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# Jane McIntosh

Jane McIntosh is a Scottish archaeologist and author.

## Quotes

* The Indus civilization has challenged scholars’ understanding since its discovery some eighty years ago, and in recent years the application of systematic and problem-orientated research, coupled with much new and unexpected data, has overturned many previous interpretations.
** Jane McIntosh, The Ancient Indus Valley, 2008
* In contrast, changes taking place in the Saraswati Valley in the early second millennium were probably a major contributor to the Indus decline. In Harappan times, the Saraswati was a major river system flowing from the Siwaliks at least to Bahawalpur, where it probably ended in a substantial inland delta. The ancient Saraswati River was fed by a series of small rivers that rose in the Siwaliks, but it drew the greater part of its waters from two much larger rivers rising high in the Himalayas: the Sutlej and the Yamuna. In its heyday the Saraswati appears to have supported the densest settlement and provided the greatest arable yields of any part of the Indus realms. The Yamuna, which supplied most of the water flowing in the Drishadvati, a major tributary of the Saraswati, changed its course, probably early in the second millennium, to flow into the Ganges drainage. The remaining flow in the Drishadvati became small and seasonal: Late Harappan sites in Bahawalpur are concentrated in the portion of the Sarawati east of Yazman, which was fed by the Sutlej. At a later date the Sutlej also changed its course and was captured by the Indus. These changes brought about massive depopulation of the Saraswati Valley, which by the end of the millennium was described as a place of potsherds and ruin mounds whose inhabitants had gone away. At the same time new settlements appeared in the regions to the south and east, in the upper Ganges-Yamuna doab. Some were located on the palaeochannels that mark the eastward shift of the Yamuna. Presumably many of the Late Harappan settlers had originated in the Saraswati Valley.
** Jane McIntosh, The Ancient Indus Valley, 2008
* The decline of Harappan urbanism probably had many contributing factors. The shift to a concentration on kharif cultivation in the outer regions of the state may have seriously disrupted established schedules for craft production, civic flood defense, building and drain maintenance, and other publicly organized works on which the smooth running of the state depended. The reduction in the waters of the Saraswati and the response of its farmers by migrating into regions to the east tore apart the previous unity of the Harappan state, disrupting its cohesion and its ability to control the internal distribution network.
** Jane McIntosh, The Ancient Indus Valley, 2008
# Jane Eyre: The Musical

Jane Eyre: The Musical (2000), based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë. Music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, book and additional lyrics by John Caird.

## Sourced

* When all she wants to do is...fly. Over mountains, over oceans, how her restlessness stirs. For she longs for her liberty, when will liberty be hers?
** Jane Eyre
* She saves me when I can't be saved, frees me but I'm still enslaved. Now I battle what I most adore. Oh, let me sail away, get lost at sea and make this vow: what my heart wants I will not allow. For as the sirens call the sailors, she calls to me.
** Mr. Rochester
* There's no sight so sad, no stench so bad, as that of a naughty girl. No crime so grave, as children who misbehave. When a girl can't be saved, God hears her plea, but he leaves her soul...to me!
** Mr. Brocklehurst
* Love is like a virus, we're infected with. You're so naive. Wouldn't it be wonderful if life were just as you perceived? Women are inhuman...worthless...course and savage, on the average. Never to be trusted, completely maladjusted....it's true. But if I had thought things through...I might have been as good...as you."
** Edward Fairfax Rochester
* Jane Eyre...why don't you just kill yourself?
** John Reed
* Jane, there is a place for you. And, Jane, it is here with me, to live in this house, to stand as my wife. Jane, you are my second self, and Jane, don't you see the truth that you are the heart of my life!
** Mr. Rochester
* Jane, I've been dealt a blow. I've been dealt a blow, Jane!
** Mr. Rochester
* When I lay myself down to sleep tonight I pray I might know why God has tempered judgment not with mercy, but with sorrow. Let the world forsake me, let them do their worst, I will withstand it all, they will not break me. There is another world that watches us, I'm not afraid.
** Young Jane and Jane Eyre
* She found me handsome, my opera dancer. And like a fool I believed it was true I held the world inside my hands, a man full in his prime, when she left me for another, pierced my heart a second time.
** Mr. Rochester
* I cannot sleep. I cannot breathe. I cry his tears. I sense the secrets of his past. I feel his fears.
** Jane Eyre
* Orphan, orphan, parents dead! Stupid, stupid in the head! Ugly, ugly, ugly face! Why don't you learn to know your PLACE!
** John Reed
# Jane Metcalfe

Jane Metcalfe (born November 15, 1961) is an American co-founder, with Louis Rossetto, and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of the magazine Wired.

## Quotes

* We need positive visions of how all this technology gets deployed, because what we visualize is what we build.
** A history and future of digital and biological technology, with Jane Metcalfe by Rolf Potts,08-08-2024 Retrieved 11/09/2024
* And what we imagine becomes what we build.
** New Technologies, New Questions | Jane Metcalfe by Long Now Foundation,21-09-2020 Retrieved 11/09/2024
* Many people say they want to write a book but very few do it.
** Things In Heaven And Earth: Interview With Author Jane Metcalfe by Lucy Brown, Retrieved 11/09/2024
# Jane Frances McDonnell

Jane Frances McDonnell is a philosopher who focuses on the philosophy of mathematics and physics. She obtained her doctorate from Monash University in Victoria, Australia.

## The Pythagorean World (2016)

       McDonnell, Jane (2016). The Pythagorean World: Why Mathematics Is Unreasonably Effective In Physics. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-40976-4.
* 1. Mathematics is about the structure of Being.
** p. 206
* 2. Mathematics is necessary and true.
** p. 206
* 3. Mathematical objects do not exist in a mysterious Platonic heaven totally independent of the physical world. Rather, physical reality is a mental interpretation of a subset of mathematical structure.
** p. 206
* 4. Human mathematics is the cultural product of a community of rational beings.
** p. 206
* 5. We come to know about mathematics by abstracting structure from the world around us and focusing on the structure of Being mirrored in us.
** p. 207
* 6. Mathematics is applicable because it truly describes the fundamental structure of reality.
** p. 210
* 7. There are rational beings with mental powers surpassing those of humans who have a deeper insight into mathematics than we do.
** p. 210
* 8. Model theory provides the correct picture of how mathematical languages describe mathematical reality.
** p. 211
* 9. No mathematics is surplus.
** p. 211
* 10. There is one, true mathematics.
** p. 217
* 11. There are no absolutely undecidable propositions in mathematics.
** p. 217
* 12. Some human mathematics is fiction.
** p. 217
* 13. The universe of sets V cannot be Gödel’s L; it must be something like Woodin’s Ultimate L which contains all possible large cardinals and has the semantic resources to witness them.
** p. 219

## See also

* Philosophy of mathematics
* Pythagoreanism
* Timaeus
* Gottfried Leibniz
* Kurt Gödel
# Jane Merrick

Jane Merrick (born 23 November 1973) is a British journalist who is currently the policy editor at the i newspaper. She was previously the political editor of The Independent on Sunday between 2008 and 2015. Merrick has also worked as a political correspondent for the Daily Mail and the Press Association.

## Quotes

* It was here that [Michael] Fallon lunged at me. This was not a farewell peck on the cheek, but a direct lunge at my lips. When I have previously written about this incident (referring to an unnamed MP) I have described it as a "kiss" – but a kiss suggests something romantic, consensual. This was anything but. I shrank away in horror and ran off to my office in the press gallery. I felt humiliated, ashamed. Was I even guilty that maybe I had led him on in some way by drinking with him? After years of having a drink with so many other MPs who have not acted inappropriately towards me, I now know I was not.
* [I]n the ensuing coverage the impression was being left that this was a one-off incident that could now be laughed off. I knew that by failing to act I was letting down not only my 29-year-old self, but also any other women who may have been subjected to the same behaviour since. More importantly, I would be failing to protect other women in future.
** "I won’t keep my silence: Michael Fallon lunged at me after our lunch", The Observer (4 November 2017).
** Michael Fallon had resigned as Defence Secretary after multiple accounts of his inappropriate conduct towards women.
# Masego Montsho

Masego Montsho (born 15 June 1991) is a Motswana footballer who plays as a defender for Botswana Defence Force XI FC and the Botswana women's national team.

## Quote

* “Our victory will be determined by our preparation. If we can have two or three international friendly games, we can compete.
** ZEBRAS WOMEN AIM GOLD, 07 Aug 2018, Anastacia Sibanda, Retrieved 08/11/2023
# Masochism

Masochism is the practice of seeking humiliation because it is pleasurable.

## Quotes

* Masochism is a theater in which one submits to enslavement and thereby hopes to overcome enslavement.
** Paul Mann, "Masocriticism," SubStance, Vol. 23, No. 3, Issue 75 (1994), p. 22

## See also

* Humility
* Pleasure
* Sadomasochism
# Matilda of Flanders

Matilda of Flanders (French: Mathilde; Dutch: Machteld; German: Mechtild) (c. 1031 – 2 November 1083) was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror, and regent of Normandy during his absences from the duchy. She was the mother of nine children who survived to adulthood, including two kings, William II and Henry I.

## Quotes

* A faithless wife brings ruin to the state.
** Matilda of Flanders – Queen of the Conqueror, By Moniek Bloks, Friday 29 December 2017.
# Matilda (1978 film)

Matilda is a 1978 American comedy film about a small-time talent agent who discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use him as his stepping-stone into the big time by having him compete with a human pugilist.
    Directed by Daniel Mann. Written by Timothy Galfas, based on the eponymous 1970 novel by Paul Gallico.

## Billy Baker

* [last lines] Life's grand. Isn't it?

## Dialogue

    [Kathleen is regarding Bernie taking baby kangaroo 'Junior' to the gym]
    Kathleen Smith: Bernie, it's inhuman to do that to a baby kangaroo! It's inhuman!
    Bernie Bonnelli: Has anyone ever told you that you're always repeating yourself? This is no ordinary kangaroo... Junior's different. Remember who his father was.

## Taglines

* America Loves a Winner!
* The Knockout Comedy Of The Year!
* Quirky family fun that packs the meanest of punches!

## Cast

* Elliott Gould - Bernie Bonnelli
* Clive Revill - Billy Baker
* Harry Guardino - Uncle Nono
* Roy Clark - Wild Bill Wildman
* Karen Carlson - Kathleen Smith
* Art Metrano - Gordon Baum
* Lionel Stander - Pinky Schwab
* Roberta Collins - Tanya Six
* Larry Pennell - Lee Dockerty
* Gary Morgan - Matilda
* Robert Mitchum - Duke Parkhurst
* Lenny Montana - Hood #1
* Frank Avianca - Hood #2
* Joe De Fish - Hood #3
* Pat Henry - Hood #4

## External links

* Matilda (1978 film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Matilda (1978 film) at Rotten Tomatoes
# Matilda Lambert

Matilda Gogo Lambert is a Nigerian actress, movie producer, model, and CEO of Tilda Goes Green Foundation. She made her movie debut in the film The Celebrities alongside Mike Ezuruonye. Her performance in the movie brought her to prominence and earned her leading roles in other Nollywood movies.

## Quotes

* I had always wanted to be an ambassador and a pilot. When I finally started flying, I didn’t want to be anything close to being a pilot.
* Acting puts you in the limelight and as such there will be a lot of distractions. One thing I have always said to myself is that I came into this industry for a reason and I have a target. I am a focused young lady. I am goal getter. I don’t listen to people who don’t understand what I am doing or where I am coming from. I have learnt to be myself, to be focused and not to listen to negative and unnecessary criticisms.
* I love a man who is God-fearing irrespective of what he does. I love a man who is honest and someone who looks good and smells nice. Most importantly, I love a man who loves his woman genuinely and supports her career. It is very sweet when you have someone who loves you and supports what you do, a man who comes all out for you and makes you feel like the only girl in the world.
* One thing people don’t know about me is that I am an extremely reserved person. I am a very shy and reserved person. I don’t get comfortable around people easily. I am a very shy person.
* When it comes to dressing, I wear things I am very comfortable in. For me it has to do with being comfortable. It doesn’t have to be necessarily trendy. Most times I wear what I am comfortable in, not necessarily about the trend. That’s my style and that is how I love to dress.
* Growing up was a blissful because I had almost all that I wanted as a child. I wasn’t born with a ‘golden spoon’ but in an above average family. I have always been my mums little doll, having lost my dad at an early age. My mum did double of what both parents could do to raise a “Golden Child”. I was taught that nothing is impossible to achieve in life if I believe in myself, but trust in God, have passion for what I do and not to give up
* Life has taught me that success is no accident, its hard work, perseverance, sacrifice and most of all, love for what you do or learning to do. Secondly, life has taught me to love myself and appreciate me for who I am. I have also learnt to stay away from negative/toxic people. Life has taught me to accept change and be thankful for everything that happens and to always trust in God’s word. Trusting God doesn’t mean he will do all you wants but rather believing he will do everything he knows is good.
# Matilda Lansana Minah V

Matilda Yayu Lansana Minah (born 25 March 1935) is Paramount Chief of the Pujehun District in Sierra Leone. She became chief in 1985 after the death of her father, and was elected to parliament in 2018. She is outspoken on women's rights, agriculture and education.

## Quotes

* ... the role of the parliamentarian is to see that your constituency get what the government provides for them ... children should be educated, women be empowered, pregnant women have free access to healthcare and develop the chiefdoms as well
** Quoted in Josephine Beoku-Betts & Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale Women, War and Post-conflict Empowerment (Bloomsbury 2022), p.89.
# Matigari ma Njiruungi

Matigari ma Njiruungi is a 1986 novel by author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

## Quotes

* Their blood mingled with the soil, and they became patriots, ready for the armed struggle to come.
** (Narrator, page 4)
* There is no night so long that it does not end with dawn."
** (Matigari, page 11)
* So a handful of people still profited from the suffering of the majority, the sorrow of the many being the joy of the few?"
** (Matigari,Page 12)
* "A child belongs to all, that a nation's beauty was born in a child, a future patriot..."
** (Matigari, page 48)
* My hands are the surest title-deed there ever was. What other deed do you need that is greater than the blood that I shed?"
** (Matigari, page 50)
* Too much fear breeds misery in the land."
** (A woman in the woods, page 87)
* how can the present conditions continue when foreigners, be they from Europe or America, can always get places on which to pitch their tents? Tents in which to hide their military gadgets? Tents in which to store the wealth stolen from us?"
** (Crowds, page 79)
* Democracy here means, first, fending for oneself."
** (The student, page 90)
* there are people who reap benefits from singing the approved tune, those who dance in step with the approved dance."
** (The teacher, page 92)
* Justice for the oppressed comes from a sharpened spear."
** (Matigari, page 131)
# Nathanael West

Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). He died in a car crash in 1940, aged 37.

## Novels
### Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

* He sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in another. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature . . . the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
** p.104 [Chapters are unnumbered. Page numbers per the Nathanael West "Complete Works" Picador Classics paperback, 1988 edition.]

## Poems
### Rondeau (1922)

My lady's eyes appear to be
Like brimming pools of ecstasy,
Deep wells, from which the twinkles flow
Unceasingly as on they go
To charm me with their witchery;
Mayhap an easy prey they see,
Enmeshed by their dexterity;
I can't protest; they thrill me so—
My lady's eyes.
Although they gaze alluringly,
Appealing with such potentcy,
Oft times in them I see a glow
Which warns me that I should go slow,
For then, you know, I really see
My lady lies!

## Quotes about

* The energy of American Jewish writers was so charged, so buoyant, that for a time they appeared to dominate American fiction. But there was so little Jewish energy in this art that one could invent parlor games over the ethnic or religious identity of its authors: Edna Ferber? Waldo Frank? Lillian Hellman? Nathanael West? Norman Mailer? E. L. Doctorow?
** Ruth Wisse The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)

## External links

* Nathanael West on IMDb
# Nathaniel Bowditch

Nathaniel Bowditch (26 March 1773 – 16 March 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. In 2001, an elementary and middle school in Salem was named in his honor.

## Quotes

* Marine navigation blends both science and art. A good navigator constantly thinks strategically, operationally, and tactically. He plans each voyage carefully. As it proceeds, he gathers navigational information from a variety of sources, evaluates this information, and determines his ship’s position. He then compares that position with his voyage plan, his operational commitments, and his predetermined “dead reckoning” position. A good navigator anticipates dangerous situations well before they arise, and always stays “ahead of the vessel.” He is ready for navigational emergencies at any time. He is increasingly a manager of a variety of resources--electronic, mechanical, and human. Navigation methods and techniques vary with the type of vessel, the conditions, and the navigator’s experience. The navigator uses the methods and techniques best suited to the vessel, its equipment, and conditions at hand. Some important elements of successful navigation cannot be acquired from any book or instructor. The science of navigation can be taught, but the art of navigation must be developed from experience.
** The American Practical Navigator, Chapter. I, p. 1
* The Earth is an irregular oblate spheroid (a sphere flattened at the poles). Measurements of its dimensions and the amount of its flattening are subjects of geodesy. However, for most navigational purposes, assuming a spherical Earth introduces insignificant error. The Earth’s axis of rotation is the line connecting the north and south geographic poles. A great circle is the line of intersection of a sphere and a plane through its center. This is the largest circle that can be drawn on a sphere. The shortest line on the surface of a sphere between two points on the surface is part of a great circle. On the spheroidal Earth the shortest line is called a geodesic. A great circle is a near enough approximation to a geodesic for most problems of navigation.
** The American Practical Navigator, Chapter. I, p. 3-4

## External links

* The American Practical Navigator, by the United States government, 2002
# Nathan Sawaya

Nathan Sawaya (born July 10, 1973) is an American artist who is best known for making sculptures and large-scale mosaics with Lego building bricks.

## Quotes

* Swim against the current! Follow your own path! Find the courage within!
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* Create what you see. Create what you feel. Create what you have never seen. Just create.
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* I first learned adjectives through School House Rock. I learned how to count to ten through Sesame Street. I learned about gravity through my Slinky. Imagine if a child learns about art history through LEGO!
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* When I was a lawyer, I quickly came to realize I was more comfortable sitting on the floor, creating sculptures than I was sitting in a boardroom, negotiating contracts. My own personal conflicts and fears, coupled with a deep desire for overall happiness, paved the way to becoming a full-time, working artist.
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* This exhibition engages the child in all of us while at the same time highlighting sophisticated and complex concepts. I use LEGO in my art because the toy is accessible. Chances are, you probably don't have a slab of marble or a ceramic kiln at home. But I bet you have some LEGO bricks.
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* My favorite subject is the human form. A lot of my work suggests a figure in transition. It represents the metamorphosis I am experiencing in my own life. My pieces grown out of my fears and accomplishments, as a lawyer and as an artist, as a boy and as a man.
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
* I carry a sketch pad with me wherever I go. Many of my works center on the phenomena of how everyday life, people and raw emotion are intertwined. I am inspired by my own experiences, the journeys I take and the people I meet.
** Quote displayed in The Art of the Brick exhibit
# Nathan Spielvogel

Nathan Frederick Spielvogel (10 May 1874 – 10 September 1956) was an Australian author of Jewish origin, whose work has been compared to that of Judah Waten.

## Quotes

* We've seen the Red, like a thirsty king, Bend over the silent stream; We've seen the Mallee its tassels fling, To steal of the sunset's gleam; The Blue's young shoots, with his leaves gray pearled, A cloud that has gone awry; The Ironbark, with his limbs up-hurled As though he would win the sky. * * * He stands apart from the Old World trees, Unbound by the laws of form; He bows his head to the zephyr breeze, But laughs at the drought and storm. We stand alone, like our own great tree, Afar from the nations' hum. Come, brothers! Keep we our homeland free As limbs of our Austral gum.
** "Our Gum-trees", sts. 4, 6, in An Austral Garden of Verse (Sydney, 1913), p. 95