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# Bethwell Allan Ogot

Bethwell Allan Ogot (3 August 1929 – 30 January 2025) was a historian from Kenya. He specialised in African history, research methods and theory.

## Quotes

* To tell the story of a past so as to portray an inevitable destiny is, for humankind, a need as universal as tool-making. To that extent, we may say that a human being is, by nature, historicus.
** History as Destiny and History as Knowledge: Being Reflections on the Problems of Historicity and Historiography. Anyange Press. 2005. p. 8.

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# José Colin Mendoza Bagaforo

José Colin Mendoza Bagaforo (30 January 1954) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Kidapawan.

## Quotes

* Our political choice reflects our values. The vote reveals who I am. The votes cast by people are a reflection of this. Our vote is an expression and affirmation of our human dignity, a fundamental principle of Catholic social doctrine. It is a gift from God to people and the way we use it is our gift to our country. It is the fulfillment of one's own responsibility to participate in the social and political life of our country and to influence it.
** Church representatives on upcoming elections: "Citizens should exercise the right to vote responsibly" (29 September 2021) Fides News Agecny
* The Ati people have been stewards of the land for generations. They have made it cultivated and productive. Their right to land is linked to the rights of indigenous peoples: we call on all parties to respect them.
** Catholic Church calls for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples on the island of Boracay (6 April 2024) Fides News Agency
# Giovanni Battista Re

Giovanni Battista Re (30 January 1934) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* Only by following Christ and accepting his teaching can we find adequate ways and criteria for building a future of unity and justice, the civilisation of love and peace.
** CELAM 5 in Aparecida- “All of us here are called to live an experience of Church and to make our contribution to an event which will be most important for the future of Latin America ”: says Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re as work commences (16 May 2007) Fides News Agency
* The lack of ideals is what leads to emptiness and boredom. That is why, dear young people, I encourage you not to postpone life's fundamental decisions. When the Lord calls us, He also gives us the strength and the grace necessary for responding to the responsibilities that will be placed on our path.
** Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re at the closing ceremony for the First National Youth Day: “Life is worth living, but only when it is lived with a great ideal. Only Jesus Christ offers a lifestyle that leads to fullness of existence.” (4 July 2008) Fides News Agency
# Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972), an Irishman who emigrated in 1914 to the United States, was a poet, playwright, folklorist, biographer, novelist, essayist, and author of children's books. He and his wife Mary taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1939 to 1956.

## Quotes

* Ireland is a country that has two literatures—one a literature in Irish—Gaelic literature—that has been cultivated continuously since the eighth century, and the other a literature in English—Anglo-Irish literature—that took its rise in the eighteenth century. Anglo-Irish literature begins, as an English critic has observed, with Goldsmith and Sheridan humming some urban song as they stroll down an English laneway. That is, it begins chronically in that way. At the time when Goldsmith and Sheridan might be supposed to be strolling down English laneways, Ireland, for all but a fraction of the people, was a Gaelic-speaking country with a poetry that had many centuries of cultivation.
** Anthology of Irish Verse. Boni & Liveright, Inc. 1922. p. 5. (edited by Padraic Colum)
* The speech of the Irish country-people is fine material for the dramatist, and the Irish dramatists have made good use of it. Synge's dialogue reproduces the energy and the extravagance of the people's speech— ...
** The Road Round Ireland. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. 1926. p. 81.
* The editor is seated with a countrywoman at the door of her cottage in an isolated place. Three young girls on their way to a dance come along. They adjust their head-shawls, showing off a little. "They are pretty girls," the editor says to the householder. "If they were hanged for their beauty, they'd die innocent," is her reply. This is a real piece of wit. She did not want to contradict one who is her guest. He has shown, however, that his standard of beauty leaves something to be desired. Her judgment of the beauty under consideration is reasonable, but the expression of it is imaginative. When one puts imagination at the service of criticism, the result is apt to be a piece of malice, and Irish wit is often malicious. An illustration in a Dublin journal shows two farmers seated on a boundary fence. "I don't see a gap in the moon tonight," one says; and the other answers, "If you did you could let your cows in through it." This strikes at the farmer who would save forage by letting his cows into his neighbor's field through a gapped fence.
** "Introduction". A Treasury of Irish Folklore: The Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom, Ballads and Songs of the Irish People (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. 1962. (edited by Padraic Colum; 1st edition 1954)

## Quotes about Padraic Colum

* Padraic Colum ... a devout man with a great love of the earth. He has also a fine sense of the traditional ballad.
** Harold Monro, Some Contemporary Poets. Volume 2 of Contemporary series. London: Leonard Parsons. 1920. p. 189.

## External links

* Media related to Padraic Colum on Wikimedia Commons
* (January 23, 2021)"She Moved Through the Fair - by Padraic Colum". My Poetry Readings - with Declan Walsh.
* Pádraic Colum (1881 - 1972). LibriVox.
# Transformative learning

Transformative learning is learning that transforms who the learner is as well as what the learner knows.

## Quotes

* Knowledge can only be genuinely transitional if it is biographical knowledge. ... Biographicity means that we can redesign again and again, from scratch, the contours of our life within the specific contexts in which we (have to) spend it, and that we experience these contexts as shapeable and designable. ... The main issue is to decipher the ‘surplus meanings’ of our biographical knowledge, and that in turn means perceiving the potentiality of our unlived lives.
** Peter Alheit, "Biographical Learning," in K. Illeris, ed. Contemporary theories of Learning (2018), p. 162
* Transformative learning is an adult dimension of reason assessment involving the validation and reformulation of meaning structures.
** Jack Mezirow, "An overview on transformative learning," In K. Illeris, ed. Contemporary Theories of Learning. [First Edition] Routledge. 2009, p. 93.

## See also

* Lifelong learning
# Albert Kanene Obiefuna

Albert Kanene Obiefuna (30 January 1930 – 11 May 2011) was a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Awka and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Onitsha.

## Quotes

* The Church of God in Africa or elsewhere is being asked to grow to see herself as a family. The Church can do so if we intensify our catechesis on the meaning of the Church.
** Bishop Albert Kanene OBIEFUNA (Bishop of Awka, Nigeria) (1994) The African Synod
# Firmament

In biblical cosmology, the firmament (Hebrew: רָקִ֫יעַ‎ rāqīaʿ) is the vast solid dome created by God during the Genesis creation narrative to separate the primal sea into upper and lower portions, so that the dry land could appear.

## Quotes
### Hebrew Bible

    See also: Biblical cosmology (Wikipedia)
* יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם׃
** Genesis 1:6 (MT)
** Translation:
*** Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
**** KJV translation

### Commentary

    See also: Firmament (Wikipedia)
* The book of Genesis was written a long time before the idea of a spherical Earth was suggested and, as we shall see, the exegetes later found themselves in difficulty when attempting to reconcile the biblical writing with the results of the natural science; then the faith–science conflict was born, which has remained with us for almost two millennia.
** Dino Boccaletti: The Waters Above the Firmament: An Exemplary Case of Faith–Reason Conflict, "Preface", p. viii. Springer (2020). ISBN 978-3-030-44167-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44168-5.
* When I caught the speaker's eye and asked about the rakia, I caused the lecture to grind to halt.
** Oren Fass: "My Encounter with the Firmament". TheTorah.com (2017).

## See also

* Geocentric model
# Mary Colum

Mary Catherine Gunning Colum (née Maguire; 13 June 1884 – 22 October 1957), who emigrated in 1914 from Ireland to the United States with her husband Padraic Colum, was a journalist, literary critic, memoirist, biographer, feminist, and political activist. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930 and again in 1938.

## Quotes

* Both Joyce and Proust give the same impression, that they have penetrated into reaches of the inner life of men and presented them with far more actuality than has been done before.
** From These Roots: The Ideas that Have Made Modern Literature. Life and letter series. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1937. p. 356.
* The last time I saw W. B. Yeats was in June 1938, in his house outside Dublin. He came into the room with his well-remembered, eager step, speaking in his well-remembered, eager voice. But he was changed. Old age that had left him so long untouched was making inroads on his physique. The old energy now came only in flashes. One of his eyes was covered with a black patch; it was blind, and he could use only one eye. ‘We are both changed,’ he said, examining me with his one eye. ‘You were once my ideal of a youthful nihilist.’ ... This was what he used to say to me in my student days when I was so delighted to be Yeats’s ideal of anything that I didn’t care what the word meant. Nihilism was the romantic form of revolt in Yeats’s early days; his friend, Oscar Wilde, had made a first play about Vera, the girl-nihilist. ... I think, vaguely, in his mind it represented a youthful fighting spirit that went with reading Russian novels, French Symbolist poetry, and Nietzsche. To attribute to anyone a fighting spirit was Yeats’s most heartfelt compliment.
** (February 25, 1939)"Memories of Yeats". Saturday Review of Literature (New York)., reprinted in "Chapter. Memories of Yeats by Mary M. Colum". W. B. Yeats. London: Palgrave. pp. 241–246. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_12. (edited by E. H. Mikhail)

## Quotes about Mary M. Colum

* ... In 1911, she established the monthly intellectual journal the Irish Review, with Padraic Colum, David Houston, Thomas McDonagh, and James Stephens. As an editor, Collum published her own articles, as well as work by Pearse, George Russell, and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, until the Review ceased publication in 1914. Along with Maud Gonne and other women nationalists, she also helped found Cumann na mBan, an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers, and fought for women's suffrage.
** Paige Reynolds, "Mary (Catherine Gunning Maguire) Colum (1884-1957)". Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. 2006. pp. 69–72. (quote from p. 69; edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez)

## External links

* Biography. marycolum.com.
* Bibliography. marycolum.com.
# Jack Mezirow

Jack Mezirow (1923 - September 24, 2014) was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

## Quotes
### "Perspective Transformation" (1978)

       Adult Education, 28(2), 100-110
* Education cannot be defined by a simplistic preoccupation with fostering direct behavior change, which in many cases exemplifies the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. The most significant behavior changes may be functions of perspective transformation, and such transformation is often an essential precondition for meaningful behavior changes.
** p. 107
* The egregious error of adult educators is to define our function solely as one of fostering behavior change and to act as though we believe our principal tasks are to do needs assessment surveys, to communicate ideas and to design exercises to develop specific knowledge, skills or attitudes for prescribed behavior change. Not only does this effort often become indoctrination to engineer consent, but it frequently addresses the wrong reality to begin with.
** p. 107
* We all require the meaning perspectives prescribed by our culture, but we have the potentiality of becoming critically aware of our perspectives and of changing them. By doing so, we move from an uncritical organic relationship to a self-consciously contractual relationship with individuals, institutions and ideologies. This is a crucial developmental task of maturity.
** p. 108
* Transformation in meaning perspective is precipitated by life’s dilemmas which cannot be resolved by simply acquiring more information, enhancing problem solving skills or adding to one’s competencies. Resolution of these dilemmas and transforming our meaning perspectives require that we become critically aware of the fact that we are caught in our own history and are re-living it and of the cultural and psychological assumptions which structure the way we see ourselves and others.
** p. 108

## See also

* Transformative learning
# Love the Coopers

Love the Coopers (titled Christmas with the Coopers in the UK) is a 2015 American comedy film in which the intertwined stories of four generations of Coopers unfold right before the annual family reunion on Christmas Eve.
    Directed by Jessie Nelson. Written by Steven Rogers.

## Rags

* Ah, the holidays. The most wonderful time of the year. And so, begins my tale. On the snowy morning of Christmas Eve, as Charlotte Cooper set out her 37th snow globe, trying to create the perfect Christmas for her family, she remembered a moment, she'd hoped she could hold on to forever...

## Bucky

* Such a fuss, when everything we want is right in front of us the whole time...
* That feeling like you've landed in the wrong life. Everybody feels that way.

## Eleanor

* All we'd have to figure out is how long we've been together. And... what your name is.

## Dialogue

    Department Store Security Guard: How did the jewels get into your mouth?
    Emma: I thought it was a lozenge.

## Taglines

* Be thankful the holidays only come around once a year.
* Christmas means comfort, joy and chaos.
* You can't regift family.

## Cast

* Steve Martin - the Narrator/Rags the Dog
* Alan Arkin - Bucky
* John Goodman - Sam Cooper
* Ed Helms - Hank
* Diane Keaton - Charlotte Cooper
* Jake Lacy - Joe
* Anthony Mackie - Officer Percy Williams
* Amanda Seyfried - Ruby
* June Squibb - Aunt Fishy
* Marisa Tomei - Emma
* Olivia Wildie - Eleanor
* Alex Borstein - Angie
* Blake Baumgartner - Madison
* Timothée Chalamet - Charlie
* Maxwell Simkins - Bo
* Dan Amboyer - Jake
* Molly Gordon - Lauren Hesselberg
* Cady Huffman - Gift shop clerk

## External links

* Love the Coopers quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Love the Coopers at Mojo
* Love the Coopers at Rotten Tomatoes
# Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents.

## Quotes

* I realized the more specific the story, the more universal it becomes.
** "Tangent Talk with Jacqueline Woodson" in SAL/ON: A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures (2016 April 22)
* The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South. And the town we lived in - Nicholtown, which was a small community within Greenville, S.C. - was an all-black community. And people still lived very segregated lives, I think, because that was all they had always known. And there was still this kind of danger to integrating. So people kind of stayed in the places - the safe places that they had always known.
** On still experiencing the aftereffects of segregation in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR (2016 Oct 14)
* I think what happened was the language settled in me much deeper than it settled into people who just can read something once and absorb what they absorb of it. I feel like what I was absorbing was not by any means superficial. And I think I was - from a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for this deep understanding of the literature not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page…
** On how she processed literature differently at an early age in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR (2016 Oct 14)
* I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes.
** On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)
* I want it to be there for the people who need it. I don’t want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again.
** On what she hopes to accomplish with her work in “Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)
# Zdravko Krivokapić

Zdravko Krivokapić (born 4 September 1957) is a Montenegrin politician who served as the Prime Minister of Montenegro in 2020–2022.

## Quotes

* Freedom is more important than what the DPS (Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro) and those who are with it offer.
** Zdravko Krivokapić (2021) cited in: "Montenegro’s opposition pulls no-confidence motion against government" in Euractiv, 14 December 2021.
# Ignatius Persico

Ignatius Persico (30 January 1823 – 7 December 1895) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes about Ignatius Persico

* He quickly saw that the question must be considered not merely in relation to present politics but also in relation to the past history of Ireland, and he delayed his final report in order to consider the question in this broader aspect. Meanwhile the Holy See issued its condemnation of the Plan of Campaign. Persico returned to Rome much disappointed.
** Lawrence Anthony Hess, Ignatius Persico (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
# Thomas de Maizière

Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière (born 21 January 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Bundestag for Meißen.

## Quotes

* A part of these answers would make the population feel unsafe.
** On November 17, 2015, the German Federal Minister of the Interior when asked about details regarding the terrorist threat resulting in the last-minute cancellation of the football game Germany vs The Netherlands in Hanover.
** Source: Die Welt: De Maizière bereut "Ein Teil dieser Antworten ...", Welt.de, 26. März 2016
# Star Wars: Battlefront II
## Dialogue

    Luke Skywalker: (Having fought alongside the Imperial agent while exploring a hidden archive) I'm glad we were brought together, Del.
    Agent Del Meeko: So, what happens now? We both walk off in separate directions and pretend like this never happened?
    Luke Skywalker: I don't think you can. There's still conflict in you.
    Agent Del Meeko: Of course there's conflict in me. I'm not blind. I know what the Empire is capable of. But... what else is there?
    Luke Skywalker: A choice.
    Agent Del Meeko: The Rebellion?
    Luke Skywalker: No. A choice to be better. May the Force be with you.
    Commander Iden Versio: Vardos is our target?!
    Admiral Garrick Versio: One of them, yes.
    Commander Iden Versio: Why? The entire planet and it's people, they're-they're loyal to the Empire!
    Admiral Garrick Versio: The Emperor commands it. We will purge this planet and others. Fear shall spread, and the galaxy will remember who is in control.
    Commander Iden Versio: This is our home.
    Admiral Garrick Versio: The Empire is our home! And we will do as the Emperor commands.
    Commander Iden Versio: I don't take orders from dead men.
    Admiral Garrick Versio: You take orders from me!
    Iden Versio: Del. The Corvus is yours. Cover the sky. Shriv and I will help on the ground.
    'Del Meeko: Hold on a moment... Iden. Make sure you come back.
    Iden Versio: (Smiling warmly) Make sure I have a ship to come back to.
    Shriv: (To himself, as he departs the bridge) "Hey Shriv, I hope you survive this incredibly dangerous mission as well." "Thank you Del, your friendship means everything to me."
    Iden Versio: Admiral! The Empire's time has come. You don't have to go down with it.
    Admiral Garrick Versio: This is a rescue attempt. I politely decline.
    Iden Versio: We have to go now.
    Admiral Garrick Versio: Rax expects me to leave too. This is where I belong. I gave my life to this Empire. Fought to keep it strong. Hard to believe this is all that's left... You saw the Empire's weakness and refused to let it consume you. It made you stronger. That's why you're leaving here without me!
    Iden Versio: You deserve better than this.
    Admiral Garrick Versio: No, I don't. But you do, Iden. You deserve to live in peace. Go. Survive. Live.
    Commander Gideon Hask: You know, Iden may have betrayed me. But you, Del, you let me down!