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# Valentine Telegdi

Valentine Telegdi (January 11, 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-born U.S. experimental physicist.

## Quotes

* Feynman was not a theorist's theorist, but a physicist's physicist and a teacher's teacher. Feynman's theoretical concepts opened up research opportunities for experimenters, and his approach to physics dignified the role played by their work.
** (1989). "A Lowbrow's View of Feynman". Physics Today 42 (2). DOI:10.1063/1.881197. (p. 85)
* What is very important to me is two points: A theory should be internally consistent and it should have some contact with observation. Well, I’m told by all the experts that this theory [String theory] is internally consistent, although they think up new interpretations every time I turn my back. But contact with reality? Nobody’s given me anything. I just watch. I’m somewhat unhappy that so many people are working on it. To me, as a physicist, it’s sort of sad that so many people at the same time work at something that doesn’t seem to have any contact with experiment. But that, to some extent, is due to the fact that we don’t have any great experimental puzzle to be thinking about. We have to supply the puzzles, and there aren’t that many puzzles right now.
** Telegdi, Valentine L. Interview by Sara Lippincott. Pasadena, California, March 4 and 9, 2002. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives. Retrieved January 11, 2010 from the World Wide Web: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Telegdi_V

## Attributed

* The trouble with theorists is, they never pay attention to the experiments!
** as quoted by Richard Feynman (1985). "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!": adventures of a curious character. W. W. Norton. p. 253. ISBN 0393316041.
# Valentine Tsamma Seane

Valentine Tsamma Seane (2 November 1966–) is a Botswanan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaboron.

## Quotes

* Christian world views leadership as stewardship of divinely provided resources; human and material, centered on the mystery of the Trinity, Creation, the fall and redemption. As Christians when we pray the “Lord’s prayers’ we say ‘Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.’ We use our right to vote in order to choose a government that will facilitate the coming on the kingdom of God on earth here and now. A kingdom that will provide our daily bread, peace, prosperity and respect for human dignity, emphasizing the common good and co-division.
** The Bishop of Gaborone issues a Pastoral letter on elections (2014)
# Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans

Valentina Visconti (1371 – 4 December 1408) was a countess of Vertus, and duchess consort of Orléans as the wife of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of King Charles VI of France. As duchess of Orléans she was at court and acquired the enmity of the Queen of France, Isabeau of Bavaria-Ingolstadt, and was subsequently banned from the court and had to leave Paris. Due to political animosity, Valentina's husband was murdered in 1407. She died on 4 December 1408.

## Quotes

* Rien ne m'est plus, plus ne m'est rien.
** Nothing is left me, and everything is now as nothing.
** Motto chosen in her widowhood. Reported in C. Bearne, Pictures of the Old French Court (London, 1900), p. 249, and W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2408
# Somali proverbs

Proverbs from all Somali speaking parts of the world.

## N

* Nin wax cunay xishood.
** A man who has eaten something becomes shy.
** "Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
** Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
** Matthew Kelly Gordon B (1993). OMIMEE's English-Somali Dictionary. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-921008-06-5.

## T

* Talo walaal diide taagoogta ayuu kajabaa.
** One refusing a sibling’s advice breaks his arm.
** Knowles, Heather (2011). "Language & Expressions". Welcome to Somalia: Passport to Africa. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-7877-2747-5.

## See Also

* Afrikaans proverbs
* Oromo proverbs
# Solothurn proverbs

Solothurn is a Swiss German dialect spoken in the town of Solothurn in north-western Switzerland.

## E

* E Fuchs nimmt d ' Hüener i syr (siner) Noch- berschaft nit.
** English equivalent: The fox preys farthest from his hole.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "524, Fuchs" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. p. 271-272.
* Er isch ( ist ) der Peterli uff ( auf ) der Suppe.
** English equivalent: Mind your own business.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "210, Petersilie" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. p. 116.

## W

* Wenn der Düfel (Teufel) alt isch (ist), so will er Waldbrueder werde.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "Teufel, 436" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen sprachen vergleichend, zusammengestellt. II. p. 243.
* Wenn's Glück rägnet, so isch (ist) er am (im). Schärme ( Schirm ).
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "253, regnet" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. p. 141.

## See Also

* German proverbs
# Solstice

A solstice is an event which occurs when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly point relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21.
    See also:
       Equinox

## Quotes

* The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
** Gary Zukav, in "Solstice Joy" (29 April 2021), Seat of the Soul
* Each solstice shows us that we can choose. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the Universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to Life when each arrives.
** Gary Zukav in "Solstice Joy" (29 April 2021), Seat of the Soul
# Somadina

Somadina (born 22 March 2000) is a Nigerian singer and songwriter.She officially started her music career in 2018 with her debut single titled "IHY" which stands for "I hate you".

## Quotes

* The knowledge cannot be bought, but can only be shared and I think that a lot of issues artists get into is because they don’t have the knowledge and people use that ignorance against them. So going on I think people should educate artists on publishing, distribution and how everything works.
# Yiannis Laouris

Yiannis Laouris, (born September 30, 1958) is a Greek Cypriot social, business and science entrepreneur, trained neurophysiologist, and systems scientist known especially for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace and development through the application of modern technology and the science of structured dialogic design.

## Quotes
### mLearn International Conference (2005)

Key-note talk in the 2005 mLearn International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Laouris, Y.; Eteokleous, N. (2005). We need an educationally relevant definition of mobile learning, Proceedings of mLearn (Vol. 2005), South Africa.
* The computer constitutes the first human construction that aspired to amplify mental rather than physical human powers.
* The mobile phone marks the appearance of a new “organ” (called the third hear-and-talk organ) in the evolutionary time line; one that extends the human language system, both on the receiving (i.e., hearing) and the sending (i.e., speech) end.
* For the physically disadvantaged, the mobile phone (and more generally, the virtual identity that may accompany it) makes their problem disappear (no one can tell on the phone how you look, i.e., if you are paralyzed or if you are ugly) by lending them an “invisible” body.
* The invention of mobile technologies has demolished distance and boundaries (private or public), and it will soon even demolish the very concept of what it means to be here or there.
# Yewande Adekoya

Yewande Adekoya (20 January 1983) is a Nigerian actress and filmmaker.

## Quotes

* If your content is worth the time, people will watch it. So if you have something fantastic to offer your audience, you will definitely make profit, just like what is obtainable in every other medium of film distribution. Making a movie available online is just one of the several ways a movie can be distributed."
* I am still who I am. Fame has not changed anything about me. Fame has only taught me to be more humble.
# Yewande Akinola

Yewande Akinola (born 1984) is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies. She works as Principal Engineer for Laing O'Rourke and hosts television shows about engineering for Channel 4 and National Geographic.

## Quotes

* Purpose is an ongoing thing… You don’t wake up one day knowing all that you’re supposed to be about. It reveals itself through action, the process of trying things.
** an interview with Manchesterlit&phil
* Digital engineering sits right at the heart of this progress and the big change is now we have the ability to build a project twice.
** In an interview with Karlene Agard
# Yi Hwang

Yi Hwang [이황] [李滉] (1501–1570) is one of the most prominent Korean Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty.

## Quotes
### Twelve Songs of Dosan

陶山十二曲
* 古人도날몯보고나도古人몯뵈 古人를몯봐도녀던길알ᄑᆡ잇ᄂᆡ 녀던길알ᄑᆡ잇거든아니녀고엇뎔고
** The ancients see me not, nor I, the ancients, Though I see the ancients not, the Way they trod is before me, Their Way before me, can I but follow.
** The old teacher never saw me; he lived long before my time. Though I may never meet him, I can see the road he traveled. With his wise road before me, what reason for me to stray?
* 靑山ᄂᆞᆫ엇뎨ᄒᆞ야萬古애프르르며 流水ᄂᆞᆫ엇뎨ᄒᆞ야晝夜애긋디아니ᄂᆞᆫ고 우리도그치디마라萬古常靑호리라
** How do the green mountains through the ages remain green? How do the flowing waters day and night keep flowing? Let us not cease either but through the ages remain green.
* 愚夫도알며ᄒᆞ거니긔아니쉬운가 聖人도몯다ᄒᆞ시니긔아니어려운가 쉽거나엷거낫듕에늙ᄂᆞᆫ주를몰래라
** Even ignorant men seek perfection; perhaps the way is easy. Not even wise men can be perfect; perhaps the way is difficult. Easy or difficult, between the two, I do not feel the advance of age.

### Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning

聖學十圖
* ...[T]he Confucian way of learning is that in order to ascend to lofty heights one must begin with the lowly, to travel afar one must begin with what is near. Indeed, to begin from the lowly and near certainly is a slow process. But apart from it, whence comes the lofty and distant? In applying one’s efforts to gradual advancement one attain what is lofty and distant without parting from what is lowly and near; it is in this that it is different from Buddhist and Daoist learning.
** Ch. 3. Diagram Of The Elementary Learning

## External links

* Cyber Dosan Seowon, general information on Yi Hwang and his teachings
* The T'oegye Studies Institute, Busan
* The T'oegye Research Institute, Kyungpook National University
* "To become a sage", translation of Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning, Michael C. Kalton, Columbia University Press, (1988)
* Secrets of Reality – Yi Hwang's major work with diagrams
* Detailed bibliography
# Yewande Omotoso

Yewande Omotoso (born 1980) is a South African-based novelist, architect and designer, who was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria. She is the daughter of Nigerian writer Kole Omotoso, and the sister of filmmaker Akin Omotoso. She currently lives in Johannesburg. Her two published novels have earned her considerable attention, including winning the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author, being shortlisted for the South African Fiction Prize, the M-Net Literary Awards 2012, and the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature, and being longlisted for the 2017 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

## Quotes

* Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.
** "The Woman Next Door"
* The pieces of life, even when put together, assembled, never amount to the life itself.
** "Yewande Omotoso, An Unusual Grief"
* She understood what perhaps they are only just learning. That if you attempt to clean the messiness of life you end up scrubbing the life away from living. We can't excise joy from pain.
** Yewande Omotoso, in her book An Unusual Grief.
* Coming from across cultures, I believe I mostly value difference as opposed to being threatened by it... Over time as I gain in knowledge and become braver I hope to set more stories solidly in Nigeria or Barbados but you cannot, as a writer, fake familiarity with a place – I don’t think so anyway.
** Yewande Omotoso on how her diverse background comes into her writings.
* My mother died when I was 23, and apart from the recent birth of my children, that is the most profound experience of my life. The grief that followed is a sharp memory of mine and I’ve often joked that the experience irrevocably marked my writing.
** Onyinye Dike, ‘I Tend to Write Wildly and Freely', The Republic, 16 June 2023.
# Yggdrasil

The Yggdrasil is a large mythical tree that plays a central role in Norse cosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds.

## Quotes

* "Where did you get this Christmas tree?" "Nowhere." "Did you cut down the Yggdrasil?" "Maybe..."
** Randall Munroe in xkcd 521
* An ash I know there stands, Yggdrasill is its name, a tall tree, showered with shining loam. From there come the dews that drop in the valleys. It stands forever green over Urðr's well.
** Völuspá, Poetic Edda, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198111819.
* Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?
** J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance. ISBN 9781491291009.
* I know that I hung on the windy tree Nine full nights, Pierced by a spear offered to Odin Myself to myself of which none knows Upon that tree Where its roots run...
** John Michael Greer, The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca. ISBN 9781454925774.
# Tiktaalik

Tiktaalik is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the late Devonian period, with many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). The Tiktaalik is understood as representative of the evolutionary transition from fish to amphibians. It is an example from several lines of ancient sarcopterygian fish developing adaptations to the oxygen-poor shallow-water habitats of its time, which led to the evolution of tetrapods.

## Quotes

* Our emergence on to the land is one of the more significant rites of passage in our evolutionary history, and Tiktaalik is an important link in the story.
** Richard Dawkins sourced trom The Guardian's article on Tiktaalik roseae
* This is a fossil that blurs the distinction between fish and land-living animal because when you look at it, it has bits and pieces of its anatomy that are like a fish and whole bits and pieces of its anatomy that are like a land-living animal
** Neil Shubin sourced from Toronto Sun article on Tiktaalik roseae
* Tiktaalik blurs the boundary between fish and land animals. This animal is both fish and tetrapod; we lovingly call it a 'fishapod.'
** Neil Shubin sourced from Scientific American article
* When we took the fin of Tiktaalik apart, we found something truly remarkable: all the joint surfaces were extremely well preserved. Tiktaalik has a shoulder, elbow and wrist composed of the same bones as an upper arm, forearm and wrist in a human.
** Neil Shubin - Your Inner Fish (2008)
# Tigran Petrosian

Tigran Petrosian (17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.

## Quotes

* I have a weakness for any piece in excess of my opponent's numbers - from pawn to queen.
** Quoted in Vik L Vasilev, "Tigran Petrosian His Life and Games" (Batsford, London, 1974) p. 166.
* Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can.
** Attributed without citation in "Tigran Petrosian's Best Games" at chessgames.com
* Some consider that when I play I am excessively cautious, but it seems to me that the question may be a different one. I try to avoid chance. Those who rely on chance should play cards or roulette. Chess is something quite different.
** Attributed without citation in "Tigran Petrosian's Best Games" at chessgames.com
* They say my chess games should be more interesting. I could be more interesting - and also lose.
** Attributed without citation in "Tigran Petrosian's Best Games" at chessgames.com

## About Petrosian

* In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'
** Garry Kasparov (2004). My Great Predecessors, Part III. Everyman Chess. p.80
* It is to Petrosian's advantage that his opponents never know when he is suddenly going to play like Mikhail Tal
** Boris Spassky "Tigran Petrosian's Best Games". chessgames.com. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
# Tila Tequila

Tila Tequila (born October 24, 1981) is a Singaporean-born American model and television personality.

## Quotes

* Hitler was a good man and it takes some f---ing balls for someone to say this out loud this day and age, especially for a public figure like myself, but you know what? SOMEONE NEEDS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR! Otherwise the dark cabal who currently control the world and all of the world bankers will continue to feed you their lies, feed off your emotions, take advantage of your emotions and will continue to keep you THEIR SLAVE!
** blog post
* AMERICA IS FALLING AT THE MOMENT YET I DO NOT SEE ANYONE IN OFFICE *AHEM* THAT IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO SAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE HITLER WAS WILLING TO SAVE THE GERMAN PEOPLE!
** blog post

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Tila Tequila on Wikipedia
* Media related to Tila Tequila on Wikimedia Commons
* Tila Tequila on IMDb
# Tigran Sargsyan

Tigran Sargsyan (born 29 January 1960) is the current prime minister of Armenia since taking office on 9 April 2008.

## 2008

* With globalization mounting, the rules teaching us to live globally other than nationally are increasingly becoming meaningful.
** The End of State
* The higher the intellectual potential of people, the broader their tendency to self-organization, the more of its functions will be delegated by the government to other communities. Quite true is also the argument that the more responsibility and competence the government delegates to the society, the more is realized its ability to self-organization.
** The End of State
* As a result of transformation of power, functions of enforcement will slowly turn into new, networked systems of governance in the following directions: upward to the global level; downward to the communal level; and frontward to the professional level.
** The End of State

## 2009

* We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes.
** RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s Remarks at the Annual Meeting of RA National Academy of Sciences (22 April 2009)
* Corruption is the most dangerous public disease haunting the humanity, which diagnoses the public state of heath. The deeper is the corruption and corruption activities the sicker is the society and it needs a treatment.
** Speech of Prime Minister of RA Tigran Sargsyan at the conference on International anti-corruption day (9 December 2009)

## 2010

* I am convinced that sooner or later the Armenian-Turkish relations will be normalized since closed borders between States is a non-sense in the 21st century, and rulers can find themselves in an unenviable position if they fail to keep up with the global developments. Political authorities should lead the way and not lag behind.
** Statement by the Prime Minister delivered at the conference on the topic of Armenia-Turkey relations and cross-border regionalism (12 February 2010)
* In paying homage to the martyrs of Metz Yeghern, we understand that we must take steps forward, come together for the sake of our national dreams and goals. We must build a powerful and democratic State by doing everything possible for the future day of our country and people.
** Message on Armenian Genocide Victims Remembrance Day (24 April 2010).
* We cannot develop unless we enjoy both internal and external freedom: even the freedom of thinking about freedom.
** Speech (11 December 2010), at official site of the Government of the Republic of Armenia
# Tikka Khan

General Tikka Khan HJ SPk (10 February 1915 – 28 March 2002) was a four-star army general in the Pakistan Army who was the first chief of army staff from 3 March 1972 until retiring on 1 March 1976. Along with Yahya Khan, he is considered a chief architect of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide

## Quotes about Khan

* Yahya shoved aside the moderate general who had been governor of East Pakistan, terrifying Bengalis with his replacement: Lieutenant General Tikka Khan, known widely as “the butcher of Baluchistan” for his devastating repression of an uprising in that West Pakistani province. Blood knew he was one of the most extreme hawks in the military—a killer.
** quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
* Bhutto put the notorious General Tikka Khan in charge of the army, insisting that during the massacres “he was a soldier doing a soldier’s job.” (Tikka Khan later became a leader of the Pakistan People’s Party.) He denied not just the inflated Bangladeshi statistic of three million dead, but also the number of ten million refugees, insisting that Indira Gandhi had sent people from West Bengal. As for the women who were raped and killed, he flatly said, “I don’t believe it.”
** quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
* Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier’s job. He went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn’t always in agree­ment, and I picked him because I know he’ll follow my orders with the same discipline. And he won’t try to stick his nose in politics. I can’t destroy the whole army, and anyway his bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated. There’s only one man really respon­sible for those events—Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they’d even forgotten the honor of the army. They thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad. Yahya Khan wasn’t interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else. What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn’t stop until he goes to bed? You’ve no idea how painful it was to deal with him. He was really Jack the Ripper.
** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, April 1972 interview to Oriana Fallaci, as quoted in Interviews with History and Conversations with Power (2011).