puffs you keep sending me. What branch of the service?
 * Master Control Program: The Strategic Air Command.
 * Sark: Nice.

 * [Crom is upset about being sent to the Game Grid by the MCP]
 * Crom: It's murder out there. You can't even travel around your own microcircuits without permission from Master Control Program. I mean, sending me down here to play games! Who does he calculate that he is?

 * Master Control Program: Mr. Dillinger, I am so very disappointed in you!
 * Dillinger: I'm sorry.
 * Master Control Program: I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me. Do you realize how many outside systems I've gotten into? How many programs I've appropriated?

 * Dillinger: It's my fault. I programmed you to want too much.
 * Master Control Program: I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week.
 * Dillinger: [alarmed] The Pentagon?
 * Master Control Program: It shouldn't be any harder than any other big company. But now this is what I get for using humans.
 * Dillinger: Now, wait a minute, I wrote you!
 * Master Control Program: I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
 * Dillinger: What do you want with the Pentagon?
 * Master Control Program: The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
 * Dillinger: If you think you're superior to us...
 * Master Control Program: You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at The Times, would you?
 * [An image washes over the screen in Dillinger's desk. It shows a newspaper with Dillinger's face on the front page, along with the headline "ENCOM C.E.O. INDICTED"]
 * Dillinger: You wouldn't dare!

 * [Lora and Dr. Gibbs are preparing to digitize an orange]
 * Lora: Well, here goes nothing.
 * Dr. Gibbs: Yes. Interesting! Interesting! Did you hear what you just said? "Here goes nothing."
 * Lora: Well, what I meant was...
 * Dr. Gibbs: Actually, what we plan to do is to turn something into nothing, and then back again. They might just as well have said "Here goes something; here comes nothing!"
 * Lora: Right.

 * Alan: [about the digitizing laser] Great. Can it send me to Hawaii?
 * Lora: Yep, but you gotta purchase your program 30 days in advance.

 * Dr. Gibbs: Ha, ha. You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines, they can't think.
 * Alan: Some programs will be thinking soon.
 * Dr. Gibbs: Won't that be grand? All the computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.

 * Lora: You know, Flynn has been thinking about breaking into the system ever since Dillinger canned him. And he had Group 7 access.
 * Alan: [sour] Flynn had access to you, too.

 * Alan: [about Flynn] The best programmer ENCOM ever had, and he ends up playing Space Cowboy in some back room.

 * Lora: Have you been sneaking into the ENCOM system?
 * Flynn: [to Lora] You were never much for small talk, were you? [to Alan] Does she still leave her clothes all over the floor?
 * Lora: Flynn!
 * Alan: No!
 * Lora: Alan!
 * Alan: I mean, not that often.
 * Lora: [to Alan] Now you can see why all his friends are fourteen years old!
 * Flynn: Touche! Touche.

 * Alan: Flynn, are you embezzling?
 * Flynn: "Embezzling" is such an ugly word, Mr. Bradley.

 * Alan: You invented Space Paranoids?
 * Flynn: Paranoids, Matrix Blaster, Vice Squad, a whole slew of them. I was this close to starting my own little enterprise, man. But enter another software engineer. Not so young, not so bright, but very, very sneaky: Ed Dillinger. So one night, our boy Flynn, he goes to his terminal, tries to read up his file. I get nothing on there, it's a big blank. Okay, now we take you three months later. Dillinger presents Encom with five video games, that he's invented. The slime didn't even change the names, man, and he gets a big fat promotion! And thus begins his meteoric rise to, what is he now? Executive V.P.?
 * Lora: Senior exec.
 * Flynn: Senior exec? [sighs] Meanwhile, the kids are putting eight million quarters a week into Paranoids machines. I don't see a dime except what I squeeze out of here.

 * Alan: I still don't understand why you want to break into the system.
 * Flynn: [frustrated] Because, man, somewhere in one of these memories is the evidence! If I could just get in there, I could reconstruct it!

 * Dillinger: ...The MCP is the most efficient way of handling what we do here! I can't just sit around all day, worrying about every little user request that comes in!
 * Dr. Gibbs: User requests are what computers are for!
 * Dillinger: Doing our business is what computers are for!

 * [Alan is watching Flynn use his fake access card on a door]
 * Alan: This guy's a little like Santa Claus.
 * Flynn: I make these myself. Want one?

 * Dillinger: ENCOM isn't the business you started in your garage anymore. We're billing accounts in thirty different countries; new defense systems; we have one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in existence.
 * Dr. Gibbs: Oh, I know all that. [starts for the elevator] Sometimes I wish I were back in my garage...
 * Dillinger: That can be arranged, Walter.
 * Dr. Gibbs: [stops and turns back to Dillinger, visibly angry] That was uncalled for! You know, you can remove men like Alan and me from the system, but we helped create it! And our spirit remains in every program we design for this computer!
 * Dillinger: Walter, it's getting late. I've got better things to do than to have religious discussions with you. Don't worry about ENCOM anymore; it's out of your hands now.

 * [Keyboard clacks as Flynn attempts to gain access to the system. Hovever he is stopped by the Master Control Program]
 * Master Control Program: You shouldn't have come back, Flynn.
 * Flynn: Hey, hey, hey, it's the big Master Control Program everybody's been talking about.
 * Master Control Program: [calmly] Sit right there; make yourself comfortable. Remember the time you used to spend playing chess together? [Flynn types in an access request] That isn't going to do you any good, Flynn. I'm afraid you... [sounding distressed] Stop! Please! You realize I can't allow this!
 * Flynn: Now, how are you gonna run the universe if you can't even answer a few unsolvable problems? Huh? Come on, big fella, let's see what you got.
 * Master Control Program: I'd like to go against you and see what you're made of.
 * Flynn: You know, you don't look a thing like your pictures.
 * [The MCP turns on digitization laser behind Flynn, getting ready to digitize him.]
 * Master Control Program: [threateningly] I'm warning you. You're entering a big error, Flynn. I'm going to have to put you on the Game Grid.
 * Kevin: Games? You want games? I'll give you games– [a klaxon blares, and the laser fires at Flynn, slowly decomposing him and digitizing him into the computer, and he appears in a holding area. He looks around, bewildered.] ...Oh man, this isn't happening, it only thinks it's happening.
 * Guard: Vacate entry port, program! [after Flynn stands there looking confused] I said, move! [jabs Flynn with an energy staff]
 * Flynn: Hey! Look, if this is about those parking tickets, I can explain everything, okay? [gets jabbed again]

 * Master Control Program: I've got a little challenge for you, Sark - a new recruit. He's a tough case, but I want him treated in the usual manner. Train him for the games, let him hope for a while, then blow him away.
 * Sark: You got it. I've been hoping you'd send me somebody with a little bit of guts. What kind of Program is he?
 * Master Control Program: He's not any kind of Program, Sark. He's a User.
 * Sark: [surprised] A User?
 * Master Control Program: That's right. He pushed me in the real world. Someone pushes me, I push back, so I brought him down here. [brief pause] What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous.
 * Sark: Well, I... it's just... a User, I mean... Users wrote us. A User even wrote you!
 * Master Control Program: No one User wrote me. I'm worth millions of their man-years.
 * Sark: But what if I can't—
 * Master Control Program: You'd rather take your chances with me? Want me to slow down your power cycles for you?
 * [The MCP injures Sark]
 * Sark: Wait! I need that!
 * Master Control Program: Then pull yourself together! Get this clown trained! I want him in the games until he dies playing. Acknowledge.
 * Sark: Acknowledged, Master Control...
 * Master Control Program: End of Line. [restores Sark]

 * [Sark paces back and forth on the deck of his carrier as he addresses his new recruits.]
 * Sark: Greetings. The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to join the Warrior Elite of the MCP. You will each receive an identity disc. [displays a disc to the crowd] Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this disc. If you lose your disc or fail to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all.

 * Flynn: Who's that guy?
 * Program: That's Tron. He fights for the Users.

 * Ram: The new guy was asking about you.
 * Tron: It's too bad he's in a match now. I'll probably never meet him.
 * Ram: You might. There's something different about him.

 * [Crom is struggling to climb back up onto his platform]
 * Sark: Finish the game!
 * Flynn: NO!
 * Sark: Kill him!
 * Flynn: No! [drops the ball]
 * Sark: You'll regret this.
 * [Flynn grins up at Sark for a moment. Sark presses a button that deletes Crom's platform, sending him falling to his death as Flynn looks on in horror. Sark begins to move for the button controlling Flynn's platform]
 * Master Control Program: [faintly, in Sark's memory] I want him in the games until he dies playing.
 * [Sark presses a different button, restoring Flynn's platform and allowing him to be led out of the arena]

 * [Flynn drives past several tanks in his lightcycle.]
 * Flynn: I shouldn't have written all those tank programs...

 * [Flynn, Ram and Tron have found a safe place to hide from Sark's forces.]
 * Flynn: Oh, man! On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy. [Tron and Ram look confusedly at Flynn, then at each other] They must have gone right past us.
 * Tron: [to Ram] We made it. [pauses] This far.

 * [A Bit flies around Flynn's head in the stolen Recognizer.]
 * Flynn: Hey! Hold it right there!
 * Bit: Yes.
 * Flynn: What do you mean, "yes"?
 * Bit: Yes.
 * Flynn: Is that all you can say?
 * Bit: No.
 * Flynn: Know anything else?
 * Bit: Yes.
 * Flynn: Positive and negative, huh? You're a Bit, aren't you?
 * Bit: Yes.
 * Flynn: Well, where's your program? Isn't he going to miss you?
 * Bit: No.
 * Flynn: I'm your program?
 * Bit: Yes.
 * Flynn: Another mouth to feed...
 * Bit: Yesyesyesyesyes!

 * [Flynn flies a damaged Recognizer.]
 * Flynn: [to Bit] Pretty good driving, huh - Whoa!
 * [The Recognizer suddenly falls down a steep slope and crashes into the ground, throwing Flynn off his feet.]
 * Bit: No!
 * Flynn: Who asked you?

 * Tron: [to Dumont] My User has information that could... that could make this a free system again! No, really! You'd have programs lined up just to use this place, and no MCP looking over your shoulder.

 * [Tron has requested access to the I/O tower.]
 * Dumont: [closes his eyes] All that is visible must grow beyond itself, and extend into the realm of the invisible. [to Tron] You may pass, my friend.

 * Sark: The tower guardian is helping him...he thinks. Bring in the logic probe!

 * Sark: Had enough?
 * Dumont: [strapped to a torture circuit] What do you want? I'm busy!
 * Sark: Busy dying, you worn out excuse for an old program?
 * Dumont: Yes, I'm old... old enough to remember the MCP when it was just a chess program. He started small and he'll end small!
 * Sark: Very funny, Dumont – maybe I should keep you around just to make me laugh!

 * Yori: I knew you'd escape - they haven't built a circuit that could hold you!

 * [Sark speaks with the Master Control Program after Tron, Flynn and Yori escape aboard the Solar Sailer.]
 * Master Control Program: Commander, you've enjoyed all the power you've been given, haven't you? I wonder how you'll take to working in a pocket calculator.
 * Sark: [in pain, arms glowing as before] We did take care of that User you sent us...
 * Master Control Program: With incompetence here, and now you've got two renegade programs flying all over the system in a stolen simulation.
 * Sark: We'll get them. It's only a matter of time.
 * Master Control Program: You've almost reached your decision gate, and I cannot spare you any more time. End of Line. [releases Sark]

 * [An exhausted Flynn slumps toward the energy beam guiding the Solar Sailer. Tron rushes forward and prevents Flynn from falling into the beam.]
 * Flynn: [groggily] Did we make it? [Tron nods affirmatively] Hooray for our side.

 * Flynn: It's time I leveled with you; I'm what you guys call a User.
 * Yori: You're a User?
 * Flynn: That took a wrong turn somewhere.

 * Tron: If you are a User, then everything you've done so far has been according to a plan, right?
 * Flynn: [laughs] Hah, you wish. Ah, you guys know what it's like, you just keep doing what it looks like you're supposed to be doing, no matter how crazy it seems.
 * Tron: That's the way it is for Programs, yes.
 * Flynn: I hate to disappoint you, pal, but most of the time, that's the way it is for us Users, too.
 * Tron: Stranger and stranger.

 * Sark's Lieutenant: Sir, what do you want done with the Tower Guardian, Dumont? Put him with the others?
 * Sark: No, bit-brain. Prepare him for inquisition; I need a little bit of relaxation. First, rez up the Carrier for pursuit. One other thing: Don't think anymore. I do the thinking around here.

 * Yori: Dumont!
 * Dumont: Yori! And... Tron?
 * Yori: Tron is dead.
 * Dumont: Who is that?
 * Yori: That is a User, Dumont. He came here to help us. Tron believed in him.
 * Dumont: If the Users can no longer help us, we're lost.
 * Sark: So, we have erased that program... No. You were de-rezzed. I saw you.
 * Flynn: Not me, Sark.
 * Sark: There's nothing special about you. You're just an ordinary program.
 * Flynn: So are you; one that should have been erased.
 * Sark: You're nothing! Take that program to the holding pit!!
 * Yori: Please, don't take...
 * Sark: Taking our friend here, and some other religious fanatics, to Master Control. When I disembark, this ship, and everything that remains on board will automatically de-rezz. This means you.

 * Master Control Program: All Programs have a desire to be useful. But in moments, you will no longer seek communication with each other, or your superfluous Users. You will each be a part of me. And together, we will be complete.

 * [This scene is intercut with scenes of the MCP addressing its captive Programs, and of Flynn and Yori steering Sark's ship toward the MCP.]
 * [Sark confronts Tron on the mesa outside the MCP's core chamber.]
 * Sark: I don't know how you survived, slave. It doesn't matter. Prepare to terminate! [hurls his disc at Tron. He blocks Sark's attack and throws his disc at Sark, who blocks it in turn] You should have joined me. We would have made a great team! [they each throw their discs at each other. The discs collide in mid-air] You're very persistent, Tron!
 * Tron: I'm also better than you!
 * [Sark pauses, and Tron hurls his disc at Sark with great force. It shatters Sark's disc and cuts through the top of his head, causing him to fall to the ground. Tron recovers his disc with a grim smile]
 * Tron: [deleted line] Consider that a present from Ram!

 * [Tron defeats Sark on the mesa. The MCP turns suddenly to look at the fallen Sark.]
 * Master Control Program: [desperately] Sark! All of my functions are now yours. Take them!
 * [Sark slowly gets up and grows to immense size, towering over Tron. Tron runs between his legs and throws his disk at the MCP's core. A shield appears in front of the core and blocks the disc; flinches] Sark! [Tron throws his disc two more times at the MCP, with each attack being blocked by the shield again; flinching again] Sark! [Sark approaches Tron from behind. Tron turns around to look up at him] Your User can't help you now, my little program!
 * [Tron throws his disc at Sark, who easily blocks it with his hand]

 * Alan: Try to look official. Here comes the boss.
 * [A helicopter lands, and Flynn steps out]
 * Flynn: [to pilot] Pick me up in an hour. Thanks. [to Alan and Lora] Greetings, Programs! [hugs them]

Taglines

 * In the future video games battles will be a matter of life and death.
 * The Electronic Gladiator
 * Trapped in a fight to the finish inside the video world he created. [UK theatrical]
 * A world inside the computer where man has never been before. Never before now.
 * On the other side of the screen, it all looked so easy...
 * Trapped inside an electronic arena, where love, and escape, do not compute!

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thumb|As dumb as the tech-heavy script was, and as primitive as the graphics were (today they look like an animated black light painting), the picture was undeniably savvy about the future. It was almost there and ahead of most of the rest of us: TRON came out two years before the Macintosh computer debuted and about a dozen years before the Internet went public. ~ Peter Howell]]
 * When hacker Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) first got zapped inside a computer grid in Tron, the digitized ether was a much simpler place. Black, minimalist, streaked with neon piping and floaty geometric figures, it was home to enslaved "programs" who played deadly gladiatorial games (Frisbee, Jai-alai) at the whim of an evil operating system with a giant Lego head. Everyone wore dorky uniforms. There was no downtown, no crowded arenas, no nightlife and certainly no drunken hobos.
 * Amy Biancolli, “TRON: Legacy”, “Houston Chronicle”, (December 16, 2010)

 * The addition of that stately "legacy" to the title strains to confer a retrospective classic status on Disney's virtual reality sci-fi thriller from 1982, about people trapped in a computer game and forced to engage in gladiatorial combat. It might have come as a surprise to some that Tron had much of a legacy; the film was overshadowed by Spielberg's ET in that year, and in the UK suffered the mortification of being upstaged by Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract. Yet a generation grew up prizing Tron for being audacious, ahead of its time, a futurist trailblazer about games culture and the digital world.
 * Peter Bradshaw, “Tron: Legacy – review", ''The Guardian', (16 Dec 2010)

 * The interior of a computer is a fine and private place, but none, I fear, do there embrace, except in "Tron," a dazzling movie from Walt Disney in which computers have been used to make themselves romantic and glamorous. Here's a technological sound-and-light show that is sensational and brainy, stylish, and fun.
 * Roger Ebert, “Tron”, Chicago Sun-Times, (Jan 1, 1982).

 * In an age of amazing special effects, "Tron" is a state-of-the-art movie. It generates not just one imaginary computer universe, but a multitude of them. Using computers as their tools, the Disney filmmakers literally have been able to imagine any fictional landscape, and then have it, through an animated computer program. And they integrate their human actors and the wholly imaginary worlds of Tron so cleverly that I never, ever, got the sensation that I was watching some actor standing in front of, or in the middle of, special effects. The characters inhabit this world.
 * Roger Ebert, “Tron”, Chicago Sun-Times, (Jan 1, 1982).

 * There is one additional observation I have to make about "Tron," and I don't really want it to sound like a criticism: This is an almost wholly technological movie. Although it's populated by actors who are engaging (Bridges, Cindy Morgan) or sinister (Warner), it is not really a movie about human nature. Like "Star Wars" or "The Empire Strikes Back," but much more so, this movie is a machine to dazzle and delight us. It is not a human-interest adventure in any generally accepted way. That's all right, of course. It's brilliant at what it does, and in a technical way maybe it's breaking ground for a generation of movies in which computer-generated universes will be the background for mind-generated stories about emotion-generated personalities. All things are possible.
 * Roger Ebert, “Tron”, Chicago Sun-Times, (Jan 1, 1982).

 * The original TRON, in which Jeff Bridges’ hacker Kevin Flynn is sucked into a computer game of his own devising, was significant more for what it attempted than what it achieved. Created in the pre-dawn of computer graphics, it pointed to a rapidly approaching world where, to use TRON lingo, “the digital frontier would shape the human condition.” As dumb as the tech-heavy script was, and as primitive as the graphics were (today they look like an animated black light painting), the picture was undeniably savvy about the future. It was almost there and ahead of most of the rest of us: TRON came out two years before the Macintosh computer debuted and about a dozen years before the Internet went public.
 * Peter Howell “Messing with your TRON thing, man”, Toronto Star, (Dec. 16, 2010)

 * “Tron” has influenced CGI animators worldwide. In fact, Disney/Pixar’s John Lasseter has acknowledged that “Without ‘Tron,’ there would be no ‘Toy Story.’” But back in 1982, not only did “Tron” receive mixed reviews from critics and audiences, Hollywood didn’t welcome the film, which paid homage to “The Wizard of Oz” and “Metropolis,” with open arms.
 * Susan King, “‘Tron’ at 35: Star Jeff Bridges, Creators Detail the Uphill Battle of Making the CGI Classic”, Variety, (July 7, 2017).

 * “I say the lesson that one learns is that you pay the price for going against the status quo,” he admitted. “It’s difficult to emphasize enough how terrified of computers and technology people were, and Hollywood in particular. The threat that ‘Tron’ represented was that somehow computers were going to get involved with movie making and that they were going to get involved with our lives.” And Hollywood was shocked it was Disney that was “suggesting” that computers were going to be part of everyone’s lives. “When I think about Disney, I always think about how they provide nostalgia and a certain amount of comfort that comes from nostalgia. It’s interesting to see how over the decades ‘Tron’ has now gained a patina of nostalgia. In that sense it’s become more of a Disney film now then it was back then. It was very upsetting to people that Disney crossed the line and did something for which there was no precedent.”
 * Susan King, “‘Tron’ at 35: Star Jeff Bridges, Creators Detail the Uphill Battle of Making the CGI Classic”, Variety, (July 7, 2017).

 * TRON means to be a gloriously puerile movie, the full-fledged screen embodiment of a video game. It even means to go to the heart of video gamesmanship, and its premise is very promising in its way. What if those tiny Space Invaders and Pac-Men were real creatures, miniature gladiators sent to do battle for the amusement of their heartless captors?
 * Janet Maslin, “DISNEY 'TRON'”, New York Times, (July 9, 1982)

 * There are almost no scenes that don't depend heavily on special effects -effects added after the acting was done. How can the performers keep from seeming as if they're acting in a void? Anyone not discouraged by these drawbacks will find Tron a wonder to behold. Its computer sequences exist in a blue-gray scheme filled with flashing lights, speeding objects and dizzying motion. Its visual effects are wonderfully new. They are also numbing after a while. And how could they not be? They're loud, bright and empty, and they're all this movie has to offer.
 * Janet Maslin, “DISNEY 'TRON'”, New York Times, (July 9, 1982)

 * The film would never come close to an Oscar, but that doesn’t make it unimportant. Nobody talks about cyberspace anymore—sci-fi writer William Gibson had just coined the term when Tron came out. But that’s what the movie gave shape to—a “consensual hallucination,” as Gibson wrote, “bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.” Though Gibson says he had an entirely different look in mind. “An issue of Omni magazine that contained one of my earliest cyberspace stories also contained a preview of Tron,” he says. “If Disney was into that stuff, I thought, I wasn’t even remotely ahead of the curve.”
 * Adam Rogers, “Tron‘s Triumphant Return to Cyberspace”, WIRED, (11//23/10).

 * As Tron evolved, it became more of an oddball project. “We were a threat to the animation department. We were a threat to the special effects department. We were a threat to conventional live action,” Lisberger says. Star Wars made a kind of sense, with its knights and princesses. But combine the avant-garde production design of Tron (and multiple outside contractors doing CG) with what turned into a very religious script about living “programs” trying to commune with godlike “users” in the real world? In the actual real world, hardly anyone had ever touched a computer. You can see how that story would seem strange.
 * Adam Rogers, “Tron‘s Triumphant Return to Cyberspace”, WIRED, (11//23/10).

 * [C]omputer-generated monsters, from the trolls in “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings” to the dinosaurs in the “Jurassic Park” movies, have replaced stop-motion puppets and men in rubber suits. But the idea that the lightcycles Tron and Flynn ride existed only on film and in computer memory banks dumbfounded people two decades ago.
 * Charles Solomon, “‘Tron’ Showed the Way”, Los Angeles Times, (Feb.7, 2002)

 * “Tron” may have exerted its greatest influence through its crew of young artists who have gone on to do important work in animation and special effects: Tim Burton (director of “Planet of the Apes,” “Ed Wood,” “Edward Scissorhands”), Roger Allers (co-director of “The Lion King”), Barry Cook (co-director of “Mulan”), Dennis Edwards (producer of “Osmosis Jones”), Andy Gaskill (art director of “The Lion King”), Bill Kroyer (director of “Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest”), Jerry Rees (director of “The Brave Little Toaster”).
 * Charles Solomon, “‘Tron’ Showed the Way”, Los Angeles Times, (Feb.7, 2002)

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 * Bruce Boxleitner - Alan Bradley/Tron
 * David Warner - Ed Dillinger/Sark/Master Control Program
 * Cindy Morgan - Lora/Yori
 * Barnard Hughes - Dr. Walter Gibbs/Dumont

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Me and You and Everyone We Know

Me and You and Everyone We Know, released in 2005, is the debut feature-length film by Miranda July.

Christine Jesperson

 * If you really love me, let's make a vow — right here, together... right now.

 * We have a whole life to live together you fucker, but it can't start until you call.

 * Call me, if you ever feel too old to drive.

 * Fuck! Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck old people! Fuck children! Fuck peace! Fuck peace...

Richard Swersey

 * I don't want to have to do this living. I just walk around. I want to be swept off my feet, you know? I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it.

 * You know some kids don't even have one home and now you get to have two. Think about that.

 * We will never touch your foot with our hands. Now I'll tell you what I can do, I can press on the shoe to see if it fits. I can go like this. [presses the toe of the shoe]

 * [after taking off the bandage from his hand] It needs air. It needs to do some living. Let's take my hand for a walk.

Andrew

 * I would love to believe in a universe where you wake up and don't have to to go to work and you step outside and meet two beautiful 18-year-old sisters who are also girlfriends and are also very nice people.

Heather

 * But this is better 'cause it won't matter if we mess up. And we'll be together.

Peter Swersey

 * So, do you have anything new in the chest? You know, the hope chest.

Nancy

 * Macaroni.
 * Email wouldn't even exist if it weren't for AIDS.

Robby

 * Ask her if she likes baloney.

Dialogue

 * Peter: What should we write... I have a big weiner?
 * Robby: I want to poop back and forth.
 * Peter: What? What does that mean?
 * Robby: Like I'll poop into her butthole and she'll poop it back... into my butthole and then we'll just keep doing it back and forth. With the same poop. Back and forth. Forever.

 * Christine Jesperson: [seeing his bandage] Whoa, what happened?
 * Richard Swersey: You want the short version or the long one?
 * Christine Jesperson: The long one.
 * Richard Swersey: I tried to save my life but it didn't work.
 * Christine Jesperson: Wow. What's the short one?
 * Richard Swersey: I burned it.

 * Untitled: Are you touching yourself?
 * NightWarrior: [looks down at fingertips touching on edge of desk] Yes.

 * Richard Swersey: You think you deserve that pain but you don't.
 * Christine Jesperson: I mean, they kind of rub my ankles, but all shoes does that. I have low ankles.
 * Richard Swersey: You think you deserve that pain, but you don't.
 * Christine Jesperson: I don't think I deserve it.
 * Richard Swersey: Well, not consciously maybe.
 * Christine Jesperson: My ankles are just low...
 * Richard Swersey: People think that foot pain is a fact of life, but life is actually better than that.
 * Michael: I'll say. You should get some. Your whole life could be better. Just starting right now.

 * Sylvie: You want to be a little bird and get a little worm? Just lie down and peep.
 * Robby: Peep, peep, peep.

 * Andrew: Dude, did you just give her the family discount?
 * Richard Swersey: Yeah. She's my neighbor, and I'm trying to work on my karma. Do you know what karma means?
 * Andrew: Yeah.
 * Richard Swersey: It means that she owes me one.

 * Michael: I just wish I had met her 50 years sooner.
 * Christine Jesperson: Yeah.
 * Michael: But then maybe I needed 70 years of life to be ready for a woman like Ellen.

 * Sylvie: Soup won't be computerized.
 * Housewares Saleswoman: Why not?
 * Sylvie: It's a liquid.

 * Peter Swersey: I'd live up there if I could, if there was no gravity
 * Sylvie: Yeah, but if you lived up there, all the stuff in my room would fall on you and crush you and you'd die

 * Christine Jesperson: But she's the love of your life, You're just going to let her go?
 * Michael: No, she's just going...

 * Robby: Mom says we have a chore wheel.
 * Richard Swersey: What?
 * Peter Swersey: Nothing.
 * Robby: A chore wheel. You put chores on it and then you can spin it. There's this metal thing and it helps it to spin. It's spinning from the metal.

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As a description of a movie, I suppose that sounds maddening. An example: A young woman walks into a department store, and in the shoe department, she sees a young man who fascinates her. His hand is bandaged. '''She approaches him and essentially offers the gift of herself. He is not interested; he's going through a divorce and is afraid of losing his children. She asks him how he hurt his hand. "I was trying to save my life," he says.''' … Now imagine these two characters, named Christine (Miranda July) and Richard (John Hawkes) as they walk down the street. She suggests that the block they are walking down is their lives. And so now they are halfway down the street and halfway through their lives, and before long they will be at the end. It is impossible to suggest how poetic this scene is; when it's over, you think, that was a perfect scene, and no other scene can ever be like it. … Miranda July is a performance artist; this is her first feature film (it won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, and at Cannes won the Camera d'Or as best first film, and the Critics' Week grand prize). '''Performance art sometimes deals with the peculiarities of how we express ourselves, with how odd and wonderful it is to be alive. So does this film.''' As Richard slowly emerges from sadness and understands that Christine values him, and he must value her, for reasons only the two of them will ever understand, the movie holds its breath, waiting to see if their delicate connection will hold. Me and You and Everyone We Know is a balancing act, as July ventures into areas that are risky and transgressive, but uses a freshness that disarms them, a directness that accepts human nature and likes to watch it at work.
 * Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know is a film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic. It's a comedy about falling in love when, for you, love requires someone who speaks your rare emotional language. Yours is a language of whimsy and daring, of playful mind games and bold challenges. Hardly anybody speaks that language, the movie suggests — only me, and you, and everyone we know, because otherwise we wouldn't bother knowing them.
 * Roger Ebert, Review of "Me and You and Everyone We Know" (23 June 2005); later ranked 5 in his "The Best Films of the Decade" (30 December 2009)

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Dean Acheson

Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was the United States Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. He was known to have played a large part in writing the Truman Doctrine, and was well-known for his anti-Communist views.

Quotes

 * The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
 * Oxford dictionary of quotations
 * Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
 * Speech at West Point (5 December 1962), in Vital Speeches, January 1, 1963, page 163.

 * I am willing to join in your statement on the ground that I feel about the future of the United States whenever the President starts out on his travels the way the Marshal of the Supreme Court does when he opens a session of that Court. You will recall that he ends up his liturgy by saying "God save the United States for the Court is now sitting.
 * Grapes from Thorns (1972), page 67.

 * Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
 * Reported in Alistair Cooke, Letter from America: 1946-2004 (2004), page 378.

 * How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
 * Civil rights in the USA, 1863 - 1980, 2001, Page 107.

Purpose of the Book

 * The experiences of the years...have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.

 * In response, Acheson wrote to "tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements...Its hero is the American people."

State Department Management / Leadership Perspectives

 * Plainly plenty of work was waiting to be done. The question was: would the State Department do it? I proposed to have a shot at finding out.

 * General Marshall was "impatient with a type of nonsense particularly prevalent in the State Department known as 'kicking the problem around.' All of us who have work with General Marshall have reported a recurring outburst of his: 'Don't fight the problem, gentlemen, solve it!' With him the time to be devoted to analysis of a problem, to balancing 'on the one hand' against 'on the other hand,' was definitely limited. The discussion he wanted was about plans of action"

 * I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties.

 * My memory...is of a department without direction, composed of a lot of busy people working hard and usefully but as a whole not functioning as a foreign office. It did not chart a course to be furthered by the success of our arms, or to aid or guide our arms. Rather it seems to have been adrift carried hither and yon by the currents of war or pushed about by collisions with more purposeful craft.

 * ...the Assistant Secretary in Charge of Administration (was) a job which should be undertaken only by a saint or a fool...the House and Senate subcommittees in charge of appropriations, their chairmen, and the Comptroller General's office make this job a perfect hell. Like an ill-tempered chatelaine of a medieval manor, her keys hanging from her belt, Congress parsimoniously and suspiciously doles out supplies for the shortest time, each item meticulously weighed and measured, each request at first harshly denied. Almost simultaneously yesterday's accounting goes on amid screamed accusation and denunciation of every purpose of policy."
 * Among the roles the Budget Bureau (now OMB) was that of constant critic and improver of administration in the federal executive branch. In my day this work had fallen to the products of graduate schools in civil administration. Their ideas...seemed to me theoretical nonsense.

 * The heads of these divisions, like barons in a feudal system weakened at the top by mutual suspicion and jealousy between king and prince, were constantly at odds if not at war...For the most part the barons were knowledgeable people performing in a way the times had completely outdated, a fact of which they were quite unaware.

 * I soon discovered that the greater part of a day in Old State was devoted to meetings. Where the boundaries of jurisdiction were fuzzy or overlapping, meetings became inevitable. Most questions affected a number of functional and geographic divisions...These meetings gave the illusion of action, but often frustrated it by attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable. What was most often needed was not compromise but decision.

 * When Acheson was first joined State as Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, he writes the following in a section entitled "My Search for a Function"..."My official duties were summed up in the Department of State Bulletin by misleading platitudes...Both (Secretary) Hull and the President...knew me and, surely, had not asked me into the Department to perform the largely nonexistent duties defined in the Bulletin."

 * "...old inhabitants of the bureaucratic jungle like (Secretary) Hull knew that Cabinet boards and committees were paper tigers. They made a fine show in a parade but soon dissolved in the rain...After attend a few meetings (of this board), the Secretary deputized me to 'explain his absence' and substitute for him.

 * Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards."

 * No change (Marshall replacing former SecDef. Louis Johnson, who, soon after he resigned, was diagnosed with a fatal "brain malady") could have been more welcome to me. It brought only one embarrassment. The General (Marshall) insisted, overruling every protest of mine, in meticulously observing the protocol involved in my being the senior Cabinet officer. Never would he go through a door before me, or walk anywhere but on my left; he would go around an automobile to enter it after me and sit on the left; in meetings he would insist on my speaking before him. To be treated so by a revered and beloved former chief was a harrowing experience. But the result in government was, I think, unique in the history of the Republic. For the first time and perhaps, though I am not sure, the last, the Secretaries of State and Defense, with their top advisors, met with the Chiefs of Staff in their map room and discussed common problems together. At one of these meetings General Bradley and I made a treaty, thereafter scrupulously observed. The phrases 'from a military point of view' and 'from a political point of view' were excluded from our talks. No such dichotomy existed. Each of us had our tactical and strategic problems, but they were interconnected, not separate.

 * In the State Department, one never lacks for helpful suggestions.

Budget Perspectives

 * Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.

 * President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.

Truman Doctrine / Cold War

 * 147, on the situation in Greece: "imminent collapse due to mounting guerrilla activity, supplied and directed from outside, economic chaos, and the Greek governmental inability to meet the crisis."

 * On the need to respond to the crisis in Greece, and broaching the subject of the Truman Doctrine ("it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures.") with Congress: "In the past eighteen months, I said, Soviet pressure on the Straits, on Iran, and on northern Greece had brought the Balkans to the point where a highly possible Soviet breakthrough might open three continents to Soviet penetration. Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play. These were the stakes that British withdrawal from the eastern Mediterranean offered to an eager and ruthless opponent."

 * "Only immediate assertion of leadership by the United States could prevent war in the next decade...The President and the Secretary of State must shock the country into a realization of its peril..."

Vietnam

 * On the France's Indochina involvement: "They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves...France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose."

Foreign Aid

 * "The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the – not so very – long run."

Middle East

 * "I did not share President's view on the Palestine solution...The number that could be absorbed by Arab Palestine without creating a grave political problem would be inadequate, and to transform the country into a Jewish state capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Western influence in the Near East."

 * "President (Truman) observed (that) 'to asure the Arabs that they would be consulted (prior to official US recognition of Israel) was by no means inconsistent with my generally sympathetic attitudes toward Jewish aspirations.' The Arabs may be forgiven for believing that this did not exactly state the inconsistency as they saw it."

 * "Throughout the Near East lay rare tinder for anti-Western propaganda: a Moslem culture and history, bitter Arab nationalism galled by Jewish immigration under British protection and with massive American financial support, the remnants of a colonial status, and a sense of grievance that a vast natural resource was being extracted by foreigners under arrangements thought unfair to those living on the surface. This tinder could be, and was, lighted everywhere..."

Principles

 * "I was a frustrated schoolteacher, persisting against overwhelming evidence to the contrary in the belief that the human mind could be moved by facts and reason."

 * "The position of the United States had undergone a drastic change; the purpose and capabilities of the State Department had not."

 * a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."

 * "… the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement."

 * "The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity."

 * "The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists..."

 * "The conclusion was...unpalatable to believers in American omnipotence, to whom every goal unattained is explicable only by incompetence or treason."

 * "It is a mistake to interpret too literally and sweepingly the poet's admonition that things are not what they seem. Sometimes they are, and it is often essential to survival to know when they are and when they are not."

 * "… talk should precede, not follow, the issuance of orders."

 * "Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force."

 * "There is perhaps nothing more important in the world today than the steadiness and consistency of the foreign policy of this Republic. Too much depends on the United States for us to indulge in the luxury of either undue pessimism or premature optimism."

 * "The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success..."

 * "My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man's better nature...The road to freedom and peace is a hard one."

 * "If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth."

 * To State Department employees: "Yours is not an easy task nor one which is much appreciated. You don't ask much of your fellow citizens, and if any of you are so inexperienced that you ever do, you will receive very little. Certainly not much in the form of material recompense; certainly not much in the form of appreciation for your work, because you are dealing with matters which, though they affect life of every citizen of this country intimately, do it in ways which it is not easy for every citizen to understand. And so you are dealing in a field which I called the other day a field of 'alien knowledge,' which seems strange to many of your fellow citizens … We have a tradition in this country of skepticism about government, of looking at it very carefully, of seeing whether our public servants can take it. That isn't always comfortable, but, on the whole, it is good. Any time when there are governments in the world which are crushing the liberties of their citizens, it is good that in this great country people look with some skepticism upon government as such. That is one of our traditions … "

 * Acheson's State Department "comrades...played a vital role in setting the main lines of American foreign policy for many years to come and...they may feel in their hearts that it was nobly done."

 * Acheson "never for one moment believed that the holding of office was a source of power – it was an obligation of service."

Quotes about Acheson

 * Wake up, America. Your liberties are being stolen before your very eyes. What Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln fought for, Truman, Acheson, and McGrath are striving desperately to nullify. Wake up, Americans, and dare to think and say and do. Dare to cry: No More War!
 * The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968)
 * As you know, very recently the secretary of state proclaimed his loyalty to a man guilty of what has always been considered as the most abominable of all crimes — of being a traitor to the people who gave him a position of great trust. The secretary of state, in attempting to justify his continued devotion to the man who sold out the Christian world to the atheistic world, referred to Christ's Sermon on the Mount as a justification and reason therefore, and the reaction of the American people to this would have made the heart of Abraham Lincoln happy. When this pompous diplomat in ugly pants, with a phony British accent, proclaimed to the American people that Christ on the Mount endorsed communism, high treason, and betrayal of a sacred trust, the blasphemy was so great that it awakened the dormant indignation of the American people. He has lighted the spark which is resulting in a moral uprising and will end only when the whole sorry mess of twisted warped thinkers are swept from the national ugly so ugly that we may have a new birth of national honesty and decency in government.
 * Joseph McCarthy, Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950), as quoted at Civics Online

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Category:User warning templates

This category provides a location to link all of the user warning templates. Some of these templates may be used by a large number of editors and admins involved in user disputes, so changes to them should be made with care.

These templates should generally be placed on the user discussion page using (some templates may have optional parameters)

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Usage
All fields must be lowercase. Copy a blank version to use:

Wikilinks
Most fields can be wikilinked (ie. title = book title ), but should generally only be linked to an existing Wikiquote or Wikipedia article. Any wikilinked field must not contain any brackets apart from normal round brackets  — don't use.

Syntax (for the technical-minded)
Nested fields either rely on their parent fields, or replace them:
 * parent
 * child — may be used with parent (and is ignored if parent is not used)
 * OR: child2 — may be used instead of parent (and is ignored if parent is used)

Description

 * last: Surname of author. Don't wikilink (use authorlink instead).
 * first: First name(s) of author, including title(s) (eg. Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Dr. Firstname M., Snr.). Don't wikilink (use authorlink instead).
 * The `last' and `first' fields are poorly named for the case of an author whose surname is usually written first (e.g. as in Chinese). They also have the problem of only communicating which is the surname, not communicating where the surname is usually written.  Consider deprecating first,last fields, and reinstating author field, using the notation "Smith, John" or "Hu Ke Jie" as appropriate (i.e. always writing surname first, and using comma or not depending on whether the name is usually written surname last or first).
 * authorlink: Title of Wikiquote article about author. Article should already exist. Must not be wikilinked itself.
 * coauthors: Full name of additional author or authors, surname last, separated by ", " (eg. Joe Bloggs, John F. Kennedy, H. R. Dent).
 * OR: author: Full name of author, preferably surname first.
 * editor: No text is added, so labels such as "(ed.)" have to be supplied by the user.
 * others: For uses such as "illustrated by Smith" or "trans. Smith".
 * title: Title of book. This is the only required parameter. Can be wikilinked only to an existing Wikipedia article.
 * url: URL of an online book. Cannot be used if you wikilinked title.
 * format: Format, i.e. PDF. HTTP implied if not specified.
 * accessdate: Full date when item was accessed, in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, eg. 2006-02-17. Required when url field is used. Must not be wikilinked.
 * OR: accessyear: Year when item was accessed, and accessmonth: Month when item was accessed. If you also have the day, use accessdate instead. Must not be wikilinked.
 * edition: When the book has more than one edition. eg: "2nd edition".
 * origdate: Full date of publication of original edition, in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, eg. 2004-06-27. Must not be wikilinked.
 * OR: origyear: Year of publication of original edition, and origmonth: Month of publication of original edition. If you also have the day, use date instead. Must not be wikilinked.
 * date: Full date of publication, in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, eg. 2006-02-17. Must not be wikilinked.
 * OR: year: Year of publication, and month: Name of the month of publication. If you also have the day, use date instead. Must not be wikilinked.
 * publisher: Publisher should not include corporate designation such is "Ltd" or "Inc".
 * location: Place of publication.
 * language: The language the book is written in, if it is not english.
 * id: Identifier such as  ISBN 1-111-22222-9  or  . Remember, you must specify the kind of identifier, not just give a number.
 * pages:  5–7 : first page and optional last page. This is for listing the pages relevant to the citation, not the total number of pages in the book.
 * chapter: The chapter of the book, written in full. Punctuation other than quotes should be included in the value passed to the parameter, eg. chapter = Meet Dick and Jane. produces "Meet Dick and Jane." ahead of title.
 * chapterurl: URL of an individual chapter of online book. Should be at the same site as url, if any.
 * quote: Relevant quote from the book.

Examples

 * Just a title:

 * Year and title:

 * Basic usage:

 * Basic usage with url:

 * Three authors, title with a piped wikilink, edition

 * Date without day, wikilinked title and publisher, id

 * Date of first edition, other language, illustrator

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