OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Substantive democracy

Substantive democracy is a form of democracy in which the outcome of elections is representative of the people.

## Quotes

* Observers of democracy and democratization generally choose, implicitly or explicitly, among four main types of definitions: constitutional, substantive, procedural, and process-oriented. … Substantive approaches focus on the conditions of life and politics a given regime promotes: Does this regime promote human welfare, individual freedom, security, equity, social equality, public deliberation, and peaceful conflict resolution? If so, we might be inclined to call it democratic regardless of how its constitution reads. Two troubles follow immediately, however, from any such definitional strategy. First, how do we handle tradeoffs among these estimable principles? If a given regime is desperately poor but its citizens enjoy rough equality, should we think of it as more democratic than a fairly prosperous but fiercely unequal regime? Second, focusing on the possible outcomes of politics undercuts any effort to learn whether some political arrangements – including democracy – promote more desirable substantive outcomes than other political arrangements. What if we actually want to know under what conditions and how regimes promote human welfare, individual freedom, security, equity, social equality, public deliberation, and peaceful conflict resolution? Later we will discuss in depth how whether a regime is democratic affects the quality of public and private life.
** Charles Tilly, Democracy (2007), Chap. 1 : What is Democracy?
# Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. In most English-speaking countries, suburban areas are defined in contrast to central or inner-city areas, but in Australian English and South African English, suburb has become largely synonymous with what is called a "neighborhood" in other countries and the term extends to inner-city areas. In some areas, such as Australia, China, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and a few U.S. states, new suburbs are routinely annexed by adjacent cities. In others, such as Saudi Arabia, Canada, France, and much of the United States, many suburbs remain separate municipalities or are governed as part of a larger local government area such as a county.

## Quotes

* I guess most people think of the suburb as a place with all the disadvantages of the city, and none of the advantages of the country. And vice versa.
** Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years, Season 1, Pilot. Written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and voiced by narrator Daniel Stern. (January 31, 1988)
* As a Generation X suburbanite, I was given the opportunity to grow up with one of the more idyllic childhoods ever known to human history. But the unique factors that made the American suburb possible in the first place have been systematically eliminated, thereby rendering them, like the USA itself, unsustainable.
** Theodore Beale, The Slow Death of Suburbia, Vox Popoli, 15 September 2024
* Suburbia was a wonderful place to live, even if it was a consequence of American atomism and the geographic dispersion of the American family.
** Theodore Beale, The Slow Death of Suburbia, Vox Popoli, 15 September 2024
* There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Resignation, st. 5 (1849).
* Without suburbs a city has no centre either.
** Šuruppak, Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BC).
# Subtlety

Subtlety is the quality of being hard to grasp, not obvious or easily understood, barely noticeable.

## Quotes

* How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!
** John Flavel, in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 315
* There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.
** Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), “Economy” ¶ A19
# Paul Bertololy

Paul Bertololy (February 12, 1892 - November 28, 1972) was a German physician and writer.

## Quotes

* Die Zeit ist eine Erfindung der menschlichen Unrast, der Erfüllte kennt sie nicht.
** Time is an invention of human restlessness; the fulfilled do not recognize it.
** Aphorismen (1948)
# Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a professor of psychology at Yale University and an internationally recognized expert on language and development.

## Quotes

* Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
** From the essay "Toward a Theory of Moral Development," published in the anthology The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, edited by John Brockman
* It’s relevant that people whose polling places are schools are more likely to vote for sales taxes that will fund education. Or that judges become more likely to deny parole the longer they go without a break. Or that people serve themselves more food when using a large plate. Such effects, even when they’re small, can make a practical difference, especially when they influence votes and justice and health. But their existence doesn’t undermine the idea of a rational and deliberative self. To think otherwise would be like concluding that because salt adds flavor to food, nothing else does.
** “The War on Reason,” The Atlantic, March 2014, pp. 64–70
# Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany (born May 27, 1971) is an English actor.

## Quotes

* If a director wants to give me a job, I sometimes ask them to screen-test me. Then they can't sort of blame me if they're not getting what they wanted later on. It's like, "You fucking hired me; you saw what you were getting."
** Interview
* Because it doesn't happen like this, where we're having an interview and it sort of turns into a conversation--and a quite gratifying one, because it's all about me.
** Interview
* A lot of nonsense is spoken about morality. The world is full of people who have had affairs and most marriages, if you look at the statistics, break down, and does that make people evil? It's they've made bad decisions. It diminishes the situation to say someone is 'morally bankrupt' because they've had an affair.
** Article
* "You say 'ore´gano', we say 'orega´no'. You say 'tom a to' we say 'toma´to'. You say 'erb' and we say herb because there's a fucking h at the beginning.
** Comparing British and American English on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 16 September 2004
# Paul Brousse

Paul Brousse (23 January 1844 – 1 April 1912) was a French socialist, associated first with the anarchist Jura Federation and later leader of the possibilist movement.

## Quotes

* L'idée sera jetée, non sur le papier, non sur un journal, non sur un tableau, elle ne sera pas sculptée en marbre, ni taillée en pierre, ni coulée en bronze: elle marchera, en chair et en os, vivante, devant le peuple. Le people le saluera au passage.
** Translation: The idea will not appear on paper, nor in a journal, nor in a painting; it will not be sculpted in marble, nor carved in stone, nor cast in bronze: it will walk, in flesh and bone, alive, before the people. The people will salute it as it passes by.
** Bulletin de la fédération jurassienne, 5 August 1877. Quoted in Howard G. Lay, "Beau Geste! (On the Readability of Terrorism)," Yale French Studies 101 (2001), p. 85.
# Ruben Vergara Meersohn

Ruben Vergara Meersohn (born August 17, 1991) is an Italian serial entrepreneur, best known for being the CEO and Founder of Wall Street International.

## Quotes

* You get to define what success means to you, and find your own North Star.
** Keynote speech at the Career Days, 29 March 2018.
* Passion can't be found in your head because it lives in your heart. No matter how hard you try, you cannot figure out your passion by thinking about it. You need to take action and feel your way to your truth, from the inside out.
** Keynote speech at the Career Days, 29 March 2018.
* As a rule, I always try not to have expectations.
** Quote from Montenegro's Foreign Entreprenurs, interview with Total Montenegro News.
* Deploy introspection and understand what you need in your life.
** Quote from Montenegro's Foreign Entreprenurs, interview with Total Montenegro News.
* It's not about perfection. It's about volume. When you bring volume and consistency on the daily basis, that's where success occurs.
** Keynote speech at the International Career Development, 20 December 2017.
* Set the course by being the captain of your boat.
** From Ruben Vergara Meersohn's speech at the MARLEQ Meetup for International Career Development, 20 December 2017.
* In life, business and relationships the key to fulfilment is consistency.
** Keynote speech at Birziminijum, Business Academy on the ‘Potential of Youth in Entrepreneurship‘, 13 November 2017.
* Financial Accounting is the core of any successful business.
** Financial Accounting is the core of a successful business at 1:13 min, published 12 September 2017.
* Achievement is made of sweat and tears, so every single day you need to put in the work, and work as hard as you can!
** Hours replying to business messages at 0:34 min, published 10 September 2017.
* We are never required to be the best, only that we try our best.
** Speech at BEST Podgorica's forum for Entrepreneurs, 7 July 2017.

## External links

* Official website
# Rubén González Medina

Rubén Antonio González Medina (February 9, 1949–) is a Puerto Rican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Ponce.

## Quotes

* Forgiveness is one thing, and no one is opposed to forgiving him, but he must also realize that actions have consequences, and one of those consequences is that the people have lost trust in him. This is what the people are asking. How are they going to be governed by someone whom they can't trust?
** Puerto Rican governor resigns amid massive protests (July 25, 2019)
# Ruby Gloom

Ruby Gloom is an animated television series based on a clothing and stationary franchise. The show is produced by Nelvana and began airing on October 13, 2006 in Canada. It stars the features of Sarah Gadon, Emily Hampshire, and Peter Keleghan.

## Season 1
### Iris Springs Eternal

    Ruby: Misery! It's raining on your parade!
    Misery: At least it's not acid rain...
    Ruby: Mind if we turn off the alarm, Misery?
    Misery: No, although it is kind of comforting.

### Unsung Hero

    Misery: This is more fun then the day I almost lost four toes in the Gloomsville ice storm!
    Ruby: ...We had an ice storm?
    Misery: Everything worked out that day, ten toes at last count!

### Skullboys Don't Cry

    Ruby: Misery! How did your hair get that way?
    Misery: I was doing an up-do and it up and went. Augh, my hair should be declared a no-fly zone.

## Season 2
### I'll Be Home for Misery

    Morose: Children... cheerful, playful, children... Why? WHY?!
    Mayhem: Scaredy seen dinosaurs? Here one day, gone next! Me not know why. Scaredy knows?
    Scaredy: Hmm. I have an inkling.
    Mayhem: [excited] Ah...!
    Scaredy: Ah! I mean, no! Scaredy not know! Not know at all! Haha... My tea is getting cold, excuse me.
    Mayhem: That what dinosaurs do before they go missing... RUN AWAY FROM MAYHEM!
    Iris: My swing!
    Frank & Len: Our space!
    Scaredy: My sanity! thank you.
    Mayhem: Here, birdy!

### Last Train to Gloomsville (Part 1)

    Iris: Are we leaving yet? Are we leaving yet? Are me? Are we? Are we leaving yet?
    (Skull Boy, Misery and Poe look at each other.)
    Iris: Right, train isn't here yet. Don't worry. I wouldn't be one of those obnoxious kids asking the same thing over and over and over! That's not me!
    (A train is heard in the background.)
    Iris: Oooh! Is that the train I hear?! Is it? Is it? Is it the train?!
    Frank: Hey, wait a second! This isn't right! I'm supposed to get the window!
    Len: But you said I could first!
    Frank: I'm manning the camera, how am I supposed to get a good shot of us with the Waka-Waka bird if I'm not closer.
    Len: Okay you're right...
    (Frank and Len turn around then sit back down, making no difference whatsoever.)
    Frank: Ah, much better.

### Last Train to Gloomsville (Part 2)

    Len: Where were you on the night of... tonight?!
    Frank: I was right here, Len.
    Len: Can you prove it? More importantly, do you have a witness?
    Frank: Augh...
# Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby was first designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

## Quotes

* I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.
** Kent Beck As cited in: Giles Bowkett (2007) "Smalltalk, Outside The Ivory Tower?". at Giles Bowkett.blogspot.com July 15, 2007
* Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people.
** Yukihiro Matsumoto, cited in: Pat Eyler (2009) "MWRC 2009 Mini-Interview: Philippe Hanrigou", on-ruby.blogspot.nl March 3, 2009
* Everyone has an individual background. Someone may come from Python, someone else may come from Perl, and they may be surprised by different aspects of the language. Then they come up to me and say, 'I was surprised by this feature of the language, so Ruby violates the principle of least surprise.' Wait. Wait. The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise. And it means the principle of least surprise after you learn Ruby very well. For example, I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprises me.
** Yukihiro Matsumoto "The Philosophy of Ruby, A Conversation with Yukihiro Matsumoto, Part I" by Bill Venners on 2003-09-29 (Artima Developer
* "Everything is an object" - Smalltalk and its children. (whispered:) Ruby. (laughter)
** Larry Wall "Present Continuous - Future Perfect", Taken from the transcript of the talk.
* [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
** Larry Wall "The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 : In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with xscreensaver.
* Yukihiro Matsumoto interview 2019 "What makes Ruby shine"
# Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), known professionally as Rubén Blades, is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, activist, and politician.

## Quotes

* The bully got bullied...and that was happening in all levels of society: governments were treating people badly, authorities were not doing what they were supposed to do and people saw in that example, a way of getting even.
** On the song "Pedro Navaja" in "Rubén Blades" in PBS
* I grew up surrounded by all types of music...You have to remember, Panama is a port so I always had contact with all types of music—from the big bands of Count Basie to all the Cuban bands of people like Benny Moré.
** On all of the musical influences that he was exposed to in Panama in "Forty Years Into His Career, Rubén Blades is Still Building Bridges & Inspiring Change" in bandcamp daily
* I like to think of it as like watching The Godfather...You might have seen it 1,000 times, but when it comes on it makes you stop. Each time you see it, you find something different. That’s what I want people to get from my music.
** On comparing the longevity of his music to The Godfather in "Forty Years Into His Career, Rubén Blades is Still Building Bridges & Inspiring Change" in bandcamp daily
* There's a moment in everybody's life...where you have more past than future, and then you better start organizing your time. So I thought maybe this is the time to do this. I'm not keen on people following me and recording my life and asking personal questions and what-not, but I figured I had to do it.
** On the documentary Ruben Blades Is Not My Name in "Inside Ruben Blades: New Documentary Showcases the Man Behind the Music" in Afropop Worldwide (2018 Apr 10)
# Rubén Héctor di Monte

Rubén Héctor di Monte (12 April 1932 – 18 April 2016) was an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján.

## Quotes

* We must always be guided by the voice of freedom, of human dignity, of our own responsibility, of the defense of human rights, proclaiming the Greatness of the Lord. If God is present with us, all of the values we proclaim will not be excuses but rather means for building a promising future.
** Argentina under God’s care, archbishop says on country’s independence day (11 July 2007) Catholic News Agency
# Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose Langenheim (born 20 March 1986) is an Australian model, actress, disc jockey, and television presenter.

## Quotes
### "My biggest challenge will always be my anxiety" (2023)

    Ruby Rose: "My biggest challenge will always be my anxiety" by Saffron Swire, 19 July 2023, Retrieved 23/11/2023.
* I think if I could give anyone advice – not that you should take mine – it would be to not start getting tattoos at 16.
* Everyone kept saying it was so brave of me to agree to do a stage production, and I was like, 'Wait, what? Why do I not feel nervous?'
* My biggest challenge will always be my anxiety.
* And while the stage itself isn't scary to me (I've DJ'd to thousands and thousands of people before), when I think about the intimacy of seeing the theatre audience, that feels like a different thing altogether.
# Thomas Watson

Thomas Watson may refer to:
* Thomas Watson (Puritan), the 17th century preacher.
* Thomas J. Watson, president of IBM.
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# Thomas William Parsons

Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819 – September 3, 1892) was an American dentist and poet.

## Quotes

* Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather: Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
* A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* No dream his life was—but a fight! Could any Beatrice see A lover in that anchorite?
* On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* O Time! whose verdicts mock our own, The only righteous judge art thou!
* On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
# Thomas Weinandy

Thomas Gerard Weinandy (January 12, 1946–) is an American Roman Catholic priest and a leading scholar.

## Quotes

* I have often asked myself: “Why has Jesus let all of this happen?” The only answer that comes to mind is that Jesus wants to manifest just how weak is the faith of many within the Church, even among too many of her bishops. Ironically, your pontificate has given those who hold harmful theological and pastoral views the license and confidence to come into the light and expose their previously hidden darkness. In recognizing this darkness, the Church will humbly need to renew herself, and so continue to grow in holiness.
** Letter (July 31, 2017)
# Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862 to 1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves, women and other disfranchised peoples.

## Quotes

* To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
** Short Studies of American Authors - VI. Henry James, Jr., The Literary World, (22 November 1879).

## Quotes about Higginson

* Powerful racial prejudices? That was not true of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, or Norwood P. Hallowell, or George T. Garrison, or many other abolitionists and sons of abolitionists who became officers in black regiments. Indeed, the contrary was true. They had spent much of their lives fighting the race prejudice endemic in American society, sometimes at the risk of their careers and even their lives. That is why they jumped at the chance of help launch an experiment with black soldiers which they hoped would help African Americans.
** James M. McPherson, Drawn by the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (1997), p. 91
* Suppose Jonathan Edwards had been born a woman; suppose William James, for that matter, had been born a woman? (The invalid seclusion of his sister Alice is suggestive.) Even from men, New England took its psychic toll; many of its geniuses seemed peculiar in one way or another, particularly along the lines of social intercourse. Hawthorne, until he married, took his meals in his bedroom, apart from the family. Thoreau insisted on the values both of solitude and of geographical restriction, boasting that "I have traveled much in Concord." Emily Dickinson-viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as "partially cracked," by the twentieth century as fey or pathological-has increasingly struck me as a practical woman, exercising her gift as she had to, making choices.
** Adrienne Rich On Lies, Secrets and Silence (1979)