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# Nishapur

Nishapur or Neyshābūr, also Romanized as Nīshāpūr, Nīshābūr, and Neyshābūr from Middle Persian: New-Shabuhr, meaning "New City of Shapur", "Fair Shapur", or "Perfect built of Shapur"), is a city in the w:Razavi Khorasan Province, capital of the Nishapur County and former capital of Khorasan, in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Mount Binalud. It had an estimated population of 239,185 as of 2011 and its county 433,105. Nearby are the turquoise mines that supplied the world with turquoise for at least two millennia.
The city was founded in the 3rd century by Shapur I as a Sasanian satrapy capital. Nishapur later became the capital of the Tahirid dynasty and was reformed by Abdullah Tahir in 830, and was later selected as the capital of the Seljuq dynasty by Tughril in 1037. From the Abbasid era to the Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran, the city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center within the Islamic world. Nishapur, along with Merv, Herat and Balkh were one of the four great cities of Greater Khorasan and one of the greatest cities in the middle ages, a seat of governmental power in eastern of caliphate, a dwelling place for diverse ethnic and religious groups, a trading stop on commercial routes from Transoxiana and China, Iraq and Egypt. The city reached the height of its prosperity under the Samanids in the 10th century, but was destroyed by Mongols in 1221, and further ruined by other invasions and earthquakes in the 13th century.

## Quotes

* Nishapur is the best cities of the Great Khorasan.
** Attributed to Muhammad by al-Hakim al-Nishapuri
* One can not decide which one of the notables of this city he should talk about.
** Shahram Nazeri, isna.ir
* Scimitars from Nishapur, along whose captured arcs there seemed to persist still the wind and violence of battle.
** Jorge Luis Borges, The Shape of the Sword
# Nitpicking

Nitpicking is the act of removing lice eggs from the hair. The term is used metaphorically to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, trivial errors.

## Quotes

* If we find fault with others We ourselves are also in the wrong. When other people are in the wrong, we should ignore it, For it is wrong for us to find fault. By getting rid of the habit of fault-finding We cut off a source of defilement.
** Huineng, Platform Sutra

## See also

* Blame
* Criticism
# Nitro compound

Nitro compounds are organic compounds that contain one or more nitro functional groups (–NO2). They are often highly explosive, especially when the compound contains more than one nitro group and is impure.

## Quotes

* The α-hydrogens of nitroalkanes are appreciably acidic due to resonance stabilization of the anion … The anions derived from nitroalkanes give typical nucleophilic addition reactions with aldehydes (the Henry-Nef tandem reaction). Note that the nitro group can be changed directly to a carbonyl.
** George S. Zweifel and Michael H. Nantz, Modern Organic Synthesis (2006), Ch. 1. Synthetic Design
# Nixon Waterman

Nixon Waterman (12 November 1859, Newark, Kendall County, Illinois – 1 September 1944, Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts) was a newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer, who rose to prominence in the 1890s.

## Quotes

* No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
** Interludes, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Though life is made up of mere bubbles, 'T is better than many aver, For while we've a whole lot of troubles, The most of them never occur.
** Shreds and Patches, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens", Benjamin Disraeli, Henrietta Temple (1837), Book 2, chapter 4; "I say the very things that make the greatest Stir / An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur", Sam Walter Foss, Things that did n't occur.
* A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
** A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* If I knew you and you knew me— If both of us could clearly see, And with an inner sight divine The meaning of your heart and mine I'm sure that we would differ less And clasp our hands in friendliness: Our thoughts would pleasantly agree, If I knew you and you knew me.
** In a Merry Mood, poem.

## External links

* WorldCat page for Nixon Waterman
# Nishikant Dubey

Nishikant Dubey (born 28 January 1969) is a member of India's 17th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and represents the Godda constituency in Jharkhand since May 2009, having won the seat in 2009 (15th Lok Sabha), 2014, and 2019.

## Quotes

* We will not be able to bring back black money from Switzerland in our lifetime. We cannot bring it back because people have formed trusts. Citizens of Switzerland are employees who hold the trust.
** Explaining why the government is unable to recover black money from Swiss banks, as quoted in "We cannot bring back black money: BJP lawmaker". Live Mint. 24 July 2014.
* Yes, we do fear hugging Rahul Gandhi. Married BJP MPs are afraid that if they hug Rahul Gandhi, their wives might divorce them or accuse them of developing different symptoms.
** Suspecting Rahul Gandhi of being a homosexual, as quoted in "Section 377 bug bites hug". The Telegraph (India). 27 July 2018.
# Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Philip Ó Ceallaigh (born March 23, 1968) is an Irish short story writer living in Bucharest.

## Quotes
### Notes from a library bar (2006)

    Notes from a library bar, Hot Press (20 December 2006)
* I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well.
** On Life, on his time at school.
* I called the boss a ‘fucker’ one day – not to his face, but it got back to him – so that was the end.
** On life, on his time spent as a waiter.
* I used to write in the Rathmines public library. I was on the dole and living in a bedsit down the road. It was too cold to write at home. I had one of those meters that you had to put 50p into. So I'd go down the library every morning and after lunch to scribble stuff in longhand in the study room there.
* I don't want to become the kind of writer who's putting out a book every two years. Money is not my primary concern. I've been broke before and I'll do it again.
* I think if you've got something to say and you can say it with less, that's the way to go.

### Interview by Tom Vowler (2010-13)

    Interview by Tom Vowler, Short Fiction Journal. Undated, somewhere between 2010 and 2013
* I meet people who tell me things like, ‘I read your book in two days’. Please don’t do that. These things take me years to write. Slow down. Everything you read, slow down. Reading is our great act of resistance in this age of speed and carelessness.
* I write to discover something, not so much to set down what I already know. I see ignorance and confusion all around me. I see these things in myself. I'm subject of all kinds of fears and conflicting desires. But one of those desires, the sanest one, is to see through the confusion.
* Tolstoy's War and Peace is overblown – do yourself a favour and read his Death of Ivan Ilych.
* The ‘novel’ is a publishing convention that deforms the story. If more attention were given to form there would be fewer novels and better stories. There's no reason a publisher can’t put out a story that's a hundred or even seventy pages long. But a publisher will look at a story like that as defective novel, ineligible for shortlists. It should be in a collection. Or pumped full of air, turned into a novel… It's a pity. You see some good writers behaving like performing monkeys.
* The real writers are tenacious creatures, and they found a way long before there were writers workshops and creative writing courses in the universities. In the absence of formal frameworks, personal initiatives and informal frameworks become more important.
# Philip Zaleski

Philip Zaleski is the author and editor of several books on religion and spirituality.

## Quotes

* We don’t know what the earliest religion was like, but certainly it involved some sort of ritual. As far as we know, ritual never exists without prayer of some kind, so we can assume they came about simultaneously, and both seem immensely old.
** The Language of Paradise
* All the world’s great religions have spawned great literature, and it seems to me that it is incumbent upon Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and so on, to recover the riches of their own traditions and transmute them into modern classics. The great danger, I believe, is to settle for ersatz or cafeteria spirituality. Traditional religions have had centuries or millennia to deepen and refine their gold (Lewis, who recognized this, had considerable admiration for the liturgical and artistic beauty of Greek and Roman paganism, even though he was hardly a devotee of pagan belief); whereas the latest spiritual fad or a subjective practice of cafeteria religion is very unlikely to give birth to great literature.
** In the Footsteps of the Inklings: A Conversation with H. S. Cross and Carol and Philip Zaleski (April 4, 2019)
# Rabbitson Crusoe

Rabbitson Crusoe is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short released in 1956 and directed by Friz Freleng. The name and part of the story is a direct parody of Robinson Crusoe.
    Directed by Friz Freleng. Produced by Edward Selzer. (uncredited) Story by Warren Foster.

## Yosemite Sam

* [narrating, from his journal] A low tide and a high rock caused my predicament. The ship's supplies used up, my only food supply was a lowly coconut tree. Gatherin' coconuts was a problem, 'cause of a dangerous, man-eatin' shark named Dopey Dick.
* [whacking Dopey Dick with a hammer] Back! Back! Back! Down, ya shark-livered varmint! [Dopey Dick retreats to the water] Danged ol' fin-flappin' flounder.
* [after outsmarting Dopey Dick once again] Twenty years tryin' and ya missed me again! Ya shovel-nosed mackerel! No-good bushwhackin' barracuda!
* Huh! Missed again, ya hammerhead halibut!
* [fighting and whacking Dopey Dick with a bat] Down! Down! Down, ya shark-toothed salmon!

## Dialogue

    Bugs Bunny: What's the big idea? What's up, Doc?
    Yosemite Sam: I'm gonna make rabbit stew!
    Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Stew? Mmm, sounds good. But, uh, where are you gonna get the rabbit?
    Yosemite Sam: We've already got the rabbit. Get the idea? [laughs]
    Bugs Bunny: Yeah, I get the idea. [laughs nervously] How long will it be before dinner's ready?
    Yosemite Sam: Just a few minutes, barrin' accidents.
    Bugs Bunny: [drops water onto the flames, extinguishing them] Whoops, foist accident.
    Yosemite Sam: Ooh, ya stupid idjit rabbit! Don't ya know matches is scarce on this island?! Now I gotta go all the way to the ship to get another match!

## Voice cast

* Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / Yosemite Sam / Dopey Dick.
# Rabia of Basra

Rabia of Basra (Arabic: رابعة البصري, romanized: Rābiʿa al-Baṣrī; c. 714, 717 or 718—801 was an Arab Muslim saint and Sufi mystic.

## Quotes

* I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.
** as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165
* O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell
    and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
    But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
    grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.
   * as quoted in Khushwant Singh, The Freethinker's Prayer Book (2013), p. 35
* I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.
** as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).

### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* Love, for Rabia, is the basis of spiritual perfection at all the stages on the journey to God. She teaches to love God for the sake of God.
** p. 29
* O my Lord! If I worship Thee on account of the fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship Thee with the hope of Paradise, exclude me from it, but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, then withhold not from me Thine Eternal Beauty.
** p. 29, also quoted in her prayer.
* I have not served God for fear of Hell, for I should be like a wretched hireling, If I did it for fear: nor for love of Paradise, for I should be a bad servant if I served for the sake of what was given, but I have served Him only for the love of Him and out of desire for Him.
** p. 29-30
* Repentance is attained by the saints with the Divine grace and it comes from the side of God who enlightens the hearts of those whom He loves. Seeking a formal forgiveness is the sin for lying. If I seek repentance of my self, I shall have need of repentance again.
** p. 30
* Seclusion is the soul's ideal preparation for reaching God. It is in the state of solitude that the soul contemplates on the attributes of God.
** p. 30
* The soul comes from God and it can be united with Him if it is purified through the process of mortification.
** p. 30

## Quotes about Rabia of Basra

* Were Women all like those whom here I name, Woman to man I surely would prefer; The Sun is feminine, nor deems it shame; The Moon, though masculine, depends on her.
** Jami, Nafahat al-Uns, as quoted in A Literary History of Persia by E. G. Browne, p. 299.

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine (born 1959) is a Lebanese-American painter and writer.

## Quotes

* If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.
** On the dilemma faced by his protagonist in The Angel of History in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)
* God tells us men fucking men is a terrible thing, but a father offering his two daughters, vestal virgins no less, to a horde of horny buggers is heroic. Now that's straight. … God destroys the faggots with fire and brimstone. He turns a disobedient wife into salt. But he asks us to idolize drunks who sleep with their daughters or offer them to a horny, unruly mob.
** On the biblical narrative of Lot and his family confronting the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, cited by Wail S. Hassan in Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (2011), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-979206-1, page 207.
* One of the things that was obvious to me after I started getting upset about so many things was, I wasn’t upset at the world, I was upset at myself,” he said. “Somewhere along the line, 1996, all my friends died, and I decided that to be able to survive, I must put everything aside. And I did. That was the date, by the way, that I started writing my first book….All of a sudden, I’m a writer. I have a career, I have a life. I wasn’t thinking, I wasn’t remembering. Jacob begins the book by getting upset at these young gay men for forgetting queer history, but it’s him, it’s me, that allowed people to forget, because I forgot.
** On feeling that he was complicit in forgetting the AIDS crisis in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)
* I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
** On the unpredictability of how a written work will be received in “Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'” in The Guardian (2015 Jan 9)
* I don't sit down to write something politically or to challenge stereotypes. Being who I am, almost everything I do will be political, almost everything I do will be a challenge to those stereotypes…
** On challenging stereotypes in “Researcher Nadia Barhoum interviews Rabih Alameddine” (Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley)

## Quotes about Rabih Alameddine

* For years, I have been heralding the work of Rabih Alameddine, a Lebanese-American writer. His prose is gorgeous, his approach irreverent, and the ideas in his stories are sometimes comical or fantastical, but always deadly serious — very relevant to understanding the complex history behind multiple holy wars today. In Italy and Spain, his books are best sellers. He has full-page profiles in major newspapers, has garnered prizes, is a darling of literary festivals and has won acclaim from international writers. In the U.S., he’s hardly known. Why is there a geographic divide in literary appreciation?
** Amy Tan interview (2013)
# Rabia Salihu Sa'id

Rabia Salihu Sa'id (born on April 21, 1963) is a Nigerian physicist, professor of atmospheric and space-weather physics, and a researcher at Bayero University Kano. She conducts research in atmospheric and space weather physics, particle physics, and electronics. Sa'id is an advocate and mentor for young women in science with the Visiola Foundation and Peace Corps; she co-founded Nigeria's Association of Women Physicists.

## Quotes

Each day, my university is giving me only four hours of electricity. I can't do research in four hours!
** Prof speak on her University days in 2015.
* Think! You are concentrating and the power goes off! You try to use the battery, and the battery starts beeping. Then you have to close it and leave.
** Prof Rabia speak on battery in 2015.
* The ideas are gone by the time you come back. It's difficult — you have to start all over again.
** Prof Rabia speak on ideas in 2015.
# Rabbit Punch

Rabbit Punch is a 1948 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon. The short was released on April 10, 1948 and features Bugs Bunny. The work features a boxing match between "Battling McGook" (identified as "The Crusher" in subsequent cartoons) and Bugs Bunny.

## Bugs Bunny

* Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to continue with this picture and... Confidentially, the film didn't exactly break! [holds up a pair of scissors]

## Dialogue

    Ring Announcer: Bugs is down. He's out. He's flat. He's kissing the canvas.
    [Bugs is shown literally kissing the canvas]
    Ring Announcer: And here comes the count. One! Two! Three! It looks like it's all over. Four! Five! The champ is still champ.
    Bugs Bunny: [Grabs the mike] Six! Seven! But wait just a minute, folks. Bugs is coming out of it. He's on his feet. He's moving in like a tornado. The champ is confused. He doesn't know which way to look.
    [At this point the champ starts to react to what Bugs is saying as if it's really happening]
    Bugs Bunny: Bugs lands a beauty to the solar plexus! A right to the jaw! A one-two on the instep! Four fast rabbit punches to the kidneys! A left hook, a right hook, a north hook, a south hook! What a fight! The champ is groggy!
    [the champ trips on Bugs and falls]
    Bugs Bunny: The champ is down.

## External links

* Rabbit Punch quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Kurt Daluege

Kurt Max Franz Daluege (September 15, 1897 – October 24, 1946) was chief of the national uniformed Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) of Nazi Germany. Following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in 1942, he served as Deputy Protector for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Daluege directed the German measures of retribution for the assassination, including the Lidice massacre. After the end of World War II, he was extradited to Czechoslovakia, tried, convicted and executed in 1946.

## Quotes

* My chief qualification for the job is that I have been in almost every cell in the Moabit Prison in Berlin.
** After receiving a promotion. Quoted in "The Pursuit of Crime" - Page 129 - by Ronald Howe - Police - 1961.
# Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal

Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal (4 August 1966 –) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

## Quotes

* As Bishops we reach out to touch the hearts of the abandoned, marginalized, ignored and excluded, in an attempt to uplift these people and restore their dignity and legitimate place in society. Go in search of the lost, the last and the marginalized. The courage of those who approach Jesus in the Gospel is a great lesson for everyone. We too must learn to go to him, to seek his merciful face. Jesus felt pity and reached out to help.
** The Apostolic Nuncio: "Catholic laity: saints and sent to service" (26 June 2020) Fides News Agency
# Kurgan

A kurgan (Russian: курга́н) is a type of tumulus constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western and Northern Europe during the 3rd millennium BC.

## Quotes

* Which components of the reconstructed Indo-European proto-culture can be used as evidence of a steppic location?... two arguments are generally singled out by the proponents of the steppic theory: the case of the horse and that of the chariot. The domesticated horse, on the one hand, and the chariot on the other, are supposedly well-attested in the shared vocabulary and are particularly valorized in the earliest Indo-European mythologies, where the sacrifice of a horse is the ultimate royal sacrifice... The most common root for the horse is certainly found in a significant number of Indo-European languages... Its absence in Slavic is all the more surprising since the historical “cradle” of the Slavs is often said to be located in the North Pontic Steppes, or close by, precisely where the earliest domestication of the horse is reputed to have occurred.
** Jean-Paul Demoule - The Indo-Europeans_ Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West
* “Gimbutas, following most recent Russian work, has departed from Childe, to the extent of deriving the Kurgan cultures from the steppes on the Lower Volga and farther east (…) While linguistic opinion has been moving in the direction of putting the Indo-European homeland in the region of the Vistula, Oder or Elbe, archaeological opinion is now putting it in the Lower Volga steppe and regions east of the Caspian Sea.”
** Ward H. Goodenough: “The Evolution of Pastoralism and Indo-European Origins”, in G. Cardona et al., eds.: Indo-European and Indo-Europeans, p.253-265, specially p.255, with reference to V. Gordon Childe: The Aryans. A Study of Indo-European Origins, London 1926., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
* “Local evolution cannot account for such abrupt changes (…) The pottery is relatable to the earliest Neolithic in the Middle Urals and Soviet Central Asia.”
** M. Gimbutas: “Primary and Secondary Homeland”, JIES 1985, p.191, emphasis added., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
* Russian scholar N. Merpert traces the Kurgan culture to the “Volga-Ural region, developing there under the influence of Neolithic cultures of the south-east Caspian zone”.
** Paraphrase by J.P. Mallory: “The chronology of the early Kurgan tradition”, Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1977/4, p.339, with reference to a Russian article by N. Merpert, Moscow 1974., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.