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# Jean Monnet

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator. An advocate of European unity, he is considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

## Quotes

* France is the nation of the rights of man. … I am sure that none of you commits the insult of thinking that the government, the army, or the administration could wish for and organize torture.
** Speech on the war in French Algeria before French National Assembly (1957), cited in Torture: The Role of Ideology in the French–Algerian War (1989) by Rita Maran, p. 44

### Jean Monnet 1888-1979

    Quotes in the biographical profile at The History of the European Union by the Jean Monnet Association
* There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection…. The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.
** Speech to the French National Liberation Committee (5 August 1943)
* Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace.
** Speech by Robert Schuman (9 May 1950), written by Monnet
* Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.
* Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

## Quotes about Monnet

* [A]fter eighty-nine years of his life, Monnet remains, as he has been throughout, impregnably optimistic but not Utopian. He does not believe in miracles, and although he believes that crucial moments of opportunity must never be lost, he gives more importance to patience and direction than to speed and the construction of false timetables. His modesty and manner is underpinned by an unshakeable intellectual self-confidence. ... He is undoubtedly a great man, who has lived a remarkable life.
** Roy Jenkins, Foreword (August 1977) to Monnett's Memoirs (1978), pp. 12–13
# First lines

The first lines said in a form of media.

## First lines in

       Books
       Animated films
       Animated TV shows
       Live-action films
       Live-action TV shows

## See also

* Last lines
# Fred Jelinek

Fred Jelinek (18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing.

## Quotes

* Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up.
** Although its fame and iconic status are undisputed, the quip's context is unknown and its specific wording and dating are unclear.
** In a presentation, Jelinek claimed it was "Whenever I fire a linguist our system performance improves" and it came from a talk "Applying Information Theoretic Methods: Evaluation of Grammar Quality Workshop on Evaluation of NLP Systems", Wayne PA, December 1988.
** According to Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Jelinek himself recalled the quote as "Anytime a linguist leaves the group the recognition rate goes up" and dated it to December 1988 (Wayne, Pennsylvania), further noting that the quote did not appear in the published proceeding.
*** Jurafsky, Daniel; James H. Martin (2009). Speech and language processing: an introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition. Prentice Hall series in artificial intelligence (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. p. 83. ISBN 0-13-187321-0.
*** Palmer, Martha, Tim Finin (1990). "Report on the Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems". Computational Linguistics 16 (1): 171–185.
** Roger K. Moore gave the wording as "Every time we fire a phonetician/linguist, the performance of our system goes up" and dated it to an IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding workshop held in 1985.
*** Moore, Roger K. (2005). "Results from a Survey of Attendees at ASRU 1997 and 2003" in INTERSPEECH-2005. {{{booktitle}}}.
* It is generally believed that scientific talent reveals itself in early youth. [...] This was certainly not my case. I somehow slid into my scientific profession. My mother wished for me to become a physician, just like my father. [...] I myself wanted to be a lawyer, defender of the unjustly accused. But my career is the result of political circumstances, academic possibilities, and lucky accidents.
** Talking about his life in a 2001 speech Jelinek, Frederick. "How I Got Here" Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia (November 22, 2001). Retrieved on December 17, 2010. Honoris causa degree acceptance speech.
* It's easier to say something stupid than write something stupid.

## Quotes about Jelinek

* He was not a pioneer of speech recognition, he was the pioneer of speech recognition.
** Steven Young, 2010, "Frederick Jelinek 1932–2010: The Pioneer of Speech Recognition Technology". Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee Newsletter
# Stephen Gaukroger

Stephen Gaukroger (born 9 July 1950) is a British philosopher and intellectual historian.

## Quotes

* Such knowledge [of contemporary physicists] is clearly not the same as that derived by abstraction from individual cases: abstraction can provide us with knowledge of accidents but not necessary attributes as such. If we find that the search for essences can in fact only take the form of abstraction from individual cases then Aristotle's account of what counts as an explanation in physics is an unrealisable ideal.
** Stephen Gaukroger (1978). Explanatory structures: a study of concepts of explanation ...
* If you don't think explicitly about big history, you are condemned to making all kinds of assumptions that may be unfruitful, counterproductive, or just plain ignorant. It is something that every historian has to think about at some stage, and it distinguishes history from antiquarianism.

## Quotes about Stephen Gaukroger

* Gaukroger believes that contemporary physicists concern themselves with a kind of mathematical knowledge that“ is clearly not the same as that derived by abstraction from individual cases.” Indeed, he goes goes so far as to claim that true scientific knowledge, “cannot be attained, at least in Aristotelian physics and cosmology.
** Louis Groarke (2009). An Aristotelian Account of Induction. p. 163
# Nicole LePera

Dr. Nicole LePera is an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who as of early 2025 has over 1.1 million followers on Facebook, over 9 million followers on Instagram and over 1 million followers on X.

## Quotes

* Research shows about 15% of the population have the ability to self reflect. Even fewer have the ability to solve conflict and emotionally regulate. Don’t take people’s lack of emotional skills, personally. It’s rarely about us— even when it feels good to believe it is. Freeing yourself from taking things personally allows you to set boundaries, not drown in shame, and to stop trying to fix what you didn’t break.
** Official social media (12 January 2025).
# Thomas A. Bailey

Thomas Andrew Bailey (December 14, 1902 – July 26, 1983) was an American historian based at Stanford University, who specialised in diplomatic history. His best-known work may be The American Pageant.

## Quotes

* The teacher asked us to write an essay based on an artist's visual version of the cold and other hardships endured by Washington's men at Valley Forge. I dashed off a page or so of commentary, which brought from the teacher public commendation for my historical empathy and perception. This juvenile effort may have influenced my instructor when he gave me a grade on my report card of 100 percent in history. I thought then, and still think, that no pupil is worth 100 percent in history.
** The American Pageant Revisited, p. 9
* Vietnam is the dead albatross around Johnson's neck that may pull him down.
** As quoted in The New York Times (November 6, 1966)
* The two-thirds rule [of the Senate], which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.
** A Diplomatic History of the American People, 7th ed., p. 17
* Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.
** Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969), p. 10
* Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.
** Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969), p. 15
# Binti

Binti the Complete Trilogy ( First published in 2015) by Nigerian - American writer Nnedi Okorafor is a series of science fiction novellas.Binti has won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the 2016 Hugo Award, the 2015 Nebula Award, and the 2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. The 2019 omnibus publication includes the three novellas Binti, Binti: Home, and Binti: The Night Masquerade, as well as the bonus inclusion of the debut short story “Binti: Sacred Fire.”

## Quotes

* Our ancestral land is life; move away from it and you diminish.”
** Chapter 1)
“You are the pride of your people, child.”
** Chapter 2
* Why are you covered in red greasy clay and weighed down by… ...
We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward.”
** Chapter 4
* We’re Himba. God has already chosen our paths.”
** Chapter 6
* Humans must be killed before they kill us.”
** Chapter 10.
* His anger was rightful, but all… he said was from what he didn’t truly know.”
** Chapter 13.
* Their ship stank. I was sure of it, even if I couldn’t smell it.”
Chapter 15
* You understand, because you truly are what you say you are—a harmonizer.”
** Chapter 18
* Tribal’:… what they called humans from ethnic groups too… ‘uncivilized’ to… send… to… Oomza Uni.”
** Chapter 24
* Those women talked about me, the men probably did too. But none of them knew what I had, where I was going, who I was. Let them gossip and judge. Thankfully, they knew not to touch my hair again. I don’t like war either.”
** Binti, Page 6.
* “It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure.”
** Binti
* In your university, in one of its museums, placed on display like a piece of rare meat is the stinger of our chief,’ it said. I wrinkled my face, but said nothing. ‘Our chief is…’ It paused. ‘We know of the attack and mutilation of our chief, but we do not know how it got there. We do not care. We will land on Oomza Uni and take it back. So you see? We have purpose.’”
** Binti, Page 33

## External Links

https://www.bartleby.com/lit/binti/quotes
https://www.supersummary.com/binti/important-quotes/
# Social group

A social group in the social sciences has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.

## Quotes

* The Constitution favors no racial group, no political or social group.
** William O. Douglas. Dissenting, Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388, 406 (1960)
* When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range.
** Leon Festinger and John Thibaut. "Interpersonal communication in small groups." The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 46.1 (1951): 92.
* All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
** Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) p. 3
* Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.
** Pitirim Sorokin (1927) Social Mobility, p. 12
* Every living thing loves its own kind,
    and we all love someone like ourselves.
   * Sirach 13:15 (New American Bible Revised Edition)

## See also

* Community
* Elite
* Group process
* Family
* Groupthink
# Qingjing Jing

The Qingjing Jing (Chinese: 清靜經) is a Taoist text composed anonymously during the Tang dynasty (618–907).

## Quotes

       Qingjing Jing (Lapis Lazuli Texts, Wikisource)
* 老君曰﹕
    大道無形，生育天地。
    大道無情，運行日月。
    大道無名，長養萬物。
    吾不知其名，強名曰道。
   * Lord Lao said:
       The great Dao has no form,
          yet it gives birth to Heaven and Earth.
       The great Dao has no desires,
          yet it moves the sun and moon along their orbits.
       The great Dao has no name,
          yet it constantly nurtures the myriad phenomena.
       I do not know its name,
          and yet I attempt to speak of it as the Dao.
* 有清有濁，有動有靜；
    天清地濁，天動地靜；
    男清女濁，男動女靜；
    降本流末，而生萬物。
   * The Dao has pure and impure;
          it has action and it has stillness.
       Heaven is pure and Earth is impure;
          Heaven acts and the Earth is still.
       Masculine is pure and feminine is impure;
          masculine acts and the feminine is still.
       Descending from the origin and flowing to the tips,
          the myriad phenomena are born.
* 清者濁之源，靜者動之基。
    人能常清靜，天地悉皆歸。
   * Purity is the source of impurity,
          and movement is the basis of stillness.
       If people can be constantly pure and still,
          then Heaven and Earth will certainly revert to them!
* 內觀於心，心無其心；
    外觀於形，形無其形；
    遠觀於物，物無其物。
    三者既悟，唯見於空。
   * For one who has dispatched with desires, when they observe their mind,
          there is no mind.
       When they observe their outer form,
          there is no such form.
       When they observe external phenomena,
          there are no such things.
       They realize that these three are fundamentally empty,
          and they see only emptiness.
* 觀空以空，空無所空。
    所空既無，無無亦無。
    無無既無，湛然常寂。
    寂無所寂，慾豈能生。
       They observe that this emptiness is also empty,
          yet the emptiness has nothing which is empty.
       Since the emptiness is empty,
          that which is not empty is also empty.
       Since what is not empty is empty,
          there is clarity and constant tranquility.
       Since this tranquility has nothing which is tranquil,
          what can give birth to desires?
* 慾既不生，即是真靜。
    真靜應物，真常得性。
    常應常靜﹕常清靜矣。
    如此清靜，漸入真道。
    既入真道，名為得道。
    雖名得道，實無所得。
    為化眾生，名為得道。
    能悟之者，可傳聖道。
       Since desires are unborn,
          this is itself true stillness,
       true constant response to phenomena,
          true constant attainment and abiding.
       With constant response and constant stillness,
          this is indeed constant purity and stillness!
       With such purity and stillness,
          one gradually enters the true Dao.
       Because one has entered the true Dao,
          it is deemed “attaining the Dao.”
       Although it is called “attaining the Dao,”
          in fact there is nothing acquired.
       For the purpose of transforming living beings,
          it is called “attaining the Dao.”
       Those who can awaken to it
          are then able to transmit the sagely Dao.

## See also

* Tao Te Ching
* Heart Sutra
* Diamond Sutra

## External links

* Original Chinese text of the Qingjing Jing with interlinear English translation
# Nazi book burnings

The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books burned came to include very many authors, effectively any book incompatible with Nazi ideology.

## Quotes

* What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
** Sigmund Freud: Letter to Ernest Jones (1933). As quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779.
* Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen. (Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.)
** Heinrich Heine: Almansor: A Tragedy (1823). As translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142.
* Nazi Germany sought control over people's beliefs, not just their bodies and territory. From the 1933 state-sanctioned book burnings in Germany to the purging of libraries across Europe as nations were conquered by the Nazis, "un-German" reading material was threatened with extinction. The scale of destruction was impressive. By V-E Day, it is estimated that Germany had destroyed over 100 million books in Europe.
** Molly Guptill Manning: When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014). ISBN 0-544-53502-2.
* On May 10, 1933, thousands of the banned books were collected in Berlin's Opera Square for an event called Feuersprüche, or "Fire Incantations." … As each book was thrown in, a student announced the reason this particular book was being "sentenced to death." The reasons were stated like criminal charges. The books of Sigmund Freud, for instance, were charged with spiritual corruption and "the exaggeration and unhealthy complication of sexuality." After reading the charge, the student threw the book into the pile while declaring, "I commit to the flames the works of Sigmund Freud!" Other charges included "Judeo-democratic tendencies"; "mutilation of the German language"; and "literary betrayal of the soldiers of the Great War." Once the pile was complete, it was drenched with gasoline and set on fire.
** Susan Orlean: The Library Book, ch. 9. Simon & Schuster (2018). ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.
* It has been estimated that over 100 million books were destroyed during the Holocaust, in the twelve years from the period of Nazi dominance in Germany in 1933 up to the end of the Second World War.
** Richard Ovenden: Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge. Belknap Press (2020). ISBN 0-674-24120-7.

## See also

* Book burning
# Toy store

A toy store (toy shop or toyshop) is a retail business that specializes in selling toys.

## Quotes

* In a way the establishment in 1760 of what, as Hamleys, was to become the world's most famous toyshop, symbolised the new world that opened up for British toy makers from the middle of the eighteenth century. It was only one of a new toy outlets established in London in the years after 1750. By 1822 the capital possessed no fewer than seventy-one retail toy shops and thirteen wholesalers. ... Such was the proliferation by 1800 that some degree of specialisation emerged, with at least two concentrating solely on rocking-horses.
** Kenneth D. Brown, The British Toy Business: A History Since 1700. A&C Black. 1996. p. 18. ISBN 1852851368.
* Children of my day, even in great houses, had very little in the way of toys. Toy shops were almost unknown; modern mechanical playthings, which furnish their own activity, had hardly come into existence. One might, of course, buy oneself a hobby-horse, but generally speaking an individually selected knotty stick from the woods, upon which imagination might work freely, was dearer to the heart. We were not observers, as children today seem to be from birth, of their own accord; and not utilizers, as they are brought up to be; we were creators. Our knotty stick, for all working purposes, in appearance and as far as actual horsepower went, came nearer to Bucephalus and eight-hoofed Sleipner, or to Pegasus himself, than any magnificently decorated horse from a smart store.
** Isak Dinesen, "On Mottoes of My Life". Daguerreotypes and Other Essays. University of Chicago Press. 1979. p. 2. ISBN 0226153061. (essay originally published in 1960; some essays in 1979 book translated from the original Danish by P. M. Mitchell & W. D. Paden; foreword by Hannah Arendt)
* I don't remember ever going to a toy store as a child. Although specialty toy stores existed in major cities like New York and Chicago as early as the 1860s, in the towns and suburbs where I lived no store had the primary purpose of selling toys to kids. ... I remember hobby stores that sold electric train sets and model-building kits, sporting goods stores where you could buy bikes and baseballs, and department stores and dime stores that had toy departments, but these stores sold merchandise primarily to adults, not to children. Something radical happened in the intervening thirty-pls years in the marketing and selling of toys. Giant toy stores now dot the landscape, offering huge selections and low prices on toys made all over the world.
** Christine L. Williams, Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality. University of California Press. 2006. p. 23. ISBN 0520939492.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Toy store on Wikipedia
* Media related to Toy store on Wikimedia Commons
* The dictionary definition of toyshop on Wiktionary
# Gloria Young

Gloria Young (née Anozie; born February 4,1967) is a Nigerian actress and former journalist who has featured in more than 70 movies and has won the City People Movie Award for Movie Couple of the Year at the City People Entertainment Awards.

## Quotes

* I looked beyond the glamour. I looked at all the creative works, and I looked at achieving something out of acting.
** Nollywood alternative to , robbery says Gloria Anozie-Young. 7 August 2009, Vanguard Newspaper.
* I think I’m being extra-careful. I’m just being me, a total Nigerian to the core. We have our conservative side and I respect that a lot. I respect the family that I come from and the family that I am married to. I try not to mess around with the names that I answer. I answer my father’s name and my husband’s name as a compound name.
** Actress Gloria Young recalls her days as struggling journalist. 24 February 2018, The Nation Newspaper.
# Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical styles, such as thrashcore, crust punk, hardcore punk, extreme metal, and industrial. Grindcore is considered a more noise-filled style of hardcore punk while using hardcore's trademark characteristics such as heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, grinding overdriven bass, high-speed tempo, blast beats, and vocals which consist of growls, shouts and high-pitched shrieks. Early groups such as England's Napalm Death are credited with laying the groundwork for the style. It is most prevalent today in North America and Europe, with popular contributors such as Brutal Truth and Nasum. Lyrical themes range from a primary focus on social and political concerns, to gory subject matter and black humor.

## Quotes

* Grindcore is the bridge between thrash and death metal mixed with brutally fast hardcore. You take it and throw it all in a blender, hit puree and stand back.
** Dan Lilker of Brutal Truth
# Henry Miers Elliot

Sir Henry Miers Elliot (1 March 1808 – 20 December 1853) was an English civil servant and historian who worked with the East India Company in India for 26 years.

## Quotes

* The... glimpses we have...of Hindus slain for disputing with Muhammadans , of general prohibitions against processions, worship and ablutions and of other intolerant measures, of idols mutilated, of temples razed, of forcible conversions and marriages, of proscriptions and confiscations, of murders and massacres, and of the sensibility and drunkenness of the tyrants who enjoined them, show us that this picture is not overcharged.
** HM. Elliot 1867: The history of India as told... xxi), quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.102