User:GenQuest/quotes

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Take a Breath Before That Edit

• "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." –Sherlock Holmes (A.C. Doyle), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Skip the Contentious Editiing

• "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the war room!" —Dr. Strangelove

Understand Notability

• "Fame is inheritable, notability is not! (...unless, of course, you're British...)"—GQ

Take a Look in the Editor's Mirror

• "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Understanding Another Point of View?

• "O civile si ergo, fortibus es in ero, o nobile deus trux, votis inem Causan dux." ["Oh see, Willy, see her go; forty busses in a row. Oh no, Billy, they is trucks. What is in 'em? Cows and ducks."] —Lady Monde-Green

Always Being Right Has Its Cost

• "TANSTAFL!" (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) —GQ

It's Called Consensus ArbCom

• "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!") —Otto Lilienthal

Wiki-Fauna Gone Wild

• "Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket." —Gino Bartali

Put That Thing Away

• "Damn it, Jim; It's an encyclopedia, not a collection of random trivia!" —apologies to Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Star Trek

Neutral?!?

• "Neutrality is hard!" —GQ

How we got here

Get Over It

• "On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron." —H. L. Mencken (1920)

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." —Thomas A. Edison

• "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations." —James Madison

• "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American" —Tench Coxe

• "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."—Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution (1996)

Popular Culture

• "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." —Cary Grant
• "Champagne and Ripple—Champipple" –Fred Sanford, Sanford and Son

Oh Confucius

Confucius Say...

1. "Don't peel onion if you don't want cry."
2. {Add your CS quote here}