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# Benjamin Stanton

Benjamin Stanton (4 June 1809 – 2 June 1872) was an American politician from Ohio and a member of the U.S. Republican Party.

## Quotes

* Mr. Chairman, I desire to state, in a few words, what I regard as the real question in controversy between the political parties of the country. The Republican Party holds that African slavery is a local institution, created and sustained by State laws and usages that cannot exist beyond the limits of the State, by virtue of whose laws it is established and sustained. The Democratic Party holds that African slavery is a national institution, recognized and sustained by the Constitution of the United States throughout the entire territorial limits, where not prohibited by State constitutions and State laws... All other questions about which we differ grow out of this, and are dependent upon it.
** Speech (15 January 1861), as quoted in Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 2nd Sess., (Appendix), p. 58

### Speech (1860)

    Speech (May 1860)
* We are now, probably for the first time in our history, entering a new aspect of national politics.
* For the first time in the history of the country, a political party organized on the express doctrine, and with the avowed purpose, of overthrowing the Government, in the event of their being unable to control it through the ballot-box. It is asserted here by gentlemen on the other side—by one portion of them—that if a Republican President shall be elected, they will resist his inauguration forcibly. That is one proposition made on the other side of the House, by the Democratic Party.
* I take it for granted there can be no controversy about what that resistance amounts to. It can only be done by levying war against the United States. The thing threatened is treason against the United States. There can be no controversy about that.
* Another portion say that, if a Republican President is elected, they will secede from the confederacy, and organize a separate and independent Confederacy of their own. Whether that constitutes treason or not, is a matter of opinion, and may be a matter of controversy; but it is, nevertheless, equally fatal to the perpetuity of the existing Government and the existing institutions of the country.
* "We will rule this country, or we will ruin it. We will overturn this Government if we are not allowed to administer it ourselves." That is the naked, undisguised proposition of the Democratic Party in the year of grace 1860.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Benjamin Stanton on Wikipedia
# Benjamin Page

Benjamin I. Page (born c. 1939) is Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making at Northwestern University.

## Quotes

* Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
** Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," Perspectives on Politics, vol. 12, no. 3 (September 2014)
* The probability of policy change is nearly the same (around 0.3) whether a tiny minority or a large majority of average citizens favor a proposed policy change. ... A proposed policy change with low support among economically-elite Americans (one out of five in favor) is adopted only about 18 percent of the time, while a proposed change with high support (four out of five in favor) is adopted about 45 percent of the time.
** Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," Perspectives on Politics, vol. 12, no. 3 (September 2014), p. 572
* When citizens are relatively equal, politics has tended to be fairly democratic. When a few individuals hold enormous amounts of wealth, democracy suffers. The reason for this pattern is simple. Through campaign contributions, lobbying, influence over public discourse, and other means, wealth can be translated into political power. When wealth is highly concentrated—that is, when a few individuals have enormous amounts of money—political power tends to be highly concentrated, too. The wealthy few tend to rule. Average citizens lose political power. Democracy declines.
** Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It (University of Chicago Press: 2017), p. 19
* Average Americans have little or no influence over the making of U.S. government policy. ... Wealthy Americans wield a lot of influence. By investing money in politics, they can turn economic power into political power.
** Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It (University of Chicago Press: 2017), p. 90
# Benjamin W. Lee

Benjamin Whisoh Lee (January 1, 1935 – June 16, 1977) or Ben Lee, was a Korean-American theoretical physicist. His work in theorical particle physics exerted great influence on the development of the standard model in the late 20th century especially on the renormalization and the charm quark.

## Quotes

* I often liken the process of physics research to solving a jigsaw puzzle. As we put together pieces to form patches, a certain image of the overall picture emerges, but until the game is sufficiently progressed, we are not quite sure. I feel much the same way about the wealth of signs for new particles. We have patches that have been put together, but we are not quite sure how all pieces will fit together into a coherent whole. There are also certain pieces which do not seem to fit into any patches at all. For the most part, the experimental findings have not been completely unexpected, but there have been certain surprises that I, for one, had not foreseen. This is what makes particle physics exciting and tantalizing. At moments of despair and frustration, I feel as though somebody has scrambled two boxes of jigsaw puzzles for me to put together.
** about his work as a particle physicist, at the Fermilab History and Archives Project: Benjamin Lee comments on HEP discoveries (May, 1976).

## Quotes about Lee

* Lee's involvement with gauge theories dated back to 1964. He was concerned about the fact that superconductors appear to provide a counterexample to the general theorem, which requires that spontaneous symmetry breaking is always accompanied with massless spin-zero bosons. With Klein, he wrote an article suggesting that the same might occur in relativistic theories. It was soon realized that this is indeed the case, provided the broken symmetry is a gauge symmetry, as it is in a superconductor.
** Chris Quigg and Steven Weinberg: "Benjamin W. Lee." Physics Today 30 (1977): 76 doi:10.1063/1.3037723
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# Axe Cop (TV series)

Axe Cop was an American animated series based on the webcomic of the same name. Similar to the web-comic, the series features the titular police officer Axe Cop, his partner Flute Cop, and their allies Sockarang, Gray Diamond, Liborg, Bat Warthog Man, and Wexter as they fight various "bad guys" and avoid getting into conflict with the Normal Police.
# Awino Okech

Dr. Awono Okech is a Kenyan academic, based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where her "teaching and research interests lies in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies".

## Quotes

* I am attentive to power in knowledge production and transfer processes and explore these dynamics through my methodological and pedagogical choices"
** As quoted by
* How people experience the impact of harmful laws that criminalise behaviour is directly impacted by their racial, gender, and class positioning in [their] societies.”=
** cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk

## External links

* www.soas.ac.uk
* cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk
# Axe

An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of an axe head with a handle, or helve.

## Quotes

* It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
** Edsger W. Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" (1975). Published in ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17:5 (May 1982), pp. 13–15.
* The woodman’s axe lies free, And the reaper’s work is done.
** Felicia Hemans, Tyrolese Evening Song, st. 1.
* Whenever there is excess, an axe remedies it!
** Sumerian proverb, Collection XVIII at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BC.

## External links

* "Axe" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
* "Axe" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
* "Axe" . The American Cyclopædia. 1879.
* "Axe". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Awkwafina

Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress and rapper.

## Quotes

* Awkwafina induces the panic attacks and Nora takes them, [she has] a kind of abject confidence that people outgrow in adulthood.
** On how her alter ego differs from her real-life self “Awkwafina: 'No Turning Back'” in NPR (2018 Aug 17)
* There is a duality between Awkwafina and Nora. Awkwafina is someone who never grew up, who never had to bear the brunt of all the insecurities and overthinking that come with adulthood. Awkwafina is the girl I was in high school – who did not give a shit. Nora is neurotic and an overthinker and could never perform in front of an audience of hecklers.
** On how her alter ego helps her cope with adulthood in “Awkwafina: ‘I was always the crazy one, the funny one. I’d do anything for a laugh’” in The Guardian (2018 Jun 17)
* When I first started, YouTube was known as Asian Hollywood…A lot of these Asian YouTubers popped off because they’re in control of their own content. There’s no gatekeeper on YouTube.
** On her debut on YouTube in 2011 which brought her into public attention in “Awkwafina ‘never thought’ she’d have a career in show business” in CNBC (2019 Jul 26)
* People say that you’re never famous as an Asian-American ‘til you make it to the Chinese newspaper… You could be on the cover of Time, and your parents won’t recognize you until you are on that goddamn newspaper!
** On what is considered celebrity in the Asian American community in “Awkwafina Finds Herself in The Farewell” in Vanity Fair (2019 Jul 12)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Awkwafina on Wikipedia
* Media related to Awkwafina on Wikimedia Commons
* Official website
# Awkwardness

Awkwardness is an unpleasant feeling, which can often arise in tense atmospheres where one doesn't really know how to act or what to say. Awkward situations can possibly later cause a form of anxiety. Awkwardness may also be used to describe social or physical clumsiness.

## Quotes

* They certainly demonstrate that Seth, whether an aspect of Jane Robert's unconscious mind or a genuine "spirit," was of a high level of intelligence. Yet when Jane Roberts produced a book that purported to be the after-death journal of the philosopher William James, it was difficult to take it seriously. James's works are noted for their vigour and clarity of style; Jane Robert's "communicator" writes like an undergraduate . . . there is a clumsiness here that is quite unlike James's swift-moving, colloquial prose.
** Colin Wilson in The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved , p. 390 (2000)

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 53.
* Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully or standing still, One leg, as if suspicious of his brother, Desirous seems to run away from t'other.
** Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 438.
* What's a fine person, or a beauteous face, Unless deportment gives them decent grace? Blessed with all other requisites to please, Some want the striking elegance of ease; The curious eye their awkward movement tires: They seem like puppets led about by wires.
** Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 741.
* God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
** Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude.
* With ridiculous and awkward action, Which, slanderer, he imitation calls.
** William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act I, scene 3, line 149.
# George Wythe Baylor

George Wythe Baylor (August 24, 1832 – March 24, 1916) was a Confederate cavalryman, a Texas lawman, and a representative of the Texas State Government. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He afterwards commanded Texas rangers in hunting Indians in Texas and across the border into Mexico, often in pursuit of the Apache chief Victorio and his band.

## Quotes

* It was our misfortune that we were not prepared for war. We began behind a little and could never catch up. If the Louisiana forces had been equipped as well as the Virginia troops we would have sent all of Ben Butler's fleet to the bottom of the Mississippi River, and this lacked only a few days of being completed. And if Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston had not been killed at Shiloh we would have captured the Federal Army.
** On the Red River campaign. Quoted in Yeary, Mamie, ed. (1912). Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861–1865. Dallas: Smith & Lamar. p. 45.
* I would like to say here that I was not fighting for a thing which I believed to be right, but for one which I knew to be right, the defense of the Constitution as our forefathers left it to us—the right to hold our slaves, and the right of the States to govern their own internal affairs. We went down, but the day will come when the doctrine of States Rights will be as clear to the American people as it was to Dixie. We had the right, but not the power to secede. Massachusetts set the example by threatening to secede if any more slave territory was added. We are now united, and it is a matter of pride with me that Dixie put up a good fight and that the American has proved to be the best soldier on earth. They have conquered in every war in which they have been engaged, and never were whipped till they fought each other. God grant that we may ever remain one people.
** On the Confederate Lost Cause. Quoted in Yeary, ed. (1912). p. 45.
# George Yod Phimphisan

George Yod Phimphisan (19 January 1933 – 19 December 2017) was a Thai prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Udon Thani.

## Quotes

* We have the men, but we want to be sure we continue to get quality as well as quantity. We are getting vocations, but they think of our own needs. If the missioners from outside had thought of their own needs, we would not have any priests today.
** Thai Bishops to Consider Founding Thailand National Mission Society (25 March 1987) Union of Asian Catholic News
* When the two deacons prostrated on the ground, they admitted they are like worms of the earth, totally humble and unworthy before the Lord. But God raised them up as priests and instantly they became like butterflies, beautiful in the sight of God and all people.
** Ordination in the Northeast Gets a Northeast Flavor (19 May 1994) Union of Asian Catholic News
* Evangelization in Asia is more challenging than ever due to the revolution in communications technologies and mass media. These innovations vastly expand our potential to reach many more people, but the Church often fails to prioritize its media opportunities, so we miss moments of grace to share the Good News through media.
** -H.Exc. Most Rev. George Yod PHIMPHISAN, C.Ss.R., President of the Bishops' Conference of Thailand (23 April 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
* The Church in Udon Thani has been evangelizing mostly among marginalized people. When I started as bishop, there was only a center for people with leprosy in Khon Kaen. Now there are 30-40 centers for people with various disabilities, leprosy and AIDS, mostly run by nuns. These marginalized people never thought people would care for them and treat them as human beings.
** Retiring bishop reflects on diocese’s development (29 January 2010) Union of Asian Catholic News
# George Young, Baron Young of Cookham

George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire from 1997 and Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions: as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012; and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.

## Quotes

* The people you step over when you come out of the opera.
** On the homeless. Today, BBC Radio 4 (29 June 1991), as cited in Matarasso, François (2015). "A place in the city". Culture and Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-138-77841-2.
# George and Martha

George and Martha is a series of children's books written and illustrated by James Marshall between 1972 and 1988. Each book in the series contained five short stories describing interactions between two hippos, George and Martha. The books inspired an animated children's television show which comprised 26 episodes made in 1999.

## Quotes

    Martha: [about her bad sunburn] Oh, look at me. I look like an overripe tomato.
    George: Hello?
    Martha: George, there you are!
    George: How did you find me?
    Martha: I'm your best friend, George. I always know where to find you.

## Voice cast

* Nathan Lane as George Hippo.
* Andrea Martin as Martha Hippo.
* Kathryn Greenwood as Frieda.
* Colin Mochrie as Oscar and Bud Chuckles.
* Debra McGrath as Valerie Chuckles.
* Sean Cullen as Wilde and Eton.
* Robin Duke as Penny.
* Tony Rosato as Duke.
* Greg Kramer as Anton.

### Additional voices

* Tara Charendoff as Nurse.
* Stuart Stone as Icky.
* Keith Knight.
* Dwayne Hill.
* Philip Williams.
* Noah Reid.
* Amos Crawley.
* John Stocker.
# George Yancey

George Alan Yancey (born September 8, 1962) is an American professor of sociology at the Baylor University, where he has taught since 2019. He is known for his research on anti-Christian attitudes in the contemporary United States, and the ways in which it can influence the decisions made by academic sociologists. He has been called "the only researcher studying Christianophobia at a secular university".

## Quotes about Yancey

* …American sociologist George Yancey in his 2015 book “Hostile Environment” focused on American media bias against Christianity and conservative religion in general and found its roots in the fact that mainline U.S. journalism is a self-perpetuating caste. If you are an Evangelical Christian or do not agree with the prevailing liberal and secular ideology, particularly on moral matters, you will be thrown out of the first interview when you will try to be hired by one of the mainline media.
** Massimo Introvigne, "The Anti-Religious, Anti-Cult, and Anti-Tai-Ji-Men Bias in the Media", Bitter Winter (May 2024)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on George Yancey on Wikipedia