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# Distrust

Distrust is an active lack of trust in someone or something, leading to wariness of the subject.

## Quotes

* When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.
** Thomas Brooks, p. 532. reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
* Distrust is an acquired feeling — we never doubt till we have been deceived ...
** Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara (1834), Vol III. Chapter 3

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.
* Usurpator diffida Di tutti sempre.
** A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
** Vittorio Alfieri, Polinice, III. 2.
* What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
** George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book V, Chapter XLIV.
* When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
** Samuel Johnson, Irene, Act IV, scene 1, line 87.
* A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
** Madame Necker.
* Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
** Robert Southey, Madoc in Azthan, Part XXIII, line 51.
# Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress.

## Quotes

* Good manners. They're forgotten in America. I think it's bad manners to stand around in public with ripped jeans and your hair in a mess, holding a Starbucks.
** 5-Minute interview (18 November 2006).
* Madonna is the only modern celebrity who is truly a style icon. Who else has the audacity to dress like her these days? She really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me realize that I didn’t have to look like a blond beach bunny or a Playboy model.
** Praising Madonna for inspiring her to be an individual (18 July 2007).
* You know how some celebrities have fans of the opposite sex, who imagine they’re going to marry them and live happily ever after? I have a different thing. Over the past 15 years I’ve had a few female fans who’ve gone overboard and been upset because we didn’t become best friends and go shopping together.
** Interview by Crushable (1 August 2007).
* Playboy is the second most-recognised symbol in the world after Coca-Cola, It’s a Hollywood walk of fame for female bodies. My dad is a different story – he threw me out of the house when I was 16 because I worked in the lingerie store and wore black lace panties. But he loved that I was on the Playboy cover; suddenly I was his daughter again. In fact, everything changed after the Playboy cover. Before, people were scared of me, but suddenly what I did was validated.
** Dita Von Teese on posing for Playboy (13 August 2007).
* At eurovision, The Armenians are killing me with their hair and especially the fierce cateye liner! LOVE! I am part Armenian, in fact.
** On the Armenians in the Eurovision Song Contest (15 May 2009).
* You can be a delicious, ripe peach and there will still be people in the world that hate peaches.
** On Twitter (7 September 2010).
# Dith Pran

Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields. He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

## Sourced

* I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.
** Hero of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', Dith Pran, dies of cancer at 65. Daily Mail (2008-03-31). Retrieved on 2008-03-31.
* Part of my life is saving life.
** Hero of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', Dith Pran, dies of cancer at 65. Daily Mail (2008-03-31). Retrieved on 2008-03-31.

## About

* He knew we had no chance without him so he argued not to be separated from us, offering, in effect, to forfeit his own life on the chance that he might save ours.
** Sydney Schanberg, describing Pran's efforts to get his colleagues out of harm's way.
** Hero of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', Dith Pran, dies of cancer at 65. Daily Mail (2008-03-31). Retrieved on 2008-03-31.

## External links

* Dith Pran character entry at the Internet Movie Database
# Divergence (disambiguation)

Divergence is a function that associates a scalar with every point of a vector field.
Divergence or Divergent may also refer to:
* "Divergence", a 2005 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (S4E16)
* Divergent (novel), a 2011 novel by Veronica Roth, the first volume in the Divergent trilogy
** Divergent (film), the 2014 film based on the novel
This disambiguation page, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, lists articles associated with the name Divergence (disambiguation). If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
# Dithiane

A dithiane is a heterocyclic compound composed of a cyclohexane core structure wherein two methylene bridges are replaced by sulfur centres. The three isomeric parent heterocycles are 1,2-dithiane, 1,3-dithiane and 1,4-dithiane.

## Quotes

* The most utilized Umpolung strategy is based on formyl and acyl anion equivalents derived from 2-lithio- 1,3-dithiane species. These are readily generated from 1,3-dithianes (thioacetals) because the hydrogens at C(2) are relatively acidic (pK$_a$~31).
** George S. Zweifel and Michael H. Nantz, Modern Organic Synthesis (2006), Ch. 1. Synthetic Design
# Bagele Chilisa

Bagele Chilisa is a Botswanan post-colonial scholar who has written and spoken extensively about indigenous research and evaluation methodologies. She is a full professor at the University of Botswana, where she teaches courses on social science research methods and evaluation research to undergraduate and graduate students. Chilisa has served as an evaluator on multiple global projects, and is considered to be an important "African thought leader." Chilisa identifies as a member of the Bantu people of Africa.

## Quotes

* "The book is on indigenous research methodologies. These are a family of methods informed by the indigenous world views. A methodology that is not embedded in paradigmatic space loses its meaning,".
* "An Indigenous research method targets local phenomenon instead using extant theory from the West. Take, for example, a study to develop an indigenous measure of common mental disorders in a primary care setting among the Shona people in Zimbabwe, and to examine the psychometric properties of the measure. It is important for the research to understand the meaning of mental disorders  from the perspective of the community where the research is conducted," .
* "The Shona mental health measurement scale is discussed in Chapter 5 where it is contrasted with the WHO mental health scale. New mental health constructs were created based on Shona perspectives of what mental health is. What is important to note is that the local constructs were integrated with international constructs to give a holistic picture of what can be known about mental health,".
** Q & A with Dr. Bagele Chilisa, Part 1,
# Bahadur Shah of Gujarat

Qutb-ud-Din Bahadur Shah, born Bahadur Khan was a sultan of the Muzaffarid dynasty who reigned over the Gujarat Sultanate, a late medieval kingdom in India from 1526 to 1535 and again from 1536 to 1537. He ascended to the throne after competing with his brothers. He expanded his kingdom and made expeditions to help neighbouring kingdoms. In 1532, Gujarat came under attack of the Mughal Emperor Humayun and fell. Bahadur Shah regained the kingdom in 1536 but he was killed by the Portuguese on board a ship when making a deal with them.

## Quotes

* Afterwards he went towards Bhîlsã which country had been conquered for Islãm by Sultãn Shamsu’d-dîn (Altamsh), King of Delhî. Since eighteen years the estate of Bhîlsã had been subject to Silahdî, and the laws of Islãm had been changed there for the customs of infidelity. When the Sultãn reached the above place, he abrogated the ordinances of infidelity and introduced the laws of Islãm, and slew the idolaters and threw down their temples…
** Sultãn Bahãdur Shãh of Gujarat (AD 1526-1537) Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh) Mir‘ã-i-Sikandarî, translated by Fazlullah Lutfullah Faridi, Dharampur (Gujarat), Gurgaon Reprint, 1990, p. 171.
# Baeyer–Villiger oxidation

The Baeyer–Villiger oxidation is an organic reaction in which a ketone is oxidized to an ester by treatment with peroxy acids or hydrogen peroxide.

## Quotes

* The Baeyer-Villiger oxidation involves an initial attack of a peroxy acid at the carbonyl carbon, which is followed by migration of an adjacent group from the carbonyl carbon to the electron-deficient oxygen of the peroxy acid moiety. The rearrangement proceeds in a concerted manner and is stereospecific. Thus, a chiral migrating group maintains its chiral integrity in the product. The overall reaction represents an insertion of an oxygen between the carbonyl carbon and the migrating group. The Baeyer-Villiger reaction applied to acylic ketones provides esters, whereas cyclic ketones furnish lactones. The observed relative ease of migration, tert-alkyl > sec-alkyl > phenyl > n-alkyl > methyl, reflects the ability of the migrating group to accommodate a partial positive charge at the transition state. In addition to electronic factors, steric and conformational constraints as well as reaction conditions may influence the ease of migration. However, the regiochemistry can usually be controlled by proper choice of migrating group. … Thus, the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation is not only stereospecific but frequently regioselective. By controlling reaction conditions and by proper choice of the peroxy acid, it is often possible to favor the Baeyer-Villiger reaction over epoxidation.
** George S. Zweifel and Michael H. Nantz, Modern Organic Synthesis (2006), Ch. 5 : Functional Group Transformations: The Chemistry of Carbon-Carbon π-Bonds and Related Reactions\
# Bagdad (film)

Bagdad is a 1949 film about princess who returns to Bagdad to find a corrupt ruling Pasha in charge and various local factions warring for control of the Caliphate.
    Directed by Charles Lamont. Written by Robert Hardy Andrews.

## Dialogue

    Hassan: I'm not leaving, you're going to ride to my people. It's dangerous for you here.
    Princess Marjan: If I leave, how will you keep the soldiers entertained? Will you dance for them? And sing?

## Taglines

* Lips against lips... sword against sword... in the world's fabulous city of sin!
* The picture of 1001 pleasures! ...1001 adventures! ...1001 delights!

## Cast

* Maureen O'Hara — Princess Marjan
* Paul Hubschmid — Hassan
* Vincent Price — Pasha Ali Nadim
* John Sutton — Raizul

## External links

* Bagdad quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Bal Thackeray

Bal Keshav Thackeray (also known as Balasaheb Thackeray; Marathi pronunciation: [ʈʰaːkəɾeː]; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012) was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra.

## Quotes

* I am a great admirer of Hitler, and I am not ashamed to say so! I do not say that I agree with all the methods he employed, but he was a wonderful organizer and orator, and I feel that he and I have several things in common. Look at the amount of good we have done in just six months in Maharashtra. Actually, we have too much sham-democracy in this country. What India really needs is a dictator who will rule benevolently, but with an iron hand.
** "Portrait of a Demagogue", Asiaweek/CNN (22 September 1995)

## Quotes about Bal Thackeray

* Whereas RSS spokesmen can easily be put on the defensive with hostile questions, Thackeray is more clever. His approach is: if journalists call you "communal", "Hitlerian" or any other name, just accept it, and don't start spending your energy on trying to prove that you re a nice secularist whom the interviewer could respect. If you try to live up to his standards, you will never be able to satisfy him, so instead you should show that you don't care for his approval.
** Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". p 375
* I have great respect for Balasaheb Thackeray and we are the ones working to take his legacy forward. He is one of the most important and influential leaders in the history of our country. Throughout his life, Balasaheb stood for politics that furthered national interest and was against appeasement politics. I have also maintained decorum and dignity with every member of Balasaheb's family, irrespective of the political dynamics. But as an admirer of Balasaheb, I am pained by certain things. Today, it pains every admirer of Balasaheb, including me, to see the actions of those who claim to be torchbearers of his legacy. Mumbai and its people were so close to Balasaheb's heart. What would he have felt if he would have seen these people using those convicted in Mumbai bomb blasts for their campaigning? What would he have felt about these people allying with those who openly say they want to destroy Sanatan Dharma? What would Balasaheb have felt looking at these people aligning with those who celebrate Aurangzeb and abuse Savarkar. Can anyone claim to be upholding the legacy of Balasaheb after doing such things? Balasaheb always put principles above power. But now, it seems, power is everything for these people.
** Narendra Modi Interview in 2024

## See also

* Thackeray (film)
# Bala

Bala (born 11 July 1966 in Periyakulam, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian film-maker who works in the Tamil film industry.

## Quotes from others about Bala

* Bala is unique in many ways. The way he changed Tamil cinema's character was commendable. Awards are not just reflections on the cinematic qualities but also the ability to change other filmmakers.
* It was a tough subject to deal with, Bala has deftly handled the film. Frankly, I never expected a film like Naan Kadavul from Tamil. That shows how different Bala is in his thinking and approach.
** Shaji N. Karun on Bala's work in Naan Kadavul (28 January 2010

## External links

* Bala on IMDb
# Balbhadra Kunwar

Balbhadra Kunwar (30 January 1789 – 13 March 1823) was Nepalese military commander during Anglo-Nepalese War.

## Quotes

* It was not customary to receive or answer letters at such unreasonable hours.
** In context of British General Gillespie's letter asking surrender of Gorkhalis during the Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in page no. 14 of Fraser, James Baillie (1820). Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin. OCLC 69385527.
* I shall meet your General in the warfield.
** In context of meeting by British General during the Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in and page no. 14 of Fraser, James Baillie (1820). Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin. OCLC 69385527.
* Go capture the fort which you could not win by war, but now we've left it at our own will.
** To the British forces in the context of water blockade during Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in

## Quotes about him

* This is inscribed as a tribute of respect for our gallant adversary Bulbudder, Commander of the fort and his brave Goorkas who were afterwards, while in the service of Runjeet Sing, shot down in their ranks to the last man by Afghan artillery.
** Photo of the quoted stone Inscription here
# Baldassare Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Novilara (December 6, 1478 – February 2, 1529) was an Italian courtier, diplomat and author, best-known for his study of the ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano.

## Souced
### Il Libro del Cortegiano (1528)

Translations are cited from Leonard Eckstein Opdycke (trans.) The Book of the Courtier (New York: Courier Dover, 2003), to which page-numbers also refer.
* Abbiate cura che non v'inganniate, pensando forse meritar piú con l'esser clemente che con l'esser giusta; perché perdonando troppo a chi falla si fa ingiuria a chi non falla.
** Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
** Bk. 1, ch. 23; p. 32
* Usar in ogni cosa una certa sprezzatura, che nasconda l'arte e dimostri ciò che si fa e dice venir fatto senza fatica e quasi senza pensarvi.
** Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
** Bk. 1, ch. 26; p. 35.
* Chi non sa che senza le donne sentir non si po contento o satisfazione alcuna in tutta questa nostra vita, la quale senza esse saria rustica e priva d'ogni dolcezza e piú aspera che quella dell'alpestre fiere? Chi non sa che le donne sole levano de' nostri cori tutti li vili e bassi pensieri, gli affanni, le miserie e quelle turbide tristezze che cosí spesso loro sono compagne?
** Who does not know that without women we can feel no content or satisfaction throughout this life of ours, which but for them would be rude and devoid of all sweetness and more savage than that of wild beasts? Who does not know that women alone banish from our hearts all vile and base thoughts, vexations, miseries, and those turbid melancholies that so often are their fellows?
** Bk. 3, ch. 51; p. 216.
* Però l'anima, aliena dai vicii, purgata dai studi della vera filosofia, versata nella vita spirituale ed esercitata nelle cose dell'intelletto, rivolgendosi alla contemplazion della sua propria sustanzia, quasi da profundissimo sonno risvegliata, apre quegli occhi che tutti hanno e pochi adoprano, e vede in se stessa un raggio di quel lume che è la vera imagine della bellezza angelica a lei communicata, della quale essa poi communica al corpo una debil umbra.
** Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.
** Bk. 4, ch. 68; p. 300.

## External links

* The Book of the Courtier at Italian Wikisource
# Balachandra Rajan

Balachandra Rajan (March 24, 1920 – January 23, 2009) was an Indian diplomat and scholar of poetry and poetics.

## Quotes

* Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself.
** The Overwhelming Question ' University of Toronto Press 1976
# Ahmad Yadgar

Ahmad Yadgar was a Mughal-era author of the Tārikh-i-Salātin-i-Afghāniyah, a history of the Afghan monarchs of India. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians by Henry Miers Elliot and John Dowson provides a translation of the work. In his preface, Yadgar claims to be "an old servant of the Sur kings" and states that the work was commissioned by Daud Shah, the last Afghan ruler of Bengal. The book covers events from the time of Bahlul Lodi with the final chapter detailing the defeat and subsequent execution of Hemu at the Second Battle of Panipat.

## Quotes

* One day he ordered that an expedition be sent to Thaneswar, (the tanks at) Kurkaksetra should be filled up with earth, and the land measured and allotted to pious people for their maintenance, He was such a great partisan of Islam in the days of his youth..... Sultan Sikandar led a very pious life Islam was regarded very highly in his reign. The infidels could not muster the courage to worship idols or bathe in the (sacred) streams. During his holy reign, idols were hidden underground. The stone (idol) of Nagarkot, which had misled the (whole) world, was brought and handed over to butchers so that they might weigh meat with it.
** Sultãn Sikandar Lodî (AD 1489-1517) Kurukshetra (Haryana) , Nagarkot Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) . Tarikh-i-Shahi, by Ahmad Yadgar, in: Uttara Taimura Kalina Bharata, Persian texts translated into Hindi by S.A.A. Rizvi, 2 Volumes, Aligarh, 1958-59. p. 322-331 ff Vol I, In Goel, S.R. Hindu Temples - What happened to them
* “It so happened that Raja Man, the ruler of Gwalior who had been warring with the Sultans for years, went to hell. His son, Bikarmajit, became his successor. The Sultan captured the fort after a hard fight. There was a quadruped, made of copper, at the door of the fort. It used to speak. It was brought from there and placed in the fort at Agra. It remained there till the reign of Akbar Badshah. It was melted and a cannon was made out of it at the order of the Badshah.”
** Sultan Ibrahim Lodi (AD 1517-1526), Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) Tarikh-i-Shahi, S.A.A. Rizvi in Uttara Taimur Kalina Bharata, Aligarh, 1955, Vol. I, p. 343 In Goel, S.R. Hindu Temples - What happened to them
# Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506 — 21 February 1543) was the Somali Imam of the Adal Sultanate from 1527 to 1543. Imam Ahmad (commonly named Ahmad Gurey in Somali, Gragn in Amharic, and Gura in Afar, both meaning "the left-handed"), led the conquest of the Ethiopian Empire under the Sultanate of Adal during the Ethiopian-Adal War.

## Quotes

* O people of Islam, steadfastness means resolution, faint-heartedness means failure. Be sure of this, those who persevere are those who will vanquish. Faint-heartedness and cowardice are the twin causes of disappointment. God will see that whoever is constant triumphs over his enemy, for God is with him. Whoever holds his ground against the cutting edge of a sword, he is the achiever of the future; and will never again suffer fatigue. If he walks with God, his dwelling place shall be the more honoured, his efforts acknowledged, for God loves those who persevere.
** The Conquest of Abyssinia, p. 74