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# Grace Emily Akinyi Ogot

Grace Emily Akinyi Ogot (15 May 1930 – 18 March 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she was the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published. She was one of the first Kenyan members of parliament and she became an assistant minister.

## Quotes

* "When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage."
** As quoted by
* Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.
** www.goodreads.com
* "Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you."
** www.goodreads.com
# Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was an Abstract Expressionist painter. She gained her reputation as part of the New York School of artists who emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.

## Quotes

* I feel that we are living a very fragmented life; the whole world — you too. So I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure — that doesn't deter me in the least.
** As quoted in Contemporary Artists: A-K (2002) by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, p. 680 ISBN 1558624880
* I didn’t choose painting … It chose me. I didn’t have any talent. I just had genius.
** As quoted in "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)
* Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
** As quoted in "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)
* Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me... Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.
** Statement to World Artists : 1950-1980 as quoted n "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)
** Unsourced variant: I have found "my subject", it concerns that which is vital and vulgar in American life and the possibility of its transcendence into the beautiful.

## Quotes about Hartigan

* Her art was marked by a willingness to employ a variety of styles in a modernist idiom, to go back and forth from art-historical references to pop-culture references to autobiographical material.
** Robert Saltonstall Mattison, author of Grace Hartigan : A Painter’s World' (1990) as quoted in "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)

## External links

* New York Times Obituary
* Guardian obituary
* Telegraph obituary
* Grace Hartigan Papers at Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center
* Grace Hartigan page on the Baltimore Collective
* Maryland Art Source
# Grace Bahati

Former miss Rwanda 2009 Bahati Grace

## Quote

* It’s crazy. K8 and I aren’t married. I didn’t write that, and I wonder who stole my password (Facebook) and wrote such a thing
** https://en.igihe.com/lifestyle/miss-rwanda-2009-bahati-now-a-mother. IGIHE (24 July 2012)
* Only share my password with K8, because we trust each other. He is not the one who wrote it, it must have been someone else.” Before the marriage rumour, Bahati had confessed to a local daily tabloid, “K8 is my boyfriend, but that doesn’t mean we’re married. In any case, we’re both still under the legal age of getting married; K8 is 20, and I’m 19
** https://en.igihe.com/lifestyle/miss-rwanda-2009-bahati-now-a-mother. IGIHE (24 July 2012)
* Even this time, the birth of their baby Ethan Jedidiah Muhire has been marred by online rumors about the gender of the baby some claiming it’s a boy others saying it’s a Girl
** https://en.igihe.com/lifestyle/miss-rwanda-2009-bahati-now-a-mother. IGIHE (24 July 2012)
# Grace Coleman

Grace Coleman (29 April 1943 – 27 August 2009) was a Ghanaian politician and a member of Parliament for the Effiduase Asokore Constituency representing the Fourth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.

## Quotes

* I wasn't expecting it at all. It was a big surprise
* I asked [God] to give me the strength for the day, but I wasn't expecting the record .
* I hope in the near future I can motivate other girls to start lifting .
** https://kmph.com/sports/content/grace-coleman-shatters-squat-world-record-at-uspa-national-championships
* I am a football manager, involved in class cabinet and in link crew.
** https://www.knightcrier.org/student-life/2022/09/22/grace-coleman/
# Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari or 'Ali al-Tabari was a Persian Muslim scholar, physician and psychologist, who produced one of the first encyclopedia of medicine entitled Firdous al-Hikmah ("Paradise of wisdom").

## Quotes

* When I was a Christian I used to say, as did an uncle of mine who was one of the learned and eloquent men, that eloquence is not one of the signs of prophethood because it is common to all the peoples; but when I discarded (blind) imitation and (old) customs and gave up adhering to (mere) habit and training and reflected upon the meanings of the Qur'an I came to know that what the followers of the Qur'an claimed for it was true. The fact is that I have not found any book, be it by an Arab or a Persian, an Indian or a Greek, right from the beginning of the world up to now, which contains at the same time praises of God, belief in the prophets and apostles, exhortations to good, everlasting deeds, command to do good and prohibition against doing evil, inspiration to the desire of paradise and to avoidance of hell-fire as this Qur'an does. So when a person brings to us a book of such qualities, which inspires such reverence and sweetness in the hearts and which has achieved such an everlasting success and he is (at the same time) an illiterate person who did never learnt the art of writing or rhetoric, that book is without any doubt one of the signs of his Prophet-hood.
** On the Qur'an
# Alia Mamdouh

Alia Mamdouh (also spelled Aliyah Mamduh) (born 1944) is an Iraqi novelist, author, and journalist living in exile in Paris, France.

## Quote

* The act of novel writing is not a personal matter; it is about digging to the fullest extent of what history presents to us.
* الكتابة الروائية ليست أمراً شخصياً، هي الحفر إلى الأقصى بما يقترحه التاريخ علينا.
* — 10 اغسطس 2019.
* Iraq is always like this, it has the luster of a vast moving worldliness, and it always invokes its mighty truth: either it is at the bottom lost, helpless, as it has been since the American occupation in particular until the joy of the revolutionaries emerged, or at the peak, obsessing with the temptation and honesty of history and working to build the nation and major cities.
* العراق هو هكذا دائمًا، له بريق الدنيوية المتحركة الشاسعة، ودائما يستدعى حقيقته الجبارة: إما أنه في القاع خسران ومغلوب على أمره وقليل الحيلة، كما هو منذ الاحتلال الأمريكى بالذات حتى بزغت بهجة الثوار، وإما في الذروة، مستحوذًا على غواية وأمانة التأريخ والعمل على بناء الأمة والمدن الكبرى.
* I lived Iraq as we were in our house do not know what the meaning of «doctrine», and that «religion» is primarily to preserve the trust and preserve our tongues from the words of shame and bad, and not to reveal secrets, because they are not ours, but the truth no one owns, and we sons of humans came to search for it in science and true faith.
* أنا عشت العراق بالصورة التى كنا في بيتنا لا نعرف ماذا يعنى «المذهب»، وأن «الدين» هو بالدرجة الأولى حفظ الأمانة وصون ألسنتنا من كلام العيب والسوء، وألا نفشى الأسرار، لأنها ليست ملكنا، أما الحقيقة فلا أحد يمتلكها، ونحن أبناء البشر حضرنا للبحث عنها في العلوم والإيمان الصحيح.
* Iraq was not like the hanging gardens; it carried the seeds of everything we see now.
* لم يكن العراق كالجنائن المعلقة، كان يحمل بذور جميع ما نراه الآن.
* — 31 ديسمبر2019.
# Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal

ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Kahhal (fl. 1010 AD), surnamed "the oculist" (al-kahhal) was the best known and most celebrated Arab ophthalmologist of medieval Islam. He was known in medieval Europe as Jesu Occulist.

## Quotes

* I am very much worried about the prisoners. Their large numbers and the condition of prisons make it certain that there must be many ailing persons among them. Therefore, I am of the opinion that they must have their own doctors who should examine them every day and give them, where necessary, medicines and decoctions. Such doctors should visit all prisons and treat the sick prisoners there.
** in David W. Tschanz, Islamic Roots of the Modern Hospital
# Alice Aprot Nawowuna

Alice Aprot Nawowuna (born 2 January 1994) is a Kenyan long-distance runner.

## Quotes

* It was a very competitive race with strong runners...the course was very good and the weather was perfect for running. I am going back to Kenya to prepare the track season. My goal is to qualify for the Olympic Games in the 10,000m.
** Riadha, Alice Aprot continues meteoric rise with win in Campaccio X-Country, Kenya Page, January 10, 2016.
# Gianni Vattimo

Gianteresio Vattimo (4 January 1936 – 19 September 2023) was an Italian philosopher and politician.

## Quotes

* I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States.
** "I do not vote for Bresso even under torture", February 21, 2010.
* I grew up as a Catholic militant; when I was a boy I used to read authors like Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier and novelists like Bernanos. But Catholic inspiration led me also to read authors that were heretical to the modern tradition. I didn’t like rationalistic historicism that came from Enlightenment, peaking in Hegel and Marx.
** Gianni Vattimo Interview by Claudio Gallo, publicseminar.org, July 11, 2016.
* Someone said that it is important — you cannot live without it — exactly because it is useless. As Heidegger put it in a famous sentence: "Science doesn't think" — precisely because it is useful, it works toward goals that it doesn’t choose. In Kantian terms, science deals with phenomena, factual data that it receives according to reason’s frames, organizes them in time and space, expresses them mathematically, connects and measures them in various ways. But Kant says that there is the noumenon beyond the phenomenon: what you can think but is phenomenologically unknown. It is part of what Kant calls the "Kingdom of Ends". In this kingdom you encounter freedom; that is something impossible to know phenomenologically. The same goes for the existence of God. In philosophy, there are higher questions that usually don’t have an answer because they do not concern phenomenal data, the way science does. This is the source of a peculiar feeling of uselessness and void-ness about philosophy. But we cannot live without it if we don’t want to become machines or robots.
** On the role of philosophy, Gianni Vattimo Interview by Claudio Gallo, publicseminar.org, July 11, 2016.

### "Only Weak Communism Can Save Us" (2013)

    "Only Weak Communism Can Save Us", by Ian Angus, MR Online, January, 5, 2013
* Stalin imposed the development of heavy industry against agriculture and thence the displacement of people, the sacrifices, the deaths... A crazy dream! But... without the Stalinist industrial force, the Nazis would have won!
* Soviet communism and Western capitalism share the same crazy ideology: forced industrialization of society.
* I am Christian, therefore I am communist. The first Christian communities were very communist... except that they were expecting the immediate end of the world.
* I propose hermeneutic communism: non-dogmatic communism, weak communism. Only this can save us. [Is is] without essences, without absolutes to be realized at all costs. It is only an ideal of equitable society, a society that progressively weakens violence like dialectics.
# Gibil

Gibil in Sumerian mythology is the god of fire, variously of the son of An and Ki, An and Shala or of Ishkur and Shala. He later developed into the Akkadian god Gerra.

## Quotes about Gibil

* O angry great butting bull! O torch! O great bull of Enki, standing aggressively, coming forth from the abzu, the pure place! O Gibil the god of fire. [...] O Nun-bar-ana, angry avenger, [...] bringing forth the great torch from the abzu, lifting his head with the noble divine powers! O antler-like horn of a mountain goat! Cedar, cypress, juniper and boxwood, white wool and black wool, white birch and black birch, a string of apples tied to a long string of figs, butter flowing from the holy cattle-pen and sheepfold.
** A hymn to Kusu, late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
* Destiny, prosperity -- the wood of destiny, wood of prosperity, and the reeds of destiny, reeds of prosperity, adorn the holy cattle-pen. Through the wool from a fair lamb and the wool from a fair kid, Gibil, the foremost, the right arm, lifting his head to heaven receives water from the holy teats of heaven.
** A hymn to Kusu, late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
# Gianni A. Sarcone

Gianni A. Sarcone (20 March 1962) is an international artist, author, and science writer.

## Quotes

* A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.
** Puzzillusions (2007).
* The German poet Novalis said that the eye is a ‘superficial’ organ. That is indeed partly true. I will even add that it is an external organ: the eye with which we see the world is a part of the world itself. As soon as we open the eye, whup, the world pops in it!
** Curiopticals (2009).
* The greatest optical illusion of all is to believe that an image has only one interpretation.
** Curiopticals (2009).
* Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.
** ESOF (2010).
* Life is a space between two illusions: Birth and Death...
** ESOF (2010).
* Are the eyes an open door to the world, as poets say? Well, honestly, not really. The fact is, we see the world through a pair of tiny peepholes, the pupils of our eyes. Our brain functions as a highly creative ‘camera obscura’ – the forerunner of the modern photographic camera, named from the Latin for dark room.
** Amazing Visual Illusions: Trick Your Mind and Feast Your Eyes (2011).
* Your eyes – those incredible jelly balls beneath your forehead – capture everything around you. They are sense organs allowing you to see, and they give more information about your surroundings than any of the other four senses: hearing, taste, touch and smell.
** EyeBogglers (2012).
* Colors are ghosts, they only start to exist when light is perceived on the retina as a stimulus and is processed into color perception in our brain.
** Tangente Magazine (2013).
* We long for a technological world, while keeping the natural aspect of our environment; we want the progress, while maintaining the traditions; we want organization while preserving individual freedom; we produce at a large scale while looking for unique products; we want clearness in our relationships, while we like to play with the ambiguity; we wish everlasting happiness while seeking incomparable magic moments… In reality, from all these contradictions, we are looking for only one thing: ASTONISHMENT. We would life to astonish us every day! That’s why we all, human beings, love playing, because games are synonymous of risk and astonishment. Games are enactments, and the act of playing is an illusion of the illusion of the reality.
** Make Your Own 3D Illusions (2014).
* Your eyes see what your brain expects to see...
** Optical Illusions (2017).
* Open your eyes wide and immerse yourself in your dreams without any hesitation!
** Optical Illusions (2017).

## External links

* Official website
* These Patterns Move But It’s All An Illusion by G. Sarcone
* G. Sarcone's autokinetic illusions on Scene 360
* 2011 Best Visual Illusions of the Year
* 2014 Best Visual Illusions of the Year
* G. Sarcone’s biography and bibliography on Amazon
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Gianni Agnelli

Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli (12 March 1921 – 24 January 2003) also known as L'Avvocato ("The Lawyer"), was an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat.

## Quotes

* I like the wind because you can’t buy it.
** Gianni Agnelli quotes hespokestyle.com

### Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)

Agnelli: The Rules of the Game Sally Bedell Smith, Vanity Fair, JULY 1991
* Everything is on loan in life—everything.
* I even believe aesthetics are like ethics. Something that is beautiful is ethical, and unethical things aren’t beautiful.
* Doing things without giving the impression of suffering is a question of good manners.
* There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.

## See also

* Juventus F.C.
* Brunello Cucinelli
# Freedom Force (2002 video game)

Freedom Force is a real-time tactical role-playing game developed by Irrational Games and published by Electronic Arts and Crave Entertainment in 2002. The player guides a team of superheroes as they defend Patriot City from a variety of villains, monsters, and other menaces. The game's budget was $2 million. A sequel, Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich was self-published in early March 2005.

## Dialogue

    Minuteman: Perhaps that double-crosser lefts some clues in this park to his whereabouts.
    Praetor: Glory to you, Lord Dominion, may all your conquests be merciless.
    Dominion: Praetor, how many dimensions have I conquered.
    Praetor: Nearly all of them, my lord.
    Dominion: NEARLY all except one, look at that planet, do you know what it's called? Earth, Earth, why, they haven't even discovered that other dimensions exist yet, can you imagine a planet so primitive?
    Praetor: Lord dominion, who is that?
    Dominion: His name is Clobber Johnson, he sits on death row awaiting execution for a triple murder, do you know why he killed? For a $20 watch and some costume jewellery, such small imaginations. What if we were not to destroy this planet Earth?
    Praetor: You cannot be serious my lord! That puny planet is the only thing that lies between you and utter control of the universe!
    Dominion: You have little imagination, lackey. I intend Earth to be destroyed, but it would amuse me if it were to destroy itself.
    Praetor: But how can a planet destroy itself?
    Dominion: We shall give them the power of energy x!
    Praetor: MY LORD! HAVE YOU GONE MAD?? GIVE THE EARTHLINGS OUR SECRET WEAPON???
    Dominion: Not ALL the Earthlings, you fool! seek out the greediest, basest and most corrupt of their number. To THESE wretches we shall give power beyond their imagination, make them stronger, smarter and better than their fellow man. Earthling has killed Earthling since the dawn of time, energy x will simply allow them to finish the job.
    Praetor: They will destroy themselves utterly, I shall put our scientists to work immediately.
    Mentor: The entire supply of energy x is aboard this freighter, mustn't let myself be seen.
    Domain Pilot: Hey, who's there?
    (an energy attack sound is heard)
    Praetor: My lord, someone is hijacking the ship.
    Dominion: You Fool! scramble the fleet, stop him with your very lives, I'll have his corpse...Or Yours!
    Mentor: These gates are frozen solid.
    Minuteman: Allow me to...Break the ice.
    Deja Vu: You are sad and all alone, cheer yourself with a Psycho clone.
    Deja Vu: My new clones see me as an idol, too bad they're all homicidal!
# Freedom House

Freedom House is a U.S.-based, U.S. government-funded non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights.

## Quotes

* The government enacted new laws that expanded both the state's power to block websites and the surveillance capability of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). Journalists faced unprecedented legal obstacles as the courts restricted reporting on corruption and national security issues. The authorities also continued to aggressively use the penal code, criminal defamation laws, and the antiterrorism law to crack down on journalists and media outlets. Verbal attacks on journalists by senior politicians—including Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the incumbent prime minister who was elected president in August—were often followed by harassment and even death threats against the targeted journalists on social media. Meanwhile, the government continued to use the financial and other leverage it holds over media owners to influence coverage of politically sensitive issues. Several dozen journalists, including prominent columnists, lost their jobs as a result of such pressure during the year, and those who remained had to operate in a climate of increasing self-censorship and media polarization.
** Freedom of the Press 2015, Turkey

## External links

* Official website
# Funmi Aragbaye

Funmi Aragbaye (born July 5, 1954) is a Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter and televangelist. She was happily married to Late. Bola Aragbaye and the marriage was blessed with three children.

## Quotes

* All upcoming gospel artists should arise and shine. Nigeria should arise and shine even at this period.
* The major cause of divorce among young couples is the fact that they cannot endure hardship with anybody. And, they prefer getting married to rich people. However, happiness in marriage is not dependent on how rich one’s spouse is. Young people should always seek divine direction from God before they get married.
* Young people should also learn to endure, be patient and rugged, and be understanding.
* If you have a divine call upon your life you will be unique, you will stand out among others. If it’s about songs you will always let people know that you have something to say.
# Funke Egbemode

Funke Egbemode is a Nigerian female journalist, Managing Director of the New Telegraph newspaper. She attended Baptist Practising Primary School, Iwo, Osun State. Her Secondary school education was at Baptist Girls High School, Osogbo (Osun State) She is a columnist with The Sun Newspaper. Funke served as the President of Nigerian Guild of Editors for two terms. She is currently the Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Osun State, Nigeria.

## Quotes

* Don’t get entangled with a man who is a dream killer. Marry a man who will support your career.
** Her opinion in an interview]
* When something is good it will be counterfeited. It is only an unsuccessful product that will not have a fake.
** Her opinion in an interview
* We have to start taking pride in what we do and stop giving attention to those who are trying to distract us.
** Her opinion in an interview
* As a lawful owner and holder of the Certificate of Occupancy of your man’s assets and jewels, you reserve the right to keep your thing. But do not, I repeat, do not lose your life or yourself while trying to fend off encroachers.
** Her opinion in an interview
* When you get into the deep end of the marriage pool, what offers you a life jacket is not love. In fact, love can’t swim. Love is feeble bodied, delicate. Love itself needs support and protection. That is why those who go into marriage with only love as a covering soon find themselves naked.
** Her opinion in an interview
* That a woman chose or is chosen not just for the roses are red and her shapely shape does not mean real deep love won’t develop as the marriage grows, after all the marriages that take off on ‘plenty love’ have been known to lose the love when the vicissitudes of life show up.
** Her opinion in an interview
# Funke Osibodu

Olufunke Iyabo Osibodu or Funke Osibodu (born 1959) is a Nigerian banker who led Ecobank Nigeria and the Union Bank of Nigeria.

## Quotes

* Experience is Better than Money.
** Funke Osibodu's Quotes