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# Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements.

## Quotes

* God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.
** The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany [biography dictated to Charles de Kay] (Doubleday, Page & Co New York, 1916)
* Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.
** The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany (Doubleday, Page & Co New York, 1916)
* I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.
** The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany (Doubleday, Page & Co New York, 1916)
# Indian famine of 1896–1897

The Indian famine of 1896–1897 was a famine that began in Bundelkhand, India, early in 1896 and spread to many parts of the country, including the United Provinces, the Central Provinces and Berar, Bihar, parts of the Bombay and Madras presidencies, and parts of the Punjab; in addition, the princely states of Rajputana, Central India Agency, and Hyderabad were affected. All in all, during the two years, the famine affected an area of 307,000 square miles (800,000 km$^2$) and a population of 69.5 million. Although relief was offered throughout the famine-stricken regions in accordance with the Provisional Famine Code of 1883, the mortality, both from starvation and accompanying epidemics, was very high: approximately one million people are thought to have died.

## Quotes
### Matthew White - Atrocitology, 2011

    White, Matthew - Atrocitology _ humanity's 100 deadliest achievements-Canongate Books (2011)
* By 1892, a quarter of India’s total government revenue went to maintain the burden of the government itself: supporting British pensions, the India Office, and interest on the debt. Very little of this was put back into the local economy; most went to banks and retirees in Britain. These home charges drained off whatever surplus the peasant economy could produce, including the grain from good harvests that normally would have been set aside to cushion against bad years. Then, in 1896, the monsoon rains failed to come, and the crops failed. Once again, the price of grain shot up beyond the reach of the common Indian. Once again, people starved.
* One witness described a child of five he found among starving peasants: “Its arms were not so large around as my thumb; its legs scarcely larger; the pelvic bones were plainly shown; the ribs, back and front, started through the skin like a wire cage. The eyes were fixed and unobservant; the expression of the little skull face solemn, dreary and old. Will, impulse, and almost sensation, were destroyed in this tiny skeleton, which might have been a plump and happy baby. It seemed not to hear when addressed. I lifted it between my thumbs and forefingers; it did not weigh more than seven or eight pounds.”18
* A missionary described a Muslim farmer who sold his land, then his house, then his cooking utensils to buy food for his family. When that ran out, he gave his son to the missionaries to keep. After tearfully assuring the boy that this didn’t mean he didn’t love him, and that he had no choice, the man walked away, leaving his son to be raised as a Christian.19
** White, Matthew - Atrocitology _ humanity's 100 deadliest achievements-Canongate Books (2011)
# Indian influence on Islamic science

The Golden Age of Islam, which saw a flourishing of science, notably mathematics and astronomy, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, had a notable Indian influence.

## Quotes

* By comparison, the Sanskrit and Greek traditions were absorbed in a rather piecemeal fashion. In the one case there was a fragmentary rendering of Hindu literature and scientific works (channeled through Sind, until the Abbasids lost their grip on the province). Indian numerals, arithmetic, mathematics, philosophy and logic, mysticism, ethics, statecraft, military science, medicine, pharmacology, toxicology (works on snakes (sarpavidya) and poison (visavidya)), veterinary science, eroticism, astronomy, astrology and palmistry were transmit­ ted. Chess and chausar games were brought from India. We have a reference by an Arabic author from Andalusia to an Indian book on tunes and melodies. Indian fables and literary works are reflected in the Thousand and One Nights. Al-Biruni, before he came to India, had some Indian works in his library which were translated into Arabic under the early Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur (754-775) and the Barmakid vazirs of Harun ar-Rashid; amongst these were the Brahmasiddhanta or Sindhind and the Pahcatantra. When, in 1020, Al-Biruni began his study of Indian astronomy from the Sanskrit originals he was to find that the early works were still held in the same high esteem.13 To an ap­preciable extent, Sanskrit philosophy had already come to the attention of the Sasanid Persians and its influence in the Islamic world was sometimes mediated by Sasanid schools. ‘It was recognized among the Khusros (Akasira) of Persia that wisdom (hikma) originally came from al-Hind’.14 In Islam however Indian influences submerged under the tide of Greek and Hellenistic learning, falsafa and science, from the ninth century onwards.
** A Wink, Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume 1
# Indian cuisine

Indian cuisine consists of a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to the Indian subcontinent. Given the range of diversity in soil type, climate, culture, ethnic groups, and occupations, these cuisines vary substantially from each other and use locally available spices, herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Indian food is also heavily influenced by religion, in particular Hinduism, cultural choices and traditions. The cuisine is also influenced by centuries of Islamic rule, particularly the Mughal rule. Samosas and pilafs can be regarded as examples.

## Quotes

* Ibn Battuta’s description of the preparation of samosa would make one’s mouth water even today: “Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee.”
** Ibn Battuta. Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 1
* Pāṇini, ArthŚā, BṛSam and Vṛkṣ(S) define the word [for wheat] as a type of grain distinct from barley and rice [...] Additionally, NāmaMā makes a curious remark: it is a mlecchabhojya, 'a food of barbarians‘.
** About the Sanskrit word for wheat.
** WOJTILLA 1999: The Sanskrit Godhūma Apropos of a short Incursion in Indo-European and Indo-Aryan prehistory. Wojtilla, Gyula. Akademiai Kiadoi, Budapest, 1999. (WOJTILLA 1999:228). Quoted in Talageri, S. G. (2010). The Rigveda and the Avesta. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

### Quotes about biryani

* Bullets for the kar sevaks, biryani for the Kashmiri militants.
** L.K. Advani commenting on the contrast of the Government's treatment of the Hindu agitation by Hindu kar sevaks and of armed Kashmiri militants who were provided with biryani during the siege of the Char-e-Sharif mosque. Quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 58
# Indian epic poetry

Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá). The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic poems ever written.

## Quotes

* “in parts of their careers, Arjuna and Odysseus show similarities so numerous and detailed that they must be cognate figures, sharing an origin in the proto-hero of an oral proto-narrative. (…) Either the proto-journey was like the Greek and contained nothing relating to yoga, in which case the yogic aspect of the Sanskrit story was an innovation that developed in the Indian branch of the tradition. Or the proto journey was like the Sanskrit and was quasi-yogic or proto-yogic in character, in which case Greek epic tradition largely or wholly eliminated that aspect of the story. I shall argue for the second scenario, claiming both that the proto-narrative shared certain features with yoga and that the telling of such a story makes it likely that there already existed ritual practices ancestral to yoga. (…) I argue that some significant and fairly precisely identifiable features of yoga go back to the culture of those who told the proto-narrative (…) may well have been proto-Indo-European speakers.” ... “it is a priori quite likely that the account of the proto-hero's journey served as a myth explaining and justifying ritual practices ancestral to yoga as we know it.”
** (Allen 1998:3) Nick Allen. quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins. quoting Allen, Nicholas, 1998: “The indo-european prehistory of yoga”, International Journal of Hindu Studies 2 (1):1-20 (1998).
# Indian feudalism

Indian feudalism refers to the feudal society that made up India's social structure until the Mughal Dynasty in the 16th century. The Guptas and the Kushans played a major role in the introduction and practice of feudalism in India, and are examples of the decline of an empire caused by feudalism.

## Quotes

* [Karashima] cautions against the ‘mechanical application of the concept of feudalism in the South Indian context as has been done by scholars like D.N. Jha.’ He points out the many fallacies in their argument and observes that the number of villages granted by rulers to Brahmins and temples was decisively in minority and also says ‘it seems too hasty to take royal grants of villages as an evidence for a prevalence of feudalism or serfdom, unless we study the conditions of the non-grant villages’.
** From a book review by K.V. Raman, History and Society in South India— The Cholas to Vijayanagar: Noboru Karashima; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, published Tuesday, Apr 09, 2002 in The Hindu <http://www.hinduonnet.com/br/stories/2002040900090200.htm>
* Sharma also focused strongly on bringing in a stage of feudalism on European model in the post-Gupta period. Sharma’s feudalism theory falls through for many clear reasons. The land-grant inscriptions of the kind Sharma mentions continue to occur in Rajasthan till the 17th/18th century and in the dynastic contexts mentioned by Sharma their number over a period of about 400 years is reputedly no more than 33, an insignificant number to build up an all-India stage of development. What is also ignored is the fact that such grants of land to Brahmins fall in line with a well-known Hindu ritual behaviour of granting Brahmins land on auspicious days after taking ritual bath. More importantly, KP Jayaswal demonstrated in Hindu Polity that the kings of ancient India were not the owners of the kingdom’s land. This land belonged to the individual owners. Many 19th century British administrators also supported this contention. The point is that the kings of ancient India did not have the legal right to distribute lands among a separate class of retainers and thus it was impossible for them to generate a class of feudal barons based on such donations. In the writings of Sharma’s associates, one notes the use of such terms as ‘early mediaeval’, ‘state formation’ and ‘legitimisation’ (of monarchy). The term ‘early mediaeval’ has been loosely used for a long time but the basic politics of this use in recent times is to suggest the existence of an ‘early mediaeval’ Hindu India merging smoothly into the ‘mediaeval’ Muslim India, thus obviating the drastic difference between the two.
** Chakrabarti, D. K. (2021). Nationalism in the study of ancient Indian history. National Security, 4(1), 29-50.
# Matt Damon

Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American film actor and screenwriter.

## Quotes

* It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?
** On why he took the role in Saving Private Ryan, in ViewAskew.com WWW Boards (17 March 1998)
* I mean, I did ride the Paris subway in an attempt to get pick-pocketed in order to see how exactly they did it. My buddy was videoing the whole thing. No one picked my pocket. We got bolder and bolder as we went, but it didn’t pan out for us.
** "Matt Damon Discusses Ocean's 12", About.com (8 December 2004)
* I think there is really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president and I think that is a scary thing, because I don't know anything about her. I don't think in eight weeks I'm going to know anything about her. I know she was a mayor of a really, really small town, and she is governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don't understand. I think the pick was made for political purposes, but in terms of governance it is a disaster. You do the actuary tables, you know there is one out of three chance or more that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it will be President Palin. It really … I was talking about it earlier, it is like a really bad Disney movie, you know. The hockey mom, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she is the president. She is like facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. You know it is absurd. It is totally absurd, and I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. It is a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we have gotten this far, and with that close this being a reality is crazy. I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. That's an important. … I want to know that. I really do. Because she's going to have the nuclear codes, you know. I want to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago or whether she banned books or tried to ban books. I mean, we can't have that.
** Associated Press interview (10 September 2008) / Associated Press interview (10 September 2008)
* My thoughts on veganism are that it’s a wonderful thing to do. I just can’t do it. I tried. Casey Affleck and I made a movie in the desert in Argentina like 12 years ago and he’s a vegan and I tried to eat vegan and I lasted like two days. I just, I literally can’t do it. And I know…that might be bad.
** "Matt Damon on Veganism: ‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’", Ecorazzi.com (22 October 2013)

## External links

* Quotes on fan site
# Matt Hughes

Matthew Allen Hughes (born October 13, 1973, Hillsboro, Illinois) is an American mixed martial artist, UFC Hall of Famer, and former two-time UFC Welterweight Champion.

## Quotes

* "My fight comes up May 27 ... I'm not going to worry about Georges until after that." - Talking about his upcoming title fight with Georges St-Pierre.
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* When you lose, say little... When you win, say less.
** “When you lose, say little. When you win, say less.”. WeHeartMMA.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-07.
* One thing I will say is Joe Rogan’s commentary was a little off during the fight. The ground game was pretty even in my book with Shields doing a little more controlling. Kampmann escaped to his feet several times and Kampmann had more submission attempts than Shields had, but listening to Rogan, you would have thought Shield had submitted him the first ten seconds of being on the ground. I really think the UFC could use a third man doing the broadcast, that has some experience inside the octagon. I don’t disagree with everything Rogan says, but there are a lot of things he says that I just laugh at.
** - Giving his opinion about the UFC 121 broadcasting.
** Quick Quote: Matt Hughes is not impressed with Joe Rogan's commentary for the Shields-Kampmann fight. LowKick.BlitzCorner.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-04.
* "GSP actually looked worse in this fight than I’ve ever seen him before. I really feel like Georges fights not to lose, he just doesn’t fight to win anymore." - His thoughts about the GSP/Shields bout.
** DeRose, Sal (2011-05-11). Matt Hughes Not Impressed by GSP's Performance at UFC 129. BleacherReport.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-07.

## Miscellaneous
### Gold

"The Dun Glen claim block lies at the intersection of three separate structural trends whose extensions host several major gold deposits. We are excited to be on the ground in Nevada and look forward to evaluating the results of our initial exploration program in the coming weeks."

### Insults

"Hi, I'm Matt, I'm the guy that beat up your husband a few months ago." - When Joe Riggs presented his wife and Hughes.

## References

* ↑ Hughes, Matt; Mallice, Michael (2008). MADE IN AMERICA: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History. Simon Spotlight Entertainment.
# Matt Davies

Matt Davies (born 1966) is a British-American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, and author and illustrator of children's books.

## Quotes
### Interview (2017)

* When I was about five or six, I got in big trouble at school for illustrating an age-inappropriate poem about the Queen. To my detriment, the art was so carefully and lovingly drawn that my teacher could see exactly who was depicted, and what was going on. I grew up in England where that sort of thing was frowned upon—unlike corporal punishment, which was actively employed—and it all ended very badly. But I definitely learned an early lesson in the breathtaking power of art.
* (Being able to draw) means that I have both an escape, and a voice.
* I spend a majority of my time thinking, and reading: Trying to find the angle that no one else would think to depict. I am always fearful of producing obvious things. While all art is at least tangentially political (the second you publicly place a mark on a piece of paper you will piss SOMEONE off), mine is deliberately overtly political. I take issues and events and try desperately to make sense of them. Like a columnist, I practice opinion journalism except I actually draw my conclusions, so to speak.
* My sketchbooks are a mess. I use them as sounding boards so there's a mixture of writing, word associations, and incomprehensible squiggles. Except when I am trying to perfect a caricature, the art in them is blisteringly rudimentary.
* I find that I can say so much more through humor. People are far more likely to absorb a message or opinion if it is wrapped in wit.

## External links

* Twitter page
* Instagram page
* GoComics page
# Matt Drudge

Matthew Nathan "Matt" Drudge (October 28, 1966 –) is an American political commentator and the creator and editor of the Drudge Report.

## Quotes

* I am a conservative. I'm very much pro-life. If you go down the list of what makes up a conservative, I'm there almost all the way.
** The Drudge Retort (June 28, 2001)
* In every state and nearly every civilized nation in the developed world, readers know where to go for action and reaction of news – at least one day ahead... Free from any corporate concerns, there are simply too many to thank since the site's inception in 1994. This new attempt at the old American experiment of full freedom in reporting is ever exciting. Those in power have everything to lose by individuals who march to their own rules.
** Matt Drudge, on reaching one billion page views (December 11, 2002)

## External links

* Drudge Report
# Oliver Leaman

Oliver Leaman (born 1950) is professor of philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic studies at the University of Kentucky.

## Quotes

* What cannot be emphasized enough is that there is nothing to be said for presenting 'the Islamic view' ... as though there exists one view which is shared by all Muslims. All religions contain a variety of interpretations of that religion, and trying to work out what the right view is should not detain us. Working out the orthodox position in each religion is in itself a minefield, and even if we skirt that minefield without coming to harm, it is not at all clear that an unorthodox belief is not nonetheless a belief which can be classified as falling under the religion.
** Referring to God, edited by Paul Helm (New York: St Martin's Press: 2000), pp. 5-6
# Oliver Mayer

Oliver Mayer is a Mexican American playwright, professor, author and screenwriter.

## Quotes

* …Everyone gets caught up in the “wright” of playwright (meaning to make or build or create), whereas I take daily joy and solace in the “play” part. How rare and wonderful to be asked to play in your very job title?
** On being a playwright in “Creator Corner: Interview with Playwright Oliver Mayer” in The Fandomentals (2018 Oct 22)
* …There is something holy about the experience of sitting in the dark, looking at the light and living the story happening in front of us in real time that just can’t be replicated…
** On why stage plays are still vital in “Creator Corner: Interview with Playwright Oliver Mayer” in The Fandomentals (2018 Oct 22)
* I am a solo flyer. I go by dramatist or playwright. My brand is original plays that take on aspects of our shared American history that have shaped our culture. I write serious plays, but I use as much humor as possible. I also use a lot of music (original and found), and I’m not afraid to examine my characters’ sexuality…
** On his writings in “Meet Oliver Mayer” in VoyageLA (2019 Jan 8)
* …Early on is the time to be bold, to grow muscles, and build a thick skin. Tell the hard stories now—it builds the heart muscle. It’s also addictive, and will hopefully lead to more plays that matter over the writer’s career. From hard experience, I would urge all young writers to be compassionate of themselves and the source of their desire to write. The saddest thing I’ve witnessed is that fire being snuffed out…
** On his advice to up-and-coming Latino playwrights in “Oliver Mayer” (50 Playwrights; 2017 Aug 7)
# Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford (December 3, 1863 – July 5, 1935) was an American humorous poet and illustrator.

## Quotes

* There is no time like the pleasant.
** The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
* Many are called but few get up.
** The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).
* Diplomacy: Lying in state.
** The Altogether New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907 (1906).

## Attributed

* My wife has a whim of iron.
** Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
* A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.
** Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.
* Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
** Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 69.
* Only the young die good.
** Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
* Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
** Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
* I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.
** Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.
* Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
** Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 72 (1955), p. 156.
* Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.
** The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986), p. 9.
* Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
** The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.

## Misattributed

* A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.
** Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.
* Age, like distance, lends a double charm.
** Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.