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# Iran hostage crisis

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of militarized Iranian college students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took them as hostages. The hostages were held for 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to their release on January 20, 1981. The crisis is considered a pivotal episode in the history of Iran–United States relations.

## Quotes

* In practice, opposition by the new Iranian regime to the Americans did not necessarily extend to support for the Soviet Union. Two days after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet envoy in Iran promised Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution and Guardian of the Islamic Republic, assistance in any conflict with the USA; only to be told that there could be no mutual understanding between a Muslim nation and a non-Muslim government. Nevertheless, as a result of American backing for the Shah and for Israel (with whom the Shah had co-operated), and its identification with liberalism and consumerism, Khomeini saw America as ‘the Great Satan’. He instigated the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran by student radicals on 4 November 1979, an act that created a hostage crisis lasting until 20 January 1981. This crisis, and the failed American attempt to rescue the hostages in April 1980, discredited Carter and helped Khomeini sustain a highly-charged atmosphere in Iran. It was clear that America’s loss of a strategic partner had altered the Cold War even if Iran had not joined the Soviet Union, which Khomeini described as ‘the other Great Satan’. Thus, there was no equivalent for the Soviet Union to the now-closer relations between the USA and both China and Egypt.
** Jeremy Black, The Cold War: A Military History (2015)
* UK embassy is den of espionage 2.
** Iran government staff 2023
* Iran US relations challenge wasn't begun with this crisis , it was oil issue.
** Khamenei
* Special envoy meeting with me is not possible.
** Khomeini
* There is a special right for women through Islam, dear students deliver black people and women to Minister of Foreign relations.
** Khomeini
* US Embassy had broken the Vienna convention.
* Documents of den of espionage are available through Shad app for students.
** dep director ministry of education
* The enemy has narrated the story of taking over the den of espionage because you unfortunately have not.
** Khamenei
* Conspiracies have been discovered , we cannot tolerate what unjust things they are doing. Time is passed.
** Khomeini
# Iranians

See also: Iran

## Quotes

* In the most difficult days people of Iran won't forget those who turned their backs on them.
** Reza Pahlavi
* Humanity is entering a new orbit. The old powers are declining. They are the "past" and we are the "future". I repeat that they are the "past" and we are the "future".Our view of the future is hopeful. The world is waiting for the saviour promised by the divine religions. This saviour exists and is present.
** Ebrahim Raisi President
# Iraqi legislative election, 2005

Two sets of legislative elections were held in the country of Iraq in 2005, in the months of January and December. The first was to draft the Iraqi Constitution, and the second to elect the first assembly under that constitution.

## Quotes

* The process as currently designed is little more than a 'bait and switch' ploy.
** The Iraqi Election "Bait and Switch": Faulty Poll Will Not Bring Peace or US Withdrawal. Project on Defense Alternatives. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
* These elections mark an important step in the political reconstruction of Iraq. The strategy of terrorist groups has partly failed.
** Jacques Chirac, in Roberts, Joel (January 31, 2005). "Iraq's Allawi Hails 'New Era'". CBS News. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
* [An] historic event for the Iraqi people because it is undoubtedly a step toward democratization of the country.
** Vladimir Putin, in Roberts, Joel (January 31, 2005). "Iraq's Allawi Hails 'New Era'". CBS News. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
* In an impressive range of mainly Shiite and Kurdish cities, a long silenced majority of ordinary Iraqis defied threats of deadly mayhem to cast votes for a new, and hopefully democratic, political order. That is a message that all but the most nihilistic of the armed insurgents will have to accept.
** "Message From Iraq". The New York Times. January 31, 2005. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
* So Iraq would appear the most infertile soil for democracy - except for one factor. The people want it. Yesterday, large numbers of them risked their lives to vote and in many cases they had to spend hours queuing; hours as potential targets. In so doing, they were not just making a political statement. They were making a moral statement. That should be a compelling argument even to those who oppose the war. It should be a conclusive argument to everyone who is in favour of peace.
** Anderson, Bruce (January 31, 2005). "It was truly a great day for the Iraqi people, even if the blood of heroes had to spill". The Independent. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
* What we were observing in Iraq on Sunday, as well as preparations preceding the elections, is very far from what true elections are. And even though I am a supporter of elections and of the transfer of power to the people of Iraq, these elections were fake. ... I don't think these elections will be of any use. They may even have a negative impact on the country. Democracy cannot be imposed or strengthened with guns and tanks.
** Mikhail Gorbachev, in Elections in Iraq profanation - Gorbachev. Interfax. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
# John Fire Lame Deer

John Fire Lame Deer (in Lakota Tȟáȟča Hušté; March 17, 1903 – December 14, 1976) was a Lakota holy man.

## Quotes
### Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1972)

    Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, Simon and Schuster, 1994.
* Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don't know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society.
** p. 70
* A medicine man shouldn't be a saint. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. He should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle. Unless he can experience both, he is no good as a medicine man.
** p. 75
* Sickness, jail, poverty, getting drunk—I had to experience all that myself. Sinning makes the world go round. You can't be so stuck up, so inhuman that you want to be pure, your soul wrapped up in a plastic bag, all the time. You have to be God and the devil, both of them. Being a good medicine man means being right in the midst of the turmoil, not shielding yourself from it. It means experiencing life in all its phases. It means not being afraid of cutting up and playing the fool now and then. That's sacred too.
** p. 76
* What does this Mount Rushmore mean to us Indians? It means that these big white faces are telling us, "First we gave you Indians a treaty that you could keep these Black Hills forever, as long as the sun would shine, in exchange for all of the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. Then we found the gold and took this last piece of land, because we were stronger. ... And because we like the tourist dollars, too, we have made your sacred Black Hills into one vast Disneyland. And after we did all this we carved up this mountain, the dwelling place of your spirits, and put our four gleaming white faces here. We are the conquerors."
** p. 91

## External links

Encyclopedic article on John Fire Lame Deer on Wikipedia
# John Feffer

John Feffer is an author and currently co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a fellow at the Open Society Foundations. His books include Crusade 2.0, (City Lights, 2012), a description of contemporary attacks on Islam, North Korea/South Korea: US Policy and the Korean Peninsula, a description of current U.S. policy towards Korea and its limitations, Power Trip, a narrative of American unilateralism during the George W. Bush administration, and Living in Hope, a description of creative responses by local communities to the challenges of globalization.

## Quotes
### Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun (2016)

Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun, Salon (June 28, 2016)
* Trumpism is here to stay.
* The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And they very much wanted to make their nation great again.
* Trump was, they concluded, sui generis, a peculiar mutation of the American political system generated by the unholy coupling of reality television and the Tea Party revolt. But Trump is not, in fact, a sport of nature. He reflects trends taking place around the world.
* His opponents have tried to argue that America is already great, has been great, and will always be great. But the truth is, for many Americans, things have not been so great for at least the last two decades.
* Then it will matter little how much both liberals and conservatives rail against “stupid” and “crazy” voters. Nor will they have Donald Trump to kick around any more. In the end, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

## External links

* Directory of Scoville Peace Fellows, 1987–present
* Jon Berson (John Feffer)
* John Feffer's bio at the Institute for Policy Studies
* John Feffer's personal website
# John Fisher

John Fisher (19 October 1469–22 June 1535) was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian. Fisher was also an academic, and eventually served as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was canonized a saint by Pope Pius XI.

## Quotes
### The Ways to Perfect Religion (1535)

* I know that without some fervour in the love of Christ, religion cannot be to you savoury, nor any work of goodness can be delectable, but every virtuous deed shall seem laborious and painful. For love maketh every work appear easy and pleasant, though it be right displeasant of itself. And contrariwise right easy labour appeareth grievous and painful, when the soul of the person that doeth the deed hath no desire nor love in doing of it. This thing may well appear by the life of hunters, the which out of doubt is more laborious and painful than is the life of religious persons, and yet nothing sustaineth them in their labour and pains but the earnest love and hearty desire to find their game.
# John Ferriar

John Ferriar (1761 – February 4, 1815) was a Scottish physician and a poet, most noted for his leadership of the Manchester Infirmary, and his studies of the causes of diseases such as typhoid.

## Quotes

* The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.
** Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 6, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.
** Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 65, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).
** Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 121, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!
** Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 137, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

## External links

* Biography of John Ferriar
# Emem Isong

Emem Isong (5th of September) is a Nigerian screenwriter, film producer, and film director. She has become known primarily for films in the English language, and is a dominant figure in the Nollywood industry. Her second directed feature, Code of Silence, which deals with rape in Nigeria, was released in 2015.

## Quotes

* Royal Arts Academy will contribute to the transformation, development and growth of Nigeria and the African continent as a whole, by offering first class training to students who would go on to produce excellent films that would place Nollywood at par with the international community. This training will be provided by industry professionals within and outside the country.
** Emem opens acting academy in 2009.
* I’m very happy doing what I’m doing. I have strong passion for it. And whenever I finish a movie and come across people who are enjoying my movies, I always feel elated.
** Emem in an interview in 2011.
* This is my first time to do a true life story. It was challenging for me. We spent weeks doing research in the creeks of Bayelsa, learning the culture of the people. My choice of cast fit the character in reality.
** Emem speaks on her most challenging movie in 2014.
* Every country should respect its own local industry. We must look for ways to help Nigerians who put in a lot of hard work whether as cast or crew members. Their hope is to be able to earn a living from the sacrifices and efforts they put into supporting the production of the movies the Nigerian audience consume.
** Emem speaks on FG's plan regarding production of Nigerian films in 2017.
* As a way of saying thank you to my people, I have decided to film my next huge project in Uyo to continue in our contributions towards the development and growth of the movie industry in Akwa Ibom and indeed Nollywood.
** Emem speaks on her latest project in 2017.
* Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you’ll look back, and realize they were the big things.
** Emem journey as movie producer in 2019.
* Special Jollof is just a love story set in the background of immigration, the problems immigrants go through and this preconceived notion that every immigrant is involved in illegal activities. This movie is actually different from what I normally do and because it is a well talked about issue worldwide at the moment, causing concern for world leaders.
** Emem speaks on new film Special Jollof in 2019.
* Remuneration for creatives in Nigeria is a far cry from what their counterparts receive abroad. Hollywood and other established film industries are much older and sophisticated than Nollywood and therefore would reward their practitioners better."
** Emem speaks on the poor performance of nollywood practitioners in 2020.
* Shooting this movie was very challenging but also fun. One of the major challenges we faced was finding foreign actors, so, I had to hold an audition but thank God, the turnout was really impressive. Another challenge was finding locations and getting people to open up to you. I was new to that terrain, so, it was quite challenging for me.”
** Emem speaks on challenges faced during shooting of movie in 2020.
# Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, is a law enacted subsequently to the subprime mortgage crisis authorizing the United States Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities, and supply cash directly to banks.

## Quotes

* The massive state bailout of financial institutions, leading to immense public debt, was followed by a demand by those very same financial institutions that were bailed out by those states for the states to pay down their debt.
** Jason Stanley, How Propaganda Works (Princeton University Press: 2015), p. 25
# Emerson Pugh

Emerson W. Pugh (born May 1, 1929) is an American research engineer and scientist, whose career at US corporation IBM spanned several decades and resulted in significant technological advances. He was a leader in magnetic and computer memory technologies and author of several books, including college-level physics textbooks and the history of IBM.

## Quotes

* If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
** As quoted from George Edgin Pugh, The Biological Origin of Human Values (1977) , Basic Books, New York, ch. 7, p. 154.

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Emerson Pugh on Wikipedia
# Emesh

Emesh is a Sumerian god of vegetation. He was created, alongside the god Enten, at the wish of Enlil to take responsibility on earth for woods, fields, sheep folds, and stables. He is identified with the abundance of the earth and with summer.

## Quotes
### Debate between Winter and Summer

    Debate between Winter and Summer, mid to late 3rd millennium BCE. Text online at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
* Tirelessly and constantly I place abundance upon the fields.
* I am father Enlil's great comptroller.
* Enten, you should not boast about your superior strength after you have explained the grounds for your boasting. … Don't speak with a gaping mouth of your superior strength -- I will make known its shape and essence.
* Enlil, your verdict is highly valued, your holy word is an exalted word. The verdict you pronounce is one which cannot be altered -- who can change it? There was quarrelling of brother with brother but now there is harmony. For as long as you are occupying the palace, the people will express awe. When it is your season, far be it from me to humiliate you -- in fact I shall praise you.

## Quotes about Emesh
### Debate between Winter and Summer

    Debate between Winter and Summer, mid to late 3rd millennium BCE.
* Emesh founded houses and farmsteads, he made the cattle-pens and sheepfolds wide. He multiplied the stacks of sheaves in all the arable tracts. ... He brought a plentiful harvest into the temples, he heaped up piles of grain. He founded towns and villages, he built the houses of the Land. He made the houses of the gods grow like the hills in a pure place. In E-namtila, the holy seat of kingship, fit for high daises, he established abundance for the Great Mountain (Kur) Enlil.
* Emesh, the hero whom one does not challenge.
* Emesh bowed to Enten and offered him a prayer. In his house he prepared emmer-beer and wine. At its side they spend the day at a succulent banquet. Emesh presents Enten with gold, silver and lapis lazuli. They pour out brotherhood and friendship like best oil. By bringing sweet words to the quarrel they have achieved harmony with each other.
* Enten is controller of the life-giving waters of all the lands -- the farmer of the gods produces everything. Emesh, my son, how can you compare yourself to your brother Enten?
** Enlil
* Emesh, my brother, you should not praise yourself; whatever harvest produce you bring as gifts to the palace has not been made by your toil: you should not brag. As if you were the one who had done the hard work, as if you had done the farming.
** Enten
* The slave Emesh, the duly-appointed labourer who will never rest from his toil, a hired man who has to return to the fields of the Land for his own sustenance.
** Enten
* Emesh, my brother, … although you have gathered all things in the Land and filled the storehouses, in all my strength I am their owner when your limbs become tired.
** Enten
# Emerald

Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl coloured green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.

## Quotes

* I took ship for Tyre in Phoenicia, where I had learned by inquiry that there was a holy temple of Heracles. There I saw it, richly equipped with many other offerings, besides two pillars, one of refined gold, one of emerald: a great pillar that shone at night.
** Herodotus, Histories, II, 44 (Tr. A. D. Godley, 1920)
* Polycrates considered which of his treasures it would most grieve his soul to lose, and came to this conclusion: he wore a seal set in gold, an emerald, crafted by Theodorus son of Telecles of Samos.
** Herodotus, Histories, III, 41 (Tr. A. D. Godley, 1920)
* This gem of chastity, this emeraud.
** Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prioress's Tale (1387–1400)
* But for all that, Sancho, I have falne upon one thing, which is, that thou didst ill describe her beautie to me: for if I forget not, thou saydst she had eyes of Pearles, and such eyes are rather the eies of a Sea-Breame then a faire Dames: but as I thinke, Dulcineas eyes are like two greene Emeralds rared with two Celestiall Arkes, that serve them for Eyebrowes. And therefore for your pearles, take them from her eyes, and put them to her teeth: for doubtlesse, Sancho, thou mistook'st eyes for teeth.
** Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Pt. II, Ch. 11 (Tr. Thomas Shelton, 1612, 1620)
* The deep green emerald, in whose fresh regard Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend.
** William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint (1609)
# Emerson String Quartet

The Emerson String Quartet, also known as the Emerson Quartet, is an American string quartet that was initially formed as a student group at the Juilliard School in the 1970s. It was named for American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and began touring professionally in 1976.

## Quotes

* Anybody who cares about art, anybody who cares about the vital importance of the individual in a society of people who want to turn anything that has color and joy and individuality into something that is gray, unimportant and uniform -- that is who this script is sent to.
** James Glossman, co-creator, director of Shostakovitch and The Black Monk (March 11, 2018)
# Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope (December 9, 1943) is an English writer.

## Quotes

* What I’m trying to do in all these novels is mirror a contemporary preoccupation. I’m not providing any solutions. I’m simply saying: ‘Can we please get the conversation going?’
** On being more of a social rather than political writer in “Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 2)
* I wanted to write a novel about the sandwich generation: parents falling to pieces at one end of your life and children being quite demanding at the other. You, the woman, are probably working full-time, but society, which is really very old-fashioned, still expects women to do all the caring.
** On her novel Mum & Dad in “Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 2)
* For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don’t want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself…A cliche is only a cliche if it’s happening in someone else’s life.
** On how people react to her characters in “Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 2)
* A combination of a desire to communicate, and a passionate belief in the power of story to build up relationships, to shape us. People-watching. But also being aware of situations that are currently preoccupying people. Codes of conduct change, but what the human heart wants really doesn’t.
** On what stirs her to write in “Interview with Joanna Trollope” in Writers & Artists