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# Tax collector

A tax collector or a taxman is a person who collects taxes.

## Quotes

* There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist — the taxidermist leaves the hide.
** Mortimer Caplin, American bureaucrat, Director of the IRS. Time magazine, (Feb. 1, 1963)
* If you drive a car, I'll tax the street, If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat, If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet. Taxman. ‘Cos I'm the Taxman, Yeah, I'm the Taxman.
** Written by George Harrison, Taxman, Revolver (1966)
* My husband is the tax collector of the sea, Nindara is the tax collector of the sea.
** Nanshe, in A subscript (balbale) to Nanshe (Nanshe B), late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
# Redovino Rizzardo

Redovino Rizzardo (12 March 1939–6 November 2016) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Dourados.

## Quotes

* Diversity obligates to us a Christian identity well accented and deep, because the more I feel secure in my faith, the more I am capable of having that interior liberty in my relationship with whatever person. When I feel weak in faith, I am afraid of the other beliefs, other religions, they may detour my own security. The difference of religion should invite us to be more mature in faith!
** Bishop Explains How to Join Religious Liberty and Ecumenism (14 May 2013)
# Redox

Redox (portmanteau of reduction and oxidation) reactions include all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation state changed; in general, redox reactions involve the transfer of electrons between species.

## Quotes

* Hydrogen combines with oxygen with great vigor. A stream of hydrogen when ignited burns in oxygen or air with a very hot, almost colorless flame (Figure 6-8), and a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen when ignited explodes with great violence. When hydrogen burns in air or oxygen, forming hydrogen oxide (water), the hydrogen is said to have been oxidized. The process is called oxidation, and oxygen is called the oxidizing agent. The tendency of hydrogen to combine with oxygen to form water is so great that the gas will even remove oxygen from many metallic oxides. Thus when a stream of hydrogen is passed over hot copper oxide, CuO, in a heated tube, the copper oxide is converted into metallic copper (Figure 6-9):CuO + H$_2$ → Cu + H$_2$O This reaction is described as the reduction of copper oxide by hydrogen. Hydrogen is called the reducing agent in the reaction. Copper oxide is said to have been reduced to metallic copper. In the reaction of hydrogen and copper oxide the copper oxide is the oxidizing agent. In every reaction of this sort there is a reducing agent which is oxidized and an oxidizing agent which is reduced.
** Linus Pauling (1957), College Chemistry (2nd ed.), Chapter 6. Hydrogen and Oxygen, p. 109-111
* Although different kinds of chemical reactions are thus easily recognized, it has not been found very useful in general to attempt to classify reactions in a rigorous way. Nevertheless, there is one very important class of chemical reactions that deserves special study. These reactions are oxidation-reduction reactions, to which we now turn our attention.
** Linus Pauling (1957), College Chemistry (2nd ed.), Chapter 12. Oxidation-Reduction Reactions, p. 243
* The investigation of redox metalloenzymes by UEM should shed new light on the mode of action because it will be possible to record electron-energy-loss spectra (Chap. 6) and to reveal oxidation states of the metal ions at active centers, even though the measurements may be complicated by the reducing environment created by the secondary electrons within the sample. These and other promising features of UEM were realized since the first UEM publication 27 (Sec. 6.1) and currently represent one of the major areas of study at Caltech.
** Ahmed H. Zewail, John M. Thomas (2010), 4D Electron Microscopy: Imaging in Space and Time, Chap. 8. 4D Visualization: Past, Present, and Future, p. 324
# Reece Dinsdale

Reece Dinsdale (born 6 August 1959) is an English actor and director of stage, film and television.

## Quotes
### Reece Dinsdale Interview

As quoted by Entertainment-focus.com, 26 November 2018
* Nuclear war is everyone’s problem, it’s not just country to country. It’s a worldwide problem, we all share it, and that’s why it’s so frightening now. Since Threads was made I’m sure there have been advances in what nuclear weapons can do.
* Of course, my character goes missing halfway through the film, so half of the filming I wasn’t privy to. [...] You want to know what happens, but you’re not told. I suppose the message is that’s exactly what it’ll be like — nothing will be tied up nicely because people will disappear.
* Who knows? He died, presumably. I have no more idea than anyone else, but that’s the point. That’s why it’s so clever.
** Answering the question "So what do you think happened to Jimmy?"
# Rob Van Dam

Robert Alejandro Szatkowski, better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam, is an American professional wrestler, who until recently wrestled on the ECW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment.

## Quotes

* This is the ECW World Championship, and I will wear it proudly. [Points to the WWE Championship on his left shoulder] And look at this one—it spins!
** ECW, June 13, 2006: after being proclaimed the new ECW World Champion and opting to keep the WWE Championship as well.
* I for one still can't believe that Chris was capable of doing this, OJ didn't do it but Chris Benoit did? Look at what was stacked against OJ and they found nothing to convict him. But Chris Benoit was a guy that everybody spoke so highly of. Everbody's jumping all over the lifestyle (as an explanation). Of course, it's incredibly demanding but it doesn't make us kill our families. You're talking about a man who bound his wife's limbs and strangled her, allegedly choked his son out and then hung himself. We don't have things like this going on. It's not something that's associated with people taking steroids.
** Rob Van Dam was a very close friend of Chris Benoit and gives us some insight on his thoughts on steroid use.
* I think the way that I've gone through life, kind of following my own path, has just been the only way I could've lived my life. It's not about trying to be different, it's about not bothering to try to be like everybody else.
** Biography: WWE Legends

## External links

* The official website of Rob Van Dam
* 5 Star Comics
* ECW Profile
* Rob Van Dam on IMDb
* Rob Van Dam interview at MoonBooks.net
# Rob Riemen

Rob Riemen (born 18 February 1962) is a Dutch writer and cultural philosopher who is the founder, president and CEO of the Nexus Institute, and founder and editor of Nexus, a journal of essays for cultural philosophy.

## Quotes
### Nobility of Spirit : A Forgotten Ideal (2008)

* Whitman’s masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul.
** p. xxvii

## External links

* Dutch Wikipedia
# Rob Smyth

Rob Smyth (born 22 February 1977) in England is a rugby league player.

## Quotes

* Good stuff from Kemp, who clumps an attempted yorker from Watson down the ground for four before blasting another full-toss through extra-cover. Watson has bowled like a drain today.
** Cricket World Cup 2007 Semi-final Over-by-over: South Africa innings (25 April 2007)
* Another one goes, and I'm so underwhelmed that I can't even be bothered to use the obligatory exclamation mark after 'wicket'. All it took was the most rudimentary wicket-to-wicket hustle from Reekers, who is something of a corpulent Ian Austin, and Haq was cleaned up as he played miserably around his pads.
** Cricket World Cup 2007; Group A: Scotland v Netherlands; Over-by-over: Scotland innings (22 March 2007)
* I like Relentless.
* Four more byes down the leg side, although Prior was pretty blameless there. However, it does take his byes conceded past the 1,000,000 mark in only his seventh Test, which is quite some achievement. Give that some [name of sponsor deleted] energy, you gobby git.
** Cricket England versus India; Third Test, day one; Over-by-over: afternoon session
* I even sponsored them myself, although I don't like really like to talk about my charity, erm, work. Which is a good job because I do so much that you'd never shut me up. If I spoke about it. Which I don't like to do.
** Cricket England versus India; Third Test, day two; Over-by-over: morning session
# Rob Malda

Rob Malda (born 1976) is the founder and editor-in-chief of technology website Slashdot.

## Quotes

* No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
** Talking the launch of the Apple iPod
** Posted on Slashdot, October 23, 2001

## External links

* Malda's personal site
* Slashdot
# Rob Thomas

Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (February 14, 1972– ) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for being the lead singer of the rock band Matchbox Twenty as well as a solo artist.

## Quotes

* Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss
** "Bright Lights" (from the Matchbox Twenty album More Than You Think You Are)
* I'm the flame I can't get burnt
** "Busted" (from the Matchbox Twenty album Yourself or Someone Like You)
* Everyone's trusting in their hearts, like their heart don't lie
** "All I Need" (from the Matchbox Twenty album More Than You You Think You Are)
* If I fall along the way, pick me up and dust me off; If I get too tired to make it, be my breath so I can walk; If I need some other love then, give me more than I can stand; When my smile gets old and faded, just wait around I'll smile again; It shouldn't be so complicated, just hold me and then, just hold me again
* Can you help me? I'm bent, I'm so scared that I'll never get put back together.
** "Bent" (from the Matchbox Twenty album Mad Season)
* We're all looking for something, something to be.
** "Something to Be" (From the Rob Thomas album Something to Be)
* Wrong step, you got off track, you need someone to help us back, now.
** "I Am An Illusion" (From Something to Be)
* I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me
** "Unwell" (from the Matchbox Twenty Album More Than You Think You Are)
# Puppet ruler

A puppet ruler is a person who has a title indicating possession of political power, but who, in reality, is either loyal to or controlled by outside individuals or forces. Such outside power can be exercised by a foreign government, in which case the puppet ruler's domain is called a puppet state. But the puppet ruler may also be controlled by internal forces, such as non-elected officials.

## Quotes

* During the colonial period, the forms of political subordination in Africa were obvious. There were governors, colonial officials, and police. In politically independent African states, the metropolitan capitalists have to insure favorable political decisions by remote control. So they set up their political puppets in many parts of Africa, who shamelessly agree to compromise with the vicious apartheid regime of South Africa when their masters tell them to do so. [...] The presence of a group of African sell-outs is part of the definition of development. Any diagnosis of underdevelopment in Africa will reveal not just low per capita income and protein deficiencies, but also the gentlemen who dance in Abidjan, Accra, and Kinshasa when music is played in Paris, London, and New York.
** Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Howard University Press. 1972. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-9501546-4-0.

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Pur-Baha Jami

Tāj al-Din ibn Bahā al-Din Pur-Baha Jami (d. ca. 1284) was a Persian poet.

## Quotes

* چو کهنه بود و قدیمی بنای نیشابور نهاد روی سوی او خرابی از هر جا خدای خواست که بازش ز نو بنا سازند بعهد دولت نوشیروان عهد ابقا خدایگان جهان پادشاه روی زمین جهانگشای عدوبند، شاه شهرگشا
translation:
* The buildings of Nishapur Time had striven to displace And ruin wide from every side had thither its face God willed that men should once again its buildings strive to rise In the reign of Just Abaqa, The Nushirvan of our days Of all the world the lord is he, of all the earth the king Foe-binder, world subduer he, all kingdoms conquering
** Browne, Edward Granville. A History of Persian Literature Under Tartar Dominion, Parts 1265-1502

## See also

* ↑ https://www.parsi.wiki/fa/wiki/topicdetail/c1bb100768034cfd927ff99d456bacb7
* ↑ Browne, Edward Granville. A History of Persian Literature Under Tartar Dominion, Parts 1265-1502
# Pupul Jayakar

Pupul Jayakar née Mehta (11 September 1915 – 29 March 1997) was an Indian cultural activist and writer, best known for her work on the revival of traditional and village arts, handlooms, and handicrafts in post-independence India.

## Quotes

* First of all, many Indian tribals do practise linga worship. Pupul Jayakar (whose work is admittedly coloured by AIT assumptions) situates both Shiva and the liNga within the culture of a number of tribes, e.g. the Gonds: “There are, in the archaic Gond legend of Lingo Pen, intimations of an age when Mahadeva or Shiva, the wild and wondrous god of the autochthons, had no human form but was a rounded stone, a lingam, washed by the waters of the river Narmada. Even to this day there are areas of the Narmada river basin where every stone in the waters is said to be a Shiva lingam: ‘(…) What was Mahadev doing? He was swimming like a rolling stone, he had no hands, no feet. He remained like the trunk (of a tree).’ [Then, Bhagwan makes him come out of the water and grants him a human shape.]” Till today, Shiva or a corresponding tribal god is often venerated in the shape of such natural-born, unsculpted, longish but otherwise shapeless stones.
** Pupul Jayakar: The Earth Mother, Penguin 1989 (1980), p.30. Remark that the Gonds are Dravidian-speaking tribals, which complicates the picture: are their customs to be treated as the heritage of native tribals who adopted the immigrant Dravidian language, or as Dravidian heritage?, quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
# Purdah

Pardah (from Persian: پرده‎, meaning "curtain") or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu پردہ), is a religious and social practice of gender partition prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities. It takes two forms: social partition of the sexes and the requirement that women cover their bodies so as to cover their skin and conceal their form. A woman who practices purdah can be referred to as pardanashin or purdahnishan. The term purdah is also used to describe related practices, such as the pre-election period of sensitivity occurring in the weeks leading up to a general election or referendum.

## Quotes

* The real place of women is the house and she has been exempted from outdoor duties…She has however been allowed to go out of the house to fulfil her genuine needs, but whilst going out she must observe complete modesty. Neither should she wear glamorous clothes and attract attention, nor should she cherish the desire to display the charms of the face and the hand, nor should she walk in a manner which may attract attention of others. Moreover she should not speak to them without necessity, and if she has to speak she should not speak in a sweet and soft voice.
** Abul A'la Maududi, Purdah and the status of Women in Islam, 1991, p. 140, Taj Company Ltd, Lahore, Pakistan.
* Translation from Urdu:".. I asked them where has your veil gone/They said that it is covering the intellect of men. .."
** Urdu: Poocha jo main ne aap ka purdah woh kya hua/Kehne lagein ke aql pe mardon ke parh gaya
** Akbar Ilahabadi, Times of India article news refers to speech of Jeelani Bano where in she mentions this couplet, hence notable.; Complete Urdu couplet at Rekhta.org (Devnagari script)
# Robert D. Richardson

Robert D. Richardson (born 1934 Milwaukee, died June 16, 2020) was an American historian, and biographer.

## Sourced
### Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)

* The truth was that Emerson did not often refer to Scripture (after he announced the text, which was invariably from the Bible) because the Bible was no longer for him an object of study; it was an example for him for emulation. He was interested in his own primary, personal religious experience and that of his parishioners, not in repeating and deferring to the reported religious experiences of long departed historical personages. When he studied, say, the Book of Proverbs, he no longer thought of himself as a commentator, but as the potential author of a similar book.
** p. 90
* Now, as Emerson turned to the active ministry, he tried emphatically to recover the original fervor of a Paul. When he later came to a parting of the ways with the church, he would see himself as a modern Luther. This personal identification with the great is for Emerson at bottom a hunger for a religion by revelation to us—as he would say in Nature—and not just the history of someone else’s religion. He wished to feel Christianity with feelings as strong as Paul’s. He did not wish merely to report Paul’s feeling as though such things were impossible in the modern world.
** p. 90
* To the question "What is God?" he now replies, "the most elevated conception of character that can be formed in the mind. It is the individual's own soul carried out to perfection."
** p. 97
* If there is a single moment … to give meaning to Emerson's life, it would be this moment when he recognized that his proper response to the world must be astonishment, his proper expression celebration.

### First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process (2009)

* If your journal consists of the best moments of your life and reading, then rereading it will be like walking a high mountain trail that goes from peak to peak without the intervening descent into the trough of routine. Just reading such a journal of high points will tighten your strings and raise your pitch.
** p. 19
* Each of these sides of Emerson—The Plotinus and the Montaigne-Bacon—requires the other side. The highest goals or ambitions are inevitably judged by whether or not one can take concrete, measurable steps to reach them, while the practical, workaday side of things is most interesting to Emerson when it serves or leads to something great.
** p. 34
# Robert Davi

Robert Davi (26 June 1953) is an American actor, singer, and entertainer.

## Quotes

* In the 8th Grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor, I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction. My heroes were people like Spencer Tracy, Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Marvin, Richardson, Caine, all those sort.
* I'm not the kind of actor to worry. Certain actors can't translate to the big screen, so I'm glad I can do both. If 60% of an audience know your name, a lot more will know your face. I have a name which has a certain level of recognition now, which also means producers and directors know me, and are able to recognise the range of things that I can do.
** Robert Davi Interview (February 22, 2008)
* The left in Hollywood are quick to flaunt their political allegiances; this provides them the ability to both grow in number and maintain their level of influence. Meanwhile, the right in Hollywood, for the most part, hide in the shadows and cower. When they do make their views known, conservatives are minimized and their careers are attacked as irrelevant, or as “not A-list enough.”
** Davi: To Influence Hollywood, Conservatives Need to Grow a Pair (March 13, 2017)
* When I was a boy, while watching the funeral procession of the Great Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC, I observed a rickety wooden cart being pulled by two mules and behind the cart, a sea of people. In the cart lay the body of MLK; at that moment, he represented the totality of the human struggle. I remember feeling then, while watching the procession on TV, that we, as a country, were either going to pull together or else come apart.
** Davi: To Influence Hollywood, Conservatives Need to Grow a Pair (March 13, 2017)

## External links

* Articles on Breitbart
# Robert Doyle

Robert Doyle (born 20 May 1953) is an Australian politician and the 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, elected on 30 November 2008.

## Quotes

* Adelaide has so little going for it that it should be shut down.
** News.com.au
* I was surprised to learn that Adelaide had television.
** News.com.au
* I am never going to make another comment about another capital city, I promise you, I promise you that.
** News.com.au
# Robert Daniel Conlon

Robert Daniel Conlon (December 4, 1948 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* The first person to whom we are accountable is Christ, who is the good shepherd, and we're called to act in his place. That's a very serious responsibility to the Lord himself.
** US bishops' point man on sex abuse addresses Kansas City case (11 September 2012) National Catholic Reporter
# Robert D. San Souci

Robert Daniel San Souci (October 10, 1946 – December 19, 2014) was a multiple award winning children's book author. He was instrumental in the production of the film Mulan, for which he wrote the story.

## Quotes

* I have always had a fascination with traveling to magical places. Many of my own stories take place in other places, other dimensions. I guess I'm the ultimate escapist.
** Robert D. San Souci – Penguin Books USA