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# Lamia Abbas Amara

Lamia Abbas Amara (also spelled Lamea Abbas Amara; 1929 – 18 June 2021) was an Iraqi Mandaean poet.

## Quotes

* Cities have a spirit and reveal their secrets if you listen.
** jadaliyya.com, Oct 17, 2015
* Why should we hate the people we once loved because of a war that mars even our memories?
** Frouzanda Mahrad (an Arabic poem, translated by Mike Maggio in: Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press.)

## Quotes about Lamia Abbas Amara

* Lamea ... is ... dark and intense, with the personality of an archaic queen.
** Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 21.
* During one of her lessons to me, Lamea said that priests have long beards and never cut their hair because they wish to look like Šamiš, the sun. Power resides in hair, like the sun’s rays.
** Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4632-4132-2.
# Lamide Akintobi

Lamide Akintobi (born August 19) is a Nigerian journalist and media personality. She worked as a news anchor on Channels TV and as a co-host and co-creator on a show called The Spot on EbonyLife TV with Zainab Balogun and Ebuka Obi-Uchendu until the show wrapped in mid-2017.

## Quotes

* That hard work is great, but it’s not always appreciated, nor do you always get what you deserve as a result of it. That others won’t always appreciate you insisting on standards and what you deserve, and not being a pushover, especially as a woman.
** Lamide's opinion about Hardwork The net
* I wish Nigeria would copy Tanzania’s top-notch customer service and dedication to tourism. It is one area that Nigeria still hasn’t gotten right
** Lamide talked about Tanzania Punch

## External links

Lamide's profile
# Peter Chung Hoan Ting

Peter Chung Hoan Ting (10 September 1928–) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* Friends are admiring my age and health, and asking me the secret to live to such an age in good health. I usually answer them frankly: I have never paid attention to my health and age.
** Archbishop Emeritus Peter Chung celebrates his 90th birthday (September 21, 2018)
# Peter Cullen

Peter Cullen (born 28 July 1941) is a Canadian voice actor.

## Quotes

* I have met a lot and they’ve been varied. The experiences are extremely varied. Some emotional and with great depth and other ones just genuine gratitude, you know, and thanks. It’s all very humbling to me and I take it very seriously and I feel it quite to my core so but as I said they’re very different and they all combine that overall same feeling of we’re all connected on way or another, you know. The fan base is responsible for my reprisal and that’s something that I just cherish. There’s a connection because it’s something that I artistically … I look at this as an actor and I have to use the word artistic because it’s a creative process. It sounds a little fishy but still, they reacted to my creative concept and we’re bonded because of it. It was one of those wonderful things in life. You click and I certainly feel that with people that feel an affection for Prime.
** Exclusive Interview with Peter Cullen (June 9, 2007)

## Quotes about Peter Cullen

* Peter makes me smile the moment he comes through the door. He is the real deal, talented, big-hearted, with a fabulous basement wall echoing laugh. I try constantly to evoke his rumbling larynx. We have been friends for eons. Though we don’t see each other a lot outside work, we appreciate the time we do spend together in the studio and working.
** Frank Welker, Frank Welker Talks TRANSFORMERS PRIME, Voicing Megatron Throughout His Career, How the Voice-Acting Industry Has Changed and Working with Peter Cullen (November 1, 2012)
# Peter Cohan

Peter Cohan is an American businessman, teacher, author, venture capitalist, and financier.

## Quotes

* [Apple] brings to mind the idea of a corporate edifice complex. That's where a successful company builds a monument to its greatness just as it is losing touch with the realities of its market. ... The construction of a $5 billion palatial headquarters when the company is — at best — between hit products does reflect a certain corporate arrogance.
** Is Apple the Next Dell? in Forbes (25 April 2013)
* With the tragic death of Steve Jobs, Apple has lost its ability to innovate.
** 6 Reasons Apple Is Still More Doomed Than You Think in Forbes (28 January 2015)
# Peter Corey

Peter Frederick George Corey (1946 – 10 April 2019) was a British writer, actor and comedian. Corey was the author of the Coping With children's book series.

## Quotes
### Coping With series
#### Coping With Parents (1989)

* Life with a Jolly Parent is a bit like life in a holiday camp. The beds are too small and there's an outbreak of Salmonella every five minutes.

#### Coping With Teachers (1991)

* Flash Teacher: How to spot: He'll be the only member of staff who drives a customized Lada.

#### Coping With Christmas (1999)

* For a start, let's look at the Grotto itself. By and large these are extremely aptly named, 'Grot' meaning rubbish and 'Oh' being exclamation of disappointed surprise.

#### Coping with Cash (2000)

* There are two distinct types of bike: The one you save up for and buy yourself, otherwise known as the 'Dream Machine' , and the one your parents buy for you, otherwise known as the 'Complete waste of space'.
* It's easy to forget you are in debt to the tune of £10, and to a woman who never forgets anything. Crikey, she can even tell you which Coronation Street character was the first one to have their brain removed (Footnote: And not have it replaced by acting talent unfortunately.)

### The A-Z of Absolutely Everything (1990)

* Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line.

## External links

* Official homepage
# Peter Crouch

Peter James Crouch (born 30 January 1981) is an English former professional footballer

## Quotes

* Scoring a goal is the best part of the best job in the world. So when I see players not even smiling I can’t relate to them.
** Peter Crouch: It felt like the whole world was ridiculing me. 22 June 2023, The Big Issue.
* Between 14 and 21 is when a lot of people get lost
** Peter Crouch interview: I can't believe how my life has turned out. 21 June 2023, The Telegraph
# Peter Cullinane

Peter James Cullinane (29 November 1936–) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Palmerston North.

## Quotes

* We are all at one stage or another of being unfinished. We can be born with deficiencies, or incur disabilities, some of which last through life. In fact, we are never finished while death is still in front of us. When there is something that cannot be resolved or fulfilled within our present span of life, it helps to remember that our life was not something we had a right to in the first place; it is simply gift. And our present life is not the whole of it.
** Unmoored (August 31, 2021)
# Peter Comensoli

Peter Andrew Comensoli (25 March 1964–) is an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* We’ve been saying for decades and decades that faith is at home and in the parish, and now it’s literally at home, this sort of language has been part of that church for a long time, but now it’s actually what it is.
** As Australia fights COVID-19, archbishop says virus changing church ministries ( March 31, 2020)
# Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 1913–11 August 1994) was an English actor.

## Quotes

* It isn’t that I object to it. I just feel it’s the wrong adjective as applied to the films I do. Because horror to me is, say, a film like The Godfather. Or anything to do with war, which is real and can happen, and unfortunately, no doubt, will happen again some time. But the films that dear Christopher Lee and I do are really fantasy. And I think fantasy is a better adjective to use. I don’t object to the term horror, it’s just the wrong adjective!
** Peter Cushing Interview 1973 (1973)
* I wasn't cut out for office life, I always wanted to be an actor.
** Peter Cushing Interview 1973 (1973)
# Michel Thomas

Michel Thomas (February 3, 1914 – January 8, 2005) was a polyglot linguist, language teacher and decorated war veteran.

## Sourced

* What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget.
** Speak French with Michel Thomas, Disc 1
* All stress inhibits true and effective learning.
** Speak French with Michel Thomas, Disc 1
* If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.
** Speak German with Michel Thomas, Disc 3
* If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
** Speak German with Michel Thomas, Disc 5
# Michel Sabbah

Michel Sabbah (born 19 March 1933) was the Archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, the first non-Italian to hold this position in more than five centuries.

## Quotes

* Nobody can tell us Christians how to dress, how to live or how to pray.
** Christmas under Hamas rule. BBC News (22 December 2007). Quote from a statement made during his visit to Gaza City on possible implementation of Islamic fundamentalist internal policies like mandatory hijab and other measures
# Michela Wrong

Michela Wrong (born 1961), is a British journalist and author who has spent over thirty years writing about Africa. Her postings as a journalist began in Europe and then West, Central and East Africa. She has worked for Reuters, the BBC, and the Financial Times before becoming a freelance writer.

## Quotes

* Living in [[w:Kinshasa in the mid-1990s, I often drove past a futuristic tower looking out over the slow-moving, hyacinth-spotted river separating what was then Zaire from its neighbor, Congo-Brazzaville. The tower was a medley of gleaming metal tubes and concrete pillars, and its raison d’être was a bit of a mystery: It wasn't particularly beautiful, had been left unfinished for decades, and couldn't be visited. That ambiguity was fitting. The Limete Tower, as it was called, was an exercise in presidential hypocrisy, and a half-hearted one at that. Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire's long-ruling dictator, had commissioned it to commemorate his former boss and onetime friend Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of independent Congo. Lumumba was assassinated in January 1961 with the collusion of Western powers worried about his suspected Communist sympathies and determined to keep him from power. In theory, the monument was meant to glorify a national hero, a martyr to imperialism. But the gesture's sincerity was open to question, because Mobutu himself helped ensure Lumumba's death, ordering him to be flown handcuffed to a secessionist province where he was shot by firing squad, his body then dismembered and dissolved in acid.
** "When America Helped Assassinate an African Leader", The Atlantic (23 October 2023).
** From a review of Stuart A. Reid The Lumumba Plot.
# Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau (17 May 1925 – 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. He was known as a philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian who had interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.

## Quotes

* Dancing on a tightrope requires that one maintain an equilibrium from one moment to the next by recreating it at every step by means of new adjustments; it requires one to maintain a balance that is never permanently acquired; constant readjustments renews the balance while giving the impression of ‘keeping it’.
** The Practice of Everyday Life (1984)
# Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher.

## Quotes

* Is not the cruel will of adults, by causing birth, condemning children to work, discipline, obedience, submission, frustration in a nursery, primary school, middle school, high school, university or army, and then in a factory, in a workshop, in a company or in an office? Should we call love transmitting this vileness to the body from our own body?
** Theorie du corps amoureux, 2000
* Those childless by choice love children as much, if not more, than their fertile breeders. When asked why he does not have children, Thales replied, "because of my concern for children."
** Théorie du corps amoureux, 2000
* Why make children? In the name of what? To achieve what? What legitimizes pulling a being out of nothingness, disturbing its peace, only so that it would have to take a short walk on this planet, leading back to the nothingness from which it was pulled out?
** La puissance d'exister. Manifeste hedoniste, 2006
# Michel Petrucciani

Michel Petrucciani (28 December 1962, Orange, Vaucluse, France – 6 January 1999, New York City, USA) was a French jazz pianist.

## Quotes

* Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.
** "Obituary: Michel Petrucciani", The Independent, 8 January 1999.
# William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt (C.E.1827 – 1910), English painter.

## Quotes about William Holman Hunt:

* The Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt [...] traveled across much of Palestine in a passionate search for places and people who would allow him an adequate reconstruction of crucial scenes from the Gospels [...]. Precisely because he feels he is the last witness of a world in the process of slow but inexorable change, his reconstruction of evangelical scenes and episodes, conducted through careful historical research, is extremely meticulous in detail and overloaded with a heavy and erudite. (Attilio Brilli)
* Painting which for Rossetti was a suggestion of poetry, which for Millais was a prodigy of technique, which for Madox Brown was art in its most complete meaning, for Holman Hunt was something more: it was religion. (Enrico Thovez)
* When in Oxford, in Liverpool, in Manchester, in Birmingham I found myself in front of Holman Hunt, I had to tell myself that the unsurpassable had been overcome; that no one, neither ancient nor modern, not Van Eyck, not Holbein, not Brown, not Millais, had descended so deeply into the fibers of reality, had loved it with more unfailing enthusiasm, had rendered it with more extraordinary effort. (Enrico Thovez)
# William Howitt

William Howitt (18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879) was an English author.

## Quotes

* Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and — most marvelous of all — went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 60.
* The barbarities and desperate outrages of the so-called Christian race, throughout every region of the world, and upon every people they have been able to subdue, are not to be paralleled by those of any other race, however fierce, however untaught, and however reckless of mercy and of shame in any age of the earth.
** Colonization and Christianity. Quoted from The Capital by Karl Marx , and

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on William Howitt on Wikipedia
* Works related to Author:William Howitt on Wikisource
* Media related to William Howitt on Wikimedia Commons
# William Hughes Mearns

William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet.

## Quotes
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# William Hepworth Thompson

William Hepworth Thompson (27 March 1810 – 1 October 1886) was an English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

## Quotes

* We are none of us infallible—not even the youngest of us.
** Quoted by G.W.E. Russell in Collections and Recollections (1898)
# William Hodges

William Hodges RA (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, New Zealand, Dusky Sound and the Antarctic.

## Quotes

* From Mongheir I embarked, and returned by water to Calcutta; and here I had an opportunity of observing a series of scenery perfectly new; the different boats of the country, and the varied shores of the Ganges. .... It is common, on the banks of the river, to see small Hindoo temples, with gauts or passages, and flights of steps to the river.
** in Jain, S., & Jain, M. (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. vol 4.
* This hall was, by order of the Emperor Jehanguire, the son of Acbar, highly decorated with painting and gilding; but in the lapse of time it was found to be gone greatly to decay; and the Emperor Aurungzebe, either from superstition or avarice, ordered it to be entirely defaced, and the walls whitened.
** About the defaced tomb of Akbar. William Hodges, Travels in India during the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783.
* This city anciently bore the name of Kashi, but at what period it received its present name the page of history is silent. It is built on the north side of the river, which is here very broad, and the banks of which are very high : from the water, its appearance is extremely beautiful ; the great variety of the buildings strikes the eye, and the whole view is much improved by innumerable flights of stone steps, which are either entrances into the several temples, or to the houses.... Nearly in the center of the city is a considerable Mahomedan mosque, with two minarets ... this building was raised by that most intolerant and ambitious of human beings, the Emperor Aurungzebe, who destroyed a magnificent temple of the Hindoos on this spot, and built the present mosque, said to be of the same extent and height of the building destroyed... Surrounding the city are many ruins of buildings, the effects of Mahomedan intolerance.
** William Hodges, Travels in India during the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783. Quoted in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts.
# William I, German Emperor

William I, or in German Wilhelm I. (full name: William Frederick Louis of Hohenzollern, 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), of the House of Hohenzollern, was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and the first German Emperor from 18 January 1871 to his death, the first head of state of a united Germany.

## Quotes

* It's hard to be emperor under such a chancellor.
** about Otto von Bismarck
** Die Wendung, die derselbe einmal einem Vertrauten gegenüber gebraucht haben soll: „Es ist nicht leicht, unter einem solchen Kanzler Kaiser zu sein", klingt glaubhaft. - Ludwig Bamberger: Bismarck postumus. 1899. S. 8 books.google
# Mohsen Kadivar

Mohsen Kadivar (Persian: محسن کدیور‎, born June 8, 1959) is a philosopher, leading intellectual reformist, and professor of Islamic Studies. A political Iranian dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran as well as constructional reform in shari'a and Shi'a theology. Kadivar has served time in prison in Iran for his political activism and beliefs.

## Quotes

* There are approximately 100,000 clerics in Iran and over 60,000 of them are in Qom. Most of them are theology students who have been studying there for many years, between 10-25 years on average.... Every student has to study a minimum of 25 years before he can attain the status of ‘ayatollah’, however most students spend 10 years studying in the hawza.
** Inside Iran: Hujjat al Islam Mohsen Kadivar April 2007

## External links

* Official Website
* The Critical Cleric (May 2004)
# Mohenjo-daro

Mohenjo-daro is an archaeological site in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan. Built c. 2500 BCE, it was the largest settlement of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, and one of the world's earliest major cities, contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoan Crete, and Norte Chico.

## Quotes

* There is nothing that we know of in pre-historic Egypt or Mesopotamia or anywhere else in Western Asia to compare with the well-built baths and commodious houses of the citizens of Mohenjo-daro. In those countries, much money and thought were lavished on the building of magnificent temples for the gods and on the palaces and tombs of kings, but the rest of the people seemingly had to content themselves with insignificant dwellings of mud. In the Indus Valley, the picture is reversed and the finest structures are those erected for the convenience of the citizens.
** Marshall, John, (ed.), Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization, Arthur Probsthain, London, 1931, 3 vols, several Indian reprints, vol. I, p. vi. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
* Mohenjo-daro, whose population has been estimated at 40,000 to 50,000, was probably the most extensive city; its total area, a fifth of which has been excavated, is generally stated to be between 150 and 200 ha (hectares), although the German archaeologist Michael Jansen, who conducted a detailed research on the city’s urbanism, leans towards 300 ha,17 which would make it possibly the largest city of the ancient world. Harappa was about half that size.
** Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
* Mohenjo-daro’s acropolis, measuring about 200 x 400 m, is majestic by any standard. It boasts the famous complex of the ‘great bath’ with its central pool used for ritual ablutions, a huge ‘college’, a ‘granary’, an ‘assembly hall’ (or ‘pillared hall’), and wide streets carefully aligned along the cardinal directions. We may allow ourselves to conjure up the ruler or rulers meeting in some of those spacious halls along with officials, traders and, perhaps, on special occasions, representatives of the main craft traditions : builders, potters, seal makers, metal workers or weavers.
** Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
* There is continuity in the survey and planning tradition from Mohenjodaro to Sirkap and Thimi . . . The planning modules employed in the Indus city of Mohenjodaro, Sirkap of Gandhara, and Thimi of Kathmandu Valley are the same.
** Pant, Mohan & Shuji Funo, ‘The Grid and Modular Measures in the Town Planning of Mohenjodaro and Kathmandu Valley’, in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
# Mohsen Rezaee

Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (محسن رضائی) (born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed in September 1954) is an Iranian politician, professor, and military commander, currently the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

## Quotes

* The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.
** of Islamic Culture and Guidance An "International Islamic Army, Ettela'at, Tehran, 7 August 1991
* The American empire is hovering between life and death.
** Iran May Go Underground with Its Nuclear Activities (June 2006)
* The Israeli government knows very well that if it makes a mistake, the regime will treat the 10,000 Jews living in Iran differently.
** In a speech to Tharollah Tehran (12 October 2021), as cited in "Are Jews in Iran Safe? Don't Ask a Rabbi in Tehran", Jewish Journal (20 October 2021)