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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hofmann, quoted in Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy (1998)

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details, and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

— François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

— Ian Maclaren, The British Weekly (1898)

We must remember that our greatest strength is in our love of life and colors, beauty and music, dancing and joy. That is our secret weapon. That is something that the opposition does not have. Keep those things near and dear to your heart because in times of war that will sustain you.

— RuPaul Andre Charles, Billboard (2017)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is an American silent film directed by Stuart Paton and released on December 24, 1916. Based primarily on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne, the film also incorporates elements from Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island. This was the first motion picture filmed underwater. Actual underwater cameras were not used, but a system of watertight tubes and mirrors allowed the camera to shoot reflected images of underwater scenes staged in shallow sunlit waters in the Bahamas. For the scene featuring a battle with an octopus, cinematographer John Ernest Williamson devised a viewing chamber called the "photosphere", a 6-by-10-foot (1.8-by-3.0-metre) steel globe in which a cameraman could be placed. The film was made by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company (now Universal Pictures), not then known as a major motion picture studio, and took two years to make, at the cost of $500,000.Film credit: Stuart Paton

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	For your fine contributions to Wikipedia, including starting an infobox at L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux. gidonb (talk) 05:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)		Norris.michaelj has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. 00:29, 12 April 2016‎
	Please accept this for your impressive rewriting of W. S. Lach-Szyrma. Pointillist (talk) 21:42, 1 August 2013 (UTC)		Nice work on the Magical Tree page! Sulfurboy (talk) 10:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
	Thanks for creating Lists of cultivars and other similar lists, and for your efforts to improve the encyclopedia for the public. Northamerica1000(talk) 04:45, 7 April 2012 (UTC)		Thanks for your recent contributions! -Mike Restivo (talk) 20:18, 29 April 2011 (UTC)