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# Lachlan Macquarie

Lachlan Macquarie, CB (31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and had a leading role in the social, economic, and architectural development of the colony.

## Quotes

* The Aborigines, or Native Blacks of this Country, having for the last three years manifested a Strong and Sanguinary Hostile Spirit, [...] I have this Day ordered three Separate Military Detachments to march into the Interior and remote parts of the Colony, for the purpose of Punishing the Hostile Natives, by clearing the Country of them entirely, and driving them across the mountains; as well as if possible to apprehend the Natives who have committed the late murders and outrages, with the view of their being made dreadful and severe examples of, if taken alive. [...] In the event of the Natives making the smallest show of resistance – or refusing to surrender when called upon so to do – the officers Commanding the Military Parties have been authorized to fire on them to compel them to surrender; hanging up on Trees the Bodies of such Natives as may be killed on such occasions, in order to strike the greater terror into the Survivors.
** The Governor's Diary & Memorandum Book (10 April 1816), authorising violence during the Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
* The length of time I have governed this Colony, the progress it has made in improvement during my Administration and more especially the fond recollection of my only surviving Child being born in it — all combine in attaching me most strongly to it, I shall not fail to cherish the same sentiments of attachment in my Son — who, although yet so young, feels, and already expresses, the strongest affection for his Native Australian Land. My most fervent prayers will accordingly be offered for the welfare and prosperity of this Country, and for the happiness of its Inhabitants; fondly, and confidently anticipating, that, in less than half a century hence, it will be one of the most valuable appendages to the British Empire.
** Farewell speech as Governor, printed in the Sydney Gazette (1 December 1821)

## Quotes about Macquarie

* Macquarie was the Prince of men! Australia's pride and joy! We ne'er shall see his like again; Bring back the Old Viceroy!
** Qtd. by J. D. Lang, "Poems, Sacred and Secular", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, XVI, p. 39, endnotes; M. H. Ellis, Lachlan Macquarie: His Life, Adventures, and Times, rev. ed. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1952), Ch. 32

## External links

* Virginia Langeberg; Jarni Blakkarly, "Man charged after quote from former Governor Lachlan Macquarie posted on his statue", SBS News (4–5 July 2020)
# Ladi Kwali

Ladi Kwali Ladi Kwali or Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE (c.1925– 12 August 1984) was a Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator.
Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. She learned how to make pottery as a child by her aunt using the traditional method of coiling. She made large pots use for cooking pots, bowls, and flasks from coils of clay, beaten from the inside with a flat wooden paddle. They were decorated with incised geometric and stylized figurative patterns, including scorpions, lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, snakes, birds, and fish.
Her pots were noted for their beauty of form and decoration, and she was recognized regionally as a gifted and eminent potter. Several were acquired by the Emir of Abuja, Alhaji Suleiman Barau, in whose home they were seen by Michael Cardew in 1950.

## Quotes

* Hardwork minus Grace work equals destiny frustration.
** Ladi Kwali's quote about hardwork.
# Ladin proverbs

Ladin is a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in northern Italy.

## E

* Endretg tutt far Lai bein pussar.
** English equivalent: A good conscience is a soft pillow.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "595, Gewissen" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. p. 308.

## M

* Metter massa blers fiers in il fö .
** English equivalent: He that has many irons in the fire, some of them will let burn (will cool).
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875) (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. II. p. 306.

## See Also

* Romansch proverbs
# Lactantius

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I.

## Quotes

* Solus (homo) sapientia instructus est ut religionem solus intellegat, et haec est hominis atque mutorum vel praecipua, vel sola distantia; nam caetera quae videntur hominis esse propria, etsi non sint talia in mutis, tamen similia videri possunt … Quid tam proprium homini quam ratio, et providentia futuri? Atqui sunt animalia, quae latibulis suis diversos, et plures exitus pandant; ut si quod periculum inciderit, fuga pateat obsessis; quod non facerent, nisi inesset illis intelligentia, et cogitatio. Alia provident in futurum.
** Man only is endowed with wisdom so as to understand religion, and this is the principal if not the only difference betwixt him and dumb animals; for other things that seem peculiar to him, though they are not the same in them, yet they appear to be alike … What is there more peculiar to man than reason, and foresight? Yet there are animals which make several different ways of retiring from their dens; that when in danger they may escape; which without understanding and forethought they could not do. Others make provision for the future.
** De Ira Dei (c. 313), Chap. VII; as quoted in Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697), London, 1737, Vol. 4, Chap. Rorarius, p. 903.

### The Divine Institutes (c. 303–13)

* Verum Scriptura omnis in duo Testamenta diuisa est. Illud quod aduentum passionemque Christi antecessit, id est lex et prophetae, Vetus dicitur; ea uero quae post resurrectionem eius scripta sunt, Nouum Testamentum nominantur. Iudaei Veteri utuntur, nos nouo.
** But all Scripture is divided into two Testaments. That which preceded the advent and passion of Christ—that is, the law and the prophets—is called the Old; but those things which were written after His resurrection are named the New Testament. The Jews make use of the Old, we of the New.
** Book IV, Chap. XX
* Nam qui hominem, quamuis ob merita damnatum, in conspectu suo iugulari pro uoluptate computat, conscientiam suam polluit, tam scilicet, quam si homicidii, quod fit occulte, spectator et particeps fiat.
** For he who reckons it a pleasure that a man, though justly condemned, should be slain in his sight, pollutes his conscience as much as if he should become a spectator and a sharer of a homicide which is secretly committed.
** Book VI, Chap. XX
# John Payne (poet)

John Payne (23 August 1842 – 11 February 1916) was an English poet and translator. Initially he pursued a legal career and had associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing and the Villon Society.

## Quotes

* Straight and swift the swallows fly To the sojourn of the sun; All the golden year is done, All the flower-time flitted by; Thro’ the boughs the witch-winds sigh; But heart’s summer is begun; Life and love at last are one; Love-lights glitter in the sky. Summer days were soon outrun With the setting of the sun; Love’s delight is never done. Let the turn-coat roses die; We are lovers, Love and I; In Love’s lips my roses lie.
** "Rococo" in Intaglios: Sonnets (1871)
* About a well-spring, in a little mead, Of tender grasses full and flow’rets fair, There sat three youngling angels as it were Their loves recounting; and for each, indeed, Her sweet face shaded, ’gainst the noonday need, A spray of green, that bound her golden hair; Whilst, in and out by turns, a frolic air The two clear colours blended at its heed.And one, after a little, thus heard I Say to her mates, ‘Lo, if by chance there lit The lovers of each one of us hereby, Should we flee hence for fear or quiet sit?’ Whereto the twain made answer, ‘Who should fly From such a fortune sure were scant of wit.’
** "Of Three Damsels in a Meadow"; quoted in The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912), no. 483
# John Pentland Mahaffy

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (26 February 1839 – 30 April 1919) was an Irish classical scholar.

## Quotes

* If ... we meet a man of acknowledged mental superiority, whether generally or in his special department, it is our social duty by intelligent questioning, by an anxiety to learn from him, to force him to condescend to our ignorance, or join in our fun, till his broader sympathies are awakened, and he plays with us as if we were children. Indeed this very metaphor points out one of the very remarkable instances of social equality asserted by an inferior—I mean the outspoken freedom of the child—which possesses a peculiar charm, and often thaws the dignity or dissipates the reserve of the great man and woman whose superiority is a perpetual obstacle to them in ordinary society.
** Conversation (1896), p. 104
* With Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.
** Alexander's Empire, p. 8
# John Pearson (author)

John George Pearson (born 5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021) is a biographer and novelist.

## Quotes

* We were also misled by M. Michelin's use of the word "impracticable". "Impracticable," we argued with a careful exercise in semantics, leaves just a chance. More than that. As we thought about it, it seemed to give a broad hint that the road was passable to the young and the determined in sturdy motor cars. "Impracticable" — scratched paintwork, discomfort, difficult finding petrol stations, shortage of good restaurants — these it seemed were the sort of hazards the urbane Michelin was trying to convey to us. Alas, he was not.
** Gone to Timbuctoo (1961), Ch. 9
* Hubert Ronson, as I was to discover later, is the sort of European you are always coming across in Africa. I never made up my mind whether such men leave Europe because their talents are unappreciated in the politer civilisations, or whether they develop them after they arrive. Bullies, thugs, warm-hearted layabouts, at heart they are all the same sentimental, anxious extroverts, with the same endless fund of dirty stories, and the same secret loathing and longing for the cultures they have escaped.
** Gone to Timbuctoo (1961), Ch. 11
# John Percival

John Percival (3 April 1863 – 26 June 1949) was an English botanist and wheat taxonomist.

## Quotes

* The chief processes for the improvement of soils which may be discussed here are: liming, claying and marling, warping, paring and burning, and green manuring. Most of these more or less directly improve the land by adding to it certain plant food constituents which are lacking, but the effect of each process is in reality very complex. In the majority of cases the good results obtained are more particularly due to the setting free of " dormant " or " latent " food constituents and to the amelioration of the texture of the soil, so that its aeration, drainage, temperature and water-holding capacity are altered for the better.
** "p. 349 of section Improvement of Soils (pp. 349–351) in article Soil". 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. pp. 345–352.
* Among the world's crops wheat is pre-eminent both in regard to its antiquity and its importance as a food of mankind. In prehistoric times it was cultivated throughout Europe, and was one of the most valuable cereals of ancient Persia, Greece, and Egypt.
** The Wheat Plant: A Monograph. London: Duckworth & Co. 1921. p. 3.

## Quotes about Percival

* The wheat taxonomist has a difficult job. The variation in Triticum/Aegilops is extraordinary and one has only to look through the enormous herbarium collection of wheat that John Percival amassed to see the diversity. Hybridization and polyploidy have occurred frequently and been assisted by man over a long period, complicating the systematics enormously.
** Stephen L. Jury in "Wheat Taxonomy". Wheat Taxonomy: the legacy of John Percival, eds. P. D. S. Caligari and P. E. Brandham, The Linnean Special Issue 3. Academic Press. 2001. pp. 61–64. (quote from p. 61)

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# John Patrick Dolan

John Patrick Dolan (June 8, 1962 – ) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix.

## Quotes

* There are lots of people who are dealing with loved ones who are in crisis. It's a quiet work of charity, and obviously they need all the help they can get. Let people know that they're not alone when it comes to mental health.
** Catholics with mental health struggles aren’t alone, Phoenix bishop says (24 September 2022) Catholic News Agency
# Mark Jason Dominus

Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) is a computer programmer. He was the managing editor of www.perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal.

## Quotes

* Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.
** Dominus, Mark Jason (February 9, 2000). My Life With Spam : How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With It. Retrieved on 2006-11-30.
* A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"
** Dominus, Mark Jason (October 19, 2006). Boring answers to Powell's questions. Retrieved on 2006-11-30.
* You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
** Dominus, Mark Jason (June 28, 2002). YAPC 2002 - The Movie. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
* In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.
** Interview with Mark Jason Dominus. The Perl Review (April 7, 2005). Archived from the original on January 17, 2011. Retrieved on January 17, 2011.
* Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form ‘How do I use X to accomplish Y?’ There's nothing wrong with this, except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the integration of European currency systems.
** Put down the chocolate-covered banana and step away from the European currency systems..
# Mark Judge (writer)

Mark Gauvreau Judge (born September 24, 1964) is an American author and journalist known for books about his suburban Washington, D.C. youth, recovery from alcoholism, and the role of music in American popular culture.

## Quotes
### God and Man at Georgetown Prep (2005)

    God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling. New York: Crossroad Publishing. Paperback.
* Prep is a school steeped in history, family, friendship, and tradition. Many of the hundred boys in my class had gone to parochial school together. Our parents had gone to Gonzaga, Georgetown Visitation, and the other Catholic schools in the area. Many of our older brothers had also gone to Prep. Many of our older brothers had also gone to Prep. I'll never forget when I was in the eighth grade and had an interview as part of my application. I sat down with my parents in front of a teacher I had never met before. "You're a little taller than your brothers," he said after shaking my hand. "But I bet you're not as good an actor as your brother." This kind of atmosphere led to a sense of being part of a group that knew you better than you knew yourself. There was also the advantage of Prep being an all-boys school. At a critical time in our lives we were allowed to study, make friends, and get to know girls as friends due, paradoxically, to the fact that we were not distracted by girls. At age fifteen it was hard to think of anything else. And had there been girls on campus, Prep would not have been the place it was.
** p. 59
# Mark J. Green

Mark J. Green (born 15 March 1945) is an American author, former public official and politician.

## Quotes

* From day one his standard operating procedure ... was a blend of ignorance, amnesia, and dissembling. Like a panicky passenger lunging for a life preserver, he would, under stress, concoct almost any fact or anecdote to advance his ideological beliefs. Ronald Reagan brought to mind Will Rogers' comment that "It's not what he doesn't know that bothers me, it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so."
** Comments on Ronald Reagan, in Reagan's Reign of Error (1987)
** Note: see Josh Billings
* I won't be running for office again. But I'll continue to advocate, write and teach.
** As quoted in "Saving Air America" at TruthDig (2 April 2007)

## External links

* 504 Democratic Club Questionnaire (2006)
# Mark Holyoake

Mark Holyoake (1 March 1983 – Present) Mark Holyoake is a New Zealand gymnast, born in Wellington. He was placed 25th at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and 11th at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was part of the New Zealand team that placed 4th at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and he also placed 4th on the Parallel bars at the same event. In 2010, Mark Holyoake retired and is now a personal trainer at Les Mills International.

## Quotes

* The fear of failure isn’t an easy thing to sit with, but it’s also what pushes you to try your hardest no matter the cost.
** Mark Holyoake being interviewed moments after breaking the record for the Most Rotations on a Pommel Horse in 60 seconds with 65

## External links

* Mark Holyoake at 19th Commonwealth Games
* Mark Holyoake athlete profile
# Mark Hunt

Mark Richard Hunt (born 23 March 1974) is a New Zealand-Australian mixed martial artist and former kickboxer of Samoan descent, currently living in Sydney, Australia. Hunt competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and was the winner of the 2001 K-1 World Grand Prix.

## Quotes

* I'm going vegan, hate this.
** Caption to a video of undercover footage from a factory farm posted on his Facebook page; as quoted in "UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt switching to vegan diet after watching animal cruelty video", in Bloody Elbow (16 August 2015).
* I will probably end my life fighting. … I just hope that if it does happen, it will be in an honest and fair competition. My body is fucked but my mind is still here. I’ve still got my senses about me and I know what’s right and wrong, which is the main thing. … I feel proud that I got here without cheating. Proud that I got here without taking any shortcuts and by doing it the proper way. My way. … I’d be champ already if it wasn’t for the cheaters. … We need the Ali Act put in place. Fighters want to know what they’re worth. … These guys don’t get paid jack shit.
** "If I die fighting, that’s fine", in Players Voice (4 July 2017).
# Mark Hurd

Mark Vincent Hurd (born January 1, 1957) is CEO of Oracle Corporation and serves on the board of directors.

## Quotes

* My days at Baylor were not too different from my days as part of a company. I had to manage my time. I had to divide it into certain pieces so that I’d get as much done as I possibly could. And I had to have the discipline to stay focused on the most important things that needed to get done.
** Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" (Fall 2006)
* Leading is not just about managing people. To lead, you have to help people understand where we’re trying to take the company and what their role is in getting it there.
** Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" (Fall 2006)
* There are unique opportunities for differentiating yourself from competition. By the way, they don’t come along every day. And usually, they show up in a crisis.
** Interview with Forbes: "Oracle's Mark Hurd: Innovation, Savings Make Cloud Transition 'Inevitable'" (15 September 2016)
* Our job is to get customers in a position where they’re the most efficient and effective they can be.
** Interview with Recode: "Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd on Recode Decode" (05 July 2017)
* We should not get scared about innovation. It makes us more efficient and frees up capital for our customers to reinvest in other things.
** Interview with Recode: "Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd on Recode Decode" (05 July 2017)
* AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success.
** LinkedIn article (27 December 2017)
* Remember what’s bigger, to me, about the cloud isn’t so much the technology. It’s just as much about the business model. It’s just about what the customer needs to do to enable their business.
** Diginomica: "Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on the looming transformation of enterprise IT" (11 January 2018)

## Quotes about Hurd

* Every time we threw Mark out the window he landed on his feet. So we moved him up a floor, and he landed on his feet again.
** Gilbert Williamson in Fortune: "Mark Hurd's moment" (27 February 2009)
* He's all about execution and has an uncanny ability to get things done.
** Keith Bachman in Fortune: "Mark Hurd's moment" (27 February 2009)
* I interviewed a lot of people in that search. Mark just blew everybody else out of the water.
** Tom Perkins in Fortune: "Mark Hurd's moment" (27 February 2009)

## External Links

* Mark Hurd News
* Mark Hurd Executive Biography
# Mark Jabalé

Mark John Peter Jabalé (16 October 1933–) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the emeritus Bishop of Menevia.

## Quotes

* I feel Advent is a joyful preparation for the Nativity of the Lord. It's always struck me that perhaps liturgical vestments, which at this time are purple, would better perhaps be blue, uniting us to our Blessed Lady in her preparation for the birth of her Son, but then I am a bit unconventional in this way.
** Bishop Mark Jabale OSB (December 4, 2020)