User:Jengod/Notable quotables

"Because of the diversity of sources and of the fallibility of human memory, it is suggested that documentary material be consulted in verifying data in this volume...""Wishes nothing—perseverance everything.""Historians have been called lots of things, not all of them nice. 'Broad-gauge gossips,' according to Ambrose Bierce. 'Unsuccessful novelists,' in the eyes of H. L. Mencken. Tolstoy dismissed historians as being 'like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them,' while Guy de Maupassant quipped history was an 'excitable and lying old lady.'"

"I don't want to worship at the cross of a man who kills his son in the name of salvation. I don't want to worship at an altar that denies the poor and the hungry and the enslaved, telling us to wait for heaven to be free. I don't want a God that denies the beauty of women, belying the beauty of the earth. I want the gifts of the mother, and I vow to find my way back to her...Mother Earth doesn't turn women who look back into pillars of salt." "Each worker ends up doing the thing they’re best at relative to the other things they could be doing, rather than the thing they’re best at relative to other people." "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."

"People had more than they needed, people didn't know what was precious and what wasn't, people threw away things they kill each other for now."

"Like many other historians, I cringe when I hear people saying, 'This is not who we are.' Because historically, it is who we are. Again and again. I think it's better to say, 'This is not who I want us to be.' And then ask yourself what you can do to change that?"

"Mistakes are encouraged here. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying new things and challenging yourself." "Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you're getting the best possible information." "The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to make sure you have as much as them." "The job is love." O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be! "We are the ones we've been waiting for."

- June Jordan

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not."

- Dr. Seuss

"The hours are bad and the pay sucks, but at least at the end of the day everyone hates you." "wikipedia, after ideological republicanism, is the most successful utopian project in history"

- @revhowardarson "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work."

- Unknown, quoted by User:Kizor, as quoted in The New York Times

"It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

- Attributed to Harry S. Truman

"Teach everything you know."

- T-shirt I saw at Big Lots