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# Makhdoom Sharfuddin Ahmed Yahya Maneri

Sharfuddin Ahmed bin Yahya Maneri, popularly known as Makhdoom-ul-Mulk Bihari and Makhdoom-e-Jahan (June 1263 – 3 January 1381) was a 13th-century Sufi mystic.

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

(Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004)
* Sin is the key to misery.
** p. 124
* The existence of lover in the pavilion of the Beloved is a sin beyond comparison to any other.
** p. 120
* O Brother! Sin for the servant is great calamity. May God protect us from such things! Sin in the beginning hardens the heart, which ultimatley leads to unbelief and wretchedness. Don't forget the wiles of Satan and the fate of Balāam Bāōur.
** p. 120
* Spiritual Guide should be perfect, well versed in the vicissitude of the mystic path, and firmly established in his high state. He should be a man who has experiences both the horror of God's Majesty and the delight of His beauty.
** p. 120
* Mystic way is infested with one's ego, devils, men and Jinn, thus making it impossible to travel along it without and experienced, holy man as one's ascort. Also there are many slippery places where it is easy to fall. And one can be plagued with misfortune and dangers from behind.
** p. 120
* O Brother! There are thousands upon thousands who have been martyred and slain on the Divine way. Many other thousands are wounded and thrown prostrate. Those well known for their intellect have been perplexed in their search for Him and those famous for their religious knowledge are searching Him at the outskirts of His Glory and Tremulousness. Those, whose eyes and radiant and heart clairvant, are submerged in one drop of His ocean of His Majesty or singed like sparks from the fire of His Glory.
** p. 122
* Bliss and misery are two treasures of the Lord. The key to the former is submission, while the key to the latter is sin. The one who is fortunate has been blessed from his mother's womb. Such a person is given the key to bliss. The one who is unfortunate has been born accursed. Sin is the key to misery.
** p. 124
* O Dear! Live in this world brokenhearted and miserable. When Moses asked God: "O Lord where should I search You?" The answer came: "In the heart which is broken by the hand of detiny."
** p. 125

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Richard H. Meadow

Richard H. Meadow is Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Senior-Lecturer on Anthropology at Harvard, and Project Director of HARP—the Harappa Archaeological Research Project.

## Quotes

* There are, as yet, no convincing reports of horse remains from archaeological sites in South Asia before the end of the second millennium BC. Many claims have been made but few have been documented with sufficient measurements, drawings, and photographs to permit other analysts to judge for themselves.
** 1987. Meadow, Richard. 1987. "Faunal Exploitation Patterns in Eastern Iran and Baluchistan: A Review of Recent Investigations." Orientalia losephi Tucci Memoriae Dicata (881-916). Ed. G. Gnoli and L. Lanciotti. Quoted from Bryant Edwin-The-Quest-for-the-Origins-of-Vedic-Culture, p 171
* The destruction of the Indus cities by invading tribes of Aryans... has long since been discounted by serious scholars.
** About the "mythical massacre" that according to some ended the Indus valley civilization. Attributed in Michel Danino - The Invasion That Never Was (2004), and
* This picture represents one man’s view of the past informed by 23 years of archaeological and ethnographic research in Pakistan and India and by 18 years of growing up in India. But the paints, often applied with a broad brush necessarily in an impressionist manner, are tempered by Western academic skepticism. Thus we do not see those wild flights of fancy or long leaps of faith that characterize some literature of the region. What flights and leaps are there do not require a suspension of disbelief to entertain.
** Preface of Jonathan Mark Kenoyer’s Ancient Cities of the Indian Civilization, Oxford University Press (Karachi), 1998
* Referring to a discussion that Meadow and Patel had with Bökönyi before the latter’s death, they write (1997: 308): “We went through each point that we had raised and in some cases agreed to disagree. He (i.e. Bökönyi) remained firmly convinced that there are the bones of true horse (Equus Caballus) in the Surkotada collection, and we remain skeptical.”
** quoted in B.B. Lal, Aryan invasion of India, Perpetuation of a myth. in : Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge 70
* “… in the end that [Bökönyi’s identification of horse remains at Surkotada] may be a matter of emphasis and opinion.”
** quoted in THE HORSE AND THE ARYAN DEBATE by Michel Danino* (Published in the Journal of Indian History and Culture of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, Chennai, September 2006, No.13, pp. 33-59.)
** Richard Meadow & Ajita Patel, “A Comment on ‘Horse Remains from Surkotada’ by Sándor Bökönyi,” South Asian Studies, vol. 13, 1997 (New Delhi: Oxford & IBH), pp. 308-315.

## External links

* Bibliography
* ↑ https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/richard-h-meadow
# Trolley problem

The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. The question of formulating a general principle that can account for the differing moral intuitions in the different variants of the story was dubbed the "trolley problem" in a 1976 philosophy paper by Judith Jarvis Thomson.

## Quotes

* Es stände besser um die Welt, wenn die Mühe, die man sich gibt, die subtilsten Moralgesetze auszuklügeln, zur Ausübung der einfachsten angewendet würde.
** The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.
** Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms, D. Scrase and W. Mieder, trans. (Riverside, California: 1994), p. 30
* Michael: Well, obviously the dilemma is clear. How do you kill all six people? So I would dangle a sharp blade out the window to slice the neck of the guy on the other track as we smush our five main guys.
** The Good Place, The Trolley Problem [2.6]

## See also

* Lesser of two evils principle
# Tariye Gbadegesin

Tariye Gbadegesin is a Nigerian-American businesswoman and corporate executive who is the chief executive officer of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), effective 1 March 2024. She is the first African woman to serve in that role.

## Quotes

* A great deal of work is being done around project development of infrastructure, its risk profile, managing construction risk, and achieving stable cash flows.
** Tariye Gbadegesin. 25 January 2022, The Business Year.
* There’s much more to come.
** Tariye Gbadegesin Highlights High-Level Climate Discussions at IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings. 5 November 2024, TECH AND BIZ NEWS.
# The Cat in the Hat (TV special)

The Cat in the Hat is an animated musical television special first aired on NBC on March 10, 1971, based on the 1957 Dr. Seuss' children's book of the same name. Produced by DePatie-Freleng using veteran Universal theatrical-cartoon animators, and featuring the voices of comedian and song satirist Allen Sherman and prolific voiceover performer, Daws Butler, this half-hour special is a loose adaptation with added musical sequences.

## Narrator

* The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play. Just sit in a house all that cold, cold, wet day.

## Dialogue

    Mr. Krinklebine the Fish: Out of this house! I am warning you, get!
    The Cat in the Hat: Who's that? I believe that we haven't yet met.
    Mr. Krinklebine the Fish: The name is Krinklebine. Carlos K. Krinklebine.
    The Cat in the Hat: Ooh.
    Mr. Krinklebine the Fish: Now please go away. Tell that top-hatted cat he should not be about. He should not be here when your mother is out!
    The Cat in the Hat: My dear, Mr. Krinklebein. My tricks are quite safe. [putting the bubbles together] I invite you to join in the fun, if you wish, in a game that I call... [places Krinklebine on top of the bubbles] Up, Up, Up, With a Fish!
    [Krinklebine is on the tower of bubbles]
    Mr. Krinklebine the Fish: Put me down! Put me down, you cat! [the Cat In the Hat uses his umbrella to carefully pops each bubble under Krinklebine's bowl safely back on the table] Outrageous! Now, let me repeat, and I don't like to shout, but he should not be here when your mother is out!
    The Cat in the Hat: It's up to you kids, whatever you say. If you think me untrustworthy, send me away.
    Sally: Well, he is getting the house sort of messy and dirty, and Mother...
    Conrad: Yeah, Mother; back home at 3:30.
    The Cat in the Hat: [sighs sadly] A vote of no confidence. [heads towards the front door] I most humbly bow to the voice of the majority. Good bye, now. Off to Siberia. [leaves before closing the door; but suddenly comes back] Ha! Somebody stole my moss-covered, three-handled family gredunza! Nobody's gonna leave this room until I find it!
    Conrad: [confused] Pardon me, sir. You lost a moss-covered, what?
    The Cat in the Hat: ...three-handled family gredunza!
    Mr. Krinklebine: Hmph!
    The Cat in the Hat: So, that's your attitude, eh, Krinklestein? Did you steal it?

## Cast

* Allan Sherman - Narrator / The Cat in the Hat
* Daws Butler - Mr. Krinklebine the Fish
* Tony Frazier - Conrad
* Pamelyn Ferdin - Sally
* Gloria Camacho - The Mother
* Lewis Morford - Thing One
* Thurl Ravenscroft - Thing Two

## See also

* The Cat in the Hat (film) (2003 live-action film)
* Dr. Seuss

## External links

* The Cat in the Hat quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Joy Maimela

Joy Maimela (born 9 June 1988) is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly of South Africa since June 2024. She is the chairperson of the assembly's Portfolio Committee on Basic Education.Born in Sekukhune, Limpopo, Maimela spent her early career as a mineworker. She rose to political prominence as the interim coordinator of the ANC Youth League between April 2021 and March 2023. During that period, in December 2022, she was elected to a five-year term on the ANC National Executive Committee.

## Quotes

* This learner was born in a free and democratic South Africa, so this is unexpected. It is shocking. It is disappointing. It is hurtful that he can spew such remarks. This needs the attention of authorities at the highest level. It cannot be tolerated."
* Considering the painful history of racism and discrimination in South Africa, our country has taken a zero-tolerance to such behaviour and utterances. We need urgent action on the matter.
* The committee calls on parents, communities, organisations, and schools to increase programmes and engagements on life skills to stem such behaviour. Raising well-rounded children is the responsibility of all of us.
* The committee notes that this relates to one of the clauses that the President put on hold for three months. We look forward to the engagement on this but continue to call for the full implementation of the Bill.
# Bukelwa Mbulawa

Bukelwa Gilberta Mbulawa-Hans (born 19 April 1954) is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape who served in the National Assembly until 2004. She represented the Democratic Party (DP) until March 1999, when she defected to the African National Congress (ANC).

## Quotes

* We will never accept any principal taking action against an employee who reports a criminal offence,”
** She said
* Very seldom nowadays will you find people doing anything if there is no reward.
** She said
* The man visited me in Khayelitsha yesterday morning and I could not believe when he said he wanted to donate such a large sum of money to support my family. When I received the cheque, I cried and screamed ‘yoo yoo’ in disbelief.
** She said
* When I found out last week that I no longer had a job, I cried and so did my children. I thought I had to go from door to door to beg for food for my children, as I did before I worked,”
** She said
# Anroux Marais

Anroux Johanna Marais (née Du Toit; born 8 December 1956) is a South African politician who has been the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety since 2024. She previously served the Provincial Minister of Culture Affairs and Sport from 2015 until 2024. Marais has been a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since 2004, representing the Democratic Alliance.

## Quotes

* History cannot give us a programme for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future”
* I encourage all stakeholders: the public, governmental departments, affiliated museums, archives and academic institutions to make use of the guidelines presented in the department’s Oral History Framework as there is a dire need to effectively and efficiently record oral histories in the province.
* It is hoped that visitors to the exhibition will see the value in their own personal archives and will also consider sharing it with the public, through donation to the provincial archives so that the range of narratives expands to reflect and represent
* This is an exhibition of archive material and it inspires ordinary people to understand the enduring value of their own documents, maps and pictures.
* We gain insight into Dulcie September’s life through her family’s personal archive, some police records, records from Dulcie’s Paris office and newspaper clippings. These are memories and they tell a story.
# Farida Mahomed

Farida Mahomed (born 2 February 1955) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) as a backbencher in the National Assembly from 1996 to 2009 and later from 2013 to 2014.

## Quotes

* I don’t want to comment on something that I haven’t done research on. I wouldn’t want to be influenced by any scholar
** She said in an interview
* ‘I can’t make a comment. They must have been relevant or they would never have been written.They did not contribute towards peace, which is why she posed the question.
** She saidinaninterview
# Peace Mabe

Bertha Peace Mabe (born 18 September 1976) is a South African politician serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since February 2017. She previously served in the National Assembly from May 2014 until August 2016. She served as a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces from Gauteng between May 2009 and April 2014. Mabe is a member of the African National Congress and the party's unsuccessful 2016 Mogale City mayoral candidate.

## Quotes

* There's no doubt that in the second round, the Paralympians will definitely do well, they never disappoint. But with those who participated here, we are proud of you. It is not always about winning but about representing the country and being able to finish,
* Well it is easy to say more, as a politician I would say I wanted more. But for them to be there to participate, we are grateful for the small and the big achievements - we are certainly proud of them,
* We are a winning nation and as a winning nation we need to be healthy. So encouraging our people to be involved in being active and exercising is part of us moving forward as a healthy country.
* More women to engage in sports and called on the government to provide greater support for their involvement.
* Being active in sport is not about having money, this kind of activity of bringing people together to walk as nation is one of the indicators that it is possible for people to organise themselves as communities [to take up walking]
# Louisa Mabe

Louisa Lorato Mabe (born 6 October 1959) is a South African politician who served as the North West's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Finance from 2009 to 2012 and as MEC for Education from 2012 to 2013. Before joining the North West Provincial Legislature, she represented her party, the African National Congress (ANC), in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2009. Premier Thandi Modise fired her from the Executive Council in June 2013 after she was accused of involvement in procurement irregularities.

## Quotes

* Education is the foundation for this country to move forward. Without education everyone is going to suffer, so I have no alternative, I have got to do this."
* When I go to schools now I don't make appointments, and I don't start at the principal's office. I go to the classrooms to see for myself first before word goes around that the MEC is visiting
* The primary schools can also get exposure to science, because the money is there. Why not use it
* One of the things we did was to look at the subjects in which learners performed badly. We prioritised them and gave specific training and support to educators to make sure we would see an improvement
* What ought to happen at the primary schools is that those teachers must give the foundation in reading, but usually that doesn't happen,"
# Sylvia Lucas

Sylvia Lucas (born 22 April 1964) is the current Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces in the Republic of South Africa, after having taken office on 23 May 2019. From 2013 to 2019, she served as the 4th Premier of the Northern Cape Province. She was elected and inaugurated as the successor to Hazel Jenkins. Lucas briefly served as acting premier and before her appointment, as the MEC for Environmental Affairs in the Northern Cape Provincial Government.

## Quotes

* If that is the case I would really like to apologise to the nation if I came across as someone who is insensitive
** She said
* We are coming from a past where it was a luxury to have electricity.
** She said
* People are saying that she probably has solar… the only thing that I bought with my own money is inverter for my fridge and for my children so that they can watch TV and to charge,”
** She said
# Zingiswa Losi

Zingiswa Phyllis Losi (born 2 October 1975) is a South African politician and trade unionist who is currently serving as the president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) since September 2018. She was formerly Cosatu's second deputy president from 2009 to 2018. She is a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a former member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC).

## Quotes

* The Global South must stand united in our fight for a fair and just climate response. We cannot allow the powerful nations who have historically benefited from the very industries that have caused this crisis, to dictate the terms of our transition.
* Decent work for all workers As we move towards green economies, we must ensure new jobs are good jobs,that offer dignity, fair wages, and security for workers and their families..
* Social protection and support for affected workers and communities Workers in at risk industries must be supported, including through reskilling opportunities, economic support, and access to new jobs.
* Energy democracy and ownership We must ensure that the shift to renewable energy does not simply transfer powerfrom one set of elites to another.
* Let us build solidarity across borders, industries and movements. The future is in our hands. We dare not stop until justice, equality and sustainability prevail.
# Charlotte Lobe

Charlotte Lobe (née Pheko; born 2 July 1973) is a South African politician, diplomat and civil servant who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2004 and in the Free State Provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2008. In October 2008, she defected to the Congress of the People (COPE), a newly formed breakaway party.

## Quotes

* And the reason for this is for us to appreciate that even though we are far apart, we are one people and there’s a lot that we can achieve as one people.
* women are innovators and creators of wealth. There is nowhere in the world that does not have the hand of a woman involved; this goes right up to the fact that all of us are born of a woman.
* It has also been a beautiful experience to learn about the diverse cultures of Singapore at a depth that cannot be attained by merely visiting as a tourist. The summary of my work is best captured by my 7Cs or what I call my mantra in life:
* Building a strong and inclusive economy, improving capabilities of South Africans, and building a capable, ethical, and developmental state. In a nutshell, using our presence in Singapore to existential domestic challenges.
* Success can beget success, and celebrating at work helps to build momentum, improve morale, and make the hard times feel all the more worth it.”
* Through this principle we are able to determine and prioritise collective highest impact tasks and increase productivity thereby achieving priorities we have set for ourselves.
* I believe that when we work together, we are powerful and better able to effect change.
* women are able to achieve solidarity of purpose to represent women’s interests when they achieve certain levels of representation.
* the interests of men and women are different and even conflicting and therefore women are needed in representative institutions to articulate the interests of women
* women’s experiences are different from men’s and need to be represented in discussions that result in policy making and implementation. These different experiences mean that women ‘do politics’ differently from men.
* the equal representation of women and men enhances democratisation of governance in both transitional and consolidated democracies.
* Gender equality and women’s empowerment remain central tenets for development in the country, the continent and across the world. However, the nagging claws of gender inequality in the continent continue to impede women from contributing to the development agenda and lending their voice as they are precluded from many development-oriented conversations.
# Nocwaka Lamani

Nocwaka Emsie Lamani (19 April 1931 – 17 November 2021) was a South African politician and activist. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Council of Provinces from 1994 to 1999 and in the National Assembly from 2001 to 2004. During apartheid, she was a prominent community activist in Port Elizabeth.

## Quotes

* Some women in the ANC had wanted the quota beefed up to one in two candidates. They failed in their bid, but it remains the only party with a quota of seats reserved for women
* Whenever female members stood up, they were clearly not interested. They [male MPs] started talking on their own.”
* A measured and God-fearing woman not usually given to such outbursts
* The gender quota is not up for debate in the ruling party and their gains have given a fillip to women in more conservative parties.
* Many women say that if Parliament – the legislative arm of government – is to be the locale of power and not the executive, then women must be better trained. Many women MPs had not seen draft statutes and, having come from the trenches, were not au fait with parliamentary proceedings.
* If it weren’t for the ANC ladies and the pressure they put on the government, females would have been much worse off.
* MPs need a legal desk to explain legislation to them. When the department briefs you, you have no way of understanding. You’re not debating with effective input,”
* Women have brought a different culture to Parliament. It’s less of a beer-swilling, let’s sort things out in the bar kind of place.