OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Neal Lawson

Neal Lawson (born 1963) is a British political commentator and organiser. He helped to establish the Compass pressure group in 2003, and serves as Compass's executive director. He writes for The Guardian, The New Statesman and openDemocracy about equality, democracy and the future of the left, and appears on TV and radio speaking about political issues.

## Quotes

* The alternative is to appeal to the country's latent progressive majority that goes back decades. Last Thursday, this progressive vote amounted to over 60%, while the Tories scored just 29%. To mobilise it means recognising that difference and diversity, within a broadly common value set, is a strength not a weakness and that the best future is negotiated not imposed. Critically it allows us to win elections by speaking to the interests of the centre and left, not the right.
** "There is a way to oust the Tories, and stop them ever rising again. Why won’t we do it?", The Guardian (9 May 2023).
** Advocating a change to a voting system using Proportional representation in the United Kingdom (in place of First-past-the-post) following the local elections held on 4 May 2023.
* We need a political class that can spend and regulate in the right way, that knows its job isn't to usher in a better world for us, but to create the conditions in which we can build it ourselves. [Caroline] Lucas knew that, but our political and democratic system is so broken it fails to people like her; it wears them down and spits them out.
** "Caroline Lucas was the best PM Britain never had – but she’s shown us how to fix our politics", The Guardian (8 June 2023).
** Caroline Lucas, the only Green Party MP in the period from 2010 to 2024, had announced she was standing down at the next general election.
* [T]he case for PR has been ratcheted up enormously by how disproportionate the outcome of the election was, up against a Labour-ist mindset that means justify ends and it doesn’t really matter, democratically, how you get there.
** Cited in "Labour divided over calls to scrap first past the post after landslide win", The Guardian (17 July 2024)
** In the 2024 general election held on 4 July, the Labour Party gained 63% of House of Commons seats on 34% of the electoral vote. The two largest parties (the other being the Conservatives) gained only 58% of the total vote
# Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman (November 12, 1962 –) is an American writer of young-adult fiction.

## Quotes

* Kids are kids. No matter what year it is, no matter what language they speak or culture they’re in. There is something deeply universal about being a teenager, and I try to capture that universality in the things that I write.
* I’ve never really defined myself by a single identity—and in these times where identity means so much, I sometimes feel like I’m a bit of an outsider to every identity. Perhaps that makes me uniquely suited to writing about teens, who often feel on the outside
** NEAL SHUSTERMAN’S INCLUSIVE YA AND TALKING TO THE AUTHOR ABOUT REPRESENTATION (May 26, 2020)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Neal Shusterman on Wikipedia
* Media related to Neal Shusterman on Wikimedia Commons
* Official website
# Neapolitan proverbs

Proverbs from all Neapolitan speaking parts of the world.

## C

* Chi la dura la vence.
** English equivalent: God is with those who persevere; Persevere and never fear.
** Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "130". Dictionary of European Proverbs. I. Routledge. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-134-86460-7.

## M

* Meglio sulo ca male accompagnato.
** Translation: It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
** English equivalent: Better be alone than in bad company.
** Source for proverb: Strauss, Emanuel (1994). Dictionary of European proverbs (Volume 2 ed.). Routledge. p. 572. ISBN 0415096243.

## N

* n' Casa de mpiso non nommenare chiappe.
** English equivalent: In the house of the hanged man, mention not the rope.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "405, Strick" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 225.

## S

* Se s abbruscia la casa de lo vecino curre, co si l acqua a la casa toja.
** English equivalent: When thy neighbour s house doth burn (is on fire) be careful (beware) of thine own.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "Nachbarn, 127" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. p. 73.
* Si t’ii na das un tantin, chiel as n'a pia un.
** English equivalent: Give him an inch and he will take a yard.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "677, Hand". Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. pp. 351-352.

## See also

* Bolognese proverbs
* Corsican proverbs
* Emilian proverbs
* Italian proverbs
* Lombard proverbs
* Milanese proverbs
* Northern Italian proverbs
* Piedmontese proverbs
* Romagnol proverbs
* Romanesco proverbs
* Sardinian proverbs
* Sicilian proverbs
* Tristine proverbs ‎
* Tuscan proverbs
* Venetian Proverbs
# Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed (born 15 June 1968) is an American author of young adult fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

## Quotes

* We live in an age of internment right now…and it’s not just in the United States. These things are happening globally…Silence is complicity. It’s so important for those of us who have any kind of privilege, power or platform to always speak up. That’s the very first step to take when we see oppression in our country, when we see acts of bigotry, hatred, homophobia, xenophobia—any institutionalized prejudices.
** On speaking out against interning people in “INTERVIEWS: Samira Ahmed—Who gets to feel at home in America?” in Book Page (Apr 2019)
* Writing for young adults is writing into the realm of possibility…I always say that middle age novels are about doors closing, and young adult novels are about doors opening.
** On writing young adult novels in “INTERVIEWS: Samira Ahmed—Who gets to feel at home in America?” in Book Page (Apr 2019)
* A child always grows away from their parents. That is the job of a parent — to give their child the tools to be independent. But for the immigrant family, there’s a different cost to it, an inevitable cultural loss that happens as the first generation gives way to the second and then the third, as this once-new nation becomes (hopefully) fully your own…
** On the immigrant families in “An Indies Introduce Q&A With Samira Ahmed” (American Booksellers Association; 2018 Jan 19)
* [B]eing an ally means you need to be active. It’s not enough to be non-racist. You need to be anti-racist. It may not be easy, but you need to use your voice and your privilege in the moment to speak up when you see something wrong being done. Even if it is “only” a microaggression…
** On speaking out against all forms of racism in “An Indies Introduce Q&A With Samira Ahmed” (American Booksellers Association; 2018 Jan 19)
# Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta

Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (Pali for "Right View Discourse") is a Pali Canon discourse that provides an elaboration on the Buddhist notion of "right view" by the Buddha's chief disciple, Ven. Sariputta.

## Quotes

* When a noble disciple has thus understood suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the way leading to the cessation of suffering, he entirely abandons the underlying tendency to greed, he abolishes the underlying tendency to aversion, he extirpates the underlying tendency to the view and conceit 'I am,' and by abandoning ignorance and arousing true knowledge he here and now makes an end of suffering. In that way too a noble disciple is one of right view, whose view is straight, who has perfect confidence in the Dhamma and has arrived at this true Dhamma.
** Verse 19, as translatedby Ñanamoli Thera & Bhikkhu Bodhi

## See also

* Eightfold Path leading to the cessation of suffering
# Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician.

## Song lyrics

* It seems to me I've heard that song before. It's from an old familiar score. I know it well, that melody.
** I've Heard that Song Before (1942)
* Till you're walking beside me, I'll walk alone.
** I'll walk alone (1944)
* I fall in love too easily I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard For love to ever last My heart should be well-schooled Cause I've been fooled in the past But still I fall in love so easily I fall in love too fast
** I Fall in Love Too Easily (1944)
* Three coins in a fountain Each one seeking happiness Thrown by three hopeful lovers Which one will the fountain bless?
** Three Coins in a Fountain (1954)
* When somebody loves you It's no good unless he loves you - all the way Happy to be near you When you need someone to cheer you - all the way.
** All the Way (1957)
* Just what makes that little old ant Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant? Anyone knows an ant, can’t Move a rubber tree plant. But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopes He’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.
** High Hopes (1959)
* Call me irresponsible Yes, I'm unreliable But it's undeniably true That I'm irresponsibly mad for you.
** Call me Irresponsible (1963)
# Samm-Art Williams

Samm-Art Williams (January 20, 1946 – May 13, 2024) was an American playwright and screenwriter, and a stage and film/TV actor.

## Quotes

* The Vietnam War was raging at that particular time, so I wanted to do a positive play about a country character who was yearning for his home, as I was doing at Christmas…I drew on my experience growing up in the country - plowing mules, cropping tobacco, bootleggers, going to church. The rest was my imagination. I wanted to do something that could be performed on the streets - I love street theater. And I wanted my character to have a conscience.
** On what inspired him to write the play Home in “Lyrical, Uplifting HOME by Samm-Art Williams Comes to ICT” in Broadway World: Los Angeles (2017 Sep 15)
* I am more interested in how the human being approaches the issue instead of trying to write about the issue itself because we really know what the issues are in this life regardless of what we’re talking about…
** On centering his plays around human beings rather than social issues (as quoted in the book African American Dramatists: An A-to-Z Guide; 2004)
* I would like to see a character make his stand on what he things [sic] about it because that way I think I can get into the humanness of people, and that’s really where my head is.
** On having the character actively address certain issues (as quoted in the book African American Dramatists: An A-to-Z Guide; 2004)
# Sammo Hung

Sammo Hung Kam-bo (born January 7, 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema, and as a fight choreographer for other actors such as Jackie Chan.

## Quotes

* …Almost half my life I’ve worked in the movie industry, and it’s very rare to see a good, strong script. I really love movie making, editing and directing, however if you want me to count it then there’s only really handful, about 5 movies that I consider to have had good scripts that I’ve been involved in. So if I see a very good script and I wasn’t involved, then I feel it’s a pity I wasn’t involved in that collaboration. So if there’s a good script then it’s good to be involved, but if nobody invites you then it’s very hard, those sorts of opportunities are rare to come by.
** On why he became involved in the film The Bodyguard in “Exclusive Interview: Sammo Hung ‘I don’t normally play bad guys. But now it’s simple. Who pays me the most?’” in Eastern Kicks (2016 Jul 2)
* …You know I’ve done everything before right? Horror movies, action movies… I want to try a movie just for the sex scenes, not the fighting! I’ve never had a chance to hold a girl and kiss her. Everyone tells me I should fight again, but actually I want to try everything. Now I just want to find new, young action stars…
** On still wanting to play more varied roles in “Exclusive Interview: Sammo Hung ‘I don’t normally play bad guys. But now it’s simple. Who pays me the most?’” in Eastern Kicks (2016 Jul 2)
* …To portray a realistic older person, for me it’s actually getting harder. The film is very much about people of my age group, and all the troubles that come with it. I really value my time and spending it with senior people, I was practically brought up by my own grandfather.
** On working in films as an older adult in “Exclusive Interview: Sammo Hung ‘I don’t normally play bad guys. But now it’s simple. Who pays me the most?’” in Eastern Kicks (2016 Jul 2)
* …It is not about who is doing what, the matter is that all of us are doing it. We have all started this path. This path is for long term development. We want to create a cradle of new talents. In the long run it’s a very strategic decision to train new talents, to create new opportunity’s for the future of the movie industry, especially for the martial arts genre. There are schools everywhere, everybody is learning something, and it’s important for the future that’s what matters.
** On wanting to create more film opportunities in Hong Kong in “Exclusive: Interview with martial arts star Sammo Hung” (City on Fire; 2016 Jun 7)
# Sammy Wilson

Sammy Wilson (born April 4, 1953, Belfast) is a politician in Northern Ireland and both a Member of Parliament and a Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Antrim.

# Quotes
## 1980s

* Irish is a leprechaun language.
** The Irish News (November 3, 1987)
* Leadbelly.
** Sunday World (January 17, 1988)
** A comment about fellow Belfast councillor Alex Maskey after he was shot in the stomach by loyalist paramilitaries
* Our message to the perverts who voted for them [Sinn Féin] is that they will not get anything through this council.
** Andersonstown News (March 5, 1988)
* I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.
** The Irish Times (September 24, 1988)
** After the loyalist killing of Gerard Slane
* The GAA is the sporting wing of the IRA.
** The Irish News (September 6, 1989)

## 1990s

* Would this council be prepared to congratulate all those who have done a good job on two sides of the border?
** Sunday World (June 15, 1991)
** Reference to the loyalist murder of Sinn Féin Donegal councillor Eddie Fullerton
* 5,000 subhuman animals.
** The News Letter (September 3, 1991)
** About voters who re-elected Joe Austin of Sinn Féin
* They are poofs. I don't care if they are ratepayers. As far as I am concerned they are perverts.
** Daily Express (June 1, 1992)
** After gay rights activists had requested the use of City Hall
* Northern Ireland has always been, part of Britain.
** As quoted in Da Ali G Show

## 2000s

* Taigs don't pay rates.
** The Irish Times (January 12, 2000)
* Are they gay buses?
** The Mirror (December 4, 2004)
** The then MLA Sammy Wilson commenting on the re-branding of buses in greater Belfast from red to pink.
* [it] shows that some loyalist paramilitaries are looking ahead and contemplating what needs to be done to maintain our separate Ulster identity - a "very valuable return to reality" he added.
** In relation to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in 1994 releasing a document calling for the repartition of Northern Ireland, with the goal of making a Northern Ireland rump state wholly Protestant through genocide. Wood, Ian S. Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pages 184–185.

## 2010s

* This devilish Euro maniac is doing his best to keep the United Kingdom bound by the chains of EU bureaucracy and control. It is Tusk and his arrogant EU negotiators who have fanned the flames of fear in an attempt to try and overturn the result of the referendum.
** Donald Tusk: Special place in hell for Brexiteers without a plan BBC News (6 February 2019)
# Michael Medved

Michael Medved (born October 3, 1948) is a United States nationally syndicated conservative talk radio show host, film critic, and author.

## Quotes

* My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.
** Source: His talk show (July 9, 2004)

## Quotes about

* It could be that today's conservative movement remains in thrall to the same narrative that has defined its attitude toward film and the arts for decades. Inspired by feelings of exclusion after Hollywood and the popular culture turned leftward in the '60s and '70s, this narrative has defined the film industry as an irredeemably liberal institution toward which conservatives can only act in opposition—never engagement. Ironically, this narrative ignores the actual history of Hollywood, in which conservatives had a strong presence from the industry's founding in the early 20th century up through the '40s, '50s and into the mid-'60s]. The conservative Hollywood community at that time included such leading directors as Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, and Cecil B. DeMille, and major stars like John Wayne, Clark Gable, and Charlton Heston. These talents often worked side by side with notable Hollywood liberals like directors Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and John Huston, and stars like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Spencer Tracy. The richness of classic Hollywood cinema is widely regarded as a testament to the ability of these two communities to work together, regardless of political differences. As the younger, more left-leaning "New Hollywood" generation swept into the industry in the late '60s and '70s, this older group of Hollywood conservatives faded away, never to be replaced. Except for a brief period in the '80s when the Reagan Presidency led to a conservative reengagement with film—with popular stars like Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger making macho, patriotic action films—conservatives appeared to abandon popular culture altogether. In the wake of this retreat, conservative failure to engage with Hollywood now appears to have been recast by today's East Coast conservative establishment into a generalized opposition toward film and popular culture itself. In the early '90s, conservative film critic Michael Medved codified this oppositional feeling toward Hollywood in his best-selling book Hollywood vs. America.
** Govindini Murty, “Hey, Conservatives: It's Safe to Go to the Movies Again”, The Atlantic, (Oct. 12, 2011).

## External links

* MichaelMedved.com
* KRLA: Listen to Medved here
# Michael McElroy (scientist)

Michael B. McElroy (born 18 May 1939) is the Harvard's Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

## Quotes

* Historically, the United States and China have been the world’s largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and it will depend on those countries to show leadership and commitment to combatting the rise of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere.
** "An Education on Climate Science From Dr. Mike McElroy", (September 20, 2017)
# Michael McCormick

Michael McCormick (born 7 November 1951) is the Harvard's Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society (2003).

## Quotes

* “Undergraduates, early in my classes, often think they’re smarter than the people who lived in 400 A.D.,” McCormick says. “Bit by bit, they begin to understand that those people were no more stupid or evil or smart than we are. They were very much like us.” (2011)
* “In recent years, historians have become increasingly aware of two things. The first is the power of material evidence — including scientific evidence — beyond the written sources we’ve traditionally worked with since the 18th and 19th centuries. The second is that … exogenous factors, such as environment, also play a role in the development of human societies.” (2014)
* “You and I have the extraordinary privilege of living in a time of revolutionary discovery … that extends advances of technology in the life sciences that are transforming the world today to … disciplines that are transforming our understanding of the human past, dissolving the timeworn barriers between history and prehistory, between science and the humanities.” (2014)
* “Modern leaders, with their careful preparation and with their detailed planning, sometimes lose sight … that there are exogenous jokers, wild cards, out there that are coming out of the blue and are capable of knocking civilization off its wheels.” (2016)
# Michael Milken

Michael Milken is an American investor and financier, known for his association with the junk bond market in the 1980s as well as for his conviction on federal securities laws.

## Quotes

* People are the scarce resource. It's not buildings, it's not printing presses, and it's not factories that are the scarce resource.
# Matas Maldeikis

Matas Maldeikis (born 19 June 1980) is a Lithuanian legislator. He is the current member of the 13th Seimas.

## Quotes

* If you have a country with no rule of law, your business (invested in that country) is always like in the casino.
** Matas Maldeikis (2021) cited in: "Despite Beijing's ire, Baltic lawmakers bet on Taiwan" in Focus Taiwan, 5 December 2021.
* The Chinese Communist Party is threatening to "sweep Lithuania into the trashcan of history", which is ironic, because that's where communism already is.
** Matas Maldeikis (2021) cited in: "Lithuania MP counters China threat by saying communism in 'garbage bin of history'" in Taiwan News, 24 December 2021.
# Mateo Alemán

Mateo Alemán (September 1547 – 1614) was a Spanish novelist and writer.

## Quotes
### Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)

    Quotes reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Martin Hume, Dictionary of quotations (Spanish) (New York: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907)
* Even as there is no virtue which is wanting to the busy man, so there is no vice which does not bear the idle company.
** Pt. I, Lib. II, Ch. VI.
* Where wedges are worthless, the finger nails may serve.
** Pt. I, Lib. III, Ch. VIII.
* Those who are not bettered by kind treatment, or moved by soft words, must be brought under by the application of stern and rigorous punishment.
** Pt. I, Lib. III, Ch. IX.
* On a day when you can dine on dry bread in your own house, do not seek to eat tender peacocks in the house of another.
** Pt. I, Lib. III, Ch. X.
* Even the ass wearies of work.
** Pt. II, Lib. I, Ch. III.
* He soon retires (i.e., into a cloister) who finds religion late.
** Pt. II, Lib. I, Ch. III.
* An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.
** Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
* Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts.
** Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. VI.
* A little pebble will a waggon overturn.
** Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. VIII.
* How oft he finds himself the last, who was the first to saddle.
** Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. IX.
* It is the treason that finds favour, and not the traitor who is guilty of it.
** Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. X.
* He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.
** Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
* The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.
** Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
* The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends.
** Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. V.
* Better a thrifty son-in-law and poor, than a glutton who is rich.
** Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. X.