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# Charlton Ogburn

Charlton Ogburn, Jr. (1911 – 1998) was an American author.

## Quotes

* We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
** From "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" in the January 1957 issue of Harper's Magazine
** Usually misattributed to Petronius
** See Brown, David S. "Petronius or Ogburn?", Public Administration Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1978), p. 296
*** alternate version:As a result, I suppose, of high-level changes of mind about how we were to be used, we went though several reorganizations. Perhaps because Americans as a nation have a gift for organizing, we tend to meet any new situation by reorganization, and a wonderful method it is for creating the illusion of progress at the mere cost of confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.
**** The Maurauders (1959)
**** chapter 2, page 60
* Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.
** The Maurauders (1959)
** Introduction, page 6

## External links

* Brief biography of Ogburn
# Charmaine Yoest

Charmaine Yoest (1964–) is an American writer and political commentator. She was formerly the president and CEO of the Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion group. She also served in the United States Department of Health and Human Services, as the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Public Affairs in the administration of former President Donald Trump, beginning in 2017.

## Quotes

* Our mission is to advance a Culture of Life where everyone is welcomed in life and defended in law. Our objectives to that end are to reverse Roe and defeat Planned Parenthood. I believe both of these goals are achievable in our lifetime if we remain committed, focused, optimistic and strategic. Although of course, in the end, the battle is not ours -- our duty is to remain faithful to the calling before us. As you rightly say, we have to oppose the lie... and the best weapon in that effort is the light of truth.
** Interview with AUL Action's Charmaine Yoest on 'Open Letter to Barack Obama' (October 31, 2008)

## External links

* Official website
# Charmaine Pereira

Charmaine Pereira is a writer and feminist scholar in Abuja, Nigeria. Her work centers on feminist thought, sexuality, gender education, and civil society and the state. Pereira is also a coordinator for the Initiative for Women’s Studies in Nigeria.She is a member of Tapestry Consulting, an organization that seeks to create gender equality in the workplace in Africa.

## Quotes

* staying home does not necessarily mean staying safe for women.
** Charmaine pereira's quote
# Charmaine Sheh

Charmaine Sheh Sze-man (28 May 1975–) is a Hong Kong actress.

## Quotes

* "I was also worried about playing the villainess. In the past, when I played the bad guy, I lost my chance at an endorsement because of my character in the drama. I was concerned that it would happen again. But I am glad that times are different now and the audiences have different ideas about television characters."
** Charmaine Sheh nearly said no to "Yanxi Palace" (30 October 2018)

## External links

* Charmaine Sheh on IMDb
# Alozie Gloria

Gloria “Glory” Alozie Oluchi (born 30 December 1977) is a Nigerian-born Spanish track and field athlete competing mostly in hurdling.

## Quotes

* : For me, this is the best. It is better to catch them young and teach them what they need to know.
** Her interview with Complete Sports
# Aloísio Sinésio Bohn

Aloísio Sinésio Bohn (11 September 1934 – 9 June 2022) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Santa Cruz do Sul.

## Quotes

* If democracy appears to be the best system for achieving good for all, it is not exempt from faults. The reason is the fragileness itself of human nature. Because of this, vice and corruption are possible even in elections. Our democracy should always be getting more perfect, for the dignity and good of all Brazilians.
** Democracy in Brazil needs work, says bishop (5 October 2004) Catholic News Agecny
# AlphaGo

AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It was developed by Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind in London.

## Quotes about AlphaGo

* AlphaGo's way is not to make territory here or there, but to place every stone in a position where it will be most useful. This is the true theory of Go: not 'what do I want to build?', but rather 'how can I use every stone to its full potential?
** Fan Hui, Match 1 wrap up, deepmind.com (23 May 2017)
* ...there was a cut that quite shocked me, because it was a move that would never happen in a human-to-human Go match. But, afterwards I analyzed the move and I found that it was very good. It is one move with two or even more purposes. We call it one stone, two birds.
** Ke Jie, Match 1 wrap up, deepmind.com (23 May 2017)
# Alp Arslan

Muhammad bin Da'ud (1029 – December 15, 1072) was the second sultan of the dynasty of Seljuk Turks, in Persia, and great-grandson of Seljuk, the founder of the dynasty. He assumed the name of Muhammed when he embraced Islam, and due to his military prowess, personal valor, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which signifies "a valiant lion."

## Quotes

* My punishment is far heavier, I forgive you, and set you free.
** Attributed in: R. Scott Peoples (2007) Crusade of Kings. p. 13
# Alpha (film)

Alpha is a 2018 American historical adventure film directed by Albert Hughes and written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, from a story by Hughes. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young hunter who befriends an injured wolf during the last ice age, with Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as his father. The wolf is played by Chuck, a five-year-old Czechoslovakian Wolfdog.
The film released to theaters in the United States and Canada on August 17, 2018, by Sony Pictures Releasing.

## Tau

* Pain will journey with us.
* Raise your head and your eyes will follow.
* Life is for the strong. It is earned, not given.

## Taglines

* Leaders are born from survival.
* Experience the Incredible Story of How Mankind Discovered Man's Best Friend.
* Mankind Discovers Man's Best Friend.

## Cast

* Kodi Smit-McPhee as Keda
* Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as Tau
* Natassia Malthe as Rho
* Leonor Varela as Shaman
* Jens Hultén as Xi
* Mercedes de la Zerda as Nu
* Spencer Bogaert as Kappa
* Chuck as Alpha
# Alphonse Allais

Alphonse Allais (20 October 1854 – 28 October 1905) was a French satirist.

## Quotes

* Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
** To leave is to die a little, but to die is to leave a lot.
** A pun on the first verse of the poem Rondel de l'adieu by Edmond Haraucourt.
* Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige.
** First communion of chlorotic young girls in the snow.
** Title of an entirely white painting exhibited at Expositions des Arts Incohérents 1884-5 organised by Jules Lèvy.
** See wikipedia on chlorosis, a form on anemia. Also cf. the later "white paintings" by Robert Rauschenberg.
* Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.
** Funeral March for the Last Rites of a Deaf Man.
** A piece consisting of 24 empty bars. See the score in this essay by Larry J Solomon on John Cage.
# Brian Heenan

Brian Heenan (4 August 1937 –) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Rockhampton.

## Quotes

* I speak of the Bishops' need to hear the voice of the priests, even if simple answers cannot be found. I refer to some of the problems priests experience. I wish that the essential place of the priests in the Church be emphasised in the Synod and that discussion of their difficulties be open.
** H. Exc. Most Rev. Brian HEENAN, Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia (24 November 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
# Brian J. Ford

Brian J. Ford (born 1939) is an English independent scientist, prolific author and popular interpreter of scientific issues for the general populace, whose scientific papers and numerous books have been published internationally.

## Sourced

* Human sexuality is . . . a long way from the depositing of seminal fluid, like squirting jam in a donut.
** Patterns of Sex, the Mating Urge and our Sexual Future (St. Martin's Press, London & New York, 1980, ISBN 0-312-59811-4, p 14.
** Quoted in: Germaine Greer, "Better No Sex than Bad Sex," Sunday Times Review, (1984-01-13), p. 33. See also Private Eye, no. 581 (March 1984), pp. 22. The quotation appeared as a chapter heading in Greer's Sex and Destiny (Olympic Marketing, Cambridge and New York, 1984, ISBN 0-06091-250-2, p. 127.
# Brian James Barnes

Brian James Barnes (23 March 1933 – 9 May 2017) was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Port Moresby.

## Quotes

* Children are all important in Papua New Guinea's culture. Special care is given to their education in customs to ensure that tradition is handed down from one generation to the next. Since Christmas celebrates the birth of the Child, it fits well into the PNG mindset. For all our children the Child Jesus is a model and a friend.
** Prison Inmates Will Have Christmas Mass and Party With Archbishop Barnes: PNG Culture Gives Pride of Place to Children (23 December 2003) Fides News Agency
# Brian Josephson

Brian David Josephson FRS (born 4 January 1940) is a British theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University. Josephson is the first Welshman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared the prize with physicists Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever, who jointly received half the award for their own work on quantum tunnelling.

## Quotes

* Samkya and Vedanta propound the evolution of universe in it inanimate and animate aspects, more comprehensively than modem science does. Vedanta derives it from primal Divine Energy or Sakti and Sarokhya from proto-Nature or Prakriti.
** Rao H. M. GaneshScienceand Vedanta http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/science_and_vedanta.htm . Mera Bharat Mahan http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValleylPeaks/7124/bharatham.html as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
# Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan (born 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated co-creator of many critically acclaimed comic books.

## Quotes

* I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
** Interview
* I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
** DC Comics interview
* I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
** Ain't It Cool News interview
* If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
** Ain't It Cool News interview
* I just make crap up more than anything else.
** Ain't It Cool News interview
* It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
** Ain't It Cool News interview
* Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
** Ain't It Cool News interview
* Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
** TALKING "Y" WITH BKV: THE BRIAN K. VAUGHN INTERVIEW conducted by Nolan Reese May 21, 2003
* I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was "I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies."
** TALKING "Y" WITH BKV: THE BRIAN K. VAUGHN INTERVIEW conducted by Nolan Reese May 21, 2003
* Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
** TALKING "Y" WITH BKV: THE BRIAN K. VAUGHN INTERVIEW conducted by Nolan Reese May 21, 2003
* But Cruise is really good!
* The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.
* I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
** BKV on War of the Worlds
* "Writer's block" is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
** MySpace blog, 09 April 2007
* When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
** Comic Book Resources interview
* "It's about how boys become men — and why it takes women to make that transformation possible."
** In an Entertainment Weekly article, about the main theme of Y: the Last Man

## See also

* Runaways
* Y: The Last Man

## External links

* Brian's official site
# Brian Hebblethwaite

Brian Hebblethwaite is a theologian.

## Quotes
### The Problems of Theology (1980)

* There is a tendency these days towards treating every aspect of religion, including the theologies of the different religions, under the single, all-embracing heading of 'religious studies'. This creates a fundamental problem for theologians in any particular religious tradition.
** Preface
* I argue that such disciplines must be related to theology in its primary meaning, if their presence in a single 'theological' faculty is to be defended. But I do not suggest that theology is for believers only. I discuss the question, in what sense it is possible for atheists to be theologians, and suggest a way of thinking of theology as consisting of serious, open questions, well worth studying for their own sake in the university, with all the critical and scholarly tools available there. Theology, then, is neither a closed, in-group activity for believers, nor just an intriguing aspect of the history of religions.
** Preface
# Brian Jenkins

Brian Jenkins is Research Professor in the Department of French at the University of Leeds.

## Quotes

* What characteristic distinguished Germany and Italy, where fascism took power, from countries like France and Britain, where fascist movements were highly visible but remained far from power? We need to recall that fascism has never so far taken power by coup d'état, deploying the weight of its militants in the street. Fascist power by coup is hardly conceivable in a modern state. Fascism can not appeal to the street without risking a confrontation with future allies —- the army and the police —- without whom it will not be able to pursue its expansionist goals. Indeed fascist coup attempts have commonly led to military dictatorship, rather than to fascist power (as in Romania in December 1941). Resorting to direct mass action also risks conceding advantages to fascism's principal enemy, the Left, still powerful in the street and workplace in interwar Europe. The only route to power available to fascists passes through cooperation with conservative elites. The most important variables, therefore, are the conservative elites' willingness to work with the fascist, along with a reciprocal flexibility on the fascist leaders' part, and the depth of the crisis which induces them to cooperate.
** France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right. Berghahn Books. 2007. p. 116–117. ISBN 978-1-84545-297-1.
* Neither Hitler nor Mussolini took the helm by force, even if they used force earlier to destabilise the liberal regime, and later to transform their governments into dictatorships. They were invited to take office as head of government by a head of state in the legitimate exercise of his official functions, on the advice of his conservative counsellors,under quite precise circumstances: a deadlock of constitutional government (produced in part by the polarisation that the fascists abetted); conservative leaders who felt threatened by the loss of their capacity to keep the population under control, often at a moment of massive popular mobilisation; an advancing Left; conservative leaders who refused to work with that Left, and who felt unable to continue to govern against the Left without further reinforcement.
** France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right. Berghahn Books. 2007. p. 116–117. ISBN 978-1-84545-297-1.

## External links

* Brian Jenkins at JSTOR
* (26 July 2017)"Brian Jenkins, Nationalism in France, Class and Nation since 1789, Londres- New-York, Routledge, 1990, 225 p.". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 47 (6): 1246–1247. ISSN 0395-2649. DOI:10.1017/S0395264900079191.
# Brian Keating

Brian Gregory Keating (born September 9, 1971) is an American cosmologist, book author, and podcaster. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.

## Quotes

* Each year, on December tenth, thousands of worshippers convene in Scandinavia to commemorate the passing of an arms dealt known as the merchant of death. The eschatological ritual features all the rites and incantations befitting a pharaoh's funeral. Haunting dirges play as the worshippers, bedecked in mandatory regalia, mourn the merchant. He is eerily present; his visage looms over the congregants as they feast on exotic game, surrounded by fresh-cut flowers imported from the merchant's mausoleum. The event culminates with the presentation of gilded, graven images bearing his likeness. This ritual is the annual Nobel Prize award ceremony, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was an occult sacrament.
** "Introduction: A Nobel Will". Losing the Nobel Prize. W. W. Norton & Company. 2018. 3rd sentence of quote 5th sentence of quote
… I hope by humanizing science, by showing the craft of science as performed by its master practitioners, you my reader will see common themes emerge that will boost your creativity, stoke your imagination, and most of all, help overcome barriers like the imposter syndrome, thereby unlocking your full potential for out-of-this-universe success.
** (2021) Introduction to Into the Impossible
* We should be agnostic as to what the dark matter might be.
** (July 24, 2022)"What is Dark Matter? Govert Schilling: The Elephant in the Universe". Dr. Brian Keating, YouTube. (quote at 54:17 of 1:00:52 in video)
* I'm an experimentalist. I like to look at hard data. And there — string theory is a distant second to loop quantum gravity because it doesn't make any observable predictions. ... As an experimentalist, I like when a theory makes a prediction. My job is to not prove theorists right — it's to disprove everybody else.
** (September 6, 2024)"String Theory's Leading Contender Suffers Critical Blow". Dr. Brian Keaing, YouTube. (quote at 9:16 of 11:46 in video)

## Quotes about Brian Keating

* Friedman had suffered health problems over the years. But news of his death stunned friends and colleagues, including UCSD physicist Brian Keating, who recruited him to La Jolla, and physicist-science fiction author David Brin of Olivenhain. The trio made up “The Three Physicists,” an informal group that periodically met to give public talks on science and philosophy. ... With Brin and Keating, he also dove into esoterica, tackling subjects such as the physics of free will.
** Gary Robbins, (July 14, 2020)"Popular UC San Diego astronomer Andy Friedman dies at 41". The San Diego Union-Tribune.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Brian Keating on Wikipedia
* Media related to Brian Keating on Wikimedia Commons
# Dew

Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening. As the exposed surface cools by radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets.

## Quotes
### Quotes

* From drooping leaves, and bending flowers, Exhaled the midnight dews ! Like love that from its inmost thoughts Its own sweet life renews.
** Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 (1832), 'The Tomb of Humaioon, Delhi'

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 193-94.
* The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!
** Edwin Arnold, Light of Asia (1879), Book VIII. Last Line.
* Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
** Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Water and Wood. Midnight.
* The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
** Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Another and a Better World.
* The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
** Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Advice to a Lady in Autumn.
* Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!
** Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Youth and Age.
* The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
** George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Song, Book I.
* Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book III, Chapter VII.
* Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
** John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 746.
* I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
** William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act II, scene 1, line 14.
* And every dew-drop paints a bow.
** Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Part CXXII.
# Devprasad John Ganawa

Devprasad John Ganawa (8 December 1951 –) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Udaipur.

## Quotes

* As a representative of the Christian community here in Udaipur, I appeal for peace and harmony among all the communities. We stand for religious tolerance, dialogue and peaceful co-existence among all the communities. I pray that good sense may prevail among us all.
** Udaipur bishop says no to confrontation after Islamists beheaded a tailor (29 June 2022) Asia News
# Chow Yun-fat

Chow Yun-fat (18 May 1955–) is a Hong Kong actor.

## Quotes

* I don't have an English sense of humor. In my language, I have tons of it. In English, you have to really get the slang, and the culture.
** Interview with Chow Yun Fat (April 1, 2009)