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# Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.

## Quotes

* And now I salute thee with awe, with veneration, and wonder, ancient India, of whom I am the adept, the India of the highest splendor of art and philosophy. May thy awakening astonish the Occident, decadent, mean, daily dwindling, slayer of nations, slayer of Gods, slayer of souls, which yet bows down still, ancient India, before the prodigies of thy primordial conceptions!
** attributed and quoted in Josyer, G R. Sanskrit Civilization, International Academy of Sanskrit Research. Mysore 1966 p. 1 also quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
# Nic Stone

Andrea Nicole Livingstone, known as Nic Stone, (born July 10, 1985) is an author of young adult fiction.

## Quotes

* When I started writing, it was a way to understand my own adolescence, and what came out was a revelation about my own teenage years...
** On why she ventured into young adult fiction in “‘Nic Stone: How I Write” in Writer Magazine (2019 Jan 23) :)
* Nonfiction is supposed to drive home a point. In fiction, you need more nuance, buried in layers. There is character development and plot, and that switch can be tricky. I really like writing short stories, and I wish they were more popular...
** On nonfiction vs. fiction in “‘Nic Stone: How I Write” in Writer Magazine (2019 Jan 23)
* Nonreaders. Especially Nonreaders of Color. Which I didn’t even realize until so many of them started contacting me. I write for them because I think it’s important to read, and yet I also understand that when you’ve never really seen yourself if the type of stuff you’re assigned, reading seems kinda wack [sic]. So I wanna hook the reluctants and get them started reading for enjoyment.…
** On her audience in “2018 Morris Award Finalists: An Interview with Nic Stone” in The Hub (2018 Feb 7)
* The dialogue. I love writing dialogue and using that particular element of narrative to draw out the heart of a story because storytelling as a discipline really began with speech—stories orally passed down, generation to generation. Dialogue is just my most favorite thing. In all the stuff I’ve written actually.
** On what she loved about her novel Dear Martin in “2018 Morris Award Finalists: An Interview with Nic Stone” in The Hub (2018 Feb 7)
# Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist.

## Quotes

* I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive.
** Interview with The New York Times, June 27, 1968, p. 49

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Kumbha of Mewar

Kumbhkarna Singh (r. 1433–1468 CE), popularly known as Maharana Kumbha, was the Maharana of the Kingdom of Mewar in India.[4] He belonged to the Sisodia clan of Rajputs.[5] It was during his reign that Mewar became one of the most powerful powers in the northern India. He was the most powerful sovereign of his time.

## Quotes

* While Indian historiography might not have been kind enough to Rana Kumbha by documenting his life and heroism in the manner that he deserves to be commemorated, folklore and oral history that celebrate the glory of Rana Kumbha, as also the innumerable monuments and works of literature, keep his memory alive. Rana Kumbha became the prototype of the brave Rajput who was unconquerable in the wake of any aggression and who combined deft strategy with raw power to keep all his enemies at bay. That same spirit of valour kept burning relentlessly in the Rajput clan for generations to come.
** Sampath V. (2022). Bravehearts of bharat : vignettes from indian history. Penguin Random House India
# Kundun

Kundun is a 1997 film by Martin Scorsese about Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

## Dalai Lama

* I will liberate those not liberated. I will release those not released. I will relieve those unrelieved, and set living beings in nirvana. ... Thus by the virtue that has collected through all that I have done may the pain of every living creature be completely cleared away.
** A brief version of the Bodhisattva vows.
* They have taken away our silence.
** Upon hearing the propaganda loudspeakers blaring outside the palace monastery.
* I see a safe journey, I see a safe return.

## Mao Zedong

* Religion is poison.

## Dialogue

    Indian border guard: Are you the Lord Buddha?
    Dalai Lama: I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I try to be a good man, you see yourself.

## About

* Many films have been made on Tibet, such as Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet (1997). Do these films reflect reality? The Dalai Lama responds: “I can talk about Kundun (1998), the Martin Scorcese film, for which Harrison Ford and his wife came to see me. I took the opportunity to correct the errors, particularly the fact that it did not adequately depict the horrors that the Tibetan people have had to endure since 1950. In fact, Harrison Ford and his wife began to cry when I told them some of these horrors. » Since then, this great actor has become a devotee of Tibet and even managed to release Riching Geyde, a Tibetan guide arrested by the Chinese when he tried to give Western tourists information about human rights in Tibet . “This is why,” notes the Dalai Lama, “that these films, however Hollywood they may be, have allowed the world to become aware of the plight of the Tibetan people. He adds: “I actually saw Little Buddha by Bertolucci, and I really liked it, even if, as a disciple of Prince Gautama, I cannot imagine that an actor, however good he may be, can embody what the Buddha represents. But at least this film introduced Buddhism to the West – and that's great. » And he concludes with a smile: “Do you know that to counterbalance the film Kundun, which was a worldwide success, the Chinese made their own version of Kundun, which was so bad that even Chinese audiences didn't like it? "
** Dalai Lama, quoted from François Gautier - Les mots du dernier Dalaï-lama (2018, Flammarion)
* I read the script and liked its simplicity, the childlike nature of it, that it wasn't a treatise on Buddhism or a historical epic in the usual sense. It's just too much to know about Tibet and China and their relationship over the past fifteen hundred years. That was all incidental. What you really dealt with was the child and the child becoming a young boy and the boy becoming a young man —his spiritual upbringing, and this incredible responsibility which he inherits and how he deals with it on the basis of nonviolence. And the concept of him escaping and taking Tibetan culture and religion with him to the rest of the world.
** Martin Scorsese

## External links

* Kundun - Buddhist viewpoints at dharmaflix.com
* Kundun at IMDb
* Kundun at Rotten Tomatoes
# Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela (/ˌkʊmb ˈmeɪlə/) is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism. It is celebrated in a cycle of approximately 12 years, to celebrate every revolution Brihaspati (Jupiter) completes, at four river-bank pilgrimage sites: the Allahabad (Prayagraj) (Ganges-Yamuna-Sarasvati rivers confluence), Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra). The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters, but it is also a celebration of community commerce with numerous fairs, education, religious discourses by saints, mass feedings of monks or the poor, and entertainment spectacle. The seekers believe that bathing in these rivers is a means to prāyaścitta (atonement, penance) for past mistakes, and that it cleanses them of their sins.

## Quotes

* India's Kumbha Mela amply demonstrates that diversity can be self-organized and not anarchic, even on a very large scale. Held every twelve years, this is the world's largest gathering of people, attracting tens of millions of individuals from all corners of India, from all strata of society, and from all kinds of traditions, ethnicities and languages. Yet there is no central organizing body, no 'event manager' to send out invitations or draw up a schedule, nobody in charge to promote it, no centralized registration system to get admitted. Nobody has official authority or ownership of the event, which is spontaneous and 'belongs' to the public domain. Since time immemorial, numerous groups have put up their own mini-townships and millions go as individuals just to participate in the festivities.
** Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.
# Josiah Conder

Josiah Conder (sometimes spelt Condor) (17 September 1789 – 27 December 1859), correspondent of Robert Southey and well connected to romantic authors of his day, was editor of the British literary magazine The Eclectic Review, the Nonconformist and abolitionist newspaper The Patriot, the author of romantic verses, poetry, and many popular hymns.

## Sourced

* Oh, when His wisdom can mistake, His might decay, His love forsake, Then may His children cease to sing, — "The Lord omnipotent is King!"
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 274.

## External links

* Hymns
* The first World Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840
* Sonnets - The Seasons
* 410-417-BreadOfHeaven.html download site for hymns
* Hymns
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
* The Apocalypse in English Romantic Literature
* Josiah Conder: A Memoir, by Eustace Rogers Conder (1857)
# Josiah Quincy

Josiah Quincy is the name of:
* Colonel Josiah Quincy I (1709-1784), Revolutionary War soldier
* Josiah Quincy II (1744-1775), American lawyer
* Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864), president of Harvard University (1829-1845), US representative (1805-1813), mayor of Boston (1823-1828)
This disambiguation page, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, lists articles associated with the name Josiah Quincy. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
# Josiah Parsons Cooke

Josiah Parsons Cooke (October 12, 1827 – September 3, 1894) was an American scientist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore Richards, to pursue similar research. Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others.

## Sourced

* One of the most striking characteristics of this new modification of oxygen is its peculiar odor, and hence Schönbein calls it ozone, from a Greek verb signifying to smell. It frequently happens that a great discovery supplies the wanting links between a number of obscure facts, and thus adds quite as much to our knowledge by its indirect bearings as by the positive additions it makes to the general stock. So it has been with the discovery of ozone. Every one who has used an electrical machine must have noticed the peculiar smell which follows the electrical discharge. This was formerly supposed to be the odor of the electrical fluid itself; but as soon as ozone was discovered, the odor was recognized at once as belonging to this new agent, and it was soon ascertained that electricity is one of the most efficient means of modifying the oxygen of the air.
** Cooke, J. P. (1880). Religion and Chemistry. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. p. 116.
# Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.

## Quotes

* Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth.
** Lectures on Modern Idealism (1919), p. 79
* We are all aware, if we have ever tried it, how empty and ghostly is a life lived for a long while in absolute solitude. Free me from my fellows, let me alone to work out the salvation of my own glorious self, and surely (so I may fancy) I shall now for the first time show who I am. No, not so; on the contrary I merely show in such a case who I am not. I am no longer friend, brother, companion, co-worker, servant, citizen, father, son; I exist for nobody; and ere-long, perhaps to my surprise, generally to my horror, I discover that I am nobody.
** Lecture on Hegel
* “the real world is the Community of Interpretation… If the interpretation is a reality, and if it truly interprets the whole of reality, then the community reaches its goal [i.e., a complete representation of Being], and the real world includes its own interpreter”
** (Royce 1913) In The Problem of Christianity
* Human life taken merely as it flows, viewed merely as it passes by in time and is gone, is indeed a lost river of experience that plunges down the mountains of youth and sinks in the deserts of age. Its significance comes solely through its relations to the air and the ocean and the great deeps of universal experience. For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience….
** Royce 1908 Near the end of The Philosophy of Loyalty

## Quotes about Royce

* I revelled in the keen analysis of William James, Josiah Royce and young George Santayana.
** The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968)

## External links

* Parker, Kelly A. and Scott Pratt, "Josiah Royce", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/royce/>.
# Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis)

Neil Munro (1863 – 1930) was a Scottish writer who also used the pen name Hugh Foulis.

## Quotes

* It must be the old, darling, foolish Highlands in us, my dear, the old people and the old stupid stories they are telling us for generations round he fire, and it must be the hills about us, and the constant complaint of the sea.
** Gilian the Dreamer, ch. 5.
* Beloved Scotland of the winter and the hills! ’Tis little that thou’lt get from them, but they will make thee hard and brave!
** The New Road, ch. 23.

## External links

* BBC - Writing Scotland - Neil Munro - Quotes
* Neil Munro Society
# Neil Halstead

Neil Halstead (born 7 October 1970) is an English musician who sings and plays guitar in shoegazing band Slowdive.

## Quotes

* Every black and white Secret's a blinking light
** Star Roving, Slowdive (2017).
* Nothing left to lose Nothing left to fight
** Star Roving, Slowdive (2017).

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris (born 15 June 1973) is an American actor, singer, comedian, author, magician, writer, film producer, and film director.

## Quotes

* [on being LGBT in show business] People in the business are equally as terrified now -- but I really find it a personal thing. And maybe I’m at the end of that era. I wouldn’t even want to stereotype today’s generation. But the majority of the casting departments are gay, and a lot of the executives are. I think it’s a matter of your abilities and how you carry yourself -- I don’t behave any differently toward you right now than when I am with David [Burtka, his boyfriend] in our apartment, watching "American Idol." OK, "So You Think You Can Dance." [Laughs] I can see why an agent wouldn’t want to sign on a real overtly effeminate male actor -- not because I have an aversion to them but because agents might know it limits their job opportunities.
** Out Magazine; September 2008.
* Playing gay in the theater is more fulfilling than on film because you can create a whole character and a backstory and you get to chip away at something over a long period of time. When you’re acting on film you sort of have one afternoon in front of a crew to just do it. And you don’t want to then be too overt and like that stereotype. But when I was doing A Paris Letter with Josh [Radnor], I was playing someone overtly flamboyant from the ’60s seducing him, and if I did that on film, I think it would look like I was acting too hard. It’s one of the fun things one wants to do as an actor, to play the flamboyant gay guy. But when you are gay that ends up being offensive to people. Say I was asked to play a flamboyant steward in an Airplane!–type farce. It would be a difficult decision to say yes to that role at this point because a lot of people would accuse me of making a mockery of gay people.
** Out Magazine; September 2008.
* My job is jester -- not advocate. I’m on a situation comedy responding to [Josh Radnor’s character] Ted Mosby and his wacky adventures -- that’s my job right now. If people want to comment about where I go to dinner, they are welcome to, but it’s not my job to respond to those statements. The Internet stuff threw me for a loop because I didn’t understand where the vitriol was coming from. I thought I had been representing well, and in turn it seemed like I was quickly condemned to step to the plate, and I was fine with that.
** Out Magazine; September 2008.
* I’m just really grateful and lucky that I get to keep existing in this business and existing by way of working as opposed to just being around the scene. So I love the process of making all of this. Being on set at the Sesame Workshop was one of the great things of last year for me. Getting just to work with Joss Whedon [on Dr.Horrible] for six days renegade-style was just unbelievable. Every week getting these new scripts and seeing what Barney Stinson gets to say and do is like a constant Christmas present. Things are swell.
** AfterElton.com; September 11th, 2008.
I love everyone

## External links

* Neil Patrick Harris on IMDb
* Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter
# Neil Hamilton (politician)

Mostyn Neil Hamilton (born 9 March 1949) is a British politician, non-practising barrister and former teacher who was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2020 to 2024. He was a Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales from 2016 to 2021.
Previously, he was a Conservative MP in the House of Commons for Tatton from 1983 to 1997, when he was defeated. After being implicated (alongside Tim Smith) in the cash-for-questions affair, he left active politics.
Hamilton left the Conservative Party in 2002, and joined UKIP. He was elected to the National Executive Committee of UKIP in 2011. Following his election to the National Assembly for Wales, he was UKIP Assembly Group Leader from 2016 to 2018 and again from 2019. He was Leader of UKIP Wales from 2016 to 2024.

## Quotes

* It is well known that I have not always seen eye to eye with Nigel, but I salute his very significant achievements. UKIP has a massive continuing role to play in British politics and, under a new leader, we will reach out to an even wider constituency. Nigel Farage deserves the thanks of every Brexiteer. There would have been no referendum without him. He is a controversial figure but, like him or loathe him, he is a dynamic force and one of the great figures in British politics today. He clearly has much still to offer in the continuing campaign for an independent Britain. He should be given a peerage.
** Statement on the resignation of Nigel Farage (July 4, 2016).
# Richard Franck

Richard Franck (c. 1624 - 1708) was an English author on the subject of fishing.

## Quotes

* Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
** Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler

## External links

Fly-Fishing History: Richard Franck
# Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer and journalist, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s.

## Quotes
### The Rhythm of Violence (1964)

* Why don’t they do something so we can handle this once and for all! They’re wearing me down!
** Statement made by Piet, one of the soldiers guarding the Blacks
* My chubby little brother! Perhaps he’s having a little ‘crisis of conscience’!’ perhaps, because of their culture.

### Mating Birds (1986)

* For my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write.
** Writer's Dedication
* In a few days I am to die. Strange, the idea neither shocks nor frightens me…
* we were lovers in everything but in name.
* Apartheid? We had defeated apartheid. We had finally perfected a method of making love even without making contact, utilizing empty space like two telepathic media exchanging telegraphic messages through sexual airways.
* ...as I was to later find out, the skin was neither soft nor the hair so smooth as I had first imagined.
* Good gracious, man! Are you trying to tell the court that your people had never heard of orgies before the white man came to this continent?
* Why believe the word of the girl against mine,... Except for the whiteness of her skin, a color that has caused more trouble and unhappiness in the world than the color of any other skin, what particular claim to virtue can this girl be supposed to have?
* No, I'll die of a vaster, deeper, more cruel conspiracy by the ruler of my country who have made a certain knowledge between persons of different races not only impossible to achieve but positively dangerous even to attempt to acquire. They have made contact between the races a cause for profoundest alarm among white citizens.

### Underground People (2002)

* The day you come across my uncle Sekala no-one will need to point him out to you! Try to imagine a monster six-foot-ten, with a face like a train locomotive or the front of Mount Taba Situ, and you have the exact image of my uncle. Children have been known to cry when he has but looked at them; an attempt at a smile from him is likely to send children running for shelter behind their mother's skirts. When he makes a joke he smiles so hard that his eyes seem to close up and vanish, bringing to perfection his exceptional ugliness!
** Pg. 195
** Madi Seeiso describing her uncle to Cornelius
* Bulane was dressed in faded old khakis, somewhat soiled and torn and sprinkled with mud, and although this was the height of summer on the highveld and the sun would soon be scorchingly hot, he was swathed in a thick army coat that looked frayed and moth-eaten, like something which might have been bequeathed to an importunate servant by a jokey employer.
** Lawyer Joe Bulane's dressing like a native in order to outwit the authorities
* Oh Mr Bulane, what a sight to greet the plains of Tabanyane!

## External links

* The Rhythm of Violence
* Mating Birds
* LibraryThing
* MaryOkeke Reviews
# Ontario

Ontario is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is also Ontario's provincial capital.

## Quotes

* June 2 is election day! Voting on election day is just one of the ways you can vote in Ontario
** Elections Ontario
* It's an unacceptable reality that women today in Ontario earn an average of 87 cents for every dollar earned by men
** Labour Minister David Piccini according to Ontario plans to require salary ranges be included in job postings (The Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 06, 2023 | Last Updated: 37 minutes ago)

## See also

* Alberta
* British Columbia
* Nova Scotia
* Saskatchewan