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# Nat Friedman

Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born 6 August 1977) is an American technology executive and investor. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub, and former Chairman of the GNOME Foundation.

## Quotes

* People rag on western medicine a lot for its disregard of indirect causalities and holism, for its antisceptic deconstructivism, for its blindness to things like the union of mind and body, and for its proclivity for post-facto treatment...But these criticisms notwithstanding, modern medicine is the accumulation of years and years of human effort to taxonomically observe, understand and explain an enormous set of conditions within a massively complex, underspecified system. To me, this is impressive. Also, they use cool phrases like "the radiolucent lungs" and "ligamentous laxity."
** September 27, 2002 blog entry (2002-09-27). Archived from the original on 2013-07-04.
* The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
** August 6, 2002 blog entry (2002-08-06). Archived from the original on 2013-07-04.
* If ordinary people can really figure out how to set the alarm at a hotel, then we are going to make OpenOffice default to vi keybindings in the next Novell Linux Desktop.
** January 14, 2005 blog entry (2005-01-14). Retrieved on 2006-09-22.

## External links

* Personal website/blog
# Nassima Saifi

Nassima Saifi (/nɑːˈsɪmɑː saɪfiː/; born 29 October 1988) is a Paralympian athlete from Algeria competing mainly in category F58 throwing events. Specialising in both the discus throw and shot put, Saifi is a double Paralympic gold medal winner and three time World Champion.

## Quotes

* There’s nobody here for the day out. To be able to go home with a medal is fantastic. It’s not a personal best, there is more in me, but any day I can throw over 30 is a good day really. I am gaining on her (Nassima Saifi) all the time and the plan is to close the gap and maybe some day take her down. We’ll have to put more work in and see where we can get more distance out of it.
* I am so pleased to get a personal best in this event and I am over the moon with a silver
* Those girls I was racing against are specialists in breaststroke so to go against them in my ‘fun’ event was really exciting. I have had to do a lot more events than other swimmers so to get silver, I could not ask for more. I have not had a season’s best in that event this season, so hopefully this is the gala where I get it.
** Orla Barry the hero in Rio as she takes silver in discus THE IRISH NEWS, 16 September 2023 by Malcolm McCausland

## External Links

* Nassima Saifi at the International Paralympic Committee
* Nassima Saifi at the IPC.InfostradaSports.com ( archived)
# Christian terrorism

Christian terrorism, a form of religious terrorism, comprises terrorist acts which are committed by groups or individuals who profess Christian motivations or goals.Christian terrorists justify their violent tactics through their interpretation of the Bible and Christianity, in accordance with their own objectives and worldview.

## Quotes

* In summary, since the end of the Cold War, Christian terrorists have unleashed violence in various parts of the world, often with the same viciousness as their Islamist counterparts.
** The Global Politics of Jesus– A Christian Case for Church-State Separation Autorius (-iai): Nilay Saiya, 124
* This is the best time to remind the Americans that Baptist Christian terrorists are active in India’s North-East and they derive their financial support from the southern parts of the USA where the Baptist Church has a strong following. Funds are collected in the form of donations in various church establishments in the name of evangelical work. Some of this money is spent in true philanthropic work of spreading education and healthcare. However, it has been suspected for a long time that a part of this fund gets diverted for buying arms for the Baptist terrorists of the North-East. Our ex-Chief Election Commissioner, T.N. Seshan, gave voice to this suspicion in a television panel discussion on Doordarshan as early as in 1993. Our Army is baffled by the seemingly unending supply of sophisticated and expensive arms and equipment flooding into our North-East. All terrorists of various hues....
** Separatism in North-East India– Role of Religion, Language and Script Autorius (-iai): Dr. Kunal Ghosh
# Christian state

A Christian state is a country that recognizes a form of Christianity as its official religion and often has a state church, which is a Christian denomination that supports the government and is supported by the government. Though many Christian states have turned secular and adopted the separation of Church and state, church organizations still have much influence in the institutions of these nations, include hospitals and schools with government funding.

## Quotes

* The only Christian nation in the world today is the one gathered “from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev. 5:9) to be addressed by its king. In his Great Commission, Jesus gave authority to the church to make disciples, not citizens; to proclaim the gospel, not political opinions; to baptize people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, not in the name of America or a political party; and to teach everything that he delivered, not our own personal and political priorities. And he promised that his presence with us is something that the world can never take away.
** Michael Horton, "What Are Evangelicals Afraid of Losing?" (31 August 2018), Christianity Today
* Mike says we began as a Christian nation. We didn’t. Did you miss that day in homeschool Mike? If you don’t know that the Pilgrims came here to get away from the Church of England, then you don’t know literally the first thing about our country.
** Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, (12/1/2023)
* Mike says being a Christian nation is our tradition and it’s who we are as a people. It’s not. We’re the people who have a First Amendment which says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. And we have an Article Six, which says no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.
** Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, (12/1/2023)
* So I take these people at their word when they say that they think we should be Christian nationalists. But then they have to take John Adams at his word, when he wrote, ‘The government of the United States of America is not in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.’
** Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, (12/1/2023)

## See also

* Christian nationalism

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Christian state on Wikipedia
# Maynard Owen Williams

Maynard Owen Williams (September 12, 1888 – June 1963) became the first National Geographic foreign correspondent in 1919.

## Quotes

* The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.
** National Geographic, august 1926
* There is drama in the very air of the place, and I want to be there recording it for the Geographic.
** At the Tomb of Tutankhamen (1923)
* It is costing much money here, a thing I regret. But you will get your money's worth. My legs curse you. But my heart says 'Thank you'.
** from a letter to John Oliver la Gorce, the Geographic's assistant editor (1923)
* Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.
** in a letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic (1948)
# Mayu Watanabe

Mayu Watanabe (渡辺 麻友; Watanabe Mayu; born 26 March 1994) is a Japanese singer and actress. She was the member of AKB48 under team B in 2007–2017.

## Quotes

* It is true that I intentionally try to keep it (my private life) from everyone. I don't like to show off my private life. Maybe that's why it makes me mysterious?
** Mayu Watanabe (2016) cited in "Watanabe Mayu long interview in BRODY magazine" on Watanabe Mayu, 27 April 2016.
# Maṅgala Sutta

The Maṅgala Sutta (also: Maha Mangala Sutta) is a discourse of the Buddha on the subject of 'blessings' (mangala, also translated as 'good omen' or 'auspices' or 'good fortune') in which he describes 'blessings' that are wholesome personal pursuits or attainments, identified in a progressive manner from the mundane to the ultimate spiritual goal.

## Quotes

* What is the greatest blessing?
    Not to serve the foolish,
    But to serve the wise;
    To honour those worthy of honour;
    This is the greatest blessing...
    To have a soul filled with right desire...
    Pleasant words that are well spoken...
    To support father and mother,
    To cherish wife and child,
    To follow a peaceful calling...
    To abhor and cease from sin,
    To abstain from strong drink,
    Not to be weary in well-doing...
    Reverence and lowliness...
    To be long-suffering and meek...
    Self-restraint and purity,
    The knowledge of the Four Great Truths...
    Invincible on every side
    Is he who acteth thus;
    On every side he walks in safety;
    And his is the greatest blessing.
* Guatama Buddha, translated thus by Professor Rhys Davids with slight modifications introduced from other sources, when they seemed decided improvements (by CWL). Quoted in The Masters and the Path (1925) by C.W. Leadbeater, (1925) p. 291

## See also

* Ageless Wisdom
* Four Noble Truths
* Guatama Buddha
# Mazi Nwonwu

Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, who writes under the pen name Mazi Nwonwu, is a Nigerian writer, curator and editor. He is the co-founder and managing editor of Omenana Magazine.

## Quotes
### How to Make a Space Masquerade

* Geological records show that millions of years ago, Arid was a green planet and there were only a few deserts in her solar overlap zone.
* ...The current scientific consensus is that Arid’s desertification and the extinction of most of its lifeforms were likely due to a rare and destructive shift in its solar orbit, which triggered a series of dual solar hyper-flares.
* The abundance of organic matter is why the planet has so much fossil fuel deposits and a rich soil.
* All we need is some water and this whole planet would be one big, beautiful garden.
* If only Amadioha would bless us again. Bless us with the rainmaking gift of our fathers.
* Getting fresh palm fronds on this planet is rare, and even if we manage to find one, will the rain gods hear our chants at all, despite being light years away from home?
* The gods go where we go,the palm fronds are props. We will call our gods with whatever is native to this planet, and they will answer. We know from experience that sometimes, they answer a little too well.

## External links

* How to Make a Space Masquerade
# Mazovia

Mazovia – historical and geographical region located in Central Poland.

## Quotes

* Mazovia. Sand, Vistula and the forest. Mi Mazovia. Smooth, far away - under stems of humming stars, under the river of pine trees.
** Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Mazovia.
* Oh, how beautiful land is our Mazovia! There be clean water, and air fresher! Bigger Pine trees and girls prettier, People stronger and sky is brighter.
** Teofil Lenartowicz, Just as in Mazovia, a poem published in a periodical Szkółka dla Dzieci ("Schoolie for children"), nr 1 (1850).
* Just from the capital of Masovia.
** Jeden Osiem L Friendship.
* Hey Pole, know resolute Mazovians; Ready for a fight. In war and in peace Beside their short height, Laughing, they can beat.
** Jan z Wychlówki.
# Evelyne Brochu

Evelyne Brochu (born November 17, 1982) is a Canadian actress and singer-songwriter. In 2013, she became well known for her English-speaking role as Delphine Cormier, a French scientist on the hit Canadian science fiction thriller TV series Orphan Black. She has also released two studio albums as well as several singles

## Quotes

* Having power means a lot of things: getting closer to the truth and, therefore, to danger... having to make sacrifices... having to accept that difficult decisions you make will be misunderstood.
** "Evelyne Brochu (A.K.A. Delphine From Orphan Black) Talks Season 3, Loving Cosima, and Breakup Hair", Glamour (April 16, 2015).
# Ever Obi

Ever Obi is a business executive and a Nigerian fiction writer. He is the author of the mystical novel, Men don't die and his second novel, Some Angels don't die.

## Quotes
### Some Angels don't die (2021)

* There was a time when Peter’s life was simple, when little things in it were enough.
** Page 1
* depressed flesh that encircle[s] her eyes
** Neta speaking on her dependence on glasses to hide her look. Page 35
* It is something the Igbos take very seriously,” she said. “People don’t marry Osus; they marry among themselves.”
** Page 27
* As usual, the stories were disheartening. Corrupt politicians accused of looting hundreds of millions; the economic struggles of the Nigerian real sector; a man raped his twelve-year-old daughter; a Roman Catholic priest accused of pedastry
** Page 17

### Men don't die

* What is in these bags? He asked himself. I should open them and see for myself. A second thought: Or I should just leave them and leave this scene. A third thought: let me just see what is inside. What’s the big deal? As he opened the first bag, his eyeballs bulged, and his lips parted wide open. He shook his head and opened the second one – the same content! Brume felt it with the tip of his fingers, and it was real; the two bags were filled with stashes of money.
** Page 31-32
* “Daddy?” Brume called. “Dad!” Eddie did not turn; he kept walking until he was out of sight. Brume shrugged and closed the door. That was quite weird, he thought, but he made up his mind that he was not going to think much of this strange visit.
** Page 15
* She was sweating and her face was gradually turning pale.
** Page 150
* An ugly man stepped into Don Benson Street. He was huge and had a very dark skin. His complexion, combined with a black t-shit and black jeans, seemed enough to force the sun to hide in the clouds. Though he had a baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses on, it was quite easy for anyone who care to take a quick glance to see that he was ugly. His nose was broad, and his nostrils wide open like the holes in a double-barrelled gun. Then his lips were full, dark, and thick. With the long scar across his face and an evil goatee hanging from his chin, he had the meanest face one could ever imagine seeing in the morning.
** Page 142

## External links

* Goodreads
* Africa in words
* Parresia Publishers
# Evelyn Wever-Croes

Evelyn Wever-Croes (born 5 December 1966) is an Aruban politician. She is currently the 4th and incumbent Prime Minister of Aruba since 17 November 2017.

## Quotes

* Aruba has been preparing for this (COVID-19 Omicron variant being detected in Aruba) for a while now. That is why we took measures from early on. We see an increase in COVID-19 cases, but not a drastic one. We ask everyone to be cautious, but don't panic. Wear your facemask, keep distance and apply all hygienic measures. Always and with discipline. We are fighting an invisible enemy, but we can fight it through discipline.
** Evelyn Wever-Croes (2021) cited in: "First Omicron cases in Aruba" in The Daily Herald, 20 December 2021.
# Edwin Ernest Salpeter

Edwin Ernest Salpeter (3 December 1924 – 26 November 2008) was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist.

## Sourced

* I may be a minority of one in advocating that one should NOT separate science and politics—partly because I am old enough to remember the Weimar Republic before 1934...
** Edwin E. Salpeter (2005). Edvige Corbelli, Francesco Palla, Hans Zinnecker. ed. The initial mass function 50 years later. Springer. p. 10. ISBN 1402034075.
# Edwin Cannan

Edwin Cannan (3 February 1861 – 8 April 1935) was a British economist and historian of economic thought.

## Quotes about Cannan

* Edwin Cannan significantly influenced Hayek and many other economists, although, as Hayek noted, the “part he played is little known beyond a rather narrow circle.” Hayek held that Cannan—together with Mises in Vienna and Frank Knight in Chicago—was responsible for the preservation and transmission of classical liberalism during the early decades of the twentieth century.
** Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 7. From Economic Theory to Political Philosophy
* As Hayek wrote, the role that Edwin Cannan has played in the transmission and development of liberalism is little known. The school of liberal thought he established at the London School of Economics has proven lasting and influential across disciplines. According to economic historian Henry Spiegel, Cannan was “the leading student of classical economics in the England of his time.” Murray Rothbard, who was an excellent historian of economic theory, had a very high opinion of Cannan’s work. Leading contemporary economic historian Denis O’Brien writes that “Cannan’s strong critical attitude and wide scholarship are of great value to economists.”
** Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 7. From Economic Theory to Political Philosophy
# Edwin Fischer

Edwin Fischer (October 6, 1886 – January 24, 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor.

## Quotes about Fischer

* I heard Edwin Fischer, who did not mean much to me. I heard another pianist in Berlin who had a big success and I thought he was awful — Mischa Levitzki. Just fingers, and you cannot listen only to fingers. There is a difference between artist and artisan. Levitzki was an artisan.
** Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
# Edwin G. Pulleyblank

Edwin George "Ted" Pulleyblank FRSC (August 7, 1922 – April 13, 2013) was a Canadian sinologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He was known for his studies of the historical phonology of Chinese.

## Quotes about Pulleyblank

* Edwin Pulleyblank claims to have reconstructed a number of rather abstract similarities in the phonetics and morphology of PIE and Sino-Tibetan. Though he fails to back this structural similarity up with any (even a single) lexical similarity, he confidently dismisses as a “prejudice” the phenomenon that “for a variety of reasons, the possibility, of a genetic relationship between these two language families strikes most people as inherently most improbable.” He believes that “there is no compelling reason from the point of view of either linguistics or archaeology to rule out the possibility of a genetic connection between Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European. Such a connection is certainly inconsistent with a European or Anatolian homeland for the Indo-Europeans but it is much less so with the Kurgan theory”, esp. considering that the Kurgan culture “was not the result of local evolution in that region but had its source in an intrusion from an earlier culture farther east”. This is of course very interesting, (and it deserves being repeated that the Kurgan culture came from farther east), but: “It will be necessary to demonstrate the existence of a considerable number of cognates linked by regular sound correspondences. To do so in a way that will convince the doubters on both sides of the equation will be a formidable task.”
** Edwin Pulleyblank: “The Typology of Indo-European”, Journal of Indo-European Studies, spring 1993,, quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
* A handful of scholars try for the more ambitious option, viz. identifying a common origin of Chinese and IE, a kind of “Sino-European” stage in linguistic development from which Chinese and IE went their separate ways. Pulleyblank (1993:106-107) upholds “the possibility of a genetic connection between Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European” all while admitting that it is “inconsistent with a European or Anatolian homeland for the Indo-Europeans but it is much less so with the Kurgan theory”, esp. considering that the Kurgan (“grave-hill”) culture of the steppe “was not the result of local evolution in that region but had its source in an intrusion from an earlier culture farther east”. But his and other tentative hypotheses of a deep kinship of Chinese with Indo-European, as also with North-Caucasian and Austronesian, have been refuted in sufficient measure by Vovin (1997) and will not detain us here. Of course at a time depth of Nostratic or whichever prehistoric kinship, many connections can be thought up, but to the same extent, geographical movements of populations may have taken place over the same millennia. Therefore, even plausible or proven linguistic connections at such time-depth cannot decide the geographical land of origin that interests us here.
** Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
# Edwin Frederick O'Brien

Edwin Frederick O'Brien (April 8, 1939 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, the archbishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and as the Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

## Quotes

* Those who have a service to their country have a high vocation.
** Called to Serve, Volunteered to Deploy (29 September 2015) The West Point Center for Oral History
# Pu Zhiqiang

Pu Zhiqiang (born 17 January 1965) is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China specializing in press freedom, defamation, and product safety, among other issues. Based in Beijing, he is an executive partner of Beijing Huayi Law Firm,Pu is a prominent figure in the Weiquan movement, having advocated for writers and journalists in a number of high-profile cases. Due to the nature of his cases and his outspoken criticisms of official policies, Pu is monitored by security forces, and has been detained and questioned on several occasions.

## Quotes

* From top to bottom, the Communist Party can't get through a single day without telling lies.
** On the Chinese Communist Party case against him (24 July 2012)
* They claim Xinjiang belongs to China. So they shouldn't treat it like a colony. Don't be a predator and a conqueror. You treat them as your enemy.
** On the Chinese government's policies towards Uighurs, the mainly Muslim minority living in Xinjiang in China's far west (7 May 2014)
# Pubic hair

Pubic hair (colloquially pubes) is terminal body hair that is found in the genital area of adolescent and adult humans. The hair is located on and around the pudenda and sometimes at the top of the inside of the thighs. In the pubic region around the pubis bone and the mons pubis that covers it, it is known as a pubic patch. Pubic hair is also found on the scrotum and base of the penile shaft in males and on the vulva in females.

## Quotes

* Why pluck the bristles from your worn out cleft, Hoary and grizzled by time's onward march? For wanton tricks you've no excuses left, Age should be all propriety and starch. Let blooming girls their tender pussies trim, Those pouting buds expect some pleasure after; My wife might charm me if she dressed her quim, But my grandmother would provoke my laughter. That is no cunt at which no prick can stand, The whitened embers of young lust's spent force; Then cast the tweezers from your palsied hand. Nor beard the once fierce lion's rotting corse.
** Martial, Epigrams, 10, 90 ("To Ligia")
** The Index Expurgatorius of Martial (1868), p. 71
* i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ....
** E. E. Cummings, “[i like my body when it is with your body]”, & (1925), self-published
* Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
** J. B. Priestley, Outcries and Asides (1974)
* Her pubic hair grew like a patch of grass that had been trampled by a passing army.
** Haruki Murakami, IQ84 (2009)