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# Abdilatif Abdalla

Abdilatif Abdalla (born 1946) is a Kenyan writer and political activist. He was imprisoned for his support of the Kenya People's Union and began writing poetry in solitary confinement. A collection of poems from this time were published as a book titled Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony), which was awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.

## Quotes

* I do not regard myself as a poet. And I am not saying this out of modesty. People say I am, but I really am not. I think a poet is someone who writes poetry oftenly. I don’t. I do so only occasionally – once in a very long while. For instance, if somebody had written an article or two on a particular topic in history, would you call that person a historian? To me, a poet is somebody who is always at it – composing poetry regularly, which I don’t. People just decided to call me a poet because of this one book, Sauti ya Dhiki, which I wrote when I was in prison. Perhaps if I would not have been imprisoned, maybe I would not have written any poetry. I do not know. So I do not regard myself as a poet, but as somebody who happened to have scribbled a few poems.
* Imprisonment failed to break me. In fact it made me stronger. I came out of prison with a stronger conviction than when I went in. I always say jokingly that I thank the government for sending me to prison, because while there I got to know myself better and what I was capable of. That is why I continued with political activism after my release.
* Because by writing, such writers – especially those who were imprisoned because of their writing, and while in prison were denied writing materials – are at the same time defying the powers that be and making a very bold statement that there is no way that they can be stopped from expressing their views through writing. In other words, by doing so they continue to resist against the very system, which imprisoned and restricted them.
# Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed

Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (Afar: Qabdulkadir Kamil Macammad; born 1 July 1951) is a Djiboutian politician who currently serves as the Prime Minister of Djibouti since 1 April 2013.

## Quotes

* We don't have natural resources, but God has placed us in a strategic zone where about 30% of the maritime commerce in the world passes through. So, we are well-situated, and we plan to take advantage of this placement to have the maximum profit for our country and our people.
** Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (2018) cited in "Djibouti’s New Free-Trade Zone Creates Opportunities, Deepens Dependency" on VOA, 11 July 2018.
# Abdourahman Waberi

Abdourahman A. Waberi (born 1965) is a novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer from Djibouti City

## Quotes

* Languages are not owned by nations but by the people who use them and make them live.
** A contribution for the WikiAfrica Literature Project

## Works

* Le Pays Sans Ombre ("The Land Without Shadow"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1994, ISBN 2-908957-31-0
* Balbala, Serpent à plumes, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-07-042121-X
* Cahier nomade ("Nomad's Book"), Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1999 ISBN 2-84261-127-6
* L'oeil nomade ("Nomad's Eye"), CCFAR, Djibouti 1997, ISBN 2-7384-5222-1
* Les Nomades, mes frères vont boire à, la Grande Ourse ("The Nomads: My brothers go drinking in the Grande Ourse") Hachette Education, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7085-0231-X
* Rift, routes, rails ("Rifts, Roads and Rails"), Gallimard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-076023-5
* Transit, Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-076874-0
* Moisson de crânes ("Harvest of Skulls"), Serpent à plumes, Paris 2004 ISBN 2-7538-0020-0
* Aux Etats Unis d'Afrique, Lattès, Paris 2006
* Passage des larmes, Lattès, Paris, 2009

## External links

* Official site (mostly in French)
* Brief biography (in French)
* Stock Exchange Of Visions: Visions of Waberi Abdourahman (Video Interviews)
# Abdul Bari Siddiqui

Abdul Bari Siddiqui is an Indian politician who was the Finance Minister of Bihar. He was a MLA representing Alinagar, Darbhanga, Bihar. Siddiqui is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party.

## Quotes

* Those with powder, lipsticks and bob cut hairstyles would come forward in the name of women’s reservation. Rather, the government should provide reservations for women belonging to backward communities.
** On Friday, September 29, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui . while opposing the Women’s Reservation Bill.
# Abdication

Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies. While some cultures have viewed abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other societies it was a regular event, and helped maintain stability during political succession. Historically, abdications have occurred both by force (where the regnant was forced to abdicate on pain of death or other severe consequences) and voluntarily. Some rulers are ruled to have abdicated in absentia, vacating the physical throne and thus their position of power, although these judgments were generally pronounced by successors with vested interest in seeing the throne abdicated, and often without or despite the direct input of the abdicating monarch. More recently, due to the largely ceremonial nature of the regnant in many constitutional monarchies, many monarchs have abdicated due to old age.

## Quotes

* ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* Obedience to a person, institution or power (heteronomous obedience) is submission; it implies the abdication of my autonomy and the acceptance of a foreign will of judgment in place of my own. Obedience to my own reason or conviction (autonomous obedience) is not an act of submission but one of affirmation. My conviction and my judgment, if authentically mine, are part of me. If I follow them rather than the judgment of others, I am being myself; hence the word obey can be applied only in a metaphorical sense and with a meaning which is fundamentally different from the one in the case of “heteronomous obedience.”
** Erich Fromm, “Disobedience as a psychological and moral problem,” On Disobedience (1981), p. 19.
* It would have been easier for me to make the great gesture of abdication. I would have been spared many a denunciation. But to leave a sinking ship, especially one that needed her captain more than ever, was a step I could not bring myself to take.
** Miklós Horthy, Memoirs (1957), annotated by Andrew L. Simon (2000), pp. 260-261.
* For me, it [being Queen] is a responsibility that does not include abdication. It is a task one has been given and taken upon oneself, and one does not relinquish it because it would perhaps be convenient personally to be rid of some of it.
** Margrethe II of Denmark, quoted in Bistrup, Anne, 'Margrethe', JP/Politikens Forlaghus (2005).
* No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head... When he ceases to lead... the revolt which casts him from power is only the outward manifestation of his previous abdication.
** Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore, The Abdication of Man (1998), p. 195.
# Abdul-Qādir Bedil

Mirza Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Mawlānā Abul-Ma'ālī Mīrzā Abdul-Qādir Bēdil (or Bīdel), also known as Bīdel Dehlavī (1644– 5 December 1720), was a Sufi saint and a remarkable poet from the Indian subcontinent.

## Quotes
### Rubaʿiyat (Quatrains)
#### Stanza

* It's in your nature to accept advice readily so don't fail in reaping benefit through me, This collection of our thought is open to all: so, read it and satisfy yourself completely.
** Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 53

#### Stanza

* Beauty, which the mirror of creation was beautifying, with a hundred thousand suns each atom caressing, despite its great glory was behind the unseen's veil... it did not know itself until humanity was blossoming.
** Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 59

### Stanza

* In this sea where rise up storms of 'me' and 'we', some of the population find escaping not so easy. No one's should be burdened by carrying another, every wave is a bridge, to be crossing over...'me'.
** Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 62

## External links

* Bedil: Selected Poems, translated by Paul Smith, Victoria (Australia), 2006
# Alida Francis

Alida Francis (born 1965) is a Sint Eustatian politician who currently serves as the Government Commissioner of Sint Eustatius since 22 June 2021.

## Quotes

* This positive case teaches us that the threat of COVID-19 is real. As a small island, we need to be prepared and remain vigilant.
** Alida Francis (2021) cited in: "Reporter tests positive for coronavirus in St. Eustatius" in The Daily Herald, 6 August 2021.
# Alien

Alien may refer to any of the following pages:
* Alien life
* Foreigners

## Films
### Alien (franchise)

* Alien (film) — the 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott
* Aliens (film) — the 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron
* Alien 3 — the 1992 science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher
* Alien: Resurrection — the 1997 science fiction film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

### Alien vs. Predator (franchise)

* Alien vs. Predator (film) — the 2004 science fiction horror film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
* Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem — the 2007 science fiction film directed by the Brothers Strause
This disambiguation page, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, lists articles associated with the name Alien. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
# Alice von Hildebrand

Alice M. von Hildebrand, (11 March 1923 – 14 January 2022) was a Belgian-born American Catholic philosopher, theologian, lecturer, author, and former professor. Von Hildebrand is also the second wife of Dietrich von Hildebrand.

## Quotes

* Stalin, soon after he came to power, ordered his cronies to invade Catholic seminaries (...) with young men that had neither faith nor morals. Now (...) the ideal cases: homosexual. Obviously, you don't suppose that someone (...) well, it's much more complicated, you know, to have an affair with a woman. But if you're a homosexual, and then it was a tragic mission (...). [Dodd] declared publicly — I repeat, publicly — that in the course of the 20 years of activities for the Communists, she recruited some 1,100 young men.
** See ChurchMilitant.com, Michael Voris, July 31, 2018
# Alicia Mayer

Catherine Gutierrez, known professionally as Alicia Mayer (born 2 May 1976), is a Filipino actress and model.

## Quotes

* I'm challenging Filipinos to really think about what "meat" is. Eating flesh means eating the corpse of a tortured animal who did not want to die. I'm encouraging kind consumers to give vegetarianism a try.
** "Alicia Mayer bares all for vegetarianism", ABS-CBN News (23 February 2011).

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Alicia Mayer on Wikipedia
# Alejandro Giammattei

Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla (born 9 March 1956) is a Guatemalan politician serving since 2020 as the 51th and current President of Guatemala.

## Quotes

* We consider ourselves an ally and friend (of the United States), although some officials in this government don't understand this in its true dimension.
** Alejandro Giammattei (2021) cited in: "Guatemala backs Taipei: president" in Taipei Times, 8 December 2021.
* I am pleased to be part of the delivery of medical equipment for children and adults with disabilities, donated by the Republic of China, whom I thank for being a great ally and friend. Today we see this friendship between our two peoples reflected in the smiles and comfort of people who need it. The needs are many and we will continue to attend to them so that Guatemalans can have a better quality of life.
** Alejandro Giammattei (2022) cited in: "Guatemala leader thanks Taiwan for wheelchair donations" in Taipei Times, 7 July 2022
* How can it be that in the 21st century, this organization (United Nations) has excluded a country like Taiwan? A country that contributes to science, technology, health and development; but yet we exclude its citizens from having a voice in this forum.
** Alejandro Giammattei (2023) cited in: "Allies call for Taiwan's U.N. inclusion during General Debate" in Focus Taiwan, 20 September 2023.
# Alec Reed

Sir Alec Edward Reed, CBE, FCMA, FCIPD (born 16 February 1934) is the founder of Reed Executive Ltd, one of the UK's largest private businesses. Knighted for services to business and charity in 2011, Reed is a high-profile charity donor and organiser. His various charitable initiatives have given away over £159m, mostly in support of women, addiction, overseas development, education and the arts.

## Quotes

* Once you’re head of a public company you are expected to perform; you’re like an unpaid greyhound on a racetrack called the stock market. They’d take bets on us, but not add anything at all.
** The Business Times Online, 2012.
# Aleixo das Neves Dias

Aleixo das Neves Dias (5 August 1944 –) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Port Blair.

## Quotes

* The resilience of the tribal people is very remarkable, and they have a lot of capacity to take suffering in stride. But they are thinking of the future, what it holds for them.
** Indian Bishop Shepherds His Tsunami-Ravaged Flock (21 March 2005) National Catholic Register
# Alek Minassian

Alek Minassian (November 3, 1992) is a Canadian mass murderer, perpetrator of the Toronto van attack

## Quotes
### Facebook posts

* Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!
** Posts Indicate Suspect in Toronto Attack Was Radicalized on 4chan
# Alejo Carpentier

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba.

## Quotes about

* The first person to name that movement "Magical Realism," to give a label to that, was Alejo Carpentier. He was living with the surrealists in France and the surrealists were inventing this wonderful new thing of printing together on a dissecting table, a sewing machine and an umbrella, and that was surrealism. And Alejo Carpentier realized that this was an intellectual process that had its roots, and he could see the umbrella and the sewing machine on this dissecting table in Latin America because it was part of our culture. Kafka would have been a realist if he would have lived in Mexico. So Alejo Carpentier realized that, and he abandoned the surrealists and searched in our roots, in our history, in our legends, in our folklore. He was the first one to label it. And it was wonderful because it was like giving permission to other writers to finally use their own voices. Because before that our writers were always trying to imitate Europeans, or North Americans, and were denying all our Indian background, our African influence, our own languages, and legends, and myths. This was just an open door for all that. I think that was the beginning of the Boom. That really gave a lot of people permission to do anything. But it's not a literary device, it's part of our life. The magic is still there.
** 1990 interview included in Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
* Alejo Carpentier was absolutely wonderful. The Kingdom of the Earth is an exquisite little novel-it's brilliant.
** 1979 and 1980 interview in Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990)
* For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén, Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that whoever wants to understand Cuba cannot ignore its mestizo condition in which the Hispanic and African components cannot be divided because they have created a cosmovisión that is authentically original.
** Nancy Morejón Interview (2002) translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss.

## External links

* Goodreads page
# Alejandro Fernández

Alejandro Fernández Abarca (born April 24, 1971) is a Mexican singer. Nicknamed as "El Potrillo" (The Colt) by the media and his fans, he has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

## Quotes

* I'm not a teetotaler. People know that I like to have my drinks. Specially when I go to work. I don't like to get drunk. I don't go out drunk. I never would, for respect to the audience. But sometimes I have a drink. I am a very nervous person, extremely nervous. So to calm me down, I like having a drink before going on stage.
** Television interview (air date should be found).

### Interview with Myrka de Llanos

    Online video
* I believe in loyalty.
* I don't like feeling lonely... but in solitude one can get to revalue many things.
* I don't know, I think that the eyes, I like eyes very much.

### TV show with Ednita Nazario

    Online video
* Oh dear God, one misses the land when is far away.
* Well, I am so far, and you put me a bottle of tequila here.
* No, well, first of all let me tell you that it is carefully, because you never know when the little elf of the bottle is going to get out of it and will hit you with it and will let you watching little stars.

## About Alejandro Fernández

* Well, I actually don't know him personally. I would like to, he is very handsome.
** Lady Gaga
* I have so much respect of his talent, his passion, the strength of his voice.
** Christina Aguilera
# Alejandro Peña Esclusa

Alejandro Peña Esclusa (born 3 July 1954) is a Venezuelan politician.

## Quotes

* The Venezuelans ought to become inspired by the Honduran model, and strive for a change of government as soon as possible, through pacific, democratic, and constitutional means--and not just electoral--to avoid a national tragedy.
** (March 11, 2010, referring to how Honduras's president had been deposed by the other branches of government), Venezolanos deben imitar a los hondureños
# Anton Jamnik

Anton Jamnik (27 July 1961 –) is a Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Ljubljana.

## Quotes

* Bishop Rožman was the bishop of Ljubljana for 30 years, it is right for him to be entombed in his cathedral.
** Beloved bishop’s remains go home to Slovenia (14 April 2013) Chicago Catholic
# Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam

Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam (23 September 1966 –) is a Sri Lankan prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Colombo.

## Quotes

* We must always listen to God's voice. He always speaks to us through someone else. So first we must learn to listen to God's divine voice which we may receive through others. Then we will not be misled in our journey of life.
** Bishop Anton Ranjith: We must always let ourselves be guided by God (9 September 2020) Asia News
# Anton Zeilinger

Anton Zeilinger (born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist. He is currently professor of physics at the University of Vienna and director of the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Zeilinger works in the new field of quantum information and is renowned for his realization of quantum teleportation with photons.

## Quotes

* I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.
** as quoted by Colin Bruce (2004). Schrödinger's rabbits: the many worlds of quantum. Joseph Henry Press. p. 213. ISBN 0309090512.

## Quotes about Zeilinger

* It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.
** Michael Horne (physicist), as quoted by Louisa Gilder, in The Age of Entanglement, Vintage Books, 2008, p. 317.
# Antoni Lange

Antoni Lange (1861 or 1863 – 17 March 1928) was a Polish poet, writer and translator.

## Sourced

* I gave myself up to you, gracious goddess And I believe it will decorate your temples like a precious jewel.
** Vita Nova
* I was at god's order To looking for you in every woman's eye.
** Vita Nova
* We pray to the grave, nothingness and plague.
** Vox Posthuma
* Be — fight — feel the pain — and love the wounds!
** Vox Posthuma
* All our blasphemies are only little prayers.
** Vox Posthuma
* I loved life too much to lust for life.
** Vox Posthuma
* Dead is the travel of all our travels.
** Thinkings
* Dead is the cradle of everything.
** "Thinkings"
* How many times have I created to destroy?
** Vita Nova
* People souls — perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.
** Loneliness
* There live Christ and Nero in our hearts.
** Thinkings
# Anton Webern

Anton von Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer of atonal music.

## Quotes

* Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
** The Path to the New Music
* Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
** Letter to Alban Berg. Hayes, Malcolm. 1995. Anton von Webern, p. 71

## About Anton Webern

* Webern attracts me, though there's a lot that I don't understand. His music is a combination of purity, complexity and abstraction in the very best sense of the term.
** Sviatoslav Richter, in Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations (2001)
* Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
** Igor Stravinsky
* "[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality"
** Karel Goeyvaerts, quoted in: 1994. "Paris: Darmstadt 1947-1956: Excerpt from the Autobiographical Portrait", translated by Patrick Daly, Peter Vosch, and Roger Janssens. p. 39