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# Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the study and ethnography of folk music.

## Quotes

* Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
** "The Folk Songs of Hungary" in Pro Musica VII (October 1928)
* In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
** As quoted in The Enjoyment of Music : An Introduction to Perceptive Listening‎ (1955) by Joseph Machlis; also The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (1992) by Jan Swafford

## Quotes about Bartók

* By the time of his Fourth String Quartet, inversional symmetry had become as fundamental a premise of Bartók's harmonic language as it is of the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Neither he nor they ever realized that this connection establishes a profound affinity between them in spite of the stylistic features that so obviously distinguish his music from theirs … Nowhere does he recognize the communality of his harmonic language with that of the twelve-tone composers that is implied in their shared premise of the harmonic equivalence of inversionally symmetrical pitch-class relations.
** George Perle, in The Listening Composer (1990), p. 46
# Börje Salming

Börje Salming (17 April 1951 – 24 November 2022), known as The King, was a Swedish professional ice hockey defenseman.

## Quotes

* Börje joined the Maple Leafs 50 years ago and will forever be part of our hockey family. We extend our deepest condolences to his wife, Pia, his children Theresa, Anders, Rasmus, Bianca, Lisa and Sara and brother Stieg.
** Brendan Shanahan (https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-maple-leafs-legend-borje-salming-dies-at-71-1.6167309 Toronto Maple Leafs legend Borje Salming dies at 71] (Alex Arsenych
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# Bāṇabhaṭṭa

Bāṇabhaṭṭa (Sanskrit: बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of the Emperor Harsha, who reigned c. 606–647 CE in northern India, first from Sthanvishvara, and later Kanyakubja.

## Quotes

* When Harsha’s father, the king of Sthānvīshvara, passed away, the people ‘bore him to the river Sarasvatī, and there upon a pyre befitting an emperor solemnly consumed all but his glory in the flames’. In a classic ritual, Harsha ‘passed on to the Sarasvatī’s banks, and having bathed in the river, offered water to his father’.
** Bāna, Harsa-Carita, tr. E.B. Cowell, F.W. Thomas, London, 1929, pp. 158 & 160, quoted by Darian, Steven, ‘Gangā and Sarasvatī: An Incidence of Mythological Projection’, East and West, vol. 26, nos 1-2, 1976, p. 155. as quoted from Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
# Bökinghard Frisian

Bökinggard Frisian or Moringer dialect is a Northern Frisian dialect spoken in the western part of the peninsuela in Germany bordering to Denmark.

## A

* Auf Shāse wort ' m klauck, aurs sálten rick.
** English equivalent: Adversity is the mother of wisdom.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "287, Schaden" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 162.

## D

* De Shin bedrêgt.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "300, Schein" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 168.

## See Also

* Frisian proverbs
# Gandhism

Gandhism is a body of ideas that describes the inspiration, vision, and the life work of Mohandas K. Gandhi. It is particularly associated with his contributions to the idea of nonviolent resistance, sometimes also called civil resistance.

## Quotes

* After the ceremony, Nehru and other Congress leaders addressed a mass meeting on the river bank. As the meeting ended, Ran Ahmed Kidwai whispered to me: "Jawaharlal has performed the last rites not only of Gandhi but of Gandhiism as well. Now that the master has gone, there will be no one to discipline the crowd. The High Command is dead."
** India from Curzon to Nehru and after Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, Quoted by Ram Gopal from Durga Das: India from Curzon to Nehru and After. Quoted also in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence. New Delhi : Rupa, 2018.
* It takes a permanent suspension of the power of discrimination to believe in the syrupy Gandhian syncretism which still prevails in India. The Mahatma’s outlook was neither realistic nor Indian. Not even the Jain doctrine of Anekantavada, “pluralism”, had been as mushy and anti-intellectual as the suspension of logic that is propagated in India under Gandhi’s name. It could only come about among post-Christian Westerners tired of doctrinal debates, and from their circles, Gandhi transplanted it to India.
** Elst K. Why I killed the Mahatma: Uncovering Godse's defence (2001, 2018)
# Gangotri

Gangotri is a town and a Nagar Panchayat (municipality) in Uttarkashi district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is a Hindu pilgrim town on the banks of the river Bhagirathi and origin of river Ganges. It is on the Greater Himalayan Range, at a height of 3,100 metres (10,200 ft). According to popular Hindu legend, it was here that Goddess Ganga descended when Lord Shiva released the mighty river from the locks of his hair.

## Quotes

* It is easy to write of rocks and wilds, of torrents and precipices; it is easy to tell of the awe such scenes inspire:... But it is not so simple, to many surely not very possible, to convey an adequate idea of the stern and rugged majesty of some scenes; to paint their lonely desertness, or describe the undefinable sensation of reverence and dread that steals over the mind while contemplating the deathlike ghastly calm that is shed over them; and when at such a moment we remember our homes, our friends, our firesides, and all social intercourse with our fellows, and feel our present solitude, and far distance from all these dear ties, how vain is it to strive at description! Surely such a scene is Gungotree.... We were now in the centre of the stupendous Himala, the loftiest and perhaps most rugged range of mountains in the world. We were at the acknowledged source of that noble river, equally an object of veneration and a source of fertility, plenty, and opulence to Hindostan; and we had now reached the holiest shrine of Hindoo worship which these holy hills contain. These are surely striking considerations, combining with the solemn grandeur of the place, to move the feelings strongly.
** James Fraser, the first European to reach the Gangotri in 1815 [so he claimed], described the experience, quoted in Jain, S., & Jain, M. (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. vol 4.
# Gangsta Boo

Lola Chantrelle Mitchell (August 7, 1979 – January 1, 2023), better known by her stage name Gangsta Boo, was an American rapper. A trailblazer for women in the Southern hip hop scene, she rose to prominence as a member of Three 6 Mafia, which she joined at the age of 15. After releasing six albums, she left the group and its record label after the release of her second solo album, Both Worlds *69 (2001), due to financial disputes and issues regarding promotion of the album. She subsequently released several solo albums and became known for collaborating with artists such as Eminem, Run the Jewels, La Chat, Latto, GloRilla, and Yelawolf.

## Quotes

* cI been watching them girls for the past couple of years and I was like, ‘What the f**k?’ It made me feel good, they represented Memphis right. It’s only been me and [La] Chat that came out of Memphis,” she said. “A year later, GloRilla got signed. I got distracted because I was thinking of her glow-up. I think she was 19, remember when [I] was that age?
** cGangsta Boo proudly gives fellow Memphis emcee GloRilla her blessing Revolt.TV, Malcolm Trapp. Publication date September 26, 2022
* It wasn’t even nothing personal. I left the group when I was 21. They were my manager, my producers, my label. Also, I was just young. I was on a spiritual journey. At the time, I thought it was religion.
** About leaving Three 6 Mafia, Gangsta Boo proudly gives fellow Memphis emcee GloRilla her blessing Revolt.TV, Malcolm Trapp. Publication date September 26, 2022
# George James Rassas

George James Rassas (May 26, 1942 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

## Quotes

* If it's not in your heart, it's not going to work.
** Bishop Rassas: ‘I’m the luckiest person in the world’ (5 September 2018) Chicago Catholic
# George Hugh Niederauer

George Hugh Niederauer (June 14, 1936 – May 2, 2017) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

## Quotes

* Parents tell me about their children and say, "Basketball is his life," or "Skiing is her life" but at a deeper level as Catholics we say, "Christ is my life," and so the athletes and every Catholic need to be integrating that relationship into their activities — sports or otherwise.
** A Conversation With The Bishop of the Salt Lake Olympics (3 March 2002) National Catholic Register
# D. A. Miller

D. A. Miller (born 1948) is an American literary critic and film scholar.

## Quotes

* Even the blandest (or bluffest) “scholarly work” fears getting into trouble: less with the adversaries whose particular attacks it keeps busy anticipating than through what, but for the spectacle of this very activity, might be perceived as an overall lack of authorization. It is as though, unless the work at once assumed its most densely professional form, it would somehow get unplugged from whatever power station (the academy, the specialization) enables it to speak. Nothing expresses—or allays—this separation anxiety better than the protocol requiring an introduction to “situate” the work within its institutional and discursive matrix. The same nervous ritual that attests a positive dread of being asocial — of failing to furnish the proper authorities with one’s papers, and vice versa — places these possibilities at an infinite remove from a writing whose thorough assimilation, courted from the start, makes it too readable to need to be read much further.
** The Novel and the Police (1988), p. vii
# D. Elton Trueblood

D. Elton Trueblood (December 12, 1900 – December 20, 1994) was a noted 20th-century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities.

## Quotes
### The Life We Prize (1951)

* A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
** p. 58
# D. J. Cathcart King

David James Cathcart King (1913–1989) was a British medieval historian and archaeologist who specialised in the study of castles.

## About D. J. Cathcart King

* David Cathcart King is well known to all students of the castle: the stocky figure with a slightly aggressive manner, a regular attender for over forty years at the outings of the Cambrians and at one time its President, the lister of Welsh castle with Dr Hogg and of ringworks with Professor Alcock, and compiler of the invaluable list of castles in England and Wales, Castellarium Anglicanum
   * Thompson, Michael (September 1988), "The Castle in England and Wales. An Interpretative History. By D. J. Cathcart King. 24 × 16 cm. Pp. 209, 25 figs., 9 pls. London and Sydney: Croom Helm. ISBN 0-7099-4829-8. £25·00.", The Antiquaries Journal 68 (2): 370, doi:10.1017/S0003581500070049
# D. J. MacHale

Donald James "D.J." MacHale (March 11, 1955–) is an American writer, director, and executive producer.

## Quotes

* Any screenwriter will tell you that as satisfying and wonderful a career as that is, outside of the people you work with, nobody actually reads what you write. Your writing goes through a process, touched by multiple dozens of people, until it becomes a finished piece of film. As an example on a very simple level, you may write a line of dialog that you absolutely love, but an actor had to speak that line, and music might be there to underscore the line, and the line might be read in a situation where a dozen other things are happening simultaneously. It's all good and the way it is supposed to work, but the overall experience becomes about so much more than the line itself. Writing a book is much more pure than that, and I wanted to experience it.
** A Conversation With D.J. MacHale (2004)
* The thing is, kids love scary stories. They love dramatic stories. They love that kind of stuff. It’s one of the reasons why I write books now. I’m able to write the kind of stuff I like, whereas in TV I can’t do that anymore.
** Rejection, Scares, and Ryan Gosling: Looking Back at Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” (October 30, 2014)
* I rarely take the characteristics of someone I know and make them a complete fictional character, except maybe with truly minor characters who only play a small role. All of my characters are more like the Frankenstein monster, having been stitched together using multiple real people. The classic advice to any writer is "write what you know". So in order to create believable characters, you have to write about people you know.
** Showrunner D.J. MacHale Dishes About Are You Afraid of the Dark?! (November 22, 2019)
* There was no interference, nothing on a creative level, you have the idea, you go for it. And that's what it was like with all the shows made back then, it was that attitude that really created Nickelodeon and made the show as good as it was.
** How Two Anthology Shows Made a New Generation of Horror Fans (October 31, 2020)
* A script is only the beginning of the process. But with books, what you write is exactly what people read. So as a writer, that's very satisfying.
** AME with D.J. MacHale (January 29, 2021)
# D. H. Shankaramurthy

D. H. Shankaramurthy (born 30 April 1940) is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka, India. He has been Chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council since 2010.

## Quotes

* Tipu Sultan was a traitor to the Kannada language. Kannada, which was the administrative language of the Mysore State under the Wodeyars, was replaced by Farsi by Tipu Sultan. He was an opponent of the Kannada language. We don’t need to give him a place of respect in the history of Karnataka. It’s a mistake to glorify him. It is typical to glorify Akbar, Aurangzeb and Tipu as patriots in national history. Alexander and Akbar are glorified with the “the great” suffix. Respect and honour are given to those who embarked on a conquest of our nation, and to those who defeated our own people. Instead, our textbooks need to have lessons on people who made positive contributions for the nation; the lives of people like Sir M. Vishveswarayya and Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV who developed the state must be included in our history textbooks. What is now happening is a perversion of history.
** September 2006. “Shikshan Bachaao!” “Save Education!” quoted in Sandeep Balakrishna. 2013. Tipu Sultan : The Tyrant of Mysore. Chennai: Rare Publications.
# D. Harlan Wilson

D. Harlan Wilson (born September 3, 1971) is an American novelist, short story writer, critic, editor, playwright and English professor whose body of work bridges the aesthetics of literary theory with various genres of speculative fiction. He is the author of over twenty books, and hundreds of his stories, essays and flash fiction have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies in multiple languages.

## Quotes

* "I've let you teach too many science fiction classes," I said. Dr. Identity's pupils mutated into large asterisks. "It's possible. More likely, however, I'm just a product of the future. and the future's been extinct for a long time."
** Dr. Identity: or Farewell to Plaquedemia (2007)
# D. J. Carey

Denis Joseph "D. J." Carey (born 11 November 1970), hurler for the Kilkenny county team.

## Quotes about Carey

* In a TG4 documentary his mother said, "He broke so many windows, we eventually started boarding them up".
** Joe Brolly on the young Carey's practise of hitting a sliotar around his family home, Sunday Independent
# Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (pronounced /ˈɡɛri/) (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American statesman and diplomat, and vice president of the United States of America, serving under James Madison.

## Sourced

* The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
** Constitutional Convention Monday May 31 [FN1], 1787
* A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
** Constitutional Convention (1787)
* What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Now, it must be evident, that, under this provision, together with their other powers, Congress could take such measures with respect to a militia, as to make a standing army necessary. Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
** House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, 17, 20 Aug. 1789

## About Gerry

* How is gerrymandering like a salamander? In 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a law that established an odd-shaped Congressional district. It was redrawn by political cartoonists into a salamander-type creature and thus the term gerrymander was born.
** Matthew T. Rosenberg, The Handy Geography Answer Book (2004), p. 125
# Elam

Elam (/ˈiːləm/; Elamite: 𒁹𒄬𒆷𒁶𒋾 haltamti; Sumerian: 𒉏𒈠𒆠 NIM.MA$^{ki}$; Hebrew: עֵילָם}} ʿÊlām; Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎩 Ūvja) was an ancient Pre-Iranian civilization centered in the far west and southwest of what is now modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq. The modern name Elam stems from the Sumerian transliteration elam(a), along with the later Akkadian elamtu, and the Elamite haltamti. Elamite states were among the leading political forces of the Ancient Near East. In classical literature Elam was also known as Susiana (UK: /ˌsuːziˈɑːnə/, US: /ˌsuːʒiˈænə/; Ancient Greek: Σουσιανή Sousiānḗ), a name derived from its capital Susa.

## Quotes

* My lord has become distressed about the battles in Elam. But the Elamites' grain rations have quickly been exhausted, so do not slacken your forces! Do not fall head first into their slavery, nor follow at their heels!
** Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen, Letter from Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen about the purchase of grain, Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1800-1600 BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature; their original date of composition and their historical accuracy are debated.
* Elam, a raging dog, a destroyer, will not defile E-kic-nu-jal, the sanctuary which covers heaven and earth.
** Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen, Letter from Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen about the purchase of grain, Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1800-1600 BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
# Elayne Boosler

Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) is an American comedian.

## Quotes

* People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard. They say things that just don't gel, you know. Well, you've heard this a lot: "Pick up a shell - oh, you can hear the ocean!" You could pick up a bicycle and hear the ocean - you're at the beach. Put the shell down, you'll hear the ocean twice as loud.
** Reported in Cader Books, That's Really Funny!: Over 1,000 More Great Jokes from Today's Hottest Comedians (2000), p. 164.
# Elaine Romero

Elaine Romero is a Latina playwright.

## Quotes

* …Truth is, my colleagues are my heroes, my fellow Latinx playwrights and directors. We’ve created this landscape together. We’ve elbowed a space for ourselves, and each other, in the American theatre. I think only we know what it was like when we could barely get a crumb, and honestly, we had to just keep going…
** On who she considers her mentors in “Elaine Romero” (50 Playwrights Project; 2017 Apr 17)
* …universities are worried about diversifying and are wondering how. Playwrights want students exposed to their work and wondering how. The educator in me fights with the playwright in me. Should universities who do not have students of color still be able to do my plays? The educator says yes and the playwright says no. If universities produce ethnically specific plays with any of the available swap-out options, what are we teaching the next generation of theatre artists? Experience has taught me that artists will duplicate whatever they have learned in school…
** On casting non-Latino actors for Latinx works in “Should Latina/o Roles Be Cast with Non-Latina/o Actors?” (HOWLROUND THEATRE COMMONS; 2015 Dec 6)
* …As curanderas say when a patient suffers from susto (the separation of the soul from the body), “Vente. No te quedes allí. Come back. Don't stay over there.” As playwrights we have no choice but to raise our dead.
** On recognizing the barrios of Tucson in “Getting Down with Barrio Stories” (HOWLROUND THEATRE COMMONS; 2016 Mar 17)
# Herbert Callen

Herbert Bernard Callen (July 1, 1919 – May 22, 1993) was an American physicist specializing in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. He is considered one of the founders of the modern theory of irreversible thermodynamics and is the author of the classic textbook Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, published in two editions. During World War II, his services were invoked in the theoretical division of the Manhattan Project.

## Quotes

* Only inspired insight guided by faith in the simplicity of nature somehow revealed the interplay of the concepts of energy and entropy.
** “Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics,” second edition, at p.461
# Herbert Farjeon

Herbert "Bertie" Farjeon (5 March 1887 – 3 May 1945) was the brother of Eleanor Farjeon. He was the drama critic of the Sunday Pictorial, Daily Herald, Vogue and other journals. He was also the author and director of several revues.

## Quotes

* Not content with discoursing on supermen, the author presents them in the flesh - or whatever it is they are made of.
** Review of Karel Capek's play R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots; Daily Express (17 January 1923)
* Glory glory alleluia I'm the luckiest of females For I've danced with a man Who's danced with a girl Who's danced with the Prince of Wales.
** "I've Danced With a Man Who's Danced With a Girl" (1927)

### Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag (1946)

* A batsman given to run-stealing need not open his mouth to gain the reputation of a wit.
* I would like a bat with the words WHAT A ROTTEN WICKET-KEEPER stamped in large letters on the back of it.
* A gentleman is a man who never hurts anybody else unintentionally.