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Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris (born 6 November 1951) is a British paleontologist, who became noted for his studies of the Burgess Shale fossils. He is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Quotes

 * In a stroke of imaginative genius our understanding of consciousness was radically transformed, but in an entirely unexpected way. Critical clues came from diffuse nerve nets and, even more extraordinarily, plant neurobiology. Banished forever was the idea that the brain alone was the seat of consciousness. Rather, it is an 'antenna' embedded in a hyperdimensional matrix. The depths of reality are only now being uncovered, but now the springs of imagination, intuition, abstraction and even pre-cognition are revealed. What was once called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics was simply a clue to a superbly structured universe where mind is an integral component, instantiated at the big bang or maybe even before? Future exploration offers dizzying prospects, but we are not the first to venture forth. Far in advance of the emergence of human consciousness, innumerable galactic civilisations had slipped into what we now call the Mortimer Manifold.
 * "King of Sweden" presenting "Professor Mortimer" with the 2056 Nobel prize, in "Simon Conway Morris forecasts the future" at NewScientist.com (15 November 2006).

The Crucible of Creation (1998)

 * The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals (1998) ISBN 0192862022

 * Perhaps a suitable analogy to explain the short-falls of Dawkins's account of evolution is to think of an oil painting. In this analogy Dawkins has explained the nature and range of pigments; how the extraordinary azure colour was obtained, what effect cobalt has, and so on. But the description is quite unable to account for the picture itself. This view of evolution is incomplete and therefore fails in its side-stepping of how information (the genetic code) gives rise to phenotype, and by what mechanisms. Organisms are more than the sum of their parts, and we may also note in passing that the world depicted by Dawkins has lost all sense of transcendence.
 * p9.

 * Again and again Gould has been seen to charge into battle, sometimes hardly visible in the struggling mass. Strangely immune to seemingly lethal lunges he finally re-emerges. Eventually the dust and confusion die down. Gould announces to the awestruck onlookers that our present understanding of evolutionary processes is dangerously deficient and the theory is perhaps in its death throes. We look beyond the exponent of doom, and there standing in the sunlight is the edifice of evolutionary theory, little changed.
 * p. 10.

 * The underlying ideological agenda of Gould has always been fairly clear. Even where there has been a shift in thinking, it might be argued that in general the discussions were reflecting a particular world-view that at the least was sympathetic to the greatest of twentieth-century pseudo-religions, Marxism.
 * p. 11.

 * Gould's arguments on the quirkiness of human intelligence are not only presented as part of an evolutionary argument, but also I believe to buttress an ideological viewpoint. In brief, his assessment of Man as an evolutionary accident is to lead us into a libertarian attitude whereby, by virtue of a cosmic accident, we, and we alone, have no choice but to take responsibility for our own destiny and mould it to our desire.
 * p. 14.

 * The fact that we arrived here via an immensely long string of species that originated in something like Pikaia rather than some other crepuscular blob is a wonderful scientific story, but it is hardly material to our present condition.
 * p. 14.

 * If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site ...
 * p. 151.

 * ... nevertheless, as I never tire of pointing out to my students in Cambridge, chimpanzees do not play the piano, drink dry martinis, or erect temples to glorify the Creator.
 * p. 151.

 * The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.
 * p. 202.

 * The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.
 * p. 205.

 * The list is almost endless: the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, the destruction of Baghdad in 1258, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, and the Nazi Holocaust are only some among the infamous epochs in the litany of disaster.
 * p. 205.

 * If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
 * p. 205.

 * It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
 * p. 205.

Life's Solution (2003)

 * Life’s Solution: Inevitable humans in a Lonely Universe (2003) ISBN 0521827043

 * Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.
 * p. XV.

 * I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.
 * p. 314.

 * Second, and far more serious, are particular examples of a sophistry and sleight of hand in the misuse of metaphor, and more importantly a distortion of metaphysics in support of an evolutionary programme.
 * p. 314.

 * Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.
 * p. 315.

 * Third, as has often been noted, the pronouncements of the ultra-Darwinists can shake with a religious fervour. Their texts ring with high-minded rhetoric and dire warnings—not least of the unmitigated evils of religion—all to reveal the path of simplicity and straight thinking.
 * p. 315.

 * Notwithstanding the quasi-religious enthusiasms of ultra-Darwinists, their own understanding of theology is a combination of ignorance and derision, philosophically limp, drawing on clichés, and happily fuelled by the idiocies of the so-called scientific creationists.
 * p. 316.

 * It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might—strange thought—actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.
 * p. 316.

Miscellaneous

 * When serious scientists with huge beards aren't looking, I jocularly refer to these fossils as my alien goldfish. Picture the scene: the giant spaceship is parked on a wide beach, and kicking pebbles Commodore Grafnik is in a filthy mood. Yet another planet with hundreds of millions of years to go before intelligence evolves, not even at the zorkquaan stage, for Threga's sake! And as for his pet vlantans!! Purchased at huge expense, all they do is feed voraciously and then fall asleep. Still fuming, Grafnik carries the bowl down to the lagoon edge and (contrary to every regulation in the AIPC [Access to Inhabited Planets Code]) tips the vlantans out. They dart away and several months later enter the fossil record of a planet where they have no right to be.
 * Astronomy and Geophysics: Vol. 46, No. 4: "Aliens like us?"

 * Convergence is, in my opinion, not only deeply fascinating but, curiously, it is as often overlooked. More importantly, it hints at the existence of a deeper structure to biology. It helps us to delineate a metaphorical map across which evolution must navigate. In this sense the Darwinian mechanisms and the organic substrate we call life are really a search engine to discover particular solutions, including intelligence and—risky thought—perhaps deeper realities?
 * Astronomy and Geophysics: Vol. 46, No. 4: "Aliens like us?"

The Boyle lecture (2005)

 * And the other world-picture?, one based not just on science but wedded to a scientistic programme. Well, you know it as well as I do. Here all is ultimately meaningless.

 * A world-picture that encompasses science but also the deep wisdom of theology may help us to explain how it is we can think, how we discover the extraordinary, but so too it may warn us of present dangers and future catastrophes . ..

 * It is the knowledge and experience of the Incarnation, the wisdom and warnings given by Jesus in the Gospels, and not least the Resurrection that in the final analysis are all that matters.

 * It was G.K. Chesterton who trenchantly reminded us that, if one was going to preach, then it was more sensible to expend one's energies on addressing the converted rather than the unconverted. It was the former, after all, that were—and even more so are—in constant danger of missing the point and sliding away from the Faith into some vague sort of syncretistic, gnostic, gobbledegook. Chesterton, as ever, was right and should you think this is just another of his tiresome paradoxes may I urge you to re-read him: his prescience concerning our present situation and, worse, where we are heading is astounding.

 * ... not only that, but it can instruct us as to what may be the limits of desirable knowledge and risks of unbridled curiosity. This world-picture could also show that far from being a series of mindless accidents, history has directions and conceivably end-points.

 * The relative moral merits of any of us are in the final analysis only relevant to exponents of the theistic world picture; to those of scientistic inclination they might be socially useful but in the grand order of things can have no meaning in a soulless world.

Quotes about Conway Morris

 * Life’s Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.
 * Nature: Vol. 425, p. 767.

 * I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.
 * Stephen Jay Gould
 * Natural History: Vol. 107, No. 10: "Showdown on the Burgess Shale".

 * The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.
 * Richard Fortey
 * London Review of Books: Vol. 20, No.19: "Shock Lobsters".

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Syriana

Syriana is a 2005 thriller film about the geopolitical implications of the oil business.
 * Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan.

Everything is connected.

Bob Barnes

 * If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything, then first your son will disappear, his body will never be found. Then your wife. Her body will never be found either. This is guaranteed. Then, whatever is the most dangerous thing you do in your life, it might be flying in a small plane, it might be walking to the bank, you will be killed. Do you understand what I'm saying? I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we're clear and there won't be any mistakes.
 * I want you to take him from his hotel, drug him, put him in the front of a car, and run a truck into it at 50 mph.

Bryan Woodman

 * Beirut, it's great! It's like the Paris of the Middle East.
 * [to Prince Nasir Al-Subaai] But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest GNP in the world, now you're tied with Albania. So, good job. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, followed closely by dates for which you lose five cents a pound. You know what the business world thinks of you? They think a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's exactly where you'll be in another hundred years- so on behalf of my firm, yes, I accept your money.
 * Great. How much for my other kid?
 * [to Prince Nasir Al-Subaai] What are they thinking *hah*? What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out, and 90% of what's left is in the Middle East. Look at the progression: Versailles, Suez, 1973, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2. This is a fight to the death. So what are THEY thinking? Great! They're thinking keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys, keep spending $50,000 a night on your hotel room, but don't invest in your infrastructure... don't build a real economy. So that when you finally wake up, they will have sucked you dry, and you will have squandered the greatest natural resource in history.

Danny Dalton

 * [to lawyer Bennett Holiday] Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir! Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.

Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

 * [to his father, the emir, about his brother, Prince Meshal Al-Subaai] He's barely qualified to run a brothel, much less a country!
 * [to his political followers] When a country has 5 percent of the world's population but spends 50 percent of the world's military spending, that country's persuasive power is in decline.

Others

 * Dean Whiting: [to Prince Meshal Al-Subaai] Are you a king? Can you tell me what you want?
 * Jimmy Pope: Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty.
 * Max Woodman: I want pig bacon!

 * Mussawi: Rumors of Bob, but never Bob.

Dialogue

 * Prince Nasir Al-Subaai: What are they thinking, my brother and these American lawyers?
 * Bryan Woodman: What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out... and ninety percent of what's left is in the Middle East. This is a fight to the death.

 * Dean Whiting: In this town, you're innocent until you're investigated.
 * Bob Barnes: Innocent until investigated? That's nice. It's got a nice ring to it. Bet you've worn some miles on old sayings like that. Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's spoken.

 * Julie Woodman: Arabs are very family-oriented. As a people. Is that racist?
 * Bryan Woodman: Sure! A little.

 * Bryan Woodman: Do you understand what that means, it's like someone put a giant ATM on our front lawn.
 * Julie Woodman: Here's a question. How do you think it looks to profit off the death of your six year old?
 * Bryan Woodman: (pause) Fuck you.

 * Mussawi: Bob, what do you know about the torture methods used by the Chinese on the Falun Gong? Huh? Method number one. What's your guess? [pause] Water dungeon. Did you guess water dungeon? Number two method? Number two, twisting arm and putting face in feces. Not interested in two. Number three. Number three is called 'pulling nails from fingers'. What do you think Bob? Number three sound good to you? The purpose is to get the monks or whatever to recant their beliefs. What if I had to get you to recant? That would be pretty difficult right? Because if you have no beliefs to recant then what? Then you're fucked is what. You're going to give me the names of every person who's taken money from you. [rips off one of Bob's nails] Oh that is disgusting.
 * Bob Barnes: Come on Jimmy, you're not one of those Koran thumpers!
 * Mussawi: My name is Mussawi. [rips off another nail, then starts punching Bob] You fucking fuck, fucking fuck, stupid fuck, what the fuck, this is a war! Fuck you're a PO fucking W! Give me the fucking names! I'm cutting his fucking head off. I'm going to cut your head off, Bob!

Cast

 * George Clooney — Bob Barnes
 * Matt Damon — Bryan Woodman
 * Amanda Peet - Julie Woodman
 * Christopher Plummer — Dean Whiting
 * Amr Waked - Mohammed Sheik Agiza
 * Jeffrey Wright — Bennett Holiday
 * Chris Cooper — Jimmy Pope
 * Alexander Siddig — Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
 * Tim Blake Nelson — Danny Dalton
 * Mark Strong - Mussawi

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Jurassic Park (novel)

Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton

 * "At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen."
 * Ian Malcolm - First Iteration Sectional

 * "With subsequent drawings of the fractal curve, sudden changes may appear."
 * Ian Malcolm - Second Iteration Sectional

 * "Details emerge more clearly as the fractal curve is re-drawn."
 * Ian Malcolm - Third Iteration Sectional

 * "Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear."
 * Ian Malcolm - Fourth Iteration Sectional

 * "Flaws in the system will now become more severe."
 * Ian Malcolm - Fifth Iteration Sectional

 * "System Recovery may prove impossible."
 * Ian Malcolm - Sixth Iteration Sectional

 * "Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
 * Ian Malcolm - Seventh Iteration Sectional

 * "I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports."
 * Ian Malcolm - Second Iteration "Malcolm"

 * "There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen."
 * Ian Malcolm - Second Iteration "Malcolm"

 * "The reason I ask," Malcolm said, "is that I'm told large predators such as lions and tigers are not born man-eaters. Isn't that true? These animals must learn somewhere along the way that human beings are easy to kill.  Only afterward do they become man-killers."
 * Third Iteration "The Tour"

 * But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash.  Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness.  We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence.  Yet it is.
 * Third Iteration "Control"

 * "Broadly speaking, the ability of the park is to control the spread of life forms. Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way." Malcolm shook his head. "I don't mean to be philosophical, but there it is."
 * Third Iteration "Stegosaur" P. 178

 * "Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."
 * Ian Malcolm - Seventh Iteration "Destroying the World"

 * Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.
 * p. 284

 * "You're going to engineer a bunch of prehistoric animals and set them on an island? Fine. A lovely dream. Charming. But it won't go as planned. It is inherently unpredictable, just as the weather is."
 * Third Iteration - Stegosaur P. 178

[Harding watches over Malcolm, delirious, weak, morphine-drugged and dying.]

 * Malcolm: [Weakly] Everything looks different ... on the other side.

 * Harding: On the other side?

 * Malcolm: When ... shifts.

 * Harding: Shifts?

 * Malcolm: Paradigm.

 * Harding: Paradigm shifts?

 * Malcolm: No, not ... paradigm ... beyond.

 * Harding: Beyond paradigm?

 * Malcolm: Don't care about ... what ... anymore ...

 * Harding: What don't you care about?

 * Malcolm: Anything. Because ... everything looks different ... on the other side. [And he appears to die]

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is a series of books, films, comics, videos, and video games centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. It began in 1990 when Universal Studios bought the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton before it was even published.

Novels

 * Jurassic Park (1990)
 * The Lost World (1995)

Films

 * Jurassic Park (1993)
 * The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
 * Jurassic Park III (2001)
 * Jurassic World (2015)
 * Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
 * Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

TV series

 * Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar (2019)
 * Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020-22)

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Tom Holt

Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born September 13, 1961) is an author of parodic mythopoeic fiction. He is the son of novelist Hazel Holt. Steve Nallon collaborated with Holt to write I, Margaret, an unauthorized biography of Margaret Thatcher published in 1989. He also writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker.

Expecting Someone Taller (1987)

 * It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.
 * In fact, as they will be delighted to tell you, Taunton is no longer a one-horse town these days,they have a bicycle as well.

Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)

 * I'm an archaeologist,' said Hildy. 'I dig up the past.' The King raised an eyebrow. 'You mean you refresh old quarrels and keep alive old grievances? Surely not.
 * No, no,' said Hildy, 'I dig up ancient things buried in the earth. Things that belonged to people who lived hundreds of years ago. As she said this, she began to feel uncomfortable. She had forgotten about the brooch. 'Do you really?' said the King. 'We used to call that grave-robbing.
 * The King rose slowly to his feet and beckoned to the wizard, who had been sitting outside the circle of the firelight, apparently, trying to find a spell that would make a beer-can magically refill itself.

Flying Dutch (1991)

 * I spy,' said the first mate, 'with my little eye, something beginning with W.
 * Nobody took any notice. Even Jan Christian Duysberg had guessed that one back in the 1740s, and he had been thirty-four years old before he realised he was left-handed.
 * c.2
 * Be my guest,' Vanderdecker said. You can watch a master liar at work, if you don't mind being an accomplice.
 * 'Doesn't worry me,' Jane replied, I'm an accountant.
 * c. 8
 * At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Ye Gods! (1992)

 * In the beginning was the Word. Nobody knows what it actually was, although it would be nice to think that it was 'Sorry.
 * c. 2
 * The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
 * Jason squared his shoulders, drew the Sword of - I couldn't give a toss what it's supposed to be called, he said to himself, I shall call it Freckles - and took one step forward.

Here Comes the Sun (1993)

 * 'How many spectral warriors does it take to change a light-bulb? One, and a stepladder. At a pinch, of course, he could stand on a chair.'

Grailblazers (1994)

 * The knight raises both eyebrows, like someone by Burne-Jones who's just trodden on something sharp. 'I am Prince Boamund, eldest son of King -' 'Boamund?' 'That's right,' says the knight, 'Boamund, eldest son of -' 'How do you spell that?' Boamund looks worried. Where he comes from you can take advanced falconry, or you can take spelling; not both. Guess which one he opted for. - c. 1
 * Boamund scratches his head. Imagine a knight by Alma-Tadema who's somehow managed to fall off the picture and is wondering how to get back in without breaking the glass.
 * c. 1
 * That's it?' Boamund said. 'Basically, yes,' the hermit replied. 'I've left out Helmut von Moltke and the Peace of Nikolsburg, and maybe I skated over the Benelux customs union a bit, but I think you've got the essentials there. Anything you're not sure about, you can look up in the book.' - c. 1
 * Between the town of Giles, to the north of the Tomkinson Range, and Forrest in the Nullarbor Plain, lies the Great Victorian Desert. It is hot, arid, desolate and merciless; and whatever the Creator had in mind when He made it that way, it most certainly wasn't human beings. It's a really awful place to be if you've got toothache.
 * c. 3

Faust Among Equals (1994)

 * Ronnie Bosch sat in his studio, stared long and hard at his drawing board, and groaned.
 * It was, they told him, all part of a concept which was definitely going to be The Future as far as Hell Holdings was concerned. For reasons he couldn't quite grasp, but which he couldn't help but feel mildly flattering, they were going to call it EuroBosch.
 * c. 2

Djinn Rummy (1995)

 * 'Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.'
 * '...and we have already seen how insurance is like a pyramid - (Huge, incomprehensible, hideously expensive, completely unnecessary and specifically designed only to be of benefit to you once you're dead?)'

My Hero (1996)

 * 'He didn't smile - he was from Yorkshire, after all - but in some inner chamber of his heart he was satisfied.'
 * 'Tact comes as naturally to full-bore handguns as, say, ice-skating to African elephants, but there comes a time when an exceptional individual is prepared to stand up and break the mould.'
 * 'Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.'

Paint Your Dragon (1996)

 * Besides, [Saint] George pointed out, dragons burn towns and demand princesses as ransom. The dragons, referring to the Siege of Jerusalem, the Sack of Constantinople and a thousand years of dynastic marriages, said, Look who's talking.
 * c. 4
 * [...] the dragon got three cartsful of angry letters from the Pope (which he dismissed as a load of bulls) [...]
 * ( c. 4
 * Here and there a doorway or low arch concealed the occasional mugger, rapist or lawyer.
 * c. 7
 * Vote!' [Saint] George rolled his eyes. 'This is an assassination, not a debating society.' - c. 7
 * Like, there's these new fundamentalist religious fanatics, some name like Meek Militant Action. Their aim's to inherit the Earth, provided nobody objects.' - c. 12
 * Good guys is just a fancy way of saying Us. Bad guys is only ever Them.' -
 * c. 12
 * Talking to yourself is a sign of madness. Talking to yourself, dead, is class.'
 * c. 12
 * Jeez, for a superior intelligence, you must be just plain dumb,' he said.
 * c. 19

Only Human (1999)

 * Here we go, surfing the Net again, something done by humans and very gullible fish.

Snow White and The Seven Samurai (1999)
He'd turned into a handsome prince. 'Turn me back!' he yelled hysterically, staring at the mirror. 'That's awful! I don't want to be one of those things!' 'Tough,' replied Little Red Riding Hood with a grin, and as she advanced towards him, she produced from the pocket of her dainty scarlet cape a pair of handcuffs and a nasty-looking hypodermic. 'That's the way it goes, buster. And you'll have the satisfaction of knowing it's all in the aid of medical research.'

Nothing But Blue Skies (2001)

 * If you hadn't noticed, I'm the pub loony around here. This is my turf, and if there's any gibbering to be done, I'm the one who does it. If you want to gibber, find another bar.

Falling Sideways (2002)

 * You want the short version. Okay, then: shit happens. Does that answer all your question? Thought not. Now, if you shut your face and let me tell this my way, we might actually get somewhere. Thank you.
 * the spokesclone, p. 319

 * You poor suckers [mammals]: you've got all this horrible stuff to get through somehow so obviously there's got to be an incentive, or at least some kind of fix for you to get addicted to. That's love: possibly the sneakiest trick ever played on any variety of life form by a notoriously conniving Universe. You do all these dismal, soul-destroying things because you get attached to each other.
 * the spokesclone, p. 322

The Portable Door (2003)

 * Treasure maps; Czarist bonds; a case of stuffed dodos; Scarlett O'Hara's birth certificate; two flattened and deformed silver bullet heads in an old matchbox; Baedeker's guide to Atlantis (seventeenth edition, 1902); the autograph score of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, with Das Ende written neatly at the foot of the last page; three boxes of moon rocks; a dumpy, heavy statuette of a bird covered in dull black paint, which reminded him of something but he couldn't remember what; a Norwich Union life policy in the name of Vlad Dracul; a cigar box full of oddly shaped teeth, with CAUTION: DO NOT DROP painted on the lid in hysterical capitals; five or six doll's-house-sized books with titles like Lilliput On $2 A Day; a small slab of green crystal that glowed when he opened the envelope; a thick bundle of love letters bound in blue ribbon, all signed Margaret Roberts; a left-luggage token from North Central railway terminus, Ruritania; Bartholomew's Road Atlas of Oz (one page, with a yellow line smack down the middle); a brown paper bag of solid gold jelly babies; several contracts for the sale and purchase of souls; a fat brown envelope inscribed To Be Opened On My Death: E. A. Presley, unopened; Oxford and Cambridge Board O-level papers in Elvish language and literature, 1969-85; a very old drum in a worm-eaten sea-chest marked F. Drake, Plymouth, in with a load of minute-books and annual accounts of the Winchester Round Table; half a dozen incredibly ugly portraits of major Hollywood film stars; Unicorn-Calling, For Pleasure & Profit by J. R. Hartley; a huge collection of betting slips, on races to be held in the year 2019; all water, as far as Paul was concerned, off a duck's {back]"

You Don't Have To Be Evil To Work Here, But It Helps (2006)

 * I didn't find out she was actually the Queen of the Fey until some time later. Bit of a shock, but I think we could've made a go of it, if she hadn't been so dead set on wiping out the human race.

 * Thank you for calling the Powers of Darkness. Your call may be recorded for security and training purposes. For general moral and ethical enquiries, press 1 on your keypad. To make a reservation, press 2. For details of our special discount packages for lawyers, politicians, and Microsoft executives, press 3.

The Devil You Know (2016)

 * Written under the name K. J. Parker
 * All page numbers from the trade paperback first edition published by Tor ISBN 978-0-7653-8789-9
 * Nominated for the 2017 Locus Award

 * “I write stuff,” he said. I don’t necessarily believe it myself.”
 * p. 28

 * Nothing helps a lie succeed more than a generous helping of the truth.
 * p. 29

 * Query: if I’d had less brains and more money, would I have been happier? Answer: if a circle had four straight sides, wouldn’t it be a square?
 * p. 29

 * That’s bureaucracy for you. Never follow a straight line when a spiral will get you there eventually.
 * p. 36

 * “The doctrine of sides,” he went on, “states that there is no right or wrong, only different perspectives. From where I stand, such and such a thing looks like a tree; from where you stand, it looks like a rock. For tree and rock, read sin and virtue.”
 * pp. 39-40

 * There is no word for artist in the Mysian language; instead there’s a long-winded periphrasis that translates as man-who-deceives-others-into-giving-food-by-spoiling-bits-of-wood.
 * p. 55

 * It’s a basic tenet of military science. No stronghold can be taken if a mule laden with gold bars can leave it unobserved.
 * p. 58

 * I was deeply troubled. Not in itself unusual; but I had a distinct feeling that I’d missed something. That’s not a normal or comfortable feeling for me. I don’t miss things. Like I said, I live and have my being in the detail. Also, if I had that feeling, it was because I was meant to. It was as though he’d put up a big painted sign saying UP TO SOMETHING and was sitting directly beneath it.
 * p. 59

 * The more he asserted it, the less they believed him, which is human nature for you.
 * p. 61

 * Our lot may be all-seeing and all-knowing, but that’s a long way removed from all-understanding.
 * p. 70

 * “But the unforeseen consequences—” “What consequences?” “I don’t know, I can’t foresee them.”
 * pp. 71-72

 * “You twist everything,” he said. “Guilty,” I said. “Though I prefer to think of it as a form of art.”
 * p. 85

 * He had the answer to the secret of the universe in his hands, but he was more interested in saving his own neck and making money. Extraordinary man.
 * p. 95

 * I started from the premise, which sort of came with the brief, that priests and religion are full of shit; from there it followed naturally that the morality they espouse must be false or faulty. Having established the side I was on, I looked around for arguments to support it. I found they came quite easily to me. I started with various inconsistencies in religious doctrine, and found that they derived from compromises made by long-ago ecumenical councils to reconcile violent political disputes within the clerical hierarchy. I argued, if the priests make up bits of doctrine to suit themselves, maybe they made up the whole thing. From there it was no big deal to demonstrate that they’d done exactly that. The Book as we know it proved to be not a monolithic and unambiguous record of the word of the Invincible Sun, but rather a negotiated construct, patched together from four or five sources, revised and edited and redacted by generations of scholars, some of whom belonged to such and such a sect or interest group, others of whom supported diametrically opposite positions or interests. It was no bother at all to show that the Book was a political object with no real credibility. And once you’ve knocked out the Book, you’ve dealt religion a blow from which it can never recover.
 * pp. 98-99

 * The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if isn’t actually there; sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you’ll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you’ve found as what you were looking for.
 * p. 100

 * The great thing about not necessarily believing in your beliefs is that it’s so much easier to revise them.
 * p. 102

 * On the way out, I reflected on the way in which so many mortals pray. It’s strictly a rational proposition. If He exists, they argue, it’s best to be on the right side of Him; if He doesn’t, well, no harm done, it hasn’t cost anything. I’m not like that, unfortunately. Either I believe or I don’t. And I believed—thought I believed—in the doctrines of Saloninus concerning the invalidity of conventional morality. I believed that there are no absolutes of good and evil and that all that matters, in the final analysis, is which side you’re on. It was, I felt, a doctrine which accorded exactly with my own observations and experience. The problems start when your side isn’t on your side anymore.
 * p. 103

 * You’re not supposed to be always on the doorstep clamouring for instructions. Use your discretion and your initiative, they say, that’s why you’re the grade you are. And then, when it all goes wrong, it’s all your fault. What on Earth possessed you to do all that without checking back first? How could you have been so stupid?
 * p. 112

 * Evolution takes no prisoners. A loathsome philosophy, but hard to argue against. Repulsive, but entirely valid. Otherwise, the Earth would still be populated by giant pea-brained lizards.
 * pp. 114-115

 * Take anything to its logical conclusion and you’re likely to end up with the grotesque and the absurd.
 * p. 115

 * Why get so worked up about a nonexistent threat? Answer: someone somewhere is covering something up.
 * p. 123

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Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States, becoming the first Hispanic to serve in the position. He formerly served under U.S. President George W. Bush as White House Counsel. He announced his resignation as Attorney General on 27 August 2007.

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 * From the day the President announced my nomination as the Attorney General of the United States three months ago, I have thought often about how to best prepare to meet the awesome responsibilities of this office. Outside these walls, the cries of those powerless souls who are injured, disenfranchised or otherwise aggrieved may indeed be faint. But those same pleas for help echo powerfully within the Department of Justice. Every day, like a steady drumbeat we are asked to provide an answer to a problem, to secure a remedy, to be a champion — and every day this Department responds as it has done so time and time again throughout the history of our beloved America.
 * Remarks at his installation as Attorney General (February 14, 2005).

 * America is my home — I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great — not because of our military might or our economic strength — but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."
 * Remarks at his installation as Attorney General.

 * President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.
 * 2006-02-06 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony.

 * There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
 * 2007-01-17 Testimony during questioning by Senator Arlen Specter.

 * I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
 * in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2008.

 * (Asked by John King about the political climate that existed in Washington at the time, and criticism of the Department of Justice under his management) Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.
 * July 23, 2010.

Speech regarding Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism (November 20, 2006)
Online text of speech, given at the U.S. Air Force Academy

 * To achieve victory at the cost of eroding civil liberties would not really be a victory. We cannot change the core identity of our Nation and claim success. And our identity has never been in doubt — we are a free people, dedicated to liberty for the popular and the unpopular, committed to the ideal that the People govern themselves, and determined to have a government that cannot extinguish or suppress the rights that make us Americans.

 * Free speech. Freedom of association. These values are repulsive to the radical Islamic terrorist. They fear them and suppress them whenever and wherever they can. Yet through those very means, we as a society are protective of that terrorist’s rights. This is ironic, but good. Because, as you well know, America has a unique responsibility to set the global standard for liberty and fair conduct. The world looks to us to set high standards for freedom, and we take that leadership role very seriously. Our commitment to leading by example – on issues from human rights to free speech – is strong. Indeed, other countries strike a different balance between security and freedom, both in the activities they punish as crimes, and in the procedures with which they do so. In some instances, our allies have adopted or utilized some counterterrorism tools that we have not adopted in the United States because doing so would abridge the civil liberties protected by our constitution.

 * It is a myth that the Patriot Act empowers the government to be overly intrusive, giving it power that could someday be used to pry into innocent Americans’ personal lives. The fact is that the Patriot Act was born of a well-established criminal justice and national security structure as well as vibrant bi-partisan debate in Congress, both upon its establishment and its renewal. The Act was written to help the law enforcement and intelligence communities to protect Americans and fight the war on terror. It, in fact, answered the call of career, rank and file law enforcement to update our laws to match law-enforcement tools with modern technology. The Patriot Act simply ensures that law enforcement and national security personnel have the tools they need to keep us safe from terrorism — and in many cases those tools were already available to law enforcement in other contexts — while also ensuring that those tools are consistent with the Constitution and include appropriate safeguards against government over-reaching.

 * The Patriot Act does not authorize the government to go into your house or read your mail without probable cause and a warrant. It does allow law enforcement and intelligence personnel to better share information and better coordinate with each other. It does give national security investigators tools like those criminal investigators have used for years. And it does update the law to keep up with evolving technology and increasingly sophisticated terrorists. Many of the tools in the Patriot Act are identical to those that have been used for years to investigate drug dealers and white-collar crime. They've been used effectively, and they've been used without an adverse impact on civil liberties. So criticism of the Patriot Act has always begged the question: if we can use these tools successfully and prudently in the area of dealing with, say, drug traffickers, why shouldn’t they be used in the war against terrorists who want to import chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons to inflict mass civilian casualties?

 * Torture is not tolerated by this country on the battlefield or off. Anyone who tortures or abuses a detainee tarnishes the service of every honorable student and soldier in this room today. The President has said this, and I will say it again: those who commit torture in the name of the United States government will be prosecuted. In any discussion of Guantanamo, detainees and military commissions, I think that one final fact helps put things in perspective — and that is the fact that members of al Qaeda are not merely common criminals. Some critics around the world have argued that they are “just” criminals, that their crimes somehow do not amount to war crimes. But here are the facts: al Qaeda seeks to employ weapons of mass slaughter as a means of achieving political goals against both the civilian and military capacity of the United States, Europe, and our allies throughout the world. Its members continue to fight our Armed Forces on battlefields around the world, and they will continue to do so until we stop them. Al Qaeda has committed acts on a scale that transcends mere crime, as recognized by NATO immediately after the attacks of September 11th. Their crimes are therefore nothing less than war crimes. Given the magnitude of the atrocities al Qaeda has committed, there can be no comparison between the crimes of its members and that of common civilian criminals.

Speech to U.S. Attorneys’ National Security Conference (January 11, 2007)
Online text of speech

 * Today’s gathering is particularly important because I must speak bluntly and urgently, about the single most important part of our jobs: preventing terrorist attacks on American soil. Our success or failure in this endeavor will define in the eyes of some President Bush and his legacy. Right or wrong, this is a task that will also define my government career and, indeed, to some degree my professional life. It will be the legacy of every one of us who is serving in this Administration. Terrorists chose to attack us. But it is we who must now choose — today, tomorrow, the day after that and the day after that, until the end of our government service — to do everything in our powers to stop them from striking again.

 * Because I worked at the White House on 9/11, I carry the memories and the pain of that day in a wound that is particularly deep — one that is very personal. Some of you were not in government on 9/11, and some are from parts of the country where people do not think much today about terrorism. I appreciate that some may not share the same sense of sadness and anger. But I must ask you to take on the perspective that President Bush and I had on September 11th and the days following — the brutal unprovoked murders of mothers and fathers — sons and daughters…the phone calls of desperate good byes…symbols of American wealth and power in flames and ruins. Five years have passed. I concede it may be difficult for some to stay committed to this mission — maintaining the necessary intensity and commitment — without that perspective.

 * Dig deeply for the energy and the creativity that we need to continue this successful record of prevention — which is the goal of all goals when it comes to terrorism because we simply cannot and will not wait for the next terrorist act to occur before taking action. Continue to arm yourselves with the American ideals of hope and freedom — because they are so much stronger than terrorist ideals of fear and intolerance. Remind yourselves and your colleagues back in your offices — that for the sake of our children, we will prevail because we must.

Speech to American Enterprise Institute (January 17, 2007)
Online text of speech

 * A strong and independent Judiciary is necessary for our republic to remain strong, for our democracy to survive, and for the rule of law to flourish. To understand what I mean by independence, let me first clarify what independence is not. Judicial independence does not mean complete freedom from scrutiny or criticism. Judges' decisions may be criticized, and the nature of the job virtually guarantees it. After all, in every court case there will be a loser. Judges must resist the temptation to craft their opinions to avoid criticism or to seek approval, whether from the press, the public, the academy, or Congress.

 * Of course, the power and authority of courts — whether to improperly take policymaking power for themselves or to engage in legitimate decision making — is dependent upon the weight of their judgment. That is, it depends on their credibility with the public and the other branches of government. Judicial decisions are obeyed, in large part, because the judgment of the federal Judiciary is respected. But it is perhaps underappreciated that when courts apply an activist philosophy that stretches the law to suit policy preferences, they actually reduce the credibility and authority of the Judiciary. In so doing, they undermine the rule of law that strengthens our democracy. In contrast, a judge who humbly understands the role of the courts in our tripartite system of government decides cases based on neutral principles. He generally defers to the judgment of the political branches, and respects precedent – the collective wisdom of those who have gone before. In so doing, that judge strengthens respect for the Judiciary, upholds the rule of law, and permits the people — through their elected representatives — to make choices about the issues of the day.

 * I also am concerned about judges who imagine they see everything in society addressed in the Constitution. It is worth remembering that the Constitution is a very brief document. It defines the structure and authority of the federal government and protects a limited list of sacred rights. It does not, and was never intended to, address every legal issue that might arise in our nation’s history. Democracy is well-served when the Court says, in effect, "the Constitution simply does not comment on this issue." In contrast, constitutionalizing an issue takes it out of the democratic process. If the people disagree with a court decision based on the law, they have a remedy in the political process. Through their elected representatives, they can change the law. But once a court declares a law to be unconstitutional or prohibits some agency action on constitutional grounds, it is limiting the options of the people. Such a step should be taken only where it is clear that the Constitution has truly spoken on the issue and forbidden what the political branches have determined to do.

 * We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.
 * About selecting federal judicial candidates.

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Lyrics
Is it really necessary to put lyrics on a quotes page?

 * It's not "really necessary" to do put much of anything on a quotes page, but lines from a songwriter's lyrics are often among the most quoted and quotable of the statements that they make. Extensive passages of some songs have been permitted here, but the full lyrics of modern songs are not, as potential violations of the fair use provisions of copyright law, such as permit most quotations from modern sources. ~ Rumour 17:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the quotes to a separate U2 page, because a) I think that's where people are most likely to look for U2 lyrics, and b) this page is rather large. Hopefully no one has a problem with this. Whichwould 21:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Accuracy check needed; U2 article
I've just done some major cleanup of this article, including removing some copyright-violating transcriptions of entire or near-entire works, but one thing I didn't address is the accuracy of the implicit claim that Bono wrote all of these lyrics. All Music Guide claims that Christy Moore, not Bono, wrote "North and South of the River", so I know there's at least one problem to resolve.

It might be better to transfer the U2 songs to a U2 article. Wikiquote's typical source practice for song lyrics expects them to be listed in an article by the person or group performing them (which is the way they tend to be most commonly known; here, it makes it look like these were solo efforts by Bono. (Lyricists certainly should be credited for lyrics, but I don't think we've hashed out a good way to do this yet.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * The quote about "hatred towards gays" is as far as I can tell completely inauthentic and seems to be currently getting "planted" various places without any info to back it up. I removed it recently for that reason, but it has now been restored as "unsourced." Without any supporting data, this looks too much like an attempt to invent an endorsement from Bono for one side of a hot potato issue. If someone has a source, please cite it.

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 * Bono hobnobbed with numerous people who have flown on the Jeffery Epstein’s “Lolita Express”. He is good friends with the likes of Bill Gates, Jeffery Sachs, to name and a fixture of the globalist World Economic Forum.
 * Lamprey Milt, Achtung Achtung!, The American Sun, 2 December 2021

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Bruce Schneier on being misquoted and finding this entry.

Bruce Schneier on open wireless
"If I enabled wireless security on my network and someone hacked it, I would have a far harder time proving my innocence." source

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Billy Corgan

William Patrick Corgan (born March 17, 1967), most commonly known as Billy Corgan''', is an American vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter best known for his work in the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.

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 * I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.
 * Lewman, Mark. Dirt Magazine. 1992.

 * It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
 * regarding "Soma"; van den Berg, Erik. "Smashing Pumpkins." Oor. 10 June 1993.

 * ...Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy -- it has a weight to it.
 * "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success." LIVE! Magazine. August 1996.

 * There's a really a cold, cold side to my personality that I'm not really comfortable with. I'm constantly dealing with that side of my personality versus my overly sentimental side… There's just a side that's a real motherfucker side; it's nothing I want to admit or even look at. It's where a lot of my strength lies. It's been the part of me that's been able to steel my spine against situations that probably would have broken a lot of people, or caused them to jump off the loop.
 * "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success." LIVE! Magazine. August 1996.

 * About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
 * "Out on a Limb." Details Magazine. October 1996.

 * The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
 *  "Out on a Limb." Details Magazine. October 1996.

 * I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
 * Corgan, William. Interview. Chicago Sports Channel. April 1997.

 * People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
 * Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy. (Month?), 1997.

 * We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day--we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.
 * Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy. (Month?), 1997.

 * My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.'
 * Rolling Stone. 23 January 1997.

 * Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
 * Icon Magazine. April 1998.

 * One of the other reasons that we quit having journalists come here is because they would kind of hang out for several days, and they'd see me around at the clubs, and the story would get written and it would be me and my 'disciples' or my 'acolytes.' The word acolyte - that's like fuck you.  These are my friends, but because they're not Billy Corgan or Helena Christensen, they become my 'posse' or my 'followers,' and it's like, fuck you for insulting my friends like that.  That's so fucking incredible to me.
 * Icon Magazine. April 1998.

 * This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
 * regarding Adore, Guitar World. July 1998.

 * I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!
 * Guitar World. July 1998.

 * ...What people miss about (Marilyn) Manson is that he is just reflecting, he's an artist, people want to focus that energy on him, but it's not really him, it's really about you. So for every guy sitting there with a beer and a .45 in his belt, Manson is just speaking to that end of society. He's speaking as an artist. He's not speaking as himself, and that's where people get really lost with Manson.
 * Corgan, William. Interview. 1998 Pre-Grammy Show. MTV. 25 February 1998.

 * Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
 * USA Today. Date???

 * For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
 * USA Today. Date???

 * Life is everything and nothing all at once.
 * From the Pisces Iscariot liner notes.

Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (Interview disk and fully illustrated book). Carlton Books Ltd. 1996

 * The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets, because I think what talent I do have is connected to that person, it's not a manipulative process, it's intuitive. You can learn about chords and guitars, but there's a piece of you that makes it individual, and it's been a slow process for me to become whatever it is that I'm supposed to be.

 * I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

 * I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is very much feminine... For me the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable. It's very easy to cock-rock and posture. I can't help but wear my heart on my sleeve—I'm like nervous endings. That's just the way that I am and, to me, that's very female because it's not a male thing to do. A male thing to do would be to fuckin' posture.

 * The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

 * When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

 * My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

 * To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

 * The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

 * We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

 * People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

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Broken link
Just thought I should let y'all know that this here linkdoesn't go anywhere: that particular page in the GoComics archive appears not to be present although I don't know why. Maybe someone got the date wrong? I don't know where to find the right one, so just adding this here for someone who does. (It's the "why aren't you a pony" one). After a little more Googling it appears the date is printed in several places, but always in exactly the same format which makes me wonder if everyone got it from the same place...it's also possible that someone requested that particular strip be taken down for some reason or other. In particular, the next strip is 2 September which picks up halfway through an ongoing sequence, so there appears to be a chunk of the archive missing.

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If anyone can add to the quotes, particularly the minor characters (Violet, Patty, Franklin, Pigpen - and the exact details of Freida's preening over her "naturally curly hair") it would be great. - Aerobird 23:13, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Citation Formatting
What does everyone think is the best way to handle citations on this page? Where we had a definite date I've been giving book titles & page numbers too so that people know exactly where to look for them, but whoever updated last took away the book titles/pages. Now we've just got dates with no context at all, and also dates that are formatted European style, which is probably going to confuse some of us poor ignorant North Americans. I really think that even if we don't include book references (though I think we should whenever we have a date to go with them, to make the citation as complete as possible), we should at least keep the date in a clear longhand format (e.g. October 2, 1950) so that there's no confusion over whether 10-2-50 means October 2nd or February 10th.--68.54.160.41 03:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well I used and prefer the "European style" date format (despite being a North American), but a format of "2 October 1950" (i.e.) should work. However adding book titles, IMHO, clutters the page too much (and also should become more and more unneccessary as The Complete Peanuts series comes out). - Aerobird 01:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The Wikiquote "style guide" says, "When sourcing, be as accurate as possible (emphasis mine): specify the source, the place within the source (if reasonable) and if the source is online, link to it. ISBNs, chapter numbers, editions and page numbers all ease the work of future accuracy checking." And if you look at other articles, that's what people have generally done. See Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein for examples, or for a comics example see Bill Watterson, which doesn't have dates but does have books and page numbers for the quotes from Calvin & Hobbes. What others have done that we have not been doing, though, is setting the citation off on a separate line with an indented bullet. That may help make it less "cluttered" if they're clearly set off like that.--68.54.160.41 22:48, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The trouble is, many of the strips have been reprinted in multiple books. Which do you reference? And IMHO the "bullet indent" simply adds to the clutter (it's certainly visually unattractve). IMHO (again), the "source" here is simply "The Comic Strip Known As Peanuts", and the date is the only reference needed. (This is, of course, a no-brainer for strips already covered in The Complete Peanuts which is now up to 1960 IIRC?). Perhaps, until all of the strips have been reprinted in TCPs, a "references" section at the bottom could list the books used and the relevant date-ranges. - Aerobird 03:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that's a fair compromise. Truth be told, I don't much like the bulleted citations either (I think the parenthetical is cleaner), but I do think we should be citing our work as extensively as we can; having the books referenced at the bottom is a good enough way to do it.--68.54.160.41 19:35, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

'mixing up his proverbs: "He to whom the early bird runs best learns wisdom and knowledge!"' is actually repeated in the article!

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Georges Rouault

Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) French Catholic painter associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Rouault is regarded by many as the most important religious artist of the twentieth century.

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 * I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is more difficult silently to obey our own interior promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperaments and our gifts — if we have any. I do not say "neither God, nor Master," only in the end to substitute myself for the God I have excommunicated..."
 * "Climat pictural" La Renaissance. XX, no. 10-12 (1937)
 * Variant translation: Anybody can rebel. But to obey in silence, an inner calling to search lifelong without impatience for the means of expression adequate to us... that is much more difficult.

When the roaring storm breaks, So many people take refuge Under the soft pillow Of specious arguments.
 * Like the ostrich, head under wing
 * Le Cirque de l'étoile filante. (1938)

 * A painter who loves his art must be careful not to see too much of critics and men of letters. These gentlemen, however unconsciously, distort everything, thinking that they are explaining it — the artist's thought, sensibility, and intensions. They take away his strength, just as Delilah took away Samson's. They have no gift for nuances, and they have an instinctive aversion for everything that is beyond their reach and baffles them.
 * Soliloques. (1944)

 * Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical..."
 * Soliloques. (1944)

 * Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
 * Quoted in Lionello Venturi, Rouault. New York. 19. (1947)

 * Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh.
 * As quoted in Toulouse Lautrec (1960) by by Henri Perruchot, translated by Humphrey Hare; The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, p. 51 (PDF format)

Stella Vespertina (1947)

 * The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

 * The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

 * The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy …

 * The painter who loves his art is ruler in his own kingdom, even if he be in Lilliput and a Lilliputian himself. He transforms a kitchen maid in to a fairy, and a great lady into a brothel matron, if he wants to and sees them so, for he is a seer. His vision includes everything that is alive in the past.

 * The old masters are perfect and admirable examples, on condition that we remember that the spirit gives life and the letter kills, and that even the best pastiche is inferior to the harmonious stammering or incoherence of a child trying to speak.

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The above is from Archibald Cregeen's Manx-English dictionary of 1835. "Fys" is pronounced "fiss". I'm a 33-year-old political researcher from London.

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Is this really Piaget?
I saw the following attributed to Piaget: "Intelligence is not what you know, but what you do when you don't know. "  Can someone verify it and give a source? it means dat if u dont know something u have all knowledge.
 * “Intelligence is not what we know, but what we do when we don’t know.”
 * Archives Jean Piaget --Davileci (talk) 06:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * During the earliest stages, the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

 * During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

 * It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

 * Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

 * Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

 * Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

 * Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

 * The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

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Since it's kind of late here (I'm sorry!), and I don't know how the workings here, here is a quote I've found on http://www.papert.org/articles/Papertonpiaget.html

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Time magazine’s special issue on "The Century’s Greatest Minds," page 105, March 29, 1999.

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Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is a game in the Grand Theft Auto series and developed by Rockstar Games.

Salvatore Leone

 * Just because I think everybody hates me, doesn't mean they don't.

Richard Goblin

 * I would rather eat the contents of my toilet bowl, after a fat man with hemorrhoids who ate curry, than eat the shit most Americans serve.

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 * Chatterbox caller: That guy was talking about eating people. If you knew what was in our food, you would never eat again!
 * Lazlow: Like what?
 * Chatterbox caller: Like honey. Do you know what honey is? It's bee shit! Why would you spread feces on toast?

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 * There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
 * The Devils, part 2, chapter 2, in the 1962 translation by Andrew R. MacAndrew (titled The Possessed).

 * I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
 * Notes from Underground, part 2, chapter 9, in the 1993 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

 * Man needs the unfathomable and the infinite just as much as he does the small planet which he inhabits.
 * The Devils, part 3, chapter 7. Constance Garnett: "The Infinite and the Eternal are as essential for man as the little planet on which he dwells." The version with "unfathomable" seems to originate with Theodosius Dobzhansky (1962), Mankind Evolving, p. 319; presumably it is Dobzhansky's own translation.

 * The second half of a man’s life is usually made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
 * The Devils, part 2, chapter 2, in the 1916 Constance Garnett translation. Often quoted without the "usually".

 * A fool who has admitted he is a fool is no longer a fool.
 * The Insulted and Injured, part 3, chapter 2.Constance Garnett: "The fool who recognises that he is a fool is no longer a fool." The version with "admitted" seems to originate with an essay by Mikhail Bahktin in Robin Feuer Miller, ed. (1986), Critical Essays on Dostoevsky, p. 258.

Mistakenly attributed to Dostoevsky

 * There are only two books written: Someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
 * Quote Investigator traces this to an exercise in John Gardner (1984), The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, p. 103.

 * The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
 * Attributed to The House of the Dead in a speech by Senator Charles E. Goodell, 9th June 1969, but no sentence resembling this appears in the novel, so possibly this was a paraphrase or summary of the novel, that was misreported as a quotation.

 * In an age of equality, the masses desire security above all else, and they will gladly accept despotism in order to escape the burdens that accompany the benefits of freedom.
 * This is a summary by Thomas M. Magstadt (in Understanding Politics: Ideas, Institutions, and Issues) of a long passage in The Brothers Karamazov, book 5, chapter 5. Constance Garnett: "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us."

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 * At first, art imitates life. Then life imitates art. Then life takes its very existence from art.
 * In some form, it seems often quoted and attribute to Dostoevsky, but I can't find anything more about it online. Perhaps it is a misattribution? (the version above comes from an episode of "Father Brown") LookingGlass (talk) 16:01, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

 * Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.
 * According to a meme. ~ JasonCarswell (talk) 10:28, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

"Furnace of Doubt" Quote
I am moving this quote from "The Brothers Karamazov" into "Unsourced" since is is not in The Brothers Karamazov (you can search for it here ). It appears to come from Dostoevsky talking about The Brothers Karamazov (the Devil uses the phrase "crucible of doubt" in Ivan's dream). It is cited all over the internet as from The Brothers Karamazov but the only two places I've seen what appear to be good references to the quote are here: and. Both of those have the same quote but with some differences in translation (ie. "crucible"). I can't seem to find any more information on the "notebook" so I leave it as unsourced, hoping someone else knows more about it.KyleT

"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings"
This is a misquote resulting from the following chain of translations (see Literature Stack Exchange):

 * A line in The Idiot, part 4, chapter 5: Нет, а за то, что недостоин своего страдания.
 * Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (1886), Le roman russe, p. 259: Je crains de n’être pas digne de ma souffrance.
 * Georg Brandes (1900), Menschen und Werke, p. 343: Ich fürchte nur, meiner Qual nicht würdig zu sein.
 * Viktor Frankl (1946), Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager: Ich fürchte nur eines: meiner Qual nicht würdig zu sein.
 * Viktor Frankl trans. Ilse Lasch (1959), Man's Search for Meaning, p. 66: There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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Richard Jeni

Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 – March 10, 2007), known by his stage name Richard Jeni, was an American actor and comedian.

Platypus Man

 * An adult male human that attempts to mate frequently but spends most of its time alone.
 * Referring to "Platypus Man"

 * If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

 * They should just call it The Bad News. The bloodiest, most disgusting things that happened today packed into a half an hour, right before you go to bed. You thought you were scared before...

Showtime Triple Crowns of Comedy

 * The title of this movie should be "Here's a Fish. You're Stupid."
 * On Jaws 4: The Revenge

A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me

 * There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

 * Porno is just like any other drug; after a while you start building up a tolerance to it.

 * Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!

 * A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.
 * On the right wing

 * A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.
 * On the left wing

 * Making this crowd happy is the second easiest job you could ever have. First easiest...whoever gets to put Michael Jackson in a witness chair and create "reasonable doubt." How hard can that be? I don't even have a law degree and I think I could get Michael Jackson, y'know? I would just go, "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... there he is! That's all I have. Y'all get a good look at my boy? See if you think he's capable of anything out of the ordinary. There he is." But it's a tough thing to prosecute Michael Jackson, y'know? Because everyone's entitled to a jury of their peers! You could run the vacuum up and down the gene pool 24/7 without suckin' up this much of whatever that has become. He has no peers. He's peerless. So why am I pickin' on poor little mutated Michael Jackson? Because Michael Jackson is a cautionary tale for the rest of us, folks. Michael Jackson is what happens when you keep fixin' it until it's broke!

 * This is the guy I'll be thinking about when I put a gun to My head.
 * On an elderly man in the front row who had fallen asleep.

Comedy Central Presents (2002)

 * I don't get that -- people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if you're going to war over religion, now you're just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.
 * CC Presents: Richard Jeni, aired 5 May 2002.

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Build up

Quotes regarding Build up:

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 * Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought! And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.#
 * William Wordsworth, Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth

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 * Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
 * Knute Rockne

 * Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
 * Calvin Coolidge

 * Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
 * Norman Vincent Peale

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Richard Lovelace (poet)

Richard Lovelace (9 December 1618 – 1657) was an English poet and nobleman, born in Woolwich, Kent, today part of southeast London. He was one of the Cavalier poets, and a noted royalist.

To Althea: From Prison (1642)

 * When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
 * 1642, quoted in English Literature And Its Background, p. 407
 * Stone walls doe not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Mindes innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedome in my love, And in my soule am free, Angels alone that sore above Enjoy such liberty.
 * 1642, quoted in English Literature And Its Background, p. 407

 * Love, then unstinted, Love did sip, And cherries plucked fresh from the lip; On cheeks and roses free he fed; Lasses like autumn plums did drop, And lads indifferently did crop A flower and a maidenhead.
 * Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris (l. 13–18).

The Grasshopper (1647)

 * Poor verdant fool, and now green ice! thy joys, Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in ‘gainst winter rain, and poise Their floods with an o’erflowing glass.
 * The Grasshopper (l. 17-20).

Lucasta (1649)
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To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

 * TELL me not Sweet I am unkind, That from the Nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To War and Armes I fly. True; a new Mistresse now I chase The first Foe in the Field And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. *Yet this Inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore I could not love thee Dear so much, Loved I not honor more.
 * Quoted in English Literature And Its Background, p. 407
 * If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You and I were alone; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave.
 * To Lucasta: Going Beyond the Seas, st. 1.

 * Though Seas and Land betwixt us both, Our Faith and Troth, Like separated soules, All time and space controules: Above the highest sphere wee meet Unseene, unknowne, and greet as Angels greet.
 * To Lucasta: Going Beyond the Seas, st. 3.

 * Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly.
 * To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 1.

 * Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
 * To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.

 * Here we’ll strip and cool our fire In cream below, in milk-baths higher; And when all wells are drawn dry, I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.
 * To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair (l. 21–24).

 * Then, if when I have lov’d my round, Thou prov’st the pleasant she, With spoils of meaner beauties crown’d I laden will return to thee, Ev’n sated with variety.
 * The Scrutiny, st. 4.

 * Oh, could you view the melody Of every grace And music of her face, You'd drop a tear; Seeing more harmony In her bright eye Than now you hear.
 * Orpheus to Beasts. Compare: "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix; "The mind, the music breathing from her face", Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), canto i, stanza 6.

 * When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The gods that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
 * To Althea: From Prison, st. 1.

 * When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames.
 * To Althea: From Prison, st. 2. Compare: "A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii, Scene 1.

 * Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
 * To Althea: From Prison, st. 2.

 * Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
 * To Althea: From Prison, st. 4.

 * Then Love, I beg, when next thou takest thy bow, Thy angry shafts, and dost heart-chasing go, Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe.
 * La Bella Bona Roba (l. 13–15).

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