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# Social choice theory

Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some sense.

## Quotes

* There was, however, another approach to justice that also emerged at about the same time in the works of other Enlightenment thinkers – other than the social contract theorists of that period. These theorists did not erect a fully developed structure of a theory of justice, but the ingredients of a different approach – different from the social contract theory – which they helped to identify, can be developed from their alternative understanding of the demands of justice. These theorists (including Adam Smith, the Marquis de Condorcet and Mary Wollstonecraft in the eighteenth century, and extended later to John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, among others) took a variety of approaches that differed in many ways from each other, but shared a common interest in making comparisons between different ways in which people’s lives may go, jointly influenced by the working of institutions, people’s actual behaviour, their social interactions and other factors that significantly impact on what actually happens. My attempt at advancing a theory of justice closely relates to this alternative foundation. The analytical – and rather mathematical – discipline of ‘social choice theory’, which had its origin in the works of French mathematicians in the eighteenth century, in particular the Marquis de Condorcet, but also others like Borda, and which has been revived and reformulated in our times by Kenneth Arrow, also belongs to this second line of investigation.
** Amartya Sen, “Values and justice”, Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2012, 101–108
* In contrast with the ‘social contract’ tradition, a ‘social choice’ approach is concerned with public reasoning – and that can go well beyond national boundaries. There is a strong case for an inclusive effort to bring in the perspectives and values of other people, even when they live far away. Indeed, the inputs into the exercise of invoking of the ‘impartial spectator’ can come from far as well as near, as Smith explained.
** Amartya Sen, “Values and justice”, Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2012, 101–108

## See also

* Individualism
* Social change
* Social control
* Social order
* Social power
* Society
# Social change

Social change involves alteration of the social order of a society.

## Quotes

* No real social change has ever come about without a revolution.
** Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, 1910, Mother Earth Publishing

## External links

* Social Change Collection from Georgia State University
# Social acceptance

Social acceptance can be defined as the fact that most people, in order to fit in with others, attempt to look and act like them. Or sometimes it is the ability to accept or to tolerate differences and diversity in other people or groups of people.

## Quotes

* What is the point of restraint and circumspection, if such stream-of-consciousness vulgarity can win not merely wealth and fame but complete social acceptance?
** Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist), City Journal (1998 - 2008), Uncouth Chic (Autumn 1998).
* Stigma - the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance.
** Erving Goffman (1963), Stigma : Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Preface
* In a culture whose media extols thinness as the great panacea that will bring happiness, sexuality, self-respect and social acceptance, they are blind to the insidious lies of the false goddess.
** Marion Woodman The Pregnant Virgin (1985) p. 103

## See also

* Acceptance
* Tolerance
# Soccer in the United States

Soccer in the United States is one of the most-widely played sports in the country. It is governed by the United States Soccer Federation, commonly known as U.S. Soccer.

## Quotes

* You were kind of an outlier if you even liked football and you were a girl in England. So to come over here and have that opportunity? I've always said America is the land of opportunity. It certainly was for me.
** Jill Ellis, as quoted in "U.S. Coach Jill Ellis' choices put her on the path to Women's World Cup" (1 June 2015), by Kevin Baxter, The Los Angeles Times, California

## External links

* Official website
# Fiona Dourif

Fiona Dourif (October 30, 1981 –) is an American actress and producer.

## Quotes

* I didn’t want to be an actress, because I had been around that lifestyle my whole life. So, I just thought I wanted to be more serious or some stupid thing. I think what changed it was I was 22 or so and I had this exercise. I was up on stage performing, and when you're doing it well, it is the most exhilarating thing in the world. It just feels like the most alive you can be or something, and I decided I am going to try and do that.
** Exclusive Interview: Fiona Dourif Talks Precious Mettle, Working With Paul Sorvino, Growing Up With Chucky and Much More (June 19, 2013)
* There’s something tingly and exciting about fear. In some weird way, it’s also kind of sexy. It’s simple and extreme and makes you feel present. Horror also has an awesome fan base. They’re so loyal and are always excited.
** ‘Fear Clinic’: Actress Fiona Dourif talks new horror film, career (February 21, 2015)
# Fiona Oakes

Fiona Oakes (born 1966) is a British marathon runner, who holds four world records for marathon running. In 2013, she won both the Antarctic Ice Marathon and the North Pole Marathon.

## Quotes

* Obviously, the health benefits of being vegan are written in stone but I honestly believe the most benefit to me being vegan is that I do not carry the burden of guilt that I would have to endure knowing that I abused others for my own 'benefit'. … Veganism is everything to me. It touches every part of my life. It is my life. I could not begin to imagine living my life any other way. … Often people think we are weak in body and mind. They mistake our compassion for weakness. … My strengths as an athlete are that I am not an athlete for myself. I am doing it for the benefit of others, which makes me work much harder to achieve. I am not selfish enough to want something this badly for myself. It makes me push myself that bit harder knowing that by doing well I can possibly convince others to consider a vegan lifestyle.
** "Interview with Fiona Oakes: Vegan Marathon Runner", in Viva la Vegan! (31 May 2012).
# Fiorenzo Angelini

Fiorenzo Angelini (1 August 1916 – 22 November 2014) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* To state today that the Pope did not have the courage to speak, means not recognizing Pope Pacelli even in a photograph, because he was not a man of half measures, he was not a man of arrangements.
** Cardinal Angelini says Pius XII's example drove him to save WWII Jews (1 February 2010) Catholic News Agency
* In those moments of war, there were no distinctions. They were all lives that needed to be saved. We as the Church had to help them.
** Cardinal remembers Pope Pius XII as wartime hero, saint (2 August 2012) Catholic News Agency
# Elementary particle

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle whose substructure (domain of the bigger structure which shares the similar characteristics of the domain) is unknown, thus it is unknown whether it is composed of other particles.

## Quotes

* One of the most natural questions when one looks at the mass of uncorrelated data on elementary particle interactions is whether a systematic pattern is emerging from this complexity. The penetration of controlled laboratory experiments into the multi-Bev energy region can only make such a question more acute.
** R. E. Behrends, J. Dreitlein, C.Fronsdal and W. Lee, "Simple groups and strong interaction symmetries", Revs. Modern Phys. (1962)
* It's a remarkable fact that matter at the subatomic level consists of tiny chunks, with vast empty spaces in between. Even more remarkable, these tiny chunks come in a small number of different types (electrons, protons, neutrons, pi mesons, neutrinos, and so on), which are then replicated in astronomical quantities to make all the "stuff" around us. And these replicas are absolutely perfect copies—not just "pretty similar," like two Fords coming off the same assembly line, but utterly indistinguishable.
** David Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles. John Wiley & Sons. 26 September 2008. p. 1. ISBN 978-3-527-61847-7.
* Even with our best understanding in traditional physics, there are dozens of different things that we can call elementary particles. The idea of string theory is to get all the different elementary particles — muons, neutrinos, electrons, up quarks, gluons, and so on — as different states of vibration of one basic string.
** Edward Witten, "ICTP-SAIFR Strings 2021 - June 27 - Ask a String Theorist". ICTP-SAIFR Strings 2021, YouTube. (quote at 43:57 of 1:34:25)
# Elena Grigoryants

Elena Igorevna Grigoryants [Еле́на И́горевна Григорья́нц] (b. August 12, 1965), Russian culturologist, art critic, curator. Associate Professor. PhD in Philosophy, member of Association of Specialists in Art History.

## Quotes

* The artist’s book is a territory of an experiment. "City" demonstrates a diversity of methods and a huge spectrum of artistic languages that create the unique atmosphere of this publication. All the common print techniques are used here: etching, lithography, linocut, silkscreen, plywood print and stencil. At the same time every work of art shows the individuality of its creator. Almost all of them were completely made by the authors themselves. In some cases, the help of professional typographers was needed. All the compositions and details were discussed with the art-moderator. That is why it is possible to talk about the synthesis of livre d’artiste and artist’s book.
** Elena Grigoryants Reading the Сity / City as Artist's subjectivity. Artist's book project. Catalog. (Rus & En) — SPb: Ed. T. Markova. 2020. — 128 p. — P. 42.
* Another important direction in contemporary Russian artists’ books, with many precedents set by the Futurists, is the fusion of poetic and artistic talent of artist-authors blessed with Doppelbegabung. The intimate relationships between text and image is enhanced when author and artist are one and the same person and engage in an inter-art discourse that leads to creations that are truly unified works of art. An artist who achieved equal mastery in more than one medium and made different arts merge in his personality was no doubt Alexey Parygin. His poetic collections <...> represent an attempt to synthesize text and plastic figurative form in books where literary and visual languages are calculated to have a simultaneous effect on the reader/viewer. The work of Alexey Parygin have common features that are not accidental as the books were created at more or less the same time.
** Elena Grigoryants Absorbing the Futurist heritage: Vasily Vlasov and Alexey Parygin / The Futurist Tradition in Contemporary Russian Artists’ Books // International Yearbook of Futurism Studies / Special Issue on Russian Futurism. Ed. by Günter Berghaus. — Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter. Vol. 9 — 2019, S. 280.
# Elena Garro

Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist. She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism movement, though she rejected this affiliation. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.

## Quotes

* There is nothing easier for my people than that quick show of grief.
** Recollections of Things to Come, translated by Ruth L. C. Simms from Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963)
* Without his walks, the evenings were not the same, and my sidewalks were full of fruit husks, peanut shells, and ugly words.
** Recollections of Things to Come

## Quotes about

* For the majority of readers, Latin American fantastic literature operates under the tutelage of the great masters: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez. However, although few are acquainted with their works, many women began experimenting with this genre well before their male counterparts and were the true precursors of the form, though their names remained on the shelves of oblivion, without the recognition that they deserved. María Luisa Bombal, for example, wrote the fantastic nouvelle, House of Mist (1937) before the famous Ficciones (1944) of Borges, and the Mexican, Elena Garro, wrote Remembrance of Things to Come (1962) before the publication of García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).
** Marjorie Agosín "Reflections on the Fantastic" Translated from the Spanish by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. In Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women Writers of Argentina and Chile (1992)
* (What Mexican books deserve greater attention in the United States?) I read Spanish too slowly to have any expertise here. But I do love and admire the works of Elena Garro, Elena Poniatowska and Rosario Castellanos, and, most recently, Fernanda Melchor and Cristina Rivera Garza.
** Sandra Cisneros interview (2021)
* here’s a very short list of Latin women novelists I think should have been considered part of the Boom…Mexico: Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos...
** Luisa Valenzuela Interview (2022)

## External links

* Goodreads page
# Norman proverbs

Norman or Norman French is an Oïl dialect spoken in northern France.

## S

* S ' il pleut sur le curé , il dégoutte sur le vicaire.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "252, regnet" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. p. 141.

## See Also

* French proverbs
# Norodom Suramarit

Norodom Suramarit ( 6 March 1896 – 3 April 1960) was King of Cambodia from 3 March 1955 until his death in 1960.

## Quotes

* We are your spiritual descendants. A man called Kaundinya (a Brahmin) came from South India years ago, defeated the Cambodian princess, married her, settled down, established his dynasty, and, we are the spiritual descendants of that dynasty. The name Khmer civilization which you give to that comes from the word Kh-Meru of which Kaundinya was a citizen here.
** Radhakrishnan, S Our Heritage Oriental Paperbacks, New Delhi. p. 26
# Melancholia

MELANCHOLIA is a 2011 film about depression and the end of the world.
    Written and directed by Lars von Trier
    Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling.
    This is an English-language film by a Danish/Swedish/French/German consortium.

## Justine

* Close your eyes. Hold my hand.

## Leo

* It's a planet that has been hiding behind the sun. Now it passes by us. It's called a flyby.

## Dialogue

    Claire: It'll pass us by tonight. John is quite calm about it.
    Justine: Does that calm you down?
    Claire: Yes, of course. Well, John studies things. He always has.
    Justine: The Earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it.
    Claire: What?
    Justine: Nobody will miss it.
    Claire: But where would Leo grow up?
    Justine: All I know is, life on Earth is evil.
    Claire: There may be life somewhere else.
    Justine: But there isn't.
    Claire: How do you know?
    Justine: Because I know things.
    Claire: Oh yes, you always imagined you did.
    Justine: I know we're alone.
    Claire: I don't think you know that at all.
    Justine: Six hundred and seventy eight. The bean lottery. Nobody guessed the number of beans in the bottle.
    Claire: No, that's right.
    Justine: But I know. Six hundred and seventy eight.
    Claire: Well, perhaps. But what does that prove?
    Justine: That I know things. And when I say we're alone, we're alone. Life is only on Earth. And not for long.

## External links

* Melancholia (2011) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Melancholia at Rotten Tomatoes
* Official website
# Melanie C

Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974 in Whiston, Merseyside) is an English singer, songwriter and television personality most famous as one of the five members of English girl group the Spice Girls, where she is known as "Sporty Spice". She is also known as Melanie C or Mel C. As a solo artist she has released four albums and was nominated for a BRIT and ECHO awards.

## Quotes
### This Time (2007)

* No matter what they say the time has come I'm ready now to start a new beginning With all our hopes and all our dreams And I know the stars will shine for you and for me From the moment you believe.
** "The Moment You Believe" (co-written with Peter-John Vettese) · YouTube video

## External links

* Official website
* Melanie C on IMDb
# Rebecca Dussault

Rebecca Ann Quinn Dussault (November 14, 1980 –) is an American cross-country skier.

## Quotes

* Don’t be scared to live your faith. When I was young and went on my first trip I was hesitant to speak up and say that I wanted to go to Mass. When I stuck to it and showed that I lived my faith I got respect from my teammates.
** Faith, Family and the Slopes: An Interview with Rebecca Dussault (4 May 2016)
* We will be judged on cowardice. If we don't do what's right for women in sport. It's a very worthy cause. What women have been given through sport in this role in their life, it's really priceless. And so we can decide that that's worth saving, that's worth holding on to and investing in for our future. Or we can just say, hey you know what: we've got this little side agenda that has a strong really loud voice and we're either going to yield to it or not.
** Rebecca Dussault: An Olympian explains the transgender threat to women’s sports (20 June 2019)
# Rebeca Gyumi

Rebeca Z Gyumi (3 December 1986) is a Founder & Executive Director at, a Tanzanian NGO which aims to empower girls through education, and address key challenges which limit girl’s right to education. She has worked for over 8 years with Femina, a youth focused organisation, as a TV personality and youth advocate.

## Quotes

* A girl with a dream is fire.
** Rebeca Gyumi Quotes

## External links

* ↑ https://msichana.or.tz/
# Rebecca Black

Rebecca Renee Black (born 1997) is an American singer-songwriter.

## Quotes

* Good luck when you wake up / And realize all that you've lost / Shining lies are what you're made of / I hope it's worth the price that it cost
** The Great Divide Track 6 RE / BL (2017)
* So cherry chaotic, the taste of losing control / I'm chasing down the drip sip down the rabbit hole / Now I'm staring down the metal barrel of your gun / I surrender on a bender, you're the drug.
** "Crumbs", Let Her Burn (2023), quoted in Rebecca Black – Crumbs. Euphoria (November 18, 2022).
* As I enter this new moment, I wanted to explore the vulnerability I've felt in finding balance with submission, dominance, and sexuality. I've had to dive into my own body to feel the deeply powerful but also dangerous feelings of relinquishing control.
** Rebecca Black – Crumbs. Euphoria (November 18, 2022).
* As my closest friends and I have now begun to really grow into ourselves, it can feel heart-wrenching to witness people you love fall for a moment, or lose sight of the goodness they have within themselves when they're struggling. As a friend we just want to pick them up and show them who we really know them to be — to try to cheer so hard on the sidelines over how incredible they are, and how much they mean to us, but at the end of the day of course it's only them who can discover their own light on their own.
** Rebecca Black previews debut album 'Let Her Burn' with second single 'Look At You'. DIY (December 7, 2022).
* Feeling pretty cute until I ran into you/ Chewed me up and spit me out like gum on your shoe/ And if you’re free and you’ve got nothing better to do/ Go ahead, destroy me, destroy me.
** "Destroy Me", Let Her Burn (2023), quoted in Rebecca Black rebrands, steps out of shadow of 'Friday'. The Emory Wheel (February 25, 2023).
# Mumtaz (actress)

Mumtaz Askari Madhvani (born 31 July 1947) is a retired Indian actress who worked in the Hindi film industry.

### Quotes from Mumtaz

* ”I am bored to talk of my films. I cannot even bear to see most of them.”
** November 1966 (quoted in Filmfare, 7 December 2011)
* On her passion for acting: "I used to feel a sort of emptiness before I started acting but not any longer... If I were not an actress, I’d have gone crazy."
** December 1966 (quoted in Filmfare, 7 December 2011)
* "Women are meant to be loved and not understood."
** November 1970 (quoted in Filmfare, 7 December 2011)
* "My kids were in boarding school. I was a bit bored of just jet setting from one country to another. So I came to India to do Aandhiyaan for a lark. I think it was one of David Dhawan's best films, even better than Aankhen. But I was heartbroken when it flopped."
** March 1994 (quoted in Filmfare, 7 December 2011)

### Quotes about Mumtaz

* "Mumtaz was in the Marilyn Monroe-mould - every man's fantasy woman. She is or was, the kind of woman any man would want to pamper and bury in diamonds, silks, satins... She had a courtesan kind of charm. Absolutely top marks go to her as greatest sex symbol. She was cute, impish, voluptuous. The way she used her body was so natural. She looked juicy! Her smile, her eyes, her pug nose, she was all woman. I don't think anyone else projected sexuality the way she did. She was a raving beauty, and in person too, was very attractive. A great smile, a great sense of humour, and a very no-nonsense down-to-earth manner. She was one woman who did not antagonise other women. And I'm sure every man she met lusted after her. She seemed immensely beddable."
** Shobhaa De
* "Mumtaz was sensitive, quick to understand and translate every nuance I hinted at, onto the screen, but she was always Dara Singh's Heroine for public. Even Devsaab (Dev Anand) could not get over that image."
** Vijay Anand on directing Mumtaz in Tere Mere Sapne

## Reference

* 1 2 3 4 Best of Filmfare
* ↑ Biography of Mumtaz 4
* ↑ Biography of Mumtaz 1

## External links

* Mumtaz on IMDb
# Munawwar Rana

Munawwar Rana (26 November 1952 – 14 January 2024) was an Urdu poet from India.

## Quotes

* When you talk about Valmiki, you have to talk about his past also. He was a writer, and you made him a God.
** Munawwar on Ramayana author Valmiki: "FIR against Munawwar for Valmiki remarks".
* Owaisi and Bharatiya Janata Party are the two sides of the same coin. The BJP and Owaisi indulge in shadow boxing to mislead the people. The fact remains that they both polarize the voters and then reap electoral dividends and the major share goes to the BJP.
** "Munawwar Rana Controversial Statements". United News of Indi. 17 July 2021.
* If Yogi becomes the chief minister again, then I will assume that the state is no longer fit for Muslims to live and I will have to migrate to some other place.
** Munawwar says he will leave UP, "Munawwar Rana threatens to leave UP if Yogi returns". , .
* The way Muslim youth are being implicated in false cases of terror with pressure cookers to be associated with Al-Qaeda, I am afraid that the ATS may pick me up tomorrow and brand me as a terrorist. I also keep going to Pakistan to participate in mushairas.
** Munawwar on Muslims becoming terrorists, "Munawwar on Muslim Youth joining Al Qaida". , "Munawwar expresses threats of police arrest".
* Muslims have eight children so that even if the police pick up two children as terrorists and two children die of coronavirus, then four children would be present in their house to take care of the parents and later perform their last rites in the graveyard.
** Munawwar on Muslims having eight kids, "Munawwar Rana says why Muslims should have eight kids". IANS.

## Quotes on Munawwar Rana

* Munawwar Rana has made Urdu poetry accessible to a wide range of audience by his use of Magadhi and Hindi words in ghazals.
** Tapan Kumar Pradhan on winning Jibanananda Das Award

## See also

* Tapan Kumar Pradhan