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# Mabel "Madea" Simmons

Madea (known in full as Mabel "Madea" Simmons) is a fictional character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry.

## Quotes

* when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
** Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Comments on Love and Life (2006)
# Mabel Lang

Mabel Louise Lang (November 12, 1917 – July 21, 2010) was an American archaeologist, classical scholar, and professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.

## Quotes

* In epigraphy, it is a well-established principle that in restoring an inscription the shortest possible line is to be preferred. The principle is honored not so much because short lines are known to have been particularly favored (they were not) nor because the document in question is likely to have been expressed in the briefest possible terms, but in order to keep to a minimum the restored material. And for its purpose the principle is admirable, since readers of the restored inscription can be confident that, although what they read may bear comparatively little relation to the original document, at least it includes the fewest possible additional letters or words necessary to make sense of what remains to us on stone.
** (1972). "Cleon as the Anti-Pericles". Classical Philology 67 (3): 159–169. DOI:10.1086/365862.
* It is only from the end of the 6th century b.c. that we have firm evidence for Asklepios-worship anywhere; concerning his previous existence there is only a tangle of myths which seem to reflect conflicting claims and rival theories. Certainly in the Iliad Asklepios appears only as the other of the the heroes Machaon and Podalirios, who both share in the fighting and are valued as physicians.
** Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth: A Guide to the Asklepieion. 1977. p. 4. ISBN 9780876616703.
* One of the very earliest uses to which the art of writing was put, along with alphabetic exercises and marks of ownership, was sexual insult and obscenity.
** Graffiti in the Athenian Agora. 1988. p. 5. ISBN 9780876616338.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Mabel Lang on Wikipedia
# Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (14 October 1840 – 22 March 1899), also known as Dr. Leitner, was a British orientalist.

## Quotes

* If the man laughs, change the Order.
** Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: On the Science of Language and Ethnography, p. 173
* Many disasters can be traced to our linguistic shortcomings. Millions of money and multitudes of men have been sacrificed in order to save the prestige of a mistake in translation committed "by authority."
** Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: Oriental Translations of English Texts, p. 151
* The human mind is extremely limited, and amongst the limits imposed upon it are those of, in early life, connecting an idea, fact, or process, with certain words; and unless two languages, at least, are learnt, and those two are as dissimilar as possible, one is always, more or less, the slave of routine in the perception and in the application of new facts and of new ideas, and in the adaptation of any matter of either theoretical or practical importance. It is great advantage, for linguistic purposes, which are far more practically important than may be generally believed, that the study of Classical languages still holds the foremost place in this country (India); because, however necessary scientific "observation" may be, it cannot take the place of a cultured imagination.
** Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: On the Science of Language and Ethnography, p. 172
* A good deal of our misconception with regard to the difficulty of the inquiry lies in ourselves that ideas of multitude connected with the peculiar customs of the race that have yet to be ascertained, are at the bottom of the inability of that race to follow our numeration.
** Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: On the Science of Language and Ethnography, p. 173

## External links

* M. Ikram Chaghatai: Writings of Dr. Leitner, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 2002
# Gourmet

Gourmet is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals.

## Quotes

* To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France; your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
** Ludwig Bemelmans, , Le bonne table (1964), p. 194
* Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there.
** Paul of Tarsus, Philippians 3:19-20 NIV
* The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are.
** Plato, The Republic, 586a-b

## See also

* Cooking
* Eating
* Food
* Gluttony
# Government of Iran

The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: نظام جمهوری اسلامی ایران; romanized: Nezâm-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân), known simply as Nezam (Persian: نظام; romanized: Nezâm; lit. 'the system'), is the ruling state and current political system in Iran, in power since the Iranian Revolution and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.

## Quotes

* For us, Palestine problem is not tactical, or political strategy it is creed and heart.
** [Khamenei https://farsi.khamenei.ir/speech-content?id=8952 ]
* Better being martyred than tribulation under Zionism and America.
** Khomeini امام‌خمینی، صحیفه امام، ۱۵/۳۷۲
* Guardianship of Jurist is something god has created. Supreme leader like Mohammed is put on earth by god. He is never appointed or deposed of by people or Assembly of Experts.
** Khomeini
* Guarding Islamic Republic is imperilous even than of Imam of time's life.
** khomeini
* This government is not a republic nor Islamic.
** Montazeri این حکومت نه جمهوری ست نه اسلامی
* The Iranian regime has been a long-term threat, not only to Israel, but also to other neighbouring Arab states. It serves as drone provider to Putin’s war against Ukraine, supports terror organisations and is a nightmare for its own population. It is a terror regime.
** EPP
# Margherita Marchione

Margherita Marchione (February 19, 1922 – May 20, 2021) was an American Catholic nun.

## Quotes

* As an institution the Church cannot subject its authority to a certain social relation with society.
** The Winter of John Cornwell's Discontent (12 December 2004) Zenit
# Marginal Revolution

Marginal Revolution is the development of economic theory in the late 19th century which explained economic behavior in terms of marginal utility and related concepts.

## Quotes

* The term 'marginal revolution' is usually taken to refer to the nearly simultaneous but completely independent discovery in the early 1870s by Jevons, Menger and Walras of the principle of diminishing marginal utility as the fundamental building block of a new kind of static microeconomics. It constitutes, so the argument goes, one of the best examples of multiple discoveries in the history of economic thought, which simply cries out for some sort of historical explanation: it is too much to believe that three men working at nearly the same time in such vastly different intellectual climates as those of Manchester, Vienna and Lausanne could have hit by accident on the same idea. The trouble is that none of the standard explanations is convincing. The levels of economic development in England, Austria and Switzerland were so different in the 1860s that all crypto-Marxist explanations in terms of changes in the structure of production or the relationship between social classes strain our sense of credulity. Likewise, the utilitarian-empiricist tradition of British philosophy, the neo-Kantian philosophical climate of Austria and the Cartesian philosophical climate of Switzerland simply had no elements in common that could have provoked a utility revolution in economics. In matters of economic policy, there was in fact continuity with classical thinking and when Jevons and Walras wrote on policy questions, as they often did, there was little or no connection between their practical recommendations and their views on value theory.
** Mark Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect (5th ed., 1997), Ch. 8 : The Marginal Revolution
# Margot Fonteyn

Dame Margot Fonteyn (18 May 1919 - 21 February 1991) was a British ballet dancer, born Margaret Hookham, and nicknamed "Peggy".

## Quotes

* The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
** As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations‎ (1988) by James Beasley Simpson; also quoted in Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women (1992) by Ellen Sue Stern, p. 235
** Paraphrased variants: The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
* What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.
** As quoted in Encyclopedia of World Biography (1998) edited by Paula Kay Byers and Suzanne Michele Bourgoin, Vol. Hox-Kie‎, p. 504
* Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
** As quoted in Thoughts from Earth (2004) by James Randall Miller

### Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎ (1975)

* Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time.
** p. 9
* Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
** p. 81
* I need to have a purpose in life and for that I might sacrifice some of the luxuries that I enjoy; fortunately I am fairly adaptable. I try to be aware, flexible and unbiased in my thinking. If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
** p. 272
** Variant: Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
*** As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations‎ (1988) by James Beasley Simpson

## Quotes about Fonteyn

* How to put something so visual, so potent with theatrical moment that even film cannot capture it, into plain words? How to explain why it is that when, to a particular strain of music, an ordinary mortal steps forward on one leg, raises the other behind her and lifts her arms above her head, the angels hold their breath?
** Meredith Daneman, in Margot Fonteyn (2004) p. 1

## External links

* Profile at Ballet.co
* Photo gallery
* Profile at PeoplePlay UK
* Review of a biography by Meredith Daneman at The Guardian
** Review of a biography by Meredith Daneman at The Scotsman
* Profile at Surrey Choicenet
* Profile at "My Hero" project
# Margot Grahame

Margot Grahame (20 February 1911 – 1 January 1982) was an English actress.

## Quotes

* Margo. The 'T' is silent as in Harlow.
** When asked by Jean Harlow whether her name was pronounced "Margo" or "Margott".
** Mark my words: great quotations and the stories behind them by Nigel Rees (2002), p. 63.
** This exchange is also attributed to Margot Asquith, but Rees traces it to Grahame and concludes it was transferred to a more famous Margot when Margot Grahame's star waned. Apparently Grahame didn't intend a put-down and only realized later what she had said.

## About

* Margot Grahame, the countess, was a pouty siren known as "the Aluminum Blonde" — Britain's answer to Jean Harlow.
** Lee Miller: a Life by Carolyn Burke (2005), p. 115.
# Margherita Hack

Margherita Hack (12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and scientific disseminator.

## Quotes

* I think you can understand time just by the fact that everything, everything changes. Everything ages. You’re born, you die. The living beings as the objects if they are new, then they become old. Even the stones, even in our Earth, aged four and a half billion years, has changed enormously. So we can define time only thanks to the fact that everything changes.
** Interview with Euronews' Claudio Rocco in 2011; as quoted in "Science says 'ciao' to Italy's Margherita Hack: the 'lady of the stars'", euronews.com (1 July 2013).
* I’m an atheist in the sense that I do not believe in God, I do not believe in the afterlife. I believe that the soul is our brain. It’s impossible to scientifically prove either that God exists, or that God does not exist. The idea of God does not convince me. I prefer to believe that there is matter and that matter has the properties we observe. … When I pass away, if I meet God, I will tell him I was wrong.
** Quoted in "Goodbye Margherita Hack, “The Lady of the Stars.”", iitaly.org (1 July 2013).
# Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 in New York City — March 5, 1953 in Hollywood, California) was a Hollywood screenwriter and raconteur.

## Quotes

* Will you accept three hundred dollars per week to work for Paramount? All Expenses paid. The Three Hundred is Peanuts, millions are to be grabbed out here and your only comepetition is idiots. Don't let this get around.
** Telegram to Ben Hecht (1926), cited in Julien Gorbach The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2019, p. 92
* There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
** On Orson Welles, quoted in The New York Times (11 October 1985)
* Never care what anybody says.
** Told to Oscar Levant, who admitted: "I took his advice with deleterious results."
* I don't know how it is that you start working at something you don't like, and before you know it you're an old man.

## References

* ↑ Levant, Oscar (1965). The Memoirs of an Amnesiac. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 98.
* ↑ Halliwell, Leslie, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 4th ed. (2006) HarperCollins
# Hereward Carrington

Hereward Carrington (17 October 1880 – 26 December 1958) was a well-known British-born American investigator of psychic phenomena and author. His subjects included several of the most high-profile cases of apparent psychic ability of his times, and he wrote over 100 books on subjects including the paranormal and psychical research, conjuring and stage magic, and alternative medicine.

## The Natural Food for Man

    Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, 1963. On Google Books.
* Man can live without animal flesh; consequently the eating of this flesh is purely to gratify an appetite — and a perverted appetite at that. No normal appetite could possibly crave flesh of any kind. So that there is no possible excuse for the killing and eating of animals, than this — except, of course, ignorance. After all, that is the greatest factor! It is against this taking of life unnecessarily that the vegetarian protests…
** p. 157
* [The animals] are now especially bred for eating purposes, and if the demand decreased, the supply would decrease also. Further, how is it that we are not overrun by wild animals of all sorts? … People need not worry about the future welfare of the bovine race, if they would only be a little more humane in their treatment of its present representatives!
** p. 159-160
* Were one to stop and think of what meat is, and what it was, it is doubtful if one could eat it. It is merely dead and decaying flesh — flesh from the body of an animal. … Only by the fact that they are covered up, and their true nature concealed by cooking, and basting, and pickling, and peppering and salting can we eat them at all. If we were natural carnivorous animals, we should delight in bloodshed and gore of all kind! … We should eat our flesh warm and quivering — just as it comes from the cow!
** p. 160-161
* How would our society women like to spend the morning in a slaughter-house, before they could procure their meat for the evening dinner?
** p. 161
* Yes; the stain rests upon the flesh-eaters, not upon the flesh providers!
** p. 162
* When the soil is given up to the feeding of cattle, upon which man is to feed, the given area of land would supply far less nutriment, so to speak, than would the same soil, if grains were raised upon it…
** p. 162
# Heriberto Andrés Bodeant Fernández

Heriberto Andrés Bodeant Fernández (15 June 1955 –) is a Uruguayan prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Canelones.

## Quotes

* We felt our hearts burning, we are ready to go on the road and to continue inviting all our people to live a personal encounter with Jesus Christ in His Church.
** Pope Francis receives Uruguayan Bishops in audience (16 November 2017) Vatican Radio
# Herieth Paul

Herieth Paul (born December 14, 1995) is a Tanzanian model who has walked for Diane von Fürstenberg, Lacoste, Tom Ford, Calvin Klein, Armani, Cavalli and 3.1 Phillip Lim. She moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the age of 14 due to her mother being a diplomat. She was discovered when she went to an open call at Angie's AMTI, a model agency based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She signed with Women Management New York in June 2010.

## Quotes

* I really love this city.
* I grew up here and I wanted my son to experience growing up here just like I did. But now we’re moving again because the fashion world never stops, and things are opening up.
** https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/ottawas-supermodel-next-door-herieth-paul, (Ottawa Citizen, Nov 10,2021)
# Mir Jumla II

Mir Jumla II (1591 – 30 March 1663) was a prominent subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

## Quotes

* By looting, the temples of the South and hunting out buried treasures, Mir Jumla amassed a vast fortune. The huge Hindu idols of copper were brought away in large numbers to be melted and cast into cannon.....
** 1661. Koch Bihar (Bengal) , Fathiyya-i-Ibriyya cited by Sarkar, Jadu Nath, History of Aurangzeb, quoted in Goel, S.R. Hindu temples What Happened to them
* 19 Dec., 1661. Mir Jumla entered the city of Kuch Bihar,, which had been evacuated by its king and people, and "appointed Sayyid Md. Sadiq to be chief judge, with directions to destroy all the Hindu temples and to erect mosques in their stead. The general himself with a battle-axe broke the image of Narayan."—Stewart’s Bengal
** Sarkar, Jadunath (1972). History of Aurangzib: Volume III. App. V.
* Mir Jumla made his way into Kuch Bihar by an obscure and neglected highway' In six days the Mughal army reached the capital (19th December) which had been deserted by the Rajah and his people in terror. The name of the town was changed to Alamgirnagar; the Muslim call to prayer, so long forbidden in the city, was chanted from the lofty roof of the palace, and a mosque was built by demolishing the principal temple.
** 1661. Koch Bihar (Bengal) , Fathiyya-i-Ibriyya cited by Sarkar, Jadu Nath, History of Aurangzeb, quoted in Goel, S.R. Hindu temples What Happened to them
* In 1661 Aurangzeb in his zeal to uphold the law of Islam sent orders to his Viceroy of Bihar, Daud Khan, to conquer Palamau. In the military operations that followed many temples were destroyed...Towards the end of the same year when Mir Jumla made a war on the Raja of Kuch Bihar, the Mughals destroyed many temples during the course of, their operations. Idols were broken and some temples were converted into mosques.
** Palamau (Bihar), Koch Bihar (Bengal). Alamgirnamah of Mirza Muhammad Kazim , cited in : Sharma, Sri Ram, Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperors, Bombay, 1962. p. 129.
* By plundering Hindu temples... and searching out hidden treasures, Mir Jumla accumulated a vast fortune, and according to Thevnot, he had twenty maunds of diamonds in his possession. His jãgîr in Carnatic was like a kingdom… He was almost an independent ruler and absented himself from the court of Golconda. Alarmed at the growing power of the Wazir, the Sultãn attempted to bring him under his control but Mîr Jumla entered into intrigues with Bijãpur and Persia.
** J.N. Chaudhuri, in Majumdar R.C., (ed.), op. cit., Vol. VII, The Mughal Empire. pp. 475-76.

## External links

* Life Of Mir Jumla: General Of Aurangzeb
# Minute Alapati Taupo

Minute Alapati Taupo OBE (1 February 1962 – 23 May 2022) was a Tuvaluan politician, diplomat, economist and accountant. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Fisheries and Trade in the Natano Ministry.

## Quotes

* Genuine and durable partnerships are fundamental for the United Nations (U.N.) to achieve its Agenda 2030, as well as its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the exclusion of a genuine and durable partner like Taiwan from the U.N. denies its 23 million people of their fundamental rights to participate, benefit and contribute to the U.N. SDGs.
** Minute Alapati Taupo (2019) cited in: "11 of Taiwan's allies speak up at UN debate: MOFA" in Focus Taiwan, 29 September 2019.
** Statement made during the General Debate of the 74th general assembly of the United Nations, 28 September 2019.