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# Marcus Borg

Marcus Joel Borg (March 11, 1942 – January 21, 2015) was an American New Testament scholar and theologian.

## Quotes

* We live in God. We move in God. We have our being in God. And when we die, we do not die into nothingness; we die into God.
** The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith (2003), p. 182

## External links

* Marcus J. Borg Foundation
# Marcus Brigstocke

Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio.

## Quotes
### The Now Show

* We humans who art on Earth, humanity is special, our kingdom has come. Do what we innately know to be right, on Earth because that's all there is. Share the bread we have, try not to screw up. When others screw up, understand. We can't have everything that tempts us (Unless we work in international finance). Deliver ourselves from evil because this is it. The Earth, the power to do right, and the glory that will come if we do is ours, now and forever. Hu-man.
* [On David Cameron] When I heard this inherited multi-million ex-Etonian talking about a culture of entitlement, well, I'm sorry, but my irony meter went through the red and then exploded in a gale of bitter laughter. It actually went "HAA!" I was furious, because I've only just had a new irony meter installed after Rebekah Brooks complained about how she had been unfairly reported by the British press.

### Live At The Apollo (2006)

* All big cities are the same now. It used to be easier at weekends. Not anymore, you get the white stretch limos everywhere. You see them at first, you think, "Is it a celebrity or a foreign dignitary?" No, its some slags. No one's sure how many slags, cause the windows are tinted. All you can say with any real degree of accuracy is that there is an indescriminate number of slags in said vehicle. There's at least two poking out the sunroof.
* If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
* Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, "Where will we park?!"

### Planet Corduroy (2007)

* [on global warming] There's a group of people who, a little while ago, were saying, "It's not happening." That same group of people are now saying, "Alright, it is happening, but it's not our fault." That's a very dodgy position to be in. That's like saying, "I'm not having an affair, and, anyway, she seduced me".
* I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.
# Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham (born January 11, 1966) is a British-American New York Times best-selling author, researcher, motivational speaker and business consultant best known for promoting what he calls "Strengths." Basing most of his writing on extensive survey data from interviews with workers in countries around the world, he promotes the idea that people will get the best results by making the most of their strengths rather than by putting too much emphasis on weaknesses or perceived deficiencies.

## Quotes

* Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
** Marcus Buckingham, cited in: Mohamed Tohami, Perk Up Your Profits, 2013. p. 38
* Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day.
** Author Marcus Buckingham, cited in: Michel Beaudry, "Sam Rees - making the Whistler leap," at piquenewsmagazine.com, November 28, 2013.

### Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001)

* The great organization must not only accommodate the fact that each employee is different, it must capitalize on these differences. It must watch for clues to each employee's natural talents and then position and develop each employee so that his or her talents are transformed into bona fide strengths.
** p. 5
* Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
** p. 8
* Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession—from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting—you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
** p. 21

### The One Thing You Need to Know (2005)

* What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.
** p. 59
* The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of "optimism training" is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.
** p. 69
* If great managers are catalysts, speeding up the reaction between the individual's talents and the company's goals, then great leaders are alchemists. Somehow they are able to transform our fear of the unknown into confidence in the future.
** p. 145
* Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
** p. 146
# Marcus Aurelius Cleander

Marcus Aurelius Cleander (C.E.2nd century – C.E.190), praetorian prefect, under Commodus.

## Quotes about Marcus Aurelius Cleander:
### Jean-Baptiste-Louis Crevier:

* Cleandro shared all the pleasures, or rather, all the debaucheries of Commodus, and having thus gained his confidence, he was for some time the rival of Perenne, and in the end supported by the faction of the freedmen of the palace, of which he was the leader, he came to ruin it. He, heir to his power, abused it with all the wickedness typical of a vile soul, and brought into the ministry all the vices of the servile condition. Everything was for sale with him, the positions of the Senators, the commands of the army, the governments of the Provinces, and the Prefectures, and he was paid dearly for them.
* To multiply his earnings, Cleander multiplied his positions and appointed, something that had never been seen before, twenty-five Consuls for a single year. He respected neither the Laws nor things judged. Anyone who had money to give him was sure to be<ref>acquitted, an ancient form of part. past of absolve . </ ref>, whatever crime he had committed; or reinstated, if he had previously been convicted, and very often still with increased dignity and splendor.
* He did not immediately take the position of Prefect of the Praetorium which was too disproportionate to the baseness of his condition, but he paved the way for it by degrading it and degrading it with frequent changes. He made and unmade the Praetorian Prefects as he pleased. He had one that lasted five days, and another that lasted six hours. Finally, when Cleander believed he had reduced this powerful office in proportion to his rank, he conferred it on himself, taking two colleagues, who were his creatures, and who depended entirely on him. Then three Praetorian Prefects were seen for the first time.

## Note:

* ↑ Tigidius Perenne (circa. C.E.125 – 185/186), politician and praetorian prefect of the Roman Empire.
# Marcus Eremita

Marcus Eremita, Mark the Ascetic or Marcus the Ascetic was a Christian theologian, saint, and ascetic writer of the fifth century AD.

## Quotes
### On the Spiritual Law

       in Philokalia
* Ignorance makes us reject what is beneficial; and when it becomes brazen it strengthens the hold of evil.
* Concern yourself with your own sins and not with those of your neighbor; then the workplace of your intellect will not be robbed.
* I have seen unlearned men who were truly humble, and they became wiser than the wise.
* Do not say: 'I do not know what is right, therefore I am not to blame when I fail to do it.' For if you did all the good about which you do know, what you should do next would then become clear to you.
* Evils reinforce each other; so do virtues, thus encouraging us to still greater efforts.
* The devil belittles small sins; otherwise he cannot lead us into greater ones.
* Do not listen to talk about other people's sins. For through such listening the form of these sins is imprinted on you.
* When you first become involved in something evil, don't say: 'It will not overpower me.' For to the extent that you are involved you have already been overpowered by it.
* He who does not choose to suffer for the sake of truth will be chastened more painfully by suffering he has not chosen.
* The intellect cannot be still unless the body is still also: and the wall between them cannot be demolished without stillness and prayer.

### On Those who Think that They are Made Righteous by Works

* Prayer is called a virtue, but in reality it is the mother of the virtues: for it gives birth to them through union with Christ.
* Love is the last of the virtues to be born in the heart, but it is the first in value.
* However great our virtuous actions of today, they do not requite but condemn our past negligence.
* One man received a thought and accepted it without examination. Another received a thought and tested its truth. Which of them acted with greater reverence?
* Many of us feel remorse for our sins, yet we gladly accept their causes.
* A passion which we allow to grow active within us through our own choice afterwards forces itself upon us against our will.
# Marcus Junius Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio (85 BC – 42 BC), or simply Brutus, was a Roman senator of the late Roman Republic. He was one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

## Quotes

* The Xanthians, suspecting my kindness, have made their country the grave of their despair; the Patareans, trusting themselves to me, enjoy in all points their former liberty; it is in your power to choose the judgment of the Patareans or the fortune of the Xanthians.
** As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden
* Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end.
** As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden
* Yes, indeed, we must fly, but not with our feet, but with our hands..
** As quoted in "Marcus Brutus" in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by John Dryden. Said supporting suicide to escape when someone said they had to escape.

## About

* Farewell, good Strato. — Caesar now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
** William Shakespeare, depicting the death of Brutus in Julius Caesar, V. v

## External links

* Livius.org: Brutus
* Information on Marcus Junius Brutus from www.Greektext.com
# Robert Lee Hale

Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) was an American lawyer and economist. He earned an economics degree at Harvard University, and then worked at Columbia University Law School. He is known as a legal realist, and his work focused particularly on the distributive impact of legal rules.

## Quotes

* The systems advocated by professed upholders of laissez-faire are in reality permeated with coercive restrictions of individual freedom. ... What is the government doing when it “protects a property right”? Passively, it is abstaining from interference with the owner when he deals with the thing owned; actively, it is forcing the non-owner to desist from handling it, unless the owner consents. Yet Mr. Carver would have it that the government is merely preventing the non-owner from using force against the owner. This explanation is obviously at variance with the facts—for the non-owner is forbidden to handle the owner's property even where his handling of it involves no violence or force whatever. ... In protecting property the government is doing something quite apart from merely keeping the peace. It is exerting coercion wherever that is necessary to protect each owner, not merely from violence, but also from peaceful infringement of his sole right to enjoy the thing owned.
** “Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1923), pp. 470-494
# Robert Leighton (bishop)

Robert Leighton (1611 – 25 June 1684) was a Scottish prelate and scholar, best known as a church minister, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1653 to 1662.

## Quotes

* Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
** Theological Lectures, No. 5, "Of the Immortality of the Soul", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 514.
* How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 401.
* It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 449.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Robert Leighton (bishop) on Wikipedia
* Media related to Robert Leighton (bishop) on Wikimedia Commons
* Works related to Author:Robert Leighton (1611-1684) on Wikisource
* Biography from Newbattle Parish Website
* His Complete Works
# Robert Leighton

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* Robert Leighton (bishop) (1611–1684), Scottish preacher, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, & academic
* Robert B. Leighton (1919–1997), American physicist
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# Robert Lees (linguist)

Robert B. Lees (9 July 1922 – 6 December 1996) was an American linguist.

## Quotes

* That is a complete waste of your time and the government's money. You are a native speaker of English; in ten minutes you can produce more illustrations of any point in English grammar than you will find in many millions of words of random text.
** Lees's response when informed that Nelson Francis had received a grant to produce the Brown Corpus.
** Biber, D., and E. Finegan. 1991. "On the exploitation of computerized corpora in variation studies." In K. Aijmer and B. Altenberg (eds.), English corpus linguistics: Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik, 204-220. London: Longman.
# Rosé

A rosé is a type of wine that incorporates some of the colour from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may be the oldest known type of wine, as it is the most straightforward to make with the skin contact method. The pink color can range from a pale "onionskin" orange to a vivid near-purple, depending on the grape varieties used and winemaking techniques. Usually, the wine is labelled rosé in French, Portuguese, and English-speaking countries, rosado in Spanish, or rosato in Italian.

## Quotes

* Lily on liquid roses floating— So floats yon foam o’er pink champagne— Fain would I join such pleasant boating, And prove that ruby main, And float away on wine!Those seas are dangerous, greybeards swear— Whose sea-beach is the goblet’s brim; And true it is—they drown old Care, But what care we for him, So we but float on wine! And true it is—they cross in pain, Who sober cross the Stygian ferry; But only make our Styx—champagne, And we shall cross right merry, Floating away on wine!Old Charon’s self shall make him mellow, Then gaily row his boat from shore; While we, and every jovial fellow, Hear—unconcerned—the oar, That dips itself in wine!
** John Kenyon, "Champagne Rosé" (wr. 1837; pub. 1838)
* Praise who will the duller liquor Juice of Portugal or Spain; Fill for me with lighter—quicker— Fill for me with Rose Champagne. See the glass its foam upgiving, Creaming—beading—round the brim, Such, were old Anacreon living, Such should be the wine for him! Elixir blest! Bacchus and Flora, 'Twas He proposed—She smiled compliance— Thee—a spell for mortal sorrow, Thee devised in gay alliance. Full of the plan, they leapt delighted From leafy couch, where each reposes, And while they plied their task united, (One gave the grapes, and one the roses,) Young Love stood near, with curious eye, And heedful watched the chemic union, And smiled to think how, by and bye, The play of looks, the soul's communion, And the tied tongue's first liberty Should thrive beneath that magic essence. And what, thou glorious alchemy! What though thy primal effervescence, Like Love's, too bright—too dear to stay— Like Love's—die almost in the tasting— Yet each I snatch, as best I may; Ah! why are both so little lasting.
** John Kenyon, "Champagne Rosé" (wr. 1818; pub. 1838)
# Rotten Sound

Rotten Sound is a Finnish extreme metal band from Vaasa, formed in 1993. The band comprises vocalist Keijo Niinimaa, guitarist Mika Aalto, bassist Kristian Toivainen and drummer Sami Latva. The band has released eight studio albums and "earned a reputation for being one of the most intense bands on the Scandinavian death metal/grindcore scene".

## Song lyrics

* DISINTEREST: Nothing against reformations / Minding only own business // Please take a stand! / Show us that you are a human! // Armies kill with no remorse / It's OK unless someone you know dies // ...
** Still Psycho, Necropolis Records, NR062, 2000
# Ross Macdonald

Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983), who wrote under the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction.

## Quotes
### The Moving Target (1949)

* Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.

### The Way Some People Die (1951)

* An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.
* The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

### The Drowning Pool (1952)

* They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.

### The Galton Case (1959)

* Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.

### The Goodbye Look (1969)

* "You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?" "I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."
* Money costs too much.
* The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest to escape.
* When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.

### Sleeping Beauty (1973)

* I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.
* Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.

### The Blue Hammer (1976)

* We went inside and I kissed her. Not only my temperature rose.
* There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns — different states, if possible — and write each other letters once a year.
# Ross Thomas

Ross Thomas (February 19, 1926 in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995 in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction.

## Quotes
### Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967)

* Never end a sentence with a preposition,” he recited. “Not never; just seldom.
* You can grieve when someone dies. But when someone is near death, and there is the chance that you might prevent it if you make the right decision, anxiety takes over.
* Eight-fifteen in the morning in Washington is not a happy time.
* Does she know all the people she says she knows?” “She knows everybody.” “Maybe that’s why she’s getting old.
* Another good touch. What do we charge for a regular martini?” “Ninty-five cents—ninety-eight cents with tax. What's it do to the tips?” Builds them. There aren’t as many dimes and nickels around, so they usually leave two-bits. The two cents' change is a sting to conscience.”
* You watch television much?” Padillo asked. “Some,” I said. “It’s like China. If you ignore it, it just gets worse.
* They were chosen to die because somebody in our government thought that the world would be a better place to live if they weren’t around any more. Perhaps they thought it would make a difference, and maybe the world did get better for them because they received a promotion or a discrete commendation. But it didn’t change things much for the rest of us.
* Your countrymen, McCorkle, are seemingly indifferent to what happens in Africa. Most of them don’t care about what happens here, as long as it happens on the next block.