User:Arx Fortis

List of contributions made 30 January 2005 to 27 June 2006 (prior to creating an account, plus a few additional edits through 25 August 2006) are available here. My contributions since creating an account are listed here.

I resisted creating an account for some time, but got tired of people assuming my edits were vandalism (without actually reading the edits) simply because I didn't have an account.

Areas of education, study, and interest where I usually focus my efforts on Wikipedia:
 * Linguistics (English dialects)
 * Botany
 * Photography
 * History (US and World)
 * Geography
 * Wildlife
 * Theology
 * Sinology
 * Information Technology (specifically in Healthcare)

Original Articles

 * George Masa
 * José Puyet
 * Joyce Chen (chef)
 * Rhododendron calendulaceum
 * List of Miami Dolphins starting quarterbacks

Favorite Quotes

 * "If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." -Alice Cooper


 * "The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion." -Winston Churchill


 * "Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil." -Winston Churchill


 * "...the will to live differs greatly from the will not to die." -Willem Wanrooy, Dutch Soldier, Survivor of the Junyo Maru, and Prisoner of War - WWII


 * "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." -William Inge


 * "History is a vast early warning system." -Norman Cousins


 * "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." -Shelley


 * "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; It belongs to the brave." -Ronald Reagan


 * "Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description." - Henry Cabot Lodge


 * "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." -Alexis de Tocqueville