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Joyce Kilmer

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918) was an American journalist and poet.

Quotes

 * At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful … The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
 * A letter home, included in Joyce Kilmer, Poems, Essays and Letters (1918) edited by Robert Holliday

There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. '''There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime Never to laugh nor love again Nor taste the Summertime.'''
 * In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
 * "Rouge Bouquet" (1918)

Trees and Other Poems (1914)

A poem lovely as a tree.''' A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. '''Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.'''
 * '''I think that I shall never see
 * "Trees" - This poem was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Vol. 2 (August 1913). The first two lines were first written down on the 2nd of February 1913.

And you're forgiven and forgotten.''' You might be gaily sinning yet And quick and fresh instead of rotten. '''And when you think of love and fame And all that might have come to pass, Then don't you feel a little shame? And don't you think you were an ass?'''
 * '''Yes, God forgives and men forget,
 * "To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself"

But not of war it sings to-day. The road is rhythmic with the feet Of men-at-arms who come to pray.''' The roses blossom white and red On tombs where weary soldiers lie; Flags wave above the honored dead And martial music cleaves the sky. Above their wreath-strewn graves we kneel, They kept the faith and fought the fight. Through flying lead and crimson steel They plunged for Freedom and the Righteousness. '''May we, their grateful children, learn Their strength, who lie beneath this sod, Who went through fire and death to earn At last the accolade of God. In shining rank on rank arrayed They march, the legions of the Lord; He is their Captain unafraid, The Prince of Peace. . . Who brought a sword.'''
 * '''The bugle echoes shrill and sweet,
 * "Memorial Day"; this poem was later published in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920)

That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe that perish with our breath Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod. '''They shall not live who have not tasted death. They only sing who are struck dumb by God.'''
 * Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells
 * "Poets"

That is not gladdened by His face. And '''every nation kneels to hail The Splendour shining through Its veil.'''
 * There is no strange and distant place
 * "Citizen of the World"

That throbbed with loud and rhythmic glee''' And dammed the flood of silver notes That drenched the world in melody.
 * '''An iron hand has stilled the throats
 * "To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring"

Jupiter thundering death or of Juno his white-breasted queen, Yet have I seen All of the joy of the world in the innocent heart of a maiden.'''
 * '''I have no vision of gods, not of Eros with love-arrows laden,
 * "Vision"

Across green fields and yellow hills of hay The little twittering birds laugh in his way And poise triumphant on his shining arm. '''He bears a sword of flame but not to harm The wakened life that feels his quickening sway And barnyard voices shrilling "It is day!" Take by his grace a new and alien charm.''' But in the city, like a wounded thing That limps to cover from the angry chase, He steals down streets where sickly arc-lights sing, And wanly mock his young and shameful face; And '''tiny gongs with cruel fervor ring In many a high and dreary sleeping place.'''
 * When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm
 * "Alarm Clocks"

Delicatessen

From every land has come a prize'''; Rich spices from the Orient, And fruit that knew Italian skies, And figs that ripened by the sea In Smyrna, nuts from hot Brazil, Strange pungent meats from Germany, And currants from a Grecian hill.
 * '''Here is a shop of wonderment.

That make the poor man's table gay, Yet of his worth no minstrel sings And on his tomb there is no bay.'''
 * '''He is the lord of goodly things

This trafficker in humble sweets, Because his little shops are raised By thousands in the city streets. '''Yet stars in greater numbers shine, And violets in millions grow, And they in many a golden line Are sung, as every child must know.'''
 * Perhaps he lives and dies unpraised,

And tuned to love his eager voice. Like any cavalier of France He wooed the maiden of his choice. '''And now deep in his weary heart Are sacred flames that whitely burn. He has of Heaven's grace a part Who loves, who is beloved in turn.'''
 * For, once he thrilled with high romance

Grotesquely wonders come to pass. The fool shall mount an Arab steed And Jesus ride upon an ass.'''
 * '''The scene shall never fit the deed.

And battle set for every day. This man has God and love and life; These stand, all else shall pass away.
 * This man has home and child and wife

Whose mother was a village maid, Shall we, Thy children, blow our breath In scorn on any humble trade? '''Have pity on our foolishness And give us eyes, that we may see Beneath the shopman's clumsy dress The splendor of humanity!'''
 * O Carpenter of Nazareth,

Main Street and Other Poems (1917)

 * Full text online at Wikisource · Full text online at Project Gutenberg

That's the path that my feet would tread whenever I have to die.''' Some folks call it a Silver Sword, and some a Pearly Crown, But the only thing I think it is, is Main Street, Heaventown.
 * '''God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
 * "Main Street"

And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears. '''It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far, But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.'''
 * They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,
 * "Roofs"

And let your gate swing wide, Let all who ask for shelter Come speedily inside. '''What if your yard be narrow? What if your house be small? There is a Guest is coming Will glorify it all.'''
 * Unlock the door this evening
 * "Gates and Doors"

And not for long death takes his toll. No prison bars can dim the stars Nor quicklime eat the living soul.'''
 * '''There is no rope can strangle song
 * "Easter Week"

A Blue Valentine

According to a venerable and agreeable custom, That I love a beautiful lady. '''Her eyes, Monsignore, Are so blue that they put lovely little blue reflections On everything that she looks at, Such as a wall Or the moon Or my heart.
 * '''It seems appropriate to me to state

But her soul cannot be seen.''' It is something elusive, whimsical, tender, wanton, infantile, wise And noble.
 * '''Her soul's light shines through,

I love all her attributes'''; But I believe That even if I did not love her I would love the blueness of her eyes, And her blue garment, made in the manner of the Japanese.
 * '''Loving her, Monsignore,

Do me this favour: When you this morning make your way To the Ivory Throne that bursts into bloom with roses because of her who sits upon it, When you come to pay your devoir to Our Lady, I beg you, say to her: "Madame, a poor poet, one of your singing servants yet on earth, Has asked me to say that at this moment he is especially grateful to you For wearing a blue gown."
 * But, of your courtesy, Monsignore,

In Memory
Until love bade it spread its wings and soar.'''
 * '''The song within your heart could never rise

Love is a poignant and accustomed pain. It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder; It is a linnet's fluting after rain.'''
 * '''Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder;

Full of gay flames that white and scarlet glow, '''All joys and passions that Mankind may know By you were nobly felt and nobly sung.''' Because Mankind's heart every day is wrung By Fate's wild hands that twist and tear it so, Therefore you echoed Man's undying woe, A harp Aeolian on Life's branches hung.
 * Because Mankind is glad and brave and young,

The angry scar to which the world was blind: '''And it was grief that made Mankind your lover, And it was grief that made you love Mankind.'''
 * Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover

Apology

That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races To a goal no foot can reach, For reckless leaps into darkness With hands outstretched to a star, There is jubilation in Heaven Where the great dead poets are.'''
 * '''For blows on the fort of evil

And delight in hopes that were vain. Each poet is glad there was no cure To stop his lonely pain. For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.
 * There is joy over disappointment

McDonough and Hunt and Pearse See now why their hatred of tyrants Was so insistently fierce. '''Is Freedom only a Will-o'-the-wisp To cheat a poet's eye? Be it phantom or fact, it's a noble cause In which to sing and to die!'''
 * Lord Byron and Shelley and Plunkett,

The Proud Poet

You forget all the fighting poets that have been in every land.'''
 * '''When you say of the making of ballads and songs that it is woman's work

Though all the devils on earth and in Hell spit at me their disdain. It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.'''
 * '''The title of poet's a noble thing, worth living and dying for,

The Robe of Christ

Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them was the Devil And he won the Robe of Christ.'''
 * '''At the foot of the Cross on Calvary

And he can be the sun, Or a buttercup, or an hour of rest When the weary day is done. '''I saw him through a thousand veils, And has not this sufficed? Now, must I look on the Devil robed In the radiant Robe of Christ?'''
 * Oh, he can be the forest,

With thorns his head is crowned; There are great bleeding wounds in his feet, And in each hand a wound. How can I tell, who am a fool, If this be Christ or no? Those bleeding hands outstretched to me! Those eyes that love me so!
 * He comes, and his face is sad and mild,

Intelligence to me! Encompass me with wisdom, Thou Tower of Ivory! '''"This is the Man of Lies," she says, "Disguised with fearful art: He has the wounded hands and feet, But not the wounded heart."'''
 * O Mother of Good Counsel, lend

The Thorn
And Our Lady is the goblet that He sips: And 's the breath of His command, But Saint Michael is the sword in God's right hand. The is fair to see, And may her walls encompass me! But when the Devil comes with the thunder of his might, Saint Michael, show me how to fight!
 * David is the song upon God's lips,

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The vandals who continuously add false quotes with Maria replacing the frog of the story must stop adding that nonsense (the only sketch with such a plot that ever existed is an animated version of the story), or they will suffer infinite blocking. WikiLubber (talk) 01:20, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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The Gateless Gate

The Gateless Gate (無門關, Mandarin. Wumenguan, Japanese. Mumonkan) is a collection of 48 Chan (Zen) koans compiled in the early 13th century by Chinese monk Wumen (無門).

Quotes

 * A good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip.
 * Chapter 0.

 * Has a dog Buddha-nature? This is the most serious question of all. If you say yes or no, You lose your own Buddha-nature.
 * Chapter 1.

 * To understand clearly one has to have just one eye.
 * Chapter 2.

 * When you can give the right answer, even though your past road was one of death, you open up a new road of life.
 * Chapter 5.

 * Keichu, the first wheel-maker of China, made two wheels of fifty spokes each. Now, suppose you removed the nave uniting the spokes. What would become of the wheel? And had Keichu done this, could he be called the master wheel-maker?
 * Chapter 8.

 * The path does not belong to the perception world, neither does it belong to the nonperception world. Cognition is a delusion and noncognition is senseless. If you want to reach the true path beyond doubt, place yourself in the same freedom as sky. You name it neither good nor not-good.
 * Chapter 19.

 * However profound the complicated knowledge of the world, compared to this enlightenment it is like one drop of water to the great ocean.
 * Chapter 28.

 * Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: "The flag is moving." The other said: "The wind is moving." The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. He told them: "Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving."
 * Chapter 29.

 * When the question is sand in a bowl of boiled rice, the answer is a stick in the soft mud.
 * Chapter 31.

Zen caveats
The term for caveat used here is also sometimes translated as "warning", or "admonition", and can also mean "needle" or "probe".

 * Following the rules and protecting the regulations is binding oneself without rope.
 * Moving freely vertically and horizontally without obstruction is the way of outsiders and the nightmare army.
 * To preserve the heart mind and to purify it by letting impurities settle to the bottom in quiescence is the perverted Zen of silent illumination.
 * Neglecting the written records with unrestrained ideas is falling into a deep pit.
 * To be awake and not ignorant is to wear chains and shoulder a cangue.
 * Thinking good and thinking evil are the halls of heaven and hell.
 * A view of Buddha and a view of Dharma are the two enclosing mountains of iron.
 * A person who perceives thoughts as they immediately arise is fiddling with spectral consciousness.
 * However, being on a high plateau practicing samadhi is the stratagem of living in the house of ghosts.
 * To advance results in ignoring truth; to retreat results in contradicting the lineage.
 * Neither to advance nor to retreat is being a breathing corpse.
 * Just say, how will you walk?
 * You must work hard to live in the present and, to finish, all the more. I do not advise the unfortunate excess of continual suffering.

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About me
After cultivating an extreme movie-quote hobby, I stumbled upon this site after perusing one of its sister projects, Wikipedia. Since then, I have become quite hooked on the idea of ensuring that my favorite (or even not-so-favorite) films would have their best lines captured for posterity. I am now an administrator and bureaucrat here on Wikiquote.

 I'm a transplanted New Jersey-ian (or is it New Jersey-ite?) who has a ravenous hunger for movies and books (I rarely go through a day without one or the other). My tastes are quite diverse and range from absolute classics to thrillers to horror to comedy (both obvious and more sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek). I also particularly like Films noir and Neo-noir films. If pressed, I would list my favorite films as Three Days of the Condor, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, La La Land, In Bruges, Blood Simple (and frankly I'd watch anything by the Coen brothers), The Godfather, Hoosiers, Donnie Darko, It's a Wonderful Life, Goodfellas, The Seven Samurai, The Man in the Moon, The Third Man, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nobody's Fool, Absence of Malice, anything by Alfred Hitchcock (especially Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, North by Northwest and Rope), and maybe Halloween (There. How's that for diverse?). As for TV, as with many WQ people, I am a devout Buffy fan. I would also include among my favorites Midnight Mass, The Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers, Stranger Things, Shameless, Homeland, Alias, Lost, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Cheers, Homicide: Life on the Street, My So-Called Life, How I Met Your Mother, The West Wing, The Wire, The Shield, True Blood, Breaking Bad, Chuck, Mad Men, Damages, Fringe, Rescue Me, The Wonder Years, Justified, Sons of Anarchy, and The Twilight Zone. My favorite authors would include Stephen King, Charles Dickens, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ray Bradbury, T. S. Eliot, Neil Gaiman (love, love, love American Gods), George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, and G. K. Chesterton.

 And: I am HUGE fan of Dinosaur Comics! It ROCKS!

 While my interests in Wikiquote primarily focus on films and a few of my favorite TV shows, you never know where I'll pop up. I especially like to rescue pages marked for deletion (if rescue is warranted) and to expand pages that are languishing.

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Favorite quotes

 * I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
 * George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Pt. I, Act I (1921)

 * The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Revolutionist's Handbook

 * A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
 * Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

 * There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
 * G. K. Chesterton, Heretics, Chapter III: "On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small" (1905)

 * The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.
 * Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the "Narcissus", Preface (1897)

 * A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, Part II: On the Man Called Christ, Ch. 6: The Five Deaths of the Faith (1925)

 * All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
 * Albert Einstein, "Moral Decay" (1937); Later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)

 * Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
 * Albert Einstein, Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940)

 * The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity.
 * Albert Einstein, Statement to William Miller, as quoted in LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)

 * The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
 * Albert Einstein, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)

 * Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance, from Essays: First Series (1841)

 * This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
 * John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Part 1, Ch. 13

 * Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
 * Bertrand Russell, "The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine (March 19, 1950)

 * Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
 * T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

 * This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
 * T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)

 * His tired gaze - from passing endless bars - has turned into a vacant stare which nothing holds. To him there seem to be a thousand bars, and out beyond these bars exists no world. His supple gait, the smoothness of strong strides that gently turn in ever smaller circles perform a dance of strength, centered deep within a will, stunned, but untamed, indomitable. But sometimes the curtains of his eyelids part, the pupils of his eyes dilate as images of past encounters enter while through his limbs a tension strains in silence only to cease to be, to die within his heart.
 * Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther (1907), translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
 * Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.
 * Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1915)

 * Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
 * Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken (1916)

 * I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
 * Patrick Henry, Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond (March 23, 1775)

 * Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
 * Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, from Different Seasons (1982)

 * I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandius (1818)

 * Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.
 * James Russell Lowell, On Democracy (October 6, 1884)

 * Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one’s achievements. These alone count in life.
 * Yoshida Shoin, Yoshida Shoin Zenshu, Vol. II

 * No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
 * Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

 * He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
 * Titus Livius (Livy), Histories, Book XLV, sec. 8

 * A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
 * Desmond Tutu, Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

 * Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezza fesse creando, e a la sua bontate più conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza, fu de la volontà la libertate; di che le creature intelligenti, e tutte e sole, fuore e son dotate.
 * The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
 * Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, Canto V, lines 19-24

 * Do... or do not. There is no try.
 * Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

 * Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
 * Neil Gaiman, American Gods, ch. 3 (2001)

 * There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
 * Neil Gaiman, American Gods, ch. 9 (2001)

 * Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.
 * Neil deGrasse Tyson,

Additions

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 * User:BD2412/RQ
 * Finish adding to and cleaning up Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series) - Completed Season 1
 * Finish St. Elsewhere - Completed Seasons 1-3
 * Finish Hill Street Blues - Completed Season 1, 2, 3
 * Finish ''Soap - Completed Seasons 1, 2
 * Add pages for remaining Alfred Hitchcock films
 * Add pages for remaining Akira Kurosawa films
 * Complete cleanup and additions to The Cosby Show - completed Season 1, 2
 * Complete CSI: Crime Scene Investigation seasons
 * Complete The Twilight Zone seasons
 * Finish additions to Rainer Maria Rilke
 * Work on pages from Academy Award nominated screenplays
 * Bring Dinosaur Comics up to date
 * Create separate pages for Woody Allen films; strip the film quotes from his page
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 * Complete cleanup of The X-Files - Completed through Season 1
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 * Fix character links on all season pages of Gilmore Girls
 * Clean up Category:Musicians
 * Finish proper categorization for: Category:Novelists, Category:Playwrights, Category:Short story writers

Completed

 * Complete Welcome Back, Kotter seasons Completed
 * Finish trimming & formatting Malcolm in the Middle Completed
 * Trim Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) (season 5) Completed
 * Finish cleaning up Category:Activists Completed
 * Trim Grey's Anatomy pages - completed Seasons 1-12 Completed
 * Complete Homicide: Life on the Street seasons Completed
 * Trim Homicide: Life on the Street, add character wikilinks Completed
 * Trim Veronica Mars Completed
 * Add custom TOC to Veronica Mars Completed
 * Finish trimming Smallville Completed
 * Complete Ed seasons Completed
 * Finish trimming Alias Completed
 * Finish trimming The West Wing Completed
 * Trim Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Season 7 Completed
 * Trim It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Completed
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 * Trim Three Days of the Condor Completed
 * Trim It's a Wonderful Life Completed
 * Trim Donnie Darko Completed
 * Separate out the Hellraiser films into their own pages, create disambig page for the series (as was done with the A Nightmare on Elm Street films) Completed
 * Add page for Big Love Completed
 * Complete WKRP in Cincinnati seasons Completed
 * Trim and clean up Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series) Completed
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Films

 * 12 Years a Slave ~ 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi ~ 20th Century Women ~ 39 Steps, The (1935 film) ~ 50/50 ~ 127 Hours ~ 400 Blows, The ~ 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The ~ 8½ ~ Star is Born, A (1954 film) ~ About Last Night... ~ Absence of Malice ~ Absolute Power ~ Accidental Tourist, The ~ Accused, The (1988 film) ~ Adam's Rib ~ Adjustment Bureau, The ~ Adventures of Robin Hood, The ~ Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The ~ African Queen, The ~ After Dark, My Sweet ~ After Hours ~ Aguirre, the Wrath of God ~ Alamo, The (1960 film) ~ Albatross ~ Albino Alligator ~ Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ~ All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film) ~ All the King's Men (1949 film) ~ All the Right Moves ~ Almost Famous ~ American Graffiti ~ American Me ~ American Pie ~ American Pie 2 ~ An American in Paris ~ American Sniper ~ Americanization of Emily, The ~ Amistad ~ Amour ~ An Education ~ ...And Justice For All ~ And the Band Played On ~ Angels Over Broadway ~ Angels with Dirty Faces ~ Animal Crackers ~ Apocalypto ~ Apt Pupil ~ Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) ~ Arrival ~ Assassination of a High School President ~ Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The ~ Atlantic City ~Away from Her ~ Awful Truth, The ~ Bad and the Beautiful, The ~ Bad Day at Black Rock ~ Bad Moms ~ Bad Taste ~ Badlands ~ Bananas ~ Banshees of Inisherin, The ~ Barcelona ~ Barry Lyndon ~ Batman (1966 film) ~ Beasts of the Southern Wild ~ Beau Geste (1939 film) ~ Beautiful Girls ~ Beast of Yucca Flats, The ~ Before Midnight ~ Believer, The ~ Ben-Hur (1959 film) ~ Best in Show ~ Best Laid Plans ~ Best Years of Our Lives, The ~ Bicycle Thieves ~ The Big Chill ~ Big Easy, The ~ Big Red One, The ~ Big Short, The ~ Big Sleep, The ~ Birds, The ~ Birdman (film) ~ Black Cat, The ~ Black Swan ~ Blackboard Jungle ~ BlacKkKlansman ~ Blood on Satan's Claw. The ~ Blood Simple ~ Bloody Sunday ~ Blow Out ~ Blue Chips ~ Blue Collar ~ Blue Dahlia, The ~ Blue Jasmine ~ Blue Velvet ~ Bohemian Rhapsody ~ Bold Caballero, The ~ Booksmart ~ Borat Subsequent Moviefilm ~ Boyhood ~ Boys from Brazil, The ~ Boys Town ~ Boyz n the Hood ~ Breaking Away ~ Brian's Song ~ Bridge of Spies ~ Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ~ Broadcast News ~ Brooklyn ~ Brothers McMullen, The ~ Brubaker ~ Bull Durham ~ Bullitt ~ Cabin in the Woods, The ~ Caine Mutiny, The ~ Camille (1936 film) ~ Can't Buy Me Love ~ Candy ~ Cape Fear (1991 film) ~ Capricorn One ~ Captain Phillips ~ Carnal Knowledge ~ Carol ~ Casualties of War ~ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ~ Chasing Amy ~ Children of Paradise ~ Children of the Corn ~ China Seas ~ Chloe ~ Chocolat ~ Chorus Line, A ~ Christine ~ Cincinnati Kid, The City of Angels ~ Class of Nuke 'Em High ~ Close Encounters Of The Third Kind ~ Collateral ~ Color Purple, The (1985) ~ Coma ~ Coming Home ~ Commitments, The ~ Compulsion ~ Constant Gardener, The ~ Contagion ~ Contender, The ~ Conversation, The ~ Crazy Rich Asians ~ Crimewave ~ Crimson Tide ~ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ~ Croupier ~ Cry Freedom ~ Crying Game, The ~ Dallas Buyers Club ~ Dances with Wolves ~ Dark Passage ~ Dave ~ Day of the Jackal, The ~ D.E.B.S. ~ Dead Calm ~ Dead Man Walking ~ Dead Zone, The ~ Deer Hunter, The ~ Deliverance ~ Descendants, The ~ Destry Rides Again ~ Devil in a Blue Dress ~ Dial M for Murder ~ Dirty Dozen, The ~ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film) ~ Disturbing Behavior ~ Dodsworth ~ Don Jon ~ Don Q, Son of Zorro ~ Don't Look Up ~ Doors, The ~ Dracula (1958 film) ~ Dracula: Prince of Darkness ~ Dracula's Daughter ~ Dreamscape ~ Dressed to Kill ~ Drowning Mona ~ Drugstore Cowboy ~ Drumline ~ Duck Soup ~ Duel in the Sun ~ Easy Rider ~ Edge of Seventeen, The ~ Eight Men Out ~ Election ~ Elizabeth ~ Elmer Gantry ~ Elves ~ Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, The ~ Escape from New York ~ Everest (2015 film) ~ Everybody Wants Some!! ~ Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) ~ Evil Dead, The ~ Exorcist, The ~ The Fabelmans ~ Fabulous Baker Boys, The ~ Face in the Crowd, A ~ Farewell, My Lovely (1975) ~ Fatal Attraction ~ Father, The ~ Father of the Bride ~ Favourite, The ~ Fences ~ Fighter, The ~ First Knight ~ First Reformed ~ Five Easy Pieces ~ Five Minutes of Heaven ~ Force 10 from Navarone ~ Foreign Correspondent ~ Formula, The ~ Fort Apache, The Bronx ~ Foxcatcher ~ Frailty ~ Frances Ha ~ French Connection, The ~ Frenzy ~ Friday Night Lights ~ Friends of Eddie Coyle, The ~ From Here to Eternity ~ Frost/Nixon ~ Funny Farm ~ Fury (1936 film) ~ Gallipoli ~ Gandhi ~ Gaslight (1944 film) ~ Get Out ~ Getaway, The (1972) ~ Giant (1956 film) ~ Giant Claw, The ~ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ~ Glen or Glenda ~ Glenn Miller Story, The ~ Glory ~ Go (1999 film) ~ Godfather, The: Part II ~ Grand Budapest Hotel, The ~ Grand Canyon ~ Grapes of Wrath, The ~ Gravity ~ Green Book ~ Green Room ~ Green Zone ~ Greenberg ~ Grifters, The ~ Guarding Tess ~ Gun Crazy ~ Gung Ho ~ Hacksaw Ridge ~ Halloween ~ Hamburger Hill ~Hannah and Her Sisters ~ Happening, The ~ Hard Candy ~ Hard Eight ~ Hateful Eight, The ~ Hellbound: Hellraiser II ~ Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth ~ Hellraiser: Bloodline ~ Hellraiser: Inferno ~ Hellraiser: Hellseeker ~ Hellraiser: Deader ~ Hellraiser: Hellworld ~ Her ~ Hereditary ~ Hidden Figures ~ Hidden Fortress, The ~ High Noon ~ Holiday Inn ~ Il Postino ~ His Girl Friday ~ Holdovers, The ~ Hollywood Shuffle ~ Homicide (1991 film) ~ Hoosiers ~ Horse Feathers ~ Hot Spot, The ~Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939 film) ~ House of Usher ~ How Green Was My Valley ~ How the West Was Won ~ Hud ~ Human Comedy, The ~ Hustler, The ~ I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ~ Ides of March ~ If.... ~ If Beale Street Could Talk ~ Imagine Me & You ~ Imitation Game, The ~ Impossible, The ~ In & Out ~ In a Lonely Place ~ In Cold Blood ~ In the Line of Fire ~ In the Name of the Father ~ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) ~ Invisible Man, The (2020 film) ~ Invitation, The ~ It (2017 film) ~ It Conquered the World ~ It Follows ~ It Happened One Night ~ JFK ~ Jacob's Ladder ~ Jailhouse Rock ~ Jigsaw ~ Joe Versus the Volcano ~ John Adams ~ John Wick: Chapter 2 ~ John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum ~ Judas and the Black Messiah ~ Just Before Dawn ~ Just One of the Guys ~ K2 ~ Kagemusha ~ Kentucky Fried Movie, The ~ Kicking and Screaming ~ Kids Are All Right, The ~ Killer Inside Me, The ~ Killer Klowns From Outer Space ~ Killing, The ~ The King of Comedy ~ King of New York ~ King's Speech, The ~ Kings Row ~ Kiss Me Deadly ~ Klute ~ Knives Out ~ La La Land ~ La Strada ~ Lady Bird ~ Lady Eve, The ~ Lady from Shanghai, The ~ Lady Vanishes, The (1938 film) ~ Last Days of Disco, The ~ Last Detail, The ~ Last of the Mohicans, The (1992 film) ~ Last Picture Show, The ~ Last Seduction, The ~ Laura ~ Lavender Hill Mob, The ~ Leave Her to Heaven ~ Leaving Las Vegas ~ Letter, The (1940 film) ~ Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film) ~ Licorice Pizza ~ Life of David Gale, The ~ Lifeboat ~ Lincoln (2012 film) ~ Lincoln Lawyer, The ~ Lion (2016 film) ~ Little Caesar ~ Living (2022 film) ~ Lobster, The ~ Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ~ Lolita (1962 film) ~ Lone Star ~ Long Goodbye, The ~ Looper ~ Lorenzo's Oil ~ Lost Horizon ~ Lost Weekend, The ~ Lucas ~ MacArthur ~ Magnificent Ambersons, The ~ Man of the West ~ Man in the Moon, The ~ Man Who Wasn't There, The ~ Margin Call ~ Margot at the Wedding ~ Mark of Zorro, The (1920 film) ~ Mark of Zorro, The (1940 film) ~ Mark of Zorro, The (1974 film) ~ Marnie ~ Marriage Story ~ Martian, The ~ Marty ~ Masque of the Red Death ~ The Master (2012 film) ~ Master of the World (1961 film) ~ May December ~ Mean Streets ~ Meatballs ~ Meet John Doe ~ Meet Me in St. Louis ~ Meet the Parents ~ Messenger, The ~ Metropolis (1927 film) ~ Metropolitan ~ Midnight Cowboy ~ Midnight Express ~ Midsommar ~ Mildred Pierce ~ Miracle on 34th Street ~ Mississippi Burning ~ Missouri Breaks, The ~ Mr. Holland's Opus ~ Mr. Mom ~ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ~ Mrs. Miniver ~ Molly's Game ~ Money Train ~ Moneyball ~ Moonlight ~ Moonrise Kingdom ~ Mother! ~ Mud ~ Mudbound ~ Murder, My Sweet ~ Murder on the Orient Express ~ Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) ~ Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) ~ My Darling Clementine ~ My Man Godfrey ~ Mystic Pizza ~ Naked City, The ~ Natural, The ~ Near Dark ~ Nebraska ~ Needful Things ~ Never Give a Sucker an Even Break ~ Never Let Me Go ~ New York, New York ~ Night Moves ~ Night Shift ~ Nightmare on Elm Street, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A ~ Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A ~ Ninotchka ~ No Way Out ~ Nomadland ~ North by Northwest ~ Notes on a Scandal ~ Notorious ~ Now, Voyager ~ Ocean's Thirteen ~ Office Christmas Party ~ Oklahoma (1955 film) ~ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ~ One Night in Miami... ~ Opposite of Sex, The ~ Out of the Past ~ Out of Sight ~ Outside Providence ~ Package, The ~ Paper Chase, The ~ Paradine Case, The ~ Parallax View ~ Parasite ~ Paths of Glory ~ The Pawnbroker ~ Pay It Forward ~ Peggy Sue Got Married ~ Pelican Brief, The ~ Perks of Being a Wallflower, The ~ Pet Sematary ~ Piano, The ~ Pickup on South Street ~ Pillow Talk ~ Pink Panther, The (1963) ~ Pitch Perfect 2 ~ Pitch Perfect 3 ~ Play Misty for Me ~ Player, The ~ Point Blank ~ Poltergeist ~ Ponette ~ Poor Things ~ Post, The ~ Power of the Dog, The ~ Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire ~ Presumed Innocent ~ Primal Fear ~ Private Parts ~ Producers (1968 film), The ~ Producers (2005 film), The ~ Project X (2012 film) ~Prometheus ~ Promising Young Woman ~ Pump Up the Volume ~ Purple Rose of Cairo, The ~ Q&A ~ Queen Christina ~ Raiders of the Lost Ark ~ Rainmaker, The ~ Ransom ~ Raven, The ~ Raw Deal (1948) ~ Rebecca ~ Rebel Without a Cause ~ Red River ~ Red Rock West ~ Red Shoes, The ~ Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins ~ Revenant, The ~ Reversal of Fortune ~ Risky Business ~ A River Runs Through It ~ Road, The ~ Road to Perdition ~ Roaring Twenties, The ~ Rob Roy ~ Robot Monster ~ RockNRolla ~ Rocky II ~ Rolling Thunder ~ Romancing the Stone ~ Room (2015 film) ~ Rope ~ Rosemary's Baby ~ Rules of the Game, The ~ Ruling Class, The ~ Rush (1991 film) ~ Saboteur ~ St. Elmo's Fire ~ Salvador ~ Sands of Iwo Jima ~ Sanjuro ~ Santa Claus Conquers the Martians ~ Savages, The ~ School Ties ~ Science of Sleep, The ~ Scorpio ~ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ~ Set-Up, The (1949) ~ Seven Days in May ~ Sexy Beast ~ Shadow of a Doubt ~ Shakespeare in Love ~ She's the One ~ Shot in the Dark, A (1964) ~ Shutter Island ~ Sicario ~ Silver Bullet ~ Silver Linings Playbook ~ Silver Streak ~ Singin' In The Rain ~ Singles ~ slacker ~ Sleeping with the Enemy ~ Sneakers ~ Snowpiercer ~ Something Wicked This Way Comes ~ Sometimes in April ~ Sorcerer ~ Sound of Music, The ~ Southland Tales ~ Spanish Prisoner, The ~ Spartan ~ Speak ~ Spectacular Now, The ~ Spotlight ~ Squid and the Whale, The ~ Stage Door ~ Stagecoach ~ Stanford Prison Experiment, The ~ Star Chamber, The ~ State of Grace ~ Stepfather, The (1987) ~ Straight Outta Compton ~ Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The ~ Stranger, The (1946) ~ Strangers on a Train ~ Stranger on the Third Floor ~ Stripes ~ Sundowners, The ~ Super Size Me ~ Superman: The Movie ~ Superman II ~ Suspicion ~ Sweet Home Alabama ~ Swimming to Cambodia ~ Taps ~ Tár ~ Target (1985) ~ Targets ~ Tequila Sunrise ~ Terms of Endearment ~ Thank You for Smoking ~ Thelma & Louise ~ They Live by Night ~ This Is the End ~ Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ~ Three Musketeers, The (1948) ~ Tin Cup ~ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ~ Titanic (1953 film) ~ To Catch a Thief ~ To Kill a Mockingbird ~ To Live and Die in L.A. ~ Tomorrow Never Dies ~ Tootsie ~ Top Gun ~ Topaz ~ Torn Curtain ~ Town, The (2010) ~ Toxic Avenger, The ~ Trading Places ~ Trial, The (1962) ~ Trial of the Chicago 7, The ~ Trouble in Paradise (1932 film) ~ True Grit (2010 film) ~ Twilight Zone: The Movie ~ Twins ~ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ~ Two Jakes, The ~ Uncle Buck ~ Up in the Air ~ Up the Down Staircase ~ Us (2019) ~ Vanishing Point ~ Varsity Blues ~ Verdict, The ~ Vertigo ~ Very Bad Things ~ Vice ~ Visit, The ~ Waking the Dead ~ Way Way Back, The ~ Wedding Date, The ~ Wes Craven's New Nightmare ~ When a Stranger Calls (1979) ~ While We're Young ~ Whiplash ~ White Men Can't Jump ~ Whole Nine Yards, The ~ Wicker Man, The ~ Wild at Heart ~ Wild Bunch, The ~ Wild Things ~ Winter's Bone ~ Witch, the ~ Witches of Eastwick, The ~ Witchfinder General ~ Witness ~ Wolf of Wall Street, The ~ Woman in the Window, The ~ Woman of the Year ~ Women Talking ~ Wonder Boys ~ Working Girl ~ World According to Garp ~ World Is Not Enough, The ~ Wrestler, The ~ Written on the Wind ~ Wrong Man, The ~ Wuthering Heights (1939 film) ~ X the Unknown ~ Y Tu Mamá También ~ Yakuza, The ~ Young Mr. Lincoln ~ Youngblood

TV Shows

 * American Dreams ~ American Gods ~ American Gothic ~ American Horror Story ~ Barney Miller ~ Beauty and the Geek ~ Big Love ~ Big Shots ~ Billions ~ Boomtown ~ Boston Public ~ Bridge, The ~ Bridgerton ~ Brotherhood ~ Camelot ~ Charlie Brown Christmas, A ~ China Beach ~ Chuck ~ Closer, The ~ Columbo ~ Crime Story ~ Criminal Minds ~ Damages ~ Danger Man ~ Dark ~ Diplomat, The ~ Dirty Sexy Money ~Ed ~ Event, The ~ Felicity ~ Ghost Whisperer ~ Good Wife, The ~ Handmaid's Tale, The ~ Happy Endings ~ Haunting of Bly Manor, The ~ Haunting of Hill House, The ~ Hill Street Blues ~ Homicide: Life on the Street ~ House of Lies ~ How I Met Your Mother ~ In Treatment ~ Jericho ~ Jersey Shore ~ Justified ~ Luther ~ Midnight Mass ~ Murder One ~ My So-Called Life ~ Narcos ~ NYPD Blue ~ October Road ~ Ozark ~ Party of Five ~ Prison Break ~ Quincy, M.E. ~ Raising Hope ~ Ringer ~ Rubicon ~ Runaway ~ Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries) ~ Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town ~ Schoolhouse Rock! ~ Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ~ St. Elsewhere ~ Shield, The ~ Soap ~ Sons of Anarchy ~ Spartacus: Blood and Sand ~ Starsky & Hutch ~ Top Chef ~ Twas the Night Before Christmas ~ The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) ~ Utopia ~ Vikings ~ Wildfire ~ Without a Trace ~ Year Without a Santa Claus, The ~ Zorro Rides Again ~ Zorro's Fighting Legion

People

 * Adiga, Aravind ~ Arnold, Matthew ~ Arthur, Chester A. ~ Barnfield, Richard ~ Behn, Aphra ~ Bellamy, Edward ~ Bernard, Claude ~ Biel, Gabriel ~ Bion ~ Blackstone, William ~ Bledel, Alexis ~ Blount, Roy ~ Boas, Franz ~ Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne ~ Bernstein, Carl ~ Bradford, William ~ Bradley, F. H. ~ Bridges, Robert ~ Bright, Rick ~ Brougham, Henry ~ Brown, Pierce ~ Buchanan, James ~ Büchner, Georg ~ Calhoun, John C. ~ Campbell, Thomas ~ Carlyle, Jane Welsh ~ Cleveland, Grover ~ Carter, Stephen L. ~ Cavafy, Constantine P. ~ Chartier, Émile ~ Child, Lee ~ Clough, Arthur Hugh ~ Cibber, Colley ~ Cooper, James Fenimore ~ Corneille, Pierre ~ Darío, Rubén ~ Day-Lewis, Daniel ~ de la Barca, Pedro Calderón ~ de la Mare, Walter ~ de Lamartine, Alphonse ~ De Quincey, Thomas ~ Duffy, Carol Ann ~Dole, Charles Fletcher ~ de Rojas, Fernando ~ de Staël, Anne Louise Germaine ~ Doctorow, E.L. ~ Durbin, Richard ~ Eastman, Max ~ Edwards, Jonathan ~ Ellison, Ralph ~ Ennius ~ Faber, Frederick William ~ Field, Eugene ~ Fillmore, Millard ~ Fincher, David ~ Fisher, Herbert ~ Fitzgerald, Patrick ~ Flake, Jeff ~ Fletcher, John ~ Fox, Charles James ~ Frazer, James ~ Freund, Peter ~ Frist, Bill ~ Galsworthy, John ~ Garfield, James A. ~ Grahame, Kenneth ~ Grimké, Sarah ~ Hall, Joseph ~ Hamilton, Edith ~ Heckscher II, August ~ Herbert, Auberon ~ Holland-Dozier-Holland ~ Hand, Learned ~ Harding, Warren G. ~ Harper, Ben ~ Harris, Robert ~ Harrison, William Henry ~ Hart, John ~ Harvey, William ~ Hayes, Rutherford B. ~ Hearst, William Randolph ~ Heber, Reginald ~ Hemans, Felicia ~ Herrick, Robert ~ Hill, Aaron ~ Hood, Thomas ~ Howells, William Dean ~ Ignatius of Loyola ~ Jackson, Shirley ~ Jerome, Jerome K. ~ Jewett, Sarah Orne ~ Johnson, Andrew ~ Johnson, James Weldon ~ Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ~ Junius ~ Kenkō, Yoshida ~ Kent, Rockwell ~ Krakauer, Jon ~ Kronenberger, Louis ~ Lavater, Johann Kaspar ~ La Follette Sr., Robert M. ~ Latham, Peter Mere ~ Lehane, Dennis ~ Lesage, Alain-René ~ Lodge, Henry Cabot ~ Lombroso, Cesare ~ Lovelace, Richard ~ Lowell, James Russell ~ Lucretius ~ Karl Marlantes ~ Marshall, John ~ Mason, George ~ McCammon, Robert ~ McCann, Colum ~ McCarthy, Tom ~ McKinley, William ~ Menander ~ Meredith, George ~ Monroe, James ~ Moore, Thomas ~ Morley, John ~ Nicholas, George ~ Oates, Joyce Carol ~ Osler, William ~ Otis, James ~ Parker, Theodore ~ Parkman, Francis ~ Pavlou, Stel ~ Pavlov, Ivan ~ Petrarch ~ Phaedrus ~ Phillips, Wendell ~ Pierce, Franklin ~ Pitt, William ~ Pliny the Elder ~ Pliny the Younger ~ Polk, James K. ~ Prior, Matthew ~ Ptahhotep ~ Ptolemy ~ Racine, Jean ~ Randall, Lisa ~ Renan, Ernest ~ Rolland, Romain ~ Rossetti, Christina ~ Rossetti, Dante Gabriel ~ Russo, Richard ~ Saadi ~ Sakharov, Andrei ~ Savile, George ~ Searle, John ~ Selden, John ~ Sextus Propertius ~ Shoin, Yoshida ~ Simmons, Gene ~ Smith, Michael Marshall ~ Southey, Robert ~ Specter, Arlen ~ Spillane, Mickey ~ St. Jerome ~ St. John, Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ~  Stanhope, Philip ~ Steele, Richard ~ Stephen, James Kenneth ~ Sterne, Laurence ~ Symons, Arthur ~ John Millington Synge ~ Taylor, Zachary ~ Theognis of Megara ~ Theroux, Paul ~ Thomson, James ~ Thompson, Francis ~ Toltz, Steve ~ Tucker, Benjamin ~ Tupper, Martin Farquhar ~ Tutu, Desmond ~ Tyler, John ~ Tyndall, John ~ Van Buren, Martin ~ Vaughan, Henry ~ Vinson, Fred M. ~ Waite, Morrison ~ Waller, Edmund ~ Warner, Charles Dudley ~ Webster, John ~ Wharton, Edith ~ Whewell, William ~ Wilson, William Julius ~ Wotton, Henry ~ Wouk, Herman ~ Zagajewski, Adam

Musicians/Bands

 * AC/DC ~ Allman Brothers Band, The ~ America ~ Arrested Development ~ Bad Company ~ Beach Boys, The ~ Black Crowes, The ~ Black Keys, The ~ Blink-182 ~ Boston ~ Cars, The ~ Chicago (band) ~ Counting Crows ~ Cranberries, The ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Crosby, Stills & Nash ~ Cure, The ~ DeMent, Iris ~ Duran Duran ~ Eve 6 ~ Franklin, Aretha ~ Eagles, The ~ Echo & the Bunnymen ~ Erasure ~ Florence and the Machine ~ Fogelberg, Dan ~ Foo Fighters ~ Foreigner ~ Frankie Goes to Hollywood ~ Greta Van Fleet ~ Hall & Oates ~ Hoobastank ~ Imagine Dragons ~ Johnson, Jack ~ Journey ~ Kansas ~ Kinks, The ~ Led Zeppelin ~ Loggins, Kenny ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Maroon 5 ~ Midnight Oil ~ New Order ~ Nirvana (band) ~ Orbison, Roy ~ Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ~ Paisley, Brad ~ Pink Floyd ~ Pretenders, The ~ Public Enemy ~ Queen ~ Rafferty, Gerry ~ Replacements, The ~ Rolling Stones, The ~ Seger, Bob ~ Shinedown ~ Sly and the Family Stone ~ Smiths, The ~ Squeeze ~ Styx ~ Survivor ~ Taylor, James ~ Tears for Fears ~ Traffic ~ Yazoo ~ Yes ~ Zombies, The

Literary works

 * Canto General ~ Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The

Theme pages

 * Apocalypse ~ Credit ~ Innocence ~ Las Vegas ~ Logistics ~ Magna Carta ~ Minority ~ Publicity ~ Rebellion ~ Self-deception ~ Treason ~ United States Constitution ~ Weakness ~ Welfare ~ Wilderness

Films

 * 28 Weeks Later ~ 42nd Street ~ 50 First Dates ~ 1941 ~ Abominable Dr. Phibes, The ~ After the Thin Man ~ Air Force One ~ Alien ~ Along Came a Spider (film) ~ An American Werewolf in London ~ Animal Farm (1999 film) ~ Apocalypse Now ~ The Asphalt Jungle ~ Bad News Bears, The ~ Behind Enemy Lines ~ Beverly Hills Cop II ~ Big Heat, The ~ Big Sleep, The ~ Big Store, The ~ Black Snake Moan ~ Born on the Fourth of July ~ Braveheart ~ Brazil ~ Breakfast Club, The ~ Bride of Frankenstein ~ Bridge on the River Kwai, The ~ Bridesmaids ~ Bridge Too Far, A ~ Bronx Tale, A ~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ~ Carnival of Souls ~ Casablanca ~ Cast a Deadly Spell ~ Catch-22 ~ Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The ~ A Clockwork Orange ~ Coma (1978 film) ~ Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ~ Core, The ~ Crash ~ Dead of Night ~ D.O.A. (1950 film) ~ Day After Tomorrow, The ~ Dead Reckoning ~ Deadly Friend ~ Devil and Daniel Webster, The ~ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) ~ Dr. No ~ Double Indemnity ~ Dracula: Dead and Loving It ~ Earth Girls Are Easy ~ Empire Records ~ Erin Brockovich ~ Exorcism of Emily Rose, The ~ Eyes Wide Shut ~ Family Man, The ~ Fletch ~ For a Few Dollars More ~ Forbidden Planet ~ The Forgotten ~ Fracture ~ Frankenstein ~ Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ~ Fright Night ~ The Full Monty ~ Gay Divorcee, The ~ Get Carter ~ Gilda ~ Glengarry Glen Ross ~ Go West (1940 film) ~ Godfather, The: Part III ~ Going My Way ~ Goldfinger ~ Gone with the Wind ~ Good Will Hunting ~ Goodfellas ~ Gosford Park ~ Great Debaters, The ~ Great Escape, The ~ Guns of Navarone, The ~ Hail, Caesar! ~ Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ~ Harvey ~ He's Just Not That Into You ~ Heathers ~ Hell or High Water ~ Her Highness and the Bellboy ~ Hollow Man ~ Honeymoon in Vegas ~ House of Sand and Fog ~ How to Marry a Millionaire ~ Hunt for Red October, The ~ Hurt Locker, The ~ I'm No Angel ~ Ice Station Zebra ~ Ice Storm, The ~ In Her Shoes ~ In the Heat of the Night ~ In Time ~ It's a Gift ~ It's a Wonderful Life ~ Jackie Brown ~ Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday ~ Jaws ~ Jaws 2 ~ Jerry Maguire ~ Joan of Arc (1948 film) ~ John Q ~ John Tucker Must Die ~ Johnny English ~ Kansas City Confidential ~ Killers, The (1946 film) ~ Killing Fields, The ~ Kingdom of Heaven ~ Kingpin ~ La Bamba ~ Lake Placid ~ Laura ~ Les Misérables (1998 film) ~ Les Misérables (2012 film) ~ Longest Yard, The (1974 film) ~ Love Actually ~ Love Happy ~ Marathon Man ~ Matinee ~ Meet Joe Black ~ Mission: Impossible ~ Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ~ Mortal Kombat ~ My Night at Maud's ~ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ~ National Lampoon's Vacation ~ Network ~ Niagara ~ Night at the Opera, A ~ Night at the Roxbury, A ~ Night in Casablanca, A ~ The Night of the Hunter ~ Nobody's Fool ~ Old School ~ On Her Majesty's Secret Service ~ People vs. Larry Flynt, The ~ Philadelphia ~ Philadelphia Story, The ~ Pi ~ Plan 9 from Outer Space ~ Pleasantville ~ Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946 film) ~ Psycho ~ Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown ~ Radio Flyer ~ Rain Man ~ Raising Helen ~ Real Genius ~ Rear Window ~ Remember the Titans ~ Revenge of the Pink Panther ~ RoboCop 2 ~ Rocky ~ Room Service (1938 film) ~ Rushmore ~ Saving Private Ryan ~ Saw ~ Secret of My Success, The ~ A Serious Man ~ She Done Him Wrong ~ Sixteen Candles ~ Sling Blade ~ Soapdish ~ Social Network, The ~ Son of Dracula ~ Soylent Green ~ Spiderwick Chronicles, The ~ Stand by Me ~ State Fair ~ Stranger Than Paradise ~ Sudden Impact ~ Svengali ~ Swingers ~ Taxi Driver ~ Ten Commandments, The ~ Terminator 2: Judgment Day ~ There's Something About Mary ~ They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ~ Third Man, The ~ Thunderball ~ To Have and Have Not ~ Top Secret! ~ Touch of Evil ~ Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The ~ Twelve Monkeys ~ Vicky Cristina Barcelona ~ Village, The ~ Vision Quest ~ West Side Story ~ White Heat ~ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ~ Wings of Desire ~ Witness for the Prosecution ~ Wizard of Oz, The ~ Wolf Man, The ~ World's Fastest Indian, The ~ You Can't Take It with You ~ You Only Live Twice ~ Young Sherlock Holmes ~ Zoolander

TV Shows

 * Addams Family, The ~ Alias ~ Army Wives ~ Arrested Development ~ Black Donnellys, The ~ Black Mirror ~ Cheers ~ Chicago Med ~ Cougar Town ~ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ~ Da Vinci's Demons ~ Damages ~ Dawson's Creek ~ Doogie Howser, M.D. ~ Drawn Together ~ Drew Carey Show, The ~ Everwood ~ Freaks and Geeks ~ Friday Night Lights (TV series) ~ Gilligan's Island ~ Greg the Bunny ~ Grey's Anatomy ~ Hawaii Five-O ~ Heroes ~ Ice Road Truckers ~ Judging Amy ~ L Word, The ~ Law & Order ~ Mad Men ~ Magnum, P.I. ~ Mary Tyler Moore Show, The ~ Middle, The ~ New Adventures of Old Christine, The ~ Nip/Tuck ~ Oblongs, The ~ Outer Limits, The (1963) ~ Point Pleasant ~ Popular ~ The Practice ~ Queer Eye ~ Rectify ~ The Rockford Files ~ Sarah Silverman Program, The ~ Succession ~ Tru Calling ~ Tudors, The ~ The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) ~ Twin Peaks ~ Welcome Back, Kotter ~ WKRP in Cincinnati ~ Wonder Years, The

People

 * Ariely, Dan ~ Blake, William ~ Cheever, John ~ Bryant, William Cullen ~ Butler, Samuel ~ Byron, Lord ~ Chapman, Arthur ~ Chekhov, Anton ~ Cobbett, William ~ Choate, Rufus ~ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor ~ Cousins, Norman ~ de Balzac, Honoré ~ Debord, Guy ~ Dickens, Charles ~ Dickey, James ~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo ~ Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas ~ Guest, Edgar ~ Jackson, Stonewall ~ Kahneman, Daniel ~ Keats, John ~ Kipling, Rudyard ~ Landor, Walter Savage ~ Lansky, Paul ~ Lear, Edward ~ Livy ~ Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth ~ Obama, Barack ~ Prince ~ Protagoras ~ Robb, AnnaSophia ~ Roth, Philip ~ Russell, Bertrand ~ Walter Scott ~ Shelley, Percy Bysshe ~ Sheridan, Richard Brinsley ~ Stendhal ~ Sterling, Bruce ~ Stiglitz, Joseph E. ~ Tennyson, Alfred ~ Twain, Mark ~ Tyson, Neil deGrasse ~ Welch, Jack ~ Wordsworth, William

Musicians/Bands

 * Adele (singer) ~ Aerosmith ~ Azalea, Iggy ~ Beatles, The ~ Blunt, James ~ Brooks, Garth ~ Buffett, Jimmy ~ Cooke, Sam ~ Depeche Mode ~ Diamond, Neil ~ Dido ~ Five for Fighting ~ Fleetwood Mac ~ Gaye, Marvin ~ Hoff, Benjamin ~ Holly, Buddy ~ Joel, Billy ~ Jennings, Waylon ~ John, Elton ~ Keith, Toby ~ Kid Rock ~ Killers, The ~ King, Carole ~ Knopfler, Mark ~ Lambert, Miranda ~ Lonely Island, The ~ Mayfield, Curtis ~ McLachlan, Sarah ~ Morrison, Van ~ Mötley Crüe ~ Muse ~ OneRepublic ~ Petty, Tom ~ Pink ~ Police, The ~ Redding, Otis ~ Springsteen, Bruce ~ Steely Dan ~ Swift, Taylor ~ Talking Heads ~ Wainwright, Rufus ~ Williams, Lucinda ~ U2 ~ Young, Neil

Literary works

 * Eragon ~ Everlasting Man, The ~ Macbeth ~ King Lear ~ Richard III (play) ~ Romeo and Juliet

Themes

 * Anticipation ~ Censure ~ Conviction ~ Cunning ~ Debt ~ Discourse ~ Effort ~ Envy ~ Experience ~ Exploration ~ Failure ~ Fame ~ Family ~ Foreign aid ~ Health ~ Honor ~ Human rights ~ Ideas ~ Inhumanity ~ Majority ~ Malice ~ Melancholy ~ New Deal ~ Opinion ~ Passion ~ Persecution ~ Physiognomy ~ Prudence ~ Respect ~ Rhetoric ~ Security ~ Self-esteem ~ Self-pity

I rescued from deletion

 * Aleksis Kivi ~ Bergen Evans ~ Constantine ~ Gotti ~ Hung ~ Million Dollar Baby ~ Night Court ~ The Searchers

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James Burke (science historian)

James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British science historian, author and television producer best known for his documentary television series focusing on the history of science and technology leavened with a sense of humor.

1 - The Trigger Effect

 * … Any one of a million things could fail and cause our complex civilization to collapse for an hour, for a day, or however long. That's when you find out the extent to which you are reliant on technology and don't even know it. That's when you see that it's so interdependent, that if you take one thing away, the whole thing falls down and leaves you with nothing.

 * These are the great ancient temples of Karnak, on the edge of the Nile about 450 miles south of Cairo. They were the center of Egyptian religion, built in the imperial city of Thebes, when the Egyptian empire was at its height, the greatest power in the world. This was the New York of its time. The temples were built over a period of 2,000 years, each pharaoh adding his bit, leaving his name in stone, to last forever. Inside the temple domain, there were 65 towns, 433 gardens & orchards, 400,000 animals, and it took 80,000 people just to run the place. Small wonder that centuries afterwards the Greeks and Romans came here and gawked like peasants at a civilisation that made their efforts look like well-dressed mud huts. It still has that effect today. You come here from the great modern cities, full of the immense power of modern technology at your finger tips, press a button, turn a switch. And this place... stops you dead.

 * The Egyptians built an empire and ran it with a handful of technology... the wheel, irrigation canals, the loom, the calendar, pen & ink, some cutting tools, some simple metallurgy, and the plough, the invention that triggered it all off. And yet look how complex and sophisticated their civilisation was. And how soon it happened, after that first man-made harvest. The Egyptian plough and those of the few other civilisations sprang up around the world at the same time... Gave us control over nature... And at the same time, tied us for good, to the things that we invent so that tomorrow will be better than today. The Egyptians knew that. That's why they had gods. To make sure that their systems didn't fail.

 * Karnak was the first great statement of what technology could do with unlimited manpower and the approval of the gods. Ironically, the modern equivalent lies, again, in the desert. This time, the nomads also settled by a river... a river of oil. But what took the pharaohs 4,000 years to build took the Kuwaitis 4,000 days. What's happened in Kuwait, the change from a nomadic existence to being able to buy and use everything modern technology has to offer has come in much less than one generation. Kuwait represents the immense power of technology used in a way most of us have never experienced, because we've lived with the kind of change it can bring for more than a hundred years. Here it's been focused. Change has been instant and total. Kuwait has suddenly become like New York, or any other of the great urban islands on technology, totally dependent on that technology. Like them, without it, Kuwait would return to the desert.

 * You see how increasingly the only way we in the advanced industrial nations, with our bewildering technology network, can survive, is by selling bewilderment and dependence on technology to the rest of the world. Or is it not bewilderment and dependence, but a healthier wealthier better way of living than the old way? And, yet, whether or not you dress up technology to look local, the technology network is the same. And as it spreads, will it spread the ability to use machines, as we do, without understanding them?

 * An invention acts rather like a trigger, because, once it's there, it changes the way things are, and that change stimulates the production of another invention, which in turn, causes change, and so on. Why those inventions happened, between 6,000 years ago and now, where they happened and when they happened, is a fascinating blend of accident, genius, craftsmanship, geography, religion, war, money, ambition... Above all, at some point, everybody is involved in the business of change, not just the so-called "great men." Given what they knew at the time, and a moderate amount of what's up here [pointing to head], I hope to show you that you or I could have done just what they did, or come close to it, because at no time did an invention come out of thin air into somebody's head, [snaps fingers] like that. You just had to put a number of bits and pieces, that were already there, together in the right way.

 * Following the trail of events from some point in the past to a piece of modern technology is rather like a detective story, with you as the detective, knowing only as much as the people in the past do, and like them having to guess at what was likely to happen next.

2 - Death in The Morning

 * I would say it was a pretty safe bet, that the one magic wish most people would like to be granted would be to be able to see into the future. Think what it would mean. And backing the right horse! But we can't. We have to guess about tomorrow and we have to act on that guess, and it's never been any different. And that's why following the trail from the past up to the emergence of the modern technology that surrounds us in our daily lives, and affects our lives, is rather like a detective story. Because, at no time in the past, did anybody have anything to do with the business of inventing or changing things, ever know what the full effect of his actions would be. He just went ahead and did what he did for his own reasons, like we do. That's how change comes about. And it's like a detective story because if you follow the trail from the past up to a modern man-made object, the story is full of sudden twists and false clues and guesswork, and you never know where the story is heading until the very last minute.

 * Today, the nuclear bomb is like a Sword of Damocles hanging over us. Will it fall again?

9 - Countdown

 * Television tells us everyday that we live in a world we don't understand. And yet in the main it does little to explain that world. It tells us of new products that make the products we have either old-fashioned or obsolete. Above all, if today we are aware of how fast the world around us is changing, it's because television acts as a relentless reminder of that fact.

 * Does the cycle that goes, interest in something, involvement in it, tiring of it, and rejection of it, looking into something else, get shorter every decade?

 * Edison invented inventing.

 * If you believe that science and technology have given us the highest standard of living in history or that they have trapped us inside of a machine we can't escape from, we live in a situation we inherited, as a result of a long and complex series of events through history. At no time in the past could anybody have known that what they were doing then would end up like this now.

 * You can only know where you're going if you know where you've been.

10 - Yesterday, Tomorrow and You

 * This bomber stands for the interdependent world we have made for ourselves; where the rate of change accelerates every second because every one of man's inventions acts like a trigger to cause change.
 * The question is in what way are the triggers around us likely to operate to cause things to change -- for better or worse. And, is there anything we can learn from the way that happened before, so we can teach ourselves to look for and recognize the signs of change? The trouble is, that's not easy when you have been taught as I was, for example, that things in the past happened in straight-forward lines. I mean, take one oversimple example of what I'm talking about: the idea of putting the past into packaged units -- subjects, like agriculture. The minute you look at this apparently clear-cut view of things, you see the holes. I mean, look at the tractor. Oh sure, it worked in the fields, but is it a part of the history of agriculture or a dozen other things? The steam engine, the electric spark, petroleum development, rubber technology. It's a countrified car. And, the fertilizer that follows; it doesn't follow! That came from as much as anything else from a fellow trying to make artificial diamonds. And here's another old favorite: Eureka! Great Inventors You know, the lonely genius in the garage with a lightbulb that goes ping in his head. Well, if you've seen anything of this series, you'll know what a wrong approach to things that is. None of these guys did anything by themselves; they borrowed from other people's work. And how can you say when a golden age of anything started and stopped? The age of steam certainly wasn't started by James Watt; nor did the fellow whose engine he was trying to repair -- Newcomen, nor did his predecessor Savorey, nor did his predecessor Papert. And Papert was only doing what he was doing because they had trouble draining the mines. You see what I'm trying to say? This makes you think in straight lines. And if today doesn't happen in straight lines -- think of your own experience -- why should the past have? That's part of what this series has tried to show: that the past zig-zagged along -- just like the present does -- with nobody knowing what's coming next. Only we do it more complicatedly, and it's because our lives are that much more complex than theirs were that it's worth bothering about the past. Because if you don't know how you got somewhere, you don't know where you are. And we are at the end of a journey -- the journey from the past.
 * Never before have so many people understood so little about so much.
 * So, in the end, have we learned anything from this look at why the world turned out the way it is, that's of any use to us in our future? Something, I think. That the key to why things change is the key to everything. How easy is it for knowledge to spread? And that, in the past, the people who made change happen, were the people who had that knowledge, whether they were craftsmen, or kings. Today, the people who make things change, the people who have that knowledge, are the scientists and the technologists, who are the true driving force of humanity. And before you say what about the Beethovens and the Michelangelos? Let me suggest something with which you may disagree violently: that at best, the products of human emotion, art, philosophy, politics, music, literature, are interpretations of the world, that tell you more about the guy who's talking, than about the world he's talking about. Second hand views of the world, made third hand by your interpretation of them. Things like that [art book] as opposed to this [transparency of some filaments]. Know what it is? It's a bunch of amino acids, the stuff that goes to build up a worm, or a geranium, or you. This stuff [art book] is easier to take, isn't it? Understandable. Got people in it. This, [transparency'] scientific knowledge is hard to take, because it removes the reassuring crutches of opinion, ideology, and leaves only what is demonstrably true about the world. And the reason why so many people may be thinking about throwing away those crutches is because thanks to science and technology they have begun to know that they don't know so much. And that, if they are to have more say in what happens to their lives, more freedom to develop their abilities to the full, they have to be helped towards that knowledge, that they know exists, and that they don't possess. And by helped towards that knowledge I don't mean give everybody a computer and say: help yourself. Where would you even start? No, I mean trying to find ways to translate the knowledge. To teach us to ask the right questions. See, we're on the edge of a revolution in communications technology that is going to make that more possible than ever before. Or, if that’s not done, to cause an explosion of knowledge that will leave those of us who don't have access to it, as powerless as if we were deaf, dumb and blind. And I don't think most people want that. So, what do we do about it? I don't know. But maybe a good start would be to recognize within yourself the ability to understand anything. Because that ability is there, as long as it is explained clearly enough. And then go and ask for explanations. And if you're thinking, right now, what do I ask for? Ask yourself, if there is anything in your life that you want changed. That's where to start.

The Day the Universe Changed (1985)

 * We expect to learn new tricks because one of our science based abilities is being able to predict. That after all is what science is about. Learning enough about how a thing works so you'll know what comes next. Because as we all know everything obeys the universal laws, all you need is to understand the laws.
 * Copernicus published his manuscript in 1543 just in time for the council of Trent. So you're a church father and what this new system of Copernicus is saying is this: The Earth moves, although the Bible says it doesn't. It's no longer at the center of God's universe, although the Bible says it is. It's a planet, so heaven and Earth are no longer separate. And Aristotle was wrong, although church authority depends on his being right. You're a church father and you pick up this subversive, heretical, revolutionary piece of lunacy and you start foaming at the mouth, right? Wrong. When the council finally got around to reading Copernicus they were delighted. His new system had made calendar reform more precise. And the business of it turning every basic belief about the universe on its head? A mere fairytale since from the church's viewpoint he was talking nonsense. Astronomy drew lines and circles in the sky but they weren't really there, they're a mathematical convenience for measuring or teaching astronomy. While the Copernicus system might well have been brilliant mathematics, no one thought for a minute that he was actually suggesting the earth was whizzing around the sun. That kind of talk would blow holes in everything.
 * Take movement for example. Forces acting up, down, or from side to side. You make theories to explain it all, but you might well remember that it was you that invented them all. For Mach there was no reason to believe the rest of the cosmos was doing what your little bit was doing, so science should only describe not try to explain. Even description is relative. Am I moving or is the back ground? Or take the position of a star. It depends on the position you see it from, which depends on the date and time, which in turn depends on the position of the earth, in a solar orbit, in a solar system, moving around the edge of a Galaxy which may be moving away from other Galaxies. Say that you've decided that I'm moving and the background is standing still. Is the background moving relative to something else?
 * Einstein's theory was that everything about the laws of the universe and nature was relative. What you observe about something depends greatly upon your frame of reference at the time. That's why I can stand here in this Concorde [jetliner]cabin and drop my pen in comfort. In here I'm not traveling 1,400mph, am I? Everything works like that. Conditioned by its frame of reference. All the electronics in all the instruments in this cockpit obey the exact same laws they would if the plane were standing still. Because in this frame, like me they are not traveling at Mach two. And all the laws of nature behave the same way. This beam of light is going out in all directions at 186,000 miles per second. Being on the concord makes no difference to it's speed going forward, backwards sideways.

1 - The Way We Are

 * When any good attitude or concept or system worked well, we hung onto it. We preserved representative democracy, intended for a time when only a few could get to the capital to speak for the many. Modern finance was designed in the 17th century. Literacy as a test of intelligence came in the 15th century. The idea of progress is 19th century. And yet, all of those things are part of our mental furniture today, because when the answer to a question -- a solution to a problem -- suits us, we kind of institutionalize it, so that it won't change even when we do. The business of questioning, itself, has been institutionalized like that, in the kind of place that Jodrell Bank telescope belongs to: a university.
 * The oldest answers to the most basic questions about how to operate are common to virtually every culture on the planet, because at the simplest level, every culture needs to keep order -- especially this kind: (James Burke displays a wedding ring.) This is one of those things in life we protect most against being changed when knowledge changes us. We protect it by turning it into a ritual. When we get married, or buried, get christened, or anything else too important to play by ear, the event is turned into a kind of play where everybody gets a role they act out. It's a kind of public agreement to stick to the general rules about whatever it is. The people doing it are effectively saying, "No matter what else may change, we won't rock the boat! We're not maverick. You can trust us." Expressions of approval follow. Most of these ritual ways of answering a social need that we got from the past look like it. They include something from an ancient rite -- in this case, the old symbol of fertility: the ring. And then, it's all done in the presence of a supernatural being: a God. So, the agreement is also made under what was once a real threat of heavenly retribution if you broke your promise later on. Some things, this ritual says, must be permanent.
 * A ritual wouldn't be much of a ritual if you didn't feel like you've been put through the wringer, would it?
 * If something becomes common enough to turn into a ritual, and then starts to involve really large numbers of people, that's when the ritual becomes something else. It becomes widespread enough to affect the general agreement we all share. So, that's when the responsibility for running it goes out of your hands to be taken over by the institutions set up to run the rituals that matter on a regular basis, so that people can have clear rules and regulations to follow if they decide to get up to that particular ritual. The institutions take the admin out of daily life and run it for you: banking, government, sewage, tax collecting. Or, if you break the rules and regulations, one institution can take you out of daily life. This one: (James Burke displays a trial.) In every community, the law -- whether it's dressed up like this or the village elders telling you what the local custom is -- the law is all those rules I was on about earlier. I suppose what institutions like this do, most of all, is the dirty work. While they're putting them away here in the law court, for instance, that leaves us free to get on with making money, having a career, and avoiding the social responsibilities that these people have to deal with. And after a few centuries of this buck-passing, the institutions get big and powerful, and reach into everybody's lives so much they become hard to alter and virtually impossible to get rid of.
 * The name of the game here, and in all the institutions that run your life, is keeping order, because if the institutions didn't do that, it would be the end of civilization as we know it, wouldn't it? So, the institutions are usually old-fashioned; don't like change.

10 - Worlds Without End

 * Closing monologue
 * As for the permanent values that are supposed to remain unchanged in spite of our changing knowledge — well they change too. Once it was good to burn women. Wrong to claim the Earth went around the sun. Logical to argue about angels on the head of a pin.

 * Values change every time the universe changes — and that's every time we redefine a big enough bit of it. Which we do all the time, through the process of discovery (that isn't discovery, just the invention of another version of how things are).

 * And yet, in spite of that, we still go on believing that today's version of things is the only right one. Because as you've learned from this series, we can only handle one way of seeing things at a time. We've never had systems that would let us do more than that.

 * So we've always had to have conformity with the current view. Disagree with the church, and you were punished as a heretic; with the political system, as a revolutionary; with the scientific establishment, as a charlatan; with the educational system, as a failure. If you didn't fit the mold, you were rejected.

 * But, ironically, the latest product of that way of doing things is a new instrument — a new system — that while it could make conformity more rigid, more totalitarian, than ever before in history, could also blow everything wide open. Because with it, we could operate on the basis that values and standards — and ethics and facts and truth — all depend on what your view of the world is — and that there may be as many views of that, as there are people.

 * And with this [microchip] capable of keeping a tally on those millions of opinions voiced electronically, we might be able to lift the limitations of conforming to any centralized representational form of government — originally invented, because there was no way for everybody's voice to be heard.

 * You might be able to give everybody unhindered, untested access to knowledge. Because the computer would do the day-to-day work — for which we once qualified the select few — in an educational system originally designed for a world where only the few could be taught.

 * You might end the regimentation of people, living and working in vast unmanageable cities. Uniting them instead in an electronic community, where the Himalayas and Manhattan were only a split second apart.

 * You might — with that and much more — break the mold that has held us back since the beginning. In a future world that we would describe as "balanced anarchy" — and they will describe as an "open society" — tolerant of every view.

 * Aware that there is no single privileged way of doing things.

 * Above all, able to do away with the greatest tragedy of our era: the centuries old waste of human talent that we couldn't or wouldn't use.

 * Utopia? Why? If, as I've said all along, the universe is — at any time — what you say it is … then say!

1 - Revolutions

 * … That's all it takes to get you back to the late 18th century. Three grandfather's lifetimes. That's how close we are to it. And, yet, that world has disappeared so totally, it's like fairyland. Thatched cottages, meadows, happy peasants. A golden age. Garbage, all that. Nasty, brutish, and short - that's what life was all about. And dirty. And boring. And it had been like that for thousands of years! And then, suddenly, the whole complex polluted overpopulated phrenetic nonstop stressful high tech rat race that is the modern world... Life was suddenly no longer as simple as it had been. And the extraordinary thing is, none of that was planned.

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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is a 2000 American-Danish Disney animated feature film and direct-to-video sequel based on Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid. Directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, the story takes place over a decade after the original film, and focuses on Ariel's and Eric's daughter Melody, a human princess who longs to swim in the ocean despite her parents' law that the sea is forbidden to her. This sequel stars the voices of Jodi Benson as Ariel, Tara Strong as Melody and Pat Carroll as Morgana, the film's new villain.

Melody

 * [after finding out that Ariel is a mermaid] All this time, and... you never told me?
 * [before handing Morgana the trident] Too late, Mom.
 * [to Morgana] You tricked me.
 * Grandfather. I think this belongs to you. [throws Triton the trident]

Ariel

 * Eric's right, Daddy. I should have known I couldn't keep Melody from the sea. It's a part of her, and a part of me.

King Triton

 * Release my daughter, surrender my granddaughter, and I shall spare you!
 * [before using his trident to encase Morgan in a block of ice] Never again will you or yours threaten my family! There will be no escape for you... EVER!

Morgana

 * One minute you're on top, the next you're sushi. [turns to Grimsby] Now is that fair, Gramps, I ask you?
 * You'll never find me! But I'll find you and your precious granddaughter!
 * Hungry? Afraid all I have is a cold plate.
 * [to Melody] You're not the only one with a mother who doesn't understand you. BELIEVE me.
 * Oh, wishes do come true. [to sky] SEE THAT, MA?! WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE NOW?!

Sebastian

 * Come back here! You're just like... like your mother.
 * (In another chase with Louis) C'MON, NOW! NO, LOUIS! YA DON'T WANNA DO DIS, MON! I'M old, I'm not tender anymore!
 * You know, when I was a teenager, you couldn't get me out of my shell for nothin'. I had this HIGH SQUEAKY VOICE and these itty-bitty liddle pinchers! Then one day, BOOM! I sound like Caruso, and these WHOPPERS pop out!
 * All right, Sebastian. You must remain calm. Dis is not your fault. All you have to do is go in there and calmly explain that Melody has run away. No reason to lose your head. Whatever you do, you absi-tively, posi-tutely, must. Not. Panic. [Hears Ariel call Melody] AAAAH!!! MELODY'S GONE, MELODY'S GONE, MELODY'S GONE!!!!

Prince Eric

 * Where's Melody?! What have you done with her?!

Undertow

 * MAKE WAY, LITTLE MERSHRIMP! I'M COMIN' THROUGH!
 * [After being shrunk] WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?! LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ANCHOVY!!
 * [Confronting Tip and Dash] Goin' somewhere, boys?

Chef Louis

 * DEATH TO THE CRAB!!!

Dialogue

 * Triton: We shall not rest until that mad woman is vanquished. FIND HER!!! FIND HER!!!
 * [Triton fires lightning into the sky as an order and Morgana is nowhere to be found. Flounder and Sebastian are with Triton at the castle about Morgana's disappearance with terrible news]
 * Triton: [gravely to Eric and Ariel] I'm sorry. There is no sign of her, she's vanished. [Ariel is worried and Melody crawls to the sea] We'll keep trying, we'll–
 * Ariel: Sweetie, no. [pulls Melody out of the water] Oh, we've got to keep Melody away from her. Until Morgana is found, Melody can't go into sea. And neither will I.
 * Flounder: But, Ariel...
 * Ariel: I'm sorry, Flounder, but if Morgana is anything like Ursula, she'll never give up. [Melody chews on her locket] This is the only way; [takes the locket from her] Melody can't know about Merpeople or Atlantica, or even you, Daddy. [gives it back to Triton]
 * Triton: [defeated] Very well, Ariel, you're right. [turns to Sebastian] Sebastian, you will watch over her.
 * Sebastian: Me? [fainting] Aww!

 * Melody: Hey, Scuttle! Hey, Sebastian! What's kickin'?
 * Scuttle: Uh, what's kickin'? Hmm...let me see. [knocks himself on the head] Don't rush me!
 * Sebastian: Ha! You know perfectly well what's kicking!

 * Sebastian: Melody, child, how many times do I have to tell you?
 * Melody and Sebastian: It is expressly forbidden for you to be swimming beyond the safety of the sea wall.
 * Melody: [continuing to imitate him] Any such swimmin' is a reckless disregard of da rules. Don't ya know?
 * [They are silent for a moment]
 * Sebastian: ...Stop dat.
 * Melody: Oh, Sebastian, I can't help it. I just love the sea! [splashes on Sebastian as she swims off]
 * Sebastian: Hey! [sputters] Come back here! [into the water] You're just like- [stops and remembers] like your mother.

 * [Morgana messes around with a spell for Undertow while Cloak and Dagger watch]
 * Morgana: Ooh-Ooh-Hoo-Hoo, Trust me. This time, I'm sure I've got it right.
 * Undertow: Yeah, that's what you said last time, and I was sore for a week.
 * Morgana: Oh stop your carping and stand still.
 * Undertow: [whimpering] Oh, this is gonna hurt.
 * [Morgana casts the spell and a green lightning bolt hits Undertow. He starts getting bigger]
 * Morgana: Yes. Yes! YES!
 * Undertow: Uh-Oh. [the spell backfires, making Undertow small again, as a shrimp] Uh.
 * Morgana: [trustrated] Huh. [throws another bottle into the cauldron and Undertow is turned into an unidentifiable gray fish].
 * Undertow: Uh. [Morgana gets frustrated and and throws in more bottles, turning Undertow into something weird each time until he's back to being small] Ulp.
 * [Cloak and Dagger laugh and snicker at Undertow]
 * Morgana: Oh. It's just no use. The power of the trident is just too strong for me to overcome.
 * Undertow: [under his breath] I bet Ursula could've done it.
 * Morgana: What, was that, you said?
 * Undertow: Nothing, I'm just saying.
 * Morgana: [throws a vial at him, but misses] STOP, CRITICIZING ME! That's all my mother ever did was criticize me. It was always "Ursula this" or, "Ursula that" or "Morgana, why can't you be more like your sister URSULA?!" [hurls a starfish like a dart at a picture of Ursula]
 * Undertow: Well, it's not Ursula's fault I got miniturized. IT'S YOURS!
 * Morgana: It's not.
 * Undertow: Your fault we had to hide out here for TWELVE FROST-BITTEN YEARS!
 * Morgana: IT'S NOT!
 * Undertow: YOUR FAULT WE CAN NEVER SHOW OUR FACES IN POLITE SOCIETY AGAIN!
 * Morgana: You're really pushing it, Small-Fry.

 * Eric: So, we're having a bad hair day.
 * Ariel: If we were, you wouldn't be helping, would you?
 * Eric: Well I'm just here to let you know, there are a lot of people downstairs.
 * Ariel: Oh we'll be right down. Give us two minutes.
 * Eric: Right, two minutes...Where have I heard that before?

 * Ariel: Oh, sweetheart. I'm so sorry
 * Melody: [crying] What's wrong with me?
 * Ariel: Oh, nothing's wrong with you.
 * Melody: Mom, I'm the princess of disaster!
 * Ariel: Being a teenager is hard, and, uh, all kids your age feel...awkward, and...
 * Melody: [looking at her locket] "Melody"? What is this? My name's on here. [opens the locket and a lullaby plays] That song. Where have I heard it? It's Atlantica, with merpeople and everything. Mother, you always said it was just an old fish tale.
 * Ariel: [snaps the locket shut] Where did you get this?
 * Melody: I - I found it.
 * Ariel: [upset] You went over the wall, didn't you?
 * Melody: Actually, I went under it. I hate that stupid wall.
 * Ariel: Melody, you know you're not allowed in the sea!
 * Melody: But why, and why does that necklace have my name on it?
 * Ariel: Melody, listen to me.
 * Melody: You're hiding something from me.
 * Ariel: [looks wide-eyed. She closes her eyes tightly and grits her teeth angrily] You deliberately disobeyed me! I never want you going out there again. Do you hear me? It's dangerous in the sea!
 * Melody: How would you know?! You've never even been in it! [rushes out in tears, while crying and taking the necklace back]
 * Ariel: M-Melody, I... [Eric comes in but steps aside as his daughter Melody runs off in tears] [sighs] Oh, no.
 * Eric: Ariel, darling, we knew this day would come.
 * Ariel: Oh, Eric. You're right. It's time I trusted her with the truth.

 * Melody: Hi. I'm Melody.
 * Dash: This here's Tip, and I'm Dash.
 * Tip: Excuse me, Mr. I-Spill-My-Guts-To-Total-Strangers. You just blew our cover!
 * Dash: I was just trying to be friendly.
 * Melody: Guys, I really have to get going, so if you could...
 * Dash: Aww, see? Now she's gonna leave, and it's all your fault.
 * Tip: MY FAULT?! She's...She's probably allergic to blubber!
 * Dash: Oh yeah? Well...maybe she doesn't like BIRDS THAT CAN'T FLY!
 * [Tip gasps dramatically]
 * Melody: Guys...
 * Tip: Well, you can't fly, either!
 * Dash: And...you walk funny.
 * Melody: Guys!
 * Tip: OH, YEAH?! Well...um...YOU CAN'T FLY EITHER!
 * Melody: GUYS! [the bickering duo finally stop] Do either of you know how to get to Atlantica? I don't have much time.
 * Dash: Why do you want to go to Atlantica?
 * Melody: I have to get something that was stolen from a friend. [shows them her tail] If not...I'll turn back into a...
 * Dash: A what? Turn back into a what?
 * Melody: A human.
 * Tip: [startled gasp] I knew there was something UN-fishy about you! [turns to leave] Tough break, sister. Drop us a line. Let us know how it all turns out.
 * Dash: [stops Tip with a fore-flipper and turns him around] We'll take you!
 * Melody: You will?
 * Tip: We will?!
 * Dash: She's a damsel in distress. It's our big chance.

 * Ariel: [sees the young fish, who looks like Flounder] Flounder! [hugs him]
 * Flounder's Son: [struggles and swims away] DADDY!!!
 * Flounder: [offscreen] Now what? [appears as an adult, with his son who's behind him]
 * Ariel: Sorry.
 * Flounder: Ariel?
 * Ariel: Flounder?
 * Flounder: Ariel!!
 * Ariel: [hugs her old friend] Oh, I've missed you! Boy, you're sure not a guppy anymore.
 * Flounder: You can say that again.

 * Flounder: Children, what did I say about playing "kick the clam" on the reef?
 * Flounder's Son: Sorry, Dad.
 * Flounder: Uh, kids. I'm sorry about Melody.
 * Ariel: Flounder, I really need your help.
 * Flounder: Wild sea horses couldn't stop me.

 * Tip: C'mon, Miss Popularity. We have a previous engagement, remember? [drags Melody away]
 * Merboy: Was that a...penguin?

 * [Ariel tries to stop Melody from giving Morgana Triton's trident]
 * Ariel: Melody, don't!
 * Melody: Mom!
 * Ariel: Don't listen to her, and–!
 * [Both Melody and Ariel are surprised to see each other as mermaids]
 * Ariel and Melody: You're a mermaid?
 * Morgana: Ariel, how nice of you to come, and you've brought Flopper with you.
 * Flounder: The name's Flounder!
 * Undertow: Grr!
 * Flounder: "Grr" yourself, pipsqueak!

 * Tip: We're guppies, man. Jellyfish.
 * Dash: The great Tip and Dash: cowards-slash-losers.
 * Tip: [has an idea] Okay, on the one hand, we can live a long, healthy life; albeit as disgusting, pathetic, cowardly...uh...
 * Dash: Worms?
 * Tip: That's good! Good. Cowardly worms. On the other hand, we could gather our courage, if we had any, and storm the fortress and be heroes!
 * Dash: Yeah. Until they hack us up into fishbait!
 * Tip: You're right.
 * [Strange green lights begin to flash from Morgana's iceberg lair]
 * Dash: [gasps] Melody's in there. She might be in big trouble! She might really need our help!
 * Tip: So what's it gonna be? A lifetime as worms...or two minutes as heroes?

Cast

 * Tara Strong — Меlody
 * Jodi Benson — Ariel
 * Samuel E. Wright — Sebastian
 * Tress MacNeille — Cleo
 * Pat Carroll — Morgana
 * Buddy Hackett — Scuttle
 * Kenneth Mars — King Triton
 * Stephen Furst — Dash
 * Max Casella — Tip
 * Rob Paulsen — Eric
 * Clancy Brown — Undertow
 * Cameron A. Clarke — Flounder
 * René Auberjonois — Chef Louis
 * Kay Kuter — Grimsby
 * Edie McClurg — Carlotta
 * Frank Welker — Max the Sheepdog


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Chuck Norris

Carlos Ray Norris Jr. (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is best known for playing Cordell "Cord" Walker on Walker, Texas Ranger, his training with Bruce Lee and for his iconically tough image.

Quotes

 * I'm aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as "Chuck Norris facts." I've seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, "Against All Odds?" They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, "The Justice Riders," released this month. I'm very proud of these literary efforts.
 * Posted on Chuck Norris' website in 2005.

 * I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?
 * Chuck Norris' reply when asked if Walker the Texas Ranger could be president, in an interview by BarelyPolitical.com (5 December 2007)

 * Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.
 * YouTube video

 * I had the opportunity to fly with a Top Gun pilot and land on the USS Nimitz, 240 miles at sea. We landed the F-14 tomcat on the carrier and I was given a tour and was able to shake hands with all the sailors and marines. As we were flying back to Miramar, Maverick (his call name) said to me, “Let’s pretend there is a bogey on our tail.” He immediately went into evasive maneuvers, spinning one way and then the other, hitting up to seven Gs! After about ten minutes, I was about ready to hurl, but I thought, “If I do, he is going to tell all the other Top Gun pilots,” so I said to Maverick in my headset, “Maverick, we lost him!” Maverick laughed and said, “I know what you mean.”.

Misattributed
And a dad
 * Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
 * Though often attributed to Norris, this seems to have appeared as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator

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