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Young Avengers

Young Avengers is a superhero comic book published by Marvel Comics, as part of Marvel Next. Written by Allan Heinberg.

Issue 1

 * J. Jonah Jameson: Who the #*&% are the Young Avengers?

 * [The Young Avengers have just crashed through the window of a church.]
 * Iron Lad: Hulkling, what did I say about coming in through the rose window?
 * Hulkling: Patriot told me to.
 * Patriot: I did not! I suggested it.

 * [Kate Bishop just saved the Young Avengers]
 * Kate Bishop: Don't bother to thank me or anything.
 * Patriot: For what? I don't need a rescue! Especially not from a --
 * Kate Bishop: You will if you finish that sentence.

 * [The Young Avengers leave the church surrounded by press.]
 * Kat Farrel: Young Avengers? Kat Farrel, Daily Bugle.
 * Hulkling: "Young Avengers"?
 * Kat Farrel: What? You don't like the name?
 * Asgardian: It's a little on the nose, don't you think?

 * Hulkling: According to the Bugle, we're the Young Avengers.
 * Asgardian: Okay, before we call her, we have to come up with a better name.

Issue 2

 * Nurse: Who the #*$% are the Young Avengers?

 * Kate Bishop: Are you a... Young Avenger too?
 * Cassie Lang: Nope. But I'm gonna be.

 * Iron Lad: I'm supposed to become Kang. In the future.
 * Jessica Jones: Is this a time travel thing? 'Cause I hate time travel things.
 * Iron Man: If it's Kang, it's a time travel thing.
 * Jessica Jones: See, that's why I hate Kang. That and the conquering. His mask is weird too.
 * Captain America: It's more of a helmet, actually.

 * [After Hulkling was stabbed with a knife.]
 * Asgardian: You okay?
 * Hulkling: Yeah. Almost healed...
 * Patriot: The Incredible Hulkling.
 * Hulkling: That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
 * Patriot: Tell me about it. I just got shot in the chest.

 * Asgardian: So who are these guys?
 * Patriot: Dealers. I caught 'em selling MGH in the park.
 * Hulkling: At the risk of sounding dangerously unhip, what's MGH?

 * Hulkling: So what do we do with the dealers?
 * Patriot: Leave 'em here, I guess.
 * Asgardian: With a note saying, "From your friendly neighborhood Young Avengers"? Because that'll stand up in court.
 * Patriot: You got a better idea?
 * Asgardian: Gee, let me check my super hero manual. Oh, wait, it's in my other tights.

 * Patriot: How old are you?
 * Cassie Lang: Fifteen.
 * Patriot: No, seriously, how old are you?
 * Cassie Lang: Seriously, I'm fifteen. In June.

Issue 3

 * Kate Bishop: Patriot? You're going to be hearing this a lot, but let me be the first to say it (pointing at Captain America) "Why can't you be more like him?"

 * [Growing man has split into several smaller robots]
 * Asgardian: Okay, this completely violates Growing Man continuity.
 * Iron Lad: What do we do?
 * Hulkling: We're fanboys, aren't we? So, we collect them all.

Issue 4

 * Patriot: Hulkling, break it down.
 * Hulkling: How?
 * Patriot: I though you had super strength.
 * Hulkling: I thought you had super strength.

 * Kang: If I don't return young Kang to his proper place in the timestream...
 * Captain America: Then he'll never become Kang the Conqueror.
 * Iron Man: And you will cease to exist.
 * Jessica Jones: Yeah, I'm not seeing the downside.

 * [After Kate reveals her makeshift costume made of Avengers members' weapons.]
 * Patriot: Who are you supposed to be? Hawkingbird?

 * Iron Lad: I came to the Avengers for help, Captain. I won't make that mistake again.

 * Iron Man: Hulkling, get off!
 * Hulkling: I'm afraid I can't do that, sir.
 * Iron Man: In that case... I hope you can fly.

Issue 5

 * Patriot: Kate's right.
 * Kate Bishop: I'm sorry, did Patriot just admit that I'm--
 * Cassie: Yep

 * [Iron Lad takes off his armor and stands there in nothing but a tank top and apparently boxer shorts]:
 * Iron Lad: Without my armor, I'm powerless...
 * Cassie: We'll protect you.
 * Iron Lad: ...And a little underdressed.
 * Asgardian: Want my cape?
 * Iron Lad: Thanks, but it's the not-wearing-pants that concerns me.

 * [Kate fires an arrow at Kang.]
 * Hulkling: Quick question? Have you ever used one of those before?
 * Kate Bishop: Every summer at Interlochen National Music Camp. I also play the cello.

 * Vision: I am... VISION.

Issue 6

 * [Before stepping through the portal to return to his own era.]
 * Iron Lad: I just want you guys to know... I loved being a Young Avenger.

 * Kate Bishop: We can't just stop because Captain America thinks we're too young.
 * Cassie Lang: What about our parents?
 * Hulkling: My mom would kill me.
 * Asgardian: My mom would institutionalize me. My dad would kill me.

 * Kate Bishop: What can Cap and Iron Man really do to us?
 * Cassie Lang: They can't take away our powers.
 * Kate Bishop: Those of us that have powers.
 * Cassie Lang: And they can't arrest us, because we haven't broken any laws.
 * Kate Bishop: Yet.

 * Kate Bishop: So Billy, about your new codename.
 * Asgardian: Why do I need a new codename?
 * Kate Bishop: Because you're not an asgardian, you're a warlock. Plus, you need a name that won't become a national joke when the press finds out about you and Teddy.
 * Asgardian: I definitely need a new codename.

 * Kate Bishop: Stature and I were thinking--
 * Hulkling: Wait, who?
 * Cassie Lang: That's my new codename... Stature.
 * Asgardian: And mine is?
 * Kate Bishop: Wiccan.
 * Asgardian: Wiccan... I don't hate it.

 * Asgardian: So we're just going to come right out and tell our parents we're super heroes?
 * Hulkling: Might as well. We're gonna have to come out to them at some point.
 * Kate Bishop: The thing is, even if we do tell our parents...
 * Cassie Lang: ... It doesn't mean Cap and Iron Man are going to approve.
 * Patriot: They're not going to approve... but since when has that ever stopped us?

Issue 7

 * News Broadcast: Police confirmed that the teen heroes apprehended the masked criminal known as the Shocker, before recovering over two million dollars in cash.
 * Spider-Man: Making the Shocker look like an idiot. Which -- granted -- isn't tough, but it is always entertaining.

 * Rebecca Kaplan: Billy Kaplan, if you don't get in here right now and eat breakfast with your family, you run the risk of developing antisocial behaviors, scoring lower on standardized tests, and not getting into the college of your choice.
 * Jeff Kaplan: Honey, don't tell him that.
 * Rebecca Kaplan: It's true. There've been studies.

 * Hulkling: Well, your parents are in a good mood.
 * Wiccan: Annoying, isn't it?
 * Hulkling: Which means you haven't told them yet.
 * Wiccan: And ruin a perfectly annoying good mood?

 * Wiccan: Mom? Dad? There's something you should know. And it might be hard to deal with at first, but--
 * Rebecca Kaplan: It's okay, Honey. We know. We've always known.
 * Jeff Kaplan: I didn't. Your mother had to tell me.
 * Rebecca Kaplan: And what you have to know is, we love you, we're proud of you... (grabs Billy and Teddy in a hug) And we're just so happy you boys found each other.
 * Jeff Kaplan: Welcome to the family, Ted. Now how do you want those eggs?

 * Hulkling: You come out to your folks yet?
 * Stature: Almost. You?
 * Hulkling: Nope. But Billy did.
 * Wiccan: Yeah... just not in the way I intended to.
 * Kate Bishop: Uh-oh.
 * Wiccan: The good news is my parents think Teddy's the perfect son-in-law.
 * Stature: That's amazing.
 * Wiccan: That bad news is that Captain America is gonna show up and tell them he's also a shape shifter.
 * Hulkling: And that their son is a practicing witch.
 * Wiccan: Warlock.
 * Hulkling: Whatever.

 * [Regarding Patriot.]
 * Wiccan: You think he told his grandma the truth and she--?
 * Kate Bishop: What? Locked him in his room? Eli's a super-soldier. Even if his grandma wanted to stop him. There's nothing she can do.
 * Wiccan: She can make him feel guilty.
 * Kate Bishop: Except that.
 * Wiccan: And grandma guilt is the worst.

 * [Regarding Hulkling and Wiccan]
 * Stature: They're lucky. No matter what happens, they have each other. And you have Eli.
 * Kate Bishop: What?!?
 * Stature: I was just saying...
 * Kate Bishop: I DO NOT have Eli. All we do is fight.
 * Stature: Gee, why do you think THAT is?

Issue 8

 * Patriot: Can you take me back in time so I can maybe... fix all this?
 * Vision: I can take you to the meeting room so you can fix all this.

 * Patriot: When Iron Lad told me he was in trouble -- that he needed a super-soldier -- I lied and told him he'd found one. And then I did what I had to do to become one.

Issue 9

 * Hulkling: Excuse me sir, but that purse...? (stretches arm to grab purse snatcher) ...it doesn't really go with your shoes.

 * Kate Bishop: Can I ask a terrible question?
 * Hulkling: "How do I know my mom's not a skrull?"
 * Kate Bishop: That's the one.
 * Hulkling: Because she's my mom. She sells real estate, she does pilates, she's not a skrull.
 * Kate Bishop: What about your dad?
 * Hulkling: He died before I was born, cancer.
 * Kate Bishop: I'm sorry.
 * Hulkling: But my mom said he was a good guy.

Issue 10

 * Jarvis: The Super-Skrull...?
 * Wiccan: He kidnapped Teddy, murdered Teddy's mom, and destroyed my parents' apartment. My mom is freaking.

 * Vision: What if I could locate more?
 * Patriot: More Avengers?
 * Vision: No... more Young Avengers.

 * Vision: Thomas Shepherd. Sixteen years old. Springfield, New Jersey.
 * Patriot: What's his speciality?
 * Vision: According to the Avengers fail-safe program, he's a speedster.
 * Wiccan: What's he gonna do? Outrun the Super-Skrull? Who's next on the list?
 * Vision: Thomas can also use his speed to accelerate and destabilize atomic matter.
 * Wiccan: What does that even mean?
 * Kate Bishop: It means he can blow stuff up.
 * Wiccan: Let's go get him.

 * Stature: Eli says you have Iron Lad's... brain patterns... his memories... but you're not Iron Lad. Are you?
 * Vision: He and I have much in common, but... no.

 * Patriot: Vision, what were you thinking?
 * Kate Bishop: Eli, relax. It's just juvie.
 * Patriot: "Just juvie"?
 * Vision: You wanted someone powerful.
 * Patriot: I wanted a Young Avenger. Not a Young Master of Evil.

 * Wiccan: Why is Thomas here?
 * Vision: He accidentally vaporized his school.
 * Patriot: Accidentally?
 * Vision: According to his attorneys.

 * [Wiccan and Thomas share a strong resemblance.]
 * Stature: Woah... you guys could be... twins.
 * Thomas Shepherd: Wait... I know you. The Young Avengers. You're the shape-shifter, right?
 * Stature: No, his boyfriend's the shape-shifter. He's the warlock.
 * Wiccan: Witch, actually. "Warlock" means "Oath-Breaker." It's not a nice word.

 * Thomas Shepherd: They've kept me locked up for months... testing me... probing me... trying to turn me into a living weapon. Well, congratulations officers... it worked.

 * Patriot: We didn't come here to free a super-powered teenage terrorist. We're here to rescue a superhero. So, what's it going to be?

 * Hulkling: Billy?
 * Thomas Shepherd: Nope. Do we really look that much alike?

 * [Regarding Hulkling.]
 * Kree Warrior: It's alright, child. The Super-Skrull will not harm you -- or anyone -- ever again. The Kree army protects its own... and you are one of us.

Issue 11

 * Kate: [About unconscious Kree] What do we do with them?
 * Wiccan: I could try a teleportation spell, but with so many people...
 * Thomas Shepherd: Can I make a suggestion?
 * Kate: You're not vaporizing them, Tommy
 * Thomas Shepherd: Damn.

 * Wiccan: Why do I bother. He never listens.
 * Hulkling: I heard that.
 * Wiccan: Oh, sure. NOW he listens.

 * Hulkling: HOLD YOUR FIRE!
 * Wiccan: They're not listening. A trait which I now realise is obviously genetic on both sides.

 * Hulkling: I am the son of the Kree Captain Mar-Vell and the Skrull princess Anelle...
 * Wiccan: ...Which unfortunately rhymes...
 * Hulkling: ...and I urge you to cease fire, so we can settle this without bloodshed!
 * (Fight breaks up, everyone looks in Hulkling's direction.)
 * Hulkling: Wow...it worked. I can't believe it. I guess it just goes to show you what can happen if you reach out and--
 * Wiccan: Um...Ted?
 * (Iron Man, Spider-Woman and the Sentry fly past Hulkling; they are the center of attention.)
 * Iron Man: It's alright kids, we'll take it from here.

 * (Captain America cradles Patriot's critically-injured body, while three-sided fight breaks out around them)
 * Captain America: Don't worry, everything's going to be all right.

Issue 12

 * Thomas Shepherd: I thought avengers weren't supposed to Kill.
 * Wolverine: Relax junior. They're SKRULLS. They grow back. Eventually
 * Thomas Shepherd: in that case.. (see SKRULL explosioned)
 * Wolverine: You're sick, kid. I like it.

 * Speed: Just so I know: are we going to stand here and bicker all day or are we going to go fight the bad guys?
 * Stature: Usually we manage to do both at the same time. We're good like that.

Young Avengers Special

 * Stature: You're not my father.
 * Blake: No, your father was a convicted felon--
 * Stature: Shut up! My father paid his debt to society and became a hero!

 * Hulkling: If you think about it... there's no such thing as normal. Normal doesn't exist. Every single person on the planet is entirely different from every other person on the planet. Which means you can be average. You can be typical. But kids don't end up killing themselves -- or taking guns to school -- because they want to be typical. They want to be normal. More then anything. And until very recently... so did I.

 * Scarlet Witch: You're bleeding.
 * Wiccan: Sorry. I thought it stopped.
 * Scarlet Witch: What happened?
 * Wiccan: I kinda got punched in the face. Repeatedly.
 * Scarlet Witch: Why?
 * Wiccan: Because I'm... different.
 * Scarlet Witch: A mutant?
 * Wiccan: I wish.
 * Scarlet Witch: No, you don't, believe me. Being a mutant only makes people want to punch you more.

 * Jessica Jones: So, what do I tell Kat Farrel?
 * Wiccan: She's going to do the story anyway, right? We might as well give her the real story.
 * Jessica Jones: I have to warn you: she'll probably ask if the rumors about you guys are true.
 * Hulkling: Should we tell her?
 * Jessica Jones: That's up to you.
 * Hulkling: Did you talk to the press when you were a super hero Ms. Jones?
 * Jessica Jones: Nope. But you guys are more together at sixteen than I ever was so...
 * Wiccan: What do you think?
 * Hulkling: Why not? Besides... why should Northstar have all the fun?

 * Kate Bishop: Life is short... and it doesn't matter how good your grades are -- or how many hours you put in at the soup kitchen... you're not safe. Bad things happen. Things you can't control. Things that have nothing to do with you. And they will destroy you if you let them. Or you can try to learn from them... so that next time, you'll be prepared. So that -- even if you never feel safe again -- you can do your best to make sure that what happned to you never happens to anyone else. And if you're very lucky... you won't have to do it alone.

 * Patriot: I didn't take steroids because I wanted to be a hero, Ms. Jones. I took them because I was ashamed.

 * Patriot: I reached for the pills in my pocket... but it was over before I could take one. The black Captain America is no myth. He's my grandfather. And I wanted to be just like him. I wanted to carry on his legacy...

 * Luke Cage: So, when our baby girl wants to be a Young Avenger, you'll be okay with that?
 * Jessica Jones: At this point, I want to be a Young Avenger.

Issue 1

 * Hulkling: What'd he say?
 * Wiccan: "No." And I don't think he's changing his mind... He had that look on his face.
 * Speed: (pointing at Patriot)Oh, like that look?

 * Wiccan: IwillfindThePrideskidsIwillfindThePrideskids-
 * Speed: Hey, do you really have to do that every time you cast a spell?
 * Hulkling: Do you really have to complain every time he casts a spell?

 * Molly Hayes: Why do you Avengers keep trying to hurt us?!
 * Wiccan: What- no! We're the Young Avengers!
 * Molly Hayes: You don't look very "young" to me!
 * Speed: Well, yeah. What are you, like, eight?
 * Molly Hayes: I'm twelve, jerk! And I'm a mutant with super-strength... so that's like being thirteen at least!

Issue 2

 * Xavin: What are you guys, blind?! I'm a super-skrull in training from tarnax VII! I don't even look like the great Kl'Rt!
 * Hulkling: Yeah, well I don't like to be un-P.C... but you all look alike to us!

 * Wiccan: Wait. You're dating a Skrull?!
 * Karolina Dean: K-Kind of... You got a problem with that?!
 * Wiccan: N-No! Hnn... I kind of am too...

 * Speed: Look, here's the deal. We've got a super-soldier, a giant girl, a robot from the 30th century, a Skrull/Kree super-soldier, Billy (who, yeah, is kind of lame, but can cast spells), an Olympic class archer and martial artist, and... me. And really, me's all you need. So tell me, whattayou got that makes you think you shouldn't just give up?

 * Hawkeye: We're the Young Avengers...
 * Nico Minoru: Wait, like deputies?

 * Nico Minoru: (to Vision) Well, if it isn't the not-so-friendly ghost!

 * Patriot & Hawkeye are arguing with Chase Stein & Nico Minoru, when everyone is distracted by a large explosion.
 * Speed: Uh... She made me.
 * Molly Hayes: Guys! Tommy can make rocks blow up!

 * Xavin: I apologize for my outburst earlier. We skrulls are not known for our patience.
 * Wiccan: Shhh. You don't have to tell me. Teddy's half Skrull himself... All of him's impatient, though.

Issue 3

 * Chase: The time to be runaways is over... it's time to do some avenging.

Issue 4

 * (The group breaks into a prison, using a creature summoned by Nico's magic)
 * Nico: 'Prodigium Effodio' - What does that mean again?
 * Vision: Excavating monster. It's latin.
 * Nico: Damn. How much time did you spend in the library?
 * Vision: I am a library.

 The Warden is disecting Hulkling in stocks, realizing that his shifting biomass means he will continue to heal and protect himself, while Wiccan, also in stocks, is forced to watch.
 * Warden: It just means I get to cut and cut and cut for days on end and he won't die.
 * Wiccan: IwanthimtogotosleepIwanthimtogotosleep
 * Warden: And you get to watch. Isn't that grand?
 * Wiccan: Iwanthimtogotosleep...
 * Warden: Come now... surely you have something to say to me.
 * Wiccan: (in tears) I want you to die.

 * Hulkling: The Young Avengers don't kill...
 * Xavin: Your own team-mate wanted this insect dead just minutes ago!
 * Wiccan: I thought he was going to kill Teddy... That wasn't me talking. God, I hope that wasn't me...

 * Nico: We'll leave the Avenging to you guys.
 * Patriot: And what about you? You're just going to walk away?
 * Nico: Take my advice. When the world goes crazy you run...You Runaway.

Speed and Wiccan

 * Speed: [Referring to The Hulkling and Wiccan] You Guys are getting pretty hot and heavy, huh? Watch it, bro; remember what they say about mixed marriages...They never work.

 * Wiccan ''My name is Billy Kaplan and it's official: I have the coolest girlfriend ever

 * Hulkling: Hey--
 * Wiccan: Yeah?
 * Hulkling: --I like you. A lot. I'm glad you weren't gone long.
 * Wiccan: My name is Billy Kaplan...and right now, right at this moment in time, in history, there's no past, there's no future, there's just this. And it's magic.

Issue 1

 * Hulkling: So America are you doing anything tonight”
 * America Chavez: i don’t know I might fix my bike why?”

Issue 2

 * Loki: And in passing, as a pagan deity, I must say that is a terrible name. Are you even a Wiccan?
 * Wiccan: What should I do?
 * Loki: Well, I've got a list of suggestions for alternate pseudonyms you could pursue--
 * Wiccan: Not about that!

 * Loki: Well, I'll go and perform my personal favorite summoning ritual of all time. (goes to counter to order)Bacon engulfed in a floury roll! With the ketchup condiment! (waits for bacon sandwich)

 * Loki: Glad you agree. Bacon really is magic.

Issue 3

 * [fighting Laufey]
 * Wicca: You know... this looked way more fun in Fellowship.

 * [America flies arrives in the nick of time]
 * America Chavez: Everyone good?
 * Hulkling: I don't know who you are or why you're flying around like a guardian angel, but please keep doing that.

 * Wiccan: Kate keeps on texting about Skrulls and cute boys.
 * Hulkling: Two of my favorite topics.
 * Wiccan: I'm saying we're in deep trouble. Also, hugs.

 * Loki: It seems we're all thin this together. How to unravel the mess--
 * America Chavez: You can't trust him.
 * Wiccan: Er... Yes. We know.
 * Hulkling: (does air quotes)  'Loki.'

 * Loki: Loan me your power.

(is received with unanimous glares)
 * Loki: Just for ten minutes. I use it to cast the spell and... well, the problem goes away.

(glaring intensifies)
 * Loki: What?!
 * Wiccan: I wouldn't lend you an eraser let along power over reality.

Issue 4

 * Marvel Boy: Come with me if you want to be awesome.

 * [Avenger's mansion]
 * Thor: The kingdom of slumber escapes you, Captain?
 * Captain America: You could say that. Though, only you would actually put it like that, Thor.

(ship flying outside window)
 * Captain America:Anything up?

(battle ensues in background)
 * Thor: Nay.

 * Hulkling: Guys, we need a plan.
 * America Chavez: Punch everyone.
 * Hawkeye: One that goes further than punching everyone. Surely one of you guys must have had a plan.
 * Loki: I've given my best solution already--
 * Hawkeye: What was that--
 * Wiccan: We're not doing it. NO way am I giving him my powers, not even for ten minutes.
 * Loki: Okay, here's plan B! (points at Wiccan) Kill Master Kaplan!

 * Loki: Wait. Laufey isn't.... Ohmy. Wiccan! Good news! We don't have to kill you! I've got a new plan. Loan me your power for ten minutes!
 * Wiccan: That was your first plan, Loki.
 * Loki: I know! But this time I'm not trying to trick you!
 * Wiccan: You were trying to trick m--
 * Loki: No, I wasn't. I'm joking.

 * Loki: There's no time to explain. Loan me the power.

 * Wiccan: Lokihasmypowersfortenminutes.
 * Loki: Oh, wow, thanks! I thought you were going to be terribly stubborn and I'd have to die here along with anyone else. And you have no idea how disagreeable that'd be.
 * Wiccan: Now what do we--
 * Loki: (teleports away with Wiccan's powers)
 * Wiccan: . . . . My fault. I don't know what to say.
 * America Chavez: Oh yeah? I do. But you guys are rated PG-13.

Issue 5

 * Kid Loki(spirit): Loki's the bad guy! Sauron multiplied by that anti-Dumbledore guy cubed! His alignment is totally chaotic evil! He sends misgynist abuse for the lulz! His clothes are green but his heart is black. Everyone knows that... Except that Loki died. And then he was resurrected as a little boy, and that darling, innocent, winsome and very attractive boy strove to change. He did. And then, just when he proved Loki didn't have to be a bad guy.... A phantom copy of his dead self annihilated his soul and took over his body. Honestly, it was really tragic. Everyone was crying. ...Actually, no one was because no one knows and no one will ever know.... And Loki's got a precious little life to misuse. And now he thinks he can steal a chunk of that Wiccan guy for good, as he thinks he can get what he wants with it.... Because that's just how Loki rolls, right?
 * Loki: Shut up. You're not real.
 * Kid Loki: Of course I'm not real. I'm a guilty conscience, Hamlet! And aren't you the tragic little prince?

 * Loki: This body does not just confound my power. It confounds my nature.
 * Kid Loki: Aww, diddums! Poor you! Well, we can't make a Hamlet without breaking a few eggs.
 * Loki: That pun makes me glad I killed you!
 * Kid Loki: No it doesn't.

 * [everyone's strength just increased]
 * Hawkeye: What's happening?
 * Loki: I'm happening.

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Le Grand Voyage

Le Grand Voyage is a 2004 French film about the relationship between a father and his son as both embark on a religious pilgrimage trip by car.
 * Written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi.

A voyage beyond corporal life (taglines)

Dialogue

 * Reda: Where is my cell phone?
 * The Father: It's in a garbage can 200 miles away.

 * Reda: Why didn't you fly to Mecca? It's a lot simpler.
 * The Father: When the waters of the ocean rise to the heavens, they lose their bitterness to become pure again...
 * Reda: What?
 * The Father: The ocean waters evaporate as they rise to the clouds. And as they evaporate they become fresh. That's why it's better to go on your pilgrimage on foot than on horseback, better on horseback than by car, better by car than by boat, better by boat than by plane.

 * Reda: Doesn't your religion practice forgiveness?

Taglines

 * A voyage beyond corporal life

Cast

 * Nicolas Cazalé - Réda
 * Mohamed Majd - The Father
 * Jacky Nercessian - Mustapha
 * Ghin Ognianova – The old woman
 * Kamel Belghazi – Khalid
 * Atik Mohamed – Le pélerin Ahmad

title: Le Grand Voyage


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Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt (October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859) was an English poet and essayist.

Quotes

 * Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.
 * "Jenny Kissed Me", in The Monthly Chronicle (November 1838)

 * Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
 * Politics and Poetics

 * The two divinest things this world has got, A lovely woman in a rural spot!
 * Poem The Story of Rimini, iii, 257

 * With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
 * The Story of Rimini

 * She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled; He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild: The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place, Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face. "By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat: "No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."
 * The Glove and the Lions

 * Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
 * Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard.
 * Confer Colley Cibber: "Stolen sweets are best."

 * The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
 * Table Talk (1851)

 * It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.
 * A Thought of the Nile
 * and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.
 * A Thought of the Nile

 * There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination.
 * As quoted in The Farmer's Wife, Vol. 36 (1933), p. 72

That I should make it greater, like a fool.
 * That there is pain and evil, is no rule
 * A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's "Choice", in The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, London: Edward Moxon, 1846, p. 147.

Abou Ben Adhem

 * A poem inspired by the Sufi muslim Ibrahim ibn Adham, also presented as "Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel", as published in The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (1846)

Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace''', And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An Angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so," Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one who loves his fellow men." The Angel wrote, and vanished. The next night '''It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!'''
 * '''Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events (1848)

 * Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.
 * Revised edition, London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1889, p. 114

Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift

 * If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

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User talk:207.46.50.70

Thanks for experimenting with Wikiquote. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles will normally be reverted quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our compendium of quotations. Thanks. jni 09:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Thomas Henry Huxley

2008 comments
The first and last quote in the Unsourced section are surely the same thing. Can we just remove the first or should they both be kept (but linked in some way)? --nawab 15:16, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Done. The issue is dealt with in more detail in the WP article, and refs given for access to the dozen or so reports which survived. These two quotes are reasonably typical. --Macdonald-Ross 07:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

"extremely stupid"
I added a second version of the "extremely stupid" quote, since one of the sources mentioned for it (at http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/Book/Recep.html) had a version not containing the "...of me..." phrase. However most of the online versions of even this text report it as not containing the latter phrase, which I am beginning to suspect is a modern interpolation. Further research on this is warranted for anyone who wishes to pursue it (I shall not, I think).17:01, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * These require citations to adequate sources before being placed into the main article.

 * A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in.
 * Herbert Spencer — quote removed from "Quotes about Huxley" section — I could locate no sources for this prior to removing it, as of 2018·05·03. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:35, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

On Bishop Wilberforce's Death
"Wilberforce's brains have at last come into contact with reality, and the result was fatal."

I have heard or read this quote on occasion, and it should be addressed here. I am not familiar enough with the guidelines to know if this is a quote, a misquote, or should classified as 'Attributed'. This is also from a secondary source, and I took the liberty of changing the tenses to make it a quote. But since the attestation is insecure, I don't see how a small relevant change matters. I can't get access to the primary source, so I don't know how to handle that, either.

Secondary source: Chemers, Michael. Staging stigma: a critical examination of the American freak show. Springer, 2016, p145. "Samuel [Wilberforce] was killed in 1873 by a fall from a horse: Huxley is said to have quipped, rather coldly, that Wilberforce's brains had at last come into contact with reality and the result had been fatal." Primary source, cited in secondary: A.R. Ashwell and Reginald Carton Wilberforce, Life of Samuel Wilberforce, with Selections from his Diary and Correspondence [1879-1882] vols. I-III).

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Allgames.com

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The result was: delete. — MosheZadka 19:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Allgames.com
Quotations from the forums of a site of non-notable people. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:47, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: delete (5 delete, no dissent) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:47, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete concur with Moshe. ~ UDScott 12:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. -- Jaxl 22:25, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even though AllGamesNetwork has a Wikipedia article, suggesting its own notability, forums comments of ordinary users, like the vast majority of blogs, aren't really notable. IMDb is a much more established website and an important reference for both WP and WQ, but we don't include quotes from its message boards, either. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:06, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ~ Achilles † 16:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Eddie Segoura

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The result was: delete. — MosheZadka 19:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Eddie Segoura
Not notable. ~ UDScott 01:02, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: delete (4 delete, one keep from originator with unclear reasoning, one keep from user determined to disrupt VfDs) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless evidence of notability is provided. This appears to be a Wikipedia user, and does not appear to be anyone notable. ~ UDScott 01:02, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete concur with UDScott. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 02:46, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The WP user doesn't appear to have realized we have the same notability requirements for quote articles that WP does for encyclopedia articles, nor that VFD tags should not be removed before vote closure. I've posted notes about these 2 points to the talk pages of the 2 anon users either are Segoura or favor his article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I gave You folks to drop the page right then and there, clearly pointing out that it's not worth keeping up. But if the page must stay with deletion tags then will not vote delete for My own pages.  And yes, the previous anonymous IP was used by Me, though it is shared. -- EddieSegoura 09:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sysops must follow policy for VFD, just like any user. Once an article has been nominated, it must remain here for at least 2 weeks unless a specific case for speedy deletion is appropriate. We have no SD case for deleting an actual quote article from an unnotable person short of a libel precedent. HOWEVER, we do have a (possibly never used) clause — SD case #7 — that implies that editors (not just sysops) may move main-namespace articles that are appropriate as user pages into the user namespace, then delete the redirect after a few days. (It still refers to "Wikipedia" instead of "Wikiquote" — another indication that we need to put some effort into updating WQ:SD.) I will ask Eddie if this would satisfy him. I'm convinced he just wasn't aware of our "no-vanity article" policy and made a common mistake. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:04, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * While I don't agree with such a rule, redirecting or moving (whichever one suits (talk) best) is okay with Me -- EddieSegoura 04:40, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. Absolutely keep it! Although it is lexically, a small quote, it packs the "power of the pill" (not meant to construed in a derogatory manner mind you) 0waldo 18:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The above vote was registered in a block of edits as part of a concerted effort to disrupt the VfD process as part of his "continual commuted confusion" campaign. (See WQ:VFD.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete ~ Achilles † 16:24, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Kim

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 09:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Kim
Not notable. ~ UDScott 13:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (2 Deletes; 1 struck vote from no signature; no other dissent). ~ Jeffq 09:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. ~ UDScott 13:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I would like to say Kim Stolz I think or Slotz is a quoty girl.
 * Struck out unsigned, undated, anonymous vote. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'd ordinarily suggest the potential for keeping based on evidence of notability, but looking at the current article, I hold little hope for such. First, this person surely isn't famous enough to go by a single incredibly common name. Second, she was apparently eliminated in one of the zillions of hardly-notable shows which are nothing more than Warholesque attempts to manufacture celebrities out of ordinary people. Very few winners remain notable beyond their "15 minutes" of fame. Third, we don't have any information on when this supposed surnameless contestant was on the program, so it's rather problematic using a source like TV.com's article to verify this information. Fourth, even if all these obstacles are overcome, the quotes listed are not only misspelled, but they're extremely common statements. We might as well quote someone for saying "Hi". If she is notable, a quote like "I'm bisexual" is more useful as a reference for a Wikipedia bio. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:25, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I belatedly thought to check WP's article on America's Next Top Model to see if I could deduce who this person is. It seems likely this "Kim" is Kim Stolz from Cycle 5. The article says nothing about when this cycle aired, but TV.com says this Kim was eliminated on the 23 November 2005 show, "The Girl Who Retaliates" (ep #58 or 5.10). (This show is so unoriginal, it even borrows its title scheme, which resembles Friends' "The One With…" titles.) Even if I've solved the identity and sourceability problems, the rest remain. I'd suggest, as an alternative to deletion, that this article be turned into a companion quote article for ANTM itself, but I still favor deletion unless and until someone actually does the work to make this happen (especially finding useful quotes, instead of random things these pseudocelebrities say). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Jeff Kim talked and that quoted her in ANTM KIM should get credit like anyone else huh!
 * Reformatted unsigned, undated, anonymous edit above. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Georgie Henley

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 09:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Georgie Henley
This is a virtually empty quote article on a child actress (Lucy in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)) created by 169.244.143.115, an anonymous user who at first seemed merely not to understand what Wikiquote is about, but now seems to be going out of their way to cause problems by creating vapid articles and making silly requests. I would have suggested moving this article to the above title and converting it to a film-quote article, but there's nothing worth keeping currently in it. Henley's only film credit is this movie, making the film article much more logical. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * VOTE CLOSED. Result: delete (3 Deletes; 1 Keep not taken seriously because it was registered to disrupt; no other dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with Jeff. ~ UDScott 22:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Aphaia 14:04, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP. It's notable, we MUST keep this because it is, of a truth: "notable" 0waldo 18:00, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The above vote was registered in a block of edits as part of a concerted effort to disrupt the VfD process as part of his "continual commuted confusion" campaign. (See WQ:VFD.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Bush Administration

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 09:33, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Bush Administration
More nonsense from 169.244.143.115. How does this article fail? Let me count the ways: Wikiquote, like all other wikis, is a project that encourages people to invest their time to generate useful content. Littering the database with stubs filled with nonsense serves no purpose, and is but one step above vandalism. I would like to encourage this anon to make useful contributions, but others seemed to have tried with no success. Experience suggests it's a losing battle in this situation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Ambiguous. There have been at least 2 Bush adminstrations (counting only the U.S. government's Executive Branch).
 * 2) Bad title capitalization. A disambiguating page should be Bush administration, like its Wikipedia counterpart.
 * 3) Bad spelling, capitalization, and formatting. These, of course, are easily fixed, but is it really too much to ask for en:Wikiquote editors to demonstrate basic English competency? (I understand if English is not one's native tongue, except for those who native tongue seems to be English-based IM-speak.)
 * 4) Obviously manufactured quotes. This is the worst problem. Wikiquote prides itself on accuracy, but this anonymous user apparently feels (based on this article and their other contributions) that's it's more important to establish a junk article than to actually find real quotes. This is the opposite of the wiki philosophy of adding content after one collects it.
 * 5) No sources. Again, not an uncommon problem, but this puts the burden of making a useful article on people who are busy with other, sourceable information.
 * VOTE CLOSED. Result: delete (4 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeffq 09:33, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless someone creates real, substantive articles for either or both U.S. Bush adminstrations (to follow Wikipedia's articles), in which case this one should be turned into a disambiguation page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Jeffq. -- Jaxl 23:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with Jeff and Jaxl. ~ UDScott 22:26, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete ~ Achilles † 16:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:208.23.140.11

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Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or nations. In an informal or social sense, diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic advantage, one set of tools being the phrasing of statements in a non-confrontational, or social manner. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by national politicians.

A

 * Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
 * Aesop, Aesop's Fables

B

 * DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 72 (originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book).

 * 'You're in America now' I said. 'Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.'
 * The character Harry Dresden, in Jim Butcher's novel:Turn Coat

C

 * It occurred to me a long time ago, Mr. Lastogne, that diplomacy has very little to do with making friends.
 * Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5, p. 47

 * Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.
 * Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5, p. 58

 * I could only read the delay as a dramatic pause. Theatrics. Or diplomacy; wise men throughout history had already noticed that sometimes there wasn’t much of a difference between the two.
 * Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5, pp. 84-85

 * His smile was the wholly unpersuasive kind that only a professional diplomat could carve. Damned if there wasn’t some pretense of compassion in his voice, some veneer of fatherly understanding that gave every word out of his mouth an extra, oily sheen.
 * Adam-Troy Castro, Emissaries from the Dead (2008), ISBN 978-0-06-144372-5, p. 263

 * Mr. Scott: Diplomats. The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.
 * Star Trek: The Original Series A Taste of Armageddon (1966), teleplay by Gene L. Coon and Robert Hamner

G

 * It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. This is why the weak are so deeply concerned with the democratic principle of the sovereign equality of states, as a means of providing some small measure of equality for that which is not equal in fact. Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.
 * Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as quoted in Unvanquished : A U.S. - U.N. Saga (1999), p. 198.

The nastiest things in the nicest way.
 * Diplomacy is to do and say
 * Isaac Goldberg, The Reflex. October (1927)

H

 * As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy. Naming China as America’s main long-term adversary, the Biden Administration’s plan was to split Russia away from China and then cripple China’s own military and economic viability. But the effect of American diplomacy has been to drive Russia and China together, joining with Iran, India and other allies. For the first time since the Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in 1955, a critical mass is able to be mutually self-sufficient to start the process of achieving independence from Dollar Diplomacy.
 * Michael Hudson, American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama, (28 July 2022)

 * The basic U.S. policy has been to threaten to destabilize countries and perhaps bomb them until they agree to adopt neoliberal policies and privatize their public domain. But taking on Russia, China and Iran is a much higher order of magnitude. NATO has disarmed itself of the ability to wage conventional warfare by handing over its supply of weaponry – admittedly largely outdated – to be devoured in Ukraine. In any case, no democracy in today’s world can impose a military draft to wage a conventional land warfare against a significant/major adversary. The protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s ended the U.S. military draft, and the only way to really conquer a country is to occupy it in land warfare. This logic also implies that Russia is no more in a position to invade Western Europe than NATO countries are to send conscripts to fight Russia. That leaves Western democracies with the ability to fight only one kind of war: atomic war – or at least, bombing at a distance, as was done in Afghanistan and the Near East, without requiring Western manpower. This is not diplomacy at all. It is merely acting the role of wrecker. But that is the only tactic that remains available to the United States and NATO Europe. It is strikingly like the dynamic of Greek tragedy, where power leads to hubris that is injurious to others and therefore ultimately anti-social – and self-destructive in the end.
 * Michael Hudson, American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama, (28 July 2022)

 * The Biden administration, expanding upon Trump’s confrontational approach, has Chomsky at a loss for words to describe the danger at hand. Only recently, Biden met with NATO leaders and instructed them to plan on two wars, China and Russia. According to Chomsky: “This is beyond insanity.” Not only that, the group is carrying out provocative acts when diplomacy is really needed.. According to Chomsky, the Doomsday Clock setting at 100 seconds to midnight is based upon: (1) global warming (2) nuclear war and (3) disinformation, or the collapse of any kind of rational discourse. As such, number three makes it impossible to deal with the first two major problems...As a result, Chomsky says: “We’re living in a world of total illusion and fantasy.” Accordingly, “Unless this is dealt with soon, it’ll be impossible to deal with the two major issues within the time span that we have available, which is not very long.”
 * A World of Total Illusion and Fantasy: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Planet, Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch (12 July 2021)

I

 * Although the expression “citizen diplomacy” was coined in the late 20th century, in fact some 2,200 years before the word existed Guiguzi had already established the fundamental principle that diplomacy and promoting peace between the states is not a profession, but a skill acquired through self-cultivation.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "The Chinese Ethos of Citizen Diplomacy, from Guiguzi to Tai Ji Men", Bitter Winter (2022)

 * The jury is still out, but what Machiavelli described—either to recommend or subtly denounce it—was a diplomacy without conscience. It may look brilliant, but many who commented on Machiavelli noted that hidden in his works is the idea that a diplomacy totally separated from morality and conscience may achieve results occasionally but in most cases, and in the long run, would not work. …However we decide to read him, Machiavelli listed as the three features of effective diplomacy caution, art (meaning the mastery of a number of technical tools), and above all patience.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "Machiavelli, Diplomacy, and Tai Ji Men", Bitter Winter (2023)

J

 * We are ready to expand the friendly people-to-people exchanges and enhance exchanges and cooperation in science, technology, culture, education, and other areas... Enhanced interactions and cooperation between China and the United States serve the interests of our two peoples and are conducive to world peace and development. We should stay firmly rooted in the present while looking ahead to the future, and view and approach China-U.S. relations from a strategic and long-term perspective... We should, on the basis of the principles set forth in the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, respect each other as equals and promote closer exchanges and cooperation. This will enable us to make steady progress in advancing constructive and cooperative China-U.S. relations, and bring more benefits to our two peoples and people of the world... We are ready to work with the U.S. side in a spirit of seeking mutual benefit and win-win outcomes to properly address each other's concerns and facilitate the sound and the steady growth of bilateral economic cooperation and trade. We are ready to expand the friendly people-to-people exchanges and enhance exchanges and cooperation in science, technology, culture, education, and other areas.
 * Hu Jintao, White House speech (20 April 2006)

K

 * In the ideal American universe, diplomats stayed out of strategy, and military personnel completed their task by the time diplomacy started—a view for which America was to pay dearly in the Korean and Vietnam wars.
 * Henry Kissinger, (originally published in 1994)

 * Unfortunately, it’s US Diplomacy|“diplomacy” which brought the US, Russia, Ukraine, and NATO to the current standoff. As the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and the Soviet Union collapsed, US encouragement for those events included pledges that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wouldn’t take advantage of the situation to expand eastward. Since then, NATO has inexorably pushed in that direction, nearly doubling the number of member states. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”... Things began coming to a head with the US-sponsored coup in Ukraine that replaced its “Russia-friendly” regime with a “US/Europe-friendly” regime in 2014, courtesy of Barack Obama. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”
 * Ukraine: US “Diplomacy” is the Problem. Can it Become the Solution? Thomas Knapp, CounterPunch, February 23, 2022

 * After weeks of unsuccessfully attempting to either bully Russia’s Vladimir Putin into submission or bait him into war, US president Joe Biden may finally be looking for a face-saving exit from of the Ukraine “crisis” of his own making... Putin finally drew a red line at NATO membership for Ukraine specifically, and against the US definition of “diplomacy” — “do exactly as we demand, without question or objection, and we may consider deigning to allow you to kiss our feet for a little while before kicking you in the face again” — specifically. Bullies really, really, really hate to be told “no,” and tend to go into full bluster and posture mode at the first hint of that happening, which explains the Ukraine “crisis.” Unfortunately for THIS bully, Putin remains seemingly un-frightened. Even as the US and its poodles met in Munich, of all places, to issue more threats, he declined to play the role of Neville Chamberlain. So now Joe says he may be ready to talk. Whether the willingness is real, or just another exercise in fake “diplomacy,” remains to be seen. As does whether Putin will give Biden a graceful/deniable way out of this mess, or insist on rubbing his nose in the thick layer of filth US “diplomacy” has previously deposited on the ground. With two nuclear powers at loggerheads, the stakes are far too high for further attempts to disguise US hubris and megalomania as “diplomacy.”
 * Thomas Knapp, Ukraine: US “Diplomacy” is the Problem. Can it Become the Solution?  CounterPunch, February 23, 2022

L

 * May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions.
 * Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, After the Battle of Waterloo (1815).

 * The great realist thinker Hans Morgenthau stated that a fundamental ethical duty of the statesman is the cultivation of empathy: the ability through study to see the world through the eyes of rival state elites.... This kind of empathy has very valuable consequences for foreign policy. It makes for an accurate assessment of another state establishment’s goals based on its own thoughts, rather than a picture of those goals generated by one’s own fears and hopes; above all, it permits one to identify the difference between the vital and secondary interests of a rival country as that country’s rulers see them....
 * US strategists lost empathy, along with their wars, Responsible Statecraft, Nov 3, 2020
 * A vital interest is one on which a state will not compromise unless faced with irresistible military or economic pressure. Otherwise, it will resist to the very limit of its ability, including, if necessary, by war. A statesman who sets out to challenge another state’s vital interests must therefore be sure not only that his or her country possesses this overwhelming power, but that it is prepared actually to use it.Realists know that understanding what Russia and China will risk and why is critical to our policies going forward.
 * US strategists lost empathy, along with their wars, by Anatol Lieven, Responsible Statecraft, Nov 3, 2020

M

 * A Foreign Secretary—and this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretary—is always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion.
 * Harold Macmillan, secretary of state for foreign affairs, remarks in the House of Commons (July 27, 1955), Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons Official Report, vol. 544, col. 1301.
 * In international relations, sharing food with people from different cultures to break down barriers is called culinary diplomacy.
 * Dana Al Marashi, Head of Cultural Diplomacy at the UAE Embassy in Washington, DC.

 * The problems with Russia are not just NATO expansion. There were also a process that began with the second Bush administration of withdrawing from all of the arms control — almost all of the arms control agreements that we had concluded with the Soviet Union, the very agreements that had brought the first Cold War to an end.... In effect, what the United States did after the end of the Cold War was they reversed the diplomacy that we had used to end the Cold War, and started sort of doing anything, everything the opposite way. We started, in effect, trying to control other countries, to bring them into what we called the “new world order,” but it was not very orderly. And we also sort of asserted the right to use military whenever we wished. We bombed Serbia in the ’90s without the approval of the U.N. Later, we invaded Iraq, citing false evidence and without any U.N. approval and against the advice not only of Russia but of Germany and France, our allies. So, the United States — I could name a number of others — itself was not careful in abiding by the international laws that we had supported.
 * Jack F. Matlock Jr., Ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Post-Cold War Push to Expand NATO, Democracy Now!, February 17, 2022
 * Long after the damaging excesses of Washington’s hegemonic power —the CIA coups, the torture, the drone killings, and those never-ending wars—fade from memory, the world will still need the more benign dimension of its dominion, particularly the very idea of global governance through international organizations and the rule of law, especially as we face a planet similarly in decline.
 * Alfred McCoy How Did the United States Abandon Diplomacy?,.The Nation, (22 May 2018)

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 * These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.
 * Sir Harold George Nicolson, Diplomacy (1939), chapter 3, p. 126.

 * There are all sorts of things you have to do in foreign policy, to get along in the world. To lessen tensions and prevent war. You have to hold your nose and deal with beasts. But you don’t have to tell outrageous and insulting lies, and you don’t have to break faith...
 * Jay Nordlinger, "Trump, Kim, and the Boys in the Camps" (12 June 2018), National Review

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 * Let me also say this:  The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone.  At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy.  I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation.  But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo.  No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door. In light of the Cultural Revolution's horrors, Nixon's meeting with Mao appeared inexcusable -- and yet it surely helped set China on a path where millions of its citizens have been lifted from poverty and connected to open societies.  Pope John Paul's engagement with Poland created space not just for the Catholic Church, but for labor leaders like Lech Walesa.  Ronald Reagan's efforts on arms control and embrace of perestroika not only improved relations with the Soviet Union, but empowered dissidents throughout Eastern Europe.  There's no simple formula here.  But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.
 * Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, (10 December 2009)
 * As commander-in-chief, I make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure through the hard work of diplomacy over the easy rush to war.
 * Barack Obama, Weekly Address: A Comprehensive, Long-Term Deal with Iran, White House Office of the Press Secretary (18 July 2015)

P

 * ...but first there is a certain experience we must be careful to avoid...we must not become misologues, as people become misanthropes. There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. Misology and misanthropy arise in the same way. Misanthropy comes when a man without knowledge or skill has placed great trust in someone and believes him to be altogether truthful, sound and trustworthy; then, a short time afterwards he finds him to be wicked and unreliable, and then this happens in another case; when one has frequently had that experience, especially with those whom one believed to be one's closest friends, then, in the end, after many blows, one comes to hate all men and to believe that no one is sound in any way at all...This is a shameful state of affairs... and obviously due to an attempt to have human relations without any skill in human affairs.
 * Plato, Phaedo 89d–e

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 * I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
 * Scott Ritter, in Chris Davis, "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc.", Memphis Flyer (May 3, 2008).

 * A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb, “Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.” If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power... So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples. Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Minnesota State Fair, as it appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune (3 September 1901)

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 * The world already faces a series of major and destabilizing crises, one of which is the Ukraine crisis. It is the U.S. arrogance that blocked negotiations in 2021 between the United States and Russia that could have avoided the crisis. We need peace and diplomacy, not provocation. I hope that the U.S. government reconsiders its dangerous and misguided foreign policy. I want the U.S. to have a foreign policy based on the UN Charter. I want all of global economic diplomacy to be based on the ideas of sustainable development and the Paris Climate Agreement, that is finding the ways to decent lives for people in all parts of the world... We need a world of peace, in which war is not used as state policy, and a world in which all countries abide by the UN Charter.  We have a lot of things to do on this planet to make our global governance work better, to make the planet safer, to address major ills like pandemics or human-induced climate change. And that can't be done by one side dictating the answers to another.
 * Jeffrey Sachs,  Interview: U.S. seeking hegemony by dividing world "dangerous" -- world-renowned academic, Xinhua, and jeffsachs.org, August 5, 20022

 * Our position is made difficult because of the general impression, held by all Terrans, that an ambassador is a man who lies to you, who knows that he is lying, and who further knows that you know he is lying—and still goes ahead and lies, smiling cheerfully at the same time.
 * George O. Smith, Vocation (1945); originally published in the April 1945 issue of Astounding. Reprinted in Crossroads in Time, edited by Groff Conklin (p. 251)

 * When you spend money on defense, on military solutions, it's like surgery. It's painful. It's high-risk. Things go wrong. When you spend money on diplomacy, with our wonderful foreign service officers, it's kind of like going to the clinic and using a variety of different drugs and physical therapy. And when you think about development and soft power, it's preventative medicine. It's those things like working out, taking an aspirin. It's low-cost, low pain, and yet it has long-term benefits. So any military person will tell you, use us as a last resort. Use surgery only when you have to. When you can, use preventative medicine - that's development - or diplomacy, but don't reach for that military instrument too soon.... Unequivocally, the most important ships that I deployed to Latin America and the Caribbean were not aircraft carriers, they were hospital ships. They conducted hundreds of thousands of patient treatments all over Central America, the Caribbean, South America.
 * James Stavridis (a retired United States Navy admiral) interviewed by NPR: Ex-Military Leaders Bemoan Trump's Proposed Cuts To Diplomacy (12 March 12, 2019)

 * ... When I look at what we spend on defense, which is pushing up toward $650 to $700 billion dollars a year, as compared to what we spend on diplomacy and development... a couple of dozen billions of dollars a year, the scale is just enormous.Secretary of Defense Robert Gates famously said, look, we have more people on a single aircraft carrier - and we have 12 of those, David - than we do in the entire foreign service. And another one is former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, who said, you can spend a lot more money on the military, but if you're not going to spend it on our diplomats and development, you're just going to have to buy me more ammunition. Those are two voices I would listen to. Let's keep this thing in balance.
 * James Stavridis (a retired United States Navy admiral) interviewed by NPR:Ex-Military Leaders Bemoan Trump's Proposed Cuts To Diplomacy (12 March 12, 2019)

W

 * An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
 * Henry Wotton, Written in the album of Christopher Fleckmore (1604).

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 * All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
 * Zhou Enlai, Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".

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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (August 24, 1902 – November 27, 1985) was a French historian, who, together with Marc Bloch, revolutionized the 20th century study of his discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history. Leader of the Annales School, his scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85).

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 * [T]he entire course of French history since then has been influenced by something that happened in the eighteenth century” and asks “did France cease to be a great power not, as is usually thought, on 15 June 1815 on the field of Waterloo, but well before that, during the reign of Louis XV when the natural birth-rate was interrupted?
 * 1986. The identity of France: People and production; translated from the French by Sian Reynolds. Vol. 2. 1990 ed., London:Collins. p. 190

 * For four or five centuries, Islam was the most brilliant civilization in the Old World. ... At its higher level the golden age of Muslim civilization was both an immense scientific success and a exceptional revival of ancient philosophy. These was not its only triumphs; literature was another: but they eclipse the rest. First, science: it was there that the Saracens ... made the most original contributions. These, in brief, were nothing less than trigonometry and algebra (with its significantly Arab name). ... Equally distinguished were Islam's mathematical geographers, its astronomical observatories and instruments ... [.] The Muslims also deserve high marks for optics, for chemistry ... and for pharmacy. More than half the remedies and healing aids used by the West came from Islam ... [.] Muslim medical skill was incontestable. ... In the field of philosophy, what took place was rediscovery - a return, essentially of the peripatetic philosophy. The scope of this rediscovery, however, was not limited to copying and handling on, valuable as that undoubtely was. It also involved continuing, elucidating and creating.
 * A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p. 73-81

 * Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.
 * The Mediterranean (1949)

 * India survived only by virtue of its patience, its superhuman power and its immense size. The levies it had to pay were so crushing that one catastrophic harvest was enough to unleash famines and epidemics capable of killing a million people at a time. Appalling poverty was the constant counterpart of the conquerors’ opulence. … The Muslims … could not rule the country except by systematic terror. Cruelty was the norm burnings, summary executions, crucifixions or impalements, inventive tortures.  Hindu temples were destroyed to make way for mosques.  On occasion there were forced conversions.  If ever there were an uprising, it was instantly and savagely repressed: houses were burned, the countryside was laid waste, men were slaughtered and women were taken as slaves.
 * Fernand Braudel: A History of Civilizations, p.232., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

Quotes about F. Braudel

 * Braudel was not a Hindu chauvinist, just a scholarly observer, but in today’s climate, he would be blacklisted.
 * Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

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Viva La Bam

Viva La Bam is a television reality show (though large portions are scripted) on MTV focusing on the life of Bam Margera and his friends engaged in various practical jokes with one another, but mostly played out on his unsuspecting parents Phil & April, as well as his uncle Vincent Margera ("Don Vito"). It is a follow-up and spin-off to the popular series Jackass which was also shown on MTV.

Bam Margera

 * DON'T FEED PHIL!

 * How many kids would like to have a firepole in their room? But I beat you to the punch, you little jerks.

 * Look at Phil's tummy!

 * Turbonegro came all the way from Norway to have a concert here.

Bam: They're not my friends.
 * April: You know what your friends did to my car?!

 * We're building a drawbridge, look, here's the blueprints! *shows Ape a napkin with a poorly drawn drawbridge and water on it, screen shows the word "Blueprints...?"*

 * Glomb: You live with a convict.....Novak: I'm an ex-convict!

 * It happens when fat rubs together (skin tags)

Bam: I was going to throw a snowball at it, but then I realized it was mine.
 * (April takes the purple lamborghini)

 * (Glomb Making Skatepark House)Dunn:Why don't we ever do this cool shit to my house Bam:'Cos you don't have a house Dunn:Oh yeah

Vito's Nonsense Subtitles

"He's got no tiddly just joogle you can't just goat duggle hammer and nail and hammer something and expect it to grow!"

"Beglat you've got these idiots sitting hornwhaga ohhhm just sitting glawhahwaglahhh what they're doing!"

"Because Idaho in the backin I don' know wha jas wanted to do. Nobody ya wha' ta do."

"Whynja you just move the car. You didna have to do all that.  Dadadada, my cagicree dinta goigj tow it, but just pulled it away.  Ya didna have to flip it."

“I’m gonna get some veal scallopini!”

"Chuck hat anything flaygawanna car like dat, wut dey gonedoo, you gunda take it to a junkyar just ledum habit at the junkyar demselves...huts ong wityou?"

"It's there hupme I goata there! Move monomona!  They let you in, they'll let me in ogwandapate.  I don't care, I just wanda getouddahere cumon.  Goren flaxovich!"

"Size eighty eight chuddta work done"

"Hellahjayduhyuh... hubba chextuh mutiny ghensta God damn crew!"

"Nawyawwanna play somaykittalla big deal"

"Navuh fussavenint. . . ABACUS!"

"Wide yugonna rip me out to woodin the Helen yuhgot mandah makin!"

"More left? . . . uh guh duh d'd'd do circles! Dare dat guy said go left and then I'm plum ahl'd cold!  Whadda you said go left! . . . THE SUBWAY? . . . "

"I cannot understand your tardiness. Please come here and gabba faww wicha!!!!!"

"Yer wanna crook juss got offa the gas manager yehneminner rinna real war now!"

"Bikers are a less than savory element in our society, so I'll opt out."

"Jagah, huwhallahahh horsepower."

"Put it on a bun, ass-hoe."

"YO! This is gonna be the best Christmas ever!"

"You Vulcan idiots."

"I don't know how you deal with these Vulcan idiots, I'm leaving."

"I'm gonna kill your plane, just watch."

Don Vito talking to a patriotic French woman about the Eiffel Tower: "It looks like an abandoned oil well. They should put a Rocky statue there."

"They're dude eggs! They're fuckin' peoples' balls that die!!!"

"YO! This is the best song ever!"

"Juwala huvada haba den!"

"I feedya then yer stupid nitrous oxen ruins everythin!"

"Whaddyala ?????? ???? ??????? bluhrea rains its gone be leaking in here now."

"Hot ta ta to dum dims dammee yamma, quit hasslin the hassler. Why is it I like to eat. I leave @#$% around your house"

"Amma disturb my saletee, giving you costumers satisfaction, so I`m ready to go."

"Haychat Donald Trump says go right to the boss, I don't feel like talking to no idiot, lemme talk to Hugh Hefner!"

"Itza tuh tuh tuh tuh TEH Tallian pizza!"

"Gah rah gah gah boo buddy else gitszak takes forty hours to get to Paris...this is bull@#$%! Wook yak get me outta this town!"

"Rock'n'roll sucks! Wut'ta hilda!

"I am Abudabu gandadint gav beer annin aahgahtago Istanbul I got no luggage yabbaba grab your neck you're a jerkoff!

"I did too tawalla tongue. She cha-tuckly tongued each other!"

"YOOOOOOO!!!!!"

"Ima Get Aston Koosher To do sumthin to you"

"Live or die?"

"Yo Nice Girl Molesta La Breastas"

"You sick in the head?"

"B'gah get the sheep outta here ass!"

Other various characters

Oderus Urungus: I never really knew i was moving, I always thought everything else was moving

Oderus Urungus: "It's scary up there!" Phil: Arn't your friends up there?" Oderus Urungus: There not my friends! April: "Oh my god this is like the exorsist."

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User talk:Jamorama~enwikiquote

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Thanks for taking a shot at linking the VfD entry for "Category:Natives of Cornwall". I wanted to point out, however, that it didn't quite work. Here's the correct syntax for a clickable category link:
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which looks like this when rendered: Category:Natives of Cornwall. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Country Boys

Country Boys is a 2006 documentary film about two boys, Chris and Cody living in rural David, Kentucky.

Chris

 * [speaking about his schoolwork] I am not going to screw up this year…

Cody

 * [talking during his band session] All that Satanic stuff... (talking during his band session)

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Talk:Reality

Fixed up the page added a few quotes and removed the cleanup tag would appreciate it if someone would confirm it's okay.

DFA 23:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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 * Sources should be found for these before moving them into the article.

 * Reality has become a commodity.
 * Stephen Colbert

 * Reality is a term for people who refuse to see things as they can be, so that they might be, instead seeing things as they are, and lazily assuming that's how they'll always be.
 * Walter White

 * Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
 * Albert Einstein

 * The real world: no time to do it right, but always time to do it over.
 * Rex Jaeschke

 * There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
 * Douglas Everett

 * There is no reality...only perception.
 * Dr. Phil McGraw

 * The difference between reality and perception is that perception is real.
 * unknown (not sure if it's Anonymous or not, sounds similar to Phil McGraw quote above)

 * There is a bend in the reality that you see and the reality that really exists and the amount of bend is directly proportional to our sufferings.
 * Dhawal Kaul

 * What is is. Perceive It. Integrate it. Act on it. Idealize it.
 * Leonard Peikoff

 * Reality is thinking about moving forward peacefully.
 * Anonymous

 * Reality is fear and fear is imagination.
 * Anonymous

 * Poor hate reality and Rich loves to imagine it.
 * Anonymous

 * Reality is for those who can't handle Drugs.
 * Anonymous

 * I have seen reality, and reality is an illusion.
 * GameMaster Loveshade The Book of Lies and Other Games

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Talk:Curiosity

First page I've really worked on. I added around a half dozen quotes hope this conforms to wikiquote standards.

DFA 23:10, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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 * "Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures." ~ Lovelle Drachman
 * "To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous." ~ Plato
 * "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."  ~ Albert Einstein
 * "When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." ~ Walt Disney
 * "Curiosity is one of Satan's favorite paths, to lead man to sin." ~ Anonymous
 * "Curiosity killed the cat, yet the cat had nine lives.. thus.. curiosity killed it eight times more." ~ John Albert Halili
 * "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." ~ Eugene O'Neill
 * "Curiosity killed the cat, but I'm much bigger than a cat." ~ Kedd Burmeister
 * "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
 * Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.

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 * Most of these are probably non notable, many require verification and correct formatting

 * Curiosity is defined as a need, thirst or desire for knowledge. The concept of curiosity is central to motivation. The term can be used as both a description of a specific behavior as well as a hypothetical construct to explain the same behavior.
 * Susan Edelman, "Curiosity and Exploration Curiosity and Exploration" (1997)

 * The Conceptual Framework of Curiosity and Exploration: In face of the large number of terms relating to curiosity and exploration … a lot of confusion is caused by the fact that the term curiosity is used as both a description of a specific behavior as well as a hypothetical construct to explain this same behavior in organismic terms.
 * Susan Edelman, "Curiosity and Exploration Curiosity and Exploration" (1997)

 * Four central issues of curiosity are: definition and dimensionally, cause, voluntary exposure to curiosity, and situational determinants. A fifth issue is of superficiality and intensity. Curiosity can arise, change focus or end abruptly and despite its transience, curiosity can be a powerful motivational force. Curiosity often produces impulse behavior and attempts at self control.
 * G. Loewenstein (1994), in "The Psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation". Psychological Bulletin, 116(1):75-98.

 * Classified measures of curiosity into two categories. First, curiosity is viewed as a motivational state and measured with behavioral indices. Second, he conceptualizes curiosity as a personality trait that is assessed by personality measures.
 * R. Langevin (1971), in "Is curiosity a unitary construct?" Canadian Journal of Psychology.

 * At the conceptual level there are numerous definitions of curiosity which tend to encompass a broad range of characteristics. Boredom is one prerequisite or motivation for curiosity (exploration).
 * H. Fowler (1965), in "Curiosity and Exploratory Behavior". New York: Macmillan.

 * The biological function of curiosity as a mechanism of instinct driven behavior that serves in approaching new objects. Approach and exploration are described as being characteristic forms of behavior. The second kind of curiosity pointed is "scientific curiosity" and "metaphysical wonder" with which "the practical instinctive root has probably nothing to do" rather "the philosophical brain responds to an inconsistency or a gap in its knowledge.
 * W. James (1950), in "Principles of Psychology". New York: Holt.(original work published 1890).

 * Sensation seeking is defined as the seeking of varied, novel, complex and intense sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical, social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experiences.
 * M. Zuckerman (1994), in "Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking". New York: Cambridge University Press.

 * Cultures generally vary both in attitudes towards exploration and information seeking as well as in the range of situations allowing the expression of the various manifestations of exploration and curiosity, this is especially true for the sensation-seeking motive. Curiosity seeking behavior poses a paradox for drive based accounts of curiosity. Drive is not simply a state the decrease of which is rewarding. At high levels the reduction of drive is rewarding, but at low levels, an increase may be rewarding. stations]] of exploration and curiosity, this is especially true for the sensation-seeking motive. Curiosity seeking behavior poses a paradox for drive based accounts of curiosity. Drive is not simply a state the decrease of which is rewarding. At high levels the reduction of drive is rewarding, but at low levels, an increase may be rewarding.
 * D. O. Hebb (1955), in "Drives and the C.N.S. (Conceptual Nervous System)". Psychological Review, 62:243-245.

 * Curiosity refers to a motivation inherent in information processing. This means that curiosity is a mixture of cognition and motivation. The main principle, which is equally as important as the drive reduction hypothesis is the establishment and maintenance of an optimal amount of incongruence. Incongruence determines the strength, direction and affective qualities of behavior.
 * J. McV. Hunt (1963), in "Motivation Inherent in Information Processing and Action". In: Motivation and Social Interaction: Cognitive Determinants. New York: Ronal.

 * Sensation is the seeking of varied, novel, complex and intense sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical, social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experiences.
 * M. Zuckerman (1994), in "Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking". New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Talk:Pain

Cleaned this page up and added some new quotes, please contribute to this stub. ~ DFA 00:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Pain is temporary, glory is forever... Compare this to the similar George Best quote []. /Jens, Sweden

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 * Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
 * William Faulkner

 * If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
 * Marcus Aurelius

 * Pain don't hurt.
 * Patrick Swayze

 * "Pain is just a strain on the brain."
 * Connie

 * Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
 * Lance Armstrong

 * Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
 * Khalil Gibran

 * Pain is weakness leaving the body.
 * Marine Corps saying

 * Pain is why I did that then, and why you do this now.
 * Blake Allen

 * Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
 * Dante A. Lavey

 * People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
 * Jim Morrison

 * The pills would ease the pain.
 * Max Payne

 * The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
 * Herodotus

 * Pose Pose why do you suppose why Pain is our name? Because that's what we choose.  And life without pain is a long endless chain of errors repeated again and again.  So don't be afraid of pain, don't run away.
 * American punk band Pain

 * There's only one thing to say about pain, it hurts.
 * Zeke Willey

 * Pain doesn't exist, It's just what you think and when you think.
 * James Griffiths.

 * You can't avoid pain...you can only deal with it! In some cases, you have to learn to deal with it first!
 * Scott Thomson

 * The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
 * Native American proverb

 * We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
 * Kenji Miyazawa

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Talk:Sanity

Cleaned up however I was unable to find a source for two quotes thus I have labeled them unknown if you know the source or who it is attributed to please add it. ~ DFA 00:15, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

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 * Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
 * Mark Twain

 * Sanity may take one of only two forms: either that of ignorance, or denial.
 * Derek R. Audette

 * Sanity is a little box.
 * Charles Manson

 * The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
 * Rita Mae Brown

 * The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
 * Diane Ackerman

 * Sanity is for the weak.
 * Unknown, but appears as a quote from several Chaos faction units in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

 * Only the Insane have Strength enough to Prosper, Only those that Prosper can truly judge what is sane
 * Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

 * Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
 * Unknown

 * If you are keeping your head while others around you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the whole situation.
 * Unknown (parody of Rudyard Kipling's If)

 * Madness is the emergency exit.
 * The Joker in Alan Moore's The Killing Joke

 * Sanity is the playground for the unimaginitive.
 * JOOP! Advertisements

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