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# Heinrich Blochmann

Heinrich Blochmann, known as Henry Ferdinand Blochmann (8 January 1838 – 13 July 1878), was a German orientalist and scholar of Persian language and literature who spent most of his career in India, where he worked first as a professor, and eventually as the principal at Calcutta Madrasa, now Aliah University in present Kolkata. He is also remembered for one of the first major English translations of Ain-i-Akbari, the 16th-century Persian language chronicle of Mughal emperor Akbar, published in 1873.

## Quotes

* The invaders were few and the country was too large and too populous. The waves of immigration from Turan were few and far between, and deposited on Indian soil adventurers, warriors, and learned men, rather than artisans and colonists. Hence the Muhammadans depended upon the Hindoos for labour of every kind, from architecture down to agriculture and the supply of servants. Many branches they had to learn from the Hindoos, as, for example, the cultivation of indigeneous produce, irrigation, coinage, medicine, the building of houses, and weaving of stuffs suitable for the climate, the management of elephants, and so forth.
** Henry Blochmann, “A Chapter from Muhammadan History” in The Calcutta Review, No. civ. 1871 cited in Bernier, p.40 n. quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims, who are they (2012)
* Islam has no state clergy, but we find a counterpart to our hierarchical bodies in the Ulemas about the court from whom the Sadrs of the provinces, the Mir Adls, Muftis and Qazis were appointed. At Delhi and Agra, the body of the learned had always consisted of staunch Sunnis, who believed it their duty to keep the kings straight. How great their influence was, may be seen from the fact that of all Muhammadan emperors only Akbar, and perhaps Alauddin Khalji, succeeded in putting down this haughty sect.
** Henry Blochmann, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
# Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was a German novelist, short-story writer and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.

## Quotes

* Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie.
** A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
** "Die schwarzen Schafe" (1951); cited from 1947 bis 1951 (Köln: F. Middelhauve, 1963) p. 478. Translation: "Black Sheep", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) The Stories of Heinrich Böll (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995) p. 408.
* Er meidet die überaus geschmackvollen offiziellen »Helden«friedhöfe. Warum nur, so denkt er, tun die Deutschen so viel für ihre Toten und so wenig für ihre Lebenden?
** He avoids the official "heroes'" cemetery, done in such impeccable taste. (Why, he wonders, do the Germans do so much for their dead and so little for the living?)
** "You Enter Germany" (1967); cited from Aufsätze, Kritiken, Reden (Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1967) p. 278. Translation: "You are Now Entering Germany", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) Missing Persons and Other Essays (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994) p. 48.
* Sie muss also zu weit gehen, um herauszufinden, wie weit sie gehen darf.
** One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.
** "Die Freiheit der Kunst", speech delivered at Wuppertal on September 24, 1966; cited from Cultura 21 magazine , September 30, 2005. Translation: Walter Laqueur Germany Today: A Personal Report (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985) p. 130.
* Creativity is not limited to people practising one of the traditional forms of art, and even in the case of artists, creativity is not confined to the exercise of their art. Each one of us has a creative potential, which is hidden by competitiveness and success-aggression. To recognize, explore and develop this potential is the task of the School. Creation – whether it be a painting, sculpture, symphony or novel – involves not merely talent, intuition, powers of imagination and application, but also the ability to shape material that could be expanded to other socially relevant spheres.
** Joseph Beuys and Heinrich Böll (1972), cited in: Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys, exh.cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1979. p. 278.
# Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher

Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (November 15, 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – December 9, 1830) was a Danish surgeon, botanist] and Professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in malacology, in other words on molluscs, and assigned systematic names to many taxa.

## Quoted

* Among Noah's sons was one who covered the shame of his father, but the Hegelians are still tearing away the cloak which time and oblivion had sympathetically thrown over the shame of their Master.
** In a letter to Gauss. As quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (2004) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 361-362
# Dodo

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

## Quotes

* Raphus cucullatus had become rare unto death. But this one flesh-and-blood individual still lived. Imagine that she was thirty years old, or thirty-five, an ancient age for most sorts of birds but not impossible for a member of such a large-bodied species. She no longer ran, she waddled… In the dark of an early morning in 1667, say, during a rainstorm, she took cover beneath a cold stone ledge at the base of one of the Black River cliffs. She drew her head down against her body, fluffed her feathers for warmth, squinted in patient misery. She waited. She didn't know it, nor did anyone else, but she was the only dodo on Earth. When the storm passed, she never opened her eyes. This is extinction.
** David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (1996), p. 275.

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Dodo on Wikipedia
# Doete de Troyes

Doete de Troyes (1220–1265) was a troveresse whose work survives only in fragments. Further verses are attributed to her in the legendary Poésies de Clotilde.

## Quotes
### Disputed

* Quant revient la saison que l'herbe reverdoie Que di fleons clerets la terre alme s'ondoie, Qu'esjoissent oysels de lors gracieux chantz Li bois, et la pré, e li chamz, Soir et matin, filles, n'allez sollettes Quierre ez gazons derraines violettes; Serpent y gist que n'y mord au talon, Por ce n'est il, tendres poulettes, Por ce n'est il que plus felon.
** When comes the beauteous summer time, And grass grows green once more, And sparkling brooks the meadows lave With fertilizing power;— And when the birds rejoicing sing Their pleasant songs again, Filling the vales and woodlands gay With their enlivening strain;— Go not at eve nor morn, fair maids, Unto the mead alone, To seek the tender violets blue, And pluck them for your own; For there a snake lies hid, whose fangs May leave untouch'd the heel, But not the less—O not the less, Your hearts his power shall feel.
** From the Poésies de Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, depuis Madame de Surville, Poëte François du XVe. siècle (1803), therein ascribed to Doete, and stated to have existed in MS. among the other specimens there given of a series of early French poetry, but now thought to be a forgery. Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 271
** Cp. Virgil, Eclogues, III, 93: Latet Anguis in Herba
# John of Egypt

Abba John of Egypt was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

## Quotes

       Ward, Benedicta (1984). The sayings of the Desert Fathers: the alphabetical collection. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications.
* Abba John of the Thebaid said, 'First of all the monk must gain humility; for it is the first commandment of the Lord who said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."' (Matt. 5.3)
** Saying 1
# John Zuhlsdorf

John Todd Zuhlsdorf (October 28, 1959–) is an American Catholic priest.

## Quotes

* We must all – all of us – work diligently to revitalize out sacred liturgical worship, especially through more frequent and widespread celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass. We need the mighty sustenance of the older rites, which we crafted in tougher times and polished like treasured jewels for centuries and lovingly handed down by forebears to their children who knew, as life had taught them, that hard times were ahead.
** This is how the persecution starts (21 September 2020)

## External links

* Fr. Z's blog
# John du Pont

John Eleuthère du Pont (November 22, 1938 – December 9, 2010) was an American philanthropist, heir to the Du Pont family fortune, and a convicted murderer. He had been a published ornithologist, philatelist, conchologist, sports enthusiast, and self-styled wrestling coach. He died in prison while serving a sentence of 30 years for the murder of Dave Schultz.

## Quote

* I had the opportunity to fish as a kid, I just follow through with it. I'm not the best fisherman in the world, but I have a lot more fun than a lot of my other fishing friends in this world, who think they're supposedly experts. Sometimes the fish cooperate, sometimes they don't.
** 1988 interview
# John of Damascus

Saint John of Damascus (Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi; Greek: Ιωάννης Δαμασκήνος (Iôannês Damaskênos); Latin: Iohannes Damascenus; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας/Chrysorrhoas, "streaming with gold"—i.e., "the golden speaker") (c. 676 – 4 December 749) was a Syrian Christian monk and priest. Born and raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem.

## Sourced

* In the relics of the saints the Lord Christ has provided us with saving fountains which in many ways pour out benefactions and gush with fragrant ointment. And let no one disbelieve. For, if by the will of God water poured out of the precipitous living rock in the desert, and for the thirsty Sampson from the jawbone of an ass, is it unbelievable that fragrant ointment should flow from the relics of the martyrs? Certainly not, at least for such as know the power of God and the honor which the saints have from Him.
** In Saint John of Damascus: Writings (The Fathers Of The Church A New Translation Vol. 37), 1958, 1999, Frederic H. Chase, Trans.
* Alternate translation: Christ gives us the relics of saints as health-giving springs through which flow blessings and healing. This should not be doubted. For if at God’s word water gushed from hard rock in the wilderness-yes, and from an ass’s jawbone when Samson was thirsty -why should it seem incredible that healing medicine should distill from the relics of saints
** In Relics: The Shroud of Turin, the True Cross, the Blood of Januarius: History, Mysticism, and the Catholic Church, by Joan Carroll Cruz, 1984 , p. 37.
* The Christianocategori, or Accusers of Christians, are such and are so called, because those Christians who worship one living and true God praised in Trinity they accused of worshiping as gods, after the manner of the Greeks, the venerable images of our Lord Jesus Christ, of our immaculate lady, the holy Mother of God, of the holy angels, and of His saints.They are furthermore called Iconoclasts, because they have shown deliberate dishonor to all these same holy and venerable images and have consigned them to be broken up and burnt. Likewise, some of those painted on walls they have scraped off, while others they have obliterated with whitewash and black paint. They are also called Thymoleontes, or Lion-hearted, because, taking advantage of their authority, they have with great heart given strength to their heresy and with torment and torture visited vengeance upon those who approve of the images.
** On Heresies.
** In, Saint John of Damascus: Writings (The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 37), 1958, 1999, Frederic H. Chase, Trans. p. 160
* Images are books for the illiterate and silent heralds of the honor of the saints, teaching those who see with a soundless voice and sanctifying the sight.
** "Defense against those who attack the holy images," as translated by Andrew Louth, Three Treatises on the Divine Images, (Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Press: 2003) p. 46
# James Garner

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American film and television actor and producer.

## Quotes
### Tavis Smiley interview (2004)

Tavis Smiley, Late Night on w:PBS - 2004-06-14, Interview: with Tavis Smiley, PBS (June 14, 2004).
* Anyway, you learn a healthy respect for war, and I'm not happy with what's going on today. Uh, you know, our sterling President — um, I shouldn't get into this. Everybody's gonna kill me, but I'm not happy with him. I — I — if he had ever been in a war, he wouldn't have been so happy...so eager to send other people into war.
** On George Bush and the Iraq War.
* Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
** Asked why he gets up and goes to work every day.
* Garner: Before we get off the electoral process, they wanted me to run for Governor [of California] about 8 years ago — ahem — and I didn't want to do it. I wasn't gonna get in with that-- Tavis Smiley: Now you wish you had. Garner: No, no, no. Tavis Smiley: Hey, Arnold [Schwarzenegger] won. Garner: No. I think I could have won easy, but I don't think that they ought to have somebody like me or Schwarzenegger as Governor. It's no way to run a state.
# James G. Watt

James Gaius Watt (January 31, 1938 – May 27, 2023) was the 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior; he served from January 23, 1981 to November 8, 1983.

## Quotes
### 1980s

* That is the delicate balance the Secretary of the Interior must have: to be steward for the natural resources for this generation as well as future generations. I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns; whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations.
** Testimony before the House Interior Committee (5 February 1981)
* My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.
** The Washington Post (24 May 1981)
* I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It's liberals and Americans.
** Statement of November 1981, quoted in New York Times (10 October 1983), also quoted in Energy and Environment : The Unfinished Business (1986) by Congressional Quarterly, Inc., p. 91
* We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.
** Speaking before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983, in reference to members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing
* We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber.
** As quoted in Media Transparency
* Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.
** U.S. News and World Report (11 November 1985)

### 1990s

* If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved in the jury box or at the ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used.
** As quoted in "The Earth's Storm Troopers", Phoenix New Times (7 August 1991)

### 2000s

* Everything Cheney's saying, everything the president's saying — they're saying exactly what we were saying 20 years ago, precisely … Twenty years later, it sounds like they've just dusted off the old work.
** Praising George W. Bush's energy and environmental policies "Watt Applauds Bush Energy Strategy", Denver Post (16 May 2001)

## Misattributed

* God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.
** Attributed in Setting the Captives Free (1990) by Austin Miles, and widely repeated after appearing in "The Godly Must Be Crazy", by Glenn Scherer in Grist magazine (28 October 2004). Grist afterwards retracted and apologized for Scherer's comment, noting that the quotation appears nowhere in Watt's Congressional testimony or any other source it could find. Watt has responded:
    I never said it. Never believed it. Never even thought it. I know no Christian who believes or preaches such error. The Bible commands conservation — that we as Christians be careful stewards of the land and resources entrusted to us by the Creator.
# James Gates Percival

James Gates Percival (September 15, 1795 – May 2, 1856) was an American poet, born at Berlin, Connecticut.

## Quotes

* Theirs is no vulgar sepulchre--green sods Are all their monument, and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles Or the eternal pyramids.
** "The Graves of the Patriots," first published in the United States Literary Gazette, Vol. 2 (1825).
* Hail to the land whereon we tread, Our fondest boast! The sepulchres of mighty dead, The truest hearts that ever bled, Who sleep on glory’s brightest bed, A fearless host: No slave is here:—our unchained feet, Walk freely as the waves that beat Our coast.
** New England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale.
** To Seneca Lake, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.
** The coral Grove, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

## Quotes about James Gates Percival

* Percival, the most popular poet before Bryant, a poet who made the first attempt in our history to write the meeting-place between the kind of experience which may be called scientific, and poetry, is ignored. More than ignored: he is referred to in all the anthologies as a one-poem poet, and then a poor imitative poem, "The Coral Grove," is printed.
** Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry (1949)
# Geoffrey Moorhouse

Geoffrey Moorhouse FRGS, FRSL, D.Litt (29 November 1931 – 26 November 2009) was an English journalist and author.

## Quotes

* I first fell under the spell of cricket, as every other small boy will have done, by batting and bowling on the nearest available space the moment I got home from school.
** The Best-Loved Game (1979).
* "No other country has lived with so complicated a past so equably, assimilating everything that has happened to it, obliterating naught, so that not even the intricate histories of European states have produced such a rich pattern as that bequeathed by the Mauryas, the Ashokas, the Pahlavas, the Guptas, the Chalykyas, the Hoysalas, the Pandyas, the Cholas, the Mughals, and the British - to identify a few of the people that have shaped India's inheritance. " "Religion, flourishes here as it does nowhere else. Other lands may surrender themselves totally to a particular faith, but in India most creeds are deeply rooted and acknowledged fervently. Virtually the whole population practices some form of devotion: the Indian without the slightest feeling for the divine, without a spiritual dimension to his life, is exceedingly rare." Incomparable and inimitable she is, India is also our great paradigm."
** Om: an Indian Pilgrimage - By Geoffrey Moorhouse p. 15 -16
# Geoffrey Francis Mayne

Geoffrey Francis Mayne (27 August 1928 – 14 September 2003) was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of the Australian Military Services.

## Quotes

* Our Catholic religion is about God who is love. Often, we can mistake weakness for love and strength as a lack of love. Compassion cannot be exercised at the cost of objective truth. We must strive to correct erroneous consciences, especially in those who call themselves "Catholic". Dissent against the Teaching Church is widespread. The Teaching Church, however, has the authority and the responsibility to articulate the faith of the whole Church.
** H. Exc. Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis MAYNE, Titular Bishop of Mopta, Military Ordinary, Australia (26 November 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
# Geoffrey James Robinson

Geoffrey James Robinson (10 August 1937 – 29 December 2020) was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney.

## Quotes

* The Bishops of Oceania humbly request the universal Church to speak directly to victims of abuse, to take all necessary concrete steps to prevent abuse in the future and to become the leader of the local churches in this field.
** H. Exc. Most Rev. Geoffrey J. ROBINSON, Titular Bishop of Rusuca, Auxiliary of Sydney, Australia (3 November 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
# James Northcote

James Northcote RA (22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831) was an English painter.

## Quotes

* Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.
** Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. (1830)
# James O'Brien (broadcaster)

James Edward O'Brien (born 1972) is a British presenter, podcaster and author, who has presented for talk radio station LBC since 2004.

## Quotes
### 2010s

* I want to read you something from Amber Rudd's speech yesterday. "For the state must draw a sharp line of distinction between those who, as members of the nation, are the foundation and support of its existence and greatness, and those who are domiciled in the state, simply as earners of their livelihood there." .... No, that wasn't from Amber Rudd's speech yesterday, I'm really sorry, that's from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
** "James O'Brien Compares Amber Rudd's Speech To Hitler's Words", Leading Britain's Conversation (5 October 2016)
* What is the law? You know you were going to take short-term economic damage ... Every single customer in the country is going to be potentially worse off than they were before the vote. So I'm just wondering what those laws are that you won't have to obey any more that made you vote for this short-term economic hit. Can you name one?
** "'Which EU Law Are You Most Looking Forward To Losing?'", Leading Britain's Conversation (11 October 2016)
* I Have Contempt For The Conmen and Compassion For The Conned.
** On Brexit "James O'Brien On Brexit: I Have Contempt For The Conmen & Compassion For The Conned", Leading Britain's Conversation (22 March 2019)
* So you think we have to leave the EU to get three-pin plugs?”
** "James O'Brien's Brexit Top 10: 7. Caller Who Voted Brexit Because Of Three-Pin Plugs" Leading Britain's Conversation (15 August 2019)
* What difference does it make what colour the person you buy your milk off is?
** Response to a caller concerned about immigration "James O'Brien's Brexit Top 10: 1. "I Voted Brexit Because There Are Too Many Brown Faces"", Leading Britain's Conversation (23 August 2019)

### 2020s

* Suella Braverman is now perilously close to making Priti Patel look like the second most callous and ignorant Home Secretary in living memory.
** "Suella Braverman slammed after saying it’s her ‘dream’ and ‘obsession’ to see asylum seeker flight to Rwanda", Left Foot Forward (5 October 2022)
** The Rwanda asylum plan was scrapped by the incoming Starmer government in July 2024.
* Boris Johnson, surrounded by the usual brain-dead ERG headbangers and DUP tub thumpers, Boris Johnson is threatening Rishi Sunak because Rishi Sunak is minded to abide by the terms of the treaty that Boris Johnson signed.
** "James O'Brien brands Boris Johnson 'a bare faced liar' after NI protocol remarks", Leading Britain's Conversation (22 February 2019)
# James Neil Hollingworth

James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996) was a beatnik, hippie, writer, and former manager of the psychedelic folk rock bands Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ace of Cups. He wrote under the pseudonym Ambrose Redmoon

## Quotes

* Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
** Quoted in K. Patrick Malone, Inside a Haunted Mind (2008) p. 167