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# Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author.

## Quotes

* How is one to reconstruct a memory of a place that doesn’t exist anymore? I mean the buildings are still there, but the faces are no longer the same. Gentrified NYC has pretty much eviscerated the nuances of particular neighborhoods, like El Barrio…
** On the effects of gentrification in New York City in “Rule-Breaking is a Conscious Decision: an Interview with Willie Perdomo” in The Common (2018 Nov 12)
* I use vignettes and dialogue as a way of relaying a moment. Storytelling is not a monotonic medium. Rule breaking is a conscious decision and, yes, it comes with consequences. I think the nostalgia is really a specific memory made of the right words that are more celebratory, elegiac, than nostalgic.
** On storytelling in “Rule-Breaking is a Conscious Decision: an Interview with Willie Perdomo” in The Common (2018 Nov 12)
* Corners. It’s always been corners. Corners help me see angles. All of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime was written on the corners of 123rd Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem. After hanging out for a day, an evening, or breaking night, I would retreat to my Olympia electric typewriter that was usually sitting on my desk, in the corner of the bedroom where I looked out of the window as a kid, and would get to work on a poem…
** On his preferred location for writing in “Rule-Breaking is a Conscious Decision: an Interview with Willie Perdomo” in The Common (2018 Nov 12)
* I tried to capture the recollection of that experience. As if to say, you have these war-like, traumatic experiences and you retell them and retell them and each time you add something that wasn’t there the first time. The truth effect of that is that it just becomes larger and larger because your memory details are at work. The question then becomes: how many of those little embellishments—how many of those little nuances—can you add up before they tell a larger truth about the time that you were living in? That’s really the effect of writing a book, I think…
** On how his work The Crazy Bunch grapples with time in “‘WHEN YOU OPEN THE BOOK, DON’T GO LOOKING FOR YOURSELF’: A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIE PERDOMO” in The Adroit Journal (2019 Sep 17)
* I think the joy of reading any book is that you enter where you can, like reading a poem. Sometimes we start off with a title or we enjoy a piece for its sonic effect, an image, or innovation. Reading a book is more or less the same process. At the start, you might be outside the experience, but the language is specific enough that it will draw you in, first with its music and then with its attempt at recollection…
** On the joys of reading in “‘WHEN YOU OPEN THE BOOK, DON’T GO LOOKING FOR YOURSELF’: A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIE PERDOMO” in The Adroit Journal (2019 Sep 17)
# Victor Lebrun

Victor Lebrun (1882 – 1979) was a French Esperantist writer and a Tolstoyan.

## Quotes
### Leo Tolstoy

    Trans. Victor P. Epp. Lulu.com, 2005. ISBN 1-4116-6733-6
* The fate of all founders of moral and religious schools did not escape Tolstoy. He had three types of disciples: those of one type looked after their own internal improvement and had, so to say, a poor opinion of all practical actions. They are the followers of the letter of the law. Very rarely does one encounter persons like this among Tolstoyans. Those of another type left their studies or privileged situations and went to live among the people, maintaining themselves by farming or the trades. They are the men of goodwill on humankind's labor front. Those of the third and final type do not reject their special skills, through which they serve the people and true progress. They are the friends of the people.
** pp. 51–52
* In the spiritual world, just as in the physical world, nothing is lost. Where an ember quietly glows, even a breeze can fan a blaze. Just as he instructed me, Tolstoy's powerful call touched millions of hearts and intellects.
** p. 58
* “Leo Nicolayevich, what is madness?” I asked him … The reply followed. “It is selfishness,” he explained, “the narrowing of one's attention to oneself and afterward to any single idea.”
** pp. 94–95
* Nature is like a woman worthy of being placed on a pedestal. In order fully to understand and appreciate her, it is necessary to live with her a long time in intimate proximity.
** p. 104
* Persistent and undiscerning almost to the point of criminality as far as resources were concerned, this woman [Sophia Tolstaya] was of immeasurable hindrance to her husband, her children and humankind as a whole.
** p. 123
* A genius, an eighty-two year-old thinker and author, loved and respected by the whole world, having to flee like a criminal from his own home! To flee from the bottomless abyss created between persons having dissimilar guiding instincts! Through the cold impenetrable autumn night, Tolstoy ran alone to the nearest stable through the large apple orchard. And behind him, the terrifying specter of being caught and again made to drown in the insufferable surroundings in which he had been suffocated for all of thirty years! Before him, finally, lay moral freedom, so long and so earnestly awaited! Finally, the possibility, though not for long, though only until death, of relief from the pressures on his mind! The possibility of carrying out his much revered duty before his conscience and before toiling humankind! He had been hindered in life. Now he can at last succeed in dying with dignity.
** pp. 139–140

## Quotes about Victor Lebrun

* During this summer [of 1906] the strain between Father and Mother grew deeper. … A young Tolstoyan by the name of Lebrun, whom Father loved very much, lived with us at this time and helped Father.
** Alexandra Tolstoy, Tolstoy: A Life of My Father, trans. Elizabeth R. Hapgood (Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953), pp. 448–449.

## External links

* Leo Tolstoy by Victor Lebrun on Google Books
* Victor Lebrun on Esperanto Wikipedia
* Victor Lebrun on Italian Wikipedia
# Victor Pelevin

Victor Olegovich Pelevin (Russian: Виктор Олегович Пелевин, born 22 November 1962 in Moscow) is a Russian fiction writer.

## Quotes

* Никаких философских проблем нет, есть только анфилада лингвистических тупиков, вызванных неспособностью языка отразить Истину.
** There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
** The Sacred Book of the Werewolf [Священная Книга Оборотня], p. 226. (2004, translated by Andrew Bromfield in 2008)
# Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn (March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998, for his contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials.

## Quotes

* Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.
** In a discussion with UCSD's Ivan Schuller, on UCTV Series: "UCSD Guestbook" (9/1999) (Science) (Show ID: 4136)
# Walter Headlam

Walter George Headlam (15 February 1866 – 20 June 1908) was an English classical scholar and poet. A fellow of Kings College, Cambridge, Headlam is perhaps best remembered for his work on the Mimes of Herodas. He is described in the Alumni Cantabrigienses as "one of the leading Greek scholars of his time."

## Quotes

* Sometimes the original may have to wait until there is a vessel to transfer it into.
** From the Preface to A Book of Greek Verse (Cambridge University Press, 1907), p. ix
* Love that fills the firmament with glory!— All the world knew this, but now I know it; Last have proved the eternal story And in song will shew it, All to gain, if you shall deign Me to be your poet.O divinest Heavenly Aphrodite, Here on earth incarnate I behold you, Lovelier, more serene and mighty Than my lips have told you, Far beyond my dreamings fond In my arms to fold you.You it was knew where the sweet flowers haunted; I could praise them found, but you could find them; I with studious art unvaunted Have in garlands twined them, And as due bring here to you On your brows to bind them.Take the worship, and with grace in guerdon Still for me new flower-abodes discover, That my song may keep its burden, There is nought above her; I, denied her breast, abide Her devoutest lover.
** "To—" (March 1895) in Cecil Headlam, ed., Walter Headlam, His Letters and Poems, with a Memoir (London: Duckworth & Co., 1910), Part II, p. 3
* June with her glancing grasses, June with a smiling sky, June, brown as the country lasses Or wings of the dragon-fly!The mown hay lies like sedges Or weed of the seashore strewn; Abrim with corn to the hedges The fields are filled in June.
** "June" in Cecil Headlam, ed. (1910), Part II, p. 19; cp. "The Nut-Brown Maid"
# Walter Kasper

Walter Kasper (5 March 1933 –) is a German Roman Catholic Cardinal and theologian who served as the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

## Quotes

* Tradition is not a stagnant lake, but is like a spring, or a river: it is something alive. The Church is a living organism and thus it always needs to validly translation the Catholic tradition into present situations.
** Kasper: the faithful understand Amoris laetitia, stop accusations of heresy (5 March 2018)
# Walter Halloran

Walter H. Halloran (September 21, 1921 – March 1, 2005) was a Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus who, at the age of twenty-six, assisted in the exorcism of Roland Doe.

## Quotes

* I never made an absolute statement about the things because I didn’t feel I was qualified. I hadn’t studied the phenomena and that sort of thing. All I did was report the things that I saw and whether I would make a statement one way or another wouldn’t make any difference because I just don’t think I was qualified to do so.
** The Haunted Boy of Cottage City: The Cold, Hard Facts behind the Story that Inspired The Exorcist” (1998)
* I saw it right after it came out. I went with Father Bowdern and I thought it was a typical Hollywood, glitzy thing, real bizarre, trying to bring people to be fearful or to scream. I was disappointed with it. I thought it was a mess. And Father Bowdern did too. He gave sort of a running negative commentary throughout the whole movie. I thought the two of us were going to be thrown out of the theatre.
** An Interview With The Priest Involved In The Case Behind The Exorcist
# Jennifer Aaker

Jennifer Aaker (born January 15, 1967, California) is an American behavioural scientist and General Atlantic Professor and Coulter Family Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is known for her research on time, money, and happiness. Aaker also focuses on the transmission of ideas through social networks, the power of story in decision making, and how to build global brands across cultures. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology and the Stanford Distinguished Teaching Award.

## Quotes

* But what I realized was, I don’t really care about selling books,”
* “What does interest me is trying to help save the lives of people who might not have the tools, the money, the skills, or the contacts themselves.”
* As someone who was always attracted to oncology, to be able to take my field, my research, and my connections to help save lives — that was extremely gratifying,”
* In my own burnout and depression after this — because it was soul-crushing — Amit was showing me that there is power in humor, there is power in levity,” Aaker says. “I was seeing that if you don’t have enough humor and levity, you will burn out. That put me on a new research journey around understanding the behavioral science of humor — when and why it works.”
* That was not a surprise to me, personally,” Aaker says, “because I think subconsciously or not, I did try to create these different eras in my life and also in my research.”
* I saw parents that said, ‘I just want my kid to be happy,’” Aaker says. “Or I saw people getting depressed when they realized they were low and thought they should be happy, and then were doubly depressed because they weren’t. That got me thinking about whether there might be a difference between short-run happiness and what’s truly meaningful.”
* The result is clickbait rather than substance; life hacks rather than holistic solutions; echo-chambers than generate radicalism rather than understanding,” she said in a talk she gave to Stanford HAI in 2020. “And we are more susceptible than ever to short-term design serving up a stream of addictive content. Like junk food, technology serves up a sugar rush but fails to nourish us.”
* The way I learn is by teaching a new class,” she says. “That’s why I shift.”
* What we’re doing with this beautiful mindset research is diving more deeply into people’s subjective experience,” Aaker says. “Now, think about how interesting that is relative to AI — AI is not going to be able to have subjective experiences, at least for a while. This idea of what defines the human subjective experience is going to be a blossoming topic for the next decade or so. And I’m hoping this window of research will be able to add to that conversation — in a way that anyone could feel connected to.”
* To be able to take my research and my connections to help save lives — that was extremely gratifying.
** Stanford GSB General Atlantic Professor Jennifer Aaker in a podcast Stanford Graduate School of Business (November 27,2023)
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# Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology.

## Quotes

* A serpent threaded through the shell of a turtle.
** On the Plesiosaur. Quoted in Mantell's Medals of Creation, 2nd ed., ii, p. 671
# Adam Price

Adam Robert Price (born 23 September 1968) is a Welsh politician serving as the leader of Plaid Cymru since 2018. Since 2016, he has sat in the National Assembly for Wales for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, having previously been a Member of Parliament for the coterminous Carmarthen East and Dinefwr constituency.

## Quotes
### 2018

* There's an emergency cord on this [Brexit] train and we have to pull it,
** Plaid Cymru's Adam Price says Brexit must be stopped BBC News (3 October 2018)
* The best option available to us in terms of our economy is remaining in the European Union
** Plaid Cymru wants Labour to help build Brexit coalition BBC News (28 November 2018)
* We need to take this decision back to the people
** Plaid Cymru wants Labour to help build Brexit coalition BBC News (28 November 2018)

### 2019

* [My party is] committed to work co-operatively with every other opposition party and do everything in our power to avoid a catastrophic crash-out Brexit
** Brexit: Opposition MPs agree strategy to block no deal BBC News (27 August 2019)
# Adam Rakunas

Adam Rakunas is an American science fiction writer.

## Quotes
### Windswept (2015)

    Nominated for the 2016 Philip K. Dick Award
    All page numbers are from the mass market paperback first edition published by Angry Robot ISBN 978-0-85766-478-5
* I suppose if I stuck with the union long enough, I’d be promoted to those circles, but I had other plans, and all of them involved me no longer giving a shit.
** Chapter 1 (p. 13)
* “Now, what can I do for you? And it had better involve you turning into a giant stack of money, ’cause I’m not interested in whatever scam you’re cooking up.” “What makes you think I got a scam?” “Because you’re talking.”
** Chapter 1 (p. 15)
* “This is all completely on the level.” “Your level isn’t even level,” I said, waving for Big Lily to bring me another tea. “You’re so crooked it defies physics.”
** Chapter 1 (p. 17)
* “Santee property law makes a hurricane look orderly. You just have to pass the bar exam.” “How tough is it?” he asked. “Depends on how much you can drink.”
** Chapter 6 (pp. 71-72)
* You have the magical combo of luck and sheer pigheadedness it takes to succeed in business.
** Chapter 13 (p. 159)
* You’re working something, and I should have you arrested for impersonating a con man.
** Chapter 16 (p. 195)
* If that were true, then we were all in new territory, the kind filled with flesh-eating landmines and laser-guided crocodiles.
** Chapter 16 (p. 196)
* “Do you know what black stripe is?” he said. “It’s a warning. It’s nature’s way of telling us what a bad idea it is to rely too much on one plant.”
** Chapter 22 (p. 287)
* A look flashed across One-Eye’s face, like frustration getting pummeled by anger with an extra slap from resignation.
** Chapter 23 (p. 300)
* “It’s not a crime if you write the laws,” said Madolyn. “Or hire the lobbyists,” said Gricelda. “Ooh, good reminder,” said Madolyn. “We need to get us some of those. Also, more flamethrowers.”
** Chapter 27 (p. 375)