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J. S. Holliday

Jaquelin Smith Holliday II (June 10,1924 – August 31, 2006) was the author of The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience and contributer to the PBS Documentery "The West"

The West (1996)

 * I think that the West is the most powerful reality in the history of this country. It's always had a power, a presence, an attraction that differentiated it from the rest of the United States. Whether the West was a place to be conquered, or the West as it is today, a place to be protected and nurtured. It is the regenerative force of America.

 * And he looks down where the soil has been dug and there's a sparkle, and there's a glint in the morning light, and he reaches down and he picks it up with his stubby dirty fingers, and the last thing in the world he might have expected, and here is this, this speck of the future, this tiny little shock that's going to reverberate right to today -- literally till now! He picks it up, and he says, you know, he says, 'My God!' And he yells out, he said, 'My God, I think I've found gold!'
 * About James W. Marshall discovering gold in 1848

 * The gold rush changed California, it changed the whole west, and it changed America's sense of itself because for the first time the United States of America, in the minds of the American people, fulfilled the dream of Jefferson, which was a continental nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific. No one thought about America stretching from Chesapeake Bay to San Francisco Bay until fathers and sons and uncles and brothers and fiances were out there.

 * The tremendous success of that summer of 1848 spread by way of letters and government reports. The President in his State of the Union speech announces that the astonishing news from Sacramento is true. So the news is coming not only from the President, but most of all from these people who are writing these vivid reports. A guy writes home and he says, he says, 'You remember Dickson? He used to work for Ebeneezer?' He says, 'He has dug enough gold to weigh down a mule.' Now, that means something to people. A mule.

 * He is a farmer. He lives a simple life. He's pretty well educated. He's read Shakespeare, he's read Wordsworth. His wife is a teacher. They have a very comfortable life. They don't have anything to complain about in eighteen forty-nine. This is a key point. They did not have anything that would cause them distress. His expectations were perfectly comfortable expectations of an average family, a farming family in America. The Gold Rush changed that. Suddenly he wanted more. Suddenly he wasn't satisfied.
 * About William Swain

 * The men who traveled to California in the Gold Rush years had a conscious sense of the need to organize. There are rules. For instance, no swearing -- literally! They have constitutions, they have these rules and orders: No swearing. No drinking. We will observe the Sabbath. Many a company broke up over the argument of whether or not to observe the Sabbath. 'How can we observe the Sabbath? Here it is the middle of June, we're already behind. These people are passing us on Sunday, they're rolling. How can we sit here?' So they have arguments about it, and companies split up over the moral question of whether to observe the Sabbath or not.

 * So at the point where you make the choice, there is this moment where scores of men stand around, and they debate and they argue and they discuss and they read little signs on the road. And a barrel, a big barrel, full of cards and full of information. You sift through it: 'Oh, George went this way, Sam went this way, Louie went that way. What am I going to do?' There's choices being made. And they stand around and they debate, and sometimes companies'd argue and they split, and there'd be fights, and We'll go this way and We'll go that way. So it was a life-and-death choice, everybody knew it to be that. Wasn't just some casual matter of saving a few hours, it might save your life.
 * About disagreements in which routes to take on the way to California

 * But when you get to the other side of the Sierra Nevada, you don't see the green of the Sacramento Valley, you see the desolation of the Pit River Valley. You see rocks and stunted growth, and mountain deserts. It's just, it's just a pain, it's a shock, it's a hit in the head, it hurts your heart to see what still lies ahead. And you haven't gone a short cut. What you've done is you've gone north, and you're at what's called Goose Lake. So instead of going west, you've gone north-northwest. Now you've got to go south.
 * About the route to California

 * What they had expected was the image that they had received in November, December of 1848, and the story of digging up gold, and all the people succeeding. They were stunned, shocked, dismayed. The realism that struck them above all else was there're so damn many miners. There were forty thousand miners in the mining camps and the mining regions of California by the fall of 1849.... These are people who've been coming... overland... as early as August. They've been coming by ships since December. They've been coming from Hawaii, from Oregon, from Chile, from Sonora. They've been pouring in. The world rushed into California.

 * You're working in freezing water up to your waist for hours at a time.You're reaching down, moving rocks, bringing in the rock and the gravel and working it all the time, with your hands, with the shovels. Moving always this debris, to get rid of the debris, to pull out the little tiny samples of your future, the little tiny pieces that are going to make everything possible for you. Going to buy you the means to get rid of your mortgage, that are going to make it possible to buy some more land in Iowa, in order to move, and then pack up and go to some new place. All of that is built into every effort you're making, every single day.
 * About gold mining

 * And they walk into these great big places, and there's excitement, and there's hope, and there's a sense of sin. 'Mother wouldn't want me to be here. What if Louise knew that I was here?' A lot of men, you know, would write home and talk about what was going on as if they hadn't seen it. I've been told what goes on in these gambling halls.

 * As mining became more difficult, as the claims became more difficult to find because there were more miners than there were workable claims, everyone competing and fighting for his smaller and smaller opportunity to strike it rich, you became, therefore... desirous of finding an excuse for your failure, or desirous of finding a way to get an advantage. Well one of the ways was to say, I'm an American; What are the Mexicans doing here? What are the Indians? We don't need the Indians, we can certainly get rid of them. What are the Chinese doing here? Those people shouldn't be here... This isn't their land, this is my land! This belongs to us!

 * They end up working the claims that are the least attractive, and yet they make a success in them, because they work harder, because they have a technique and a willingness to struggle longer. They're willing to work on the Sundays, they're willing to give up all play and concentrate. And so even when they've been driven out of the workable mines and they turn to the most, seemingly, desert-like places, barren places, they succeed, and this aggravates and angers the Americans even more.
 * On Chinese immigrants during the Gold Rush

 * Pride is a powerful force. The pride that kept so many men in California. They want to go home. But I can't go until I've got something to prove my success. They've been reading about success back home. I know, says the miner, how many people are failing. Failure is the most common fact of life in California. They don't know that. How can I go home a failure, when they expect me to come home a success? So they stay.
 * On the Predicament of the Miners

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Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen (born 11 November 1948) is an American author.

Girl, Interrupted (1994)

 * I've gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to come by, and the one in Boston has been stolen. The other two are self-contained paintings. The people in them are looking at each other -- the lady and her maid, the soldier, and his sweetheart. Seeing them is peeking at them through a hole in a wall. And the wall is made of light -- that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.

 * Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.

 * Is this the type of friend or lover I want to have? I ask myself every time I meet someone new. Charming but shallow; good-hearted but a bit conventional; too handsome for his own good; fascinating but probably unreliable; and so forth. I guess I've had my share of unreliable. More than my share? How many would constitute more than my share?

 * In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves.

 * Naked, we needed protection, and the hospital protected us. Of course, the hospital had stripped us naked in the first place—but that just underscored its obligation to shelter us. And the hospital fulfilled its obligation. Somebody in our families had to pay a good deal of money for that: sixty dollars (1967 dollars) a day just for the room; therapy, drugs, and consultations were extra. Ninety days was the usual length of mental-hospital insurance coverage, but ninety days was barely enough to get started on a visit to McLean. My workup alone took ninety days. The price of several of those college educations I didn’t want was spent on my hospitalization.

 * People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy. Most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists. And who can resist an opening?

 * I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it.

 * Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

 * It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there’s a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there’s a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance. The motive is paramount. Without a strong motive, you’re sunk. My motives were weak: an American-history paper I didn’t want to write and the question I’d asked months earlier, Why not kill myself? Dead, I wouldn’t have to write the paper. Nor would I have to keep debating the question.

 * It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.

 * When she’d been with us a month or so, Lisa Cody got a diagnosis. She was a sociopath too. She was happy, because she wanted to be like Lisa in all things. Lisa was not so happy, because she had been the only sociopath among us. “We are very rare,” she told me once, “and mostly we are men.”

 * Jerry was willowy and worried. He had one good trick. Now and then, someone with a lot of privileges was allowed to leave the hospital in a taxi. That person would say, “Jerry, call me a cab.” Jerry would say, “You’re a cab.” We loved this.

 * A representative conversation with Dr. Wick: “Good morning. It has been decided that you were compulsively promiscuous. Would you like to tell me about that?” “No.” This is the best of several bad responses, I’ve decided. “For instance, the attachment to your high school English teacher.” Dr. Wick always uses words like attachment. “Uh?” “Would you like to tell me about that?” “Um. Well. He drove me to New York.” That was when I realized he was interested. He brought along a wonderful vegetarian lunch for me. “But that wasn’t when it was.” “What? When what was?” “When we fucked.” (Flush.) “Go on.” “We went to the Frick. I’d never been there. There was this Vermeer, see, this amazing painting of a girl having a music lesson—I just couldn’t believe how amazing it was—” “So when did you—ah—when was it?” Doesn’t she want to hear about the Vermeer? That’s what I remember. “What?” “The—ah—attachment. How did it start?” “Oh, later, back home.” Suddenly I know what she wants. “I was at his house. We had poetry meetings at his house. And everybody had left, so we were just sitting there on the sofa alone. And he said, ‘Do you want to fuck?’ ” (Flush.) “He used that word?” “Yup.” He didn’t. He kissed me. And he’d kissed me in New York too. But why should I disappoint her? This was called therapy.

 * Most of us saw our therapists every day. Cynthia didn’t; she had therapy twice a week and shock therapy once a week. And Lisa didn’t go to therapy. She had a therapist, but he used her hour to take a nap. If she was extremely bored, she’d demand to be taken to his office, where she’d find him snoozing in his chair. “Gotcha!” she’d say. Then she’d come back to the ward. The rest of us traipsed off day after day to exhume the past.

 * The world didn’t stop because we weren’t in it anymore; far from it. Night after night tiny bodies fell to the ground on our TV screen: black people, young people, Vietnamese people, poor people—some dead, some only bashed up for the moment. There were always more of them to replace the fallen and join them the next night. Then came the period when people we knew—not knew personally, but knew of—started falling to the ground: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy. Was that more alarming? Lisa said it was natural. “They gotta kill them,” she explained. “Otherwise it’ll never settle down.”

 * Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can’t go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling, that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family’s mental health.

 * Every few months Torrey’s parents flew from Mexico to Boston to harangue her. She was crazy, she had driven them crazy, she was malingering, they couldn’t afford it, and so forth. After they left Torrey would give a report in her tired drawl. “Then Mom said, ‘You made me into an alcoholic,’ and then Dad said, ‘I’m going to see you never get out of this place,’ and then they sort of switched and Mom said, ‘You’re nothing but a junkie,’ and Dad said, ‘I’m not going to pay for you to take it easy in here while we suffer.’ ” “Why do you see them?” Georgina asked. “Oh,” said Torrey. “It’s how they show their love,” said Lisa. Her parents never made contact with her. The nurses agreed with Lisa. They told Torrey she was mature for agreeing to see her parents when she knew they were going to confuse her. Confuse was the nurses’ word for abuse.

 * Later that day, when Alice was off having a Rorschach, I asked, “How can a person who’s never eaten honey have a family that can afford to send her here?” “Probably really incredibly crazy and interesting, so they let her in for less,” said Georgina.

 * “A writer,” I said, when my social worker asked me what I planned to do when I got out of the hospital. “I’m going to be a writer.” “That’s a nice hobby, but how are you going to earn a living?” My social worker and I did not like each other. I didn’t like her because she didn’t understand that this was me, and I was going to be a writer; I was not going to type term bills or sell au gratin bowls or do any other stupid things.

 * Borderline Personality Disorder* An essential feature of this disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability of self-image, interpersonal relationships, and mood, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. A marked and persistent identity disturbance is almost invariably present. This is often pervasive, and is manifested by uncertainty about several life issues, such as self-image, sexual orientation, long-term goals or career choice, types of friends or lovers to have, and which values to adopt.

 * Quite often social contrariness and a generally pessimistic outlook are observed. Alternation between dependency and self-assertion is common.

 * “The person often experiences this instability of self-image as chronic feelings of emptiness or boredom.” My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous. A partial list follows. I could not and did not want to: ski, play tennis, or go to gym class; attend to any subject in school other than English and biology; write papers on any assigned topics (I wrote poems instead of papers for English; I got F’s); plan to go or apply to college; give any reasonable explanation for these refusals.

 * My self-image was not unstable. I saw myself, quite correctly, as unfit for the educational and social systems.

 * They did not put much value on my capacities, which were admittedly few, but genuine. I read everything, I wrote constantly, and I had boyfriends by the barrelful. “Why don’t you do the assigned reading?” they’d ask. “Why don’t you write your papers instead of whatever you’re writing—what is that, a short story?” “Why don’t you expend as much energy on your schoolwork as you do on your boyfriends?” By my senior year I didn’t even bother with excuses, let alone explanations. “Where is your term paper?” asked my history teacher. “I didn’t write it. I have nothing to say on that topic.” “You could have picked another topic.” “I have nothing to say on any historical topic.”

 * One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment.

 * As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn’t have.

 * My classmates were spinning their fantasies for the future: lawyer, ethnobotanist, Buddhist monk (it was a very progressive high school). Even the dumb, uninteresting ones who were there to provide “balance” looked forward to their marriages and their children. I knew I wasn’t going to have any of this because I knew I didn’t want it. But did that mean I would have nothing? I was the first person in the history of the school not to go to college.

 * I was that one who wore black and—really, I’ve heard it from several people—slept with the English teacher.

 * And the college business: My parents wanted me to go, I didn’t want to go, and I didn’t go. I got what I wanted. Those who don’t go to college have to get jobs. I agreed with all this. I told myself all this over and over. I even got a job—my job breaking au gratin dishes. But the fact that I couldn’t hold my job was worrisome. I was probably crazy. I’d been skirting the idea of craziness for a year or two; now I was closing in on it.

 * My family had a lot of characteristics—achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations—that all seemed to be recessive in me.

 * Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them.

On Girl, Interrupted

 * When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.
 * Susan Cheever, "A Designated Crazy," The New York Times Book Review, June 20, 1993. (Reviewing Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted.)

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CSI: Miami

 * Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Main

CSI: Miami (2002–2012) is a dramatic television series about the Forensics Crime Lab in Miami. It is a spin-off of the popular series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Seasons

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The 1/2 Hour News Hour

The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show on the Fox News Channel.

Season 1

 * Kurt McNally: Six Islamic extremists were arrested this week for plotting the attack of a U.S. Army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Harry Reid responded by demanding an immediate withdrawal of all troops from Fort Dix.

 * Kurt McNally: Reverend Al Sharpton claims that Paris Hilton's early release from jail smacks of "racial favoritism". Paris Hilton's two-letter response was "O.J."

 * Jennifer Lang: Hillary Clinton said that her faith got her through her marriage crisis. Bill Clinton said that Faith also got him through his marriage crisis, although he can't remember Faith's last name.

 * Dennis Miller: Relax, we'll replace oil when we need to.  American ingenuity will kick in, and the next great fortune will be made.  It's not pretty, but it is historically accurate.  We need to run out of oil first.  And that's why I drive an SUV -- so we run out of it more quickly.  I consider myself to be at the vanguard of the environmental movement.  And I think individuals who insist on driving hybrids are just prolonging our dilemma, and I think that's just selfish. Come on, don't you care about Mother Earth?

 * Kurt McNally: After weeks of heated negotiations, the House finally abandoned the idea to a time line and agreed to President Bush's war funding bill. This is considered the biggest Democratic collapse since Nancy Pelosi's face lift gave out.

From the show's segment "Conspiracy Corner" discussing 9/11
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 * Jack McCraney: Okay, then please explain to me how jet planes can fly into the World Trade Towers and cause steel building to collapse.
 * Lamas: Because the heat of the jet fuel caused the metal to melt and buckle.
 * McCraney: Are you trying to say that fire melts steel?!
 * Lamas: Yes, Jack, that's actually how they make steel.
 * McCraney: Oh, so they "make" steel?

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 * Note : I made a few (~50) edits with the bot for foolproofing. (see RimBot's contributions). I can speak and read english, and I'll be keeping an eye on my en:wq talk page when my bot is running.

 * Support I trust Manuel and I see no problem with the task (I know the code).  Cbrown1023   talk   23:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Fine to me. Wiki mail is provided, test running looked fine, so I think all requirements are fulfilled. --Aphaia 20:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

All five requirements are fullfiled. In one week, the request got two supports and no dissent: Bot flag granted. --Aphaia 06:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

WelcomeBot

 * Operator:  Cbrown1023  talk  for the Welcoming Committee
 * Bot: WelcomeBot
 * Purpose: Welcoming new users.
 * Vote closes: 14:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC) (unless shortened due to previous discussion)
 * Technical details: Pywikipedia: Welcome.py
 * Discussion and specification has already taken place at Village pump

I request a bot flag for this bot, any further information you could possibly need is available at the above links. Thank you,  Cbrown1023  talk  14:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Support --Aphaia 14:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - useful bot and would keep RC clean -- Herby talk thyme 18:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - and as it is now officially permissable I will give it bot status. ~ Kalki 19:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

WelcomeBot now has Bot status. ~ Kalki 19:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Dinybot

 * Operator: User:Martin Kozák
 * Bot: User:Dinybot
 * Purpose: Automated autonomous interwiki robot.
 * specification available
 * Vote closes: ??

Thanks for Your complaisance. --Martin Kozák 14:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Voting

 * Strong Support I have seen this bot run and have talked with this user on how the bot works and believe it is read for a bot flag (there are no problems, and the bot seems to work).  Cbrown1023  talk  19:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Test run on March seems quite well. --Aphaia 03:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments
Since no enough voices have come yet, this vote is extended till April 20, 2007. --Aphaia 03:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Bot request granted. ~ Kalki 01:44, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

User:DragonBot

 * Operator: Chtit draco
 * Purpose: Adding interwiki links (semi-automatic).
 * Script used : pywikipedia
 * Already has the bot flag on : fr
 * chtit dracotalk 11:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note : I made a few edits with the bot for foolproofing. (see DragonBot's contributions)

Support The result of test run on February looks me fine (see the link above). I'll be happy to have another interlang bot on our project. --Aphaia 04:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Suppport no problems.  Cbrown1023  talk  21:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

 * Thank you for your interest. The mail reachability of operator is confirmed. --Aphaia 12:52, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * So.... May I use the bot? (is there a community in here?) chtit dracotalk 13:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry for your confusion, what I meant is that you submitted your request in a valid style = there are all pieces of information we request on the above. As for bot flag, there is no clear approval, so I think we are better to wait for a while. On the other hand, I recommend you to run your bot now without flag, in a low interval (twice in a minute, for example); it may help us to consider we would like your bot to grant a bot flag. If you are complainted to run a bot, you may refer his or her complain to my user talk. I'll try to pursuade the user how test run in this kind is beneficial and generally make no harm. --Aphaia 04:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Bot flagged on 19 March 2007

Tapernoc Bot

 * Operator: User:Tapernoc
 * Bot: User:Tapernoc Bot
 * Purpose: Anti Vandalisim.
 * Vote closes: 31 Mar 2007 00:00 (UTC)
 * Oppose per discussions with this user, I believe this is a hoax.  Cbrown1023  talk  21:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Looks fishy to me. There are anti-vandalism bots on en:Wikipedia and if we really want one no doubt we could copy one of those.--Cato 21:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * and get a more experience user that we know and trust to run it.  Cbrown1023  talk  21:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Sorry sir, I don't know you. I have therefore currently no good reason to put my trust on you. --Aphaia 15:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

'''Vote closed: four oppositions, no support. This vote isn't extended and closed. No flag was granted.'''

Comments
I do not believe that we actually need an anti-vandal bot and I do not believe that Tapernoc is making a true claim. I mean no disrespect, but I think he is not being serious. All the links he provided are not real and lead to empty pages and he claims to have this outrageously named coding that is the best at combatting vandalism. I for one would like to see this code and a few test runs way before we even think of granting a flag.  Cbrown1023  talk  20:21, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Shall, I initiate a test sequence? Tapernoc 20:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * First tell me exactly what it will do and provide us with the code.  Cbrown1023  talk  20:44, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sir, if my calculations are correct, the bot will report cases of vandalisim directally to me, from there, I will select what I choose to be Extreme Vandalisim in such cases, the bot will view the users who preform such vandalssisim with increded scretuenty, if the vandalise again it will not block them, but rater make the vandalisim they preform visible onlyto them (this I was able to achieve through a topsecret exploit hole in the Metawiki software previded exclusivly to my by Mr. Wales), as they bask in their glory of distroying Wkiquote they will really have done nothing. Tapernoc 21:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, thank you for the clarification, no we know you are joking. Please stop the trolling or you will end up being blocked.  Cbrown1023  talk  21:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I know what you are talking about, could you please clarify? Tapernoc 21:14, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Idioma-bot
Hugo.arg 17:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Operator: w:lt:User:Hugo.arg
 * Purpose: Adding interwiki links.
 * Script used : pywikipedia
 * Already has the bot flag on : about 50 wikipedias and also working in Lithuanian wikiquote
 * Note : need to connect Lithuanian and English wikiquotes

 * Support I have no problem with this task and it looks like it's run on quite a few other wikis, so we can trust the owner.  Cbrown1023   talk   23:45, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Wiki-mail isn't enabled. I noticed the owner that. Let's see for a while. --Aphaia 20:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess we should until that is enabled. ;-)  Cbrown1023   talk   01:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Not done now: the wiki-mail function on this account is still disabled, and this bot has been inactive since August 2007. The operator will be welcome to submit his request again when he meets the requirements on the above. --Aphaia 11:49, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Computer

 * Operator: User:White Cat (Commons:User:White Cat) - En-N, Tr-4, Ja-1
 * Bot uses pywikipedia and AWB framework.
 * List of botflags on other projects: Bot has a flag on wikimedia (meta,commons) wikipedia (ar, az, de, en, es, et, fr, is, ja, ku, nn, no, ru, sr, tr, uz, simple...) (See: m:User:White Cat)
 * Purpose: Interwiki linking, double redirect fixing, commons delinking (for cases where commonsdelinker fails)

-- Cat chi? 16:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Bureaucrat comment: Regarding the lack of response as well as no test run, this request was declined as disqualified to the review. And it doesn't follow our standard bot naming policy. --Aphaia 02:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Not done Besides the naming issue, has no edit and been inactive, so this request doesn't look make a sense now. The operator will be welcome when he meets the requirements on the above. --Aphaia 11:46, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

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Roger Bacon

 * Not to be confused with: Francis Bacon

Roger Bacon (c. 1219/20 – c. 1292), also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: "wonderful teacher"), was an English theologian, philosopher and Franciscan friar. An English philosopher who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism, he was one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method. Later studies have emphasized his reliance on occult and alchemical traditions. All his theoretical writings were originally in Latin.

Quotes

 * Oh how delightful is the taste of wisdom to those who are thus steeped in it from its very fount and origin. They who have not tried this cannot feel the delight of wisdom, just as a sick man cannot estimate the flavour of food. But because they are affected with this sort of mental sickness, and their intellect in this matter is as it were deaf from their very birth, so as not to appreciate the delight of harmony, on this account they grieve not at this so great loss of wisdom, though indeed without doubt it is an infinite loss.
 * Compendium Studii Theologiae (1292) c. viii. & Brewer's Bacon (1859) p. 466 as cited by George Gresley Perry, The Life and Times of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1871)

 * For sounds like thunder, and coruscations like lightning, may be made in the air, and they may be rendered even more horrible than those of nature herself. A small quantity of matter, properly manufactured, not larger than the human thumb, may be made to produce a horrible noise and coruscation. And this may be done many ways, by which a city or an army may be destroyed, as was the case when and his men broke their pitchers and exhibited their lamps, fire issuing out of them with inestimable noise, destroyed an infinite number of the army of the Midianites.
 * De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magise, Ch. 6, in a reference to Bacon's knowledge of gunpowder, as quoted by Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry (1830) Vol. 1, p. 36.

 * Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet [powdered charcoal], and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them.
 * De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magise, Ch. 11, in a reference to Bacon's knowledge of making gunpowder, as quoted by Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry (1830) Vol. 1, p. 36.

 * Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae.
 * To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
 * Cited in: LIFE, 8 sept 1958, p. 73
 * Variant translation: Half of science is asking the right questions.

 * Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may never rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns, his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
 * Cited in: Carol A. Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization. p. 21

 * There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.
 * Cited in: John H. Woodburn, Ellsworth Scott Obourn (1965) Teaching the pursuit of science. p. 70

 * Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
 * Cited by Peter Nicholls (1979) The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z. p. 376

Opus Majus, c. 1267

 * For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. For this is an assured fact in regard to celestial things, since two important sciences of mathematics treat of them, namely theoretical astrology and practical astrology. The first … gives us definite information as to the number of the heavens and of the stars, whose size can be comprehended by means of instruments, and the shapes of all and their magnitudes and distances from the earth, and the thicknesses and number, and greatness and smallness, … It likewise treats of the size and shape of the habitable earth … All this information is secured by means of instruments suitable for these purposes, and by tables and by canons .. For everything works through innate forces shown by lines, angles and figures.
 * Cited in: Opus majus: A translation by Robert Belle Burke. Vol 1 (1962). p. 128

 * Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
 * In: Robert Belle Burke (2002) The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2. p. 583

 * If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...
 * Bk. 1, ch. 4. Translated by Robert B. Burke, in: Edward Grant (1974) Source Book in Medieval Science. Harvard University Press. p. 93

 * I shall draw... a figure (which all these matters are made clear as far as possible on a surface, but the full demonstration would require a body like the eye... The eye of a cow, pig, and other animals can be used for illustration, if anyone wishes to experiment.
 * v. i. iii. 3, ed. Bridges as quoted in A.C. Crombie, Robert Grossetest and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)

 * Everything in nature completes its action through its own force and species alone... as, for example, fire by its own force dries and consumes and does many things. Therefore vision must perform the act of seeing by its own force. But the act of seeing is the perception of a visible object at a distance, and therefore vision perceives what is visible by its own force multiplied to the object. Moreover, the species of the things of world are not fitted by nature to effect the complete act of vision at once, because of its nobleness. Hence these must be aided by the species of the eye, which travels in the locality of the visual pyramid, and changes the medium and ennobles it, and renders it analogous to vision, and so prepares the passage of the species itself of the visible object... Concerning the multiplication of this species, moreover, we are to understand that it lies in the same place as the species of the thing seen, between the sight and the thing seen, and takes place along the pyramid whose vertex is in the eye and base in the thing seen. And as the species of an object in the same medium travels in a straight path and is refracted in different ways when it meets a medium of another transparency, and is reflected when it meets the obstacles of a dense body; so is it also true of the species of vision that it travels altogether along the path of the species itself of the visible object.
 * Bacon, like Grosseteste, asserts that both the active extramitted species of vision from the eye, and the intramitted species of light from object seen, were necessary for sight.
 * v. i. vii. 4, ed. Briggs as quoted in A.C. Crombie, Robert Grossetest and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)

 * Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences. ... Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus Ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy.
 * cited in: Morris Kline (1969) Mathematics and the physical world. p. 1

 * And because this Experimental Science is wholly ignored by the general run of students, for that reason I can not convince people of its utility unless I show at the same time its excellence and its property. This science alone, then, knows how to test perfectly by experience what can be done by nature, what by the industry of art, what by imposture; what the incantations, conjurations, invocations, deprecations, sacrifices (which are magical devices) seek and dream of; and what is done in them, so that all falsity may be removed and that only the truth of art and nature be retained. This science alone teaches one to consider all the insanities of magicians, not that they may be confirmed but that they may be avoided, just as logic considers sophistical argument.
 * 6th part Experimental Science, Ch.2 Tr. Richard McKeon, Selections from Medieval Philosophers Vol.2 Roger Bacon to William of Ockham

 * I use the example of the rainbow and of the phenomena connected with it, of which sort are the circle around the sun and the stars, likewise the rod lying at the side of the sun or of a star which appears to the eye in a straight line... called the rod by Seneca, and the circle is called the corona, which often has the colors of the rainbow. But neither Aristotle nor Avicenna, in their Natural Histories, has given us knowledge of things of this sort, nor has Seneca, who composed a special book on them. But Experimental Science makes certain of them. [The experimenter] considers rowers and he finds the same colors in the falling drops dripping from the raised oars when the solar rays penetrate drops of this sort. It is the same with waters falling from the wheels of a mill; and when a man sees the drops of dew in summer of a morning lying on the grass in the meadow or the field, he will see the colors. And in the same way when it rains, if he stands in a shady place and if the rays beyond it pass through dripping moisture, then the colors will appear in the shadow nearby; and very frequently of a night colors appear around the wax candle. Moreover, if a man in summer, when he rises from sleep and while his eyes are yet only partly opened, looks suddenly toward an aperture through which a ray of the sun enters, he will see colors. And if, while seated beyond the sun, he extend his hat before his eyes, he will see colors; and in the same way if he closes his eye, the same thing happens under the shade of the eyebrow; and again, the same phenomenon occurs through a glass vessel filled with water, placed in the rays of the sun. Or similarly if any one holding water in his mouth sprinkles it vigorously into the rays and stands to the side of the rays; and if rays in the proper position pass through an oil lamp hanging in the air, so that the light falls on the surface of the oil, colors will be produced. And so in an infinite number of ways, as well natural as artificial, colors of this sort appear, as the careful experimenter is able to discover.
 * 6th part Experimental Science, Ch.2 Tr. Richard McKeon, Selections from Medieval Philosophers Vol.2 Roger Bacon to William of Ockham

Opus Tertium, c. 1267

 * Online version

 * I have labored much in sciences and languages, and I have up to now devoted forty years [to them] after I first learned the Alphabetum; and I was always studious. Apart from two of these forty years I was always [engaged] in study [or at a place of study], and I had many expenses just as others commonly have. Nevertheless, provided I had first composed a compendium, I am certain that within quarter or half a year I could directly teach a solicitous and confident person whatever I know of these sciences and languages. And it is known that no one worked in so many sciences and languages as I did, nor so much as I did. Indeed, when I was living in the other state of life [as a Magister], people marveled that I survived the abundance of my work. And still, I was just as involved in studies afterwards, as I had been before. But I did not work all that much, since in the pursuit of Wisdom this was not required.
 * OQHI, 65 as cited in: Jeremiah Hackett (2009) "Roger Bacon" in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

 * [H]aec vocatur scientia experimentalis, quae negligit argumenta, quoniam non certificant, quantumcunque sint fortia, nisi simul adsit experientia conclusionis. Et ideo haec docet experiri conclusiones nobiles omnium scientiarum, quae in aliis scientiis aut probantur per argumenta, aut investigantur per experientias naturales et imperfectas...
 * The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences, and the goal of all speculation.
 * OQHI, 43 as cited in: James J. Walsch (1911) "Science at the Medieval Universities" in: Popular Science, May 1911, p. 449

 * Et hæc scientia certificat omnia naturalia et artificialia in particulari et in propria disciplina, per experientiam perfectam; non per argumenta, ut scientiæ pure speculativae, nec per debiles et imperfecta experientias ut scientiae operativæ. Et ideo hæc est domina omnium scientiarum præcedentium, et finis totius speculationis.
 * And this [experimental] science verifies all natural and man-made things in particular, and in their appropriate discipline, by the experimental perfection, not by arguments of the still purely speculative sciences, nor through the weak, and imperfect experiences of practical knowledge. And therefore, this is the matron of all preceding sciences, and the final end of all speculation.
 * Ch 13 ed. J. S. Brewer Opera quadam hactenus inedita (1859) p. 46

 * One man I know, and one only, who can be praised for his achievements in this science. Of discourses and battles of words he takes no heed: he follows the works of wisdom, and in these finds rest. What others strive to see dimly and blindly, like bats in twilight, he gazes at in the full light of day, because he is a master of experiment. Through experiment he gains knowledge of natural things, medical, chemical, indeed of everything in the heavens or earth. He is ashamed that things should be known to laymen, old women, soldiers, ploughmen, of which he is ignorant. Therefore he has looked closely into the doings of those who work in metals and minerals of all kinds; he knows everything relating to the art of war, the making of weapons, and the chase; he has looked closely into agriculture, mensuration, and farming work; he has even taken note of the remedies, lot casting, and charms used by old women and by wizards and magicians, and of the deceptions and devices of conjurors, so that nothing which deserves inquiry should escape him, and that he may be able to expose the falsehoods of magicians. If philosophy is to be carried to its perfection and is to be handled with utility and certainty, his aid is indispensable. As for reward, he neither receives nor seeks it. If he frequented kings and princes, he would easily find those who would bestow on him honours and wealth. Or, if in Paris he would display the results of his researches, the whole world would follow him. But since either of these courses would hinder him from pursuing the great experiments in which he delights, he puts honour and wealth aside, knowing well that his wisdom would secure him wealth whenever he chose. For the last three years he has been working at the production of a mirror that shall produce combustion at a fixed distance; a problem which the Latins have neither solved nor attempted, though books have been written upon the subject.
 * Ch. 13 as quoted in J. H. Bridges, The 'Opus Majus' of Roger Bacon (1900) Vol.1 Preface p.xxv
 * Bridges assumes that Bacon refers here to Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt.

 * All these foregoing sciences are, properly speaking, speculative. There is indeed in every science a practical side, as Avicenna teaches in the first book of his Art of Medicine. Nevertheless, of Moral Philosophy alone can it be said that it is in the special and autonomatic sense practical, dealing as it does with human conduct with reference to virtue and vice, beatitude and misery. All other sciences are called speculative: they are not concerned with the deeds of the present or future life affecting man's salvation or damnation. All procedures of art and of nature are directed to these moral actions, and exist on account of them. They are of no account except in that they help forward right action. Thus practical and operative sciences, as experimental alchemy and the rest, are regarded as speculative in reference to the operations with which moral or political science is concerned. This science is the mistress of every department of philosophy. It employs and controls them for the advantage of states and kingdoms. It directs the choice of men who are to study in sciences and arts for the common good. It orders all members of the state or kingdom so that none shall remain without his proper work.
 * Ch. 14 as quoted in J. H. Bridges, The 'Opus Majus' of Roger Bacon (1900) Vol.1 Preface pp.x-xi

Quotes about Roger Bacon

 * Many of these mystics, by following what they were taught by some treatises, secretly preserved from one generation to another, achieved discoveries which would not be despised even in our modern days of exact sciences. Roger Bacon, the friar, was laughed at as a quack, and  is now generally numbered among "pretenders" to magic art; but his discoveries were nevertheless accepted, and are now used by those who ridicule him the most... Roger Bacon belonged by right if not by fact to that Brotherhood which includes all those who study the occult sciences. Living in the thirteenth century, almost a contemporary, therefore, of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, his discoveries — such as gunpowder and optical glasses, and his mechanical achievements — were considered by everyone as so many miracles. He was accused of having made a compact with the Evil One...It is recounted, that, having been summoned before the king, the friar was induced to show "some of his skill before her majesty the queen. So he waved his hand... and "presently was heard such excellent music, that they all said they had never heard the like."... Then he waved his wand again,and suddenly there was such a smell "as if all the rich perfumes in the whole world had been there prepared in the best manner that art could set them out."Thephenomena of the mystic odors and music, exhibited by Roger Bacon, have been often observed in our own time.
 * H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Chapter 2, p. 63 (1877)

 * Throughout the Opus Majus there is an orderly arrangement of the subject-matter formed with a definite purpose, and leading up to a central theme, the consolidation of the Catholic faith as the supreme agency for the civilization and ennoblement of mankind. For this end a complete renovation and reorganization of man's intellectual forces was needed. After a brief exposition of the four principal impediments to wisdom—authority, habit, prejudice, and false conceit of knowledge—Bacon proceeds in his second part to explain the inseparable connexion of philosophy with the highest truths of religion. ...The first condition ...of a renovation of learning is the systematic study of at least three languages besides Latin, namely Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. The second condition was the application of mathematical method to all objects of study, whether in the world or in the Church. ...it [mathematics] raises the understanding to the plane at which knowledge can be distinguished from ignorance. Without it other sciences are unintelligible. It reveals to us the motions of the heavenly bodies, and the laws of the propagation of force in things terrestrial, of which the propagation of light may be taken as a type; without it we are incapable of regulating the festivals of the Church; we remain in ignorance of the influences of climate upon character; of the position of cities and of the boundaries of nations whom it is the function of the Catholic Church to bring within her pale, and to control spiritually. ...But mathematical method, though essential, is insufficient. It must be supplemented by the method of experiment. Experimental science governs all the preceding sciences ('domina est omnium scientiarum praecedentium' [she is the matron of all previous sciences]), it controls their methods; in prosecuting its own special researches it makes use of their results.
 * J. H. Bridges, The 'Opus Majus' of Roger Bacon (1900) Vol.1 Preface

 * To be able to speak the language of the schools with authority was the first condition of obtaining a hearing. But he was not slow to perceive that the men who taught this philosophy were, for the most part, wholly destitute of positive knowledge. They knew no language but Latin. Beyond the shreds of arithmetic, mensuration, and astronomy taught in the manuals of the Quadrivium, they were ignorant of mathematics. Of the possibility of applying mathematical knowledge to the facts of nature they had formed no conception whatever. Their philosophy was a tangle of barren controversies reducible, for the most part, to verbal disputes. It bore no relation to the facts of real life. It held out no hope of raising the Catholic Church to the position of intellectual domination needed for establishing her authority over the Asiatic world, from which dangers were looming of appalling magnitude.
 * J. H. Bridges, The 'Opus Majus' of Roger Bacon (1900) Vol.1 Preface

 * The mind of Roger Bacon was strangely compounded of almost prophetic gleams of the future course of science, and the best principles of the inductive philosophy, with a more than usual credulity in the superstitions of his own time. Some have deemed him overrated by the nationality of the English; but, if we may have sometimes given him credit for discoveries to which he has only borne testimony, there can be no doubt of the originality of his genius.
 * Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (1866) Vol. 1, Ch. II, p. 130

 * Every medieval and Renaissance court had a royal astrologer who advised the duke or prince he served. ...Men such as Roger Bacon, who even in the thirteenth century was a clear and outspoken champion of the experimental method in science, and Jerome Cardan, one of the foremost mathematicians and physicians of the sixteenth century, subscribed to astrology.
 * Morris Kline, Mathematics and the Physical World (1959)

 * Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.
 * George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)

 * Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.
 * George Henry Lewes, The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte Vol.2, Ch.2, p. 38 (1867)

 * Contemporary with Vitellio and Peccam was... Roger Bacon, a man of almost universal genius, and who wrote on almost every branch of science. He frequently quotes Alhazen on the subject of optics, and seems to have carefully studied his writings, as well as those of other Arabians, which were the fountains of natural knowledge in those days, and which had been introduced into Europe by means of the Moors in Spain. Notwithstanding the pains this great man took with the subject of opticks, it does not appear that, with respect to theory, he made any considerable advance upon what Alhazen had done before him.
 * Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (1772)

 * Great as Bacon was, he was far from being free from the mistakes and prejudices of those who went before him. Even some of the most wild and absurd opinions of the antients have the sanction of his approbation and authority. He does not hesitate to assent to an opinion... that visual rays proceed from the eye; giving this reason for it, that every thing in nature is qualified to discharge its proper functions by its own powers, in the same manner as the sun, and other celestial bodies. He acknowledges, however, that the presence of light, as well as several other circumstances, is necessary to vision.
 * Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (1772)

 * In his Opus Majus he demonstrates, that if a transparent body, interposed between the eye and an object, be convex towards the eye, the object will appear magnified. This observation our author certainly had from Alhazen... this writer [Bacon] gives us figures, representing the progress of rays of light through his spherical segment, as well as endeavours to give reasons why objects are magnified... From the writings of Alhazen and these observations and experiments of Bacon together, it is not improbable that some monks gradually hit upon the construction of spectacles, to which Bacon's lesser segment, not withstanding his mistake concerning it, was a nearer approach than Alhazen's... Whoever they were that pursued the discoveries of Bacon, they probably observed, that a very small convex glass, when held at a greater distance from a book, would magnify the letters more than when it was placed close to them, in which position only Bacon seemed to have used it. In the next place, they might try whether two of these small segments of a sphere placed together, or a glass convex on both sides, would not magnify more than one of them. They would then find, that two of these glasses, one for each eye, would answer the purpose of reading better than one; and lastly they might find, that different degrees of convexity, suited different persons. It is certain that spectacles were well known in the 13th century, and not long before. ...It would certainly have been a great satisfaction to us to have been able to trace the actual steps in the progress of this most useful invention, without which most persons who have a taste for reading must have had the melancholy prospect of passing a very dull and joyless old age; and must have been deprived of the pleasure of entertaining themselves by conversing with the absent and the dead, when they were no longer capable of acting their part among the living. Telescopes and microscopes are to be numbered among the superfluities of life when compared to spectacles, which may now be ranked almost among the necessities of it; since the arts of reading and writing are almost universal.
 * Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours (1772)

 * Bacon expresses theological and moral truths in terms of mathematical phraseology. He compares the Trinity to an equilateral triangle, argues that the divine light of grace reaches the good in a direct perpendicular ray, the weak in a refracted ray, and the bad in a reflected ray, and compares the virtues to the rational numbers, and the passions to the irrational, etc.
 * Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln (1899)

 * After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.
 * Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Ch.1, p. 57 (1896)

 * Roger Bacon had shown how easy it is, and how vain, to survey the operations of Nature and idly refer her wondrous works to chance or accident, or to the immediate interposition of God.
 * D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)

 * Friar Bacon walk'd in Oxford between two steeples, but he that would have discovered his Thoughts, by his steps, had been more his Fool than his Fellow.
 * Thomas Vaughan, Anthroposophia Theomagica, (full text), (1650)

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Heat Guy J

Heat Guy J (2002–2004) This Science-fiction animé series chronicles the cases and adventures of a young Special Services officer named Daisuke Aurora and his powerful android partner simply named "J." Despite his robotic nature, J has a strict moral code and frequently espouses his personal aphorisms on how "A Man" should behave, while Daisuke affects a laid-back cynical air which conceals his compassionate heroism. Other characters include Kyoko Milchan, the young auditor of the Special Services division and Antonia Belucci, a scientist responsible for maintaining J.

Machi (Guy) [1.1]

 * [Unwelcome advice]
 * J: Daisuke, it's time to get up; A Man should not show signs of pain in front of the enemy.
 * Daisuke: If I'm lucky, the rain'll rust your mouth shut!

 * [Discussing how J keeps his energy up]
 * J: A Man recharges his being by letting his soul float peacefully in the semi-darkness.
 * Daisuke: You mean sleeping?
 * J: Actually, I was referring to meditation.

Honô (War) [1.2]

 * [When J is stripped to his chassis following an explosion]
 * Daisuke: Oh I think you look fine just the way you are J, really.
 * J: A Man's appearance is a very personal choice.

 * [Tenacity vs. boredom]
 * Daisuke: It's always the same, J; Same old boring routine!
 * J: When a Man starts to question the limits of his endurance, defeat prepares to pounce!
 * Daisuke: You mean "Don't complain", right? Easy for you to say, but I'm not a machine.
 * J: Then face it like a Man, Daisuke.
 * Daisuke: Yeah, yeah, yeah; I'll do my best - starting tomorrow OK?
 * J: A self-respecting and honourable Man does his best every day.

Uwasa (Bomb) [1.3]

 * [Weight-loss and other superficial concerns]
 * J: Antonia, your body-fat percentage has decreased; are you eating regularly?
 * Antonia: Yes, nothing to worry about; but I am worried about the damage to your body.
 * J: A Man shouldn't worry about his body. Vanity is the fertile soil for the seeds of self-destruction.

 * [When making a foolhardy attempt to find a bomb hidden in your office building]
 * Daisuke: A Man ought to protect his own home, don't you think?

Kemono (Chaos) [1.4]

 * [Finding the right amount of sentimentality]
 * Daisuke: J, the stars are all out!
 * J: The stars shining in the sky; the legacy of the past guiding you to your destiny.
 * Daisuke: The starlight we're seeing now was actually emitted a long time ago, right?
 * J: It is dangerous for a Man to be too sentimental, he must accept reality in its own terms.
 * Daisuke: Sometimes reality is too harsh, J. A man's gotta enjoy life too.

Warabe (Doll) [1.5]

 * [Facing possible oblivion]
 * Antonia: J, I'm shutting your power down in 30 seconds.
 * J: A good sleep gives a Man great comfort.

 * [Male bonding]
 * J: A Man must fight for his good and true friend.
 * Daisuke: Oh sure, go ahead and pretend like we're good friends now!

 * [On being the midwife of destiny]
 * Daisuke: Hey J, Check out all the colours in the sunset!
 * J: At day's end, a Man will often fall into deep thoughts. However..
 * Daisuke: I Know that one; "If you look too deeply into your past, you'll lose sight of the future.", right?
 * J: A Man only exists to bring the future into being.
 * Daisuke: It's all I can do to get through today.

Yoku (Money) [1.6]

 * [Daisuke gets the last word]
 * J: A Man should not have to make excuses.
 * Daisuke: Augh! Whose side are you on anyway? And let's not forget, you went in first!
 * J: You have a point

 * [Daisuke is not in the mood for philosophy]
 * Daisuke: Hey J, check out the clouds!
 * J: When a Man looks up to the sky there is an expectation of hope.
 * Daisuke: I just don't like walking around with my head hanging down.
 * J: It is in the aesthetics of a Man not to reveal true feelings.
 * Daisuke: I don't care about aesthetics, I just want to take a shower.

Kataki (Circulation) [1.7]

 * [Losing his pendant causes Daisuke to lose a fight]
 * J: A Man must always keep his eye on the enemy. It's absolutely imperative.

 * [Then J knocks the pendant down a drain]
 * J: Although it was an accident, a Man must take responsibility for actions that are his fault. I am sorry Daisuke.

 * [More bonding-through-beating-people-up]
 * Boma: So why did you come to help me?
 * J: It is because a Man does not desert a friend.
 * Boma: A friend?

 * [On superstition, and the benefits of keeping an open mind]
 * J: A Man who is overly influenced by accepted ideas cannot step into the future.
 * Daisuke: I just like to take a detour here and there, that's all.

Hibiki (Brother) [1.8]

 * [After rescuing someone from a mugging]
 * Daisuke: Tch! Didn't even bother to say thanks!
 * J: A Man should never expect to be thanked.
 * Daisuke: Yeah-yeah.

 * [J fails the Turing test]
 * Daisuke: I'm feeling really good!
 * J: A good feeling in a Man will often cause him to do things that bring forth a new challenge.
 * Daisuke: I'm not in the market for any trouble, you know.
 * J: A real Man has a true feeling like this deep in his heart.
 * Daisuke: So d'you think you know how I'm feeling right now? Is that what you're trying to say?
 * J: A Man shouldn't be too curious unless it's necessary.

Kizuna (Trust) [1.9]

 * [After Daisuke gets slapped by Monica's mother for dropping Monica on the floor after she yells at Daisuke to let go]
 * Daisuke: So how did I end up being the bad guy?, i didn't even get a thank you.
 * J: If a man has good itentions, he should not expect thanks.
 * [Monica smiles at Daisuke]
 * J: Words are not the only way for one to express appreciation.

Hikari (Visitor) [1.12]
Daisuke: J, find the shortest route. Ahhh, J?

J: This is the shortest route.

Daisuke: You can't really call it a route if you can't actually cross it. Maybe it's best if I stay up here for now.

J: A man shouldn't back away from the fear that lies in front of him.

 J: A man should try hard and always do his best at work and never be concerned with what the outcome may be.

Tamashî (Arrow) [1.14]

 * Princess: Hatred is something that can be forgiven in time. That is a sign of true human strength.
 * Daisuke: i don't know about that, I think if someone can follow their hatred with pure resolve, then that's a sign of true strength as well. It also seems to be a strength that I am yet to possess.

 * Daisuke: There's a little thing in this city called "the law". I'm afraid that criminals aren't forgiven.

Chichi (Play) [1.22]

 * Ken Edmundo: (Getting annoyed at Monica) Having money does not mean that you'll live a happy life.
 * Monica: Oh yeah! Then how come you can't live happily without it?

Yuki (Revolution) [1.24]
J: " A man should not speak through words, he should instead speak through his heart so that everyone understands how he feels "

Otoko (Guys) [1.25]

 * Soldier: If you go against the laws of the Revelutionary new government you will be deported from Judoh!
 * Clair: I'm really sorry, but I made a man promise and I intend to keep this promise even if I have to defend it... (Picks up a grenade.) ... with my life!

J: " A man should find what he searches for on his journey "

Cast

 * Heat Guy J characters - A list of the main characters at Wikipedia.

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Talk:Drink

"Sir G. Sinclair" is uncertain, although he may be identical with Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet, a British Member of Parliament for Caithness. --Aphaia 13:38, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson.

About

 * To be on it is to be recognized, is to make it, especially in a world where every week, something that used to mean "making it" kinda goes extinct.
 * John Mayer on being on the cover of Rolling Stone
 * Weir, Bill, et al (2007). "After 40 Years, Magazine Still 'Rolling' Forward" ABC.com (accessed May 14, 2007)

 * It's the Bible, you know. If you want to know what's being said on the streets, Rolling Stone tells you the truth. I've always believed everything, or almost everything, I read in there.
 * Willie Nelson on Rolling Stone
 * Weir, Bill, et al (2007). "After 40 Years, Magazine Still 'Rolling' Forward" ABC.com (accessed May 14, 2007)

 * We take all kind of pills that give us all kind of thrills, But the thrill we've never known Is the thrill that'll get ya when you get your picture On the cover of the Rolling Stone. Rollin' Stone, Wanna see my picture on the cover. Wanna buy five copies for my mother [Yeah!] Wanna see my smilin' face, on the cover, The cover of the Rollin Stone.
 * The Cover of "Rolling Stone", lyrics by Shel Silverstein and first recorded by American rock group Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show in 1972.

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Family Guy/Season 1

Family Guy is an animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. The show was canceled in 2002, but after a positive response to DVDs and reruns on Adult Swim, production of new episodes for FOX resumed in 2005.

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Death Has a Shadow

 * Stewie: Damn you, vile woman! You've impeded my work since the day I escaped from your wretched womb.
 * Lois: Oh, don't pout, honey. You know, when you were born, the doctor said you were the happiest-looking baby he had ever seen.
 * Stewie: But, of course! That was my victory day! The fruition of my deeply-laid plans to escape from that cursed ovarian Bastille. Return the device, woman!

 * Peter: Come on, you're worryin' about nothin'.
 * Lois: Oh? Remember when you got drunk off the communion wine at church?
 * [cutaway to a priest giving a sermon at church]
 * Priest: And so the Lord God smote poor Job with festering boils all over his body...
 * God: [sitting in one of the pews] Aw, man, I hate it when he tells this story.
 * Priest:...yet, miraculously, Job was still able to maintain his dignity.
 * Peter: [He is seen drinking lots of communion wine, he coughs] Woah, is that really the blood of Christ?
 * Priest: Yes.
 * Peter: Man, that guy must've been wasted 24 hours a day, eh?
 * [cut back to the kitchen]
 * Lois: And then there was that time at the ice cream store...
 * [cutaway to the family at an ice cream store]
 * Peter: Aw, butter rum's my favorite! [licks and passes out immediately]
 * [cut back to the kitchen]
 * Brian: And remember you had an Irish coffee the day we went to see Philadelphia?
 * [cutaway to a movie theater. Everyone is sobbing, except for Peter who stares blankly, then claps his hands]
 * Peter: I got it. That's the guy from Big. Tom Hanks! That's it, aw, funny guy, Tom Hanks! Everything he says is a stitch!
 * Hanks: [on screen] I have AIDS.
 * [Peter laughing]

I Never Met the Dead Man

 * Stewie: [playing with his Sesame Street phone] Put me through to the Pentagon!
 * Phone: Do you know what sound a cow makes?
 * Stewie: Don't toy with me, Ernie! I've already dispatched with Mr. Hooper, I've got six armed men stationed outside Big Bird's nest, and as for Linda... well it's rather difficult for a deaf woman to hear an assassin approach, now, isn't it?
 * Phone: Can you count to three?
 * Stewie: Ho-ho, indeed I can! [pulls out a laser gun and shoots the phone with each number] ONE! TWO! THREE! Can I count to three? For God's sake, I'm already shooting at a fifth-grade level.

 * [Lois tries to feed Stewie his broccoli]
 * Stewie: Damn the broccoli, damn you, and damn the Wright Brothers!
 * Lois: My, aren't we fussy tonight? OK. No broccoli.
 * Stewie: Very well then. I--[Lois shoves the broccoli into his mouth. Stewie spits it out.] Who the hell do you think you are?
 * Lois: Honey, it's not gonna go away just because you don't like it.
 * Stewie: Well then, my goal becomes clear: The broccoli must die.

 * Road Runner: Meep, meep!
 * [Peter runs over the Road Runner with his car]
 * Peter: Aw geez, did I just hit that ostrich!?
 * Wile E. Coyote: No.
 * Peter: Are you sure?
 * Wile E. Coyote: Yeah, he's fine. Keep going.

Chitty Chitty Death Bang

 * [in Lois' womb]
 * Stewie: [in his diary] Day 171. I've sprouted another finger. Counting the one from yesterday, [looks at his penis], I'm up to 11.

 * Peter: [after losing his Cheesy Charlie's reservation] Chris, this is a big day for you. Today you become the man of the house because when we get home, your mother is going to kill me.

Mind Over Murder

 * Soccer Mom: That's the tenth time today! Nice grab, orca! Hey, get Moby Dick off the field before he burps up a license plate!
 * Peter: Hey, hey, hey, easy, fella, that's my kid! Now apologize.
 * Soccer Mom: Okay, I'm sorry your kid's a brain dead, stinkin' blue cheese [As he knocks the can of beer out of Peter's hand] fat ass!
 * Peter: Alright, that's it! [He punches Soccer Dad and everyone gasps]
 * Chris: Way to go, Dad!
 * Boy: Hey, you hit my mom!
 * Peter: No, I hit your dad.
 * Man: Whoa! Stand back! Give her some air!
 * Peter: You mean, give "him" some air.
 * Woman: Call an ambulance! She's going into labor!
 * Peter: You...you mean, "he's" going into labor... [sound of baby wailing] Whoops.

 * Stewie: Shake me! Shake me like a British nanny!

A Hero Sits Next Door

 * Brian: Gee, I would love to help you, Peter, but I gotta go out in the hall and chew on the back of my ass for about five minutes.

 * Meg: So, do you like music?
 * Kevin: Oh, yeah. I played guitar in a band before we moved, but it interfered with my studies. What do you listen to?
 * Meg: Uh, you first.
 * Kevin: I'm into Garbage, Phish, Blur. My parents don't like me listenin' to that stuff, but I do, anyway, BECAUSE I AM NOT A ROBOT! [calmly] I also like Radiohead.

The Son Also Draws

 * [Peter and Chris are ostensibly trying to earn a merit badge for "insect study."]
 * Peter: Look, Chris. It's a whole family of wasps.
 * [The scene cuts to a wealthy family eating dinner]
 * WASP Father: My, Margaret, what a subpar ham.
 * WASP Mother: Perhaps I can't bake a ham, but what I can cook up is a little grace and civility at the table.
 * WASP Father: [after a slight, shocked pause] Patty, did you know that your mother is a whore?

 * Stewie: Stupid greedy savages.
 * Lois: Stewie, that's a terrible thing to say. This one particular tribe has lost their ways but most Native American are a proud, hard-working people who are a true to their spiritual heritage. They are certainly not savages.
 * Stewie: Well, that's funny, mother. Just this morning you said they were lazy like the dirty Mexicans. [chuckles] Just kidding. The Mexicans are a clean and industrious people with a rich cultural heritage.
 * Meg: Yeah, not like those dumb gargantuan Swedes. Actually, the Swedish people run a gammon from short to tall, and did you know that Sweden gave us brilliant inventor Alfred Nobel?
 * Peter: Yeah. That's more than we got from those free-loading Canadians... Canada sucks!

Brian: Portrait of a Dog

 * [Peter has a flashback of when he was on Jeopardy]
 * Trebek: [reads the clue] For $800, this chemical dye is found in over 95% of all cosmetic products.
 * Peter: [rings in] Diarrhea. [the crowd laughs] What? Oh. Oh. Oh. Sorry. Sorry. What is diarrhea?

 * [after seeing the news about the heat wave]
 * Chris: [about Diane] I think I saw one of her nipples!
 * Lois: Chris, that's a terrible word! [sarcastically] "Nipple". I'll chalk that up to the heat, mister.

title: Family Guy/Season 1