OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Donald Nicholas Esposito

Donald Nicholas Esposito (born 1941) was President of the Somerset County Historical Society.

## Quote

* If you're the one who gets there on Monday, then you're going to turn around and look down on the ones who arrive on Tuesday.
** Barbara Bowers (May 21, 1988). "Immigrants' Descendants Uphold Legacies Begun By Forefathers". The Courier-News.
** Talking about how immigrants are looked down on in the United States.
* Ten or 20 would come over and settle on one block. They shared the same culture, the same foods, the same regulations regarding their children they thought Americans were too loose. The word soon spread that they could maintain their value system and their culture in Raritan.
** Barbara Bowers (May 21, 1988). "Immigrants' Descendants Uphold Legacies Begun By Forefathers". The Courier-News.
** Talking about how Italian stonemasons came to New Jersey to build the Somerset County Courthouse.
# Donald Moggridge

Donald Edward Moggridge is an historian of economic thought and economic historian.

## Quotes
### Maynard Keynes: An Economists' Biography (1992)

* Perhaps because there are so few good studies, economists tend to undervalue and misunderstand the exercise when they think of their subject.
** Preface
* Biography, like any other scholarly activity is not only about selection but also then about forming what one selects.
** Preface
* I have concentrated thus far on one aspect of achievement: the creation of a theory or theories, which in some form pass into the standard usage of economists. But with Keynes, and with other economists, theories were not the whole story. Keynes was also an applied economist using the existing body of theory in conjunction with the available facts of the world to try to shape certain outcomes, be they the international monetary system in 1931–2 or 1941–6, or the financial policy of the British Government in 1915, 1929–33 or 1940–6. And shape them he did with some success through various forms of private and public persuasion. How he did so and why he did so are also subjects for historians of economics, not to mention biographers, who may in the process of writing a biography have acquired additional perspectives.
** Preface
# Donald N. Levine

Donald Nathan Levine (June 16, 1931 – April 4, 2015) was an American sociologist, educator, social theorist and writer. He was a central figure in Ethiopian Studies. Within sociology, he is perhaps best known for his work in sociological theory and his translations and interpretations of Georg Simmel's classical texts into English, which led to a resurgence of interest in Simmel's work in the discipline.

## Quotes

* There are benefits to be gained from the ambiguities of scientific discourse. Of the four previously identified functions served by ambiguity, two remain outside the boundaries of scientific work. The function of attaining enlightenment through the intuition of indeterminacy belongs to mysticism, or perhaps to philosophy and poetry, not to the disciplined activity of science. And the protection of one's meanings and intentions through ambiguously opaque utterance, while perhaps useful as a protective ploy in scientific competition, cannot be sanctioned as appropriate conduct for a scientific enquirer. Through its two other functions, however — the evocative representation of complex meanings and the bonding of a community through diffuse symbols — ambiguity has long served and will continue to serve the general objectives of scientific activity. It is useful for scientific formulations to express an abundance of meanings, for these can ignite a cluster of insights that in turn lead to novel explorations.
** Donald N. Levine (1988), The Flight from Ambiguity: Essays in Social and Cultural Theory. p. 218; Partly cited in: David L. Sills, ‎Robert King Merton (2000), Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where. p. 129-130
* For the early Greek writers Ethiopia was less a geographical location than a state of mind. For Greeks and Romans generally, Ethiopians meant dark-skinned peoples who lived south of Egypt. At times the reference was so vague as to include peoples from West Africa, Arabia, and India. At times it was more localized, referring to the Nubian kingdom of Kush, with its capital first at Napata and later at Meroe. What was constant was that the name Ethiopian denoted a person of dark color — literally, of burnt face — and that it connoted, above all else, remoteness.
** Donald N. Levine (2014), Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society. p. 1
# Donald L. Barlett

Donald L. Barlett (July 17, 1936 – October 5, 2024) was an American investigative journalist and author who often collaborated with James B. Steele.

## Quotes

* Last October, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, putting $700 billion into the hands of the Treasury Department to bail out the nation’s banks at a moment of vanishing credit and peak financial panic. Over the next three months, Treasury poured nearly $239 billion into 296 of the nation’s 8,000 banks. The money went to big banks. It went to small banks. It went to banks that desperately wanted the money. It went to banks that didn’t want the money at all but had been ordered by Treasury to take it anyway. It went to banks that were quite happy to accept the windfall, and used the money simply to buy other banks. Some banks received as much as $45 billion, others as little as $1.5 million. Sixty-seven percent went to eight institutions; 33 percent went to the rest. And that was just the money that went to banks. Tens of billions more went to other companies... But once the money left the building, the government lost all track of it. The Treasury Department knew where it had sent the money, but nothing about what was done with it. Did the money aid the recovery? Was it spent for the purposes Congress intended? Did it save banks from collapse? Paulson’s Treasury Department had no idea, and didn’t seem to care. It never required the banks to explain what they did with this unprecedented infusion of capital.
** Where has the Bailout Money Gone? Good Billions After Bad, 27 September 2009, co-writen with with James B. Steele, Vanity Fair

## External links

* Don Barlett and Jim Steele's website
* Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism
* Terry Gross's interview about gambling on reservations with Barlett & Steele on NPR's Fresh Air (16 December 2002)
* Terry Gross's interview "The Big Business of Health Care" with Barlett & Steele on NPR's Fresh Air (6 October 2004)
* Exposé:"Friends in High Places" on PBS (July 2007)
* Liberadio(!) Interview with Don Barlett (12 February 2007)
* Appearances on C-SPAN
** In Depth interview with Barlett and Steele, January 6, 2013
# Donald M. MacKinnon

Donald Mackenzie MacKinnon (27 August 1913 – 2 March 1994) was a Scottish philosopher and theologian.

## Quotes

* Presumably those who profess and call themselves Christians believe their religion to be in some sense true; but in what sense? ... The truth of the Christian faith is the truth of a faith, or a way of life which shows itself true ... for those who live it.
** "Our Contemporary Christ," in Borderland Theology and Other Essays (1968), p. 82
# Donald McGill

Donald Fraser Gould McGill (28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962) was an English artist, known as the "King of the Saucy Postcard". His medium was the highly-coloured and risqué cartoon postcard, of the kind that was sold in 20th century British seaside resorts.

## Sourced

* Can't see my little Willy.
** Arthur Calder-Marshall Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966) p. 44.
** The drawing shows a small child on a beach, hidden under the bulging stomach of his father.
* "Do you like Kipling?" "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled."
** The Guinness Book of World Records 1988 p. 203.
** Holds the record as the world's most successful postcard, with a sale of about 6,000,000.
** Several earlier versions of the gag exist dating to the 19th century, according to the Quote Investigator blog.
* For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!
** The Independent, September 8, 2006. .
* I want to back the favourite, please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!
* "'Isaiah' – what a funny name for a teddy bear!" "Well, you see one eye's 'igher than the other."
** Exhibited as part of the Michael Winner collection of McGill designs at the Chris Beetles Gallery, March 14 to April 8, 2006.

### George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

First published in Horizon magazine, and reprinted in Orwell's Critical Essays (1946)
* Could you exchange this lucky charm for a baby's feeding-bottle?
* "I like seeing experienced girls home." "But I'm not experienced!" "You're not home yet!"
* "I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?" "I left off struggling."
* Judge: "You are prevaricating, sir. Did you or did you not sleep with this woman?" Co-respondent: "Not a wink, my lord!"
* She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.

## Criticism

* In the past the mood of the comic postcard could enter into the central stream of literature, and jokes barely different from McGill's could casually be uttered between the murders in Shakespeare's tragedies. That is no longer possible, and a whole category of humour, integral to our literature till 1800 or thereabouts, has dwindled down to these ill-drawn postcards, leading a barely legal existence in cheap stationers' windows. The corner of the human heart that they speak for might easily manifest itself in worse forms, and I for one should be sorry to see them vanish.
** George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill", in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1984) Vol. 2, pp. 194-5.
# Fauna of India

India has some of the world's most biodiverse regions. The political boundaries of India encompass a wide range of ecozones—desert, high mountains, highlands, tropical and temperate forests, swamplands, plains, grasslands, areas surrounding rivers, as well as island archipelago. It hosts 4 biodiversity hotspots:the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Indo-Burma region and the Sundaland (Includes Nicobar group of Islands).

## Quotes

* India has more animal species than any other region of equal area in the world.
** India’s fauna is the richest in the world: Robert Wolff, in the introduction to his book, “Animals of Asia”. Quoted in [This article is a major extract from the article "Sita Ram Goel, memories and ideas" by S. Talageri, written for the Sita Ram Goel Commemoration Volume, entitled "India's Only Communalist", edited by Koenraad Elst, published in 2005.
* “Then, the presence of zebu genes and representations in Asia and Europe seem to be a promising ground of research, and certainly a confirmation that there was an important movement from South Asia to the West. It is difficult to think that this movement was only of cattle without herders, particularly where we find strong archaeological and historical signs of a common culture. (…) Actually, scholars have always thought of Indo-Europeans as the people of the horse and searched for horses in order to find Indo-Europeans. But they were also, and I would say more, the people of the cow”.
** Indologist Giacomo Benedetti (2012) , quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
* The Biblical desacrilization of nature and the instrumentalization of other creatures in the service of mankind are alleged to be the doctrinal underpinnings of the massive destruction of wildlife and species diversity in the last two centuries… Stone Age peoples… have exterminated many species… Remark the contrast with India, where in spite of the immensely higher and denser population, no species mentioned in the Vedas had died out in the intervening millenia.
** Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". p 550 ff.

## See also

* Tiger
* Elephant
* Peafowl
# Fausto Cercignani

Fausto Cercignani (born 21 March 1941) is an Italian scholar, essayist and poet, noted for his philological investigations of the English and German languages.

## Quotes
### Examples of self-translation (c. 2004)

    "Examples of self-translation" by Cercignani, posted at The University of Milan
* If you talk to the shadows, at least you know them well and the words, all of them, unfold themselves with ease on muddled walls and streets, when dusk comes on.
** Adagio (2004)
* They do not speak of boundless skies, of passing loves like silver clouds. They speak of cheerless towns, unwound: on hazy moors of muffled music.
** Adagio (2004)

## External links

* Academic curriculum vitae and publications at University of Milan
* “Studia austriaca” and “Studia theodisca”
# Favors

Favors or favours are acts by which help is voluntarily provided to another person out of goodwill, rather than in the interests of justice or for payment.

## Quotes

* Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
** Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
* Let the favour be repaid to him who repays a favour.
** Sumerian proverb, Collection XIII at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 267.
* Gratia, quæ tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.
** A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
** Ausonius, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1.
* Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.
** That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
** Plautus, Persa, V, 1, 10.
* Nam quamblibet sæpe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.
** For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.
** Pliny the Younger, Epistles, III. 4.
* Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.
** To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
** Syrus, Maxims.
* Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiæ apponi sibi.
** No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward.
** Terence, Andria, II. 1. 32.
# Faure Gnassingbé

Faure Gnassingbé (born 6 June 1966) is a Togolese politician. He is currently the President of Togo since 4 May 2005.

## Quotes

* No matter how effective the developed world's approach to the COVID-19 pandemic might be in terms of protecting public health, it simply will not work in Africa without social protection. Almost 85% of African workers - be they small farmers, street-food vendors, waste collectors, transport operators, or nomadic merchants - operate in the informal sector. Also, many survive day to day so they will be torn between staying safe and surviving. Restricting their movement means they will not be able to put food on their families' tables. The most effective way we can come to their aid is via cash transfers.
** Faure Gnassingbé (2020) cited in "Social safety is key in the fight against Coronavirus, Faure Gnassingbé affirms" on Togo First, 14 April 2020.
# Fausto Brizzi

Fausto Brizzi (born 15 November 1968) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author.

## Quotes
### 100 Days of Happiness (2013)

    Trans. Antony Shugaar. On Google Books: 1, 2.
* Always remember that the only riches we possess are the dreams we have as children. They are the fuel of our lives, the only force that pushes us to keep on going even when things have gone all wrong.
* Just work, work, work, even at the risk of making mistakes. And if and when you do make mistakes, and you do hurt someone, ask for forgiveness. Asking forgiveness and admitting you've made a mistake is the hardest thing of all. But if someone else does you good, remember it always. Showing gratitude is every bit as complicated.
* Every one of us has already experienced thousands of last times without even realizing it. Most of the time, in fact, you never even imagine that what you're experiencing is the last time.
* Trust yourself. Even if you're really, really scared, never let on that you are.
# Deepak Perwani

Deepak Perwani (Urdu, Sindhi: ديپڪ پرواني) (born 1974) is a renowned Pakistani fashion designer. Originally from a Hindu Sindhi family, he is revived as a prominent figure of the fashion industry.

## Quotes

* Deepak Perwani doesn't want awards; he wants appreciation - that's all.
** Perwani's response to a RAW Magazine interviewer when questioned about his aspirations.
* I am individual, stylish, mad and a lot of fun to be with.
* Work hard and you will make it; at the end, it's all about your design philosophy.
** Perwani's message to amateur designers
* I was never a mainstream bridal designer. I am all about prêt. But over the years, my clients have forced me to do their bridal wear so I said why not.
** Response when asked about decision to create bridal dresses.
* Whether people in Pakistan understand fashion or not, it is a true everyday-living history of our times. People judge you by the clothes and shoes that you wear; they are not bothered whether you live in Clifton, Nazimabad, Gulshan or FATA or anywhere. Everything is perceived by what you are wearing.
** , December 25, 2008.

## External links

* Official site
# Deepak Sarma

Deepak Sarma (born 1969) is a professor of Hinduism and Indian Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University.

## Quotes

* In this connection, the rules for debate in the academic realm differ significantly from other realms, such as this virtual one. There are, for example, rules about evidence, and about how evidence is presented. If a participant violates these rules then s/he may be excluded from further conversations. In this sense, in the academic world, there is an intolerance of those who do not follow the rules for debate. These rules of rhetoric are themselves debatable. Lest there be an infinite regress of sorts (that is, how do we argue about how we argue?) they ought to be upheld stipulatively.
# Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an industrial disaster which began on April 20, 2010, off of the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico. Caused in the aftermath of a blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, the United States federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 MMbbl (210,000,000 US gal; 780,000 m³). Reports in early 2012 indicated that the well site was still leaking. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is regarded as one of the largest environmental disasters in world history.

## Quotes

* Like all of you, and the world out there, I have suffered a huge sense of frustration at not being able to stop the loss. (Tony Hayward)
* The Gulf disaster is worse than a terrible oil leak. It is the product of a failed energy policy that looked at profits before people and environment. (Robert Redford)
* Divine intervention is needed to solve the disaster in the gulf, as man's efforts have been futile. Politicians should call for a day of prayer for a miracle to happen. (Sarah Palin)
# Deewaar

leo kar deti is a 1975 Indian film.
    Directed by kari im.

## Vijay

* Aaj khush to bahut hoge tum...
       You must be very happy today...[Vijay asking God, when he enters the temple for the first time]
* Peter tum log mujhe doondh rahe ho aur main tumhara yahaan intezaar kar raha huun.
       Peter, you all are looking for me outside and I am waiting for you here.
* Jao jaake pehle us aadmi ka sign lekar aao, jisne mere haath par yeh likh diya.. [Mera baap chor hai.]
       Get lost and get the signature of that person who tattooed this on my hand [My father is a thief.]
* Main aaj bhi pheke hue paise nahi uthaataa Dabar Saab.
       Still I dont pick up cash thrown on me Mr. Dabar.

## Vijay's Mother

* Vijay, tu kuch aisa kaam to nahi kar raha hai naa, jo tujhe nahi karna chahiye.
       Vijay, are you doing something, which you are not supposed to do..[After Vijay earns a lot of money after his first smuggling assignment]

## Vijay & Ravi

* Vijay: Aaj mere paas building-e hai, property hai, bank balance hai, bangla hai, gaadi hai. Kay hai tumhare paas?
* Ravi: Mere paas maa hai!
       Vijay: Today I have lots of money, a bungalow, a car, a servant, bank balance .. what do you have?
       Ravi: I have my mother!(and even after having everything you have lost her)

## External links

* Deewar quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Deewar at Rotten Tomatoes
# Isabel Durant

Isabel Durant (20 December 1991–) is an Australian actress and dancer.

## Quotes

* There's so many inside jokes because you spend so much time together. You spend fourteen hours a day together and you're together all the time and you're doing all these strange activities and there's strange scenes and lines so you just kind of end up with these really weird in-jokes that keep you going and give you belly laughs.
** Exclusive | Mako Mermaids | CAST Reunion (July 2, 2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Isabel Hardman

Isabel Hardman, Lady Walney (born 5 May 1986) is a British political journalist and the assistant editor of The Spectator. In 2015, she was named Journalist of the Year at the Political Studies Association's annual awards.

## Quotes

* There is a lesson to be learned from [George] Galloway's comments, though, which is that rape is not well understood at all. When he says something is "not rape as most people understand it", this is because society still largely imagines rape as an unexpected attack on a woman walking down a dark alley late at night. By describing what [Julian] Assange is alleged to have done as "bad sexual etiquette", Galloway demonstrates that he does not understand the legal definition of rape, or of sexual assault for that matter. Neither, he suggests, do many other people.
** "'Rape as most people understand it'", The Spectator (21 August 2012)
* Last night, an MP who I've only met a couple of times actually said to me as his opening gambit "I want to talk to the totty."
* Have been thinking about whether or not to tweet about it, but actually that is NOT on and lobby women shouldn't have to put up with it.
* So I have passed the MP's name on to a whip. I don't betray sources. But I will betray sexists.
** From a sequence of tweets, as cited in "MP apologises for calling female political journalist 'totty'", The Telegraph (13 April 2014).
** The Telegraph (print version known as The Daily Telegraph) and other media sources identified the MP as Bob Stewart who dismissed the story as "political correctness". (Syndicated version of the paywalled Bryony Gordon article published by the Sydney Morning Herald).
* Politicians often repeat the mistakes of the past – the level of turnover in parliament makes it even more likely that no one will notice.
** "So few can afford to stand for parliament, it’s no wonder we get the wrong MPs", The Guardian (24 April 2022).
* The message from [Rosie] Duffield's experience is that if you are a woman in politics, you'd better think really long and hard before you dare stick your neck out on issues you really care about – and not because people will argue with you, but because they'll threaten you.
** "Labour have treated Rosie Duffield terribly", The Spectator (18 June 2024)
** Rosie Duffield, the Labour candidate in Canterbury (who receives police protection), had dropped plans for her involvement in general election hustings because of threats.