OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Afghanistan–Iran relations

Relations between Afghanistan and Iran were established in 1935 during King Zahir Shah's reign and the Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi, though ties between the two countries have existed for millennia. As a result, many Afghans speak Persian, as Dari (an eastern dialect of Persian) is one of the official languages of Afghanistan, and many in Afghanistan also celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

## Quotes

* Iran’s Qods Force provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons. Since at least 2006, Iran has arranged arms shipments to select Taliban members, including small arms and associated ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107mm rockets, and plastic explosives.
** —U.S. State Department’s 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism. Thomas Joscelyn, “State Department: Iran Supports Taliban, Iraqi Militants,” Long War Journal, August 6, 2010; Kemp and Driver-Williams, “Killing Americans and Their Allies.” also quoted in (Complete Infidel's Guides) Robert Spencer - The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran-Regnery Publishing (2016)
# Afnan Ullah Khan

Afnan Ullah Khan is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as a member of the Senate of Pakistan, elected on a general seat from Punjab, since March 2021. He belongs to Pakistan Muslim League. He is the son of a former federal minister and senator Mushahid Ullah Khan.

## Quotes

* At least now the world know, why he did, what he did #Gaza_Genicide
** — Senator Dr. Afnan Ullah Khan (@afnanullahkh) October 28, 2023. as quoted in
# Affidavit

An affidavit is a written sworn statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation administered by a person authorized to do so by law.

## Quotes

* We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
** Abbott, C.J., Case of Edmonds and others (1821), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 924; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 10.
* I am a trial lawyer…. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
** Mario Cuomo, New York Times (10 November 1986).
* We cannot try the merits upon affidavit.
** Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Blooer (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 1045; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 9.
* So many affidavits, so studiously and artfully penned, to be safely sworn in one sense and read in another, are an aggravation.
** Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Beardmore (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 795; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 10.
* And now I will try to defend myself against them: these new accusers must also have their affidavit read. What do they say? Something of this sort: — That Socrates is a doer of evil, and corrupter of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state, and has other new divinities of his own.
** Socrates, quoted by Plato, Apology.
# Afghan proverbs

Proverbs from all Afghan speaking parts of the world.
مورعی کولال خایراتی خان
# Brian Hanrahan

Brian Hanrahan (22 March 1949 – 20 December 2010) was the Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent.

## Sourced

* I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back. Their pilots were unhurt, cheerful and jubilant, giving thumbs up signs.
** BBC News 20 December 2010
* Brian has compared presenting The World at One to high diving into an empty pool, and hoping it will be filled before you reach the bottom.
** BBC Radio 4 website 20 December 2010

## Quotes about Hanrahan

* Extremely dogged and factual and intelligent reporter who saw things in front of him and described them graphically … He was one of those voices you could rely on... a journalist who was seeking the truth.
** Kate Adie, as quoted in "BBC correspondent Brian Hanrahan dies at 61" at BBC News (20 December 2010)
* He saw more than his share of history unfold.
** Editorial tribute by Jon Williams, BBC World News editor (20 December 2010)
* Brian had a special relationship with the audience — he broke through in a way few others do. They had come to trust him as a voice of calm — whether reporting on momentous events of history, or the grand state events. For more than 30 years, it was that quality above all others that distinguished Brian as one of the BBC's brightest and best.
** Editorial tribute by Jon Williams, BBC World News editor (20 December 2010)
* He could always be relied on to find the right word at the right moment... and he was loved by the audience
** Jon Williams, as quoted in "BBC correspondent Brian Hanrahan dies at 61" at BBC News (20 December 2010)

## External links

* BBC Profile of Brian Hanrahan

### Audio clips

* Counting returning Harriers
* Bombing in Bluff Cove
* Argentinian surrender

### Video clips

* Chernobyl
* As the BBC's Diplomatic Editor
# Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray (October 31, 1945–) is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is the older brother of comedian and actor Bill Murray.

## Quotes

* I have a pretty good idea what is funny but if you do it twice in one day in front of a live audience. They will let you know if they like it or not.
* Nothing compares to getting a laugh. You have to assume it on something like voice work.
** Brian Doyle-Murray talks about TBS’ new comedy series, “Sullivan & Son” (August 1, 2012)
# Brian Fair

Brian Fair (born May 30, 1975) is an American musician, best known as lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Shadows Fall.

## Quotes

* I became a vegetarian many years ago after listening to The Smiths’ ‘Meat Is Murder.’ It opened my eyes to the painful lives of animals raised for food, and I knew I wanted no part of that.
** “Shadows Fall’s Brian Fair,” PSA for peta2.com (11 November 2011).
# Brian G. Marsden

Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was a British astronomer, director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams from 1968 to 1999, and director of the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1978–2006.

## Quotes

* We have to beef up our searches, which are now pretty dismal, so we can find out about these things before we get hit. … It takes a dramatic event to get people's attention, and we thought the comet crash with Jupiter might have done the job. … we tend to ignore an extraterrestrial hazard that could reduce the planet to rubble. … What we really need is a good scare.
** As quoted in "What We Need Is A Good Scare" by Steve Nadis at Omni internet (9 April 1997).
* What delighted me was that it's 30 years from now — not next week or next year. … That would be totally hopeless; that would be terrifying, in fact. Time is on our side in this one — that's why it's such a wonderful illustration of the process... I say 30 years is a good long time to do something about it if it is a problem … We should be thankful we have this kind of notice.
** On initial reports that Asteroid 1997 XF$_{11}$ could be on a trajectory to hit the Earth in 2028; as quoted in "Man in the News; A Cheery Herald of Fear: Brian Geoffrey Marsden" in The New York Times (13 March 1998).
* It is probably a good idea to search, at some level, for asteroids that come to the Earth's general vicinity. But merely counting the asteroids found is not sufficient. It is desirable to follow up each discovery to examine whether it can or can not be a threat during the next century or so. Objects for which the threat cannot be eliminated should be singled out for special study, notably to the extent of searching for old images in photographic archives. 1997 XF$_{11}$ was noteworthy for the apathy shown to it prior to the very widespead announcement in March. If proper attention had been given to it earlier, the circumstances that led to the announcement would never have occurred. Sometimes statistics will conspire to draw attention to a problem. Maybe they are trying to tell us something.
** "1997 XF$_{11}$ – the true story" in The Journal of the British Astronomical Association Vol. 109, No.1 (February 1999).
* When the Deep Impact probe hit Comet 9P/Tempel, there was almost no change in brightness. … This outburst by Comet Holmes is extreme!
** On the unprecedented brightening of Comet Holmes, as quoted in "Mystery Comet Explodes into Brightness" (26 October 2007) at Physorg.com. Within the space of a few hours between 23-24 October 2007 it brightened from a very dim and obscure object requiring powerful telescopes to see into one easily visible to the naked eye.
* This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We’ve had at least two reports of a new star.
** As quoted in "Dramatic Comet Outburst Could Last Weeks" (26 October 2007) by Robert Roy Britt at Space.com.

## External links

* "Man in the News; A Cheery Herald of Fear: Brian Geoffrey Marsden" in The New York Times (13 March 1998)
* Minor Planet Center
# Brian Conrey

John Brian Conrey (born June 23, 1955) is an American mathematician, known for his research in analytic number theory, involving L-functions, the Riemann zeta function, and questions related to the Riemann Hypothesis (RH). He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2015.

## Quotes

* In 1972 H. L. Montgomery announced a remarkable connection between the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function and the distribution of eigenvalues of large random Hermitian matrices. Since then a number of startling developments have occurred making this connection more profound. In particular, random matrix theory has been found to be an extremely useful predictive tool in the theory of L-functions.
** "Chapter. L-Functions and Random Matrices by Brian Conrey". Mathematics Unlimited — 2001 and Beyond. Springer. pp. 331–352. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-56478-9_14. (edited by B. Engquist and W. Schmid)
* A major difficulty in trying to construct a proof of RH through analysis is that the zeros of L-functions behave so much differently from zeros of many of the special functions we are used to seeing in mathematics and mathematical physics. For example, it is known that the zeta-function does not satisfy any differential equation. The functions which do arise as solutions of some of the classical differential equations, such as Bessel functions, hypergeometric functions, etc., have zeros which are fairly regularly spaced. A similar remark holds for the zeros of solutions of classical differential equations regarded as a function of a parameter in the differential equation.
** (2003). "The Riemann Hypothesis". Notices of the American Mathematical Society 50 (3): 341–353. ISSN 0002-9920. (quote from pages 352–353)
* The Riemann Hypothesis is a statement about a deep connection between addition and multiplication that we do not yet understand.
** (March 12, 2020)"Math Encounters - Primes and Zeros: A Million-Dollar Mystery". National Museum of Mathematics, YouTube. (quote at 59:05 of 1:18:02)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Brian Conrey on Wikipedia
* Media related to Brian Conrey on Wikimedia Commons
# Aisha Abubakar

Aisha Abubakar is a Nigerian politician. Following the 2015 Nigerian general elections, she was appointed as the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

## Quotes

* I am very happy today to be recognized by the state government for this achievement. But success belongs to all of us, most especially my teachers and my parents. They stood by me to achieve this today. I can’t thank them enough. May God reward them all.
** https://dailytrust.com/kano-gives-house-n3m-to-2nd-world-quranic-competition-winner/
* A corrupt free society will foster peace, unity, and security for all citizens
** https://nannews.ng/2023/08/01/anti-graft-war-emir-of-zazzau-commends-efcc/
* the firm will first understand and work together with the in-house team of the service.
** https://tribuneonlineng.com/customs-partners-bruit-costaud-on-communication-policy-advocacy/, (Tribune online, August 19, 2023)
* it was essential to create an enabling environment that facilitates the growth of non-oil exports.
* Our currency is devalued daily, as we have continued to rely heavily on imports, thus, resulting in an imbalance of trade
* This is coupled with the removal of fuel subsidy, the purchasing power of Nigerian citizens for goods and services has been greatly diminished, plunging more people into the poverty net.
* This strategy must involve critical stakeholders in the non-oil export value chain playing their roles effectively as state and non-state actors .
** https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/09/07/former-minister-tasks-stakeholders-on-challenges-in-non-oil-sector
# Aisha Abimbola

Aisha Abimbola (December 19, 1970 – May 15, 2018) was a Nigerian actress and a Yoruba movie star.

## Quotes

* I had waited for long and definitely, I must not settle for less. I should aim very high. I will surely come out with a blockbuster. Not by my power but by the power of my Creator.Just like I said, it’s on the way.
** "Star actress, Aisha Abimbola denies dating Epsalum boss, Kazeem Afolayan ‘He is just my mentor’", Encomium (August 28, 2012)
* Don’t ever try to be anybody, be original and don’t get desperate. There are bad eggs everywhere; people will definitely want to play upon your intelligence. Don’t allow people to use you, your destiny is in your hands.
** "Day I made armed robber drop his gun – Aisha Abimbola (Omoge Campus)", The Sun (October 1, 2017)
# Aisha Abu Bakr

Aisha Abubakar is a Nigerian politician. Following the 2015 Nigerian general elections, President Muhammad Bukhari appointed her Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment.

## Quotes:

* Today I'm very happy to acknowledge the states with this achievement. But this success goes back to all of us, especially to my teachers and parents. They stood by my side to achieve this accomplishment. And I can't thank them enough. I ask Allah to reward them all.
* إنني سعيدة للغاية اليوم لإقرار الولاية بهذا الإنجاز. ولكن يعود هذا النجاح لنا جميعًا، وخصوصا لمعلميني ووالديّ. لقد .وقفوا إلى جانبي لتحقيق إنجاز اليوم. ولا يسعني أن أشكرهم بما فيه الكفاية. أسأل الله أن يجزيهم جميعًا"
* — Kano gives house, N3m to 2nd world Qur’anic competition winner

## Reference

https://dailytrust.com/kano-gives-house-n3m-to-2nd-world-quranic-competition-winner/
https://nannews.ng/
# Aisha Ahmed

Aishah Ahmad (born 26 October 1976[2]) is a Nigerian accountant and finance professional. She is a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, having been appointed on 6 October 2017, replacing Sarah Alade, who retired in March 2017. She was confirmed by the Nigerian Senate on 22 March 2018. On 6th of December, 2022, Aishah was reappointed Deputy Governor for a second five-year term and subsequently confirmed by the Senate on the 14th of December, 2022. However, on the 15th of September, 2023, she was removed from office by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu alongside three other Deputy Governors for alleged corporate governance failures at the Central Bank of Nigeria.

## Quotes

* I wish to reassure everyone that Aishah Ahmad is home with her family and not detained by the DSS. She is safe and sound.
** by the DSS
* Mrs. Ahmad’s cooperation with the authorities demonstrates her commitment to transparency and due process.
* We look forward to cultivating an innovative space for fintech startups and entrepreneurs in Egypt and Nigeria to accelerate financial inclusion, deepen our payment systems and drive economic growth across the African Continent.
** inclusion
* Be proud of your failures - especially those that come out of you dreaming big, or stepping out of your comfort zone.
** Aisha Ahmed's Quotes
* Sometimes Silence is really a good answer.
** Aisha Ahmed's Quotes
# Aisha Albasri

Aisha Albasri, is a Moroccan poet, novelist, and narrative. She has won several awards in Algeria, France, and the United Arab Emirates. Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, and English.

## Quotes

* There is always hope, and there is an end to every tunnel
* دائمًا هناك أمل، وهناك نهاية لكل نفق
* — Written by Emad Aldeen in 2021
* The strange thing is that when we are on the verge of death, the memory becomes highly active and intense. We relive life like a film that starts from its end.
* الغريب هو أننا حين نشرف على الموت تنشط الذاكرة بشكل سريع وكثيف، نستعيد الحياة كفيلم يبدأ من نهايته
* — Written by Emad Aldeen in 2021
* I do not know who said that we spend our lives searching for a suitable place to die.
* لا أدري من قال إننا نقضي عمرنا بحثًا عن مكان ملائم للموت.
* — Youm7 Newspaper
* One of the characters in my novel Layali Alobour believes that death is merely a passage to a third existence, which cannot be called life or death, because it is the unknown. Nothing is final neither life nor death, nor even what comes after death. Religions have tried, as much as possible, to provide explanations and names for that third existence, merely to soothe the human soul
* إحدى شخصيات روايتي ليالي الحرير ترى أن الموت هو مجرد عبور إلى وجود ثالث، لا يمكن أن نسميه حياة ولا موتًا، لأنه المجهول. لأنه ليس هناك شيء نهائي، لا الحياة ولا الموت، ولا حتى ما بعد الموت. لقد جهدت الديانات، قدر المستطاع، لإعطاء تفسيرات وأسماء لذلك الوجود الثالث فقط لطمأنة النفس البشرية.
* — Gardenia Magazine in 2020
* No one disputes what the Moroccan poet and creative woman has achieved in recent decades, and this is evident in the number of publications, awards, presence in cultural events, and her contribution to revitalizing the Moroccan and Arab cultural scene.
* لا أحد يجادل في ما حققته الشاعرة والمبدعة المغربية في العقود الأخيرة، ويبدو ذلك جليا في كم الإصدارات والجوائز والتواجد في التظاهرات الثقافية ومساهمتها في إنعاش الساحة الثقافية المغربية والعربية
* — An Interview With Alittihad
* The multiplicity of literary genres is an addition to the writer. For a poet to write a novel is a double enrichment. The concept of writing today has become larger and broader because it is related to creative freedom and the right to imagination.
* تعدد الأجناس الأدبية يعد إضافة للأديب. أن يكتب شاعر رواية هو إثراء مضاعف. فمفهوم الكتابة اليوم أصبح أكبر وأوسع لأن الأمر يتعلق بالحرية الإبداعية والحق في التخييل
* — An Interview With Alittihad
# Anatole Broyard

Anatole Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American literary critic for the New York Times. He is notable for denying his African ancestry by passing as white.

## Quotes

* It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn’t wait to leave.
** New York Times 16th March 1973.
* An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
** ‘Wisdom of Aphorisms’, New York Times, 30th April 1983.
* The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
** ‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.
* A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.
** ‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.
# Anatoly Bibilov

Anatoly Ilyich Bibilov (born 6 February 1970) is a South Ossetian politician and military leader who is currently the 4th and current President of South Ossetia since 21 April 2017.

## Quotes

* (It is) the Russian world we are fighting for, and in this sense, each of us is Russian.
** Anatoly Bibilov (2021) cited in "Tskhinvali Leader in Donbas: “We Fight for Russian World”" on Civil, 9 September 2021.
# Anatolian hypothesis

The Anatolian hypothesis, also known as the Anatolian theory or the sedentary farmer theory, first developed by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in 1987, proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia. It is the main competitor to the Kurgan hypothesis, or steppe theory, which enjoys more academic favor.

## Quotes

* “All the migrations postulated by Renfrew ultimately stem from a single catalyst: the crossing of Anatolian farmers into Greece… For all practical purposes, Renfrew’s hypothesis disregards Tocharian and Indo-Iranian.”
** Heaven, Heroes and Happiness: The Indo-European Roots of Western Ideology by Shan M.M. Winn, University Press of America, Lanham-New York-London, 1995. Quoted in Talageri, S. (2000). The Rigveda: A historical analysis. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
* In the 1990s, this view was briefly challenged by the British archaeologist Colin Renfrew, who posited a Homeland in Anatolia. Thence, the IE-speaking tribes would have spread as early as about 7000 BCE, on the strength of their mastery of agriculture. This new development allowed for a fast population growth, as illustrated by the more recent spread of the Bantu languages throughout Africa along with agriculture. His merit was that he tied the spectacular expansion of IE to a powerful mechanism, the demographically useful new technology of agriculture. However, this theory has been widely rejected as linguistically untenable and archaeologically unsupported. The targeted studies that sought to decide between the Anatolian and the Russian Homeland have generally favoured the latter option.
** Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
# Blaze (film)

Blaze is a 1989 film written and directed by Ron Shelton. The film stars Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr, with Starr herself appearing in a cameo.

## Earl

* I want you to meet the finest yes-men in Louisiana and their lovely wives.
* The three best friends the poor people have ever had are Jesus Christ, Sears & Roebuck and Earl K. Long.

## Dialogue

    Earl: Would you still love me as much if I wasn't the fine governor of the great state of Louisiana?
    Blaze: Would you still love me if I had little tits and worked in a fish house?

## Cast

* Paul Newman as Governor Earl Long
* Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr
* Jerry Hardin as Thibodeaux
* Gailard Sartain as LaGrange
* Jeffrey DeMunn as Eldon Tuck
* Richard Jenkins as Picayune
* Brandon Smith as Arvin Deeter
* Robert Wuhl as Red Snyder
* James Harper as Willie Rainach
# Blessing Abeng

Blessing Abeng (born 16 October 1994) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and co-founder of Disha, now acquired by Flutterwave. She is one of the founders of Ingressive for Good (I4G), a tech non-profit organization.In 2022, she won the African Achiever Award of the year and in 2023, she was listed in the "Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30.

## Quotes
### "#BreakTheBias: A Conversation with Blessing Abeng, Mobola Akingbala, and Olurémi Martins-Areola" (2022)

    "#BreakTheBias: A Conversation with Blessing Abeng, Mobola Akingbala, and Olurémi Martins-Areola", Our Pass (March 21, 2022)
* It’s not that audacity doesn’t belong to women, it’s that women don’t know that they can harness it to the best of their ability.
* We don't feel confident 100% of the time, and sometimes, we just need somebody to remind us of our awesomeness.
* Don’t be comfortable being the only woman in the room.
* It’s okay to be the first, but it’s not okay to be the only.
* I realized that when people underestimate you, you don’t even have to do way too much to blow them from their seats, based on how excellent you are.
* You always just have to show that you’re the better person in every space that you go into.