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# Ross Mintzer

Ross Philip Mintzer (born May 26 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and performing artist.

## Quotes
### 2005

* Playing music is something I would like to do my whole life.
** From an interview before performing at the 47th Annual Grammy Music Awards in Los Angeles(9 February 2014)

### NPR interview (2005)

    From The Top (18 June 2005)
* I came from a background of blues and rock based(music). I hadn’t listened to Jazz or even Classical Music until just recently. Listening to Stan Getz, you know, he is one of my favorite Saxophonists, so he’s influenced my sound and influences how I play this music. Right now.

### 2014

* In 7th grade, I saw the Allman Brothers play at the Beacon Theatre. I also saw the Dave Mathews Band perform at Giant’s Stadium. Those concerts changed my life. I was inspired so much. In my heart, I knew that was the only thing I wanted to do with my life.
** Interview with Arts Brooksfield(16 October 2014)
* It’s easy, it’s powerful.
** (About "Bitcoin") Interviewed in "How Bitcoin Helps Afghan Girls Achieve Financial Freedom" by Tanaya Macheel for Coindesk (7 June 2014)
* I think Bitcoin allows artists to be compensated for work in a more fair way.
** ‘Bitcoin Band’ to Perform in New York City' in Bitcoin News by Coinsetter(12 December 2014)
* Believe in yourself.
** Ross Mintzer on his Official Facebook Page(9 December 14)

## Song lyrics

All songs written by Ross Mintzer
* Dream big, when you’re up against it all, when you’re standing on a narrow bridge and you’re about to fall. Dream big, when you're blocked by a wall, keep on saying in your head, nothing is impossible. Dream big, and when your moment arrives, look up to the stars and thank God you're alive. Dream big, the power is inside of you. You'll be love for whoever you are and for whatever you do.
** Lyrics from the song, “Victory” (April 13, 2013) from MTV Italy Official Lyrics
* You can't gain one thing without loosing something else. You can try to catch time, but try to catch a moment, it's better. Days pass, and months go by And the years come, and a decades gone It always feels like times are ending But they go on, and on, and on, and on.
** Lyrics to “Lost In America" (July 17, 2013)

## Quotes about Mintzer

* The sound of Mintzer’s guitar in the track “On the Road”, is haunting. However in context, the sound develops sentimental and inspiring feelings. The vocal melodies and harmonies are similar to Mintzer’s playing in their original shape/color and light floating tone. Thoughtful and poetic lyrics accent the effect, serving as a conduit for the entirety of the aforementioned musicianship.
** Jared Brickman on Mintzer's playing from the Remington song "On The Road". (13 April 2008)

## External links

Ross Mintzer at Wikiquote's sister projects: :
* Article at Wikipedia
* Media from Commons
* Database entry #Q17146017 on Wikidata
* The Ross Mintzer Band Facebook page
# Round Table Conferences (India)

The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–1932 were a series of peace conferences organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India. These started in November 1930 and ended in December 1932. They were conducted as per the recommendation of Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Viceroy Lord Irwin and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and by the report submitted by the Simon Commission in May 1930. Demands for Swaraj or self-rule in India had been growing increasingly strong. B. R. Ambedkar, Jinnah, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, K. T. Paul and Mirabehn were key participants from India. By the 1930s, many British politicians believed that India needed to move towards dominion status. However, there were significant disagreements between the Indian and the British political parties that the Conferences would not resolve. The key topic was about constitution and India which was mainly discussed in that conference. There were three Round Table Conferences from 1930 to 1932.

## Quotes

* During the proceedings of the Second Round Table Conference in the year 1931, Gandhi circulated a memorandum, in the second session of the Conference, which demanded that the new Constitution should include a guarantee to the communities concerned, of protection of their culture, language, script, education, profession, and practice of religion and religious endowments, personal law, political, and other rights of minority communities. His views found their place in the rights relating to religion and in the cultural and educational Rights in the Constitution of Independent India.
** M. K. Singh - Encyclopaedia of Indian War of Independence 1857-1947, Vol. 13. Gandhi Era, Mahatma Gandhi and National Movement
# Mary Augusta Jordan

Mary Augusta Jordan (July 5, 1855 – April 14, 1941) was an American college professor of English literature and rhetoric. She was a member of the faculty at Smith College from 1884 to 1921.

## Quotes
### Correct Writing and Speaking (1906)

    Mary Augusta Jordan, Correct Writing and Speaking (A. S. Barnes 1906)
* The stupid and the children of genius alike emancipate themselves from conventions.
** p. 8
* There are so many ways that persons of intelligence have of expressing themselves. Some of these ways have little in common, many of them are contradictory in method, most of them differ in the effect aimed at, or the impression made.
** P. 9
* There certainly is at present, then, no standard English, either in writing or in speaking, that is easily and cheaply available. There is no one correct way of writing or of speaking English. Within certain limits there are many ways of attaining correctness.
** p. 36
* Letters of friendship, of love, of hate, of business, of state, have come into new value within the last twenty-five years. Reading them has come to be one of the most alluring pleasures of a large class of persons.
** p. 61
* The letter writer who spends his individuality in faddish paper, colored ink, and enigmatic paging, who 'crosses' his manuscript or insists upon paper so thin that it is hard to know which side one is reading, will need large revenues of talent to keep him from living behind his means in his claims on his reader's attention.
** p. 63

### "Spacious Days at Vassar" (1916)

    Mary Augusta Jordan, "Spacious Days at Vassar", in The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Opening of Vassar College, October 10 to 13, 1915;: A Record (Vassar College, 1916)
* Going to college was a thing quite by itself, an experience to be reckoned with--something like Platonic love, or getting religion.
** p. 48
* By 1870... Vassar did not stand, even in the funny papers, any longer for prigs, freaks, social rebels, or eloquent and earnest fanatics. What did it stand for? Freedom from any obligation upon the students to concern themselves with that question was one of the factors of the spaciousness that prevailed for ten years.
** p. 49
* A young generation felt a strange call from the future and so turned a perfectly courteous back upon the past with its failures; and with a resolute morning face fronted the new order of things where everybody should have a fair chance, where it should never be too late to make a fresh start, and where friendship should be the leading business of individuals and of nations.
** p. 53

## Quotes about Mary Augusta Jordan

* As an instructor in English literature, Miss Jordan's success has been marked. The magnetism, thoroughness, and sympathy of her work have been alike conspicuous. Broad-minded and scholarly, she has exacted from her pupils what she has given: fidelity in the study of English, and constant attention to its best models.
** Margaret E. Sangster, "Editor's Introduction", Correct Writing and Speaking (A. S. Barnes, 1906): 3-4.
# Mary Butts

Mary Frances Butts (December 13, 1890 – March 5, 1937) was a British modernist writer. Her work found recognition in important literary magazines such as "The Bookman" and "The Little Review", as well as from some of her fellow modernists, T.S. Eliot, H.D. and Bryher.

## Quotes

* "O star on the breast of the river! O marvel of bloom and grace! Did you fall right down from heaven, Out of the sweetest place? You are white as the thoughts of an angel, Your heart is steeped in the sun -- Did you grow in the Golden City, My pure and radiant one?” “Nay, nay, I fell not out of heaven; None gave me my saintly white; It slowly grew from the darkness, Down in the dreary night. From the ooze of the silent river, I win my glory and grace, White souls fall not, O my poet, They rise to the sweetest place."
** The Water Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
# Mary Barra

Mary Teresa Barra (née Makela; born December 24, 1961) is an American businesswoman who has been the chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors since January 15, 2014. She is the first female CEO of a 'Big Three' automaker. In December 2013, GM named her to succeed Daniel Akerson as CEO. Prior to being named CEO, Barra was executive vice president of global product development, purchasing, and supply chain.

## Quotes

* Barra said she serves at the pleasure of the Board of the Directors, but went on to describe the current situation of General Motors as “such an exciting time.” She remarked that the next few years will be the opportunity “to really execute this new strategy” with GM’s product line electrification and other initiatives, “so I’m energized.”
** Mary Barra said,(GM Authority ,Dec 18 2023 )
# Pearl Modiadie

Nthabiseng Pearl Modiadie (born December 29, 1987) is a South African television presenter, radio DJ, actress and producer best known to TV audiences for presenting the SABC1 music talk show Zaziwa.

## Quotes

* I take pride in the fact that I decided very early in life that I wasn’t going to let my circumstance get in the way of my dreams.
** Pearl Modiadie “The Black Pearl” Interview, By: Youth Village. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
# Pearl Morake

Pearl Morake (born 15 September 1989) is a Botswana boxer, who was the first female boxer to compete for her country. She is a multi-time national champion and competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

## Quotes
### "The first fruit of women's boxing" (2012)

    "The first fruit of women's boxing" by Thato Kala, March 16, 2012, Retrieved 19/11/2023
* I thought I could do something with it." Three years down the line, Morake sees herself as the beginning of women's boxing in the country.
* When it started there was not much - we didn't have women in the BDF (Botswana Defence Force) or football and everybody is now following.
* So this is just the beginning. I'm the beginning of women's boxing in the country.
# Pedantry

A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes a show of his or her learning.

## Quotes

* A Man who has been brought up among Books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is what we call a Pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his Profession and particular way of Life.
** Joseph Addison, Spectator 1711.
* There are certain inferior or second-rate minds, who seem only fit to become the receptacle, register, or storehouse of all the productions of other talents; they are plagiarists, translators, compilers; they never think, but tell you what other authors have thought; and as a selection of thoughts requires some inventive powers, theirs is ill-made and inaccurate, which induces them rather to make it large than excellent. They have no originality, and possess nothing of their own; they only know what they have learned, and only learn what the rest of the world does not wish to know; a useless and dry science, without any charm or profit, unfit for conversation, nor suitable to intercourse, like a coin which has no currency. We are astonished when we read them, as well as tired out by their conversation or their works. The nobility and the common herd mistake them for men of learning, but intelligent men rank them with pedants.
** Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), “Of Works of the Mind,” #62
* The term, then, is obviously a relative one: my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education and someone else’s ignorance.
** H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage
* The very reason [the Greeks] got so far is that they knew how to pick up the spear and throw it onward from the point where others had left it. Their skill in the art of fruitful learning was admirable. We ought to be learning from our neighbors precisely as the Greeks learned from theirs, not for the sake of learned pedantry but rather using everything we learn as a foothold which will take us up as high, and higher, than our neighbor.
** Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Marianne Cowan trans., p. 30
* In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
    In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is, that they are overladen with inert ideas. Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful — Corruptio optimi, pessima [the corruption of the best is the worst].
   * Alfred North Whitehead, “The Aims of Education,” Presidential address to the Mathematical Association of England, 1916

## See also

* Academia
* Intellectuals
* Pretentiousness
* Teachers
* Universities
# Pearl Thusi

Sithembile Xola Pearl Thusi (born 13 May 1988) is a South African actress, model, and presenter.

## Quotes
### 'I am not going to apologise': Pearl Thusi addresses 'politically charged' Zim tour (2023)

    'I am not going to apologise': Pearl Thusi addresses 'politically charged' Zim tour, news24,15 August 2023 by Kaunda Selisho
* When I was asked to go to Zimbabwe, there was one thing I was told; tourism.
* To show a different narrative of Zimbabwe, that there's beauty, invite people to come and spend money in Zimbabwe… show that Zimbabwe is powerful and incredible in its own special ways.
* I am not going to apologise for anything. What I will say is I did not know I was going to be at the State House, and I didn't know I was going to be in a situation that was going to look politically charged. Because, generally, once people have made a decision, you can't change their minds.
* I was never in this situation to be like, 'Ah, let me hurt people',
# Saffron Burrows

Saffron Burrows (born October 22, 1972) is a British-American actress and model.

## Quotes

* As a seven-year-old, I remember people were appalling – they would just comment on his physicality…We’d walk down the street together and people would shout out insults. I remember feeling incredibly angry.
** On becoming a disability rights advocate after witnessing the treatment that her stepfather received from having polio in “Saffron Burrows: ‘I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted’” in The Guardian (2020 Feb 19)
* If you’re told that’s how you behave in order to survive and flourish, then you actually question far less in your 20s and 30s because you think: ‘Oh, nothing’s as bad as that.’ So it’s a real issue. No one wants their teenage daughter thinking that’s what you should expect from your life.
** On women starting out young in the modeling or film industry in “Saffron Burrows: ‘I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted’” in The Guardian (2020 Feb 19)
* …Teenagers today are so fluid and non-binary; they’re fantastically unafraid. My house [growing up] was a bit like that. I’ve loved men and I’ve loved women and I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted. We could talk about everything in the world.
** On her upbringing and the next generation in “Saffron Burrows: ‘I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted’” in The Guardian (2020 Feb 19)
* There are two separate answers…For people in general, I think they should name themselves in whatever way they wish. The flourishing of the gay movement in America is clearly very necessary and the identity that people could proudly lay claim to is crucial. Lives are lost every day because of bigotry in this country. So I think that should not prevail.
** On labelling and sexual orientation in “Saffron Burrows: ‘I’m really proud of my family and who they are’” in The Guardian (2014 Dec 01)
* ...people shouldn’t have to make statements and their lives should be private if they want to be. But I think if someone’s feeling restricted by not making a statement, then they should be free to do so. I chose to speak to you because I don’t want to lie by omission and I want to be very straightforward about my life...
** On whether people should feel the need to "come out" and be a role model in “Saffron Burrows: ‘I’m really proud of my family and who they are’” in The Guardian (2014 Dec 01)
# Sadruddin Khan Azurda Dehlawi

Mufti Sadruddin Khan Azurda Dehlawi (12 December 1789 — 16 July 1868) was an Islamic scholar, leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and poet during British era. He was Grand Mufti Delhi and worked for the rebellion against British government.

## Quotes
### Poetry

* Those who couldn't bear the weight of precious pearls and jades, Those whom a gold jhoomar seemed a weary weight, Those who couldn't carry the mantle, though of muslin made, Those who found the gauze veil hard to keep in place, These delicate dames, alas, are made to carry loads, They trudge along a few steps, then founder on the road. Those who felt irked with garlands, so slim they were and frail, Those who couldn't sleep at night with hands henna-laved; Those who whould lose their sleep at the slightest cause, If their sheet was slightly ruffled, couldn't sleep at all; Even the luxury of a pillow is to them denied, With a stone beneath their head, they would spend the night. Thus demented and dismayed, I'm forced to seek the wilds, With a stone to break my head, to beat my breast and die. Why shouldn't Azurda wander in the raging wilds. When he finds Sahbai the poet, without a fault, crucified!
** Masterpieces of Patriotic Urdu Poetry, Poem: Dirge of Delhi (Shahr Ashoob), p. 55

## External links

* K. C. Kanda: Masterpieces of Patriotic Urdu Poetry: Text, Translation, and Transliteration, Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 2009
# Saeed Naqvi

Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer.

## Quotes

* [It is] one of the fundamental tenets of Islam -- namely, to multiply the tribe.
** Saeed Naqvi: Reflections of an Indian Muslim (Har-Anand, Delhi 1993), p.32.
* But wasn't this what Pakistan was supposed to be? After all, it came into being on the basis of the two-nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims were two separate states, that Hindus and Muslims could not live together. That was Pakistan's raison d'être. Supposing by some black magic they converted to another way of thinking... Pakistan would collapse. Therefore one of the planks of Pakistani statecraft was to keep reminding its people and the world at large of that mantra of survival: we are because we cannot live with them.
** Reflections of an Indian Muslim (1993), quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 350
# Saffron (color)

Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived.

## Quotes

* Why does the world before him Melt in a million suns, Why do his yellow, yearning eyes Burn like saffron buns?
** Charles Causley, "Innocent’s Song", st. 5, in Johnny Alleluia (1961), p. 11
* The media’s politics of labelling can have a bad effect. The papers keep talking about the saffron brigade. Historically, saffron is the colour of renunciation. Now you have taken away the colour from the believing Hindu and given it a pejorative ring.
** Anthropologist Shail Mayaram, quoted in "A Faith Besieged", Outlook India (8 July 2002), Online
# Sadyr Japarov

Sadyr Nurgozhoevich Japarov (Kyrgyz: Садыр Нургожоевич Жапаров; born 6 December 1968) is a Kyrgyz politician who currently serves as the 6th President of Kyrgyzstan since 28 January 2021.

## Quotes

* I am confident that the strong bonds of friendship and strategic partnership between Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan, based on a centuries-old common history and closeness of spiritual and cultural values, will continue to deepen in the fundamental interests of our peoples.
** Sadyr Japarov (2021) cited in: "From Sadyr Japarov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic" in Azerbaijan State News Agency, 29 December 2021.
# Saeed Ganji

Saeed Ganji (born June 18, 1986) is an Iranian mixed martial artist.

## Quotes

* I lost my father when I was eight years old and my life moved on under my mother's shadow. I have been working professionally in most martial arts for 21 years, including Thai boxing, jujitsu, boxing, judo, karate, etc., and I have been pursuing cage fighting professionally for about two years. When I was in Iran, I won championships in martial arts many times and I was a member of the Iranian national team in the field of "Jujisto", but the story of my acquaintance with the exciting field of "MMA" or "Fighting in a cage" goes back to Year 2011.
* In 2011, I went to Russia with the national jujitsu team to participate in the World Sambo Championships and managed to win third place in the world, but in the same country, I became acquainted with a very special sport, which was a combination of all martial arts. I was learning more about this field and started researching.
** Introduction of Saeed Ganji, an Iranian martial artist in the field of "Fighting in a Cage"
* I saw the struggle of the champions of this discipline and read various articles about it. At this time, I realized that this sport is one of the strongest martial arts in the world and the name of this sport is "Cage Fighting". "Working in this field and learning their tricks and techniques tempted me badly.
** Saeed Ganji, Iranian professional fighter

## External link

* Media related to Saeed Ganji on Wikimedia Commons
# Mother Bombie

Mother Bombie is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly.

## Quotes

* SILENA: O Cupid! Monarch over Kings, Wherefore hast thou feete and wings? It is to show how swift thou art, When thou wound’st a tender heart: Thy wings being clip’d, and feete held still, Thy Bow so many could not kill. ACCIUS: It is all one in Venus wanton schoole, Who highest sits, the wise man or the foole: Fooles in loves colledge Have farre more knowledge, To read a woman over, Than a neate prating lover. Nay, tis confest, That fooles please women best.
** Act III, scene iii, lines 1–14
# Mother Goose

The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhyme often published as (Old) Mother Goose's Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one nursery rhyme.

## Quotes

* Old Mother Goose,
    When she wanted to wander,
    Would ride through the air
    On a very fine gander.
    Jack's mother came in,
    And caught the goose soon,
    And mounting its back,
    Flew up to the moon.
   * I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 88–90.

## See also

* Father Goose (film)
* Charles Perrault