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# Quackery

Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe the promotion of unproven or fraudulent medical practices.

## Quotes

* I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death That is but scratch'd withal.
** William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 7, line 142.
* So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial faith. The argument founded on this occasional good would be as applicable in justifying the counterfeiter and giving circulation to his base coin, on the ground that a spurious dollar had often relieved a poor man's necessities.
** Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homoeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions (1842).
* But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
** P. T. Barnum, The Humbugs of the World (1865), Chapter XXVIII

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 652.
* Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash— Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
** George Crabbe, Borough, Letter VII, line 75.
* From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
** George Crabbe, Borough, Letter VII, line 124.
* Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
** Philip Massinger, Virgin-Martyr, Act IV, scene 1.

## See also

* Snake oil
# Susan Johnson (Australian author)

Susan Johnson (born 30 December 1959) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays.

## Quotes
### Hungry Ghosts (1996)

* Ah, you see, Rachel, only strivers know about the stealthiness of time. No matter how young they are.
** Page 42.
* She was devastatingly cruel about our home town and told an elaborate, embossed tale about how she made good her escape. She referred to it as 'The Planet Brisbane' and ridiculed its unpleasant combination of smug self-satisfaction and provincial defensiveness.
** Page 46.
* She walked and walked, daring to be happy, risking the wrath of the Gods. She raised her large smiling face to the sun and when she was not struck down, dared to hope for herself again.
** Page 145.
* 'Still got your eyes closed, Rach?' she called. 'You should have stayed in Brisbane where it's safe!'
** Page 346.

## External links

* Susan Johnson's web site
# Susan Kieffer

Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer (November 17, 1942–) is an American physical geologist and planetary scientist. Kieffer is known for her work on the fluid dynamics of volcanoes, geysers, and rivers, and for her model of the thermodynamic properties of complex minerals. She has also contributed to the scientific understanding of meteorite impacts.

## Quotes
### 2021

* I think the basic motivation for my research and publishing papers in the conventional media is curiosity.
* The problem is that the attention span of humans as individuals is a year or two. If you have a disaster, you basically have a year or two to try to change human behavior, and then interest fades
* One of the things I discovered in writing my book, The Dynamics of Disaster, was the thrill of learning about completely new things that my research would never ever have taken me into.
* I think the only thing that has a broader range of scales than geology is astronomy. Geologists really look at things from the atomic scale to the solar system scale, and we potentially think about planets beyond the solar system.
** Zierler, D (2021) Susan Kieffer (PhD '71), Geologist Caltech Heritage project interview.

### 2014

* Our collective work in the geosciences has made, and must continue to make, a difference in how humans interact with our planet.
** Kieffer, S (2014). 2014 Penrose Medal — Response by Susan Werner Kieffer Geological Society of America

### 2013

* If we want to improve our odds of surviving disaster, we need to do two things. First, we need to be prepared for the rarest, biggest events. Currently we invest in infrastructure to protect us from the smaller events — be they tornados, eruptions, earthquakes or even small tsunamis that can be shut out by common storm wave barriers on exposed coastlines. But, we rarely have made the costly investments necessary to protect us from the rare, but truly devastating, big events.
** Kieffer, S (2013) The Big Problem With Disaster Planning: Time Magazine, May 28, 2013.

### 2006

* If I could take some liberty and propose a generality based on my own experience, I would say that scientists live internally with fundamentals, harmonics, overtones, and dissonances, but strive to seek and sort out the fundamental from the harmonics and overtones. Artists, on the other hand, have the liberty of portraying all of these simultaneously.
* Furthermore, in the current intellectual climate, and with the large numbers of scientists in the world today, there are few measures of creativity. We measure productivity, not not simple numerical counting, or even measures of “impact.” Perhaps as a community, we need a new form of peer evaluations of individuals within that context.
** Kieffer, S (2006). The concepts of beauty and creativity: Earth science thinking in Earth and Mind: How Geologists Think and Learn about the Earth, Geological Society of America Special Paper 413.

## External links

* 2014 Penrose Medal Presented to Susan Werner Kieffer
* Geology in Motion blog
# Susan Kihika

Susan Wakarura Kihika is a Kenyan lawyer, politician and the first female governor of Nakuru County.She was elected as a senator in 2017 on Jubilee Party as a Majority whip. Susan held the position until the 11th of May 2020 when she was replaced by Senator Irungu Kang'ata. Prior to that, she served as the first female speaker of Nakuru County Assembly and held the position of the Vice Chair of the County Assemblies Forum (CAF) .

## quotes

* I am very fine and in good health. I hope the media can tell residents of Nakuru that they have seen me.
** https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/nakuru/i-m-fine-and-healthy-susan-kihika-says-as-she-resurfaces-4250488, The Nation, May 29, 2023)
# Susan Kay

Susan Kay (born 1952) is an English novelist.

## Quotes
### Phantom (1990)

Based on the Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera
* I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.
** Erik (p. 90)
* I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider. Even a spider has the right to a mate.
** Erik (p. 92)
* Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.
** Erik (p. 129)
* Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.
** Giovanni (p. 133)
* For a moment I thought I knew exactly how Christ must have felt as He called John.
** Giovanni (p. 138)
* Ah, well... hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.
** Erik (p. 289)
* My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain... For as long as I love, no woman will ever look on me in love.
** Erik (p. 303)
* The more I thought about it, the better I liked the idea. The corps de ballet were already calling me "the Phantom of the Opera," an intriguing sobriquet which appealed to me very strongly, until I realized that it would mean signing my ransom notes P.T.O. One did not wish to descend to the ridiculous! O.G. I became and O.G. I have remained. But I still liked to think of myself as the Phantom.
** Erik (p. 360)
* Up in box five I blinked in surprised amusement. That was a new one! Little Giry should be writing Gothic novels, not prancing around the stage dressed as a water nymph!
** Erik (p. 380)
* Awful things!... truly awful. The floor in our dressing room starts to run with blood... disembodied hands come out of the wall and crawl across the stage.
** Meg Giry (p. 380)
* Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.
** Erik (p. 384)
* Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long.
** Erik (p. 397)
* Killing is like riding, you see, one never really loses the knack.
** Erik (p. 431)
* Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him... Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.
** Christine Daae (p. 433)
# Serayah (actress)

Serayah Ranee McNeill (born June 20, 1995) also known mononymously as Serayah, is an American actress, model and singer, best known for her role as singer Tiana Brown on the television show Empire.

## Quotes

* My mom put me in dance at four, I started writing music at ten, and it has always been a super passion of mine.
* It was really crazy, though, because when I got the audition for the show, it didn’t exist
* I’m in a space for releasing more music. I’ve been in my bag, but I’ve been in the lab just working
** The Baller Alert Show – Ep. 222: Serayah Joins Cast to Discuss Career and Address Joey Bada$$ Relationship RumorsBALLER ALERT, 9 March 2023 by Keytron Hill
* Gwen Stefani is a fearless rocker who can wear the same boyfriend jeans and sneaker wedges over and over but make them look different every time
* There's nothing wrong with wearing makeup and hair extensions to feel pretty, but you can't get lost in all of it.
** BET Awards 2022: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Multi-talented Star SerayahBET June 30 22 by Table Germain

## Reference

* ↑ "Biography". sonicbids.com. Retrieved September 9, 2015

## External Links

* Official website
* Serayah on Instagram
* Serayah on IMDb
# Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is divided between the four mutually intelligible standard varieties of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

## Quotes

* The people of Bosnia -- meaning Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs -- could each say they're speaking their own, individual language. They say that it's their national language, and that it's not for Europe, Belgrade, or Zagreb to decide differently... The same is true for Montenegrins. If they think Montenegrin is a distinct language, then basically it is. If on the other hand they decide to share a language with Serbs or Croats, that would work just as well. But the tendency here is to see each of these languages as special and distinct.
** August Kovacec, as quoted in "Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Or Montenegrin? Or Just 'Our Language'?" (21 February 2009), by Ljudmila Cvetkovic and Goran Vezic, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
* When several nations or countries speak a common language, linguists do not list all these peoples in the name of the language because that would be too long a name... In our case, linguists introduced a two-part name in the 19th century, and today's linguists have inherited it, just like today's chemists inherited terms in chemistry, or as American linguists inherited the name for their language. The edges of the tongue are named with the two-part name model, and the central zone is not necessarily named when the edges are known. This is the same as with Indo-European names, the edges are named, and the central zones of Armenian and Persian are not. I must point out that all these names only bind linguists and not ordinary people, they can call the language whatever they want, and they don't have to call it at all.
** Snježana Kordić, translated quote from an interview "Language, nation and lies" (22 October 2012), with Anes Osmić, E-novine
* When foreigners come to our country ... they point out that in Zagreb they are told that they speak Croatian very well, in Belgrade that they speak Serbian very well, and in Sarajevo that they speak Bosnian very well, and they always say the same thing. But how can a resident, let's say, from Posavina, let's say, a Croat, find it acceptable to claim that he and a Dalmatian, not to mention a Zagorac, speak the same Croatian language, and that he and his neighbor, a Bosniak or a Serb with whom he communicates on a daily basis, do not speak the same, but different languages.
** Josip Baotić, translated quote from "Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its Disintegration" (2004) by Robert D. Greenberg, New York: Oxford University Press, page 153, ISBN 9780191514555

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Serbo-Croatian on Wikipedia

## See also

* Bosnian proverbs
* Croatian proverbs
* Montenegrin proverbs
* Serbian proverbs
# Serdar Berdimuhamedow

Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 22 September 1981) is a Turkmen politician. He currently serves as the President of Turkmenistan since 19 March 2022.

## Quotes

* I am confident that, thanks to joint efforts, friendly relations between Turkmenistan and the United Kingdom, based on the principles of mutual understanding, equality and trust, will continue to develop for the happy future for both peoples.
** Serdar Berdimuhamedow (2022) cited in: "The President of Turkmenistan congratulated the Prime Minister of Great Britain" in Turkmenistan Golden Age, 6 September 2022.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Serdar Berdimuhamedow on Wikipedia
# Serapion of Thmuis

Abba Serapion of Thmuis or Serapion of Nitria was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

## Quotes

       Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4.
* A brother asked Abba Serapion: “Tell me a saying.” The elder said: “What can I say to you? That you took the goods of widows and orphans and set them in this embrasure?”—for he saw that it was full of books.
** Saying 2
* Abba Serapion said: “Just as the soldiers of the emperor standing before him cannot turn their attention to left or to right, so too if a person stand before God and rivet his attention on his presence, in fear of him all the time, no action of the enemy can terrorize him.”
** Saying 3
* As soon as this earth's great elder, the blessed Antony, who prayed for the whole world, departed, everything has been torn apart and is in anguish, and the Wrath devastates Egypt. While he was truly on earth, he extended his hands and prayed and spoke with God all day long. He did not let the Wrath descend on us. Lifting up his thoughts, he kept it from coming down. But now that those hands are closed, no one else can be found who might halt the violence.
** Ep. ad discipulos Antonii (letter to two disciples of Anthony the Great) 5, 7–8, 19–20; trans. by Harmless, William (2004). Desert Christians. Oxford University Press. p. 108. ISBN 0-19-516222-6.
# Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina are one of the three constitutive ethnic groups of that country, predominantly residing in the political-territorial entity of Republika Srpska.

## Quotes

* The people of Bosnia -- meaning Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs -- could each say they're speaking their own, individual language. They say that it's their national language, and that it's not for Europe, Belgrade, or Zagreb to decide differently... The same is true for Montenegrins. If they think Montenegrin is a distinct language, then basically it is. If on the other hand they decide to share a language with Serbs or Croats, that would work just as well. But the tendency here is to see each of these languages as special and distinct.
** August Kovacec, as quoted in "Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Or Montenegrin? Or Just 'Our Language'?" (21 February 2009), by Ljudmila Cvetkovic and Goran Vezic, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
* My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. Okay, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.
** Emir Kusturica, as quoted in The Guardian (4 March 2005)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wikipedia
# Toyin Abraham

Toyin Abraham Ajeyemi (born 5 September 1982) is a Nigerian actress and filmmaker.

## Quotes

* Nobody literally saw COVID 19 coming, this is to let you know we are not in charge of the affairs of the world but we only play an intriguing part. Covid19 affected everyone in different ways.
** "COVID or not, I will continue to create content ― Toyin Abraham", Vanguard (August 16, 2020)
* I don’t want to ever lose my marriage. I do not want to ever have a failed marriage. I cannot imagine myself and my husband not living together.
# Toyin Afolayan

Toyin Afolayan (born 24 September 1959) popularly known as Lola Idije is a Nigerian film actress. She gained recognition after starring as Madam Adisa in a 1995 film titled Deadly Affair. Toyin Afolayan is known as the initiator of popular internet slangs Soro Soke werey and Pele My Dear. Soro Soke Werey is a term used by #EndSars protesters in Nigeria to demand that Government Speak Up and Louder on the excesses of the SARS Police unit in the country.

## Quotes

* There is nothing you lay hands on that you would not face one or two challenges. There’s nothing God cannot do, so there is no battle God cannot win.
** Her opinion in an interview
* The way a woman ‘uses’ herself really matters too. Life is like a camera; it is how one poses that one would appear in a photograph.
** Her opinion
* In reality, our enemies do not want us to excel but I have triumphed. If one doesn’t serve God and mammon together, the world would marvel at one’s success and wonder if one is the most gifted person because things would work out for one.
** Her opinion
* It is risky to be dependent on human beings because they would disappoint one.
** Her opinion
* It is not how long, but how well. That’s my own philosophy of life.
** Her Opinion
* Have piece mind. Don’t envy others. Don’t be jealous of the next person. Be decent. Respect others, let others respect you too. Don’t say my friend is driving a jeep, I must drive a jeep too. Be at peace with yourself.
** Her opinion
# Toyin Ojih Odutola

Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper.[1] Her unique style of complex mark-making and lavish compositions rethink the category and traditions of portraiture and storytelling. Ojih Odutola's artwork often investigates a variety of themes from socio-economic inequality, the legacy of colonialism, queer and gender theory, notions of blackness as a visual and social symbol, as well as experiences of migration and dislocation.

## Quotes

* I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill. Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
* I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
** Toyin Ojih Odutola's quotes
# Toyin Olakunri

Toyin Olakunri (November 4, 1937 - June 3, 2018) was a Nigerian accountant, philanthropist and businesswoman who was the first female chartered accountant in Africa. In 2000, President Obasanjo appointed her as head of the Education Trust Fund. She was president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria between 1994 and 1995. Olakunri played a foundation role in the establishment of the Society of Woman Accountants of Nigeria.

## Quotes

* And honestly, I will give everything to ensure that it happens. That is my own contribution to our nation, Nigeria.
** Toyin Olakunri's words toward Nigeria
# Toyin Ajayi

Toyin Ajayi is a physician, co-founder, and CEO of Cityblock Health, a primary health care provider that focuses on underserved populations who rely on Medicare and Medicaid in the United States.

## Quotes

* Although it is always difficult to say goodbye to people who have been so important to the history and to the progress that the company has made, knowing that we're doing so from a position of strength as a business, from a balance sheet perspective, from a mission perspective, from an outcomes and performance perspective, and this enables us to continue to grow and that is really rewarding.
** Toyin Ajayi said (Fierce Health Care, June 8, 2023)
# Toyin Lawani

Toyin Ajoke Muyinat Lawani-Adebayo, popularly known as Toyin Lawani, is a Nigerian celebrity, fashion designer, author, philanthropist, and serial entrepreneur. She is CEO of Tiannahs Place Empire, a group compromising 33 businesses. She also served as a costume designer on King of Boys: The Return of the King and Shanty Town.

## Quotes

* People misunderstand my designs because they don’t understand the strength it takes.
** In an interview on channels tv
* People in your family can betray you.
** In an interview with Chude Jideonwo
* When I started my entrepreneurship business, many people told me that it wouldn’t work.
** In an interview with Premiumtimes