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# John O'Hara

John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905; April 11, 1970) was an Irish-American writer. He earned a reputation first for short stories and became a best-selling novelist by the age of thirty with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. He was particularly known for an unparalleled and shockingly accurate ear for dialogue. O'Hara was a keen observer of social status and class differences, and wrote frequently about the socially ambitious.

## Quotes

* I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.
** Forward to The Horse Knows the Way (1964).

## Quote about O'Hara

* I tended to read whatever was in the house, which meant that I read a lot of odd stuff. Who was that guy that used to write about men's clubs all the time? John O'Hara. It was Mars for me
** 1996 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler
* John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man—always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
** Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" by Burt Prelutsky, in The Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1969), p. 468
# John Oldham (poet)

John Oldham (August 9, 1653 – December 9, 1683) was an English satirical poet and translator.

## Quotes

* Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate, By every breach in that fair lodging made, Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.
** To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
* And should you visit now the seats of bliss, You need not wear another form but this.
** To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 116; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
* Curse on the man who business first designed, And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!
** Complaining of Absence, 11; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
* While some no other cause for life can give But a dull habitude to live.
** To the Memory of Norwent, Paragraph 5; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
* Ah, dearer than my soul… Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
** Lament for Saul and Jonathan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
* I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.
** Satire upon a Printer, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
* Lord of myself, accountable to none, But to my conscience, and my God alone.
** Satire addressed to a Friend, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on John Oldham (poet) on Wikipedia
* Media related to John Oldham on Wikimedia Commons
* Works related to Author:John Oldham on Wikisource
# John Norris

John Norris (1657–1711) was a philosopher and poet. Born at Collingbourne, Kingston, Wiltshire, 1657, he was educated at Winchester School, and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1680. He was later appointed a fellow of All Souls (M.A. 1684). He took orders, and lived a quiet and placid life as a country parson and thinker.

## Quotes

* How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,— Like angels’ visits, short and bright; Mortality ’s too weak to bear them long.
** The Parting. Compare: "Like those of angels, short and far between", Robert Blair, The Grave, line 588.; "Like angel visits, few and far between", Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part ii. line 378.
* ....but I use the word (devotion) in a greater latitude so as to comprehend under it faith, hope, love, fear, trust, humility, submission, honour , reverence, adoration, thanksgiving in a word all that duty which we owe to God.
** Reason and Religion; or, The Grounds and Measures of Devotion. Part I, Introduction, Section VIII.
# John Norton (journalist)

John Norton (25 January 1857 – 9 April 1916) was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper Truth. Norton was arguably one of Australia's most controversial public figures ever.

## Quotes

* The discovery and settlement of America and Australia are the two most important events of modern times. Christopher Columbus and Captain Cook were the saviours of society.
** The History of Capital and Labour (Sydney: Oceanic Publishing, 1888), Introduction
* The Queen has lived for 70 years, for 70 years and three, And few have lived a flatter life, more useless life than she; She never did a clever thing or wrote a clever line, She never did a noble deed in coming times to shine, And yet we read and still we read in every magazine The praises of this woman whom the English call the Queen, Whom the English call the Queen, The dull and brainless woman whom the English call "the Queen".
** On Queen Victoria (1894), quoted in Cyril Pearl, Wild Men of Sydney (London, 1958), p. 116
** Cp. the Earl of Rochester's epigram on Charles II
* Give 'em hogwash. They love it.
** Quoted in Cole Turnley, Cole of the Book Arcade (Melbourne, 1974), p. 174
# Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush, also known as the Indian Caucasus, is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border, from central Afghanistan to northern Pakistan.

## Quotes

* But as a troop of pedlars, from Cabool, Cross underneath the Indian Caucasus, That vast sky-neighbouring mountain of milk snow; Winding so high, that, as they mount, they pass Long flocks of travelling birds dead on the snow, Chok’d by the air, and scarce can they themselves Slake their parch’d throats with sugar’d mulberries— In single file they move, and stop their breath, For fear they should dislodge the o’erhanging snows— So the pale Persians held their breath with fear.
** Matthew Arnold, from Sohrab and Rustum (1853)
* After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.
** Ibn Battuta, Chapter XIII, Rihla – Khorasan: Ibn Battuta; as translated by Samuel Lee (1829)
* It is entirely likely that the name Hindu Kush came about as a sarcastic twist on the older name Hindu Koh, viz. on the occasion of an actual mass-killing.
** Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012), Chapter 13
* That Muslims enslaved Hindus and drove them to their death in the Hindu Kush is a solidly documented historical fact, never refuted, and only a “highly contested claim” in the Nehruvian-secularist world of fact-free political polemic.
** Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012), Chapter 13
# Hindu iconography

Over the millennia of its development, Hinduism has adopted several iconic symbols, forming part of Hindu iconography, that are imbued with spiritual meaning based on either the scriptures or cultural traditions. The exact significance accorded to any of the icons varies with region, period and denomination of the followers. Over time some of the symbols, for instance the Swastika has come to have wider association while others like Om are recognized as unique representations of Hinduism. Other aspects of Hindu iconography are covered by the terms murti, for icons and mudra for gestures and positions of the hands and body.

## Quotes

* The Hindu understanding of the universe has often been misunderstood as bizarre and primitive. The Hindu imagery is in fact a sophisticated iconography conveying universal religious truths only now beginning to be understood in the West.
** Alistair Shearer, **Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture page 122
# Hindu calendar

The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग), is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes. They adopt a similar underlying concept for timekeeping based on sidereal year for solar cycle and adjustment of lunar cycles in every three years, but differ in their relative emphasis to moon cycle or the sun cycle and the names of months and when they consider the New Year to start. Of the various regional calendars, the most studied and known Hindu calendars are the Shalivahana Shaka (Based on the King Shalivahana, also the Indian national calendar) found in the Deccan region of Southern India and the Vikram Samvat (Bikrami) found in Nepal and the North and Central regions of India – both of which emphasize the lunar cycle.

## Quotes

* They establish the consecration soma-pressings before(hand). They should consecrate themselves one day after the new moon of Taisa, or of Magha, so they say. Now, either (view) is widely proclaimed; but that of Taisa is more (commonly) proclaimed, as it were. They obtain this thirteenth, additional month. So great indeed is the year as this thirteenth month. So here the entire year is obtained.
** Kausitaki (or Sankhayana) Brahmana. 19.2-3 quoted from Hans Henrich Hock. Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts, in: Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. 296-7
* He (the sun) rests at the new moon of Magha, about to turn northward; these (the priests) rest (too), about to sacrifice with the introductory atiratra; so they obtain him first . . . [A clear reference to the winter solstice, after which the sun “turns northward,” i.e. begins to rise farther and farther to the north each day] He goes northward for six months; him they follow with six-day sacrifices in correct order. Having gone north for six months, he stays, about to turn south; they rest, about to sacrifice with the vifuvat ( midsummer) sacrifice; so they obtain him a second time. [A clear reference to the summer solstice, after which the sun “turns south,” i.e. begins to rise farther and farther to the south each day] He goes south for six months; they follow him with six-day sacrifices in reverse order. Having gone south for six months, he stays, about to return north; they rest, about to sacrifice with the mahavrata sacrifice; so they obtain him a third time [a clear reference to the winter solstice again].
** Kausitaki (or Sankhayana) Brahmana. 19.2-3 quoted from Hans Henrich Hock. Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts, in: Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. 296-7
# Hindu Human Rights

The Hindu Human Rights (HHR) is a United Kingdom-based organisation, stating as its aim "educating people about human rights of Hindus". This group maintains a website which reports otherwise ignored news about persecution of Hindus or destruction of temples. This group also publishes articles concerning Hindus and their human rights.

## Quotes

* Some NRI-PIO organizations created in the 21st century explicitly adopt the Voice of India line. One is the Hindu Human Rights group in London... Their answer to the humourless RSS and its equally humourless secularist critics is to "put the fun back into fundamentalism". The HRR publishes an on-line paper and occasionally stages demonstrations on matters of Hindu concern, such as human rights in Bangladesh. Interestingly, it has also joined hands several times with Muslim groups on matters of common interests or against common enemies. On the challenge of the Christian missions, it has monitored and promoted scholarly studies, outgrowing the simplistic Hindutva positions current in India and the diaspora, which tend to confuse "Christian" with "white", as if the world and the Churches hadn't changed since decolonization. It interacts critically with the official pan-Hindu platforms and with the British multiculturalism authorities. These sometimes solicit its views, knowing that it represents a really existing and growing segment of opinion in the British Hindu community. Typically, the HHR sometimes cooperates with Muslim organizations on matters of common concern, all while staying away from the usual Hindu platitude that "all religions essentially say the same thing". Human understanding does not require suspension of the mental power of discrimination.
** Elst, Koenraad (2012). The argumentative Hindu. New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan. p.250
# Hindu Samhati

Hindu Samhati is a far-right Hindu nationalist organisation founded on 14 February 2008 by Tapan Ghosh. The organisation's main aim was to protect Bengali Hindus. It has organisations in every district of West Bengal. It has opened newly units in Assam and Jharkhand. Its main slogan is "Jai Maa Kali" along with "Jai Shree Ram".

## Quotes

* However, these rare cases of erratic and counterproductive Hindu violence should not obscure the actual need for self-protection in areas where Hindus are indeed prey for anti-Hindu mobs and militias, such as the Bengal border, where illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are trying to push out the Hindu villagers. That is where one sane and disciplined Hindu group for self-protection has come into being: the Hindu Samhati, founded in February 2008 by Tapan Ghosh. Until November 2007, and ever since graduating in Physics and spending three months in jail as a pro-democracy activist during the Emergency, he had been an RSS whole-timer for 31 years. But not seeing the desired results from RSS work, who started out on his own and soon attracted a following. The group's third anniversary celebration was attended by 14,000 people. It can already claim many successes on its local scale, such as protecting young couples where one of the partners is a Muslim joining a Hindu family, or ensuring the safety of Hindu festivals, which had become difficult to celebrate due to increasing Muslim harassment.
** Elst, Koenraad (2012). The argumentative Hindu. New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan. p.248
# Hindu astrology

Jyotisha or Jyotishya (from Sanskrit jyotiṣa, from jyót “light, heavenly body" and ish - from Isvara or God) is the traditional Hindu system of astrology, also known as Hindu astrology, Indian astrology and more recently Vedic astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism, that is connected with the study of the Vedas. The term Hindu astrology has been in use as the English equivalent of Jyotiṣa since the early 19th century, whereas Vedic astrology is a relatively recent term, entering common usage in the 1970s with self-help publications on Āyurveda or yoga.

## Quotes

* There was no horoscopy yet in the Vedic age. There did exist a certain astrology, not based on the 12 Zodiac signs (rāśi) but on the 27 or 28 moon houses (nakṣatra), with beneficial and harmful configurations determining auspicious and inauspicious times for conducting a ritual or starting an enterprise. It would nowadays be called mundane and electional astrology; an important relic still observed today are the auspicious times for weddings. But that is something else than the individual birth horoscopes with which Hindu astrologers make a living.
* It is clear as day that horoscopy was imported, yet traditionalists graft it onto the Vedic stem.
** Divinizing the Veda : the Problem of Traditionalism . Dr. Koenraad ELST in Prof. Bhaskarnath Bhattacharya, ed.: Vedavidyāśrīḥ / Gems of Vedic Wisdom. Prof. Shashi Tiwari Felicitation Volume (Pratibha Prakashan, Delhi 2021), p.170-186:
# Hindu mythology

Hindu Ithihasa are narratives found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Puranas, the regional literatures like Periya Puranam. Hindu Ithihasa is also found in widely translated popular texts such as the Panchatantra and Hitopadesha, as well as Southeast Asian texts.

## Quotes

* Finally, if a myth or religious custom is attested in India but not in the other IE cultures, this need not mean that the Indians have borrowed it from “pre-Aryan natives” or so. It can also mean that the other Indo-Europeans have lost what was originally a pan-IE heirloom. All of them have started by going through the same bottleneck, passing through Afghanistan, immediately plunging themselves into a very different climate from India’s permanent summer, so that they had to adopt a very different lifestyle. And as they moved on, the difference only got bigger. Of practically all IE myths attested in some IE cultures, we know that they have been lost in other (generally in most) IE cultures; it is statistically to bib expected that some myths have survived only in the Hindu tradition. And because of the full survival of Pagan religion in India plus the long centuries of literacy, it is in fact to be expected that a much higher percentage than the statistical average has only survived in India. So, probably, some myths attested only in Hinduism are purely IE, and if they are also attested in a non-IE neighbouring culture, the possibility remains that the latter has borrowed it from the Indo-Europeans.
** Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Hindu mythology on Wikipedia
# London's Burning

London's Burning was a successful firefighting drama produced by LWT and broadcast between 1986 and 2002 and ran for 14 series.
Bayleaf: [answers phone] "It's Marion" Vaseline: "Which Marion, wife or fiancee?" [Vaseline gets an earful on the phone then hangs up] Bayleaf: "Which Marion was it?" Vaseline: "Never said"
Vaseline: "I'll bring bleedin' sandwiches" Bayleaf: "You've had three wives and 300 fiancees and not one of them has ever so much as buttered you a slice of bread!"
Vaseline: "White to pot black! As usual!" Tony: "You are a real a**hole! Do you know that Vaseline?"
Vaseline: "What did I say?!"
Station Officer Tate: "Now look! You might be a senior officer, but you are inept! We ain't got time to play it by the book!" ADO Scase: "You're risking the lives of the crews!" Station Officer Tate: "The crews are prepared to take their chance! What they're not prepared to do is stand about like a load of ponces, waiting for some nutcase of a tinpot dictator who's too bl***y busy making paperwork, and too bl***y high and mighty, to get stuck in and get himself dirty!"
Bayleaf: "Thats my seat Guv... Well I generally sit there, Guv at the top end!" Station Officer Georgiadis: "You sit there Bayleaf! Don't worry! I don't go for top table arrangements! We're a fire station not an Oxford college!"
Geoffery Pearce: "The point is, who is going to cook the lunch? Anyone got Bayleaf's number...?!" Billy: "Shut up Geoff! I'll do it like I always do!" Geoffery Pearce: "Don't you tell me to shut up!"
Also throughout most of the series, the catchphrases "Do what?!" and "Switch off!" were frequently mentioned by the various members of Blue Watch.
# London After Midnight (film)

London After Midnight is a 1927 silent film about the abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures. It is a lost film, only the script and film stills survive.
    Directed by Tod Browning. Written by Waldemar Young, based on Browning's short story "The Hypnotist".

## Dialogue

    Miss Smithson: Honest, Sir James... they're dead people from the grave! Vampires is what they are!
    Sir.James Hamlin: Professor Burke is to be our house-guest, Williams. Have rooms prepared for him.
    Professor Edward C. Burke: It's unnerving, Mr. Hibbs! The new maid swears to your Uncle that she saw living dead people in the Balfour house!
    Sir.James Hamlin: Burke, I've called you in again because I believe these strange people leasing Balfour's house link up with his death.
    Professor Edward C. Burke: We found his note... and his own pistol beside him! That's suicide, isn't it?
    Sir.James Hamlin: Then what can it all mean? Mysterious people! Lights! Weird noises! And come... see this!
    Sir.James Hamlin: Burke... look! It is Roger Balfour!
    Sir.James Hamlin: Come, Burke! We're helpless before such creatures as these!
    Arthur Hibbs: For one who doesn't believe in vampires, you've taken a sudden interest in them!
    Professor Edward C. Burke: Perhaps it's for the same reason that you did, Mr. Hibbs! Be brave, my dear. Follow my instructions tonight. Young man, I'll take one of your cigars... and have a little talk with you. I've suspected you for a long time, Hibbs.
    Arthur Hibbs: Yes? And I've suspected you!
    Professor Edward C. Burke: Lucille, I am going to reveal to you that your father did not die by suicide!
    Lucille Balfour: You can't mean that someone killed my father!
    Professor Edward C. Burke: am going to ask you to put yourself in my hands... to do whatever I say... no matter how trying it may be. I want you to promise to keep this a secret... from everyone.
    Lucille Balfour: Mr. Burke, you make me feel that I should trust you... that you are my friend.
    Arthur Hibbs: What was he saying to you?
    Lucille Balfour: I can't tell you! Please don't ask me!
    Arthur Hibbs: I don't trust him! Why wouldn't he let Uncle send for the police last night? And now he is getting you under his spell!
    Lucille Balfour: Oh, Arthur... he says that someone killed my father!

## Taglines

* LON CHANEY in a great Scotland Yard Mystery
* The Man of a Thousand Faces in a Great Detective Thriller!

## Cast

* Lon Chaney — Edward C. Burke
* Marceline Day — Lucille Balfour
* Henry B. Walthall — Sir James Hamlin
* Percy Williams — Williams

## External links

* London After Midnight quotes at the Internet Movie Database