Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.
..........— Mao Zedong AKA Mao Tse-tung (1893 – 1976), Communist Party leader of China. "Combat Liberalism" (September 7, 1937), also quoted in Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book) (1964), Ch. 24.

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.....Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities.
..........— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956 - ), President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Quoted by the official Islamic Republic News Agency. Source: "Ahmadinejad Calls for Purge of Secular Lecturers," http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=1075.

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.....We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press—in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... [few] years.
..........— Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) Austrian-born Nazi Party leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922–1939, Vol. 1 (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 871–872. Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

[kennyc]

Conservatives.....gotta luv 'em.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Conservatives.....gotta luv 'em.

But conservatively.


Stitchawl

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Conservatives.....gotta luv 'em.

Don't you mean revolutionaries?

[WT Sharpe]

.....A loud noise on one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
..........— Ronald Knox (1888-1957), English writer, Roman Catholic priest. Definition of a baby (attributed), The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd edition (1991), edited by Elizabeth Knowles.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....A loud noise on one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
..........— Ronald Knox (1888-1957), English writer, Roman Catholic priest. Definition of a baby (attributed), The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd edition (1991), edited by Elizabeth Knowles.

Is there an echo in here?

[WT Sharpe]

.....Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, "How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
..........— Jane Austin (1775 – 1817), English novelist. Pride and Prejudice (1813).


Surely no one here at MobileRead will soon forget how Patricia strived to ensure we all had excellent libraries. Her hard work and gracious spirit lives on in our readers.

[kennyc]

Very nice tribute Tom!

[poohbear_nc]

Hear, hear!

[WT Sharpe]

.....For the first forty-plus years of the Thing's existence, his religion was never expressly stated. Stan Lee has mentioned in the past that he never gave it any real thought, but that was not the case for Kirby. He always considered the Thing to be Jewish, and, in fact, Kirby once portrayed the Thing wearing the traditional Jewish skull-cap and prayer shawl and holding a prayer book. The drawing hung in Kirby's home. After Lee and Kirby left the book, a few stories showed the Thing celebrating Christmas (and he appeared on the covers of various Marvel Christmas celebrations), but his religion was never specifically mentioned. Finally, in 2002, in a fill-in issue of The Fantastic Four, writer Karl Kesel asked permission from editor Tom Brevoort to do a story about the Thing's past and expressly refer to his Jewish heritage. Brevoort consented, and the issue, Fantastic Four #56, was a lovely examination of the Thing's background (which echoed Jack Kirby's, right down to growing up on the Lower East Side of New York and a brother who died far too early, plus the Thing's name is Benjamin Jacob Grimm—the first name is Kirby's father's, and the middle name Kirby's birth name).
..........— Brian Cronin, author. Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed (2009).

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, "How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
..........— Jane Austin (1775 – 1817), English novelist. Pride and Prejudice (1813).


Surely no one here at MobileRead will soon forget how Patricia strived to ensure we all had excellent libraries. Her hard work and gracious spirit lives on in our readers.

Thanks Tom ....

I hope Him up there has a well-stocked excellently-formatted Library.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....For the first forty-plus years of the Thing's existence, his religion was never expressly stated. Stan Lee has mentioned in the past that he never gave it any real thought, but that was not the case for Kirby. He always considered the Thing to be Jewish, and, in fact, Kirby once portrayed the Thing wearing the traditional Jewish skull-cap and prayer shawl and holding a prayer book. The drawing hung in Kirby's home. After Lee and Kirby left the book, a few stories showed the Thing celebrating Christmas (and he appeared on the covers of various Marvel Christmas celebrations), but his religion was never specifically mentioned. Finally, in 2002, in a fill-in issue of The Fantastic Four, writer Karl Kesel asked permission from editor Tom Brevoort to do a story about the Thing's past and expressly refer to his Jewish heritage. Brevoort consented, and the issue, Fantastic Four #56, was a lovely examination of the Thing's background (which echoed Jack Kirby's, right down to growing up on the Lower East Side of New York and a brother who died far too early, plus the Thing's name is Benjamin Jacob Grimm—the first name is Kirby's father's, and the middle name Kirby's birth name).
..........— Brian Cronin, author. Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed (2009).

That's funny... He didn't look Jewish.


Stitchawl

[FlorenceArt]

I'd say there is quite a lot of comic book heroes whose religion is not mentioned. I never wondered what religion Tintin was.

I understand that it's quite common in the U.S. to ask a person what religion they are, even a relative stranger. In France, it would be very rude. Religion is considered a private matter, although it's not rare for someone to mention what religion they are, but it's not something you would ask, at least not before you have known someone for some time.

[kennyc]

Rude Americans you know....

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Rude Americans you know....

I don't know about rude, I guess we have different behavioral standards. And you guys are weird about religion, no doubt about that.