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# Sebastian Bach

    For the 18th Century composer, see Johann Sebastian Bach
Sebastian Bach (born Sebastian Philip Bierk, on April 3, 1968) is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987-96. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted in Broadway plays, and leads a solo career.

## Quotes

* You know that episode where I said I'd stopped drinking? Well, I lied. Ted is so militant in his views. I lived with him for 12 days and it's hard to imagine ever doing anything that would truly look good in his eyes. Also he said some stuff online about Dimebag which I thought was really not cool. I'm not going to repeat it but you can check it out online.
** Blabbermouth.net (October 21, 2006)
* I'm not this crazy drunk guy you see on 'SuperGroup'. I like to be mellow sometimes. I like to read a lot, and I'm actually starting to write my first book. I have read so many books and now I'm trying to document this specific tour, because it is fascinating!
** Chico Enterprise Record (December 12, 2006)
* "I don’t really have any stress over Stevie Rachelle’s website. If you care what the lead singer of Tuff has to say, then good for you. I was never a big Tuff fan, you know? Wow, the lead singer of Tuff has a website about being jealous of the lead singer of Skid Row. Stevie Rachelle is jealous, and wants to rip on Sebastian Bach."
** December 2006 http://www.rockmymonkey.com/interviews/06/12/SebastianBach.php
* We people don't like to be told what to do, am I right!? But something I learnt is that you just gotta walk up to this fucking asshole and say "well, EXCUSE ME! I didn't mean to offend you by listening to rock N roll! but, hey man... FUCK YOU!!!" That's right, because we are the youth gone wild!!
** Concert in Japan
* "These are the ugliest people I have ever seen in my life. I have to buy this!" When looking at the back of Metallica's Kill 'Em All.
# Sebastian Francis

Sebastian Francis (11 November 1951–) is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Penang.

## Quotes

* We took a resolution that our churches for the next ten years were going to be creative, inclusive, and bridge-building. When that gets into your system, those three words, it doesn’t matter how other people think or feel, whoever is creating more divisions. We as church are thinking and feeling and praying that way, and therefore I feel less threatened.
** Malaysian bishop says Pope Francis is ‘what the Holy Spirit is saying today’ (February 11, 2018)
# Seba Smith

Seba Smith (September 14, 1792 – July 28, 1868) was an American humorist and writer.

## Quotes

* The cold winds sweeping the mountain-height, And pathless was the dreary wild, And ’mid the cheerless hours of night A mother wandered with her child: As through the drifting snows she press’d, The babe was sleeping on her breast.
** The Snow Storm.
# Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552), German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists.

## Quotes

* [A] description of the whole world with all that therein is.
** From the preface to Cosmographia (1544), quoted in translation by C. R. Beazley, "Review of Sebastian Münster, by Viktor Hantzsch", The Geographical Journal, vol. 17, no. 4 (1901), p. 424
* Wheras the people of the forenamed Ilandes, fled at the sight of our menne, the cause thereof was, that they suspected them to haue been Canibals, that cruel & fearse people which eate mans fleshe, which nacion our men had ouerpassed, leaninge them on the southsyde. But after they had knowledge of the contrary, they made greuous complaynt to our men, of the beastly and fearse maners of these Canibales, which were no lesse cruel agaynst them, them the Tyger or the Lyon agaynste tame beastes. Declaring furthermore, yt when soeuer they take any of them vnder the age of .xiiij. yeares, they vse to gelde them, & francke them vntyll they be very fat, as we are wont to doe with capons or hennes: and as for suche as drawe towarde .xx. yeare olde, to kyll them forthwith and pull out theyr guttes, and eate the same freshe and newe, wyth other extreme partes of the bodye, poudering the residue with salte, or keping it in a certayne pickle as we do iegottes or sansages.
** "Of the people called Canibales or Anthropophagi, which are accustomed to eate mans fleshe", in The Newe India, trans. Rycharde Eden (1553)

## External links

* Sebastiano Munstero, Cosmographia universale (Cologne: the heirs of Arnoldo Byrckmanno, 1575)
* Sebastian Münster, trans. Rycharde Eden, A Treatyse of the Newe India (London [S. Mierdman for] Edward Sutton, [1553])
# Robert Wilson Lynd

Robert Wilson Lynd (20 April 1879 – 6 October 1949) was a British writer, an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. He was born and educated in Belfast, and settled in Hampstead in London, as a contributor to many publications.

## Quotes

* The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.
** Robert Lynd (1926) The orange tree: a volume of essays. p.60. The last sentence "Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about." was cited in some sources in the 1960s, such as August Kerber (1968) Quotable quotes on education. p.190, and in multiple other sources ever since.
* Most of us can remember a time when a birthday — especially if it was one's own — brightened the world as if a second sun had risen.
** Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26
* There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
** On Christmas, The Book of This and That (1915)
* We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, and a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.
** The New Statesman, 22 October 1921
* In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. One has to sit still like a mystic and wait. One soon learns that fussing, instead of achieving things, merely prevents things from happening. To be passive is in some circumstances the most efficient form of activity. You cannot command events: you can only put yourself in the place where events will happen to you. No impatient man has ever seen Nature.
** Solomon in All His Glory (1922), pp. 12-13.
* The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
** Searchlights and Nightingales [Google Books snippet view only] (1939), p. 67.
# Robert Wright

Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American journalist and author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history and sociobiology.

## Quotes

* One chronicler of Eskimo life has observed, "the best place for [an Eskimo] to store his surplus is in someone else's stomach."
** Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 20.
* That biological evolution has an arrow -- the invention of more structurally and informationally complex forms of life -- and that this arrow points toward meaning, isn't, of course, proof of the existence of God. But it's more suggestive of divinity than an alternative world would: a world in which evolution had no direction, or a world with directional evolution but no consciousness. If more scientists appreciated the weirdness of consciousness -- understood that a world with sentience, hence without meaning, is exactly the world that a modern behavioral scientist should expect to exist -- then reality might inspire more awe than it does.
** Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 323.
* Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe — conceivably — the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.
** The Evolution of God. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009, p. 286.
# Robert Wright (journalist)

Robert Wright (born January 15, 1957) is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science (especially evolutionary psychology), history, politics, international relations, and religion.

## Quotes

* I would say so. Now, I don't think that precludes the possibility that as ideas about God have evolved people have moved closer to something that may be the truth about ultimate purpose and ultimate meaning... Very early on, apparently, people started imagining sources of causality, imagining things out there making things happen. And early on there were shamans who had mystical experiences that even today a Buddhist monk would say were valid forms of apprehension of the divine or something. But by and large I think people were making up stories that would help them control the world.
** Bill Moyers Journal - Robert Wright interview . "Robert Wright interview" Bill Moyers Journal. New York: PBS.

## External links

Modern Buddhist writers 19th century to date :
| Theravada / Vipassana movement | B. R. Ambedkar • Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu • Ajahn Chah • Anagarika Dharmapala • Joseph Goldstein • Henepola Gunaratana • Noah Levine • Nyanaponika Thera |
| Mahayana | Daisaku Ikeda • Yin Shun • Alfred Bloom |
| Vajrayana | Pema Chödrön • Kelsang Gyatso • Tenzin Gyatso • Matthieu Ricard • Robert Thurman • Chögyam Trungpa |
| Zen | Taisen Deshimaru • Thích Nhất Hạnh • Philip Kapleau • D. T. Suzuki • Han Yong-un • Hsing Yun • Sheng Yen |
| Other and Secular Buddhism | Stephen Batchelor • Robert Wright |
| Scholars | Lokesh Chandra • Walter Evans-Wentz • Richard Gombrich • Thomas Rhys Davids |
| Non-Buddhists influenced by Buddhism | Edwin Arnold • Helena Blavatsky • Fritjof Capra • Leonard Cohen • Alexandra David-Néel • Hermann Hesse • Carl Jung • Jon Kabat-Zinn • Friedrich Nietzsche • Henry Steel Olcott • Rajneesh • Helena Roerich • J. D. Salinger • Arthur Schopenhauer • Gary Snyder • Alan Watts • Alfred North Whitehead |
# Robert X. Cringely

Robert X. Cringely, real name Mark Stephens, (born Jan. 1953) is an American computer journalist and broadcaster.

## Quotes

* If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
** Robert X. Cringely (1989), "Noted from the field" in: InfoWorld magazine, Vol. 11, nr. 10, March 6, 1989, p. 94
* More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.
** Discussing U.S. government personal data mining at the same time its agencies are losing "hundreds of laptops" with sensitive data
** "The biggest rubes, boobs, and noobs of 2006". Notes from the Field (InfoWorld). December 15, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
* What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.
** "When Worlds (and Particles) Collide". Notes from the Field (InfoWorld). September 12, 2008. Retrieved on 2009-08-06.
* If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.
** Discussing Ladar Levison's statement that he couldn't legally explain why he had to shut down secure-email system Lavabit or "become complicit in crimes against the American people"
** "Personal email and private clouds fall in war on privacy". Notes from the Field (InfoWorld). August 9, 2013. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.

## External links

* Weekly column
# Robert Zollitsch

Robert Zollitsch (9 August 1938 –) is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg.

## Quotes

* God has made us participants of his life through Jesus Christ – and he does so again today. Born from participation is the particular, also one’s own witness of faith. We must so act that people seek and find God in all things, men and events. However the spiritual evolution of the last decades cannot be easily overturned. Proclamation of the Gospel is a long process. It requires much care of details, even apparently insignificant, from person to person, from family to family.
** President of Germany's Bishops on the Year of Faith (17 July 2012) Zenit
# Shane J. Cronin

Shane J. Cronin is a New Zealander volcanologist at the University of Auckland.

## Quotes

* When (volcanic) ash falls into the ocean, it brings with it nutrients. For example, It can bring iron, which is usually quite low in the ocean. It can suddenly create a bloom of plankton, which then go through the food chain, creating a population boom later on the fish and other lives too.
** Shane J. Cronin (2022) cited in: "Interview: Tonga volcanic eruption not likely to cause global climate change, says New Zealand volcanologist" in Xinhua Net, 18 January 2022.
# Shane Mackinlay

Shane Mackinlay (5 June 1965–) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the Bishop of Diocese of Sandhurst.

## Quotes

* I am very aware that I come into a story that began long before I arrived, and I’m honoured that the various signs of my ministry with which I have been invested today belong to that history. I am also aware that the story of this diocese into which I have been called is one that will go on long after my time here as bishop. Ultimately, it is God’s story, in which each of us is privileged to play a part.
** New beginnings (2020)
# Shana Alexander

Shana Alexander (6 October 1925 – 23 June 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes, in the late 1970s, with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.

## Quotes

* The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
** The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 33
* We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
** The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 169
* Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
** A delicious appeal to unreason (2005)
# Shandi Finnessey

Shandi Ren Finnessey (born June 9, 1978) is an American actress, model, TV host and beauty queen.

## Quotes

* I am so thrilled to be involved with PETA and taking a stance that I would rather be naked than wear fur, because I've always grown up with animals and I consider them my best friends, and for us to put them through so much torture and cruelty just for fashion I think is so horrific, and we need to raise the awareness because a person needs to learn to be comfortable in their own skin, not the skin of another animal.
** "Miss USA Winners Bare All and Say NO to Fur", PETA video (June 13, 2013).
* You're not alone with your nervous feelings. Every single person who walks in that room is feeling the same way that you are. But you have an opportunity to view your nerves as something different. It has been proven that the physical effects of stress (meaning the jitters you get, the shortness of breath, the rapid heart rate) are identical to the physical effects of courage! So when you start to feel nervous and stressed, redefine it in your mind: You are getting courageous and ready for a challenge! Don't see it as a threat but rather an opportunity to show your courage!
** "5 Ways To Rock An Interview", Pageantology (July 7, 2014).

## External links

* Official site
# Shane Warne

Shane Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as the greatest leg spin bowler in the sport.

## Quotes

* Disappoints me some journo's think in an interview being a dick is cool. Tip, if u want people back don't be inappropriate, arrogant or smug.
** A twitter post, showing his dislike to The Project host Waleed Aly, after Aly questioned the former international cricketer about his charity foundation, quoted on The Sydney Morning Herald (or "smh"), "Shane Warne labels Waleed Aly 'arrogant' after The Project interview", March 11, 2016.
* We have absolutely nothing to hide ... This is a disgrace and absurd and will go down as an expense. Go through everything you want at anytime as we have nothing to hide, but you pay for it, as the foundation would rather spend the 10,000 dollars on children in need than on an audit. It’s a real shame that certain journalists are continuing this ridiculous crusade/personal vendetta against the foundation & I can’t understand why. The board, patrons, ambassadors & everyone else involved at the foundation donate their time to make a significant difference to children & their families, which we have. We have saved children’s lives & without our support would not be on this planet.
** A 600 word long Facebook post on TSWF (The Shane Warne Foundation) being closed due to allegations about its financial and reporting practices, quoted on The Guardian (January 29, 2016), "Shane Warne attacks critics as his charity closes amid investigation into finances"
* Anyone can look at our books and what we've done over 12 years, we have absolutely nothing to hide. We are under attack despite doing nothing wrong, I along with the board and all our ambassadors devote our time for free to raise funds. I've put over USD 150,000 of my own money into the foundation and never received a cent. I'm spending four to five hours a day on the foundation ... and getting grief for it
** Talking about his foundation, TSWF, being closed down due to allegations about its financial and reporting practices, Z News (January 24, 2016), h"Shane Warne: Nothing to hide, says Aussie legend after foundation comes under scanner"
* I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one.
** On Sri Lanka cricket team captain Arjuna Ranatunga
** "Warne rapped for Ranatunga row". British Broadcasting Corporation. 1999-05-15. Retrieved on 2007-12-27.
# Moulay Ismail

Mulai Ismail Ibn Sharif (1634? or 1635?–22 March 1727; reigned 1672–1727) (Arabic: مولاي إسماعيل بن الشريف ابن النصر) was the second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty. Like others of the dynasty, Ismail claimed to be a descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hassan ibn Ali. He is also known in his native country as the "Warrior King."

## Sourced

* My subjects are like rats in a basket.
** "Morocco poll - choice or façade?". BBC News. 1 September 2007.
# Mount Abu

Mount Abu is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in Pindwara - Abu Assembly Constituency Of Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India, near the border with Gujarat. The mountain forms a rocky plateau 22 km long by 9 km wide. The highest peak on the mountain is Guru Shikhar at 1,722 m (5,650 ft) above sea level.

## Quotes

* On Mt. Abu, lifted four thousand feet above the desert, the Jains built many temples, of which two survivors, the temples of Vimala and Tejahpala, are the greatest achievement of this sect in the field of art. The dome of the Tejahpala shrine is one of those overwhelming experiences which doom all writing about art to impotence and futility. The Temple of Vimala, built entirely of white marble, is a maze of irregular pillars, joined with fanciful brackets to a more simple carved entablature; above is a marble dome too opulent in statuary, but carved into a stone lacework of moving magnificence, “finished,” says Fergusson, “with a delicacy of detail and appropriateness of ornament which is probably unsurpassed by any similar example to be found anywhere else. Those introduced by the Gothic architects in Henry VII’s Chapel at Westminster, or at Oxford, are coarse and clumsy in comparison.”
** Will Durant, Our Oriental heritage
# Mount Erciyes

Mount Erciyes (also known as Mount Argeas in Greek sources) is an inactive stratovolcano in Kayseri Province, Turkey. According to a biography of Saint Lazaros of Mount Galesios (11th century CE) written by his disciple Gregory the Cellarer, Lazaros climbed and descended Mount Erciyes in the depths of winter while singing the Psalms, as he encountered harsh weather and even a bear and attacking dogs.

## Quotes

* When he reached Mt. Argeas, he wanted to climb it but he was stopped by those who lived there because it was winter. Lazaros, however, put all his hope in our Lord Jesus Christ and His mother and started to climb. When he was halfway up the mountain, such a dense fog came down around him, as he used to relate, that, even though he strained his eyes, he could not see to the right or left or anywhere else. He did not give up his attempt, however, but bent down and, using his hands to guide him, went on up. While he was climbing like this, he met a bear, as he used to say, and neither he nor it sensed the approach of the other until they came so close that they bumped into each other. The only explanation for this was that it was a device of the Evil One intended to frighten him into turning back, or rather of God allowing this as a trial of his faith and hope. The bear came to a halt at their sudden collision and left the path, while Lazaros went on his way unhindered, heartily singing the Davidic psalms. When he had climbed up to the top he found that the door of the chapel had been securely barred. He opened it and went inside; when he had prayed, he came out, closed the door securely, and went down the mountain again.
** Gregory the Cellarer; Greenfield, Richard P. H. (2000). The life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion: an eleventh-century pillar saint. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. pp. 109–110. ISBN 0-88402-272-2. OCLC 41445690.

## See also

* Mount Athos
# Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. It was founded as an independent black community in 1887 by former slaves led by Isaiah Montgomery. Mound Bayou Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

## Quotes

* Mound Bayou was an oasis in turbulent times. While the rest of Mississippi was violently segregated, inside the city there were no racial codes ... At a time when blacks faced repercussions as severe as death for registering to vote, Mound Bayou residents were casting ballots in every election. The city has a proud history of credit unions, insurance companies, a hospital, five newspapers, and a variety of businesses owned, operated, and patronized by black residents. Mound Bayou is a crowning achievement in the struggle for self-determination and economic empowerment.
** Michael Premo, Mound Bayou, Mississippi – The Jewel of the Delta (November 10, 2007). storycorps.org.

## External links

* City of Mound Bayou
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