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# Simone Giertz

Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz (1 November 1990 –) is a Swedish inventor, maker, robotics enthusiast, TV host, and professional YouTuber.

## Quotes

* I think I’ve kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy. To me, it’s like putting syrup in your medicine. Everything just goes down easier if you add humor to it, and you can reach a lot more people if you manage to do it in an entertaining way.
* I’ve shied away from the ‘women in tech’ question because it’s always what people ask about. I think as soon as you’re a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women’s interviews are being wasted on talking about what it’s like being a woman.
** Robot queen Simone Giertz on inventions, the internet, and not winning a Darwin Award (May 24, 2016)

## External links

* Official website
# Simon Tolkien

Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien (12 January 1959–) is a British novelist and former barrister. He is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the oldest child of Christopher Tolkien.

## Quotes

* It’s weird looking back that I was so certain I couldn’t write. Not fiction. At the time that I had that view, in my 20s and 30s, I didn’t think that it was because I was the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien, although I think now that that was the reason. I don’t know what’s changed. I think it’s possibly confidence.
** The Sunday Conversation: Simon Tolkien (May 23, 2010)
* I was an only child and grew up in a cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside. I was thrown very much on my own resources which consisted of books, books and more books. I used to think I was very deprived by this experience but now I think the opposite. The books I read lying on my bed filled up my imagination and they are the fuel for my creativity now.
** Interview with Simon Tolkien (December 6, 2010)

## External links

* Official website
# Simon Stiell

Simon Stiell is a Grenadian politician, serving as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since August 2022. He previously served as Grenada's environment, education, and human resources minister.

## Quotes

* "Finance is the great enabler of climate action" at COP28 Green Climate Fund event., December 4, 2023
# Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer (November 24, 1925 – March 4, 2011) was a Dutch accelerator physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 for his contributions to the project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

## Quotes

* Above all, it's creative thinking that lies at the basis of discoveries. You must dare to think differently, see things from different sides, in order to come across fortuitous new ideas frequently. You should develop even the most stupid ideas and when you do this systematically, there will always come something useful out of it.
** in De Libero van het CERN. Jaarboek 1985. Vereniging voor Technische Physica. TU Delft. p. 61.
# Love is a Mix Tape

Love is a Mix Tape (2007) is a memoir by music journalist Rob Sheffield.

## Quotes

* I know people for whom music is just background noise. They don’t listen to it. They just consume it. These people have never made a mix-tape for anyone. These people are not my friends. These people have no soul.
* When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
* It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
* There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.
* I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you.
* It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
* Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
* I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
* Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept other people's secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did."
* When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
* The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.
* But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
* Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.
# Love song

A love song is a song about being in love, falling in love, heartbreak upon the ending of a loving relationship, and the feelings that these experiences bring.

## Quotes

* Matona, mia cara, Mi follere canzon, Cantar sotto finestra, Lantze bon compagnon. Don don don, diri diri, don don don don.Ti prego m'ascoltare, che mi cantar de bon, E mi ti foller bene, come greco e capon. Don don don, diri diri, don don don don.
** My lovely Lady, I want a song to sing Under your window: this lancer is jolly fellow! Don don don, diri diri, don don don don.Please listen to me, because I'm singing well And I'm as fond of you as a Greek is of a capon! Don don don, diri diri, don don don don.
** Lyric of "Matona, mia cara" composed by Orlande de Lassus
# Original Sin

Original Sin is a 2001 suspense film about a man who is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp. It is a remake of the 1969 Truffaut film Mississippi Mermaid.
    Directed and written by Michael Cristofer, based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich.

## Bonny Castle

* No, this is not a love story. But it is a story about love.
* Parting is such sweet sorrow.

## Luis Vargas

* From the moment I saw her. I loved her. And no matter the price. You can not walk away from love.

## Walter Downs

* There is no such thing as love. Only misguided feelings and emotions.

## Dialogue

    Bonny Castle: What are your plans for me?
    Luis Vargas: My plans? I just came here to kill you.
    Bonny Castle: My God. All right. Do it.
    [Bonny held his gun to point her heart]
    Bonny Castle: There. There is my heart. Don't hesitate. Your money has gone. Do it.
    Bonny Castle: I told him that night. I didn't want to go through with it. I couldn't.
    Luis Vargas: Why not?
    Bonny Castle: Because! Because I was... Damn it. I was falling in love with my own husband!
    Luis Vargas: Shall we play the game or just speak the truth?
    Bonny Castle: The truth is best.
    Luis Vargas: All right. Is he here?
    Bonny Castle: Yes.
    Luis Vargas: Where?
    Bonny Castle: Outside. Waiting. When I turn the lights off.
    Luis Vargas: When I am dead?
    Bonny Castle: Yes.
    Luis Vargas: I led him to you in Havana, didn't I?
    Bonny Castle: Yes.
    Luis Vargas: How'd he know I would not kill you?
    Bonny Castle: He put blank cartridges in your gun.
    Luis Vargas: Ah. Like a play. All of it. Lies. From the moment I met you.
    Bonny Castle: Not all of it, no.
    Luis Vargas: You laughed me at behind my back, the two of you. You laughed me for how stupid I have been. How blind.
    Bonny Castle: No.
    Luis Vargas: Laugh now when I tell you this. I love you , Julia.
    Bonny Castle: Julia is not here. Julia is dead.
    Luis Vargas: Laugh when I tell you that I still love you.
    Bonny Castle: No, not me. You don't love me.
    Luis Vargas: Yes. Yes, you. Not Julia Russell. Not Bonny Castle. You. I love you as I know you. Because I know you. As you are. Good and bad. Better and worse. I told you this already, but you didn't believe me.
    Luis Vargas: Tonight, you will. To us. A short life but an exciting life.
    Bonny Castle: Don't do this.
    Luis Vargas: No other one. No other love but you. From first to last. Start to finish.
    Luis Vargas: Don't change, Julia. Don't ever change.
    [Luis took a cup of poisoned coffee. He collapsed.]
    Bonny Castle: No!!

## Cast

* Antonio Banderas - Luis Vargas
* Angelina Jolie - Julia Russell/Bonny Castle
* Thomas Jane - Billy/Walter Downs

## External links

* Original Sin quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born June 7, 1952) is a Turkish novellist in the post-modern style. He became one of Turkey's most prominent novellists and was made a cause célèbre in 2005 when he was prosecuted for claiming that the mass killings of Armenians from 1915 were a result of genocide. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.

## Quotes

* The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I can’t do normal work as other people do. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it. I write because I want others, the whole world, to know what sort of life we lived, and continue to live, in Istanbul, in Turkey. I write because I love the smell of paper, pen, and ink. I write because I believe in literature, in the art of the novel, more than I believe in anything else. I write because it is a habit, a passion. I write because I am afraid of being forgotten. I write because I like the glory and interest that writing brings. I write to be alone. Perhaps I write because I hope to understand why I am so very, very angry at everyone. I write because I like to be read. I write because once I have begun a novel, an essay, a page I want to finish it. I write because everyone expects me to write. I write because I have a childish belief in the immortality of libraries, and in the way my books sit on the shelf. I write because it is exciting to turn all life’s beauties and riches into words. I write not to tell a story but to compose a story. I write because I wish to escape from the foreboding that there is a place I must go but—as in a dream—can’t quite get to. I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy.
** "My Father's Suitcase", Nobel Prize for Literature lecture (December 7, 2006).
* When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
** "Freedom to Write", Prague Writer's Festival (May 8, 2006).

## External links

* Orhan Pamuk at Nobelprize.org
# Orient

The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world.

## Quotes

* The darkness of her Oriental eye Accorded with her Moorish origin (Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by; In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin); When proud Granada fell, and, forced to fly, Boabdil wept, of Donna Julia’s kin Some went to Africa, some stay’d in Spain, Her great-great-grandmamma chose to remain.
** Lord Byron, Don Juan, I, lvi

### Other usages

    See Orient and orient at Wiktionary
* Upon her head she weares a crowne of starres, Through which her orient hayre waves to her waist, By which beleeving mortalls hold her fast, And in those golden chordes are carried even, Till with her breath she blowes them up to heaven.
** Ben Jonson, "An Angel Describes Truth", in Hymenæi (1606)

## See also

* Asia
* Orientalism
* East–West dichotomy
# Orientalizing period

In the Archaic phase of ancient Greek art, the Orientalizing period or Orientalizing revolution (also spelled "Orientalising") is the cultural and art historical period that began during the later part of the 8th century BC, when there was a heavy influence from the more advanced art of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East. The main sources were Syria and Assyria as well as Phoenicia and Egypt. With the spread of Phoenician civilization by Carthage and Greek colonisation into the Western Mediterranean, these artistic trends also influenced the Etruscans and early Ancient Romans in the Italian peninsula.

## Quotes

* There was not simply one ‘orientalizing’ period, there were several.
** Stephanie Dalley, The Legacy of Mesopotamia (Oxford, 1998), p. 86; quoted from Nicholas Kazanas, Vedic and Indo-European Studies (Aditya Prakashan, 2015), Ch. 7: Archaic Greece and the Veda
* Angesichts dieser Sachlage wäre es durchaus nicht als abwegig zu bezeichnen, daß man fragte, was im archaischen Hellas eigentlich nicht aus dem Orient herstammte.
* In view of this state of affairs it could not be called out of the way to ask what there was in Archaic Greece which did not come from the orient.
** H. E. Stier, Historia, I (1950), p. 227; quoted from M. L. West, The East Face of Helicon (Oxford, 1997), p. 12
# Rama Tirtha

Swami Rama Tirtha (Punjabi: ਸਵਾਮੀ ਰਾਮਤੀਰਥ, Hindi: स्वामी रामतीर्थ 22 October 1873 – 17 October 1906), also known as Ram Soami, was an Indian teacher of the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.

## Quotes

* Sanatana means Eternal. In its purest form, this religion is Sanatana, because it is based on Truth. Truth is immortal and is never annihilated. It remains the same yesterday, today and forever. Therefore our true Sanatana Dharma, in its purest form, cam never be exterminated. It, however, does not follow that we should relax into inaction, in the belief that our religion is the best or that it can never be destroyed. No, no. This idle thinking is the result of our indolent minds. It is, therefore, absolutely essential for the followers of Sanatana Dharma to keep it safe from the evil and aggressive designs of the non-Hindus, who are generally ever ready to malign us.
** Rama Tirtha, Swami Sanatan dharma Lucknow: Rama Tlrtha Pratisthan, [1990?] p, 20-29 and p. 73

## External links

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# Ramadan

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community.

## Quotes

* Tomorrow (2 April 2022), Muslims in Canada and around the world will mark the start of Ramadan. One of the five pillars of Islam, this month-long spiritual journey is a time of fasting, charity and prayer. At the end of each day, families and friends will traditionally gather to enjoy iftar – the meal that breaks their fast at sunset. Ramadan is a special time to show gratitude for the many blessings we share, and reflect on values of peace, compassion and generosity. These same values have helped us all through challenging times these past two years, and will continue to help us as we recover from the pandemic and look ahead with optimism and hope. Ramadan is also an opportunity to recognize the many contributions Muslim Canadians have made and continue to make to our country. Every day, they help build a better Canada by giving back to those less fortunate with zakat contributions, by volunteering to serve important causes, and through their consistent acts of kindness for their communities and neighbors.
** Justin Trudeau (2022) cited in: "Statement by the Prime Minister on Ramadan" in Prime Minister of Canada, 1 April 2022.
* (First lady) Jill and I extend our best wishes to Muslim communities here in the US and around the world on the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan. Communities come together to practice forgiveness and resilience, to show compassion and generosity of spirit to those in need, of giving and to celebrate the many blessings of life with loved ones.
** Joe Biden (2022) cited in: "US President wishes Muslims 'Ramadan Kareem'" in The Sun, 2 April 2022.
* The month of Ramadan carries enduring moral values: humanity, compassion, mercy.
** Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (2022) cited in: "President Tokayev Congratulates People on Beginning of Ramadan" in The Astana Times, 2 April 2022.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Ramadan on Wikipedia
* Media related to Ramadan on Wikimedia Commons
# Ramakrishna Mission

Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the Ramakrishna Movement or the Vedanta Movement. The mission is named after and inspired by the Indian saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and founded by Ramakrishna's chief disciple Swami Vivekananda on 1 May 1897. The organization mainly propagates the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta–Advaita Vedanta and four yogic ideals–jnana, bhakti, karma, and Raja Yoga.

## Quotes

* I have said many times in my talks that Ramakrishna Mission is the real crest jewel of Hinduism.
** Karan Singh quoted from Ram Swarup, (1986). Ramakrishna Mission: In search of a new identity.
* It is only when we move to modem times that we find the first traces of sarva-dharma-samabhâva surfacing in India in the form of the Brahmo Samaj... Even Keshub Chunder Sen cannot be called a votary of sarva-dharma-samabhâva, strictly speaking. The man fancied himself as the prophet of a New Dispensation (Nababidhâna) which had not only equated all religions but also gone beyond them. He ended by becoming a bag of nauseating nonsense.... The trail blazed by Keshub Chander Sen, however, did not go in vain. It was followed by the first disciples of Sri Ramakrishna who took over the Mission after the death of its founder, Swami Vivekananda. Most of these desciples of Sri Ramakrishna, particularly those two who compiled his Gospel and Biography had come from the flock of Keshub. It took them no time to swallow the 'synthesis' and its 'transcendance' offered by their earlier guru. The only difference was that they replaced Keshub by Sri Ramakrishna as being the last and the best who had seen the equal truth of all religions including Christianity and Islam, and 'synthesised' them in his own avatarhood.
** S.R.Goel, Preface, in Goel, Sita Ram (ed.) (1998). Freedom of expression: Secular theocracy versus liberal democracy.
* As regards Ramakrishna’s “practice of Islam and Christianity” of which the Mission makes so much, it finds no mention in the Gospel, the earliest and most authentic account of Ramakrishna’s thoughts and experiences in his own words. In this work we find that though Ramakrishna reminisces often about his experiences and God-filled states, there is hardly a word about his so-called practice of Islam and Christianity.... It also seems that the practice of Islam and Christianity made a less than deep impression on Ramakrishna, for subsequently he does not mention on his own initiative either Muhammad or the Koran, neither Jesus nor the Bible. Not even once! Nor did he draw from” his practice such excessive and indiscriminate conclusions as Mission monks now do.
** Ram Swarup. Ramakrishna Mission. (1986). Ramakrishna Mission: In search of a new identity.

## See also

* Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
* Swami Vivekananda
# Ramani Durvasula

Ramani S. Durvasula, Ph.D. (born December 30, 1965) is a licensed clinical psychologist, media expert, and author. She has been sought out in various media outlets for her expertise on personality and mood disorders, including Bravo, the Lifetime Movie Network, National Geographic, and the History Channel, as well programs such as the TODAY show and Good Morning America.

## Quotes

* Unfortunately, we have gotten to a place where taking responsibility has become more about apologizing after the fact, rather than weighing out what we want to do and thinking about the ramifications ahead of time.
** Durvasula, Ramani (2014). You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 10. ISBN 9780762791682.
* I am angry that people are sold a message of second chances and forgiveness that allows toxic and narcissistic people to continue to do cruel things and say cruel things with impunity.
** From her book "Don't You Know Who I Am?" How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility
** Durvasula, Ramani (2019). "Don't You Know Who I Am?" How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. Post Hill Press. ISBN 9781682617526.
# Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia.

## Quotes

* I’m still on my bike, trying to lose the eight pounds I gained in Tbilisi.
** George W. Bush, as quoted in "An American Friend" (19 October 2008), The New York Times

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Tbilisi on Wikipedia
# Tea leaf paradox

The tea leaf paradox describes a phenomenon where tea leaves in a cup of tea migrate to the center and bottom of the cup after being stirred rather than being forced to the edges of the cup, as would be expected in a spiral centrifuge.

## Quotes

* I very much enjoyed your delightful explanation of the formation of meanders. It just happens that my wife had asked me about the “teacup phenomenon” a few days earlier, but I did not know a rational explanation. She says that she will never stir her tea again without thinking of you.
** Erwin Schrödinger to Albert Einstein, 23 April 1926