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# Leila Ahmed

Leila Ahmed (born 29 May 1940) is an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam.

## Quotes
### A Border Passage (1999)

* Egyptians, for instance, might, with equal accuracy, define themselves as African, Nilotic, Mediterranean, Islamic, or Coptic. Or as all, or any combination of, the above. Or, of course, as Egyptian: pertaining to the land of Egypt.
** Chapter 1
* We all automatically assume that those who write and who put their knowledge down in texts have something more valuable to offer than those who simply live their knowledge and use it to inform their lives.
** Chapter 5
* The devastation unloosed on Muslim societies in our day by fundamentalism . . . seems to be not merely the erasure of the living, oral, ethical, and human traditions of Islam but the literal destruction of and annihilation of the Muslims who are the bearers of those traditions. In Algeria, Iran, Afghanistan, and, alas, in Egypt, this narrow, violent variant of Islam is ravaging its way through the land.
** Chapter 5
* We lived in fact, throughout our childhoods, easily and unthinkingly crossing thresholds between one place and another—Ain Shams, Zatoun, our school—places that formed their own particular and different worlds with their own particular and different underlying beliefs, ideals, assumptions.
** Chapter 6
* “One is not born but rather becomes a woman,” goes Simone de Beauvoir’s famous dictum. I obviously was not born but became black when I went to England. Similarly, of course, I was not born but became a woman of color when I went to America.
** Chapter 10
# Fatumah Ahmed

Fatuma Gaiti Ahmed is a major general and commander of the Kenya Air Force. She was originally a member of the women-only Kenyan Women Service Corps, transferring to the air force when the unit was absorbed into the three armed services in 1999. Ahmed has a degree from the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies and has served mainly in human resources roles. She was Kenya's first female brigadier.

## Quotes

* They said 'that's not a profession for women, But I was determined to make a difference in my life
** "Kenya appoints first woman air force head", BBC (May 2, 2024)
# Fardosa Ahmed

Fardosa Ahmed (born c.1985) is a Kenyan physician, entrepreneur, and health administrator, who serves as the chief executive officer of Premier Hospital, Mombasa, a private health facility that she co-founded and co-owns.

## Quotes

* Some people in Mombasa have the perception that the private hospital is only used for a certain class of people. Our goal is for Mombasa to become a destination for medical tourism, but we are also trying to get rid of the perception that our hospital is solely for the rich.
** As quoted in Doctor targets foreign-bound patients with Sh1bn hospital on Monday June 2019.
* I love my job as a doctor and for my patients to have the best healthcare they need the best facility so that is what I try to achieve by keeping up with all the new medical trends.
** As quoted in Doctor targets foreign-bound patients with Sh1bn hospital on Monday June 2019.
* I have seen a lot in my line of work but one thing I completely cannot stomach is child abuse.
# Braulio Rodríguez Plaza

Braulio Rodríguez Plaza (27 January 1944 –) is a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Osma-Soria and the Diocese of Salamanca and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Valladolid and the Archdiocese of Toledo.

## Quotes

* Even though the media has repeated it so many times, the Pope has not decided that we are going to return to celebrating the Mass in Latin. To say such a thing is not only ignorant, it's also thoughtless. It has always been permitted to celebrate the Mass in Latin, even after Vatican II, and the books of the liturgical reform were written in Latin and later translated into the different languages.
** Archbishop clears up media distortions about Pope’s Motu Propio on Latin Mass (25 July 2007)
# Abiy Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed Ali [Ge'ez: ዐቢይ አህመድ አሊ, Oromo: Abiyyii Ahimad Alii, often shortened to Abiy Ahmed or just Abiy] (born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician serving since 2 April 2018 as the fourth and current prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. He is chairman of both the ruling EPRDF (Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front) and the ODP (Oromo Democratic Party), one of the four coalition parties of the EPRDF). Abiy was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the 20-year conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

## Quotes

* What we need to make our first and primary task is and where our struggle ought to concentrate on is upon ourselves. We have to cleanse our thoughts from hatred; different political views and religion are our blessings, we have to conduct them with love. Even if there are disagreements arising from our differences, we should side with justice rather than injustice and correct our moral lenses. Justice should be our main principle; love and respect for all human beings ought to be our moral compass. This is our eternal job that cannot be completed and a work that needs to be always performed. It is our lifelong assignment.
** Inaugural Address, as translated by Hassan Hussein, OPride.com (3 April 2018)]
* Those who want to be among the Ethiopian children, who will be hailed by history, rise up for your country today. Let's meet at the front.
** Abiy Ahmed (2021) cited in: "Ethiopia civil war: How PM Abiy led fight-back against rebel advance" in BBC News, 16 December 2021.
# Jerry Sadowitz

Jerry Sadowitz (born 4 November 1961) is an American-born Scottish stand-up comic and card magician, known for his frequently controversial "sick humour".

## Quotes

* Nelson Mandela? What a cunt. Terry Waite? Bastard. I dunno, you lend some people a fiver, you never see them again.
** Undated, quoted in GQ, 2 February 2010
* Hello moose-fuckers! You know what I hate about this country? Half of you speak French and the other half let them.
** To an audience in Montreal, quoted in The Guardian, 9 November 2011

### The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992)

* How do you give a woman an orgasm? Who cares!
* My mother thinks I'm at Kings cross right now buying drugs off a prostitute. If she knew I was on the BBC, she'd kill me.
* My idea of Comic Relief is switching Victoria Wood off.
* I only hate two things - living things, and objects.
* I'm actually a bisexual necrophiliac - I'll shag anything that doesn't move.
* I used to think I was great in bed until I discovered that all my girlfriends suffered from asthma.

## Quotes about Sadowitz

* Sadowitz is a very different act from Gervais and Carr: low status, stubbornly niche, the connoisseur's misanthrope. I dislike boorish comedy that punches down for kicks, and I appreciate it can be hard to spot the difference when an act only seems to be doing so – especially when they're quoted out of context amid a hysterical media storm. But writing about the offensive comedy debate, Sadowitz has long been my go-to exemplar: if you're as skilful as he is, if you take the pains he takes to contextualise the material, you can be as brutally unpleasant as you like without censure.
** Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16 August 2022
# Helen Ukpabio

Helen Ukpabio is the founder and head of African Evangelical franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries based in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. She is widely accused of causing widespread harassment, torture and violent deaths of children accused of witchcraft.

## Quotes

* There is witchcraft all over the world. So I will not join the campaign that says there is no witchcraft, because that is the devil speaking. And when the devil speaks, he makes a lot of people powerless and intimidates them. So I am not going to be part of that campaign. There are witches and those witches have to be delivered as they come for it.
** Helen Ukpabio speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Voice
* When you cast out demons and use matchet or nail, then it is no longer spiritual. In our church, we do not even use olive oil. I don’t like it. There is a book I am writing on Inconveniencing the Devil. It is criticising the use of addictives. There are churches that ask people to bring cloth, oil and other things for prayers, we don’t.
** Helen Ukpabio speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Voice
* I have never had a scandal. I have members of my church who are in top positions in government. They should have reacted since. People should come to the church to see what we are doing.
** Helen Ukpabio speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Voice
* Believe in that but my only reservation is whether government will have the willpower and sincerity to implement it.
** Helen Ukpabio speaking in an interview with the Nigerian Voice
# Nafeez Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (born 1978) is a British investigative journalist, author and academic. He was an environment blogger for The Guardian from March 2013 to July 2014 and has worked as a Special Investigations Reporter for the Byline Times.

## Quotes
### "Interrogating 9/11" Left Magazine (2006)

"Interrogating 9/11" Left Magazine September 11, 2006 (Archived Copy )
* Five years on, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we still don’t know what really happened on 9/11. And this dismal, pathetic state of affairs should not continue.
* It is agreed by all that the fires never burned hot enough to melt the steel columns. Whether or not the steel was hot enough to buckle, the official account fails to explain the deposits of molten metal found after the collapses. If not the fires, what could have caused the steel to melt?
* Professor Jones didn’t write his paper to support a prior ideological-conspiratorial agenda -- he wrote it to point out that to date, conventional scientific explanations of the WTC collapses remain flawed and inadequate. The molten deposits found at Ground Zero, and the failure of the official narrative to account for them, represent an anomaly that should be investigated impartially, not dismissed for reasons of political convenience -- or arbitrary standards of the boundaries of sanity.

## About Nafeez Ahmed

* [N]obody has yet been fool enough to accept his argument that the attacks on New York and Washington were part of a pre-arrangement involving the United States government.
* On reflection and on a rereading of his "book," I would change my original article and remove the word "risible." A more apposite term for both the author and his illiterate pages would be "contemptible."
** Christopher Hitchens "Two Degrees of Interpretation", Vanity Fair (February 2010)
# Mikagura-uta

The Mikagura-uta (みかぐらうた, The Songs for the Service) is one of the three Tenrikyo scriptures, along with the Ofudesaki and the Osashizu. It was composed by the foundress of Tenrikyo, Miki Nakayama, from 1866 to 1875, and revised to its current version in 1882.

## Quotes

    The translations currently used here are from the most recent edition published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, unless otherwise noted.
* あしきをはらうてたすけたまへ てんりわうのみこと
** Sweeping away evils, please save us, Tenri-O-no-Mikoto.
** Mikagura-uta section one.
* ちよとはなし　かみのいふこときいてくれ あしきのことはいはんでな このよのぢいとてんとをかたどりて ふうふをこしらへきたるでな これハこのよのはじめだし なむてんりわうのみこと
** Just a word: Listen to what God says. I never tell you anything wrong. Representing heaven and earth I have created husband and wife. This is the beginning of the world. Namu Tenri-O-no-Mikoto.
** Mikagura-uta section two.
* あしきをはらうてたすけせきこむ いちれつすましてかんろだい
** Sweeping away evils, hasten to save us. All humankind equally purified, the Kanrodai.
** Mikagura-uta section three.
* 八ツ　やしきハかみのでんぢやで　まいたるたねハみなはへる 九ツ　こゝハこのよのでんぢなら　わしもしつかりたねをまこ 十ド　このたびいちれつに　ようこそたねをまきにきた たねをまいたるそのかたハ　こえをおかずにつくりとり
** Eighth, As this Residence is the field of God, every seed sown here will sprout. Ninth, Since this is the field of this world, I, too, will sow the seed devotedly. Finally, This time, I am glad to see that all of you equally have come here to sow the seed; those who have sown the seed, shall reap a rich harvest without fertilizing.
** Mikagura-uta VII:8–10.
* 八ツ　やまひはつらいものなれど　もとをしりたるものハない 九ツ　このたびまでハいちれつに　やまひのもとハしれなんだ 十ド　このたびあらはれた　やまひのもとハこゝろから
** Eighth, Though illness is so trying, no one has ever known its origin. Ninth, Until this time all of you equally have been ignorant of the origin of illness. Finally, This time, it has been revealed. The origin of illness lies in your own mind.
** Mikagura-uta X:8–10.

## See also

* Tenrikyo
* Ofudesaki
* Osashizu
* Nakayama Miki

## References

* Nakayama, M. (1999). Mikagura-uta (Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, Trans.). Tenri, Japan: Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. (Original work published 1888)

## External links

* "Tenrikyō" from World Religions & Spirituality Project
# Scott Burns (record producer)

Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene.

## Quotes

* If you listen to a lot of the heavy thrash bands, even Dark Angel, Kreator or Celtic Frost – they were heavy as hell, but I always though the production sounded like shit [...] There was this general consensus that nobody who produced stuff like Sepultura gave a shit about it. They’d say, ‘Oh, they play too fast and it sounds like a dog barking.’ [...] no one ever tried to make them sound good. And at the time, Jim, and Tom really were pioneers as far as doing drum triggering. And they invested money in PC electronics and figured how to use that to make high really good recordings. And I jumped right in the fire and learned as I went along.

## Quotes about Scott Burns

* Scott knew what to do with fast and brutal bands, and not a lot of guys did at the time [...] It really drew people from the death metal scene down here. That was a big factor in Tampa becoming a haven here. They wanted to be close to the studio.
** Terrance Hobbs of Suffocation
* Many fans have told me that "Tomb..." is their favorite album because the production is so heavy. There is no doubt that Scott helped Cannibal Corpse a great deal with the excellent production work he did on this album.
** Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse
# Arthur Waugh

Arthur Waugh (27 August 1866 – 26 June 1943) was an English journalist, literary critic, biographer, and publisher. He is noteworthy as the author of the 1931 autobiographical memoir One Man’s Road and as the father of the novelists Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh.

## Quotes

* An affection for animal life was one of Alfred's earliest characteristics. One of the rooms on the second floor was set apart as his den, and here he would sit of an evening, pondering his verses. One night, as he leant from the window, he heard an owl hooting; and, with a faculty for imitation which was strong in him, he cried back to the bird. The poet's 'tu-whit, tu-whoo' was so natural that the owl flew to the wind, and into the room, where it was captured and kept for a long while as a pet. Ingenuity has traced to this story the origin of the later poem 'The Owl,' which catches with singular fidelity an echo of the bird's cry.
** Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Study of His Life and Work (2nd ed.). London: W. Heinemann. 1893. pp. 14–15. (1st edition, 1892)
* The summer of 1855, when next the Brownings were in London, was one of uncommon literary agitation. ... ... Above all other books, Maud was the poem of the year. When the Brownings reached London, the critical bombardment of Tennyson had begun; and all the various passions of mankind were being exercised in his condemnation and defence.
** Robert Browning. Westminster Biographies. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. 1900. pp. 102–103.
* To begin with, in the amusement nearest my heart, there was the theatre; and no one with a passion for the play could have arrived at Oxford in a more favourable hour. In the month of my first term the long struggle for the drama at Oxford was crowned with success; and the New Theatre opened its doors to a performance of Twelfth Night by the Oxford University Dramatic Society ...
** One Man's Road: Being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1931. p. 124. last part of quote

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Arthur Waugh on Wikipedia
* Works related to The Times/1943/Obituary/Arthur Waugh on Wikisource
# Loving-kindness

Loving-kindness may refer to chesed, a term found in the Hebrew Bible, or maitrī or mettā, a term used in Buddhism.

## Quotes
### Chesed

    Main article: Chesed
* Chesed is a covenantal love, a profound and committed and long-term love, a kind love—but not a romantic love. … This kind of love so confounded Miles Coverdale, a sixteenth-century Bible translator in England, that as he worked to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into English, he felt compelled to coin a new word to describe it: loving-kindness.
** Rachel Held Evans: Wholehearted Faith, ch. 5, "Thick Skin, Tender Heart". HarperCollins (2021). ISBN 978-0-06-289447-2.

### Maitrī

    Main article: Maitrī
* The Pali term, mettā, is derived from a word for friendship, and therefore can be understood as a deep friendship with life. This should not imply that mettā is necessarily easy. Deep friendship implies being present, connected, and caring even through difficult times.
** Shaila Catherine: Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana, ch. 8, "Boundless Heart: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity". Wisdom Publications (2011). ISBN 978-0-86171-623-4.
# Selman Waksman

Selman Abraham Waksman(July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish-Ukrainian-American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. In 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition "for his discovery of "streptomycin," the first antibiotic active against tuberculosis."

## Quotes

* The concept of the « struggle for existence » has been applied to microbial interrelationships in nature in a manner comparable to the effects assigned by Darwin to higher forms of life. It has also been suggested that the ability of a microbe to produce an antibiotic substance enables it to survive Giom. in competition for space and for nutrients with other microbes. Such assumptions ppear to be totally unjustified on the basis of existing knowledge. Before we proceed with a discussion of the formation and activities of antibiotics under natural conditions, we must consider certain fundamental aspects of the problem of antibiotic production under controlled laboratory or factory conditions... All the discussion of a "struggle for existence" in which antibiotics are supposed to play a part, is merely a figment of the imagination, and an appeal to the melodramatic rather than the factual.
** As quoted by the Instituto di Microbiologia, (1956). Giornale Di Microbiologia. Volume 2; in proceedings of the First European Symposium on the Biochemistry of Antibiotics
# Alvin Goldman

Alvin Ira Goldman (October 1, 1938 – August 4, 2024) was an American cognitive scientist and Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, known for his work in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.

## Quotes

* The principal way that cognitive science can contribute to epistemology, I claim, is to identify basic belief-forming, or problem-solving processes. Once identified, these processes would be examined by primary epistemology according to the evaluative dimensions and standards adduced in Part I.
** Alvin Goldman (1986), Epistemology and Cognition. p. 81
# Patrick White (American football)

Patrick White (born February 25, 1986) is an American former professional football quarterback. He played in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft.

## About Patrick White

* He's probably the fastest guy on the field at any time...And he's the quarterback.
** Greg Schiano, Rutgers head coach. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2007/scouting/west.virginia.html
* I've heard from people that the first time you see Pat, you think you have an angle and you don't...He's such an explosive player that there are times when there's people around him and he either outruns the angle or makes somebody miss...Pat was able to do everything, and I've said this many times, I think Pat White is one of the best players in the country and he gets a chance to prove it every week.
** Rich Rodriguez, former West Virginia head coach. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3086385
# Stephen Stich

Stephen P. Stich (born May 9, 1943) is a professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, as well as an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Stich's main philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and moral psychology.

## Quotes

* In light of the evolutionary links and behavioural similarities between humans and higher animals, it is hard to believe that belief-desire psychology could explain human behaviour, but not animal behaviour. If humans have beliefs, so do animals.
** "Do Animals Have Beliefs?" (1979); as quoted in The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan (University of California Press, 2004), p. 36.
# Carmel Schrire

Carmel Schrire (born 15 May 1941) is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University whose research focuses on historical archaeology, particularly in South Africa and Europe.

## Quotes

* The apparent aim of this paper is to reveal the contribution of archaeology to understanding the social relations of capitalism.
* The burden of this particular study of rural settlement in the Scottish Highlands is to show that archaeology helps to achieve a deeper understanding of the transition from clan ownership to individual ownership during the period of Improvement that heralded the dawn of the new commercial age in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
* If ever one wondered whether the life of a single man could illuminate a
century, [this] brilliant biography … proves the point.”