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# Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett (born October 22, 1976) is a baseball player for the San Diego Padres in Major League Baseball.

## Sourced

* Yeah, just recently Ted Lilly was pitching in the first inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and he slipped twice on two bunt plays. Anyways, Lou [Piniella] came out to check on him and asked him if he had his metal spikes on and he did. Lou then said well do you have any other cleats in the locker room and Ted said, "Skip, your zippers down." Lou was really embarrassed about that. He turns to do something about it, but then realized that he was on national TV and realized he couldn't do anything. That was a very awkward, but funny story.
   * Barrett reflecting on the 2007 Chicago Cubs season
   * Interview with Michael Barrett - May 07, 2007
* It was an honor for me to put on a Chicago Cubs uniform, and I want to personally thank Jim Hendry, the Cubs organization and all the Cub fans for making the past four years so special," Barrett said in a statement. "At the same time, I'm very excited to go to San Diego and do everything that I can to help the Padres win the NL West.
   * Barrett bids farewell to his Cubs' fans. The Message was originally posted on his homepage.
   * Cubs deal Barrett to Padres June 20, 2007

## External links

* Official home page
* MLB.com profile
# Michael Billig

Michael Billig (born 1947) is a Jewish British academic. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University from 1985 to 2017, working in contemporary social psychology.

## Quotes
### Banal Nationalism (1995)

    Banal Nationalism (1995)
* For example, each nation is expected to have its own flag and national anthem.
** p. 85
* A national anthem is a universal sign of particularity. The conventions of the oeuvre demand that the uniqueness of the nation be celebrated in a universally stylized manner. National anthems not only fit a common pattern, but it is part of their symbolism that they are seen to do so. They flag the nation as a nation among nations, as flags themselves do.
** p. 86
* Each flag will have its own particular symbols like the chakra-dhavaja, or wheel, in the Indian flag, or the Protestant orange and Catholic green in the flag of Eire. Even as a flag indicates particularity, with its own particularity, with its own individual patterns (whether the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack, the Tricolor or whatever), it also flags its own universality. Each flag, by its conventional rectangular pattern, announces itself to be an element of an established, recognizable series, in which all the flags are essentially similar in their conventions of difference. The odd exception, like the pennant-shaped flag of Nepal, only serves to confirm the general rule. New nations, in designing their flags, tend to follow heraldic convention of colour as well as shape: they avoid certain shades like shocking pink and kingfisher blue (Firth, 1973). The hoisting of the newly designed flag indicates that another nation has joined the club of nations: 'we' have become like 'you' (no longer 'them'); 'we' are all nations, with 'our' flags and 'our' anthems, 'our' seats in the United Nations, and 'our' participation, with appropriately designed vests at Olympic Games and World Cups.
** p. 86
* Nationalism does not provide a single way of talking about the world.
** pp. 86–87
# Moderna

Moderna is an American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that focuses on RNA therapeutics, primarily mRNA vaccines. These vaccines use a copy of a molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) to produce an immune response.

## Quotes

* We are pleased to have found the ideal location for the planned construction of our mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility
** Moderna coming to Laval: A turning point for the life sciences sector (AUGUST 11, 2022)
* Official government record-level data obtained through a FOIA request from the Czech Republic shows that the Moderna COVID vaccine increased all-cause-mortality (ACM) as measured over a 12-month period from the time of vaccination for every age as compared to the Pfizer vaccine. If the COVID vaccines were safe, the overall ACM across different vaccine brands would be very similar. This is not the case. They are radically different and the difference is highly statistically significant.
** Steve Kirsch, BREAKING: Record-level data from Czech Republic FOIA proves that the Moderna vaccines increased all-cause mortality by over 50% (and the Pfizer vaccines weren't safe either), Substack, 17 July 2024
# Modern Vampires

Modern Vampires is a 1998 film about the social life of vampires in modern day Hollywood, caught up in a power struggle against Van Helsing and each other.
    Directed by Richard Elfman. Written by Matthew Bright.

## Dialogue

* Nico: I never knew vampires could do sex.
* Dallas: That's a myth. With a good commercial lubricant we could go for hours.

## Taglines

* Taste the evil. Taste the fun.
* They're ridding the world of Bloodsuckers
* Welcome to Transylvania in the Hollywood hills.
# Rudy Vallée

Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.

## Quotes

* On my Fleischmann Hour from Rochester I went into a "rave" about the Victor record of ["It Must Be True"] as played by Gus Arnheim and his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra. From all reports that drift back to me, and from people that I know in California, Arnheim has the finest dance aggregation on the West Coast, and to my way of thinking, perhaps the finest in the entire world. It may sound like a rather broad statement, but I would be willing to back his organization against any other in any other part of the world. Although I have never seen them perform on the stage to what they have in the way of showmanship, from a pure musical standpoint I feel that they are unexcelled. Perhaps my great admiration for them is increased by the presence of Bing Crosby, formerly the lead in Paul Whiteman's "Rhythm Boys", who, in my humble opinion, has the finest recording voice to which it has ever been my pleasure to listen. If he doesn't capture all the feminine hearts in America through his records, no one ever will. He has the most unique style of singing I have ever listened to since I used to enjoy the records of Charlie Kaley.
** "Tuneful Topics", Radio Digest, June 1931.

## Quotes about

* At the microphone he is truly a romantic figure. Faultlessly attired in evening dress, he pours softly into the radio's delicate ear a stream of mellifluous melody. He appears to be coaxing, pleading and at the same time adoring the invisible one to whom his song is attuned. The bare microphone seems strangely cold and unresponsive to his serenading.
** "What is the Secret of Rudy Vallee's Success?", Radio Revue, December 1929.
# Rudy Wurlitzer

Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer (born January 3, 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

## Quotes

* We stumble around the massive solemnity of this temple mountain, which offers not so much solace or refuge as It does awe and even a shiver of atavistic fear at the omniscience of its precision. It is a place of power, once ruled by Hindu devarajas, under whose totality religious art and sculpture reflect Shiva and Vishnu ....
** Wurlitzer, Rudolph Hard Travel to Sacred Places p. 128 - 138. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
* One huge bas relief in particular stuns us with its fluid elegance in depicting the Hindu creation myth, "churning the sea of milk" In a union between gods and demons, the giant serpent Vasuki is pulled back and forth between the monkey god, Hanuman, and a line of demons. Vasuki who has wrapped himself around Mount Mandara, is supported by a giant turtle in the Sea of Milk, the ocean of immortality. As Vishnu overseas this diville rhythm of opposites, the gods and demons rotate the mountain and chum the sea into foam, releasing a seminal fluid which creates a divine ambrosia, or amrita, the essence of elixir of life. Much of the bas-relief has faded from centuries of worshippers rubbing their hands over the figures, but overall it is still exquisitely defined.
** Wurlitzer, Rudolph Hard Travel to Sacred Places p. 128 - 138. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
* Angkor wat has overpowered as much as inspired me. It is as if I've trapped myself my wishing for relief, for a transcendent moment, or even, on a more banal level, a catalyst that would revive our sagging energies. The magnificence of the sheer mass of Angkor Wat, the weight and abundance of imagery has become oppressive. I am disoriented by so much visual grandeur.
** Wurlitzer, Rudolph Hard Travel to Sacred Places p. 128 - 138. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
# Rudy Tomjanovich

Rudolph Tomjanovich, Jr. (born November 24, 1948), nicknamed Rudy T, is an American basketball player and coach who won two NBA Championships as the head coach of the Houston Rockets, in 1994 and 1995

## Sourced

* "We had nonbelievers all along the way, and I have one thing to say to those nonbelievers: Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion!"
** (NBA.com) 1995 NBA Finals: Rockets Earn Respect With Finals Sweep
# Rue

* And poor I, her fortune ruing, Am put up myself a mewing. -- Pastoral Poems
* Jove suspected her not, but swore the great oath, to his much ruing thereafter. --Iliad
* The master class shall rue the day/They took Joe Hillstrom's life away. --November Nineteenth
* I should not rue it, should I give you as an envoy's meed my gold. For that ye are too rich, but I will be your friend in other ways. --Nibelungenlied
# Kozma Prutkov

Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (Russian: Козьма́ Петро́вич Прутко́в) is a collective pen name used by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander to publish satires, aphorisms, fables, epigrams, and humorous and nonsense verses during Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign in the 1850s–1860s, most notably in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" (The Contemporary).

## Quotes
### Fruits of Reflection (1853-1854)

* Nobody will embrace the unembraceable.
** Никто не обнимет необъятного.
** No. 3.
* Look in the roots!
** Зри в корень!
** No. 6.
* Even an oyster has enemies!
** И устрица имеет врагов!
** Often quoted as "Even oysters have enemies", e.g. Barbara Heldt Monter: Kozma Prutkov - the Art of Parody. Mouton 1973. p. 58 or Jack Nicholson at the 2010 AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony for Mike Nichols (without attribution to Kozma Prutkov)
** No. 86.
* If you want to be beautiful, enroll in the Hussars.
** Если хочешь быть красивым, поступи в гусары.
** No. 16.
* Watch out!
** Бди!
** No. 25.
* Where is the beginning of the end that comes at the end of the beginning?
** Где начало того конца, которым оканчивается начало?
** No. 78.
* If you want to be happy, be!
** Если хочешь быть счастливым — будь им!
** No. 80.
* There are three things that once begun are difficult to finish: a) eating delicious food; b) talking to a friend who had just returned from a military campaign; and c) scratching where it itches.
** Три дела, однажды начавши, трудно кончить: а) вкушать хорошую пищу; б) беседовать с возвратившимся из похода другом и в) чесать, где чешется.
** No. 45.
* And once again: nobody will embrace the unembraceable!
** Опять скажу: никто не обнимет необъятного!
** No. 160.

### Military Aphorisms

* Let the exact fit of the ammunition be the goal of the soldier's ambition.
** Да будет целью солдатской амбиции Точная пригонка амуниции. (Russian амуниция means not gunpowder and bullets, but serviceman equipment except uniform and weapons)
* Here come the Slavophiles and Nihilists, and none of them have clean fingernails.
** Идут славянофилы и нигилисты, У тех и у других ногти не чисты.
** A. K. Tolstoi, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v dvukh tomakh [Complete Works in two volumes] (Leningrad, 1984), 1:386.

### Thoughts and Aphorisms Not Included in Fruits of Reflection (1856-1860)

* Every tailor has his own views on art!
** У всякого портного свой взгляд на искусство!
** No. 45.
* Wisdom is like turtle soup in that not everybody can get it.
** Мудрость, подобно черепаховому супу, не всякому доступна.
** No. 50.
* Not any tickling is pleasant.
** Не всякая щекотка доставляет удовольствие!
** No. 68.
* Is there anybody in the world who could embrace the unembraceable?
** Есть ли на свете человек, который мог бы обнять необъятное?
** No. 91.

## External Links

* ↑ youtube.com
# Kozan Ikkyō

Kozan Ikkyō (Japanese: 固山一鞏, 1283 - Februari 12, 1360) was a Japanese Zen monk and poet.

## Quotes

* Empty-handed I entered the world Barefoot I leave it. My coming, my going - Two simple happenings That got entangled.
** Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6; cited in: Scoop Nisker, ‎Wes Nisker. Crazy Wisdom, 1990. p. 205.; and cited in: Frank Arjava Petter. Reiki: The Legacy of Dr. Usui. 1998. p. 72

## Quotes about Kozan Ichikyo

* On a winter morning in 1360, Zen master Kozan Ichikyo (sic) gathered together his pupils. Kozan, 77, told them that, upon his death, they should bury his body, perform no ceremony and hold no services in his memory. Sitting in the traditional Zen posture, he then wrote [his dead poem]... After he finished, Kozan gently put down his brush, and then died. He was still sitting upright.
    While remarkable, the story of Kozan’s death is not unusual in the Zen tradition. It is part of a larger practice of writing jisei (“death poems”), which continued for hundreds of years from as early as the seventh century by both monks and laypeople alike. Some of the earliest examples of jisei were appended to a will as a sort of farewell gesture to life. Gradually the jisei became a genre of its own, encompassing a range of poetic forms and moods. They are enigmatic, even ambivalent about death. It is because of this, perhaps, that the tradition is often overlooked.
   * Eugene Thacker. "Black Illumination: Zen and the poetry of death," Special to the JAPAN TIMES, July 2, 2016. (paywall)

## External links

* Yoel Hoffmann (1986) (in en). Japanese Death Poems. Rutland: Tuttle Publishing. Wikidata Q116482757. ISBN 0-8048-1505-4. OCLC 1335736500.
# Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Krafft Arnold Ehricke (March 24, 1917 – December 11, 1984) was a rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization.

## Sourced

* Humanity faces the most complex task of its history so far. Stated in a solution-oriented way, it is necessary gradually to reorganize this planet at two levels. One must deal with the competing necessities of biosphere and mankind with all their environmental and climatic consequences. On the other level, it is necessary to resolve the demands of competing nations and worlds within mankind's hierarchy of socioeconomic developmental levels and the "Christmas tree" of sociopolitical, ideological, and military consequences.
** The Extraterrestrial Imperative (1978)
* The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.
** The Extraterrestrial Imperative (1978)
* If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.
** Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century (1985)
# Michał Dworczyk

Michał Paweł Dworczyk (born 22 July 1975) is a Polish politician who currently serves as the Chief of the Chancellery since 19 December 2017. He previously served as the Deputy Minister of National Defense in 2017.

## Quotes

* In the event of a failure of another significant (power) source (in Poland), it (Młoty Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant) will protect the system against possible shortages in the power system. Meanwhile, the reservoir created for water storage will also perform retention and recreational functions, thereby contributing to the development of the Kłodzko Valley in which it is located.
** Michał Dworczyk (2022) cited in: "Poland set to resume work on largest hydroelectric plant after 33 years" in Notes from Poland, 18 January 2022.
# Michel-Jean Sedaine

Michel-Jean Sedaine (July 4, 1719 – May 17, 1797) was a French dramatist, was born at Paris.

## Quotes

* O Richard! O mon Roi! L'univers t'abandonne!
* Translated: O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!
** Sung at the Dinner given to the French Soldiers in the Opera Salon at Versailles, Oct. 1, 1789; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
# Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Michel-Rolph Trouillot (November 26, 1949 – July 5, 2012) was a Haitian academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

## Quotes
### Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)

* History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.
** p. xix
* When reality does not coincide with deeply held beliefs, human beings tend to phrase interpretations that force reality within the scope of these beliefs. They devise formulas to repress the unthinkable and to bring it back within the realm of accepted discourse.
** p. 72
* The seventeenth century saw the increased involvement of England, France, and the Netherlands in the Americas and in the slave trade. The eighteenth century followed the same path with a touch of perversity: the more European merchants and mercenaries bought and conquered other men and women, the more European philosophers wrote and talked about Man.
** p. 75
* Between the first slave shipments of the early 1500s and the 1791 insurrection of northern Saint-Domingue, most Western observers had treated manifestations of slave resistance and defiance with the ambivalence characteristic of their overall treatment of colonization and slavery. On the one hand, resistance and defiance did not exist, since to acknowledge them was to acknowledge the humanity of the enslaved. On the other hand, since resistance occurred, it was dealt with quite severely, within or around the plantations. Thus, next to a discourse that claimed the contentment of slaves, a plethora of laws, advice, and measures, both legal and illegal, were set up to curb the very resistance denied in theory.
** p. 83
* Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim its own normalcy. To acknowledge resistance as a mass phenomenon is to acknowledge the possibility that something is wrong with the system.
** p. 84

### Theorizing a Global Perspective (1996)

* My moral turn to history may begin with this extraordinary capacity of liberals since at least the Enlightenment to feel good about themselves while history goes on its merry bloody way.
* What is new today is not globalization as such—we are too late for that. Rather, what is unique to our times is the widespread awareness of global processes among increasingly fragmented populations. That awareness grows everywhere, largely because of the increase in both the size and the velocity of global flows. Capital, populations, and information move in much greater mass and at increasing speed. At the same time, most human beings continue to act locally. Thus, we are witnessing the rise of what I call "a fragmented globality." World histories and local histories are at once becoming both increasingly intertwined and increasingly contradictory. The twenty-first century is likely to be marked by the speed and brutality of these contradictions.
# Michel Aflaq

Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق‎ ʿAflaq, born Damascus 1910, died Paris June 23, 1989) was a Syrian philosopher, who is credited with being the ideological founder of ba'athism, a hybrid of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.

## Quotes

* A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.
** In Memory of the Arab Prophet (1 April 1943)
* The connection of Islam to Arabism is not, therefore, similar to that of any religion to any nationalism. The Arab Christians, when their nationalism is fully awakened and when they restore their genuine character, will recognize that Islam for them is nationalist education in which they have to be absorbed in order to understand and love it to the extent that they become concerned about Islam as about the most precious thing in their Arabism. If the actual reality is still far from this wish, the new generation of Arab Christians has a task which it should perform with daring and detachment, sacrificing for it their pride and benefits, for there is nothing that equals Arabism and the honor of belonging to it.
** In Memory of the Arab Prophet (1 April 1943)
* Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.
** On the Way of Resurrection (1943)
# Michaella Rugwizangoga

Michaella Rugwizangoga is a Rwandan engineer with experience in strategic planning, project management and product development. She is currently the CEO of Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwandan, making her the first African woman CEO within the group.

## Quotes

* The Rwanda tourism week has been a success, a great way to close 2022 and start another year to implement signed partnerships and what we have learnt. This way, we shall be moving in the right direction, assured of success in growing the industry.
** The chief tourism officer at Rwanda development board, Michaella Rugwizangoga said (all africa, 7 December, 2022)
* WTM in London brings together the globe’s leading travel agents and we are excited to provide a platform for Rwandan travel industry players to connect with their international colleagues and foster new business relationships. We are pleased to see travel professionals excited about Rwanda as a prime ecotourism destination.
** Michaella Rugwizangoga said that (taarifa.rw, November 8, 2022)
* I am happy to receive this award, not only because it allows me to bring a message of hope and strength from Rwanda but also because it gives me the opportunity to meet amazing women leaders who are making a difference in their respective countries.
** Rugwizangoga Youth Representative said : (The New Times, Thursday, March 13, 2014)

## External links

Michaella-Rugwizangoga CEO of Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda