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# Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is a 2021 novel written by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka. It was released on 28 September 2021 by Bookcraft Africa.
The novel is a political satire, inspired by a report that Nigerians are among the happiest people on Earth. It tells the story of Dr. Kighare Menka, a surgeon who discovers a human body parts black-market scheme going on in his hospital.

## Quotes

* Ti a ba ri erin igbo k’a gba wipe a ri ajanaku, ka ye so wipe a ri nka nto lo firi. Translation: "When we encounter an elephant, let us admit that we have seen the lord of the forest, not offhandedly remark that we saw something flash across our sight."
** This Yoruba saying highlights the importance of recognizing and acknowledging significant events or entities in their true form (Chapter 2: The Gospel According to Happiness)​
* I know you have nothing against psychiatrists, so why don’t you look at it as that kind of therapy?
** This line is part of a conversation that frames societal and personal challenges as opportunities for growth and understanding (Chapter 4: Scoffer's Progress)
* The world is full of good people who do bad things and bad people who do good things.
** (General theme from various chapters)
* Happiness is a strange, elusive thing, much like a butterfly that flits from flower to flower, never staying too long.
** Philosophical musing
* In this land, everyone wears a mask, some more skillfully than others.
** Commentary on societal behavior
* We are the architects of our own destinies, yet we are often unaware of the blueprints we follow.
** Reflective statement
* Power, like a double-edged sword, can protect and destroy, build and dismantle.
** Observation on power dynamics
* The laughter of the people is the most potent weapon against tyranny.
** This highlights the power of humor and resilience in facing oppressive regimes.
* In the land of the happiest people, sorrow hides behind smiles.
** A commentary on the contrast between outward appearances and inner realities.
* Justice delayed is justice denied, yet we wait endlessly for the scales to balance.
** Reflecting on the slow pace of justice in society.
* Tradition and modernity dance a delicate tango, each trying to lead the other.
** Describes the tension between cultural heritage and contemporary influences.
# Anita Harding

Anita Elizabeth Harding (September 17, 1952 – September 11, 1995) was a British neurologist, and Professor of Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology of the University of London.

## Quotes

* Growing old: the most common mitochondrial disease of all?
** Title of article published in Natural Genetics (1992), 2:251-2; cited in Stephen Waxman (2010) Molecular Neurology. p. 536
* At least I won't have to buy Windows 95.
** Attributed to Harding in: Poulton J, Huson SM (1996). "Anita Harding (1952-95): In Memoriam". Am J Hum Genet 58 (1): 235–236. : Response after learning of her terminal condition,

## Quotes about Harding

* The Hereditary Ataxias will guarantee Anita Harding a place in the history of 20th century neurology.
** A.H.V. Schapira, cited in: "OBITUARIES Anita Harding". in: BMJ: British Medical Journal (1995) Vol 311, 21 October 1995. p. 1087.
* Anita Harding's clinical wisdom, enthusiasm, talent for research, and extraordinary personality epitomise all that we value most in a clinical scientist. Anita was an ambassador for British neurology, who patrolled the far corners of a still significant empire which had its roots at Queen Square where she worked and was happy. The evidence for her scientific achievement is in the writings; the style is in our memories. Each will endure. The rise in Anita's career - a readership and honorary consultancy in neurology at the National in 1987, a personal professorship in the University of London in 1990, and chairmanship of neurology at the Institute in 1995 - was meteoric. She served on the editorial boards of eleven journals and eighteen research panels, was a frequent member of the teaching faculty at international meetings, and held visiting professorships in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia. From amongst the Aladdin's cave of Anita's scientific achievements can be singled out her classifications of the peripheral neuropathies and hereditary ataxias, and genotype-phenotype correlations for each, the first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease, the spectrum of trinucleotide repeats in neurodegeneration, and the population genetics of disorders which show ethnic or geographic restriction. For her manifest achievements, and for our comfort in her absence, I commend Anita Harding to you as the Association's (joint) first medallist for distinguished contributions to neurology.
** Christopher John Earl (1996) "Anita Harding (1952-95)." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1996;61:213-226

## External links

* Anita Harding (1952-1995)
# Anita Hill

Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she testified on her sexual harassment allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

## Quotes

* The Supreme Court is only as good as the people who are on it.
** "Why Anita Hill wants us to take the long view on the Supreme Court", Vox.com (May 13, 2022)
* One of the things that we’re not talking about enough is prevention
** "Anita Hill: 'Harassment has not ended in every corner'", NBC News (October 28, 2022)
* "Some of these things are encouraging, some are entirely discouraging when we start to look at the numbers, but all of it points to the fact that this could be a moment where, if these things come together, we can actually make some change"
** on what she hope that readers will take away from her book
* "I believe that’s why we should – how we should be looking at Dobbs, not just as an indicator of what is going to happen on reproductive rights, but also what will happen to us as a country in terms of how much we value the civil rights of individuals and especially marginalized people"
** she said on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace
* "Our goal is to make sure that all individuals are protected from gender-based violence, and we can't get there without dealing with the issue of racism"
** on gender base violence
* "Hope doesn’t necessarily come from the tangible things, it doesn’t have to come because something monumental happened. It can come from something small that gives people hope"
** Anita hill on hope

## Quotes about

* the Clarence Thomas hearings, in which Anita Hill represented all of us to a group of men who just didn't get it.
** Kathleen Alcalá "Against All Odds" (1992) included in The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)
# Anita Mugeni

Anita Mugeni (born 1970) is a Rwandan judge and current president of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) who was acting president of Rwanda Bar Association.

## Quotes

* We are informed that there are companies, institutions or individuals that tend to lure lawyers with bribes.
* For every major contract signed, there has to be lawyers on both sides. So, it would not only hurt the country financially, the impact would also extend to the general public once the lawyers involved are corrupt.
** Anita Mugeni said , (The New Times Rwanda, Sept 26, 2014)
# Anita Pendo

Anita Pendo is a Rwandan woman who was born in Uganda in 1986. She is a journalist working for the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA).

## Quotes

* Even when it is evident that women are just as able as men, some individuals stubbornly still think women are weak. Female celebrities face hurdles in their journey just like other people. Some people think they have no emotions but they do, they have feelings too. Women can do even better if they are supported fully. We need society’s support.
** Showbiz: Why it’s not a bed of roses for female celebrities The New Times, (February 15, 2017)
* The pregnancy news is said to have put a pause on rumours that the two were ready to tie the knot. We are definitely keeping an eye on this one.
** WORD HAS IT The New Times, (May 25, 2017)

## External links

* Anita Pendo
# Anitta (singer)

Larissa de Macedo Machado (born 30 March 1993), known professionally as Anitta (Portuguese: [ɐˈnitɐ]), is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and occasional television host. She has received numerous accolades, including four Latin American Music Awards and eight Latin Grammy Award nominations. She has won eight MTV Europe Music Awards and was the first Brazilian artist to be named Best Latin American Act.

## Quotes about Anitta

* …there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of her Candomblé faith. And whatever one may think of Anitta, she called the attention on a serious problem of freedom of religion or belief, which in Brazil is in fact not getting better but worse.
** Massimo Introvigne, "Brazil: Pop Singer Anitta Becomes Target of Intolerance After Candomblé Video", Bitter Winter (May 28, 2024)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Anitta (singer) on Wikipedia
# Anita Loos

Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American screenwriter, born in California, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

## Quotes

* I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
** Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, March 22nd (1925)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Anita Loos on Wikipedia*
* Works related to Author:Corinne Anita Loos on Wikisource
* Media related to Anita Loos on Wikimedia Commons
# Anita Natacha Akide

Anita Natacha Akide a.k.a. Symply Tacha is Nigerian media personality, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has appeared on the show Big Brother Naija (season 4) as a housemate and also on MTV's The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies. She has won the awards like Net Honour's Most Popular Person,Female Personality of The Year, Celebrity Entrepreneur of the year and many more.She was the brand ambassador of GetFit, a Fitness brand.

## Quotes

* Your feelings are valid. Feeling like giving up means you still have a small amount of motivation to carry on. As someone who was once in that position, I’d advise them to measure where they are now compared to where they were in the past. The growth, no matter how small, shows their dreams are still valid. Build a solid foundation, block out the noise from naysayers and enjoy the ride.
** Anita Natacha Akide's quote
* STAY PRAYERFUL.
** Anita Natacha Akide's quote
# Aloysius Pieris

Aloysius Pieris (born April 9, 1934) is a Jesuit Priest and the director of the Tulana Research Center for Encounter and Dialogue in Sri Lanka.

## Quotes
### "Spirituality as Mindfulness: Biblical and Buddhist Approaches"

    Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2010
* When passing on a spiritual tradition, therefore, we must be wary of the scholastic approach, sometimes misnamed ‘scientific’ or wissenschaftlisches, which, when employed in matters pertaining to the Spirit, is no more than one’s self-diffidence boosted by the authority of secondary sources. What matters is not my knowledge of what they say about mindfulness, but the fruit, which my own humble struggle to practice it, produces in me for my benefit and for the benefit of others.
** p. 38
* It may be relevant here to recall gratefully a fraternal correction I was kindly offered by the Archimandrite Ambrosius of the Greek Orthodox Church. After listening to a lecture I delivered at Oxford University some years ago, he gently chided me (in private, not in public) for not perceiving the difference between the brand of Hellenism affecting Western theology that had absorbed the philosophical thought of ancient Greece, and the Hellenism of Eastern Orthodox theology which had assimilated the spiritual praxis of their non-Christian ancestors. Mulling over this critical observation of his, I came to understand why our scholastic tradition has not given importance to what Greek Orthodox spirituality has named nepsis (vigilance), which is its own technical term for mindfulness.
** p. 39
* A “discerning person” (anthropos diakritikos), according to the Orthodox Greeks, is someone perpetually mindful or watchful of God working in all things and at all times. Ever conscious of God’s Love, which is God’s Will, a vigilant Christian is never taken unawares by circumstances. In the eschatological discourses of the Gospels, Jesus advises us to read the cosmic signs that announce God’s recurrent visitations and thus remain watchful and awake every hour of the day and night, that is to say, remain perpetually mindful. Hence there is no better description of biblical spirituality than ceaseless vigilance or perpetual mindfulness.
** p. 39
* When we ceaselessly recall how our motherly Father has been mindful of us in all the vicissitudes of our life, fighting our battles with us, suffering our humiliations and overcoming them within us and through us, filling us with consolation, we cannot but fall down on our knees and burst into psalms of praise and thanksgiving; and at the same time, on the basis of that past experience, we become profoundly convinced that God is so reliable ('emet) that we can unreservedly rely on Her in the future too. 'Emuna, the biblical word for “faith” literally means “total reliance” on the one and only Person who is “totally reliable” ('emet). Faith, which is reliance on God (and on no other god of our making) can be experienced only in the process of incessantly recalling how She has demonstrated Her reliability in the past.
** p. 43
# Aloysius Sudarso

Aloysius Sudarso (12 December 1945 –) is an Indonesian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Palembang.

## Quotes

* Priests are required to present God’s blessing, as well as reinforce and support people's morals vis-à-vis the challenges and obstacles of their daily life. Priests have a duty to offer moral assistance, not only to our common friends, Catholics, but also to ordinary citizens, Indonesians.
** Indonesian diocesan priests try to be shepherds with the “smell of sheep” (17 May 2017) Vatican Radio
* The Catholic Church in Indonesia will not remain silent. Our care for all those who suffer is truly a concrete form of our faith. We have just celebrated Easter, proof of God's involvement, through Jesus, in human life.
** Floods in Eastern Indonesia: the campaign of compassion and solidarity is underway (8 April 2021) Fides News Agency
# Alonzo King

Alonzo King (1952), is an American choreographer.

## Quotes
### Teatro de la Paz, Festival internacional de danza contemporánea, San Luis Potosí, México (2015)

* It doesn't work, when you're thinking. It doesn't work… It doesn't work, do you understand that? Because we see, the viewer sees: you're thinking. And so we're worried, we're preoccupied, right. Is she OK?
* So, you have to be a leader. So you may think: what we're looking at? What do you think we're looking at? We are looking for the best qualities in humanity: we're looking for courage, fearlessness… That's what we are looking for: we are looking for qualities in humanity! Kindness, compassion… Do you understand me? And so when you think: "I'm a dancer!" No, you want to be a poet, so that you're taking people into ideas, not steps. Does that make sense?
* And guess what: you don't need much technique to do that… You don't! You just have to live the idea. But some of you're afraid, you get it? And so you think and you pose. And honey there is nothing more boring. That's a whole other world, that's the world of phoniness, glamour magazines that devised us, right? And so in dance we want to see the truth, let's ride of that.
* And so what you admire in human beings… Are they things you admire in human beings? Yes or no? And they're things that you don't like, right? And we also have those things inside of us, right? And so we wanna see, we wanna see what you're saying, what you're living, what you're experiencing, not pictures… What that's gonna do for me?
* Because you're supposed to serve the art, right? So if I was your mother and your father, I would say: "This is my daughter, she is so cute…", right? But you're a human being in a brutal world who's looking to get… Ah beauty, I feel better. I want to be as beautiful, I want to be as honest, I want to be as fearless, I want to be as kind, do you understand me? That's what we're looking for… Because of the way that you dance, the way that you handle, because it's so honest.
* You don't see much honesty… You don't! You don't see much honesty, do you? What's another very rare word: humility. You don't see it much. It's beautiful. You can have that in your dancing. It's like: "I'm not dancing, something's dancing me." So it's not: "Sir, I'm doing this!" No, I'm receiving something. It's beautiful. Sincerity. Do you get me? And so those are the things you have to live in. You don't need much technique to do that. But that's the important stuff. Does that make sense?
* So when you have to ask yourself: "Why am I holding back, why am I doing pictures?" And it's usually: that's because you're afraid. Bottom line. And for great art you have to be brave. So that the whole world is going to laugh at you but you don't care, do you get me? And when they say: "Ah that's stupid!" You don't care. You follow that song. I'm sorry, it's true.
* Women, you don't want to try to be pretty, it's a lie. You want to be beautiful, to tell the truth. Pretty is a manipulation. You want to be beautiful. To tell the truth. Truth is beauty.

## External links

* Video "I dance with my heart" on YouTube.com
# Aloys Jousten

Aloys Jousten (2 November 1937–20 September 2021) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Liège.

## Quotes

* Like my predecessors, I want to confirm this recognition: the apparitions and the message of the Virgin of the Poor are worthy of faith. I am particularly struck by the evangelical melody of the sign and the words. The Mother of Jesus always refers to her Son. He is the source of real life, of life in fullness. He came to bring the Good News, the gospel to the poor.
** Recognition of apparitions
# Aloys Sprenger

Aloys Sprenger (born 3 September 1813, in Nassereith, Tyrol; died 19 December 1893 in Heidelberg) was an Austrian Orientalist.

## Quotes

* It seems to be the first duty of a historian to investigate the causes of great revolutions; for an event which happens at any other, but its due season, is a miracle : we should consider it as a wonder, if the sun should rise one second before, or after its appointed hour; or if any one were to accomplish, in his childhood, what is expected of him in his ripe age.
** The Life of Mohammad: From Original Sources
# Alonzo Cushing

Alonzo Hersford Cushing (January 19, 1841 – July 3, 1863) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg while defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge. President Obama posthumously awarded him the Medal of Honor on November 6, 2014, in a White House ceremony. Cushing the medal on November 6, 2014. Helen Bird Loring Ensign, a first cousin twice removed, accepted the medal on Cushing's behalf.

## Quotes

* I stay right here and fight it out or die in the attempt.
** Upon his decision to remain at his position in the face of a 12,500-man Confederate assault; as quoted by Manley, B. (2015). Union Officer to Receive Medal of Honor for Heroics at Gettysburg. Military History, 31(5), 8.
* I will give them one more shot!
** Final words spoken before dying from a bullet wound to the head; as quoted by Manley, B. (2015). Union Officer to Receive Medal of Honor for Heroics at Gettysburg. Military History, 31(5), 8.

## External links

* Transcript of Cushing's Medal of Honor ceremony
# Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem

Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem (28 February 1933 – 13 November 2016) was a Surinamese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Paramaribo.

## Quotes

* Economic globalization as far as it is affected by selfishness and sin causes globalization of poverty.
** Intervention at the Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops (2 December 1997) Holy See Press Office
# Aloofness

Aloofness is the state of being reserved and remote.

## Quotes

* Here, friend Sāriputta, a bhikkhu is a forest dweller himself and speaks in praise of forest dwelling; he is an almsfood eater himself and speaks in praise of eating almsfood; he is a refuse-rag wearer himself and speaks in praise of wearing refuse-rag robes; he is a triple-robe wearer himself and speaks in praise of wearing the triple robe; he has few wishes himself and speaks in praise of fewness of wishes; he is content himself and speaks in praise of contentment; he is secluded himself and speaks in praise of seclusion; he is aloof from society himself and speaks in praise of aloofness from society; he is energetic himself and speaks in praise of arousing energy; he has attained to virtue himself and speaks in praise of the attainment of virtue; he has attained to concentration himself and speaks in praise of the attainment of concentration; he has attained to wisdom himself and speaks in praise of the attainment of wisdom; he has attained to deliverance himself and speaks in praise of the attainment of deliverance; he has attained to the knowledge and vision of deliverance himself and speaks in praise of the attainment of the knowledge and vision of deliverance. That kind of bhikkhu could illuminate this Gosinga Sāla-tree Wood.
** Gautama Buddha, Mahāgosinga Sutta, Sutta 32, Verse 7, Majjhima Nikaya, as translated by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (Wisdom Publications: 1995), p. 309
# Aloysius Murwito

Aloysius Murwito (December 20, 1950 –) is an Indonesian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Agats

## Quotes

* During the festival we appreciate how big is God´s gift to Asmat people. They can preserve their identity through their woodcarvings. Their carving is art that reflects fundamental beliefs passed down from generation to generation.
** Church Continues To Preserve Asmat Culture Through Art Festival (6 October 2006)
# Chen Chien-jen

Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁; Chén Jiànrén; born 6 June 1951) is a politician in the Republic of China. He was the Vice President in 2016–2020.

## Quotes

* As a beacon of religious freedom and tolerance, Taiwan is committed to further strengthening ties with the Holy See via substantive cooperative initiatives spanning democracy, religious freedom and human rights.
** Chen Chien-jen (2019) cited in "Report lauds Taiwan for Muslim rights" on Taipei Times, 23 June 2019.
* I firmly believe that the provisional agreement between the Vatican and (mainland) China on the appointment of bishops will help harmonize the Universal Church and the Catholic Church in (mainland) China.
** Chen Chien-jen (2019) cited in "Holy See values relations with Taiwan: Vice President Chen" on Focus Taiwan, 12 October 2019.
# Chemical polarity

In chemistry, polarity refers to a separation of electric charge leading to a molecule or its chemical groups having an electric dipole or multipole moment.

## Quotes

* Just as individual bonds are often polar, molecules as a whole are often polar also. Molecular polarity results from the vector summation of all individual bond polarities and lone-pair contributions in the molecule. As a practical matter, strongly polar substances are often soluble in polar solvents like water, whereas less polar substances are insoluble in water.
** John McMurry, Organic Chemistry 8th ed. (2012), Ch. 2 : Polar Covalent Bonds; Acids and Bases

## See also

* Polar bond