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# Great Acceleration

The Great Acceleration refers to the most recent period of the Anthropocene during which the rate of impact of human activity upon the Earth's geology and ecosystems is increasing significantly.

## Quotes

* We are in an emergency situation in the Anthropocene epoch in which the disruption of the Earth system, particularly the climate, is threatening the planet as a place of human habitation. However, our political-economic system, capitalism, is geared primarily to the accumulation of capital, which prevents us from addressing this enormous challenge and accelerates the destruction. Natural scientists have done an excellent and courageous job of sounding the alarm on the enormous dangers of the continuation of business as usual with respect to carbon emissions and other planetary boundaries. But mainstream social science as it exists today has almost completely internalized capitalist ideology; so much so that conventional social scientists are completely unable to address the problem on the scale and in the historical terms that are necessary. They are accustomed to the view that society long ago “conquered” nature and that social science concerns only people-people relations, never people-nature relations. This feeds a denialism where Earth system-scale problems are concerned. Those mainstream social scientists who do address environmental issues more often than not do so as if we are dealing with fairly normal conditions, and not a planetary emergency, not a no-analogue situation. There can be no gradualist, ecomodernist answer to the dire ecological problems we face, because when looking at the human effect on the planet there is nothing gradual about it; it is a Great Acceleration and a rift in the Earth system. The problem is rising exponentially, while worsening even faster than that would suggest, because we are in the process of crossing all sorts critical thresholds and facing a bewildering number of tipping points.
** John Bellamy Foster, as quoted in A Resistance Movement for the Planet - Full Interview (July 02, 2017), Left Voice.
# Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution

The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution initiated by Tang Emperor Wuzong reached its height in the year 845 AD. Among its purposes were to appropriate war funds and to cleanse China of foreign influences. As such, the persecution was directed not only towards Buddhism but also towards other religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity, and Manichaeism.

## Quotes

* The hostile wrath of Confucianism toward Buddhist monasteries led to Emperor Wu Tsang's campaign of annihilation in the year 844. But Confucianism primarily justifies itself by the argument that the monasteries distracted people from useful work.
** Max Weber, Religion of China (1915), as translated by H., H. Gerth (1951), p. 159
# Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres (100 mi) wide in places and over 61 metres (200 ft) deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.

## Quotes

* Flowers turned to stone! Not all the botany Of Joseph Banks, hung pensive in a porthole, Could find the Latin for this loveliness, Could put the Barrier Reef in a glass box Tagged by the horrid Gorgon squint Of horticulture. Stone turned to flowers It seemed—you’d snap a crystal twig, One petal even of the water-garden, And have it dying like a cherry-bough.
* ... [T]here were more shoals outside Than teeth in a shark’s head.
** Kenneth Slessor, "Five Visions of Captain Cook" (1931), II
# Grazia Verasani

Grazia Verasani (C.E.1961 – living), Italian writer and singer-songwriter.

## Quotes by Grazia Verasani:

* Bologna maintains mysteries and has its own very metaphysical atmosphere despite being an earthly city. I think it is a city that lends itself very well to noir also because all the of porticoes on one side protect you from the sun and rain but also risk taking away the sky, the horizon, they are suffocating, claustrophobic protective. The Certosa, the cemetery, is the most open place in Bologna, from there you see everything, the plain, the hills. Even Lord Byron passing through Bologna said that the Certosa was the most open place in Bologna.
* My approach to the noir genre is always existential, I carry out investigations into feelings. For this reason I am also addressing readers who do not like detective stories in the strict sense, because blood is not abundant in my books, and the mere conflict between good and evil, crime and solving the crime, do not interest me. I prefer to move between the shadows, the chiaroscuro, talk about anxieties, observe society through what I call "a cold reflection on feelings". But in the end, beyond genres, all books should tell a mystery, investigate what Dostoevsky called "the mystery man". And the greatest mystery is love [...].
* women are not afraid to admit their weaknesses: we always play with our cards exposed.
* I know mature women, with multiple degrees, who take continuous injections of botulinum. Another own goal. The more society wants us to be young and desirable, the more we acclimatise to a market demand where looking our best is a guarantee of "being loved". What a mistake... But I put a lot of trust in male intelligence, the kind that chooses companions of the same age, that prefers personality (charm) to a smoothness (whether fake or authentic) without character. In ancient times, streets were called "wrinkles". Isn't it wonderful? In this image there is all the crossing, the transit, of those who have walked, generation after generation, on the earth. And the sweetness of growing old like the alleys and stones of a city that has seen a lot...

## Note:

* ↑ From the interview with Eleonora Aragona, /06/30/la-dotta-la-malinconica-la-misteriosa-la-bologna-noir-di-grazia-verasani/ The learned, the mysterious: the Bologna noir by Grazia Verasani, ilgiornaleoff.it , 30 June 2016.
* ↑ From Grazia Versani talks about Without apparent reason, letteratitudinenews.wordpress.com, 11 December 2015.
* ↑ From the interview -libro-mare-interno-1.347076 Grazia Verasani: "At fifty years old I reflect on us ramshackle women", ilrestodelcarlino.it, 28 October 2014.
* ↑ From the interview with Marilù Oliva, -women-and-their-grace-interview-with-grazia-verasani/ Women and their grace. Interview with Grazia Verasani, camillaonline.com, 15 October 2009.
# Derek Jarman

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994) was a British film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. He is most known for his controversial films including Sebastiane (1975), the first film in Latin, Jubilee (1977) in which Queen Elizabeth I was transported to the punk contemporary England, and Blue (1993) which depicted his own suffering with AIDS. Jarman was gay and an outspoken supporter of gay rights; he also cultivated a beautiful garden at his home in Dungeness, Kent.

## Quotes

* People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."
** In Bergen Filmklub.
* On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.
** At Your Own Risk (1991).
* Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek.
** Letter to the Minister (1992).
# Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (/ˈdʒækəbi/; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor of stage and screen.
Early in his professional career, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier, and Jacobi became one of the founding members of the National Theatre Company (then based at The Old Vic) in 1963. He has appeared in many Shakespearean stage productions including Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, and King Lear. Jacobi received a Laurence Olivier Award for the lead role in Cyrano de Bergerac in 1983 (then known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night in 2009. He also gained the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing in 1985.
Jacobi's television work include his role as the eponymous Roman Emperor in I, Claudius (BBC mini-series, 1976), for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Among his other TV appearances are major parts in the medieval drama series Cadfael (1994–1998) and in the BBC's Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020). He portrayed Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor in the third season of The Crown in 2019.

## Quotes

* The only ego I've got is when I'm performing.
** From an interview, as cited in "'I've got a feeling I won't be on stage again': Derek Jacobi on age, ego, Igglepiggle and unrequited love", The Guardian (17 October 2022)
* My abiding memory ... is my mother’s reaction. [...] She and my father attended a big first night at the Vic, with all the glitterati there — Judy Garland and goodness knows who else. My poor parents were gobsmacked. Anyway, Sir Laurence comes up at the reception and asks my mother if she has seen the Othello film yet. "Oh yes, we thought it was very good, Sir Laurence," she replies, "but that was a bugger of a wig you made Derek wear." She was quite right. It was a bugger of a wig — but I just wanted the ground to swallow us up.
** From an interview, as cited in "Derek Jacobi at 84: ‘In my line of work you can go on for ever’", The Times (12 November 2022)
** In the National Theatre Company production of Othello, and the film version, Jacobi played Cassio. The director of the original production was John Dexter, and Stuart Burge directed the film on which it was based.
# Derek Fowlds

Derek Fowlds (2 September 1937 - 17 January 2020) was an English actor, best known for his appearances in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, The Basil Brush Show and Heartbeat.

## Quotes

* In playing the character of Bernard Woolley, I thought, "I guess I've made it. Here am I, from a secondary modern school, playing a classics scholar from Marlborough and Oxford who's going to be head of the Civil Service." Paul Eddington used to correct my pronunciation. I said garij and he said, "What's that word?" I should have said guh-rarrge.
** "Education: Passed/Failed Derek Fowlds", The Independent (19 August 1998).
# Derek Boateng

Derek Owusu Boateng (/ˈboʊtɛŋ/ BOH-teng; born 2 May 1983) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in Ghana, Boateng went on to play professional football in Greece, Sweden, Israel, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, England, and the United States during a career that spanned between 1999 and 2017. A full international between 2001 and 2013, he won 47 caps for the Ghana national team and represented his country at the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups.

## Quotes
### About GFA

* The FA owns a lot of players in the national teams and that's why we don't perform when CK was there, the FA were telling him the king of players he should call and when things didn't go well they kicked him out.
** He said this in an interview the Joy Sports about the failures of the GFA in tournaments on 1 July 2023
* The GFA think they have answers to everything. our youth football is collapsing and it's about time we stop thinking about Black Stars
** He said this in an interview the Joy Sports about the failures of the GFA in tournaments on 1 July 2023
* It's about time we start being fair and tough in our decision. We haven't done enough to be at the Olympic Games.
# Derek Jackson

Professor Derek Ainslie Jackson, FRS, DFC, AFC, OBE and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor (June 23, 1906 – February 20, 1982) was a noted spectroscopist.

## Quotes

* Never go to a public lavatory in London. I always pee in the street. You may be fined a few pounds for committing a nuisance, but in a public lavatory you risk two years in prison because a policeman in plain clothes says you smiled at him.
** as quoted by Diana Mosley (1985). Loved ones: pen portraits. Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 93.
# Jewish and democratic state

Jewish and democratic state is the Israeli legal definition of the nature and character of the State of Israel.

## Quotes

* In the Israeli democracy, we will continue to protect the rights of both the individual and the group, this is guaranteed. But the majority have rights too, and the majority rules, the vast majority of people want to preserve the Jewish character of our country for generations to come, this combination of individual rights and group rights are the definition of a Jewish and democratic state.
** Benjamin Netanyahu, as quoted in Defending controversial Jewish state bill, Netanyahu says ‘majority rules’ (12 July 2018) by Tamar Pileggi, The Times of Israel.
* Netanyahu didn’t lie to me – he lied to all of you. He didn’t lead me astray, he led the entire nation astray
** Benny Gantz in Is Israel facing 4th elections in 2 years? December 2, 2020

## See also

* Basic Law proposal: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People
* Israel and the apartheid analogy
* Palestine
* Zionism

## External links

* A Jewish and Democratic State, WZO.
# Jewish fundamentalism

Jewish fundamentalism refers to fundamentalism in the context of Judaism.

## Quotes

* Following publication of the first edition of this book, some individual anti-Semites and anti-Semitic groups began to utilize parts of what Israel Shahak and I wrote about Jewish fundamentalists to justify their hatred of Jews. They alleged that by revealing ideas of Jewish fundamentalists we have confirmed generalizations about the "evil nature" of Jews. They have taken our criticism of Jewish fundamentalism out of context and have utilized it in an invalid manner for their ugly purpose. … It should be obvious that Israel Shahak and I abhor what these anti-Semites do but that we are not responsible for them or for what they do.
** Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, second edition, Pluto Press (1999), p. xiv. ISBN: 0-7453-2091-0.

## See also

* Judaism
# Jhalkaribai

Jhalkaribai (22 November 1830 – 5 April 1858)[2] was a woman soldier who played an important role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. She served in the women's army of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi. She eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen, Rani of Jhansi.[3] At the height of the Siege of Jhansi, she disguised herself as the queen and fought on her behalf, on the front, allowing the queen to escape safely out of the fort.[3][4]

## Quotes

* Jhalkaribai! While she remains in oblivion in the pages of History text books, she is revered as one of the bravest daughters of Bharat Mata from the Bahujan community.
** Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
* Through her role in the 1857 War of Independence and for the freedom of Jhansi, through her valor and sacriﬁce, she has left behind a rich legacy for millions to emulate.
** Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
# Francis Peabody

Francis Peabody (November 24, 1881 - October 13, 1927) was an American physician and medical researcher.

## Quotes
### The Care of the Patient ; Journal of the American Medical Association (1927)

* The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy, and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
* What is spoken of as a clinical picture is not just a photograph of a sick man in bed; it is an impressionistic painting of the patient surrounded by his home, his work, his relations, his friends, his joys, sorrows, hopes and fears. Now all of this background of sickness which bears so strongly on the symptomatology is liable to be lost sight of in the hospital.
* Look out for all the little incidental things that you can do for his comfort. These, too, are part of the care of the patient. Some of them will fall technically in the field of nursing but you will always be profoundly grateful for any nursing technic that you have acquired. It is worth your while to get the nurse to teach you the right way to feed a patient, change the bed, or give a bedpan.
* ...it is much easier to make a wrong diagnosis than it is to unmake it.

### Notes on the Effect of Morphine (1927)

* My own professional and personal experience has shown me that morphine is the gift of God, but depending upon how it is used it may be either “God’s Own Medicine” or “The Devil’s Own Poison.”

## Quotes about Francis Peabody

* Dr. Francis W. Peabody was still a young man when he wrote one of the great classics of American medicine, The Care of the Patient. He knew he was suffering of malignant disease at the time when he gave his address to the Harvard graduating class on October 21, 1926, and he died one year later at age 47.
** Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities
* Peabody’s wife remembered him saying, “I am absolutely sure that this little lecture will be remembered long after anything of a scientific nature I have written has been forgotten.”
** Cell2Soul: The Journal of Humane Medicine and the Medical Humanities
* He liked people. He had delightful social qualities, and concealed a seriousness of mind and a great earnestness of purpose under a delightful and winning humor.
** The Journal of Clinical Investigation
# Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodies, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.

## Quotes about Poulenc

* This Poulenc recital was extremely interesting, in terms of both the choice of works and the high standard of the performers, all of whom are excellent musicians. With the exception of the sonata (or concerto) for two pianos, all the works were new to me, and so I got to know lots of new things, most of them charming and elegant, if occasionally not without a touch of sentimentality. I don't consider Poulenc a particularly great composer, but I understand the love that the French feel for him and am not far from sharing it with them.
** Sviatoslav Richter, in Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations (2002)
# Francis Pegahmagabow

Francis Pegahmagabow, MM and two bars, (9 March 1891 – 5 August 1952) was the aboriginal soldier most highly decorated for bravery in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of World War I. Later in life, he served as chief and a councilor for the Wasauksing First Nation, and as an activist and leader in several First Nations organizations.

## Quotes

* When I was at Rossport, on Lake Superior, in 1914, some of us landed from our vessel to gather blueberries near an Ojibwa camp. An old Indian recognized me, and gave me a tiny medicine-bag to protect me, saying that I would shortly go into great danger. The bag was of skin, tightly bound with a leather thong. Sometimes it seemed to be as hard as rock, at other times it appeared to contain nothing. At night it seemed to be rising and falling like it could breathe. I kept it with me at all times and I don't think I could have survived the war without it. —Francis Pegahmagabow
** Carroll, Al (2008). Medicine bags and dog tags: American Indian veterans from colonial times to the second Iraq War (2008 ed.). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803210851. p. 111
* My mother [Eva] told me he used to go behind enemy lines, rub shoulders with the enemy forces and never get caught. … He was always saying how we have to live in harmony with all living things in this world.—Duncan Pegahmagabow (son).
** Veterans Affairs Canada (June 30, 2005). Native Soldiers - Foreign Battlefields. Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved on 2010-05-11.
* he [agent Daly] conducts his office as being a whole Dominion Government, Indian Agent, Indian Chief and Council, all into one … the Agent appears as taking too much advantage of his powers over the Chief and council and causing a considerable strife an [animosity] amoung the Indians of this Reserve … foiling the labors of the chief and members of the council, discrediting those who assist to maintain good government of the Band.
** Brownlie, Robin (2003). A fatherly eye: Indian agents, government power, and Aboriginal resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 (2003 ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780195417845. , p. 153
# Francis Rooney

Francis Rooney (December 4, 1953 –) is an American politician and diplomat.

## Quotes

* Perhaps more than ever, the modern world requires the Holy See's "soft power" of persuasion rather than coercion, to drive a diplomacy based on ideas and fundamental human rights—and needs to provide a possibility of conflict resolution without military intervention.
** Former US Ambassador to Holy See Francis Rooney Speaks on His 'The Global Vatican' (21 December 2015) Zenit
# Goats (webcomic)

Goats is a webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg.

### Philip

* Only God can make a tree but only technology can simulate a dog peeing on one.
** Goats archive
# Goblins (webcomic)

Goblins - Life Through Their Eyes is a Dungeons & Dragons - themed webcomic written and drawn by Ellipsis Stephens. It launched on June 26, 2005, and is still running.

## Book 1

* Young-and-Beautiful: For countless generations we have done things a certain way. We can't just do everything differently now because it "makes sense".
    07/04/2005, The Goblins Discuss the Poorly Locked Chest
* Minmax: The oversensitive Dungeon Master strikes again.
    08/22/2005, Herbert Strikes Again
* Fumbles: Face the wrath of 1/11th of a sleep spell!
    09/03/2005, Fumble's Perfect Character
* Asks Nonsense: As a blind goblin, how do you know when to stop wiping your ass?
    09/25/2005, Thaco's Introduction

## Book 2

* Fumbles: I declare my dodge on you!!
    02/04/2006, Dodge
* Forgath: Watch it, you hill giant's ass hair!
    03/10/2006, Yumyuck Moss
* Thaco: I don't mind dying, but having to wait for it like this is torture. It's taking forever. Like watching paint dry in hell.
    Complains of Names: Wouldn't paint dry really fast in hell?
    06/23/2006, Yellow Musk Creeper
* Tuck: Ironic coincidences happen all the time to adventurers.
    07/21/2006, Horribly Hunted

## Book 3

* Sergeant Marwood: I don't want to hear anyone bitching about having to shovel the minotaur crap!
    04/22/2007, Above the Guards
* Saral Caine: How many times do I have to kill you before you die!?
    10/02/2007, Another Battle's End
* Captain Dellyn Goblinslayer: Do you know what makes someone legendary? It's how badly your enemies want to kill you.
    01/28/2008, Goblinslayer's Plan
* Thaco: We are not jumping off this roof to our deaths! We're jumping off that roof to our deaths. It's got a tree.
    04/15/2008, Into the Fires of Hell

## External links

* Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes