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# Jacek Tylicki

Jacek Tylicki (born in 1951 in Sopot, Poland) is an artist who settled in New York City in 1982. Tylicki works in the field of Land art, Installation, and Site-specific art. His conceptual art projects often raise social and environmental issues.

## Quotes

* The Universe is the greatest piece of art
** Catalogue to exhibition in Gallery 38 - Copenhagen, 1976, as cited in: Leszek Brogowski & Dorota Czerner (transl.). Jacek Tylicki: Art and Artworks. 2014
* Avoiding all control, I spread out sheets of white paper or canvas in the nature. For some time they stay in the grass, in the rushes of river, in the meadows or among the rocks. Nature registers its presence, covering the surface of the paper with colors, forms and tracks. This process is controlled by a number of agents; such as space and time, substance and causality. It is governed by nature's intensity. It does not, depend on man's interference. Nature is the greatest and most admirable creator, and unlike logic it doesn't fail. The artist obligation is not to shape - handicraft, but to understand the riddles of reality. In such conception of Art there lies, as in the Universe itself, an immense richness, and a countless variety of forms.
** Catalogue to exhibition in Gallery 38 - Copenhagen, 1976, as cited in: Leszek Brogowski & Dorota Czerner (transl.). Jacek Tylicki: Art and Artworks. 2014
* Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.
** Jacek Tylicki, in "Les Krantz," The New York Art Review, 1988.
* Make war in art not in reality
** Commentary on the 1982 streert art attacks entitled "Art Wars"
* For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken.
** Commentary on the 1987 project entitled "Chicken & Art", cited in: Leszek Brogowski. "Jacek Tylicki and the new ethos of Art," in Projekt Visual Art Magazine, nr. 202-203, 1995
* Give If You Can - Take If You Have To.
** Inscription on sculpture by Jacek Tylicki. Palolem, India, 2008. Published on cover of book: "Jacek Tylicki: Art and Artworks", 2014, ISBN 9780985369231
* The art here does not exist to define conversations or generate dogma, it is here to open up conversations.
** In Catalogue introduction to Dublin Biennial, 2012

## Quotes about Jacek Tylicki

* Art originating in the countercultural tradition - a tradition which became epoch-making - introduced some new specific values into the cultural fabric, values to which the creative activity of Jacek Tylicki refers closely. Through his art, Tylicki lays a stress upon personal experience bearing witness to artistic truth; he searches on his own account for an authenticity and a fullness of existence in its relation to Nature, to other human beings, as well as to himself; and maintains a critical suspiciousness towards the ethical and political models of Western society.
** Leszek Brogowski. "Jacek Tylicki and the new ethos of Art," in Projekt Visual Art Magazine, nr. 202-203, 1995

## External links

* Official website
# Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi

Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi (11 August 1957 –) is a Ghanaian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Sunyani.

## Quotes

* Massive uncontrolled corruption is suffocating the nation. It appears corruption is legalized. What should Ghanaians do since the existing form of democracy help only a few and leaves the majority behind? What about the impunity and arrogance of some politicians and their defence of corruption?
** President of the Bishops' Conference: “Rampant corruption is suffocating the country” (15 November 2023) Fides News Agency
# Matthew Lopez (playwright)

Matthew Lopez is an American playwright and screenwriter.

## Quotes

* The thing that drew me to Forster most specifically, I think, looking back on it, was I was picking up on what I would call 'the vibrations’…And 'the vibrations' were a closeted gay man in the early 20th century, at that time, speaking to a closeted gay boy at the end of the 20th century.
** On how E.M. Forster’s Howards End inspired him to write The Inheritance in “Ghosts Haunt 'The Inheritance,' From E.M. Forster, To The Generation Lost To AIDS” in NPR (2019 Nov 17)
* There is also the inheritance to younger gay men, of the generation that is coming up right now, of a responsibility and a debt to the generation that came before them…The generation that fought tirelessly to be able to walk down the street and hold your partner's hand, to kiss your husband in public, to get married, to just truly be accepted for being who you are and loving who you love.
** On the main theme of his play The Inheritance in “Ghosts Haunt 'The Inheritance,' From E.M. Forster, To The Generation Lost To AIDS” in NPR (2019 Nov 17)
* I can never predict what is going to capture my interest and draw me to create. I think it comes primarily from curiosity. I like to play the “what if” game with subjects. “What if slaves owned by Jewish families adopted that religion?” “What if a family living in the proposed footprint of Lincoln Center in 1959 were completely devoted to Jerome Robbins and his work?” “What if a straight guy became a drag queen?” That leads to the next important question of “why?” And then “who?” And so on.
** On how he decides what to write about in “Meet the Artist: Q&A Playwright Matthew Lopez” in Hartford Stage
* A lot of people want to tell me their stories, and it’s not just the people who were alive back then. Though the play deals with AIDS, it’s about more than just the epidemic. It deals with things that plague gay men now. It’s very much about addiction, too. And the audience’s experiences run the gamut. And these audiences feel emboldened in the best way possible to not keep secrets. And they feel like they trust us enough to tell us their stories. It’s a beautiful thing.
** On the impact of The Inheritance in “PLAYWRIGHT MATTHEW LOPEZ WANTS TO HEAR YOUR STORIES” in Interview Magazine (2019 Nov 14)
# Matthew Green

Matthew Green (1696–1737) was a British poet born of Nonconformist parents.

## Quotes
### The Grotto (1732)

* Nor bigots who but one way see, Through blinkers of authority.
** Line 165.

### The Spleen (1737)

* To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling green; Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
** Line 89.
* Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
** Line 93.
* Avarice, sphincter of the heart.
** Line 697.
* Thus I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
* Though pleased to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
# Matthew Hassan Kukah

Matthew Hassan Kukah (31 August 1952 –) is the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.

## Quotes

* If the people in power don’t do enough to integrate Christians then they give oxygen to Islamism. If they have countries where everybody is Muslim in power then you give vent to the idea that Islam should be supreme.
* Christians have every reason to feel insecure and also there is a general feeling of their marginalisation from the political process. If the principles of our religion were different, there would be a civil war by now. It is the glory of our religion that this hasn’t happened. It is difficult to preach peace in this context. Any resolution depends on how Christians decide to react. They won’t use violence but what will they do?”
** Government are Islamic fundamentalists without bombs, says bishop (January 3, 2020)
# Marcus Arvan

Marcus Arvan is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tampa.

## Quotes

* On the one hand, animals in nature face all kinds of coercive horrors, such as starvation and disease. According to the Principle of Negative Fairness, these natural horrors are a moral issue: we should care about the coercive horrors that animals experience in nature. Simply leaving animals alone in nature – however much animal advocates may like to romanticize it – is, on Rightness as Fairness, not fair to animals. Just as there is nothing fair about leaving fellow human beings to suffer or die from starvation or disease, so too is there nothing fair about leaving animals to suffer and die from such things in nature.
** Rightness as Fairness: A Moral and Political Theory (2016) ISBN 978-1137541819

## External links

* Marcus Arvan's profile at the University of Tampa.
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Marco Valsecchi

Marco Valsecchi (1913 – 1980) was an Italian art critic.

## Quotes

* Si direbbe che Kodra tra le sfaccettature del tardo cubismo del primo dopoguerra, abbbia rintracciato le scaglie luminose dei vecchi mosaici bizzantini. I bagliori delle antiche moschee e le favolosità dei pastori bivaccano su le pendici dell'Olimpo.
** It would seem that Kodra, among the facets of the late post-war Cubism, has traced the luminous scales of the old Byzantine mosaics. The glow of the ancient mosques and the fabulousness of the shepherds bivouack on the slopes of the Olympus.<ref>Franco Russoli. IBRAHIM KODRA, Le Arti (may 1963).
** Il Giornale, Addio a Kodra, i colori della fiaba Elena Pontiggia, 08/02/2006.
# Marcos Pontes

Marcos Cesar Pontes (born March 11, 1963) is a Brazilian astronaut and lieutenant colonel of the Brazilian Air Force. In March 2006, he embarked on a one-week mission aboard the Soyuz TMA-8 and became the first Brazilian in space. To date, he is the only South American and native Portuguese speaker to have visited space. In late 2018, he was nominated Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Jair Bolsonaro's government (2019–2022).

## Quotes

* People are the most important things in this life. Treat them as something precious because that is exactly what they are. Just like our beautiful Planet, we are all insignificant compared to the vastness of the Universe. We are all essentially equal. We are not alone and isolated: when you hurt someone, you hurt yourself; when you help someone, you help yourself.
* What someone says or writes about me doesn't change the way I am; it only changes my opinion about that person.
** Webpage Astronauta Marcos Pontes - Entrevistas
* Our true motivation isn't sustained only by titles and material results of a campaign. Our actual reward is not to have "that" car, or to reach "that" specific post. In reality, we seek emotional satisfaction: to feel pleasure and happiness!
** Artigo: Sucesso - Webpage Astronauta Marcos Pontes
* I believe in future generations; I believe in education, in the elimination of all that is worthless in our culture. We must leave only the good things. I don't need to explain this in detail. Every Brazilian knows which way of thinking and which negative attitudes comprise the root of the behavior that prevents our progress, with order, in a more accelerated rhythm.
** Missão Cumprida (2011), chapter 114
* ...“We need to let go of this sardonic dog sentiment and believe that we have remarkable Brazilians, as Dumont was.”
    - Source: Quem inventou o avião? Guia Completo e comentado da Aviação., by Marcos Palhares.

## External links

* Official website (in Portuguese)
* ↑ Curriculum recovered on Internet Archive
# Marco Tin Win

Marco Tin Win (22 April 1960–) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mandalay.

## Quotes

* The Church preaches and always asks for peace and today we live and witness the tragedy of the blood of our own people shed on Burmese soil. It is a real tragedy and for now there is no way out because dialogue is at a standstill and is rejected by both sides. We can only raise our arms to heaven to invoke the Most High Almighty saying: listen to us, save us. Our last refuge is prayer.
** The Archbishop of Mandalay: "It is a real tragedy. We are grateful to Pope Francis for the support" (21 June 2021)
# Marcus Argentarius

Marcus Argentarius (fl. c. AD 60) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Roman period.

## Quotes
### Anth. Pal. v. 89.

* Οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ οὗτος ἔρως, εἴ τις καλὸν εἶδος ἔχουσαν βούλετ᾽ ἔχειν, φρονίμοις ὄμμασι πειθόμενος: ἀλλ᾽ ὅστις κακόμορφον ἰδών, τετορημένος ἰοῖς στέργει, μαινομένης ἐκ φρενὸς αἰθόμενος, οὗτος ἔρως, πῦρ τοῦτο: τὰ γὰρ καλὰ πάντας ὁμοίως τέρπει τοὺς κρίνειν εἶδος ἐπισταμένους.
** That is not love if one, trusting his judicious eyes, wishes to possess a beauty. But he who seeing a homely face is pierced by the arrows and loves, set alight by fury of the heart—that is love, that is fire; for beauty delights equally all who are good judges of form.
*** W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology, i, 171.
** CALL it not love when the delighted eye Is lured by charms into captivity; But when wild fires for weak attractions waste: To pine for beauty is not love but taste.
*** R. Garnett, Idylls and Epigrams (1869), p. 15.

### Anth. Pal. v. 113.

* Ἠράσθης πλουτῶν, Σωσίκρατες: ἀλλὰ πένης ὢν οὐκέτ᾽ ἐρᾷς: λιμὸς φάρμακον οἷον ἔχει. ἡ δὲ πάρος σε καλεῦσα μύρον καὶ τερπνὸν Ἄδωνιν Μηνοφίλα, νῦν σου τοὔνομα πυνθάνεται, “τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν, πόθι τοι πτόλις”; ἦ μόλις ἔγνως τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος, ὡς οὐδεὶς οὐδὲν ἔχοντι φίλος.
** You fell in love, Sosicrates, when rich; now you are poor, you are in love no longer. What an admirable cure is hunger! And Menophila, who used to call you her sweety and her darling Adonis, now asks your name. “What man are you, and whence, your city where?”* You have perforce learnt the meaning of the saying, “None is the friend of him who has nothing.”
*** W. R. Paton, Greek Anthology, i, 180-83.
** RICH, thou hadst many lovers—poor, hast none, So surely want extinguishes the flame, And she who call'd thee once her pretty one, And her Adonis, now inquires thy name.Where wast thou born Sosicrates, and where In what strange country can thy parents live, Who seem'st, by thy complaints, not yet aware That want's a crime, no woman can forgive?
*** ("On Female Inconstancy") W. Hayley, Posthumous Writings of W. Cowper, ii (1802), 313.
** RICH, thou hadst many lovers; poor, hast none; So surely want extinguishes the flame. And she, who call'd thee once her pretty one, And her Adonis, now inquires thy name— “Where wast thou born, Sosicrates? and where, In what strange country, can thy parents live?” Who seem'st, by thy complaints, not yet aware, That want's a crime no woman can forgive.
*** W. Cowper; quoted in G. Burges, The Greek Anthology, 1854, 72.

## Notes

* (*) Odyssey i. 170.
# Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme (born October 18, 1960) is a Belgian martial artist and actor best known for his action movies.

## Quotes

* "In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself."
** Don Warrener. The Hollywood Dream: An Interview With Jean Claude Van Damme. Retrieved on 2008-03-11.

## External links

* Official site
* Jean-Claude Van Damme on IMDb
# Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (16 August 1794 – 21 October 1872) was a Swiss Protestant minister and historian of the Reformation.

## Quotes

* The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations — there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole, — an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself — is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 141.

## External links

* Histoire de la Réformation au XIV siècle
* L'ancien et le ministère
* Jean Calvin - un des fondateurs des libertés modernes
* Spark of Grace - A book about the Haldane Revival in which d'Aubigné features prominently
# Jean-Dominique Bauby

Jean-Dominique Bauby (23 April 1952 – 9 March 1997) was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE who suffered from locked-in syndrome. He was able to dictate his memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by blinking his left eye.

## Quotes

* The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.
** Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death), trans. Jeremy Leggatt (Vintage, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70121-4), p. 82
# Jean-Gabriel Diarra

Jean-Gabriel Diarra (12 July 1945 – 28 October 2019) was a Malian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of San.

## Quotes

* My concern is that the candidates have said nothing about what sort of society must be built in Mali, nothing about long term prospects. I realise however that even the most advanced democracies these sort of questions are difficult to tackle. I think however that the level of instruction of the people must be raised and the education system improved so that, on a long term basis, it is possible to raise the level of political debate and create a more advanced democracy.
** “These elections are a sign of democratic vitality however more effort must be made to bring the people closer to politics” says President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Mali (28 April 2007) Fides News Agency
* We must explain that we are animated by the Spirit of the Gospel: we do not want to impose our faith but we do want to announce it. The Church is not a non governmental organisation it is at the service of the Proclamation of the Word.
** “Our intention is not to impose the Gospel but to proclaim it with our lives” President of Bishops Conference in Rome for ad limina visit tells Fides (16 May 2007) Fides News Agency
# Michael Hastings (journalist)

Michael Mahon Hastings (January 28, 1980 – June 18, 2013) was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed.

## Quotes
### The Operators (2012)

* The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
** p.203, Penguin
* The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.
** June 22, 2010.

## External links

* rollingstone
# Michael Harris (mathematician)

Michael Howard Harris (born 1954) is an American mathematician who deals with number theory and algebra. He made notable contributions to the Langlands program, for which he (alongside Richard Taylor) won the 2007 Clay Research Award.

## Quotes
### Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation, 2017

Michael Harris (30 May 2017). Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-8552-7.
* Langlands and Grothendieck are both (at least) Giants by any measure, and both were consciously successors of Galois.
** p. 24
* Langlands' life has been by no means as extravagant as Grothendieck's, but his romanticism is evident to anyone who reads his prose; the audacity of his program, one of the most elaborate syntheses of conjectures and theorems ever undertaken, has few equivalents in any field of scholarship.
** p. 26
* Just as Weil's conjectures were about counting solutions to equations in a situation where the number of solutions is known to be finite, the BSD conjecture concerns the simplest class of polynomial equations—elliptic curves—for which there is no simple way to decide whether the number of solutions is finite or infinite.
** p. 27
* Moreover, according to Alexander, the “troubled mathematical martyr,” exemplified not only by Galois but also by Abel, János Bolyai, Riemann, Cantor, Gödel, Turing, John Nash, Grothendieck, Perelman, and even, in a certain sense, Cauchy, remains to this day the dominant image of the “ideal mathematician,” long after the romantic paradigm was exhausted in the arts.
** pp. 147-148
* Within mathematics itself, Voevodsky's proposal, if adopted, will create a new paradigm. In his “fairy tale” and some of his other papers, Langlands made deft use of categories and even 2-categories, but number theory is only superficially categorical, and so is the Langlands program. In the event that Univalent Foundations could shed light on a guiding problem in number theory — the Riemann hypothesis or the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, which is not so far removed from Voevodsky's motives — then we could easily see Grothendieck's program absorbing the Langlands program within Voevodsky's new paradigm.
** pp. 219–220
# Michael Herr

Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was a writer and former war correspondent, best known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War.

## Quotes
### Dispatches (1977)

* There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.
* I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.
* War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.
* Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there.
* Soldier: You guys aught to do a story on me suntahm. Herr: Why should we do a story about you? Soldier: 'Cause I'm so fuckin' good, 'n' that ain' no shit, neither. Got me one hunnert 'n' fifty-se'en gooks kilt. 'N' fifty caribou. Them're all certified.
* Mal Hombre: God damn it, Sergeant. I thought you were a professional soldier. Sergeant: I waited as long as I could, Sir. Any longer, and I was gonna lose my man. Mal Hombre: This outfit is perfectly capable of taking care of its own dirty laundry. Is that clear, Sergeant? Sergeant: Colonel, since when is a wounded trooper 'dirty laundry'?
* Black sergeant: You a reporter? Herr: No, a writer. Black sergeant: Careful. You can't use no eraser up where you wanna go.
# Michael Hauskeller

Michael Hauskeller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.

## Quotes

* This force of nature, this will, continues to exist when "we" die, and in fact it does already exist in many other forms and ways. This force is active in me, as it is active in you and every other living creature. And to the extent that each of us ultimately is this force, this will to live, we always exist not only in this particular form, which we call our individual self, but also in everything else. When you look into the world with your eyes, perceive it with your senses, live in it with your body and your mind, then I look and perceive and live with you, because you are only another version of myself, just as I am only another version of yourself. Accordingly, when I die I will live on in you, and when you die, you will live on in me.
** "Killing Death/Sharing Life", Tropos, Vol. 9, Iss. 2 (2016), p. 9

## External links

* Michael Hauskeller's profile at the University of Liverpool
* Michael Hauskeller at Academia.edu
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Michael Henry Morrissey

Michael Henry Morrissey (9 September 1952 –) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Geraldton.

## Quotes

* At this time our Church is weighed down and under intense scrutiny because of failures in being true to the Gospel by individual members of the Church. This affects us all and could have caused me to hesitate in accepting this call to be your Bishop. However, I found hope and encouragement.
** Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Michael Morrissey takes place in Geraldton (29 June 2017) Australian Catholic Bishops Conference