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# Precision

Precision is exactness and specificity of expression.

## Quotes

* It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.
** Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 3
* Without minute neatness of execution the sublime cannot exist. Grandeur of ideas is precision of ideas. Singular and particular detail is the foundation of the sublime.
** William Blake, Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 987
* The making of things to a high measure of accuracy is not just a test of workmanship. It is a fundamental to service production. In such production there can be no fitting of parts in assemblies or in repairs. Every crankshaft must be exactly like any other crankshaft. Of course no two parts are ever absolutely alike, except by accident, for it does not pay to try for accuracy beyond a certain point. But any kind of a machine which has moving parts must be accurately made or there will be an amount of vibration through play that will shorten the life of the machine and also decrease its running efficiency.
** Henry Ford in Moving Forward, Chapter XIV: A Millionth of an Inch, p. 203, 1931
* The cost of perfection is infinite in terms of time and in terms of resources. So you're always going to have to make some judgment call about how reliable is a source, or, um, how many experts do you want to contact before you're ok with this.
** CGP Grey from 27:00 in H.I. #1: Being Wrong on The Internet, Hello Internet on YouTube (30 April 2014)
* There is nothing more deplorable than those skeptics and reformers, liberal priests and humanistically-oriented scholars, who moan about “soullessness,” “barren materialism,” what is “unsatisfying in mere science,” and the “cold play of atoms,” and renounce intellectual precision, which is for them only a slight temptation. Then, with the help of some alleged “emotional knowledge” to satisfy the feelings, and with the “necessary” harmony and rounding-out of the world picture, all they invent is some universal spirit: a world-soul, or a God, who is nothing more than the world of the academic petite bourgeoisie which gives rise to him; at best, an oversoul who reads the newspaper and demonstrates a certain appreciation of social questions.
** Robert Musil, “The Religious Spirit, Modernism, and Metaphysics” (1913), B. Pike and D. Luft, trans., Precision and Soul (1978), p. 23
* You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.
** John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume II, chapter VI, section 12

## See also

* Excellence
* Perfection
# Precious Lunga

Precious Lunga (born 4 October 1974) is a Zimbabwean epidemiologist, entrepreneur, and CEO/co-Founder of Baobab Circle. As Head of Health at Econet Wireless in 2015, Lunga launched a 24/7 dial-a-doctor service in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe to reach over 750,000 paying patients within a year of launch.

## Quotes

* I’m a scientist, you can see them blinking.
** The NS Interview: Precious Lunga, epidemiologist,(January 17,2012)
* I am one of those people who put 100% into whatever I am doing, so side hustles would never work for me. It has to be all in!
** Precious talks about entrepreneurial advice as a CEO,(January 3, 2019)
* What COVID-19 has taught us is that health system resilience is the job of everyone.
** Interview with Dr. Precious Lunga: Digitalizing Health Services to Bridge Africa’s Access Divide, (July 20, 2020)
# Precious Marange

Precious Marange (born 26 November 1982) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. She is a left-handed batter and bowls right-arm fast-medium.
In February 2021, she was named in Zimbabwe's squad for their home series Pakistan women's cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2020–2021.

## Quotes

* Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has announced central contracts for 19 women players for the 2022-23 season. Zimbabwe captain Josephine Nkomo and Chipo Mugeri-Tiripano were named in the Grade A+ category.
* Grade A consists of offspinner Precious Marange and batters Modester Mupachikwa and Sharne Mayers , while left-arm pacer Nomvelo Sibanda and right-arm fast bowler Loreen Tshuma were given Grade B contracts. A total of 11 players were named in the Grade C category.
* "As part of our commitment to the growth and development of our women's game, we are pleased to confirm the awarding of central contracts to a talented group of 19 players," Hamilton Masakadza, ZC director of cricket, said. "We believe this will not only boost the morale of our players but will also allow them to fully focus on their game ahead of a crucial period for our national team, which includes participation at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2022 to be held in the United Arab Emirates in September."
** Marange
Marange was named in Zimbabwe's squad for the 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in South Africa.
** April 2022
** Women tour of Namibia at Walvis Bay, Jan 5 2019 |access-date=9 January 2019
# Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence.

## Quotes

* Some Herero people in Namibia recently have joked that if you squint at the multicolored national flag adopted after independence in 1990, you will see only the DTA or NUDO colors — that is, the red, blue, and white associated with these two Herero-based political groups. As the Namibian flag's actual dominant colors are red, blue, and green — colors associated with the mainly Ovambo-speaking, SWAPO-aligned (South West Africa People's Organization) majority — these pundits are asserting that if they try, they can find themselves in this image of the new nation. The joke implies that Herero identity is not plainly represented in the flag, but that it is submerged there, that it must be sought after, and that it can be found. The imagination of Namibian identity, the struggle both to choose representations of the polity and to assign lasting meaning to them, has been developing since the Germans claimed colonial control over the territory of South West Africa in 1884. The public use of political acronyms and specific color associations, which blossomed in Namibia just before independence, was not a trivial undertaking, nor was it simply characteristic of the southern African idiom of nationalist political expression.
** Hildi Hendrickson (1996). Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa. Duke University Press. p. 213. ISBN 0-8223-1791-5.
* In brutally suppressing the Maji Maji War in Tanganyika and in attempting genocide against the Herero people of Namibia (South-West Africa), the German ruling class were getting the experience which they later applied against the Jews and against German workers and progressives.
** Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 200

## External links

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* Textbooks from Wikibooks
# Namie, Fukushima

Namie is a Town located in Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

## Quotes

* Four years ago, the fishing town of Namie, on the northeast coast of Japan, lived through an experience of malediction biblical in scope. Beginning at 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, without warning, the town’s population of 23,000 was struck by a triple disaster in quick succession: an earthquake measuring nine on the Richter scale that severely damaged the upper town, a fifteen-meter tsunami that carried away the entire lower town, and finally, in the days that followed, a blanket of radioactivity, from explosions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant just six miles away, that settled over the town’s ruins.
** Michael Ignatieff, "Fukushima: The Price of Nuclear Power," New York Review of Books, August 12, 2015
# Nana (manga)

Nana('ナナ) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Ai Yazawa, serialized in Cookie published by Shueisha.
Nana "Cat Eyed Queen" Osaki
"I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward."
"Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win."
"To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?"
"Trapnest means “The trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other."
Yasushi "Yasu" Takagi
"I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way."
"Being alone and being lonely are two different things."
"Instead of trampling in other people's gardens, why don't you make your own flowers grow?"
"That's not for you to decide. She's my guest."
Nana "Hachiko" Komatsu
" Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming.. I don't see any other explanation"
"I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place."
"I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.�Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.�But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day."
"What people consider precious is different for everybody."
"Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why..."
"I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.."
# Nampo Jomyo

Nampo Jomyo, also Enzu Daiō and Daiō Kokushi (1235 – February 9, 1309) was a Japanese monk, who founded the Ōtōkan lineage of the Rinzai school of Zen (a form of Japanese Buddhism).

## Quotes

* My coming today is coming from no where. One year hence, my departing will be departing to no where.
** Attributed to Nampo Jomyo in: Richard Bryan McDaniel.Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2013.
* This year, the twenty-ninth of the twelfth No longer has a place to come to. The twenty-ninth of the twelfth next year Already has no place to go.
** Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
* To hell with the wind! Confound the rain! I recognize no Buddha. A blow like the stroke of lightning - A world turns on its hinge.
** Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
** Other translation: I rebuke the wind and revile the rain, I do not know the Buddha and patriarchs; My single activity turns in the twinkling of an eye, Swifter even than a lightning flash.
*** Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen Dust, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World p. 206; cited in Richard Bryan McDaniel (2013)

## Quotes about Nampo Jomyo

* Nampo Jomyo was another who traveled to China to deepen his understanding of Zen. He was the nephew of Enni Ben’nen and became a monk at the age of 15. Three years later, at 18, he sought out the Chinese master Rankei Doryu [Lanxi Daolong] who had come to Japan to establish Kenchoji as a Rinzai temple in Kamakura. After a time with Rankei, Jomyo went to China to continue studying with Kido Chigu [Xutang Zhiyu], Rankei’s Dharma brother.
** Richard Bryan McDaniel. Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2013. Article "Nampo Jomyo."
* In 1265, Jomyo achieved enlightenment and was recognized as an heir by Kido. Kido was so impressed by the young Japanese’s attainment that when the time came for him to return to his home country, Kido wrote this valedictory poem predicting the success he would find in Japan:
       To knock on the door and search with care,
       To walk broad streets and search the more:
       Old [Kido] taught so clear and bright,
       And many are the grandchildren on the eastern sea who received [this teaching].
          (Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism: A History – Japan, p. 39.)
    Upon his return to Japan, Jomyo spent some time with his former teacher, Rankei, before moving to the southern island of Kyushu, where he was appointed abbot of Kotokuji and later of Sofukuji, where he taught for thirty years.
   * Richard Bryan McDaniel. Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2013. Article "Nampo Jomyo."

## External links

* Nanpo Jōmyō (1235–1308) posthumous name Enzu Daiō, usually simply Daiō Kokushi
# Nan Shepherd

Anna "Nan" Shepherd (11 February 1893 – 27 February 1981) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and memoirist.

## Quotes

* She had given love and received only adoration: and love is so much bigger a thing than adoration — more complex and terrible. At its absolute moments it holds resolved within itself all impulses and inconsistencies, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, the spirit's agonizing.
** The Quarry Wood. 1928. 2nd sentence of quote
* Light still lingered in the sky; the hills, that had been dissolved in its splendour, like floating shapes of light themselves, grew dark again.
** The Weatherhouse. 1933.
* The Cairngorm Mountains are a mass of granite thrust up through the schists and gneiss that form the lower surrounding hills, planed down by the ice cap, and split, shattered and scooped by frost, glaciers, and the strength of running water. Their physiognomy is in the geography books—so many square miles of area, so many lochs, so many summits of over 4000 feet—but this is a pallid simulacrum of their reality, which, like every reality that matters to human beings, is a reality of the mind.
** "Chapter One. The Plateau". The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. 1977.

## Quotes about Nan Shepherd

* Nan Shepherd was a leading writer of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, an interwar modernist movement which rejected sentimental stereotypes of Scottish rural life and embraced international avant-garde aesthetics. Her writing is defined by fascination with rural communities, the realities of women's lives, and the allure and mystery of the living world.
** Samantha Walton, The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought. 10 December 2020. p. 1. ISBN 9781350153370.
* Her last book, The Living Mountain, was written in the years towards the end and after the second war, but it was not published until 1977. This volume celebrated the experience of climbing and hill-walking in the Cairngorms, one of Nan Shepherd’s life-long pleasures, and here, as in her poems, it is possible to identify the passionately metaphysical strain that underlies her creative prose and her sense of the nature of existence itself.
** Roderick Watson, "To know Being’: Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd". A History of Scottish Women's Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford & Dorothy McMillan. Edinburgh University Press. 1997. pp. 416–427.

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Nan Shepherd on Wikipedia
# Namur proverbs

Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, Walloon Governmeny and administration.

## Q

* Qwand les pourcias sont sôs , les pavias sont seûrs.
** English equivalent: When the mouse has had enough (its fill), the meal is bitter.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "280, satt" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 157.

## See Also

* French proverbs
# Servant

A servant is a person who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation.

## Quotes

* He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
** Matthew 23:11 (KJV)
* She’s the kitchen wench, and all grease.
** Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, III, 2, Dromio of Syracuse, describing Nell
* Thither I must, although against my will, For servants must their masters’ minds fulfil.
** Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, IV, 1, Dromio of Syracuse
* Every good servant does not all commands; No bond but to do just ones.
** Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V, 1, Posthumus
* Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law. Maid, to thy master’s bed, Thy mistress is o’ th’ brothel.
** Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, IV, 1, Timon, cursing Athens
* Your servant’s servant is your servant, madam.
** Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III, 1, Viola (disguised as Cesario) to Olivia
* Les maîtres cependant sont des gens bien heureux, Que souvent nous ayons le sens commun pour eux.
** Most lucky fellows are our masters oft, That they have us to find them common sense.
** Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Sidnei, Act I, Sc. X (Dumont)
* The servants—the most reliable judges of their masters because they judge not by their conversation or expressions of feeling but by their acts and way of life.
** Leo Tolstoy, Война и миръ (1869), translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude as War and Peace (1922), First Epilogue, Ch. XII
# Sermon

A sermon is an oration, lecture, or talk by a member of a religious institution, clergy, or a preacher.

## Quotes

* Your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the Lord.’ My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.
** Ezekiel 33:30 NIV
* Settle in your mind, that no sermon is worth much in which the Lord is not the principal speaker. There may be poetry, refinement, historic truth, moral truth, pathos, and all the charms of rhetoric; but all will be lost, for the purposes of preaching, if the word of the Lord is not the staple of the discourse.
** John Hall, in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 477

## See also

* Preacher
* Preaching
* Sermon on the Mount
* Farewell Sermon
# Serialism

Serialism is a specialized technique of music composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.

## Quotes

* What results [from the compositional system of Boulez's Structures] can only be described as composition by numerology. The possiblities are endless; a computer could be programmed to put down notes according to this prescription and in a very short time could turn out enough music to require years for its performance. By using different numerical rules -- using a knight's move, for example, rather than a bishop's move along the diagonals — music for centuries to come could be produced.
** John Backus, "Die Reihe — A Scientific Evaluation", Perspectives of New Music I/I (Fall 1962): 170.
* A composer's awareness of the plurality of functions of his own tools forms the basis for his responsibility just as, in everyday life, every man's responsibility begins with the recognition of the multiplicity of human races, conditions, needs, and ideals. I would go as far as to say (as my anger comes back) that any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fetishism which shares with Fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance. Claude Lévi-Strauss describes (though to illustrate a different point) a captain at sea, his ship reduced to a frail raft without sails, who, by enforcing a meticulous protocol on his crew, is able to distract them from nostalgia for a safe harbor and from the desire for a destination.
** Luciano Berio, in "The Composer on His Work : Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse", in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music : A Continuing Symposium (1996) edited by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby, ISBN 0-02-864581-2, p. 169
* Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor!
** Luciano Berio, in "The Composer on His Work : Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse", in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music : A Continuing Symposium (1996) edited by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby
# Serita Jakes

Serita Jakes (Serita Jakes was born on August 19, 1955, in Beckley, West Virginia, United States).

## Quotes

* “The word of God is the healer.”
** Hurting & Traumatized Right In the Church By: Donna Walker , EEW Editor. Retrieved 09 November 2023.

## External Links

* ↑ http://www.eewmagazine.com/matters-of-faith-serita-jakes-ptsd.html
# Peres Jepchirchir

Peres Jepchirchir (born 27 September 1993) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes mainly in road running competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

## Quotes

* I was so disappointed that I couldn’t defend my title in New York last year (2022) due to an injury, and winning again in Central Park has been my main motivation as I begin my preparations for the autumn...New York is an important step in defending my Olympic gold medal next summer in Paris, and I will do my best to make my family and my country proud.
** Doug Feinberg, "Defending champion Sharon Lokedi leads loaded New York City Marathon women's field", ClickOnDetroit, August 9, 2023.
* I was thinking to run maybe 1:04:50, but I'm so happy...it's difficult to run alone. If I had a pacemaker I would run 64 (minutes).
** Han Jing , "Jepchirchir sets new women-only half marathon world record", Shine, September 5, 2020.
# Pacatus Drepanius

Pacatus Drepanius one of the Latin panegyrists, flourished at the end of the 4th century AD.

## Quotes

* Dum Hispaniae uni quidquid ubique laudatur adsurgat. Haec durissimos milites, haec experientissimos duces, haec facundissimos oratores, haec clarissimos uates parit, haec iudicum mater haec principum est. Haec Traianum illum, haec deinceps Hadrianum misit imperio; huic te debet imperium.
** Whatever is praised everywhere else yields to Spain alone. It is she that spawns the toughest soldiers, the most experienced generals, the most eloquent orators, the most famous poets; she is the mother of judges—and the mother of Emperors. She gave the Empire the great Trajan, and then Hadrian; to her the Empire is indebted for you [Theodosius I].
** "Panegyric of Theodosius" (389), as recorded in the Panegyrici Latini. Translation from C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini (1994), p. 452, original Latin at p. 649.
# Pablo Galimberti

Pablo Jaime Galimberti di Vietri (8 May 1941–) is a Uruguayan prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* Now Sundays are good days to go shopping, to go out, to play sports.
** “Privatization” of the faith in Uruguay criticized by bishop (March 26, 2008)
* If everyone assumes their responsibilities, and we live Christian values coherently day by day.
** The Blessed Mother’s “doings” at Salto (2016)