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# Vasily Blyukher

Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (December 1, 1889 – November 9, 1938), also spelled Blücher, was a Russian-Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1935 until his death (under torture by the NKVD) in 1938.

## Quotes

* War as a whole, and each operation taken separately, are first of all mathematics and calculations.
** Quoted in Jonathan Fenby; Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
* War is not included in the Second Five-Year Plan.
** Blyukher at the XVII Congress of the CPSU(b), 8 February 1934
* A shark has appeared and he wants to devour me. Either he devours me or I eat him. The latter is very unlikely.
** Blyukher describing Lev Mekhlis to his wife, shortly before his arrest in 1938. Quoted in Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar.
* What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness...
** Blyukher during his interrogation by the NKVD in 1938. Quoted in Paweł Wieczorkiewicz, Noty biograficzne w: Fenomen Stalina, Warsaw, 1988.

## Quotes about Blyukher

* An outstanding Russian general as well as a reasonable man and a good friend. What was most unusual about him was that he had none of the traits associated with Bolsheviks.
** Chiang Kai-shek, quoted in Jonathan Fenby; Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
* Thousands of miles from Moscow, commanded - apparently with a free hand - by the most capable of all Soviet generals, Marshal Vasili Galen-Blücher, the Far Eastern Army is easily the most efficient and the most formidable military force at the command of the Soviet government.
** Major George Fielding Eliot
* The raid made by Comrade Blyukher's forces under impossible conditions can only be equated with Suvorov's crossings in Switzerland.
** Citation for Blyukher's decoration and promotion after his division's successful crossing of the Urals during the Russian Civil War.

## External links

* ↑ https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol04/no12/v04n12-w27-dec-1938-new-int.pdf
# Vasil Levski

Vasil Levski (18 July 1837 – 18 February 1873) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, renowned as the national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.

## Quotes

* Ако спечеля, печеля за цял народ – ако загубя, губя само мене си.
** If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself.
** A letter to Panayot Hitov, written in March/April 1868.
* Времето е в нас и ние сме във времето; то нас обръща и ние него обръщаме.
** Time is in us and we are in time. It changes us and we change it.
** A letter to Panayot Hitov, written on May 10 1871
* Дела трябват, а не думи.
** It's deeds we need, not words.
** To Lyuben Karavelov, January 27, 1872
* Трябва изпит за всеки. Защото има примери: Днес е човек, а утре — магаре.
** An exam should be passed by every man. Because we have some examples: A man today, tomorrow - a donkey.
** to Hristo Popov, May 30 1871
* Ще имаме едно знаме, на което ще пише: „Свята и чиста република.
** We are to have one flag, and on it the words: Holy and Pure Republic.
** "Svoboda" newspaper, February 13, 1871

## Sources

* Бележки по тефтерчето на Васил Левски, Николай Хайтов (in English: Notes on Vasil Levski's writing-pad, Nikolay Haytov, 2007, Artik 2001, ISBN-9789549365214)

## External links

* 170 years since the birth of Vaisl Levski (In Bulgarian)
* "Holy and pure Republic" - quotes by Vasil Levski
# Vasily Zaytsev

Captain Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (March 23, 1915 – December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers. On January 31, 2006, Vasily Zaytsev was reburied on Mamayev Kurgan with full military honors.

## Quotes

* The arrival of the Nazi sniper set us a new task. We had to find him, study habits and methods, and patiently await the moment for one, and only one, well-aimed shot.
** Quoted in "The Sniper at War: From the American Revolutionary War to the Present Day" - Page 67 - by Michael E. Haskew - History - 2005.
* There was no ground for us beyond [the] Volga.
** Quoted in "Notes of a Sniper: For us There is no Land Beyond the Volga" - Zaytsev,Vasily - Vladivostok:Moscow/2826 Press Inc.
* The duel went on for three days, but it ended in our victory in a matter of seconds. The German was well prepared for it. He had liquidated two Soviet snipers before that. But, with the help of my comrades-in-arms, also snipers whose positions were next to mine, I managed to slay him. I did not know what kind of sniper had been brought to Stalingrad, but when we pulled him out of his shelter we discovered that he was the chief of the school for snipers based in Berlin. On the whole I liquidated 242 Nazis in Stalingrad. My friends and pupils also eliminated many of them. I had trained 30 snipers who killed 1126 Nazis during the war.
** Quoted in "The Voice of Russia," Copyright 2002.
# Witter Bynner

Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968) was an American poet, writer and academic.

## Quotes

* I am a miser of my memories of you
    And will not spend them.
   * Coins, in The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover, 1919.
* The core and the surface Are essentially the same Words making them seem different Only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: From wonder into wonder existence opens.
** Translation of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
** The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
* A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
** The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
# Witold Mroziewski

Witold Mroziewski (March 25, 1966–) is a Polish-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* I will be ordained as a bishop for the universal church, particularly for the Diocese of Brooklyn and that is a diocese with many ethnicities, those ethnicities form something like a mosaic or a stained-glass window in the church with many elements, one of the elements of that mosaic or stained glass is the Polish culture.
** A Bishop from Poland to Serve All God’s People (July 16, 2015)
# Witness
## Witness may refer to

* A witness (n.), one who witnesses (pl. witnesses)
* To witness (v.), to observe or to see
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# Wong Ka Kui

Wong Ka-kui (10 June 1962 – 30 June 1993), was a Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the leader and co-founder of the rock band Beyond, for which he was the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter.

## Quotes

* As long as there is music there will not be the end of the world.
** Accept the song fans say

## Song Lyrics

* Can we forget the color of each other,I hope on the land,There is no inequality,
** Glorious days
* forgive that i am unruly indulgent and loving freedom throughout my life,
** Sky is the limit
# Wondering and Wandering of Hearts

Wondering and Wandering of Hearts is a literary work by Susan Nalugwa Kiguli. It offers a feast and face of poetry as it currently is in Uganda. It is all encompassing and presents a variety of writers ranging from seasoned voices to new ones of great promise. The voices are adventurous, reflective, provocative and even sassy.

## Quotes

* The voice of my people is as loud as the ngalabi drum, yet it’s not heard beyond the edge of the village. A big wall seems to stand between us and our leaders. We are a forgotten village, a dying soul.
** Page 8
* Why must I pay tax? I ask when what I pay is stolen, court cases are stalling, the thieves keep rolling as they go on boasting about falling into things. Why must I pay tax? I ask.
** Page 28
* I need protekson; no one kill me in de day or in de night. Give me tese t'ings, and I will vote for you. I swear I will.
** Page 158
* He said I was a mere girl, that education was a waste of time, and not a requirement for the roles of girls.
** Page 2
* When you are out, you crave to enter. Those who are inside crave to get out
** Page 9
* Keep it clean and you will not regret entering. Make it dirty, and regret your entry. If marriage is different, then I did not write this.
** Page 9
* For a penny in hand. In a strange land
** Page 123

## External Links

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# Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (30 September 1714 – 3 August 1780) was a French philosopher.

## Quotes

* It is not true that on an exchange of commodities we give value for value. On the contrary, each of the two contracting parties in every case, gives a less for a greater value. … If we really exchanged equal values, neither party could make a profit. And yet, they both gain, or ought to gain. Why? The value of a thing consists solely in its relation to our wants. What is more to the one is less to the other, and vice versa. … It is not to be assumed that we offer for sale articles required for our own consumption. … We wish to part with a useless thing, in order to get one that we need; we want to give less for more. … It was natural to think that, in an exchange, value was given for value, whenever each of the articles exchanged was of equal value with the same quantity of gold. … But there is another point to be considered in our calculation. The question is, whether we both exchange something superfluous for something necessary.
** Le Commerce et le Gouvernement (1776), as quoted in Marx's Capital, Vol. I, Ch. 5.
* The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
** As quoted in Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry (trans. Robert Kerr, 1790), Preface, p. xiv.
* We shall not … begin this logic by definitions, axioms, or principles; we shall begin by observing the lessons which nature gives us.
** The Logic of Condillac (trans. Joseph Neef, 1809), "Of the Method of Thinking", p. 3.
* The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
** As quoted in David Booth, The principles of English composition (1831), p. 8.
* Our ideas are transformed sensations.
** As quoted in Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs (1878), p. 204.
* To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing.
** As quoted in Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy (1997), p. 101.

## External links

* Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, Translated by Thomas Nugent (London: J. Nourse, 1756)
# Étienne Dolet

Étienne Dolet (3 August 1509 – 3 August 1546) was a French scholar, translator and printer. Dolet was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime. His early attacks upon the Inquisition, the city council and other authorities in Toulouse, together with his later publications in Lyon treating of theological subjects, roused the French Inquisition to monitor his activities closely. After being imprisoned several times, he was eventually convicted of heresy, strangled and burned with his books due to the combined efforts of the Parlement of Paris, the Inquisition, and the theological faculty of the Sorbonne.

## Quotes

* Non dolet ipse Dolet, sed pia turba dolet.
** It is not Dolet who grieves, but the sympathetic crowd.
** The jeu de mots ('play on words') which he is said to have uttered on the way to the scaffold: reported by Irma Dreyfus, Lectures on French Literature, translated by James Smith (1896), p. 94
# Études (Debussy)

Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano études composed in 1915.

## Quotes about Études (Debussy)

* In Debussy's synthesis, every aspect is examined — scales, seconds, thirds, fourths, octaves, ornamentation, repeated notes, arpeggios, chords. And his Études end up being to the early twentieth century what Chopin's two books were to the nineteenth.
** Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists (rev. ed., 1987), p. 414.
# Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.

## Quotes

* My mother used to say that my tones are all crooked: it’s like hearing a song sung out of tune.
** On her limited Cantonese skills in “Madeleine Thien: ‘In China, you learn a lot from what people don’t tell you’” in The Guardian (2016 Oct 8)
* It’s one of those places you can never quite see enough of it, it’s vast. For the Chinese it’s very odd for people to travel alone so I often get picked up by families and couples. You learn a lot from what people don’t tell you.
** On her travels in China in “Madeleine Thien: ‘In China, you learn a lot from what people don’t tell you’” in The Guardian (2016 Oct 8)
* …Language is fragile. Words can erase and distort so many things. Justice, reason, democracy, freedom, goodness, truth—we have used these words in the service of widely different intentions. We have used them in humane ways and in deeply violent ways…
** On her book Dogs At the Perimeter in “Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien” in LitHub (2017 May 26)
* …There are numerous sensitive subjects in China, and writers there have to make decisions about how they’re going to create in these conditions. The resulting literature is fascinating, full of docu-fiction, allegory, and everything in-between…
** On the restrictions imposed on Chinese in “Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien” in LitHub (2017 May 26)
# Madeleine Biardeau

Madeleine Biardeau (16 May 1922 Niort - 1 February 2010 Cherveux) was an Indologist from France.

## Quotes

* The God of Indian devotion - bhakti who responds to the same eternal needs of the human heart as exists anywhere else, never detaches himself wholly from the immanence of the world. He is personal and endowed with feelings only in the eyes of popular piety; to thought he reveals himself both far beyond and within at the same time; he reveals it as much as he hides it; and each man is in himself in some sort a manifestation of God.
** As Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture Ho1royde, Peggy The music of India. Foreword by Ravi Shankar New York, Praeger [1972] p.36.
# Madeleine Arthur

Madeleine Arthur (March 10, 1997–) is an American-Canadian actress.

## Quotes

* With gymnastics, the floor routine was always my favorite, and I was always very dramatic with it. In terms of the performance aspect of acting, gymnastics definitely helped me with that. But it also gave me determination, hard work and focus. I definitely think every life experience can be valuable in that way.
** Madeleine Arthur: The actress you need to know (March 2, 2016)
# Madeline Carroll

Madeline Carroll (March 18, 1996–) is an American actress.

## Quotes

* Whenever I watch movies, it doesn’t matter what it is, I try to I imagine somebody else doing the character.
** Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll Interview – SWING VOTE (July 29, 2008)
* Night shoots are always the best.
** Meet Newcomer (and Flipped Star!) Madeline Carroll (August 31, 2010)
* A lot of Hollywood is very dark. Girls my age, I find a lot of them that I have literally grown up and auditioned with take these different paths that break their hearts, but they felt like they had to do it in order to get where they want to go. It’s just so hard on their spirit.
** Madeline Carroll: I Almost Quit Acting ForGood Before Being Cast In ‘I Can OnlyImagine’ (March 16, 2018)
* I don't believe God would give you something that you wouldn't be able to use for his glory," Carrol said. I don't believe you have to compromise who you are as a person in order to do what God has called you to do.
** 'I Can Only Imagine' Breakout Star Madeline Carroll: 'God has Plans for the Gifts He Gives Us' (March 27, 2018)
* It's true what your mother says, I think any boy who doesn't see that you're special, doesn't deserve your attention.
** Madeline Carroll Talks New Film ‘Destined To Ride’ – Exclusive Interview (August 30, 2018)
# Medicine in the medieval Islamic world

In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" Also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.

## Quotes

* I went to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) along with a a son of mine whose palate and tonsils I had pressed with my finger as a treatment for a (throat and tonsil) disease. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Why do you pain your children by pressing their throats! Use Ud Al-Hindi (certain Indian incense) for it cures seven diseases, one of which is pleurisy. It is used as a snuff for treating throat and tonsil disease and it is inserted into one side of the mouth of one suffering from pleurisy."
** Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 5713 In-book reference : Book 76, Hadith 30 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 7, Book 71, Hadith 611 (deprecated numbering scheme)
# Medieval football

Medieval football refers to a set of ball games played in Europe from roughly the ninth through the seventeenth centuries.

## Quotes

* For as concerning football playing, I protest unto you it may rather be called a freendly kinde of fight, then a play or recreation; A bloody and murthering practise, then a felowly sporte or pastime. For dooth not every one lye in waight for his adversarie, seeking to overthrowe him & to picke him on his nose, though it be uppon hard stones? In ditch or dale, in valley or hil, or what place soever it be, hee careth not, so he have him down. And he that can serve the most of this fashion, he is counted the only felow, and who but he? So that by this meanes, sometimes their necks are broken, sometimes their backs, sometime their legs, sometime their armes; sometime one part thurst out of joynt, sometime an other; sometime the noses gush out with blood, sometime their eies start out; and sometimes hurt in one place, sometimes in another. But whosoever escapeth away the best, goeth not scotfree, but is either sore wounded, craised, and bruseed, so as he dyeth of it, or els scapeth very hardly. And no mervaile, for they have the sleights to meet one betwixt two, to dashe him against the hart with their elbowes, to hit him under the short ribbes with their griped fists, and with their knees to catch him upon the hip, and to pick him on his nec, with a hundered such murdering devices: and hereof groweth envie, malice, rancour, cholor, hatred, displeasure, enmitie, and what not els: and sometimes fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood, as experience dayly teacheth.
** Phillip Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses pg. 184

## External links

* History of Football
# Medieval music

Medieval music, music
# Medieval Latin proverbs

Medieval Latin is an archaic form of Latin in the Middle Ages.

## A

* Amnem (Ampnem) parvorum facit unda (vnda) freqvens (frequens) fluviorum.
** English equivalent: Small streams make great rivers.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "556, Viele" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. p. 309.

## H

* Dum tacet insipiens. sapiens tantisper habetur: Index stultitiae linguaque voxque suae.
** English equivalent: Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "148, Narr" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. p. 83.

## N

* Non proderunt divitiae in die ultionis.
** English equivalent: A golden key opens any gate but that of heaven.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto. "614, goldenen". Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. pp. 318-319.

## See also

* Latin proverbs
# Medicine man

A medicine man or medicine woman is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of indigenous people.

## Quotes

* A medicine man shouldn't be a saint. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. He should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle. Unless he can experience both, he is no good as a medicine man.
** John Fire Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1972), p. 70
# Moriz Rosenthal

Moriz Rosenthal (December 17, 1862 - September 3, 1946) was a Polish pianist and composer.

## Quotes about Rosenthal

* Emil Sauer was also a good pianist, good technique, style. Very good fingers. He was a Liszt pupil. He was at his best in salon music — Chopin waltzes, things like that. But I heard him play a very good, very correct Op. 109. Some of the Liszt pupils were horrible. One I never could understand was Siloti. He played very badly. Another Liszt pupil was the famous Moriz Rosenthal, and I hated his playing. He couldn't make one nice phrase. I don't understand how he got his fame. Perhaps when I heard him he was too old to have any control. He had dexterity but he had no real technique, and I don't think he really knew how to play the piano. He didn't make music.
** Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music
# Moro people

The Moro, also called the Bangsamoro or Bangsa Moro, are the Muslim population of the Philippines, forming the largest non-Catholic group in the country. There are around 13 indigenous communities, of which the majority have converted to the religion of Islam; most are the followers of Sunni Islam of the Shafi'i madh'hab.

## Quotes

* There is Bangsamoro, the place; there is Bangsamoro, the identity.
** Marvic Leonen, Press briefing, October 8, 2012
* I write you this letter because I am sorry to know that you and your people refuse to do what the government has ordered. You do not give up your arms. Soldiers were sent to Taglibi so that you could come into camp and turn in your guns. When the soldiers went to camp a Taglibi, your Moros fired into camp and tried to kill the soldiers. Then the soldiers had to shoot all Moros who fired upon them. When the soldiers marched through the country, the Moros again shot at them, so the soldiers had to kill several others. I am sorry the soldiers had to kill any Moros. All Moros are the same to me as my children and no father wants to kill his own children. ... I want to see all of my people and speak to them so that we may forever be friends.
** John J. Pershing, My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917: A Memoir, pp. 292-293
* I am very sorry these Moros are such fools—but this Dajo will not mean the slaugter of women and children, nor hasty assaults against strong entrenchments. I shall lose as few men and kill as few Moros as possible.
** John J. Pershing, My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917: A Memoir, p. 293
* There was never a moment during the investment of Bud Dajo when the Moros, including women, on the top of the mountain would not have fought to the death had they been given the opportunity. They had gone there to make a last stand on this, their sacred mountain, and they were determined to die fighting. Their former experience on Bud Dago did not deter them from taking this step, and it would not have deterred them from fighting to the death had an effort that their solid determination to fight it out could be broken. The fact is that they were completely surprised at the prompt and decisive action of the troops in cutting of suplies and preventing escape, and they were chagrined and disappointed in that they were not encouraged to die the death of Muhammadan fanatics.
** John J. Pershing, My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917: A Memoir, p. 451