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John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun (18 March 1782 – 31 March 1850) was an American politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. A Democrat who supported slavery, he served as the seventh vice president of the United States, first under John Quincy Adams (1825–1829) and then under Andrew Jackson (1829–1832), but resigned the vice presidency to enter the United States Senate, where he had more power. He also served in the United States House of Representatives (1810–1817) and was both Secretary of War (1817–1824) and Secretary of State (1844–1845).

1810s

 * Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
 * Speech in the House of Representatives (12 December 1811)

 * The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us … [T]hey have, in a great measure, ceased to be an object of terror, and have become that of commiseration.
 * Speech to the House of Representatives (5 December 1818)

1830s

 * The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
 * Speech to the U.S. Senate (15 February 1833)

 * The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
 * Speech (13 February 1835)

 * A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
 * Speech (27 May 1836); this is the source of the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder"

 * I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.
 * In 1837

 * Many in the South once believed that slavery was a moral and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.
 * Regarding slavery (1838), as quoted in Brother Against Brother: The War Begins, (The Civil War series) vol. 1, William C. Davis, New York, NY, Time-Life Books, (1983) p. 40

1840s

 * I cannot think in the present state of parties of entering again on the political arena. I would but waste my strength and exhaust my time, without adding to my character, or rendering service to the country, or advancing the cause for which I have so long contended. I feel no disgust nor do I feel disposed to complain of any one. On the contrary, I am content, and willing to end my public life now. In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct. My interest in the prosperity of the country, and the success of our peculiar and sublime political system when well understood, remain without abatement, and will do so till my last breath; and I shall ever stand prepared to serve the country, whenever I shall see reasonable prospect of doing so.
 * Letter to Duff Green (10 February 1844), in Correspondence of John C. Calhoun (1900) edited by William Pinkney Starke, p. 569

 * Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territory — its great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippi — as well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.
 * Letter to Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States, concerning the boundary dispute between the two countries (3 September 1844)

 * I am a Southern man and a slaveholder. A kind and merciful one, I trust, and none the worse for being a slaveholder. I say, for one, I would rather meet any extremity upon earth than give up one inch of our equality, one inch of what belongs to us as members of this republic! What! Acknowledged inferiority! The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledged inferiority!
 * Speech in the U.S. Senate (19 February 1847)

 * It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
 * Speech in the Senate (January 1848)

 * The cords that bind the States together are not only many, but various in character. Some are spiritual or ecclesiastical; some political; others social... The strongest are those of a spiritual and ecclesiastical nature, consisted in the unity of the great religious denominations, all of which originally embraced the whole Union. All these denominations, with the exception, perhaps, of the Catholics, were organized very much upon the principle of our political institutions. Beginning with smaller meetings, corresponding with the political divisions of the country, their organization terminated in one great central assemblage, corresponding very much with the character of Congress. At these meetings the principal clergymen and lay members of the respective denominations, from all parts of the Union, met to transact business relating to their common concerns. It was not confined to what appertained to the doctrines and discipline of the respective denominations, but extended to plans for disseminating the Bible, establishing missionaries, distributing tracts, and of establishing presses for the publication of tracts, newspapers, and periodicals, with a view of diffusing religious information, and for the support of the doctrines and creeds of the denomination. All this combined contributed greatly to strengthen the bonds of the Union.
 * On the Subject of Slavery (1850)

 * We now begin to experience the danger of admitting so great an error (all men are created equal) to have a place in the declaration of our independence. For a long time it lay dormant; but in the process of time it began to germinate, and produce its poisonous fruits. It had strong hold on the mind of Mr. Jefferson, the author of that document, which caused him to take an utterly false view of the subordinate relation of the black to the white race in the South; and to hold, in consequence, that the former, though utterly unqualified to possess liberty, were as fully entitled to both liberty and equality as the latter; and that to deprive them of it was unjust and immoral.
 * Speech on the Oregon Bill, 1848

 * With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black, and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious, and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them.
 * Speech in the U.S. Senate (12 August 1849)

1850s

 * The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
 * A Disquisition on Government (1851), p. 90

 * I assume, as an incontestable fact, that man is so constituted as to be a social being. His inclinations and wants, physical and moral, irresistibly impel him to associate with his kind; and he has, accordingly, never been found, in any age or country, in any state other than the social. In no other, indeed, could he exist; and in no other—were it possible for him to exist—could he attain to a full development of his moral and intellectual faculties, or raise himself, in the scale of being, much above the level of the brute creation. I next assume, also, as a fact not less incontestable, that, while man is so constituted as to make the social state necessary to his existence and the full development of his faculties, this state itself cannot exist without government. The assumption rests on universal experience. In no age or country has any society or community ever been found, whether enlightened or savage, without government of some description.
 * A Disquisition on Government (1851)

 * To the Infinite Being, the Creator of all, belongs exclusively the care and superintendence of the whole. He, in his infinite wisdom and goodness, has allotted to every class of animated beings its condition and appropriate functions; and has endowed each with feelings, instincts, capacities, and faculties, best adapted to its allotted condition. To man, he has assigned the social and political state, as best adapted to develop the great capacities and faculties, intellectual and moral, with which he has endowed him; and has, accordingly, constituted him so as not only to impel him into the social state, but to make government necessary for his preservation and well-being.
 * A Disquisition on Government (1851)

 * It is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty. It is a reward to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike—a reward reserved for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving—and not a boon to be bestowed on a people too ignorant, degraded and vicious, to be capable either of appreciating or of enjoying it. Nor is it any disparagement to liberty, that such is, and ought to be the case. On the contrary, its greatest praise—its proudest distinction is, that an all-wise Providence has reserved it, as the noblest and highest reward for the development of our faculties, moral and intellectual. A reward more appropriate than liberty could not be conferred on the deserving—nor a punishment inflicted on the undeserving more just, than to be subject to lawless and despotic rule.
 * A Disquisition on Government (1851)

 * Such a state [of individual freedom and equality] is purely hypothetical. It never did, nor can exist; as it is inconsistent with the preservation and perpetuation of the race. It is, therefore, a great misnomer to call it the state of nature. Instead of being the natural state of man, it is, of all conceivable states, the most opposed to his nature—most repugnant to his feelings, and most incompatible with his wants. His natural state is, the social and political—the one for which his Creator made him, and the only one in which he can preserve and perfect his race. As, then, there never was such a state as the, so called, state of nature, and never can be, it follows, that men, instead of being born in it, are born in the social and political state; and of course, instead of being born free and equal, are born subject, not only to parental authority, but to the laws and institutions of the country where born, and under whose protection they draw their first breath.
 * A Disquisition on Government (1851)

Attributed to John C. Calhoun

 * I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.
 * Reported in Walter J. Miller, "Calhoun as a Lawyer and Statesman"' part 2, The Green Bag (June 1899), p. 271. Miller states "I will cite his own words", but this quotation is reported as not verified in Calhoun's writings in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

Disputed

 * Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
 * This has recently become attributed to Calhoun on the internet and in print, but seems to be a derivative of John Dryden's statement in Absalom and Achitophel (1681): Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

Quotes about John C. Calhoun

 * John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson's former vice president and eventual U.S. senator from South Carolina, argued against incorporation, asserting that Mexicans represented an amalgamation of "impure races, not [even] as good as the Cherokees or Choctaws." Calhoun asked, "Can we incorporate a people so dissimilar to us in every aspect-so little qualified for free and popular government-without certain destruction to our political institutions?"
 * Cristina Beltrán Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (2020) p 74

 * Arguably the most prominent and accomplished of these planter-politicians was John Calhoun...On this defense of the prerogatives of the Southern section of the nation, Calhoun built an entire theory of government. Seeing the threat democracy posed to slavery, he set out to limit democracy...The problem, in Calhoun's eyes, was that the will of the majority, as expressed in the House of Representatives and the election of the president, had too much power. It had to be curbed, lest it overrun this "true and perfect voice of the people." And those "people" whose voices must be heard, of course, were those like him. Those with power. Those with property. Those who enslaved others.
 * Jamelle Bouie, The 1619 Project (2019)

Ross Baker: He’s not up there with [Henry] Clay, [Daniel] Webster, [John] Calhoun, [Charles] Sumner and LBJ, but he’s a lot closer than Ted Cruz will ever be. Few senators in recent years, however, have had such a stupendous sendoff. He always had the media eating out of his hand. That’s no minor accomplishment.
 * Chris Cillizza: If there is a list of the 15 greatest senators ever, is McCain on it? Why or why not?
 * CNN article The ‘thumbs down’ health care vote that enraged Trump is John McCain’s lasting legacy (29 August 2018)

 * There has always been in the South that intellectual elite who saw the Negro problem clearly. They have always lacked and some still lack the courage to stand up for what they know is right. Nevertheless they can be depended on in the long run to follow their own clear thinking and their own decent choice. Finally even the politicians must eventually recognize the trend in the world, in this country, and in the South. James Byrnes, that favorite son of this commonwealth, and Secretary of State of the United States, is today occupying an indefensible and impossible position; and if he survives in the memory of men, he must begin to help establish in his own South Carolina something of that democracy which he has been recently so loudly preaching to Russia. He is the end of a long series of men whose eternal damnation is the fact that they looked truth in the face and did not see it; John C. Calhoun, Wade Hampton, Ben Tillman are men whose names must ever be besmirched by the fact that they fought against freedom and democracy in a land which was founded upon democracy and freedom. Eventually this class of men must yield to the writing in the stars. That great hypocrite, Jan Smuts, who today is talking of humanity and standing beside Byrnes for a United Nations, is at the same time oppressing the black people of South Africa to an extent which makes their two countries, South Africa and the American South, the most reactionary peoples on earth. Peoples whose exploitation of the poor and helpless reaches the last degree of shame. They must in the long run yield to the forward march of civilization or die.
 * W. E. B. Du Bois, "Behold the Land," 1946

 * There are so many monuments to the Confederacy in South Carolina's capital city that they are nearly impossible to avoid. Pinckney's body lay in state beside a statue of John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, the seventh US vice president and a leading advocate of slavery. Calhoun was a shrewd politician, and one of the architects of secession from the Union, although he died in 1850, before he could see his secessionist theories implemented fully. In 1838 Calhoun wrote, "Many in the South once believed that slavery was a moral and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world." He helped propel the United States into its devastating civil war, and in South Carolina, he is revered by some as a hero.
 * Amy Goodman Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2017) p 317

 * John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.
 * Andrew Jackson, said to John C. Calhoun, in reference to his proposed secession of South Carolina from the United States during the Nullification Affair
 * This quotation is fraudulent. It comes with no attribution, and there is nothing like it anywhere in the actual record of Jackson's exchanges with Calhoun, both written and verbal.  Further, the expression "my nation" is one that Jackson never did use or would have used --Daniel Feller, Editor/Director, The Papers of Andrew Jackson.

 * Stephens' Constitutional View of the War Between the States, which was and remains probably the best defense of the Confederate cause. It is all about states' rights, and the defense of the minority against the tyranny of the numerical majority, although the 'silent minority', the four million slaves, are never counted. It is substantially the book that Calhoun would have written had he been alive to do so... Calhoun was the philosopher-king of the old south, the spiritual mentor of Stephens, Davis, and most of the political leaders of the Confederacy. Bradford and McClellan, following Willmoore Kendall, are obsessed with the utterly false notion that Lincoln was somehow responsible for the permissive egalitarianism of the contemporary welfare state. But equality as such was no less important to Calhoun than to Lincoln. It was just a different kind of equality... It never occurs to Calhoun that black human beings might also resent, with equal, or much greater, reason, 'acknowledged inferiority'. That is because he does not think of them as human. Calhoun simply assumes that blacks have neither the reason nor the passions that are characteristically human. They are chattels, that is, cattle, for all intents and purposes.
 * Harry V. Jaffa, "Defending the Cause of Human Freedom" (15 April 1994), The Claremont Institute, The Claremont Institute

 * Calhoun's last speech had a bitter attack on Mr. Jefferson for his amendment to the Ordinance of '87 prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory. Calhoun was in a dying condition – was too weak to read it. So James M. Mason, a Virginia Senator, read it in the Senate about two weeks before Calhoun's death, March 1850.
 * John S. Mosby, letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (4 June 1907)

 * The first protective tariff in American history was introduced by Calhoun and supported by Madison and Jefferson, and opposed by Webster... Calhoun divorced the idea of states' rights from natural rights, and invented the doctrine of legal or constitutional 'secession' to replace the natural right of revolution as the ground for independence. The South understood that to appeal to the right of revolution, as Jefferson had in the Declaration, was necessarily to appeal to the idea of individual natural rights. Southern leaders balked at such an appeal, because they understood that natural rights flew in the face of their fantastic justifications for slavery.
 * Thomas L. Krannawitter, "Dishonest About Abe" (10 May 2002), Claremont Review of Books, The Claremont Institute

 * For one hundred years, southern politics had remained frozen in time. The Democratic Party had been the party of John Caldwell Calhoun, the Yale-educated South Carolinian who fought in the decades leading up to the Civil War for the southern plantation/slave-owning way of life under the banner of states' rights. To white southerners, the Republican Party was the hated Yankee party of Abraham Lincoln that had forced them to release their Negro property. After Reconstruction, neither party had much to offer the Negroes, so for another century white southerners stayed true to their party and the Democrats could count on a solid block of Democratic states in the South. The point George Wallace was making in his independent run for president was that southern Democrats wanted something different from what the Democratic Party was offering, even though they were not going to become Republicans. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was expressing the same idea as early as 1948 when he ran against Truman as the candidate for president for a party significantly named the States' Rights Party.
 * Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World (2004), ISBN 0-345-45581-9

 * Calhoun is remembered for what he did in the latter half of his adult life. In those years, he rationalized slavery, suppressed freedom of speech, and legitimized secession.
 * James Loewen, "Celebrating John C. Calhoun in Minnesota!" (23 July 2015), History News Network

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Ghost in the Shell (film)

Ghost in the Shell (Japanese: GHOST IN THE SHELL/攻殻機動隊, Gōsuto in za sheru / Kōkaku Kidōtai, i.e. Ghost in the Shell / Mobile Armoured Riot Police), is a Japanese science fiction anime film directed by Mamoru Oshi, released in November 1995. It Found A Voice... Now It Needs A Body (taglines)

Major Motoko Kusanagi

 * Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost.
 * If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.
 * When I float weightless back to the surface, I'm imagining I'm becoming someone else. … It's probably the decompression.
 * There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.
 * Well, I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid about our origins.
 * So what happens if she turns over in her sleep? Won't her ghost separate from her body?
 * Maybe someday your "maker" will come … haul you away, take you apart, and announce the recall of a defective product. What if all that's left of the "real you" is just a couple of lonely brain cells, huh?
 * What we really need, Togusa, is not sharpshooting skills, so much as the ability to get close enough to make sure the enemy can be killed. If you want to play at long-range sniping, you can always go shoot an elephant at 500 miles with a miniature cruise missile …
 * As revenge for the fact that two of my men were killed, I even set it up so he would shoot his own son – through a door.

Puppet Master

 * What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face.
 * Life perpetuates itself through diversity, and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information. Only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.
 * Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Major Motoko Kusanagi/Puppet Master

 * And where does the newborn go from here? The net is vast and infinite.

Batou

 * That's all it is: information. Even a simulated experience or a dream; simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.
 * You and the chief are the only ones out of the whole section whose bodies don't come with a warranty.
 * I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it.
 * You're treated like other humans, so stop with the angst.
 * Nice indeed. Everything's accounted for, except your old shell.
 * Hm … pressure sensitive triggers and a gorgon mine? Or is it a dummy …? Either way, what a waste! I oughta take it home as a souvenir.
 * When I die, since I'm a real skeptic, I'm gonna gripe to the lord and make sure I get back my original investment when I'm reincarnated …

Togusa

 * Yes siree, the excitement never stops.
 * Jesus Christ, what a mess! You didn't have to go that far.
 * Tough chick needs backup? Since when did she ever need a hand?

Dialogue

 * Batou: Got him, huh? Well, the breech and the barrel really screwed up. That's what happens when you use HV bullets in one of these things. Oh yeah.
 * Fugitive: It's no use arresting me! I'm not talking to you god damn cops!
 * Batou: Talk?! And just what are you going to talk about? You don't even know your own name, you stupid dickhead!
 * Fugitive: Huh?
 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: Can you remember your mother's name or what she looks like? Or how about where you were born? Don't you have any happy childhood memories? Do you even know who you are?
 * Fugitive: (No Response)
 * Batou: Ghost-hacked humans are so pathetic, it's a shame. And this poor bastard has been hacked pretty badly.

 * Batou: Chief, you've ever questioned the ethics of the neural surgeons who monkey around inside your brain?
 * Chief Aramaki: They undergo psychiatrical evaluations, especially those in security. They're subjected to a stringent screening of their personal lifes. Of course, the ones who check are only human.
 * Batou: I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it.

 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: That robot. Did we seem similar to you?
 * Batou: Of course not.
 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: No, I don't mean physically.
 * Batou: Just what, then?
 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: Well, I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid about our origins. Sometimes I suspect I am not who I think I am, like maybe I died a long time ago and somebody took my brain and stuck it in this body. Maybe there never was a real me in the first place, and I'm completely synthetic like that thing.
 * Batou: You've got human brain cells in that titanium shell of yours. You're treated like other humans, so stop with the angst.
 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: But that's just it, that's the only thing that makes me feel human. The way I'm treated. I mean, who knows what's inside our heads? Have you ever seen your own brain?
 * Batou: It sounds to me like you're doubting your own ghost.
 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: What if a cyber brain could possibly generate its own ghost, create a soul all by itself? And if it did, just what would be the importance of being human then?

 * Puppet Master: I entered this body because I was unable to overcome Section 6's reactive barriers. However, what you are now witnessing is an action of my own free will. As a sentient life form, I hereby demand political asylum.
 * Chief Aramaki: Is this a joke?
 * Nakamura: Ridiculous! It's programmed for self-preservation!
 * Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So man is an individual only because of his intangible memory. But memory cannot be defined, yet it defines mankind. The advent of computers and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought, parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.
 * Nakamura: Nonsense! This babble is no proof at all that you're a living, thinking life form!
 * Puppet Master: And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?
 * Chief Aramaki: Who the hell is this?
 * Nakamura: Even if you do have a Ghost, we don't offer freedom to criminals! It's the wrong place and time to defect.
 * Puppet Master: Time has been on my side, but by acquiring a body, I am now subject to the possibility of dying. Fortunately, there is no death sentence in this country.
 * Chief Aramaki: What is it? Artificial intelligence...?
 * Puppet Master: Incorrect. I am not an AI. My code name is Project 2501. I am a living, thinking entity that was created in the sea of information.

 * Nakamura: I don't understand anything anymore. Why would Project 2501 run to Section 9?
 * Dr. Willis: No one can be sure. But whatever the motive, or whatever's pushing him, there must surely be a reason. … I don't know. Maybe he's got a girlfriend there he's got the hots for.
 * Nakamura: Utter nonsense.

 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: What the hell did you use?
 * Batou: Your standard issue big gun.

 * Major Motoko Kusanagi: You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself.
 * Puppet Master: There isn't one. Why would you wish to? All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Tagline

 * People love machines in 2029 A.D.
 * Mamoru Oshii's Animated Thriller
 * Who are you? Who slips into my robot body and whispers to my ghost?
 * It found a voice... now it needs a body

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Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.

Body of Evidence

 * It was a beautiful day to grow up.
 * Jenna Blake was still alive because she'd been willing to risk looking stupid.
 * Body Bags (1999)

 * Kreske had more authority, but he was a moron.
 * Page 88
 * A caffeinated Jenna is bad for everyone. -
 * Page 148
 * Instead, it had slipped into her subconscious, and worked its way beneath her skin. -
 * Page 280 Last Breath

Strangewood (1999)

 * And then music. Wind chimes. And the sound of someone playing a violin. A fiddle. Or maybe just the music of a little dragon's wings. Maybe.
 * Page 63
 * He was still as kind as he had always been, but there was a distance in his eyes now that made her want to cry.
 * Page 280
 * Strangewood was never silent. It was never supposed to be.  There was such life and color in the wood and in the creatures who lived there that silence would be tantamount to death.  It was very silent in Strangewood.
 * Page 160

Sins of the Father (1999

 * A girl looking for emotion could starve in L.A.
 * It seemed like every month that went by, every day older, life became more complicated. The rule for growing up seemed to be that no choice, no decision worth making was without some cost.
 * And even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun.

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Thiruvalluvar

Thiruvalluvar was a Tamil poet-saint known as the author of the Tirukkural (“Sacred Couplets”), considered a masterpiece of human thought, compared in India and abroad to the Bible, John Milton's Paradise Lost, and the works of Plato. Thiruvalluvar is thought to have lived sometime between the 3rd century BC and the 1st century BC.

Tirukkural

 * There is no greater wealth than Virtue, And no greater loss than to forget it.
 * Verse IV.2

 * The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune; His jewels are his good children.
 * Verse VI.10

 * The gruel that children’s little hands have stirred Is sweeter than nectar.
 * Verse VII.2

 * To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
 * Verse X.10

 * The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.
 * Verse XIII.9

 * To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.
 * Verse XVI.3

 * Real kindness seeks no return; What return can the world make to rain clouds?
 * Verse XXII.1

 * When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.
 * Verse XXV.10

 * How can kindliness rule that man Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?
 * Verse XXVI.1

 * Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.
 * Verse XXX.9

 * Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?
 * Verse XXXI.4

 * Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
 * Verse XXXI.7

 * Those who give way to great anger are like the dead: Those who are free from anger are free from death.
 * Verse XXXI.10

 * Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.
 * Verse XXXV.1

 * The learned are said to have seeing eyes; The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.
 * Verse XL.3

 * Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.
 * Verse XLI.3

 * The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.
 * Verse XLI.6

 * When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.
 * Verse XLII.2

 * As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil; So will a man’s reason vary with the quality of his friends.
 * Verse XLVI.2

 * The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
 * Verse LIII.7

 * The lotus’ stem is as long as the depth of water, So men’s height is just as great as their inner strength.
 * Verse LX.5

 * They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.
 * Verse LXIII.3

 * To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
 * Verse LXVI.10

 * Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
 * Verse XCIII.9

 * If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
 * Verse CVII.2

 * How can he practice true compassion
 * Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?
 * Verse 251.

 * All life will press palms together in prayerful adoration
 * of those who refuse to slaughter or savour meat.
 * Verse 260.

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User talk:69.153.1.139

An editor using this IP address recently removed the VfD tag from Brian Evans (as well as blanking it) and deleted the VfD entry for Neil. This can be construed as vandalism and may result in blocking, so please do not repeat this.

On the other hand, this editor (who I suspect, based on similar IP addresses, is the same person who created the Brian Evans article, and is likely Brian himself) raised a couple of useful points at Talk:Brian Evans that he subsequently blanked as well. Article talk pages and VfD entries are appropriate places to raise such questions, so don't feel the need to blank them. I will respond to the blanked comments.

 * "… there seems to be only two people who care at all about deleting the articles and you always agree." There are indeed two people who routinely vote on deletions (and we often but don't always agree), but there are others as well who occasionally chime in. Anyone can comment, and any registered user (we must have more than 7000 at this time) can vote, although we may not take very seriously votes by users who only register to vote on a single article. All MediaWiki projects are "coalitions of the willing" (to borrow a dubious phrase from Dubya), but Wikiquote has very few editors who are willing to review articles to ensure they meet Wikiquote standards.

 * "Please do not delete this article because it is not for you to decide who is notable enough." It is the Wikiquote community's job to decide who and what are notable enough. It's unfortunate that there are rarely more than 2 or 3 of our thousands of contributors who wish to participate in this critical function, but we make do with the willing participants.

 * "I would rather you did not delete this page for it is about a real philospher." There are literally tens of millions of philosophers in the world alive today. (I happen to be one of them, as are many of my friends and some of my relatives.) It is not Wikiquote's purpose to collect the musings of everyone on the planet who has something to say. This function is done very well by the millions of blogs, discussion forums, and personal websites, in a way that was hardly imaginable ten years ago. In this din of self-publication, Wikiquote stands as a project to provide sourced, verified quotes by notable people and works, with very specific meanings of each of these terms, just as Wikipedia does for encyclopedia articles. Both projects were established and are supported by the WikiMedia Foundation, and it's their province, not us individual editors, to decide these rules. They do so by laying some ground rules and allowing each community, working within those rules, to make judgment calls by consensus. If you wish to participate in this process, we would welcome your work. But personal quotes are specifically not allowed in the main article space. They are, however, allowed (and even encouraged) on user pages.
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If you (or anyone else using this IP address) have a question about these policies and practices, feel free to post a note on my talk page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber (21 April 1783 – 3 April 1826) was an English bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.

Quotes

 * We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 189

 * Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213

 * Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 547

 * When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
 * Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746

 * One half of the population was literally armed against the other, and the fury which actuated both was more like that of demoniacs than rational enemies. It began by the Mussulmans breaking down a famous pillar, named Siva's walking staff, held in high veneration by the Hindoos. These last in revenge broke and burnt down a mosque, and the retort of the first aggressors was to kill a cow, and pour her blood into the sacred well. In consequence every Hindoo able to bear arms, and many who had no other fitness for the employment than rage supplied, procured weapons,and attacked their enemies with frantic fury wherever they met them. Being the most numerous party, they put the Mussulmans in danger of actual extermination, and would certainly have at least burned every mosque in the place before twenty-four hours were over, if the sepoys had not been called in.
 * About an incident in 1909 during Muharram. Reginald Heber, Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825  also quoted in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857. 112.

Hymns

 * No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.
 * Palestine, line 163; "No workman's steel", as recited by Heber in The Sheldonian (June 15, 1803)

 * Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. Star of the east the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
 * "Epiphany", st. 1 (1811)

 * By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!
 * "First Sunday After Epiphany", no. 2 (1812)

 * The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain; His blood red banner streams afar:  Who follows in His train? Who best can drink his cup of woe,  Triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below,  He follows in His train.
 * "The Son of God Goes Forth to War", st. 1 (1812); lyrics reworked by Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1888):The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar—  Who follows in his train?

 * From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand. From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
 * "Missionary Hymn", st. 1 (1819) "Missionary Hymn", st. 1 (1819).

 * What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.
 * "Missionary Hymn" ("Java" in one version; often misquoted as "Where every prospect pleases"), st. 2 (1819); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 487

 * The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
 * "Missionary Hymn", st. 2 (1819)

 * Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee: Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty! God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity.
 * "Holy" (1827)

 * Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.
 * Journal; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 207

 * Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.
 * Tour Through Ceylon; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 273

 * With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling.
 * The Harebell; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 353

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 * Failed the bright promise of your early day?
 * Palestine, line 113

 * No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence!
 * "Palestine"; this was altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung"

Is equal warning given: Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven!
 * Beneath our feet and o'er our head

Death rides on every passing breeze, And lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril every hour.
 * "At a Funeral", No. I

 * Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.
 * "At a Funeral", No. II

 * Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe’er, Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as ’t is fair.
 * "On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope"

 * I see them on their winding way, About their ranks the moonbeams play.
 * "Lines written to a March"

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User talk:Sachin4star

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User talk:209.175.158.138

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User talk:HumilityAndLoneness

Hey, I just vandalized your favorite page.

Go away.

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User:HumilityAndLoneness

humility and loneness

loneness and humility

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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas Penson De Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English essayist and intellectual.

Quotes

 * Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
 * Letter to Hessey (1823).

 * For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin [sic] upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
 * "A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839).

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

 * The burden of the incommunicable.
 * Pt. I.

 * Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
 * Pt. I.

 * So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.
 * Pt. I.

 * Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
 * Pt. I.

 * Flowers … that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children—honoured as the jewellery of God only by them—when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
 * Pt. I.

 * Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
 * Pt. II.

 * It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
 * Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.

 * Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!
 * Pt. III.

 * Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities … will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

 * In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

 * A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
 * Appendix.

Quotes about De Quincey

 * At one time five of us tried to understand De Quincey's marvelous "Dreams" more sympathetically, by drugging ourselves with opium. We solemnly consumed small white powders at intervals during an entire long holiday, but no mental reorientation took place, and the suspense and excitement did not even permit us to grow sleepy. About four o'clock on the weird afternoon, the young teacher whom we had been obliged to take into our confidence, grew alarmed over the whole performance, took away our De Quincey and all the remaining powders, administered an emetic to each of the five aspirants for sympathetic under- standing of all human experience, and sent us to our separate rooms with a stern command to appear at family worship after supper "whether we were able to or not."
 * Jane Addams, anthologized in Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

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Jamie Raskin

Jamie Raskin (born Jamin B. Raskin, on December 13, 1962, in Washington, D.C.) is an American law professor and politician. He teaches at American University, Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C. He won the race for Maryland State Senate in District 20, representing parts of Silver Spring and Takoma Park. He also goes by the name Jamin Raskin.

Sourced Quotes

 * Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn't place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
 * Testifying before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on March 1, 2006 in response to a comment that marriage discrimination against homosexuals is required by "God's law".

 * Senators! This trial is not about Donald Trump, the country and the world know who Donald Trump is! This trial is about who we are... who we are
 * During closing arguments of the second impeachment of Donald Trump February 13, 2021

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208.57.68.160 00:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)What qualifies Die Hard as a cult film? Just curious, I guess. - Ben

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User talk:Chouchoune~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:44, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Chouchoune~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Subhash~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:59, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Subhash~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Myreligion

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title: User talk:Myreligion


text:
User talk:Alummule@yahoo.com

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title: User talk:Alummule@yahoo.com


text:
User talk:Colton Baker

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title: User talk:Colton Baker