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# Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (November 28 [O.S. November 16] 1829 – November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein who founded the Moscow Conservatory.

## Quotes

* I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin—‘finis musicae'.'’
** Quoted in A Conversation on Music (1892)

## Quotes about Anton Rubinstein

* ... He could, at will, move you to tears, thrill you with emotion, or make you shiver with excitement. It was no longer a piano he played on, but an entire orchestra, in which power, sweetness, and great execution vied with each other to produce effects totally unlike the efforts of any other single instrumentalist I have ever heard. ... The magnetism he exercised over his audiences was quite extraordinary, and I have seen them roused got such a pitch of excitement and enthusiasm that they could not sit still, but had perforce to rise from their seats to watch as well as listen to him. No one could help being absorbed in his performances; indeed, he was so himself, though perhaps not to the same extent, for any extraneous sound or movement would easily upset him and break the thread of his inspiration,
* I can recall one memorable afternoon at one of his recitals in the old St. James's Hall, when just as he had begun to play Chopin's Funeral March—no over ever played it like him—a post horn from a coach in Piccadilly suddenly sounded. This so disturbed him (and no wonder) that he took his hands off the piano and dashed them down again pell-mell on the keys in a fit of rage and disgust. After a while he commenced the piece again, but the spirit of the music had left him, and for that day at least we were deprived of the beauty of his rendering.
** Sir Frederic H. Cowen. My Art and My Friends. London: Edward Arnold. 1913. pp. 70–71.
# Alexander I of Macedon

Alexander I of Macedon (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μακεδών) of the Argead dynasty was king of Macedon from 498 BC to 454 BC

## Quotes

* Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably.
** Herodotus V, 20, 4; Loeb edition
* Men of Athens... In truth I would not tell it to you if I did not care so much for all Hellas; I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery. I tell you, then, that Mardonius and his army cannot get omens to his liking from the sacrifices. Otherwise you would have fought long before this. Now, however, it is his purpose to pay no heed to the sacrifices, and to attack at the first glimmer of dawn, for he fears, as I surmise, that your numbers will become still greater. Therefore, I urge you to prepare, and if (as may be) Mardonius should delay and not attack, wait patiently where you are; for he has but a few days' provisions left. If, however, this war ends as you wish, then must you take thought how to save me too from slavery, who have done so desperate a deed as this for the sake of Hellas in my desire to declare to you Mardonius' intent so that the barbarians may not attack you suddenly before you yet expect them. I who speak am Alexander the Macedonian.
** Herodotus, The Histories 9.45, edited by A. D. Godley,

## External links

* Entry in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867) edited by William Smith
# Alexander Knox (theologian)

Alexander Knox (17 March 1757 – 17 January 1831) was an Irish theological writer.

## Quotes

* There is not a moral evil which has not its infallible antidote, nor any moral virtue which has not its spring and sustenance in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. To apprehend Him with every faculty of the mind, and with every affection of the heart, and to grow daily in that apprehension, is to emerge from every thing that enthralls, to surmount all that can contaminate.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 96.

## External links

* Peter B. Nockles, ‘Knox, Alexander (1757–1831)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 2005, accessed 1 June 2007
* John Wesley and the Anglo-Catholic Revival by G.W. Taylor
* Wesley's Letters: Volume Six Events
* Eclectic Ethereal Encyclopedia
* Trinity College, Toronto
* Literature.org
# Alexander Kronrod

Aleksandr (Alexander) Semenovich Kronrod (October 22, 1921 – October 6, 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964. Earlier, he worked on computational solutions of problems emerging in theoretical physics. He is also known for his contributions to economics, specifically for proposing corrections and calculating price formation for the USSR.

## Quotes

* Chess is the Drosophila of artificial intelligence.
** Attributed to Kronrod in: Ronald Chrisley, ‎Sander Begeer (2000). Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts. p. 520
* An idea is nothing, its implementation everything.
** Attributed to Kronrod in: Landis, E. M., Yaglom, I. M., Remembering AS Kronrod, The Mathematical Intelligencer 24.1 (2002) p. 22-30
# Alexander Jablokov

Alexander Jablokov (born April 29, 1956) is an American writer and novelist.

## Quotes
### Short fiction
#### At the Cross-Time Jaunters’ Ball (1987)

    All page numbers from the reprint in Gardner Dozois (ed.), The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection, ISBN 0-312-01854-1
* From a half-open window came the sound of a drinking song, bellowed by male voices to the accompaniment of pounding pewter mugs. Merchants, home from the Bourse and ready to do their best to keep the price of malted barley high.
** p. 96
* I’ve had fellow critics tell me that, when they work in Shadow, they stay in the sleaziest fleabags they can find, because that makes the experience more “real.” I don’t find lice more real, in any ultimate sense, than satin sheets.
** p. 96
* I felt a surge of annoyance. The palace was a monstrosity. It had towers, with pennants snapping in the breeze. It had triumphal staircases. It had flying buttresses. It had colonnades. What it didn’t have was structure. It looked like an immense warehouse of architectural spare parts.
** p. 101
* Critics should never socialize with artists; it’s difficult enough to like their work in the first place.
** p. 101
* “Ah, ‘The Suffering Critic.’ The work to gladden the heart of any artist.”
** p. 106
* “Rye, beef, and mustard. There are some aesthetic verities that transcend reality. The field of gustatory ontology has been much neglected by philosophers.” “So much the worse for ontology,” I said, settling down to lunch with as much grace as I could muster. I really was quite hungry. “So much the worse for philosophers! All this Truth and Beauty stuff is fine, but it obscures the real issues. Rye bread! I try never to create a world in which it cannot be found. One must have an absolute aesthetic criterion to give an anchor to one’s life.” There are worse ones, I suppose.
** p. 112
# Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Valterovich "Sasha" Litvinenko (30 August 1962 or 4 December 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) who specialised in tackling organized crime. A prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he advised British intelligence and coined the term "mafia state". He was poisoned in London, believing - as do British authorities - that his killers were FSB operatives.

## Quotes

* …this may be the time to say one or two things to the person responsible for my present condition. You may succeed in silencing me but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed. You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilised value. You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilised men and women. You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life. May God forgive you for what you have done, not only to me but to beloved Russia and its people.
** Final statement, issued posthumously. "In full: Litvinenko statement". BBC News. 24 November 2006.
# Alexander Lubotsky

Alexander Markovich Lubotsky, also known as Sasha Lubotsky (Russian: Александр Маркович Лубоцкий; born 16 April 1956), is a Russian-Dutch linguist and Indologist who specializes in the study of Indo-Iranian languages. He is the editor-in-chief of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project.

## Quotes

* In order to account for this fact, we are bound to assume that the language of the original population of the towns of Central Asia, where Indo-Iranians must have arrived in the second millennium BCE, on the one hand, and the language spoken in the Punjab, the homeland of the Indo-Aryans, on the other, were intimately related.
** in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press.
* I use the term substratum to refer to any donor language, without implying sociological differences in its status, so that 'substratum' may refer to an adstratum or even superstratum.
** in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press.
* Another problem is how to account for Indo-Iranian isolates which have been borrowed into Uralic [...which form part of...] the new vocabulary, which most probably was acquired by the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia.
** The Indo-Iranian Substratum. Lubotsky, Alexander, in ―Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic & Archaeological Considerations‖, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, 2001.Quoted in Talageri, S. G. (2010). The Rigveda and the Avesta. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
# Alexander Kolchak

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1874 – 7 February 1920) was a Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer who held the title of Supreme Ruler of Russia from 1918 to 1920 during the Russian Civil War, though his actual control over Russian territory was limited. Previously, he served in the Imperial Russian Navy and fought in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.

## Quotes about Kolchak

* The Russian past offers many lessons for the present and not just those the current powers that be want people to draw. Among those unlearned lessons, Sergey Lozenko of Sovershenno Sekretno says, is one that comes from the disasters that followed from Aleksandr Kolchak’s failure to take the nationality question seriously. In a 2,000-word article entitled “Kolchak’s Nationality Question,” the historian says what the leaders of the White Movement routinely underestimated the importance of ethnic issues and believed that any problems in that area could be solved by force alone. The result was disaster (sovsekretno.ru/articles/istoriya/natsionalnyy-vopros-kolchaka100624/).
** Paul A. Goble, "Putin Must Avoid Kolchak’s Mistakes on National Question, ‘Soveshenno Sekretno’ Historian Suggests", Window on Eurasia (June 24, 2024)

## External links

* Media related to Alexander Kolchak on Wikimedia Commons
* Encyclopedic article on Alexander Kolchak on Wikipedia
# A. Philip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties.

## Quotes

* ... the history of the labor movement in America proves that the employing class recognize no race lines. They will exploit a white man as readily as a black man. They will exploit women as readily as men.They will even go to the extent of coining the labor, blood and suffering of children into dollars. The introduction of women and children into the factories proves that capitalists are only concerned with profits and that they will exploit any race or class in order to make profits, whether they be black or white men, black or white women or black or white children.
** Editorial, "The Negro and the American Federation of Labor". The Messenger magazine, 2, no. 8, August 1919. Quoted in Barbara Krauthamer, Chad Williams, Major Problems in African American History, Cengage Learning, 2017.
* If the Church, white or black, is to express the true philosophy of Jesus Christ, Himself a worker, it will not lend itself to the creed of oppressive capitalism which would deny to the servant his just hire.
** "Negro Labor and the Church," in Capitalism vs. Collectivism: The Colonial Era to 1945, Volume 3 of African American Political Thought (Routledge African Studies: 2003), p. 136
# A. Surya Prakash

A. Surya Prakash is an Indian journalist who was also the chairperson of Prasar Bharati.

## Quotes

* One of the issues that needs to be addressed as we seek to sort out the problems posed by the Marxist interpretation of history is what Koenraad Elst, the Belgian orientalist and Indologist, describes as negationism in India. Known for his writings on Indian history and Hindu-Muslim relations, Elst says that while negationism in Europe means the denial of Nazi genocide of the Jews and gypsies during World War II, the Indian brand of negationism deals with the section of intelligentsia “trying to erase from Hindu memory the history of their persecution by the swordsmen of Islam”.
** A Surya Prakash, Islam and the lies of historians
* Secular, democratic India must know the truth and make peace with it.
** A Surya Prakash, Islam and the lies of historians
# A. Raja

Andimuthu Raja (born Sathyaseelan; 26 October 1963) is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu, who serves as Member of Parliament for the Nilgiris constituency and deputy general secretary for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

## Quotes

* Sanatan Dharma should be compared to diseases with social stigma like HIV and leprosy.
** DMK MP A Raja 'It's like HIV, leprosy': After Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK's A Raja sharpens attack on 'Sanatana Dharma'
# A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Byatt DBE (24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023) was an English novelist, critic and academic. She was usually known as A. S. Byatt.

## Quotes
### Possession (1990)

* Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.
** p. 149.
* I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
** p. 178.
* And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
** p. 223; the poet being Robert Browning in Epilogue in his collection of poems Dramatis Personae.
* There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
** Postscript, p. 508.
# A. S. Neill

Alexander Sutherland Neill (17 October 1883 – 23 September 1973), known as A. S. Neill, was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill School, and its philosophies of community self-governance as well as freedom from adult coercion. He wrote 20 books in his lifetime, and his best seller was the 1960 Summerhill, a compilation of four previous books about his school. The book was a common ancestor to activists in the 60s free school movement.

## Quotes

* A good teacher does not draw out; he gives out, and what he gives out is love. And by love I mean approval, or if you like, friendliness, good nature. The good teacher not only understands the child: he approves of the child.
** The Problem Teacher (1939), p. 11
* If the emotions are free, the intellect will look after itself.
** The Free Child (1953), p. 29

### Summerhill (1960)

* A child is innately wise and realistic. If left to himself without adult suggestion of any kind, he will develop as far as he is capable of developing.
** p. 4
* Hate breeds hate, and love breeds love.
** p. 8
* My own criterion of success is the ability to work joyfully and to live positively.
** p. 29
* You cannot make children learn music or anything else without to some degree converting them into will-less adults. You fashion them into accepters of the status quo – a good thing for a society that needs obedient sitters at dreary desks, standers in shops, mechanical catchers of the 8:30 suburban train – a society, in short, that is carried on the shabby shoulders of the scared little man – the scared-to-death conformist.
** p. 12
* No one has the right to make a boy learn Latin, because learning is a matter for individual choice; but if in a Latin class, a boy fools all the time, the class should throw him out, because he interferes with the freedom of others.
** p. 356

## External links

* Summerhill School official website
* Works by A. S. Neill at Project Gutenberg
* Works by or about Neil at the Internet Archive
* Works by A. S. Neill at HathiTrust
# A. T. Ariyaratne

Sri Lankabhimanya Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne (Sinhala:අහන්ගමගේ ටියුඩර් ආරියරත්න) is the founder and president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.

## Quotes

* Now the time has come when science and technology on the one hand and spiritual wisdom on the other have to be synthesised on a global scale to build a nobler, more just and more peaceful global community.
** Bond, George. "Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement". Kumarian P, 2003.
* When we work towards the welfare of all the means we use have to be based on Truth, Non-violence and Selflessness in conformity with Awakening of All.
** Bond, George. "Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement". Kumarian P, 2003.
* Buddha’s first admonition to the bhikkus or monks was to go forth into the world and work for the welfare of the people.
** Ariyaratne, A.T. "The Role of Buddhist Monks in Development." ScienceDirect (1980). 26 April 2009 <www.sciencedirect.com>.
* One has to understand the past role and, profiting by modern experience, design a new role in which development basically oriented to the needs of the people finds major expression.
** Ariyaratne, A.T. "The Role of Buddhist Monks in Development." ScienceDirect (1980). 26 April 2009 <www.sciencedirect.com>.
* Our Buddhist culture taught us from our young days how we should keep in mind our welfare not only in this life but also in the afterlife as well in whatever we think, say or do. Belief in Rebirth and the Karmic Law – Law of Cause and Effect, were two fundamental teachings we were taught to keep in mind. Economics and Politics or any other department of life cannot function without adverse consequences if we resort to unrighteous or wrongful ways. Good ends can be realised only by good means.
** Ariyaratne, A. T. Buddhist Economics in Practice in the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka. New York: Sarvodaya Support Group, 1999.
* Sarvodaya means the Awakening of All – from an individual Human Personality to Humanity as a whole. This awakening has spiritual, moral, cultural, social, economic and political dimensions. Whatever we do in one of these sectors influences all other sectors.
** Ariyaratne, A. T. Buddhist Economics in Practice in the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka. New York: Sarvodaya Support Group, 1999.
# America's Next Top Model (season 21)

    Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | Main

## Cycle 21: Guys & Girls
### The Guy Who Starts a Fight [21.5]

    Tyra Banks: [on deciding her score for Lenox’s commercial] It is so bad. I want to give you a zero but that’s not possible. So I give you a one.
    [Adam notices Romeo, who is very drunk, as he brushes his teeth]
    Adam: [in confessional] I'm like, "Yo, Romeo, you're gonna pass out. You're gonna be hung over tomorrow." [to Romeo] We gotta push you back, we gotta push you back.
    Romeo: [to Adam] Hold on! Hold on, hold on. [tries to break free from Adam's hold on him]
    Adam: [laughs] I'm not gonna kiss you, bro.
    Romeo: [to Adam] That's what I'm saying. Don't...don't touch me. Don't touch me!
    Adam: [to Romeo] I'm not gonna touch you. [in confessional] He...just, like, snaps.
    Romeo: [to Adam] Don't touch me!
    Adam: [to Romeo] Okay.
    Romeo: [to Adam] Don't [bleep] touch me.
    Adam: [to Romeo] Yeah, alright. [laughs] You don't wanna do this. You're the one that's...
    Romeo: [to Adam] That's what I'm saying!
    Adam: [to Romeo] You're the one who's drunk.
    Romeo: [to Adam] That's what I'm saying!
    Adam: [to Romeo] I'm not gonna punch you. That's an automatic disqualification from the competition. And you're not gonna punch me.
    Romeo: [to Adam] You're not a model. And we already know that.
    Adam: [to Romeo] Who knows that?
    Romeo: [to Adam] You're not a model!
    Adam: [laughs] If we were not in this house, and we were at a bar, you'd be on the floor on the way to the hospital.
    Romeo: [to Adam] I don't give a [bleep]!
    Adam: [to Romeo] Yeah, go [bleep] yourself.
    Romeo: [to Adam] You think this is a game? You're going home!
    [Will, Keith, Denzel, and Mirjana walk out to the balcony where Adam and Romeo are still arguing]
    Will: [in confessional] Romeo freaks out and starts yelling at Adam. All of us are really scared about what's about to happen.
    Romeo: [to Adam] You don't look like a model! You look like a personal trainel.
    Keith: [laughs] This is good!
    Adam: [to Romeo] Trainel?
    Romeo: [to Adam] Trainer.
    Adam: [to Romeo] I don't understand the aggression. There's zero percent chance I'd punch you right now. So I don't know if it's like...
    Romeo: [to Adam] So punch me! So punch me!
    Mirjana: Romeo, chill out!
    Romeo: [to Adam] So punch me!
    Adam: [to Romeo] I'm not gonna punch you 'cause it's an automatic...
    Romeo: [headbutts Adam] So punch me!
    [Adam throws his hands up]
    Denzel: [in confessional] Whoa! Romeo's provoking Adam to be physical and send him home, which is a cowardly tactic.
    [Mirjana pulls Adam away from Romeo, who is pulled away by Will]
    Adam: [to Romeo] Hit me, please!
    Romeo: [to Adam] Punch me!
    Adam: [to Romeo] Please do!
    Romeo: [to Romeo] I would love it!
# Ashleigh Brewer

Ashleigh May Brewer (9 December 1990–) is an Australian actress.

## Quotes

* I always think it’s exciting to be a part of a story that is set in such a beautiful aesthetic setting that is so far away!
** B&B's Ashleigh Brewer Interview: Could This Forrester Gal Turn Into "Poison Ivy" To Keep Liam? (November 25, 2014)
* It’s really hard coming to L.A. as an Australian, you land on American soil and you start fresh. The profile you had in Australia doesn’t really matter; You start again.
** THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL’s Ivy — Get to Know Ashleigh Brewer! (May 17, 2017)