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# Thomas E. G. Ransom

Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom (November 29, 1834 – October 29, 1864) was a surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

## Quotes about Ransom

* Ordinarily, he is of a quiet, modest disposition; but when in battle he becomes tiger like, fearing nothing and becoming terrible in action.
** Freeport (Illinois) Journal. May 4, 1864.
* [A soldier with] a record never surpassed, and hardly equaled in the history of this or any other war.
** Chicago Tribune. June 6, 1863.
* Men who thought a company was quite enough for them to command properly at the beginning (of the Siege of Vicksburg), would have made good regimental or brigade commanders; most of the brigade commanders were equal to the command of a division, and one, Ransom, would have been equal to the command of a corps at least.
** General U. S. Grant. Memoirs.
* Wounds are nothing new to this gallant officer, who bears ugly scars about his person, the tokens of Rebel attentions.
** William Osman, editor of the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader. May 21, 1864.
# Thomas Deloney

Thomas Deloney (c. 1543 – April 1600) was an English novelist and balladist. The lavish diversity of his characters, has led to him being viewed as a precursor of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Charles Dickens.

## Quotes

* God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
** Originally in A. Borde Dietary of Health xi. (1542 )
** Used and popularised by Deloney in 1574. Dictionary of Proverbs
# Tracey Rowland

Tracey Rowland (7 July 1963 –) is an Australian Roman Catholic theologian and professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

## Quotes

* The general conclusion of history is that whenever the Church becomes reliant upon governments for money she loses a certain amount of her freedom. It’s difficult to speak truth to power at the best of times, but even harder when the civil power is also the Church’s banker.
** Febronianism revisited: A brief and cautionary history (February 1, 2021)
# Tracy Ainsworth

Tracy Ainsworth is a marine biologist and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, working on coral reefs, and the biology of the Great Barrier Reef. Her research covers the biology of stresses, cells, disease, immunity and symbiose.

## Quotes

* "There is evidence that some corals are now dying on the most severely affected reefs."
* "Some coral varieties are also more heat-resistant, and a particular reef that has been exposed to high temperatures in the past may better cope with the current conditions."
* "Coral bleaching is the greatest threat to the sustainability of coral reefs worldwide and is now clearly one of the greatest challenges we face in responding to the impact of global climate change."
** Bleaching has struck the southernmost coral reef in the world. March 31, 2019 9.14pm SAST, Stuart Parker. THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: November 14, 2023
# Traci Lords

Traci Elizabeth Lords (born May 7, 1968) is an American actress, singer, model, writer, producer, and director. She achieved notoriety in the 1980s after it was discovered she had appeared underage in numerous pornographic films.

## Quotes

* You can run but you cannot hide.
** About her porn past during her interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show (October 9, 2003)

## Song lyrics
### 1000 Fires (1995)

* Let me kiss it And make it better After tonight You will forget her
** Control, written by Traci Lords, Ben Watkins, and Wonder Schneider
* You say you wake up In the morning Feeling used Like a fallen angel Tired and bruised It's got you feeling So insane More dead than alive Love's got you stained On the inside
** Fallen Angel, written by Traci Lords, Ben Watkins, and Johann Bley

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Traci Lords on Wikipedia
* Media related to Traci Lords on Wikimedia Commons
* Official website
# Tracey Thorn

Tracey Anne Thorn (born September 26, 1962) is an English singer, songwriter and writer. She is part of the musical duo Everything but the Girl.

## Quotes

* “Never fancied him anyway,” I’d write when a boy dumped me. I’d leave out things that had gone wrong, or been difficult. I think it was partly an exercise in defiance, a refusal to be defeated by life’s adversities. So in that sense, my diary was a bit of a self-help manual, written by me, for me.
** On reading past diaries in “Tracey Thorn: ‘I went through a phase of carrying Camus under my arm’” in The Guardian (2020 Jan 25)
* So often the story of rock’n’roll is told from a male perspective. So often it feels like men own music. And I still get as angry and frustrated about that as I ever did. Reading those women’s accounts of their lives has reminded me how much they paved the way back then. And history too often erases the women, in all art forms. Every single published story of a female artist goes a small way towards redressing the balance, and is another one saved from the fire.I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no category…My music is my expression of what I feel and believe in a moment.
** On women being excluded from music history in “Tracey Thorn: ‘I went through a phase of carrying Camus under my arm’” in The Guardian (2020 Jan 25)
* I feel very lucky to still feel like I’m full of ideas. I think sometimes being in the beginning or the middle of things is almost the best bit. This sounds terrible, because it sounds so ungrateful, but I’m never as excited by the aftermath of things: whether or not they are successful. It’s lovely if they are, obviously, but actually the really exciting bit is when it’s an idea in your head and you’re getting working on it.
** On whether she feels creatively satisfied in “Tracey Thorn: ‘Not everything you do is cool’” in The Guardian (2020 Jan 27)
* It turned into a creature with a life of its own.There was nothing we were doing to make it happen. We couldn’t recreate it because we never really understood how it happened. People decided they were all going to play it, and you feel like it’s disconnected from you. All we could do was stand back and take the congratulations that came.
** On the Everything but the Girl album Amplified Heart in “TRACEY THORN ON THE HIT FACTORY” in Interview Magazine (2010 May 13)
# Traci Bingham

Traci Bingham (born 13 January 1968) is an American actress, model, and television personality who is best known for playing Jordan Tate on the television series Baywatch between 1996 and 1998.

## Quotes

* I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.
** "Get Ready for the Battle of the Baywatch Babes", interview with TV Guide (25 March 2000).
* By exposing myself, I hope to expose others to the many benefits of a vegetarian diet.
** About her ad for PETA, "All animals have the same parts—have a heart, go vegetarian", as quoted in "Traci Bingham Gets to the Meat of the Matter", PETA.org (2002).
# Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official)
## Quotes

* "The natural attitude of a thinking mind toward the supernatural is that of skepticism—skepticism, not agnosticism. The skeptic halts at the cross-roads, to take his bearings; but at the sight of a cross-road the agnostic gives up his journey altogether. True skepticism connotes intellectual caution, but agnosticism is intellectual suicide." In Defence (1890)
# Robert A. J. Gagnon

Robert A. J. Gagnon (July 31, 1958 –) is an American theological writer, professor of New Testament Theology.

## Quotes

* One’s “authentic self” does not consist in the sum total of one’s biological urges (especially those oriented toward what God expressly forbids) but rather in one’s conformity to the image of Jesus Christ, which includes taking up one’s cross, denying oneself, losing one’s life, and following him.
** The “authentic self” vs. the crucified self (December 21, 2017)

## External links

* Official website
# Robert Adam

Robert Adam, FRIAS (born 1948) is a Driehaus Architecture Prize winning British architect, urban designer and author, known for championing classical and traditional styles. Adam is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and Design Council Expert.

## Quotes

* Rigid dogma about what is and is not ’authentic’ has hamstrung architects. We need to break out of these shackles and recognise that all architecture is drawing from the past.
** Building Design, 20 October 2022
# Robert Aickman

Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English writer and conservationist. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".

## Quotes
### Short fiction
#### Growing Boys (1977)

    All page numbers are from the reprint in Terry Carr (ed.), Year's Finest Fantasy (1978), 1st printing
* She was almost glowing with resolution. She realized that to display moral qualities demands practice, just as much as intellectual and manual qualities.
** p. 231
* She had rather looked down on such shops and on such clothes, but that had been ignorance and the wrong kind of sophistication.
** p. 240
* I don’t spend all day reading the newspapers. It can get hold of you as poisonously as the television, if you once let it.
** p. 242
* Upon the passage to truth, cross-currents are to be expected.
** p. 257

#### The Wine-Dark Sea (1988)

* The idea came to him, not for the first time, that most of the things which people buy in the belief that they are luxuries are really poor substitutes for luxury.
** p.27 (Story was first published in 1988. Page numbers are per the Mandarin paperback "The Wine-Dark Sea" (short stories) 1990 Edition.)
* It was, in any case, quite useless, and, like most useless things, useless almost immediately.
** p.30
* 'I didn't find it in the least difficult,' said Grigg. 'Those meant to succeed at a thing never do find the thing difficult.' 'Meant? Meant by whom?' 'By the life of which they are a part, whether they know it or not.' 'It is very mystical,' said Grigg.
** p.36
# Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality

Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality (2011) by Elias Aboujaoude

## Quotes

* Saying we have successfully logged off, then, is an expression of seriously wishful thinking: Most of us are never truly offline anymore.
* What if the virtual world, rather than making us more bellicose, immature, and impulsive, is simply allowing our true instincts to return? Could the new you be, in a sense, more real than the real thing? Is e-personality more true to our core? Is virtualism, by turning the clock on civilization and the social contract, simply taking us back to something that might be called our “state of nature”?
* There are people who are remarkably adept at compartmentalizing. They may have an online life that is very different from their offline life but still manage to keep the two rather separate. For these individuals, it may be as simple as having a group of friends with whom they do certain things and another group of friends that they are equally comfortable with but with whom they socialize around completely different activities. In their case, the two spheres of existing—online and off-, virtual and real—remain neatly separate, like the proverbial oil and water. For the rest of us, however, this separation is no longer feasible, and we are living in something that resembles a cloudy emulsion, the existential equivalent of a well-shaken vinaigrette.
* Parents might also be feeling intimidated by a new technology that they know their kids are more facile with. Parents often rely on their children for tips on maintaining a Facebook page, editing a digital photograph, or downloading an iPhone app. This might make them feel unqualified when it comes to advising their children on the possible negatives associated with a technology that they do not fully master—“What do I know about Facebook?” To the extent that their technophobia may be causing them to doubt their instincts and whether they know what is best for their kids, they should reverse the reverse parenting going on.
* This book is not intended as a manifesto for renouncing the virtual world. It would be both naïve and futile to preach that—no one can imagine life without Google, and, even if it were possible, few people I know would be interested in living it.
* Virtualism, as enabled especially by the Internet, is a major signpost in our journey through history. There can be no doubting that it has opened windows and brought opportunity—for social connection and outreach, for liberation from anxiety and doubt, for financial and personal success, and for self-realization and fulfillment.

## External links

* Open Library
# Virginie Efira

Virginie Efira (born 5 May 1977) is a Belgian and French actress and former television presenter. She had her first leading role in the romantic comedy It Boy (2013). Efira subsequently received critical praise for her performance in the comedy drama In Bed with Victoria (2016), for which she received a Magritte Award for Best Actress as well as a César Award for Best Actress nomination. She then appeared in Paul Verhoeven's psychological thriller Elle (2016), the drama An Impossible Love (2018), the comedy drama Sibyl (2019) and the black comedy Bye Bye Morons (2020). In 2023, she won a César Award for Best Actress for Paris Memories (2022).

## Quotes

* Femininity of today is the one who does not feel guilty of his desires, whatever they are.
** https://view.ceros.com/cn-adelphi/virginie-quote/p/1
# Virtual reality

Virtual reality is a simulated real or fictional environment that creates an immersive experience in the user.
Arranged alphabetically by author or source: A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · External links

## P

* On its own, even utopian VR can't transcend the limits of our genetically constrained "set-point" of well-being or ill-being. Ironically, a mass migration into virtual worlds may come to represent Peripheralism's final fling. Only total control of one's notional surroundings via immersive VR may be enough to convince the sceptic of the futility of purely environmental manipulation to secure lasting happiness. By contrast, the symbiosis of gradients of genetically preprogrammed euphoria and the application of mature virtual reality software engineering is an awesomely exciting prospect[.]
** David Pearce, "Paradise Engineering: The Molecular Biology of Paradise. 15"
* If you think you're plugged straight into the Real World, then the prospect of plugging in to silicon VR will seem like a retreat into fantasy-world escapism. On the other hand, if you've long ceased to believe that The World was yours to lose in the first place, then you may decide that nasty old organic VR is a world well lost.
** David Pearce, "Terminological note for philosophers"

## S

* A virtual world is the content of a given medium. It may exist solely in the mind of its originator or be broadcast in such a way that it can be shared with others. A virtual world can exist without being displayed in a virtual reality system (i.e., an integrated collection of hardware, software, and content assembled for producing virtual reality experiences)–much like play or film scripts exist independently of specific instances of their performance. Such scripts do in fact describe virtual worlds. Let’s carry the analogy further. We can refer to the script of a play as merely the description of a play. When that description is brought to life via actors, stage sets, and music, we are experiencing the play’s virtual world. Similarly, a computer-based virtual world is the description of objects within a simulation. When we view that world via a system that brings those objects and interactions to us in a physically immersive, interactive presentation, we are experiencing it via virtual reality.
** William Sherman & Alan Craig, Understanding Virtual Reality (2002), ch. 1 "Introduction to Virtual Reality"
* It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.
** Charles Stross, a 2008 interview to Guardian

## See also

* Consciousness
* Reality
* Video game
# Virtuosity

Virtuosity is a 1995 American techno-thriller film directed by Brett Leonard and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. The movie tells the story of a virtual villain's successful attempt to escape into the "real world".

## SID 6.7

* I'm a 50 terabyte, self-evolving, neural network, double backflip off the high platform. I'm not a swan dive.
* Just because I'm carrying around the joy of killing your family inside me doesn't mean we can't be friends.
* Hey, buddy! How's the wife and kid? Still dead, huh?
* Uh-uh-uh. I thought of that one. Better try again... Faster.
* Ahhh... I'm losing too much of myself.
* They love you so much, they want you dead... Ed.
* Hey Parker, this one's for you!
** SID reciting the catch phrase of Matthew Grimes, one of the killers his composite mind is based on, who used to use the same line to taunt Parker.

## Parker

* Where's my gun?
* Reach in the back seat and hand me that crowd-pleaser.
* Game over.

## Others

* While officers gather evidence of the grisly crime scene, you can only ask yourselves, "What kind of lunatic would commit such unthinkable crimes?" The three adjectives which best describe this killer are sadistic, intelligent and dangerous.
** Hologram

## Dialogue

    Lindenmeyer: Oh my God.
    SID 6.7: Which God would that be? The one who created you? Or the one who created me? You see, in your world, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh, but in my world, the one who gave me life doesn't have any balls. You are frightfully inadequate of a diety, Daryl. I will not be shut down.
    Clyde: Sheila?
    SID 6.7: No. I'm Oedipus.

## Quotes about Virtuosity

* Mr. Washington is usually an actor audiences will follow to any dimension. But here his role is limited, too often leaving him playing second fiddle to this film's weirdly hypnotic special effects. Mr. Crowe, as a psychotic yuppie type bearing a disconcerting resemblance to the writer Bret Easton Ellis, does a memorable job of making himself frightening until the film becomes numbingly frantic, in the manner of many video games. While it excoriates the vicious Sid as the techno-spawn of monsters like Adolf Hitler and John Wayne Gacy, "Virtuosity" also revels in his exploits with more enthusiasm than is really necessary.
** Janet Maslin, in "Villainy by Computer" in The New York Times (4 August 1995)

## External links

* Virtuosity at IMDb
* Virtuosity at Rotten Tomatoes
* Review in The New York Times (August 1995)
# Virginia Thomas

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas (née Lamp; born February 23, 1957) is an American attorney and conservative activist. In 1987, she married Clarence Thomas, who became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1991. Her conservative commentary and activism have made her a controversial figure, especially because spouses of Supreme Court justices typically avoid politics.

## Quotes

* “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”
# Young Guns II

Young Guns II is a 1990 film, and is the sequel to Young Guns. It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett.
It follows the life of William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid (played by Emilio Estevez) in the years following the Lincoln County War in which Billy was part of "The Regulators" — a group of around 6 highly skilled gunmen avenging the death of John Tunstall — and the years before Billy's documented death. The film, however, is told by Brushy Bill Roberts, a man who in the 1940s appeared claiming to be the real Billy the Kid.
While the film is not entirely historically accurate, it does show some of the key events leading up to Billy's documented death, including his talks with Governor Lew Wallace, his capture by friend-turned-foe Pat Garrett, his trial and his subsequent escape in which he killed two deputies.
    Directed by Geoff Murphy and written by John Fusco.

## Billy the Kid

* Ah, ah, Pendleton. The white cake, with the sweet frost.
* Best dollar eighty I ever spent
* Yes your Honor, I do. You can go to hell, hell, hell.
* Heavy steps, Patsy.
* I'll tell ya why, five hundred dollars cuts a lot of ties.
* Yoo Hoo, I'll make ya famous.
* It's your gang Dave. Don't cross me Dave.

## Doc Scurlock

* I'm real happy for you, Dave.
* You rode a 15 year old boy straight to his grave. And the rest of us, straight to hell.
* William H. Bonney, you are not a god.
* Billy!! Let's finish the game.

## Brushy Bill

* Tell the governor that i'm Brushy Bill Roberts, alias William Antrim, also known as William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid.

## Sheriff Kimbell

* I'd rather drink turpentine and piss on a brush fire, I ain't touchin' this one.

## Taglines

* Yoo-Hoo, I'll make ya famous!

## Cast

* Emilio Estevez as William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney/Brushy Bill Roberts (uncredited for the latter)
* Kiefer Sutherland as Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock
* Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez
* Christian Slater as "Arkansas" Dave Rudabaugh
* William Petersen as Pat Garrett
* Alan Ruck - Henry "Bullet George" William French
* James Coburn - John Chisum
* Balthazar Getty - Tom O'Folliard
* Jenny Wright - Jane Greathouse
* Jack Kehoe - Ashmun Upson
* Robert Knepper - Deputy Carlyle
* Viggo Mortensen - John W. Poe
* Tracey Walter - Beever Smith
* Bradley Whitford - Charles Phalen
* Scott Wilson - Governor Lew Wallace
* Howie Young - Poe Posse

## External links

Young Guns II quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Young Jean Lee

Young Jean Lee is a Korean-American playwright, director, and filmmaker.

## Quotes

* I like working with identities and stories outside of my own experience, so it’s kind of just a necessity…
** On researching her subject matter in “An Interview with Young Jean Lee” in The Interval (2018 Aug 14)
* When I’m making work, I’m very much thinking about how there’s a relationship between whatever the play is doing and whatever sort of automatic dismissive mechanisms people have for not wanting to deal with a particular issue. I think all of my plays have some sort of issue that they’re wrestling with that the audience normally doesn’t want to wrestle with. They want to be like, “I know what that is,” and not have to wrestle, because it’s a human instinct not to want to have to be challenged…
** On analyzing the human condition in “An Interview with Young Jean Lee” in The Interval (2018 Aug 14)
* But theatre is so dominated by men that no matter what kind of sheltered bubble you’re in, you’re going to encounter sexist bullshit. That’s just always going to be an issue…
** On sexism still being prevalent despite calls for diversity in “An Interview with Young Jean Lee” in The Interval (2018 Aug 14)
* It’s gone away from the thing that I hate, and now it’s more the thing that I don’t know how to do at all, or the thing that’s really hard to do…
** On her career span in “There Is No Escape for, or From, Young Jean Lee” in the American Theatre (2014 Oct 29)