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# Atiśa

Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master from Bengal.

## Quotes

* The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the world's ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
** Atiśa, as quoted in Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning (2008) by Walter Taminang, p. 63
# Adaeze Yobo

Adaeze Yobo (born Adaeze Stephanie Chinenye Igwe) is the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2008 and represented Nigeria at the Miss World 2008. She is Igbo from Anambra State.

## Quotes

* Marriage Is Not By Force.
** Adaeze Yobo's quotes
* A good marriage is a gift from God.
** Adaeze Yobo's quotes
* We dont fight or argue over ANYTHING because we both know our rights, duties, responsibilities and PLACE in our household.
** Adaeze Yobo's quotes
* Marriage is when a man and a Woman decides to become ONE. Troubles starts when they cant decide WHICH ONE to be.
** Adaeze Yobo's quotes
# Ada Ameh

Ada Ameh although a native of Idoma in Benue State, she was born and raised in Ajegunle in Lagos State, a south-western geographical part of Nigeria predominantly occupied by the Yoruba-speaking people of Nigeria.

## Quotes

* ""“I’ve been depressed for some years and it became worse when I lost my daughter in 2020.""
* ""I have an issue right now that can take my life, but I won't die. I would get over it"""
* ""I have depression, I have been depressed for some years and it became very worse when I lost my daughter in 2020. I was 14 when I had her, she was my best friend, and sister, I just saw my world crumbling down before me.”""
# Ada Hegerberg

Ada Martine Stolsmo Hegerberg (born 10 July 1995) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the Norway national team.

## Quotes

* "I was very fortunate to grow up in the family that I did. I had a mom and dad who were extremely focused toward gender equality. I would call my dad a little feminist sometimes."
* "We need to put the same demands on young girls in order for them to feel seen. We don’t take young girls as seriously as we do young boys. And as a footballer, I can see that the end product is not going to be the same quality as it is with the men. We’re just behind, you know?"
* "We’ve come a long way, but there’s still such a long way to go, and is it happening at the pace we want it to happen? I don’t think so. You have all these young girls, and it’s about getting them in an environment where they can practice the sport. And I think we failed a little bit."
* "The world of football is not just about football; it’s a game of power, gender equality, democracy, and a lot of politics as well."
* "I take a lot of responsibility in terms of using my platform to carry the sport into the right direction. Because I know that you’ve had trailblazers before me. Pioneers, grandmothers, mothers. Amazing, badass women who fought for us to get to the place where we’re at today, and I genuinely think that we need to carry that responsibility to make room for the next generation."
** Soccer player Ada Hegerberg speaks about football’s gender disparity problem, and her closer-to-home ambitions by Juno Kelly. Retrieved 13/11/2023.
* "It’s important to say that, in order to be able to be ambitious, or to reach goals, you also need to create an environment where people can stand up, have their opinions and not be put in a box and I am quite confident that I’m coming back into an environment where I will be allowed to be myself."
* "As long as you keep consistency in the way you work and in the way you think and are always thinking positively and have a nice little offensive spirit you will get there."
** Ada Hegerberg on her Norway return: ‘I can’t wait to inspire some new kick-ass kids’ by Suzanne Wrack. March 25, 2022. Retrieved 13/11/2023.
# Ada Limón

Ada Limón (born March 28, 1976) is a poet who lives in the USA.

## Quotes

* in this particularly hard moment, divided moment, poetry can really help us reclaim our humanity.
** Interview with NPR (2022)
* The intention I have around building a project is to see if I can do something that helps us not only reconnect with our humanity but helps us repair our relationship with the natural world. I think so often we forget that our relationship to the Earth is reciprocal. And I think we've not only felt very disconnected from one another, from our communities, but also from the planet, and that's how harm is done. And so I think that I would really love to figure out how, you know, through poetry we might be able to repair that relationship with the Earth, with nature.
** Interview with NPR (2022)
* (Do you see a role that poetry can play in the fight against climate change?) Poets—incredible nature poets like Mary Oliver, Gabriela Mistral, or Audre Lorde—look deeply at the world and make us feel like we are connected. Poetry that addresses the natural world helps us repair that connection. When you are paying attention to something, it’s a way of loving something. How can we continue to hurt something that we love?
** Interview (2022)
* I’m a big proponent of writing outside...I used to go to the Sonoma coast as a child, and it’s a wonderful place to write. There’s a lot of creativity to be mined in the ocean landscape because it’s always moving, always churning. It tones out some of the chaos of the brain. You hear that rush and pull of the ocean, and you’re lulled into a new rhythm for poetry.
** Interview (2022)
* I’ve always loved birds. What bird-watching allows is to get out of yourself. The birds are not worried about news. They’re just breathing. They’re focusing on this moment. There’s a lesson to be learned from that.
** Interview (2022)

## External links

* Official Site
* Official Blog
* Twitter page
* Poetry Foundation page
* poets.org page
# Ada Ehi

Ada Ogochukwu Ehi (born 18 September 1987), popularly known by her stage name Ada Ehi, is a Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter, recording and performing artist. She started her musical career at the age of 10 as a backup singer for child star Tosin Jegede. Since she professionally started her music career under Loveworld Records in 2009, she has increasingly gained local and international popularity through her songs and music videos.

## Quote

* “Don’t try to tailor yourself to somebody else’s story because you might just deprive the world of the beautiful story that would have been you.”
** Ada Ehi's quote
* “Don’t make any decision for now; don’t make permanent decisions on where you are now. Think about you in the future; don’t make temporary decisions to soothe or cater for temporary needs or present purchase.”
** Ada Ehi's quote
* “If you are not preparing for the future, then everything that you are doing would not add on.”
** Ada Ehi's quote
# Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson (10 October 1862 – 30 August 1933) was a British novelist. She was nicknamed "Sphinx" by her friend, Oscar Wilde. She was a writer in the "comedy of manners" tradition, depicting love and marriage with affection and satirical wit.

## Quotes
### Love's Shadow (1908)

* "Lady Cannon's gone to a matinée at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't use them then. She preferred to go alone in the afternoon, because she detests the theatre, anyhow, and afternoon performances give her a headache. If she does a thing that's disagreeable to her, she likes to do it in the most painful possible way. She has a beautiful nature."
** Chapter ii.
* Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning.
** Chapter xxiv.
* As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
** Chapter xxxix.

### Tenterhooks (1912)

* He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
** Chapter vii.
* She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
** Chapter x.

### Love at Second Sight (1916)

* Somehow she had thought of him so much that when she actually saw him again her affection seemed cooler. Had she worn out the passion by dint of constancy?
** Chapter x.
* Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
** Chapter xviii.

## Quotes about Ada Leverson

* On the first occasion she had sat next Henry James at dinner, she had not been able to resist putting to him certain questions about his books, for she had been a lifelong admirer of them, and that, at last, after he had answered some of these murmured inquiries, he had turned his melancholy gaze upon her, and had said to her, "Can it be— it must be— that you are that embodiment of the incorporeal, the elusive yet ineluctable being to whom through the generations novelists have so unavailingly made invocation; in short, the Gentle Reader? I have often wondered in what guise you would appear or, as it were, what incarnation you would assume."
** Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences and Courteous Revelations (1950).

## External links

* Works by Ada Leverson at Project Gutenberg
# Ada Udechukwu

Ada Udechukwu (born 1960) is a Nigerian artist and poet associated with the Nsukka group. Born in the city of Enugu, Nigeria, Udechukwu is the daughter of an Igbo father and an American mother. When the Eastern part of Nigeria attempted to break out of Nigeria to form what was called the Republic of Biafra, this led to a civil war in Nigeria which was generally called the Biafran war of 1967–70. Due to the war, she and her siblings took refuge in Michigan USA with their mother while their father stayed back in Nigeria. They remained in Michigan until 1971, a year after the end of the Biafran War. She studied under the author Chinua Achebe, earning her bachelor's degree in English and literature at the University of Nigeria.

## Quotes

* The thing is you’re creating images with words in one, with line, texture, paint in the other. What unites the two in terms of the way in which I approach the creative process is how to create an image and allow it to speak.
** vignette Ada spoke about her memories Naija times
* In my opinion, most professionals also become extinct not because they do the wrong things, but because they keep doing what used to be the right things for too long
** Ada shared opinion about growth The Entrepreneur Africa
* For the greater part of my life, I have struggled against internal and external boundaries, journeying in search of a space that continually eluded me. A space where I might be free of the often confusing and contradictory signals that a biracial person faces. It took me time to realize that the place I was looking for lies within.
** Ada spoke about her space Art Africa Magazine
# Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju

Aurore Mimosa Munyangaju (born Aurore Mimosa), is a Rwandan businesswoman and politician who is former Minister of Sports since 5 November 2019.

## Quotes

* Sport challenges inequalities in gender, race, and disabilities and is a means to educate against anti-social behaviours and re-integrate marginalized groups
** "Sport Challenges Inequalities, Brings People Together Mimosa said", (The New Times June 23 2022)
* Sport has played an important role in rebuilding the social cohesion, reconciliation and citizen mobilization towards peace building.
** https://www.minisports.gov.rw/news-detail?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=23786&cHash=b91b08efc425ff6f468a6d5abb986c94], Minisports News, 2022
* I do not think there is a price on a country’s visibility. This is a long-term plan; you may not get benefits immediately but in the next few years, you can start to see the benefits,
** https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/159276/News/nyagatare-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-drug-traffickers The African News, AUGUST 31 2023
# Aurore Mutesi Kayiranga

Aurore Mutesi Kayiranga (born 1993 in Bujumbura) is a Rwandan model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Rwanda 2012. She was crowned Miss Rwanda 2012, Miss University Africa Rwanda 2012, Miss Heritage Rwanda 2012, Miss Fespam Panafrica 2013, and Miss Supranational Rwanda 2014.

## Quotes

* It is a place that drives community conversations about the past, peace and reconciliation
** said by Aurore genocidearchiverwanda (07 DECEMBER 2015)
* It was my dream to win the coveted title. But I was not sure I could make it simply because I knew that the contest was very tight and each of us had the same aim,”
** Kayiranga said Newtimes (Monday, December 12, 2022)
* The hopes and aspirations of the Rwandan youth today and admired the work that FORA is involved in to make this a reality
** friends-of-rwanda-association-celebrates-20-years-of-giving The Rwanda Embassy, (November 21,2015)

## External links

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# Aurélien Agbénonci

Aurélien Agbénonci (born 20 october 1958) is a beninese diplomat who served in the government of Benin as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2023. Previously he was Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).

## Quotes

* I moved on. You have to have a sense of the pages that are turning.
* Aurélien Agbénonci (2024) on RFI : A. Agbénonci: dans le bras de fer Bénin-Niger: «Il faut désigner des intermédiaires, personne ne sera gagnant»
# Austen Robin Crapp

Austen Robin Crapp (5 March 1934 – 6 March 2024) was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Aitape.

## Quotes

* The diocese responded immediately with medical and material aid. The victims are badly traumatised and need a long period of professional counselling, besides the Sacraments. This programme will last for 3 - 5 years. The response from inside and outside Papua New Guinea was immense. The tragedy brought the churches together in an ecumenical exercise of charity. This gives hope for the future of Christianity in Papua New Guinea.
** Rev. Austen CRAPP, O.F.M., Diocesan Administrator of Aitape, Papua New Guinea (24 November 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
# Beauty Manake

Beauty Manake is a Botswanan politician and educator. She is the current Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry in Botswana, having been appointed to the position in 2019 by the current president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi. Her term began on 13 February 2022.

## Quotes

* When I started working, my mother was making four times what I was earning so I was like ‘I have been reading a lot and this woman hasn’t been in school, not even one day and she is making a lot of money, is this how I am going to continue in this corporate world while my mother is out there, being her own boss, making a lot of money?’ Basically that’s how I entered into farming
* I entered into farming not because I was passionate about it. I didn’t know anything about farming. I entered into farming because I wanted money and I wanted it quick
* My mother was trading in vegetables; she was importing vegetables and fresh fruits from South Africa. During holidays, I would go with her to South Africa and the most interesting thing is that when crossing over to South Africa, the minute you reach the border, everything starts being green. That means farming; there are so many big farms and people there. It’s all green,
* Now, I’m passionate about it, I live it, I eat it, I do everything to do with farming, For me, walking into a field every day and seeing how green it is, smelling the smell of oranges, it’s therapeutic.

## References

* ↑ Botswana Government Ministries". www.govpage.co.za. Retrieved 2023-12-13
* ↑ Republic of Botswana ♦ Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden ♦". www.botswana.se. Retrieved 2023-12-13
# Beautiful People (UK TV series)

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan

## season 2
### How I Got My Groom [2.01]

* Most 14-year-old boys in 1998 were fancying girls and playing football.
** Me and my best mate Kylie were fancying footballers and playing girls…

### How I Got My Gash [2.06]

* I'm not like other boys...
** Good, other boys are crap.
* No they're not, otherwise why would I like them so much?

## External links

* Beautiful People quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Apoxyomenos

Quotes on the Apoxyómenos, bronze statue of Lysippus is a subject of Greek votive sculpture; representing an athlete.

## Quotes on Apoxyomenos:

* Yet despite this calm attitude, the figure throbs with movement; we can already see it passing from the left leg to the right and back to the left, swinging, elastic; it seems to prevent the action of her arms. And so the contour lines, the planes of the surface from the tips of the feet to the head with a slightly tired and nervous expression, up to the curls of the hair, all appear moved, fluctuating, continually varying direction and relief. Movement in rest: this is how the impression produced by this figure could be summed up. (Emanuel Löwy)
* Lysippus makes the head smaller, but at the same time gives the whole figure tall, slender proportions. And the move is devoid of refinement, everything is casual and easy, and the whole exudes a noble elegance: he is an athlete of noble birth, of refined education, of high conscience, of ready, lucid intellectuality. (Pericle Ducati)
* The attitude of the apoxyómenos is posed, with the body supported by the left leg and with the right stretched slightly backwards; yet the whole figure is crossed by a nervous throb of movement, since one gets the very vivid impression that, even with the simple action of wiping oneself with the strigil, the athlete continually changes in the support of the right leg to that of the left and so on . And the impression of lively liveliness of the arms also arises. Everything in this nervous elasticity is fluctuating, moved, agitated; yet the figure is at rest! (Pericle Ducati)

## Related entries:

* Lysippus
# Apolo Anton Ohno

Apolo Anton Ohno (born May 22, 1982) is an American short track speed skating competitor and a two-time gold medalist in the Winter Olympics. He also competed in and won the reality TV show, Dancing with the Stars in 2007.

## Sourced

* To be able to come out of that mess as I did is special. To be able to improve my relations with my dad is special. I'm happy with the way my life's going, the way I'm growing up as a person. Skating has changed me. I've had a lot of chances, and this is my time to shine.
** Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics
** Price, S.L. (2002) "Launch of Apolo" Sports Illustrated. (accessed May 24, 2007)
* Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.
** On speedskating
** Gordon, Devin (2006-01-23), "APOLO ANTON OHNO: SPEED SKATING". Newsweek. 147 (4):48

## About

* I always end up in the bathroom, doing his hair.
** Yuki Ohno, Apolo's dad and hair stylist
** Price, S.L. (2002) "Launch of Apolo" Sports Illustrated (accessed May 24, 2007)

## Notes

* ↑ "Olympic Medalist Ohno Takes 'Dancing' Crown". AOL. 2007-05-23. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.

## External links

* Official Site
* Official U.S. Olympic Team Biography
* Apolo Anton Ohno on IMDb
# Apostasy in Christianity

Apostasy in Christianity is the rejection of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian and/or who wishes to administratively be removed from a formal registry of church members. The term apostasy comes from the Greek word apostasia ("ἀποστασία") meaning "defection", "departure", "revolt", or "rebellion". It has been described as "a willful falling away from, or rebellion against, Christianity. Apostasy is the rejection of Christ by one who has been a Christian...." "Apostasy is a theological category describing those who have voluntarily and consciously abandoned their faith in the God of the covenant, who manifests himself most completely in Jesus Christ." "Apostasy is the antonym of conversion; it is deconversion."

## Quotes

* I can say this with some authority, as I know what I am speaking about from experience. I am an apostate from another “true religion” myself. As a child, I was a devout Catholic, even considering a life in the priesthood. Like most friends and acquaintances, I outgrew the faith of my youth, and have gone through all the phases of doubt and compromise. Finally I had to face the certainty that Christianity was fundamentally mistaken and unnecessary, eventhough its morality, arts and everyday worldview had a lot that remains worth preserving. So, I am not asking anything from the Muslims that I haven’t been through myself. I know from experience that there is life after apostasy.
** Dr. K. Elst (2015) quoted in
# Balraj Madhok

Balraj Madhok (25 February 1920 – 2 May 2016) was an Indian political activist and politician from Jammu.

## Quotes

* The change of way of worship under duress or for other reasons has not changed their forefathers or their culture. Culture is associated with a country and not with a religion.
** B. Madhok: Indianisation quoted in Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001) by Koenraad Elst
* On the grounds that since Muslims had become allergic to me they would not join the party.
** The reason given by the BJS leadership when asking Balraj Madhok to leave the party, in 1973, according to B. Madhok.
** Balraj Madhok: "A Question of Power", Indian Express, 29 October 1995. Quoted from Elst, K. BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence (1997)

## Quotes about Madhok

* The strongest BJS party leader in the 1960s was undoubtedly Balraj Madhok (1921), who taught History in Delhi University.
** Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001) by Koenraad Elst
* Madhok was a committed anti-Communist and this brought him in conflict with the more Left-leaning party leaders, who sought to form “unprincipled” alliances with the Left parties in states where this could ensure a non-Congress majority and an “opposition government” (as non-Congress governments were then called).
** Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001) by Koenraad Elst
* For this reason, the erstwhile Jana Sangh leader Balraj Madhok, while remaining true to the old condemnation of the Mahatma as a false Messiah, at the same time denounced the murder on political as much as on moral grounds. He wrote that the murder was ‘a very un-Hindu act’, which saved the Mahatma from ‘the dustbin of history’ for which he was headed after the creation of Pakistan, and had crowned the victory of Islamic separatism over Gandhi’s Hindu vision of trans-sectarian unity.
** Madhok, B. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2018). Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence. New Delhi : Rupa, 2018.