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# Peter Feng Xinmao

Peter Feng Xinmao (21 January 1963) is a Chinese prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Jingxian.

## Quotes

* As bishop, I believe that my mission is to keep the priests united and do more to evangelize.
** Bishop of Hengshui: "In the Year of the Tiger, we are focusing on vocations" (28 January 2010) Asia News
# H. A. L. Fisher

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, OM (21 March 1865 – 18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician.

## Quotes

* All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed.
** Political Prophecies (1918).
* It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the microscopes and telescopes of the press, but are permitted to shuffle about a little in slippers.
** An International Experiment (1921).

### A History of Europe (1934)

H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, 1939
* I can see … only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
** Preface.
* Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
** Ch. 1, p. 14.
* Politics is the art of human happiness.
** Ch. 31.
# TikTok

TikTok, known in China as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a short-form video hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts a variety of user-submitted videos, from content such as pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes and dance, with durations from 15 seconds to ten minutes.

## Quotes about TikTok

* Defendants did not create the Challenge; rather, they made it readily available on their site. Defendants’ algorithm was a way to bring the Challenge to the attention of those likely to be most interested in it. In thus promoting the work of others, Defendants published that work — exactly the activity Section 230 shields from liability.
** [unnamed] federal judge The 'Blackout Challenge' Has Resurfaced On TikTok, And It’s Still Just As Dangerous As It Was 16 Years Ago (A report just linked it to at least 15 deaths in kids aged 12 and under. BY SARAH FELBIN, SABRINA TALBERT AND ADDISON ALOIANPUBLISHED: DEC 1, 2022
* You can't use TikTok for now
* "Pakistan Wants to Ban TikTok for “Immorality”" by Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter (January 6, 2025)
* "How TikTok Killed The Preteen Era by Evita Duffy-Alfonso, The Federalist (January 6, 2024)
# Charles Clarke

Charles Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1997 to 2010. In the government of Tony Blair, he was Secretary of State for Education and Skills (October 2002 to December 2004). and Home Secretary (December 2004 until May 2006).

## Quotes

* One of the main purposes of university is to encourage people to think. But education for its own sake is a bit dodgy, too. The idea that you can learn about the world sitting in your study just reading books is not quite right... If we had less people studying philosophy, that would be unfortunate. I feel very less occupied by classics.
** Interview with The Sunday Times, quoted in 'Clarke criticised over classics' (31 January 2003), bbc.co.uk and Helen Ward, 'Students confront Clarke over classics comments', Tes Magazine (13 June 2003)
* I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.
** Speech at University College, Worcester, April 2003 (Reported in the Times Educational Supplement, May 2003)
* I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).
** Education Secretary Clarke, Letter to the Guardian, May 2003
* The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
** Home Secretary Charles Clarke, BBC radio, July 2005 following the London bombings

## External links

* Clarke questions study as 'adornment' (BBC)
* Guardian Unlimited Politics | Aristotle | Clarke, Charles
# Ed Balls

Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a retired British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) from 2005 to 2015 when he lost his seat. Following his electoral defeat, he became a senior fellow at John F. Kennedy School of Government and a visiting professor to the Policy Institute at King’s College London.

## Quotes

* Ed Balls
** "Ed Balls" tweet by @edballs (28 April 2011)

## External links

* Official website
# Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Maeve Phillipson (born 19 December 1983) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Education since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2010. Previously, Phillipson was Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (2020–2021) and as Shadow Secretary of State for Education from 2021.

## Quotes

* The deputy head teacher, Mr Hurst, who was a very fierce character, sent a message to me in class and said he wanted to see me in his office immediately. He said he'd got the list of students who'd signed up for this trip to Oxford [University] and my name wasn't on it, and he expected my name to be on it by the end of the day. The year that I went to Oxford there were six of us that went to Oxford or Cambridge from my state school, which was the best they'd ever achieved.
** From an interview, as cited in Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson "Is Bridget Phillipson Labour's rising star?", The Times (28 July 2023)
# Armando Brambilla

Armando Brambilla (21 January 1942 – 24 December 2011) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rome.

## Quotes

* We often forget this network of good health agents that can be of great help to families in difficulty.
** Bioethics Course Prompts Bishops to Consider Going on the Offensive (19 November 2001) Zenit
# Jules Feiffer

Jules Ralph Feiffer (January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025) was an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. In 1986, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice. He currently works as an instructor with the M.F.A program at Stony Brook Southampton.

## Quotes

* It is not size or age or childishness that separates children from adults. It is "responsibility."
** The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965)
# Raphael p'Mony Wokorach

Raphael p'Mony Wokorach (21 January 1961) is a Ugandan prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Gulu.

## Quotes

* In the Priesthood of Christ I see one thing: being closer to the people because we work hard to bridge the gaps, the separation, which may be a reality in the Church or the ministry.
** Pope Francis Appoints Bishops for Dioceses of Nebbi in Uganda, Lafia in Nigeria (31 March 2021) ACIA Africa
# Paul Ma Cunguo

Paul Ma Cunguo (21 January 1971) is a Chinese prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Shuozhou.

## Quotes

* It's not easy to do some of the work without going open.
** China's state church installs fifth underground bishop (20 July 2020) Union of Asian Catholic News
# Cemetery

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

## Quotes

* CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* Cemeteries: there's another idea whose time has passed! Saving all the dead people in one part of town? What the hell kind of a superstitious religious medieval bullshit idea is that? Plow these motherfuckers up, plow them into the streams and rivers of America, we need that phosphorus for farming! If we're gonna recycle, let's get serious!
** George Carlin, Jammin' In New York (1992).
* I have a weakness for cemeteries, though they aren't so beautiful anymore, because they are simply overpopulated! When I meet friends or people I know who are going through a difficult period, I usually have this advice for them: "Go for twenty minutes in a cemetery and you'll see that, though your worry won't disappear, you'll almost forget about it and you'll feel better." Just a few days ago I told a young woman who was suffering fearfully from an unhappy love, "Since you don't live far from Montparnasse, take a walk through the cemetery, just half an hour, and you will see that your misery will appear bearable." In such a situation, it is much better to do that than to go to a doctor; there is no medicine that can help. To visit a cemetery in such a situation is a lesson, a lesson in wisdom! I have always practiced such methods, or recommended them, although it may not seem altogether serious, but it has been effective in every case. What can one say that is meaningful to someone in despair? Absolutely nothing, or almost nothing. My advice shows immediate results.
** Emil Cioran, "Wakefulness and Obsession: An Interview with E.M. Cioran", Salmagundi, No. 103 (SUMMER 1994), pp. 122-145
* He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
** Harold Wilson, speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967.—Text, The New York Times, January 24, 1967, p. 12.

## Dialogue

* Sarah: You're going to say I shouldn't be in the cemetery in the middle of the night, right?
    Eric: Safest place in the world to be.
    Sarah: That's 'cause everybody's dead.
   * David J. Schow, The Crow (1994 film).

## See also

* Cremation
* Death
* Epitaph
* Funeral
* Grave (burial)
* Last words
* Undertakers
# Daniel M. Kimmel

Daniel M. Kimmel (born 1955) is an American film critic and author.

## Quotes
### Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel (2017)

    No page numbers, as all quotes are from the e-book edition published by Fantastic Books
* You’ve heard of “Rocks for Jocks,” the gimme course that departments of geology often offer? The physics department offering was called—among the faculty, anyway, “Quarks for Dorks.” Lucky me, I got to teach it.
** Chapter 2, “Pair of Docs”
* “Let me guess. Las Vegas had time machines as well.” “No,” said Price, “but they had something just as troublesome: the Treasury Department.”
** Chapter 7, “Future Tense”
* College, after all, was a place where one had most of the privileges of adulthood and very few of the responsibilities. Who wouldn’t want to stay there forever if one could?
** Chapter 9, “The Meter Is Running”
* “You’re a theoretician. I’m more at home in applied physics.” He reached for his pipe and tobacco pouch. “Ah yes, the great divide in physics. It’s like the nature versus nurture arguments the biologists and psychologists have.” “I wonder what they argue about in the chemistry department,” I wondered. “Probably who has to pick up the check, if they’re anything like the professors I know. If it doesn’t smell or blow up, they seem more interested in mixing drinks than chemicals.”
** Chapter 12, “Department Meeting”
* I got what he was saying. It wasn’t just about crunching numbers. It was about understanding them. It was about seeing the unexpected connections.
** Chapter 12, “Department Meeting”
* I now know the answer to the riddle as to which came first, the chicken or the egg? The correct answer is, “Yes.”
** Chapter 12, “Department Meeting”
* Don’t underestimate the power of nerds with access to Internet search engines.
** Chapter 17, “The Night Owl”
* There are times when you’re incredibly sensitive and insightful. This isn’t one of them.
** Chapter 18, “Jolts”
* As a journalist, he was used to being lied to.
** Chapter 19, “The Home Stretch”
# John Burns

John Elliot Burns (20 October 1858 – 24 January 1943) was a British trade unionist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly associated with London politics.

## Quotes

* I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the Saint Lawrence. That is clear water. But the Thames is liquid history.
** Quoted in the Daily Mail (25 January 1943)
# Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, KG, DSO, MC, PC (15 March 1893 – 21 January 1972) was a British businessman from the Lyttelton family who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.

## Quotes

* Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history ever to say that America was forced into the war. Everyone knows where American sympathies were. It is incorrect to say that America was truly neutral even before America came into the war on an all-out basis.
** "Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History" (by Gordon Prange) p. 35.
# Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale

Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, PC (17 February 1929 – 4 March 1993) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. As President of the Selsdon Group, a free-market lobby within the Conservative Party, he was closely aligned with Margaret Thatcher, and became one of her Ministers of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1979. Responsible for the Falkland Islands, he tried to resolve the long-running sovereignty issue with Argentina, which detected Britain's reluctance to defend the territory, and later invaded it.

## Quotes

* "This is all a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe. It has to be thwarted. This rushed take-over by the Germans on the worst possible basis, with the French behaving like poodles to the Germans, is absolutely intolerable." ... "When I look at the institutions to which it is proposed that sovereignty is to be handed over, I'm aghast. Seventeen unelected reject politicians [...] with no accountability to anybody, who are not responsible for raising taxes, just spending money, who are pandered to by a supine parliament which also is not responsible for raising taxes, already behaving with an arrogance I find breathtaking - the idea that one says, 'OK, we'll give this lot our sovereignty' is unacceptable to me. I'm not against giving up sovereignty in principle, but not to this lot. You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler, frankly."
** Quotes from an interview with Dominic Lawson: "Saying the unsayable about the Germans", The Spectator (14 July 1990).
# Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2006 to 2007, Secretary of State for Health from 2007 to 2009, Home Secretary from 2009 to 2010, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Labour Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle from 1997 to 2017.
Johnson served in the Cabinet during both the Tony Blair government and that of Gordon Brown. He served as Minister of State for Universities from 2003 to 2004, as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2004 to 2005, and as President of the Board of Trade from 2005 to 2006.

## Quotes

* I don't live in London, I live in Yorkshire, I live in a working class constituency. I've known Jon [Lansman] for many years – Jon's been around from the Bennite days. I'm afraid the working classes have always been a big disappointed for Jon and his cult. [Jeremy] Corbyn was a disaster on the doorstep. Everyone knew that he couldn't lead the working class out of a paper bag. Now Jon's developed this Momentum group, this party within a party, aiming to keep the purity, the culture of betrayal goes on. You'll hear it more and more now over the next couple of days as this little cult get their act together. I want them out of the party. I want Momentum gone. Go back to your student politics and your little left wing.
** Interview (with Jon Lansman among others) during ITV's coverage of the results of the 2019 general election (13 December 2019), as cited in "General election: Former Labour home secretary rants about ‘disaster’ Corbyn after heavy defeat", The Independent (13 December 2019).
** The Labour Party won 202 seats in 2019, its lowest since the 1935 general election.
# Patricia Hewitt

Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 2 December 1948) is an Australian-born British government adviser and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005.

## Quotes
### 1976

* Our proposal that the age of consent be reduced is based on the belief that neither the police nor the criminal courts should have the power to intervene in a consenting sexual activity between two young people. It is clearly the case that a number of young people are capable of consenting to sexual activity and already do so.
** Letter (April 1976) to a housemaster at St Paul's Boys School, London, reproduced in "Patricia Hewitt backed NCCL policy of lowering age of consent" The Guardian (28 February 2014). Hewitt was then the general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties. A March 1976 press release from the pressure group, with Hewitt's name on it, had stated: "NCCL proposes that the age of consent should be lowered to 14, with special provision for situations where the partners are close in age, or where consent of a child over ten can be proved."

### 2014

* Any suggestion that I supported or condoned the vile crimes of child abusers is completely untrue. When Jack Dromey, as NCCL chairman in 1976, vigorously opposed PIE at the NCCL AGM, he did so with the full support of the Executive Committee and myself as general secretary. As the NCCL archives demonstrate, I consistently distinguished between consenting relationships between homosexual men, on the one hand, and the abuse of children on the other. NCCL in the 1970s, along with many others, was naive and wrong to accept PIE's claim to be a 'campaigning and counselling organisation' that 'does not promote unlawful acts'. As General Secretary then, I take responsibility for the mistakes we made. I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so. I should have urged the Executive Committee to take stronger measures to protect NCCL's integrity from the activities of PIE members and sympathisers and I deeply regret not having done so. ...
** Statement (27 February 2014), as published in The Telegraph.
# Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, GCB, PC (8 September 1790 – 22 December 1871) was a British Tory politician. He was four times President of the Board of Control and also served as Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844.

## Quotes about Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

* Lord Ellenborough, the Governor General, made his entry into Ferozpur on the 9th of December, with 120 elephants, 700 camels, and numerous wagons…General Nott crossed the Sutlej with his corps on the 23rd of December, the anniversary of the murder of Sir William M‘Naughten. He brought with him the famous sandal-wood gates of Somnauth, which were covered with red cloth, embroidered with gold, and drawn by twenty-four oxen. It is said that Mahmood the Ghuznevide took these gates with him to Ghuznee, when he destroyed the temple of Somnauth, in 1025; but this splendid Hindoo temple, to which they are to be restored, retains scarcely a trace of its former magnificence, and its remains have been converted into a mosque. The Maharaja, Shere Singh, had not only sent a bodyguard to receive the gates on British territory, but had given a present of a sum of money to the escort. When I went to examine the gates more closely the next day, I found a number of Brahmins, strewing flowers upon them, who assured me there was not the slightest doubt that they were genuine. They are most skillfully carved with stars and arabesques, and bordered with Kufic characters, but unfortunately the gates are so much injured, that scarcely the half of the beautiful work has been preserved.
** Lord Ellenborough in Ferozpur with the gates of the Somnath temple, Captain Leopold von Orlich , Orlich, Captain Leopold von, Travels In India Including Sinde And The Punjab, 2 vols., Usha, 1985, first published 1845.quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume IV Chapter9
# The King of Queens

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The King of Queens (1998–2007) is an American situation comedy series on the CBS network about a package deliveryman, his wife, and her father, who all live together in Queens, New York.

## Seasons

       Season 1
       Season 2
       Season 3
       Season 4
       Season 5
       Season 6
       Season 7
       Season 8
       Season 9

## External links

* Production site. sonypictures.com. Retrieved on 2008-11-11.
* The King of Queens quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti (14 January 1919 – 6 May 2013) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments (1972–1973, 1976–1979, and 1989–1992), and was leader of the Christian Democracy party and its right-wing; he was the sixth-longest-serving prime minister since the Italian unification and the second-longest-serving post-war prime minister. Andreotti is widely considered the most powerful and prominent politician of the First Republic.

## Quotes

* Essendo noi uomini medi, le vie di mezzo sono, per noi, le più congeniali.
** "Le frasi celebri di Andreotti", IlSole24Ore.com

## Quotes about Andreotti

* As an Italian, I remember the words of our several-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, a practicing Catholic. When asked why he was suing those who slandered him rather than forgiving, he answered that when he incited us to turn the other cheek Jesus had surely considered we have only two cheeks. From the “third cheek” on, reacting is not forbidden.
** Massimo Introvigne, "Anti-Cultism à la Mode de Caen: To Avoid a Court Hearing, MIVILUDES Humors Scientology", Bitter Winter (May 5, 2023)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Giulio Andreotti on Wikipedia
# Judah P. Benjamin

Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. Born a British subject in the West Indies, he became a citizen of the United States, serving as a Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and then as a U.S. Senator from Louisiana. During the American Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy and held three Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America. He was the first Jewish Cabinet-member in a North American government, and had previously been the first Jewish nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court (he declined the position). He was the second Jewish U.S. Senator. After the collapse of the Confederacy, he settled in England and became a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel. He died in France.

## Quotes

* It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener’s watering pot.
** On the secession movement in the South (1860). Reported in Allan Nevins, The Emergence of Lincoln (1950), p. 387.
* First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.
** Response when asked how he was able to maintain his substantial income. Reported in Simon I. Neiman, Judah Benjamin (1963) p. 207.

## External links

* American Civil War website biography
* Jewish Virtual Library biography