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# Val Kalende

Val Kalende is an LGBT activist from Uganda. After coming out as a lesbian in 2003, she became involved in Ugandan LGBT activism. In 2018, she stated she was no longer a lesbian, having been "transformed by God's love".

# Quotes

* I was ready. I wanted to take time to do the important work on myself before making a public confession.
** Top Ugandan gay activist renounces homosexuality. Monitor. (January 12, 2021)
* I understand my introverted nature makes it uncomfortable for people to reach out to me but I am pretty much an open person when it comes to issues I am passionate about.
** Top Ugandan gay activist renounces homosexuality. Monitor. (January 12, 2021)
* I, sure, have an awareness that could help folks out there.
** Top Ugandan gay activist renounces homosexuality. Monitor. (January 12, 2021)
* My desire is to take long deserved rest and spend time with my family.
** Top Ugandan gay activist renounces homosexuality. Monitor. (January 12, 2021)
* I love my country, and that means a lot to me.
** Top Ugandan gay activist renounces homosexuality. Monitor. (January 12, 2021)
# Vadim Krasnoselsky

Vadim Krasnoselsky (Russian: Вади́м Никола́евич Красносе́льский; Romanian: Vadim Nicolaevici Crasnoselski; born 14 April 1970) is a Transnistrian politician who is currently serving as the 3rd and current President of Transnistria since 16 December 2016.

## Quotes

* I as President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in such a destructive situation made every possible effort to return the dialogue to normal and prevent an escalation of tension (with Moldova).
** Vadim Krasnoselsky (2021) cited in "Commentary by Vadim Krasnoselsky regarding the next appeal to the President of the Republic of Moldova" on Novosti Pridnestrovya, 24 December 2021.
# Vaikuntha

Vaikuntha usually denotes the eternal abode of Vishnu, often designated as a mystical realm beyond the physical realms of space and time. Ramanuja declares it to be an "eternal heavenly realm", the "divine imperishable world that is God's abode". In early Hindu scriptures it was also often a name of Vishnu.

## Quotes

* Preservation represents the triumph of the one in Vaikuntha, while sustenance results from his favours.
** Bhagavata Purana, as translated by Bibek Debroy (2018), Ch. 3:14
* He will be extremely fortunate and great-souled. He will be great in his sentiments and will be the greatest of the great. Through his increased devotion, when he gives up this life, he will enter Vaikuntha and find bliss there.
** Bhagavata Purana, as translated by Bibek Debroy (2018), Ch. 3:14
* O god! There are those who drink the nectar of your account. Their store of devotion is extensive. They obtain the comprehension that is the essence of non-attachment. They swiftly obtain their place in Vaikuntha.
** Bhagavata Purana, as translated by Bibek Debroy (2018), Ch. 3:5
* Sanaka and the others were my sons through my mental powers and were born before you. Without any desires, they travel through the sky and go to all the worlds and the residents there. They once went to Vaikuntha, where the illustrious one with the unblemished atman resides. All the worlds revere Vaikuntha. All the people who reside in Vaikuntha have a form like Vaikuntha. They are not driven by any material aspirations, but worship Hari because of dharma. The original and illustrious Purusha is there and he can be approached through the use of words. He accepts the pure form of sattva and the foremost confers happiness on us, his devotees.
** Brahma, speaking in the Bhagavata Purana, as translated by Bibek Debroy (2018), Ch. 3:15
# Val Demings

Valdez Venita Demings (born March 12, 1957) is an American politician and former police officer who served as the U.S. representative from 10th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. The district covers most of the western half of Orlando and includes much of the area around Orlando's resort parks. It includes many of Orlando's western suburbs, including Apopka and Winter Garden. From 2007 to 2011, Demings was chief of the Orlando Police Department, its first female chief, capping a 27-year career with the department.

## Quotes

* [It's] one thing for the President to lie to the American people about your investigation, falsely claiming that you found no collusion and no obstruction, but it's something else altogether for him to get away with not answering your questions and lying about them. And as a former law enforcement officer of almost 30 years, I find that a disgrace to our criminal justice system.
** Said to Robert Mueller regarding the Mueller Investigation July 24, 2019

## External links

* Congresswoman Val Demings official U.S. House website
* Val Demings for U.S. Senate campaign website
# Vakhsh culture

The Vakhsh culture is a Bronze Age culture which took place around 2500-1650 BC, as shown by radiocarbon dates, and flourished along the lower Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan, earlier thought to be from ca. 1700 BC to 1500 BC.

## Quotes

* Like all other archaeological cultures, there is no unanimity concerning the Indo- Iranian or Indo-Aryan ethnic identification of these burials either. Lyonnet wonders why, if they had been Indo-Aryans who had provoked or appeared at the time of the collapse of the Bactria and Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), Namazga, and Harappan civilizations, they did not continue to foster the links between these regions, which had previously been connected for millennia. Rather, these connections collapse at this time (Lyonnet 1993, 83). She underscores the extreme paucity of metal objects found in the graves, which "is rather odd for a culture considered to come from the Andronovo people, famous for their metallurgy" (Lyonnet 1994a, 430). Moreover, "no trace of the horse is found, there is no evidence of any social differentiation, and, altogether, the material is rather poor" (430). As far as she is concerned, "if we are dealing with intruders, as some features suggest, and if it is certain that they are not Andronovians, we do not have enough evidence to identify them as Indo-Aryans. We can only compare their movement to the textually known much later migrations of two other groups, who, coming from 'the steppes,' went through Central Asia into India." These are the Kusanas around the beginning of our era, and the White Huns in the fifth century A.D.: "All these nomads, albeit at different periods, took exactly the same path, used exactly the same areas for their cemeteries consisting of kurgans that all look alike from the outside" (430).
** Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 10
* Tribes that bury their dead in kurgans (which are so common over vast geographic and temporal expanses) have been migrating into India throughout its history, but these have not induced language shift across the entire north of the subcontinent. So one is hardly compelled to interpret the scanty evidence of the Bishkent and Vakhsh cultures as evidence of the arrival of a new language group on its way to Indo-Aryanize North India. Like the Andronovo culture, this culture does not enter the subcontinent either. Moreover, Piankova (1982) dates the graves to the last quarter of the second millennium, which is far too late for migrants who are supposed to already have completely settled down and written the hymns in the Indian subcontinent by this time, even allowing the lowest possible dates proposed by scholars for the Rgveda. Moreover, anyone prepared to gloss over the absence of horse bones in these sites cannot then deny the presence of the Indo-Aryans in the Indus Valley Civilization on these particular grounds.
** Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 10
# Yehoshua Sobol

Yehoshua Sobol (יהושע סובול, born August 24, 1939), is an Israeli playwright and theater director.

## Quotes

* The reality of life is becoming more and more complicated to understand and more difficult to cope with. So there is a tendency to regress to the infantile stage in which you look for someone to take responsibility for you. Infantilism is manifested in all sorts of ways, such as the tendency to wrap oneself in a diaper to me, putting on a tallit [prayer shawl] is to wrap oneself in a diaper. For example, stickers that declare, ‘We have no one to rely on but our father in heaven’ and the like. Those slogans have become a national mantra signaling a danger of extinction. The moment a whole nation absolves itself of responsibility to look after itself and believes that there is a higher force that will do it, it can be taken over by all kinds of deviants and crazies.
** as quoted by Cody Ben-Simhon in: (26 July 2012)"In God We Don't Trust: Five Israeli Atheists Bare Their Souls". Haaretz.
* I was shocked to read about the barbaric practice of stoning women to death. I was surprised by its widespread use and by the huge number of women who were stoned to death since the Islamist revolution in Iran and recently in some other countries. But what surprised and shocked me almost to the same extent was the indifference shown by civilized nations and by the liberal democratic western states to this crime against humanity. Regimes that practice this crime of utmost savagery as part of their judicial system should be treated as criminal regimes and should be excluded from the United Nations.
** as quoted by Bill Marx in: Theater Interview: Israeli Dramatist Joshua Sobol on the Shock of "Sinners" (6 February 2013).
* Theatre is almost the last place in the world of culture where living people meet living people.
** Interview with Joshua Sobol In Residence at Israeli Stage. Israeli Stage (6 April 2017). (quote at 11:17 of 18:14)

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Yejide Kilanko

Yejide Kilanko (born 1975) is a Nigerian Canadian fiction writer and social worker. She is known for addressing violence against women in her work. Her debut novel, Daughters Who Walk This Path, was a Canadian fiction bestseller in 2012.

## Quotes

* Characters are never distant or holier-than-thou.
** Yejide Kilanko's quote
* I’m a writer. I still smile at my computer screen whenever I type those words. It’s a beautiful thing when your passion and purpose fuse.\
** Yejide Kilanko's quote
* It is easy for us to have strong negative feelings about self-centered and deluded people
** Yejide Kilanko's speaks on her new book;A Good Name
* When we catch glimpses of other people’s humanity, we may be open to understanding why they act the way they do without needing to approve or disapprove of their behaviour.
** Yejide Kilanko's speaks on her new book;A Good Name
* As a Yoruba woman, I grew to believe that the names given to babies shape their personalities and destinies. Therefore, I spend quite a bit of time pondering the names I give to all my characters.
** Yejide Kilanko's speaks on her new book
* I’ve always felt that one does life better with the right friends.
** Yejide Kilanko's speaks on her new book
* Goal, motivation, and conflict are essential story building blocks, and they are what shape my plotting and characterization processes.
** Yejide Kilanko's speaks on her new book
# Yeh Jiunn-rong

Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮; Yè Jùnróng; born October 1958) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of Education since 16 July 2018 until 25 December 2018.

## Quotes

* As an academic, I believe in the advantages of global academic dialogue, including exchanges with (mainland) China. While there are special circumstances across the (Taiwan) Strait, the nation has laws and regulations in place to govern (issues related to mainland China), and I have followed them in all of my speaking engagements and short-term lectureships there.
** Yeh Jiunn-rong (2018) cited in "Interior minister denies illegally teaching in PRC" on Taipei Times, 11 April 2018.
* If my colleagues and I could confront such a difficult issue (controversies surrounding the appointment of National Taiwan University president), can our society please let things go too?
** Yeh Jiunn-rong (2018) cited in "Yeh defends his decision on Kuan’s appointment" on Taipei Times, 26 December 2018.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Yeh Jiunn-rong on Wikipedia
* Media related to Yeh Jiunn-rong on Wikimedia Commons
# Yehuda he-Hasid

Rabbi Yehuda ben Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg (1150–22 February 1217) was a Jewish mystic and poet. His hymn Shir Hakovod (the Hymn of Glory, also called Anim Zemirot from its opening words) is recited daily in some Ashkenazi synagogues and on Sabbaths and festivals in most others.

## Quotes
### Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill

* Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs, For Thou art all for which my spirit longs-- To be within the shadow of Thy hand And all Thy mystery to understand. The while Thy glory is upon my tongue, My inmost heart with love of thee is wrung, So though Thy mighty marvels I proclaim, 'Tis songs of love wherewith I greet Thy name.
* I have not seen Thee, yet I tell Thy praise, Nor known Thee, yet I image forth Thy ways. For by Thy seers' and servants' mystic speech Thou didst Thy sov'ran splendour darkly teach, And from the grandeur of Thy work they drew The measure of Thy inner greatness, too. They told of Thee, but not as Thou must be, Since from Thy work they tried to body Thee. To countless visions did their pictures run, Behold through all the visions Thou art one.
* Truth is Thy primal word; at thy behest The generations pass - O aid our quest For Thee, and set my host of songs on high, And let my psalmody come very nigh. My praises as a coronal account, And let my prayers as Thine incense mount. Deem precious unto Thee the poor man's song, As those that to thine altar did belong. Rise, O my blessing, to the lord of birth, The breeding, quickening, righteous force of earth. Do Thou receive it with acceptant nod, My choicest incense offered to my God. And let my meditation grateful be, For all my being is athirst for Thee. from Millgram, A. E., Anthology of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Abelard, 1961.

## References

* Jewish Encyclopedia, art. Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg, vol. VII pp356-8
* Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, article Anim Zemirot
* Service of the Synagogue: Day of Atonement, Part 1 Evening Service; pub. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., pp.73-4
# Yeh Kuang-shih

Yeh Kuang-shih (葉匡時; Yè Kuāngshí; born 7 January 1957 in Hualien) is a politician in the Republic of China (ROC). He currently serves as the Deputy Mayor of Kaohsiung since 25 December 2018.

## Quotes
### Minister critical of delays in Airport Rail construction (2013)

Yeh Kuang-shih cited in: "Minister critical of delays in Airport Rail construction" in The Taipei Times, 13 April 2013: Statements made during Voice of Taipei program in response to the delay of Taoyuan International Airport MRT construction, 12 April 2013.
* I hope that government workers can be proactive. … Doling out punishment constantly would only cause them to have a mentality of 'the less one does, the fewer mistakes one makes.'
* As a leader, you should have values and beliefs... It is simply irresponsible to respond to public criticism by simply giving someone a demerit.
# Yehuda D. Nevo

Yehuda D. Nevo (1932 – 12 February 1992) was a Middle Eastern archeologist living in Israel. He died after a long battle with cancer in 1992.

## Quotes

* Since external evidence is necessary to corroborate a view derived solely from the Muslim literary account, lack of such corroboration is an important argument against that account's historicity. This approach is therefore more open than the 'traditional' to acceptance of an argumentum e silentio. For if we are ready to discount an uncorroborated report of an event, we must accept that there may be nothing with which to replace it: that the event simply did not happen. That there is no evidence for it outside of the "traditional account" thus becomes positive evidence in support of the hypothesis that it did not happen. A striking example is the lack of evidence, outside the Muslim literature, for the view that the Arabs were Muslim at the time of the Conquest.
** "Methodological Approaches to Islamic Studies" in Warraq, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad p. 425
# William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett

The Right Honourable (William) Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, PC (6 September 1883 – 10 February 1962) was a noted British barrister and judge who served as the alternate British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

## Attributed

* I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.
** Robert Andrews, Famous Lines: a Columbia dictionary of familiar quotations (1997), which cites a quotation in the London Observer, 30 October 1960
# William Paton Mackay

William Paton Mackay (13 May 1839–22 August 1885) was a Scottish doctor, Presbyterian minister and hymn writer.

## Quotes
### Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
* Jesus did ALL the saving-work. He brought the cross to our level. Get saved by looking to Him, and then live to God.
** P. 81
* Stand up from among the dead, and patiently work as one waiting for the judgment-seat of Christ.
** P. 125.
* Take the lost sinner's place, and claim the lost sinner's Saviour.
** P. 153.
* One look outward to Jesus and you are saved; not a look inward to a feeling that can give nothing but despair to the conscientious soul.
** P. 230.
* Virtuous or vile, decent or indecent, rich or poor, receive and rest upon Christ nim. as He is so freely offered you; and then you may believe (not feel) that your sins are in the depths of the sea.
** P. 232.
* He came down even to the grave, and .became the dead One for me. I believe in Him, and, as one with Him, I leap at one bound straight out of my grave up to His throne. " I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." This is not a matter of feeling, but all a matter of faith, merely apprehending the grace of God, "I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me."
** P. 246.
* We are not saved on account of the Holy Ghost's work in us; we are saved by means of it. We are saved on account of Christ's work for us. The Spirit never tells us to look iiiwara even to His own operations, for peace, but outward to Christ.
** P. 319.
* Resist is the word applied to the unconverted. Grieve is that applied to the individual Christian. Quench is that which has reference to the saints when gathered together waiting on the Spirit.
** P. 319.
* Bring your ignorance to the Holy Spirit, the great teacher, who by His precious truth will lead you into all truth.
** P. 337.
* A brother in the Lord could never get a young lady to think about eternity until he quoted this text: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." That word forget seemed to haunt her. May it haunt you, dear reader.
** P. 344.
* The law showed what man ought to be. Christ showed what man is, and what God is.
** P. 375.
# William Oldrin

Captain William Oldrin (1773-1858) emigrated from England to the United States in 1794. He worked as a ship's captain at sea and was a founding member of the Suffolk County, New York Freemason lodge for seamen. (b. August 12, 1773; England - d. April 24, 1858; Rye, Westchester County, New York, USA)

## Quotes about Oldrin

* It is related of Captain William Oldrin, one of the charter members of the lodge, that on one occasion when a British cruiser, during the war of 1812, anchored under Crane Neck, a small cannon was brought to bear on her which was sighted and discharged by him with such skill and effect that the ball cut the halyards and the sails came down by the run, which so alarmed the crew that they beat a hasty retreat.
** "An Ancient Masonic Body". Brooklyn Eagle. May 10, 1896.

## External links

* William Oldrin at Wikidata
# William Packard

William Packard (September 2, 1933 – November 3, 2002) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and teacher. He founded the New York Quarterly.

## Quotes

* You can’t lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.
** From the book Art of Poetry Writing: A Guide For Poets, Students, & Readers published by St. Martin's Press on June 15, 1992.

## External links

* The Estate of William Packard
* New York Quarterly
# William Paine Lord

William Paine Lord (July 1, 1838 – February 17, 1911) was a Republican politician who served as Governor of Oregon from 1895 to 1899. The Delaware native previously served as the 27th associate justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, including three times as the Chief Justice of that court. After serving as governor he was appointed as an ambassador to Argentina in South America and later helped to codify Oregon’s laws.

## Quotes

* All around us there are tangible evidences of the industrial activity of our people and the growth and development of our State, and with national legislation not unfavorable to us, the future of Oregon is full of promise of a rich inheritance to its inhabitants.
** William Paine Lord (1895). Governor William P. Lord - Inaugural Address, 1895. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Oregon, Messages and Documents, 1895, Vol. 1, Page 1.
# William Ofori Atta

William Ofori Atta (10 October 1910 – 14 July 1988), popularly called "Paa Willie", was a Ghanaian founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and one of the founding fathers of Ghana as one of "The Big Six" detained by the British colonial government in the then Gold Coast. He later became a Minister for Foreign Affairs in Ghana's second republic between 1971 and 1972.

## Quotes about Atta

* He brought to politics a new breath of sincerity, modesty, and honesty…He did not use his talents or office for the acquisition of personal wealth, and he worked, lived, and died a simple and devoted patriot.
** William Ofori-Atta, Ghana: A Nation in Crisis (the J. B. Danquah memorial lectures, ser. 18, February 1985) (1988). Tribute to the Late Mr. William Eugene Amoako-Atta Ofori-Atta (Paa Willie), Member of the Big Six (1988).
# The Cat Creeps (1946 film)

The Cat Creeps is a 1946 film about a black cat that is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
    Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Written by Edward Dein and Jerry Warner.

## Taglines

* A THRILL a Minute...A SHIVER a Second...As An Unseen KILLER Stalks Thru the Night!
* It will scare you out of your skin!
* It'll SCARE the YELL out of you!

## Cast

* Noah Beery Jr. — Pidge "Flash" Laurie
* Lois Collier — Gay Elliot
* Paul Kelly — Ken Grady
* Frederick Brady
* Douglass Dumbrille — Tom McGalvey
* Rose Hobart — Connie Palmer
* Jonathan Hale — Walter Elliot
* Vera Lewis — Cora Williams