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# Ronald Aldon Hicks

Ronald Aldon Hicks (August 4, 1967 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Joliet.

## Quotes

* My discernment was that I really want to do the will of God. How I was asked — I felt this was God's will. My position, not only in this, but in life, is that when God is asking me to do something, I want to look for ways to say yes.
** Bishop Ronald Hicks: Service to orphans changed his life (6 September 2018) Chicago Catholic
* Our world is becoming more and more secularized. In this context, I want our young people to know that God exists, that they are made in His image and likeness and that God has a providential plan for them. Also, a message that I want to share is that having a faith-life through the Church is a source of immense joy and peace throughout your life.
** An Interview with Bishop Ron Hicks (26 November 2018) Profiles in Catholicism
# Ron Walters

Ronald W. Walters (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 2010) was an American author, speaker and scholar of African-American politics.

## Quotes
### "The Impact of Slavery on 20th- and 21st-Century Black Progress"

       The Journal of African American History, Vol. 97, No. 1–2, Special Issue: “African Americans and Movements for Reparations: Past, Present, and Future” (Winter–Spring 2012), pp. 110-130
* One of the most persistent, yet devastating myths is that slavery ended in 1865—persistent because it is so pervasive in the current of United States history and devastating because it establishes a benchmark from which African American progress is supposedly made.
** p. 111
* Enslaved workers transferred the legacy of poverty and oppression to their descendants because their status did not allow the acquisition of wealth. Moreover, the ability to share equitably in the nation’s wealth was stifled by laws that disavowed the historical reality that the status of the “enslaved workers” affected the status of their descendants. The use of the law as a tool to demand redress has not advanced the right of African Americans to that wealth because the legal technicalities of sovereign immunity, the statute of limitations, and other devices have worked to prevent African Americans from gaining access to it.
** p. 127
# Ron Wyden

Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is an American politician and retired educator serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a seat he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. He is the dean of Oregon's congressional delegation.

## Quotes

* Mr. Chairman, when Oregonians first adopted the Death With Dignity Act and then defended it on a second ballot initiative, they sent their government a clear message. When the American people resisted government interference in the tragic case of Terri Schiavo, they sent their government a clear message. That message is that death is an intensely personal and private moment, and in those moments, the government ought to leave well enough alone.
** Ron Wyden, (May 25, 2006), Speech of Senator Wyden: Wyden Testifies in Support of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act at Judiciary Committee Hearing, United States Senate.
* It’s time to face the fact that our tax code needs a dose of fairness when it comes to retirement savings, and that starts with cracking down on massive Roth IRA accounts built on assets from sweetheart, inside deals. Tax incentives for retirement savings, are designed to help people build a nest egg, not a golden egg
** Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank (by Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan and James BandlerJune 24, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT)

## External links

* Official Senate Web Site
# Ron Sider

Ronald James Sider (17 September 1939 – July 27, 2022) was a Canadian-born American theologian and social activist.

## Quotes
### Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity (2015)

* Physical handicaps, death of a breadwinner, or lack of natural ability may lead some families to become poorer than others. But God does not want such disadvantages to lead to ever-increasing extremes of wealth and poverty with the result that the poor eventually lack the basic resources to earn a decent livelihood. God therefore gave his people a law to guarantee that no family would permanently lose its land.
** p. 74
* In an agricultural society, land is capital, so land was the basic means of producing wealth in Israel. At the beginning, ... the land was divided more or less equally among the tribes and families. Apparently God wanted that basic equality of economic opportunity to continue. Hence his command to return all land to the original owners every fifty years. Private property was not abolished. Regularly, however, the means of producing wealth was to be equalized—up to the point of every family having the resources to earn a decent living.
** p. 74
* Yahweh is Lord of all, even of economics. There is no hint here of a sacred law of supply and demand that operates independently of biblical ethics and the Lordship of Yahweh. The people of God should submit to God, and God demands economic justice among his people.
** p. 75
# Semonides of Amorgos

Semonides of Amorgos (Greek: Σημωνίδης or Σιμωνίδης; fl. 7th century BC) was a Greek iambic and elegiac poet who is believed to have lived during the seventh century BC. Fragments of his poetry survive as quotations in other ancient authors, the most extensive and well known of which is a satiric account of different types of women which is often cited in discussions of misogyny in Archaic Greece. The poem takes the form of a catalogue, with each type of woman represented by an animal whose characteristics—in the poet's scheme—are also characteristic of a large body of the female population.
    See also:
       Types of Women

## Quotes

    J. M. Edmonds, Elegy and Iambus, with the Anacreontea, Vol. 2, LCL (1916), pp. 212–37
* Were he to die we should not take it to heart, if we were wise, for more than a single day.
** Fragment 2, quoted by Stobaeus, Anthology, 124, 5
** Other translations:Of souls departed, if our minds were strong, We'd think no longer than a day is long. —Anonymous, "The Dead", OBGVT (1938), no. 121
* In the beginning God made woman’s mind apart from man’s.
** Fragment 7, quoted by Stobaeus, Anthology, 73, 61
# Selmor Mtukudzi

Selmor Mtukudzi (born August 22, 1983 ) is a Zimbabwean musician and actress. She is the daughter of the late Zimbabwean music icon and national hero, Oliver Mtukudzi.

## Quotes

* She said as an ambitious woman she learnt to stand on her own feet and to leave a life independent of her father.
** "Selmor attributes success to hubby", Sunday News (September 27, 2015)
* As an individual, I have always have a passion to assist and mentor the girl-child. “I will keep on doing my best through Vabvana Trust as we seek to change people’s lives.
** "Selmor Mtukudzi’ Vabvana Trust helping poor girls during lockdown", Mbare Times (June 19, 2020)
* I just want to walk my path but I don’t mind having him around me.
** Selmor Mtukudzi speaks on the burden of carrying Tuku’s legacy, (November 24, 2021)

## Quotes about her

* Selmor has been exceptionally helpful as we build up the new Old Mutual Amazing Voices talent search initiative, designed to platform a whole new generation of singers, so her role in working with the aspiring competitors has been enormously beneficial.
** Selmor Mtukudzi emerges as one of the greatest music mentors in Zimbabwesaid Liz Dziva (2019)
* As such, the hard-working diva, through her three-year-old Vabvana Trust, has since stepped up efforts to bring smiles on the poor
** "Selmor Mtukudzi’ Vabvana Trust helping poor girls during lockdown", Mbare Times (June 19, 2020)
# Semira Adamu

Semira Adamu (15 April 1978 – 22 September 1998) was a 20-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker.

## Quotes

* I was woken at 6.30 a.m. and given twenty minutes to prepare for departure... When we arrived at the airport my hands and feet were bound and I was thrown into an isolation cell for over three hours. At 11.15 they forced me onto the plane. I began to scream and cry as I was surrounded by six gendarmes and two men from Sabena. The airline men pushed me around and one held a cushion to my face. He almost suffocated me. These men were supposed to accompany me all the way to Lome. Passengers intervened at this point, saying that they would get off the plane if the men did not let me go.
** Statewatch News online: Five police officers on trial over the death of Semira Adamu in 1998, Statewatch, 28 March 2012.

## Quotes about Semira

* As commander of the security detachment at the national airport I believe that I am officially responsible for the death of Semira Adamu.
** Luc Tempels as quoted in Statewatch News online: Five police officers on trial over the death of Semira Adamu in 1998, Statewatch, 28 March 2012.
* Her (Semira) death is not a singular incident. The deaths of refugees are the symptoms of policies that no longer see the humanity of those fleeing their homeland, but prefer to see them as numbers, or worse, as a natural disaster, a "flood".
** UNITED as quoted in Statewatch News online: Five police officers on trial over the death of Semira Adamu in 1998, Statewatch, 28 March 2012.
* Semira was vulnerable to various racialised intersections of exclusion: She was Black, female, young and ambitious She was attractive, eloquent and well educated She was an asylum-seeker whose application had been rejected She was an undocumented person with an 'illegal' status She was a deportable detainee who was deemed expendable She was a whistleblower and defender of detainee rights.
** Nyanchama Okemwa as stated in Semira Adamu, Never Again, Rektoverso, 24 March 2021
* The death of Semira is part of a series of complaints and is the result of several new laws to get asylum in Belgium.
** Joelle Noel as quoted in World: Europe Outrage over death of immigrant, BBC, September 23, 1998
* Whatever judgment Brussels Tribunal (Tribunal correctionnel) hands down on 12 December to five law enforcement officers tried in connection with the death of Semira Adamu, during an attempt to deport her forcibly by air in September 1998, it has always been clear that governments and state officers have a responsibility to ensure respect for the physical safety and inherent dignity of all people in their custody, including deportees.
** Amnesty International as quoted in Belgium: The death of Semira Adamu - Responsibilities past and present, Amnesty, December 10, 2003
# Peter Guthrie Tait

Peter Guthrie Tait (28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.

## Quotes

* Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.
** when complimented about coaching his one pupil scoring higher than his rival's pupils at Peterhouse Tripos, as quoted by Cargill Gilston Knott (1911). Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait. Cambridge University Press. p. 11.
* [Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.
** in an address to the University of Edinburgh graduates, as quoted by Cargill Gilston Knott (1911). Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait. Cambridge University Press. p. 11.
* The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.
** in Note on a Quaternion Transformation , Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1866), p. 117.
# Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes (1945) is an opera composed by British musician Benjamin Britten. The libretto is written by Montagu Slater.

## Main Characters in the Opera

(taken from the Wikipedia page)
* Peter Grimes, a fisherman
* Ellen Orford, a widow, Borough schoolmistress
* Balstrode, retired merchant skipper
* Auntie, landlady of The Boar
* Two Nieces
* Mrs. (Nabob) Sedley, a rentier widow
* Swallow, a lawyer
* Ned Keene, apothecary and quack
* Bob Boles, fisherman and Methodist
* Rev. Horace Adams, the rector
* Mr. Hobson, a carrier
* Borough Villagers (in chorus)

## Quotes from the Libretto
### Prologue

Ellen: Peter, we shall restore your name. Warmed by the new esteem That you will find.
Peter: Until the Borough hate Poisons your mind.
Ellen: There'll be new shoals to catch. Life will be kind.
Peter: Ay! only of drowning ghosts. Time will not forget: The dead are witness, And fate is blind.
Ellen: Unclouded, The hot sun Will spread his rays around.
Ellen and Peter (in unison): My voice out of the pain Is like a hand That I can feel and know: Here is a friend.

### Act One

Ned: Man invented morals but tide have none.
Peter: I live alone. The habit grows.
Balstrode: The storm is here. O come away.
Peter: The storm is here and I shall stay.
Peter: What harbour shelters peace? Away from tidal waves, away from storm? What harbour can embrace Terrors and tragedies?

### Act Two

Peter: Now the great Bear and Pleiades where earth moves Are drawing up the clouds of human grief, Breathing solemnity in the deep night. Who can decipher, In storm or starlight, The written character of a friendly fate –-- As the sky turns, the world for us to change? But if the horoscope' s bewildering Like a flashing turmoil of a shoal of herring, Who can turn skies back and begin again?
Chorus: He's mad or drunk. Why's that man here?

### Act Two

Ellen: Peter! You cannot buy your peace. You'll never stop the gossips' talk With all the fish from out the sea. We were mistaken to have dreamed... Peter! We've failed. We've failed...
(He cries out as if in agony. Then strikes her. The basket falls.)
Choir Amen.
Peter So be it! –-- And God have mercy upon me!
Peter But dreaming builds what dreaming can disown. Dead fingers stretch themselves to tear it down. I hear those voices that will not be drowned Calling, there is no stone In earth's thickness to make a home That you can build with and remain alone.

### Act Four

Balstrode: When horror breaks one heart All hearts are broken.
Peter: Steady. There you are. Nearly home. What is home? Calm as deep water. Where's my home? Deep in calm water. Water will drink my sorrows dry, And the tide will turn.
Peter: To hell with all your mercy. To hell with your revenge. And God have mercy upon you.
Balstrode (goes up to Peter and speaks): Come on, I'll help you with the boat.
Ellen: No!
Balstrode (speaking): Sail out till you lose sight of land, then sink the boat. D'you hear? Sink her. Goodbye Peter.

## External links

* Featured work: Peter Grimes, op.33 at Britten-Pears Foundation's website.
* Royal Opera House's synopsis of the story
* English libretto and Italian translation.
# Peter Gwilym Collins

Peter Gwilym Collins (13 May 1958 –) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of East Anglia.

## Quotes

* Faith is not merely a private concern, it is something that is to be lived out in the great space of public life, community life.
** New Catholic bishop for East Anglia ordained in Norwich (14 December 2022) BBC
* As we celebrate Christmas, we are charged with a great responsibility. We are called to be "heralds of peace". This Christmas, let us recognise how interconnected we are, how interconnected is our world. From all points of the compass – north, south, east and west – the human family is drawn together in Christ. The child in the manger will become the man upon the cross, offering the embrace of his love to the whole world. As heralds of peace, let us embrace one and all.
** A Christmas message from Bishop Peter Collins (22 December 2022) Diocese of East Anglia
# Peter Freund

Peter Freund (born September 7, 1936) is a Professor Emeritus of theoretical physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago.

## Sourced

* Think, for a moment, of a cheetah, a sleek, beautiful animal, one of the fastest on earth, which roams freely on the savannas of Africa. In its natural habitat, it is a magnificent animal, almost a work of art, unsurpassed in speed or grace by any other animal. Now, think of a cheetah that has been captured and thrown into a miserable cage in a zoo. It has lost its original grace and beauty, and is put on display for our amusement. We see only the broken spirit of the cheetah in the cage, not its original power and elegance. The cheetah can be compared to the laws of physics, which are beautiful in their natural setting. The natural habitat of the laws of physics is higher-dimensional space-time. However, we can only measure the laws of physics when they have been broken and placed on display in a cage, which is our three-dimensional laboratory. We can only see the cheetah when its grace and beauty have been stripped away.
** As quoted by Michio Kaku in Hyperspace (Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 12. ISBN 0-385-47705-8.
* Our understanding of the four basic concepts of Physics -- space, time, matter and force -- has undergone radical change in the course of work on unification, starting with Maxwell's unification of electricity with magnetism, all the way to present day string theory. What started as four independent concepts, with space and time postulated and the possible forms of matter and force arbitrarily chosen, now appear as different aspects of a rich and novel dynamically determined structure.
** Physics and Geometry, a paper written for the Symposium on Theoretical Physics at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland on August 28, 2003 and at the Freydoon Mansouri Memorial Session of the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, on September 13, 2003. Report #EFI03-47.
* Scientific collaborations are akin to marriages, or temporary marriages. Their breakup is not unlike a divorce and rarely avoids acrimony.
** Peter G. O. Freund (2007). A passion for discovery. World Scientific. p. 89. ISBN 9812706461.

## External links

* Peter G.O. Freund
* Peter G.O. Freund
# Peter Green

Peter Morris Green (22 December 1924 – 16 September 2024) was a British classical scholar noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history.

## Quotes

* Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece...
** Alexander the Great, page 20.
* ...for the first time he [Philip] began to understand how Macedonia's outdated institutions of feudalism and aristocratic monarchy, so despised by the rest of Greece, might prove a source of strength when dealing with such opponents.
** Alexander the Great, page 24.
* In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.
** Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, page 32.
* Aristotle found support for his thesis in facts drawn from geopolitics or ‘natural law’. Greek superiority had to be proved demonstrably innate, a gift of nature. In one celebrated fragment he counsels Alexander to be ‘a hegemon [leader] of Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants’.
** Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, page 58.
# Peter Galison

Peter Louis Galison (born May 17, 1955) is an American historian of science, and the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University.

## Quotes
### Image and Logic, 1997

Peter Galison. Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. University of Chicago Press, 1 okt. 1997.
* The search for original cases and the "superior" rules that would emerge from them spread far outside legal practice. Wallace Donham, dean of the Harvard Business School from 1919 to 1942, was trained at the law school in the heady days of the case system's early and enthusiastic reception. Where law and business parted ways was in the contingent matter of the availability of ready- made cases — law faculty simply reached for their shelves, while professors of business needed to create a new literary species — the business case book.
** p. 57
* To Donham, the case study stood squarely in the legal and cultural tradition of Anglo-American thought. Unlike French or Spanish law. Donham emphasized, English law was grounded on the doctrine of stare decisis, in which the written case decisions of the past shape, and instantiate, the law. Just as the recording of cases allowed English common law to break the arbitrariness of local law. Donham argued in 1925, business needed to universalize its procedures by itself adopting the case system. The chaos of local law that ruled in England before the common law. Donham contended, "is exactly the same situation that we have [in the world of business] where practically every large corporation is tightly hound by traditions which are precedents in its particular narrow field and narrow held only The recording of decisions from industry to industry [enables] us to start from facts and draw inferences from those facts; [it] will introduce principle... in the field of business to such an extent that it will control executive action in the field where executive action is haphazard or unprincipled or bound by narrow, instead of broad precedent and decision" ( W. Donham, transcript of talk to the Association of Coll. School of Business Committee Reports and Other Literature, 5-7 May 1925. Harvard Business School, box 17, folder 10. 62).
** p. 57, footnote 66
# Spork

A Spork is a utensil which is a cross between a fork and a spoon.

## Sourced

* I came here to offer a way to make peace with our Republican friends on this heated school lunch issue. Al Gore and I have discovered a reinventing government way, Mr. Armey, to get around this terrible rhetoric we've been flinging at you on school lunches. We have a way to save money through streamlining that does not require us to deprive our children of food. Instead of cutting food, we're going to cut the cutlery. And here's how—with a spork. Now, you know, I don't know how many of you know this, I've been eating off these things for years. I never knew they were called sporks. But that's what they are. This is the symbol of my administration. This is a cross between a spoon and a fork. No more false choice between the left utensil and the right utensil. This is not an ideological choice. This is a choice in the middle and a choice for the future. This is a big, new idea—the spork.
** President Bill Clinton at the March 1995 Radio-TV Correspondents dinner.
* Sporks, for those of you who have been spared, are the dreaded half-spoon, half-fork utensils handed out by some fast-food places that have tines too short to spear anything but are strategically placed to make sure anything liquid winds up on your necktie, blouse, shirt or navel - depending on your choice of attire.
** Jan Glidewell, St. Petersburg Times, July 28, 1996.
* Get away from me fat man, or I'll spork your ass.
** TV show The Critic
* The iPad falls between two stools – not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.
** Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, February 01, 2010.