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# Joan Walsh Anglund

Joan Walsh Anglund (b. ~1926-2021) was an American poet.

## Quotes

* A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.
** A Cup of Sun (1967)
** This quote by Joan Walsh Anglund (1967 in her book, A Cup of Sun) has been widely used by Maya Angelou without attribution to Walsh Walsh Anglund, and wrongly misattributed to Maya Angelou many, many times, including on U.S. postage. However, the quote belongs to Joan Walsh Anglund, and is from her book "A Cup of Sun" published in 1967. However, Maya Angelou changed the pronoun "He" to "It" but quoted everything else of Joan Walsh Anglund. Why Maya Angelou never attributed her most famous quote as being Joan Walsh Anglund's is still a mystery to this day.
* I think of the telephone as a spiritual thing. Your bodies don't have to unite you, but your spirits can unite.
** As quoted in Kentucky News September 13, 2014

## External links

* Official Maya Angelou Stamp Features Misattributed Quote From Different Poet
# Joan Slonczewski

Joan Lyn Slonczewski (born in 1956) is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel.

## Quotes
### A Door into Ocean (1986)

    All page numbers from the hardcover edition published by Arbor House (book club edition)
* A thousand fools believe a lie, and it’s good as truth.
** Part 1, “Ashore” - Chapter 5 (p. 28)
* She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world’s absurdity might be too much to bear.
** Part 2, “A Door Into Ocean” - Chapter 4 (p. 71)
* “People fear stone,” Usha said, “because it contains never-life.” “Non-life? You mean, death?” “Nonsense,” she repeated vehemently. “What’s to fear about death? Death is natural. Stone is never-life.” Spinel took another tack. “If they fear it, then how come enough Sharers want it so the traders stock shelves full?” “How should I know? Why do Valans drink the toxic waste product of sugar-eating yeast?”
** Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 95)
* Few fears are rational.
** Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 95)
* A life postponed too long might never be lived.
** Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
* Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.
** Part 3, “When the Sea Swallows” - Chapter 3 (p. 128)
* “Magic is nonsense.” “Magic is anything you don’t understand.”
** Part 3, Chapter 3 (p. 128)
* Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.
** Part 3, Chapter 4 (p. 134)
* Death can be hastened but never shared.
** Part 4, “Star of Stone” - Chapter 1 (p. 165)
* There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.
** Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
* Death hastens those who hasten death.
** Part 5, “Night of Cinnabar” - Chapter 1 (p. 217)
* You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.
** Part 5, Chapter 6 (p. 239)
* She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was.
** Part 5, Chapter 8 (p. 247)
* If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.
** Part 6, “The Last Door” - Chapter 15 (p. 363)
* “I can’t change what I am ovenight.” “Nor can I. And yet, one can’t stop changing, either.”
** Part 6, Chapter 16 (p. 368)
# Poker

Poker is a popular family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules.

## Quotes

* The game that defines dictators much better [than chess] is poker because it’s about bluffs. It doesn’t matter whether you have a strong hand or weak hand. You can have a weak hand, but if you’re comfortable bluffing, raising stakes, and if you can read your opponent.
** Garry Kasparov, interview with Bill Kristol (April 2016)
* I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
** Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road
* All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approach: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.)
** Dan Harrington, Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments, Volume I: Strategic Play
* I think that you find out whether you've got the qualities to win at poker by playing poker. ... Obviously, it helps to know the basic math of Fermat and Pascal, but everybody with any sense knows that stuff. But having the temperament where Fermat and Pascal are as much a part of you as your ear and nose — that's a different kind of a person. And I think it's hard to teach that.
** Charles T. Munger, (December 17, 2020)"A Conversation with Distinguished Alumnus Charles T. Munger (CERT '44, CAVU)". Caltech, YouTube. (quote at 45:06 of 58:41)
* If after ten minutes at the poker table you do not know who the patsy is—you are the patsy.
** Quoted by Martin J. Whitman and Martin Shubik in The Aggressive Conservative Investor (1979)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Poker on Wikipedia
# Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress, producer, model, and television personality.

## Quotes

* You are not in business to be popular.
** As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 4
* People go, "You’re so brave." I go, "No, I think I’m stupid" [...] It’s so strange to me because artists are free-thinkers, for the most part. You can be cooking meth and sleeping with hookers, as long as apparently you didn’t vote for Trump. I feel like I’m in The Twilight Zone a bit, with the whole concept of it.
** Interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News in 2021,as cited in "Trump pays tribute to ‘great’ Kirstie Alley, who said support for him got her blackballed in Hollywood" The Independent (6 December 2022)
** Referring to the consequences of supporting former President Donald Trump.
* Just got a very kind acknowledgment [...] Thank you Sir, I wish you were still on Twitter... as you should be.
** Responding to Trump's comments on her Fox News appearance, as cited in "Trump pays tribute to ‘great’ Kirstie Alley, who said support for him got her blackballed in Hollywood" The Independent (6 December 2022)

## External links

* Kirstie Alley Official Website
* Kirstie Alley's Organic Liaison
* Kirstie Alley's Phitter.com
* Kirstie Alley Twitter.com
* Profile at IMDb
# Kirstin Valdez Quade

Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.

## Quotes

* When I read, if I don’t know where a story is set, I always feel unmoored. The same is true for my writing: Until I place my story in a specific place, I can’t get my footing in the world…
** On the importance of location in her writings in “Kirstin Valdez Quade: How I Write” in The Writer (2017 Apr 21)
* I love the short story: I love its flexibility, its distillation of language, the pressure it exerts on the moment. A story demands that the reader look closely. And yet, despite the intensity and constraints, a story can be surprisingly capacious…
** On why she loves writing short stories in “Kirstin Valdez Quade: How I Write” in The Writer (2017 Apr 21)
* It has absolutely been romanticized; it shows up in literature and art. I think there is a sort of magic to it that draws people and yet I think the reality of it is that it's an extraordinarily complicated place.
** On the spiritual quality given to New Mexico in “'Night At The Fiestas' Spins Stories Of Faith And Family” in NPR (2015 Mar 28)
* I do think one of the reasons I’m a writer is that we moved around so much when I was a child, and I was always the new kid. I was always in a new environment and trying to figure it out. I was always watching, trying to suss out what the social situation was, and where I might fit in, and who I was in this new place. We’re different people in different contexts; different aspects of our identities become more pertinent…
** On how her childhood affected her writing in “HAVING FAITH: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE” in The Nashville Review (2017 Dec 13)
# Kirsty Hughes

Kirsty Hughes is a political scientist, founder and Director of Scottish Centre on European Relations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).

## Quotes

* Independence in the European Union has been core to Nicola Sturgeon's arguments for Scottish independence, not least since the 2016 Brexit vote. But where did she and her government take their European strategies during her eight years in power? It looks like a case of the glass being half full, half empty,
* Nicola Sturgeon has certainly projected Scotland as a positive, pro-European country and has built may constructive relationships across the EU. Independence in the EU has been her core goal. Yet the challenge both for her successor, and for the Scottish government and SNP, is to make a sustained, substantive, dynamic and energised case for that goal.
* There is a strong, positive case to be made about the political and economic benefits of rejoining the EU as an independent state. And there’s an argument to make that once independent, an accession process could be rapid – perhaps taking four to five years in total, not as fast as Finland, Sweden and Austria, but not far behind. But the Scottish Government has not always put this argument centre stage.
** Comments on the website of University College London's Europe Institute, cited by Kathleen Nutt in "Nicola Sturgeon successor told to step up case for rejoining EU" The Herald (Glasgow, 19 February 2023)
** Published shortly after Nicola Surgeon announced her intention to stand down as Scotland's first minister on 15 February 2023.
# Kirsty Hanson

Kirsty Hanson (born 17 April 1998) is a footballer who plays as a forward for English Women's Super League club Aston Villa and the Scotland national team.

## Quotes
### "Kirsty Hanson seeks a morale-boosting Nations League win for Scotland" (2023)

    "Kirsty Hanson seeks a morale-boosting Nations League win for Scotland", stvnews, by stvnews staff
* We’ve got players that can come on now and change the game. And we believe that our team’s very talented, it’s a close knit group and it’s amazing to be a part of
* We’re definitely playing better and hopefully, we need a big win and hopefully that happens against Belgium.
* I think maybe people look at the results, but I think we’ve definitely improved. What we’re doing on the ball, what Pedro is encouraging us to do – close connections – everyone feels confident now.

## External links

* Profile at Manchester United FC website
* Kirsty Hanson at Scottish Football Association
* Kirsty Hanson UEFA Competition record (Archive)
* Kirsty Hanson at Soccerway
# Kirtan

Kirtana (Sanskrit: कीर्तन; IAST: Kīrtana), also rendered as Kirtan, is a Sanskrit word that means "narrating, reciting, telling, describing" of an idea or story, specifically in Indian religions. It also refers to a genre of religious performance arts, connoting a musical form of narration or shared recitation, particularly of spiritual or religious ideas, native to the Indian subcontinent.

## Quotes
### The History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 6

    The History and Culture of the Indian People, vol 6, Delhi Sultanate, ed RC Majumdar, pages 633-635
* The two great biographies of the great Vaishnava saint Chaitanya, namely, the Chaitanya-charitamrita and the Chaitanya-bhaga-vata.... Both the books refer to a famous episode in the life of Lord Chaitanya. He had introduced the system of public worship in the form of kirtan (a sort of congregational song loudly sung together by a large number of men in public streets to the accompaniment of special musical instruments). This enraged the Muslim qazi, and one day when Chaitanya’s devotees were singing the name of God in the streets of Nadiya (Navadvipa in Bengal), he came out, struck blows upon everybody on whom he could lay hands, broke the musical instruments, and threatened with dire punishment all the Hindus who would dare join a kirtan party in this way in his city of Nadiya. To prevent the recurrence of public kirtan, the qazi patrolled the streets of Nadiya with a party. The people of Nadiya got afraid, but Chaitanya decided to defy the qazi’s orders, and brought out a large kirtan party which was joined by thousands. The qazi was at first wild with anger and held out the threat that he would destroy the caste of all the Hindus of Nadiya; but terror seized him when his eyes fell upon the vast concourse of people in a menacing attitude. He fled, and his house was wrecked by the angry crowd. The Chaitanya-bhagavata does not describe the sequel. But the other work, Chaitanya-charitémrita, describes how Chaitanya sent for the qazi who was now in a more chastened mood, and the two had a cordial talk.
* Throughout the Chaitanya-bhagavata there are casual references to Hindus being constantly oppressed by the fear that the public performance of kirtan, and even singing religious songs loudly in one’s own house, would provoke the Sultan and bring untold miseries upon the people of Nadiya. A section of them was therefore angry with the Vaishnavas, and once a rumour was spread that the Sultan had sent two boats full of soldiers to Nadiya to arrest those who sang kirtan. Many people expressed their amazement that Chaitanya and his followers were engaged in loudly singing kirtan at Rama-keli near the capital city, Gauda, without any fear of the terrible Muslim king living so near.
# Kiru Taye

Kiru Taye is a Nigerian writer, who specializes in romance novels.Taye began writing romantic novels after her inability to find localized romantic novels.

## Quotes

* Write what you love to read and hopefully someone out there will love the too.
* However, writers also have to keep in mind that you will never please everyone. Some people will love your stories and some will hate them.
* Literary criticism has its place in a writer’s growth, whether they come in the form of publisher rejections or book reviews.
* Read. Read. Read. Read widely. Not just in the genre you want to write.
* The simple answer is life. Life inspires .
# Kiruba Munusamy

Kiruba Munusamy is a human rights lawyer and Dalit activist. She works on caste discrimination and gender violence cases. She is practising in the Supreme Court of India. She is the founder-executive director of Legal Initiative for Equality.

## Quotes

* And, this is why we need to support @Wikipedia! Brahmins hate knowledge spreading! Concealing resources, denying education and punishing for learning is an age-old Hindu culture. Become a ’HERO’ of #FreeInformation by donating [to wikipedia].
** Kiruba Munusamy (@kirubamunusamy) August 1, 2020 at Twitter. quoted in The Print, ‘Biased, anti-Hindu’ — campaign begins against Wikipedia after it urges Indians to donate 2 August, 2020
# Kirupanandha Variyar

Thirumuruga Kirupanandha Variyar (1906–1993) was a Shaivite spiritual teacher from India. He was a Murugan devotee who helped rebuild and complete the works on many of the temples across the state. He is known for his discourses on various Shaivite legends.

## Quotes

* Sanskrit being the common language of all people (in India) the Mantras are in Sanskrit . . . From time immemorial Saivites have recited the Mantras from Samhitas as a tradition. To analyse this with hatred, is not beneficial.
** Thirumuruga Kirupananda Vaariyar- Quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
# Lapsed Catholic

A lapsed Catholic is a baptized Catholic who is non-practicing. Such a person may still identify as a Catholic and remains a Catholic according to canon law.

## Quotes

* He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
** Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963), p. 72
* I wouldn't be a very spiritual man, right? I don't believe in God, right? Still Catholic. Because there's nothing you can do when you're Catholic. Once you've started Catholic, frankly, there's no real way to stop being Catholic. Even not believing in God isn't regarded as sufficient reason to get out of the Catholic church. You'd think it'd be fairly fundamental to the whole thing, but no. Catholicism: the stickiest, most adhesive religion in the world.
** Dara Ó Briain, "Live at the Apollo" (6 July 2005)
* I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.
** Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Lapsed Catholic on Wikipedia
# Lar Corbett

Lar Corbett (born 16 March 1981) plays hurling with his local club Thurles Sarsfields and is a member of the senior Tipperary county team.

## Quotes

* Every field in Ireland is nearly unplayable. They’re calling off race meetings but hurling matches? Play away. You have humans calling off animals but humans are saying to humans, play away! You wouldn't put a horse out in it!
** On the conditions faced by hurlers. The Journal
# Lapo Pistelli

Lapo Pistelli (20 June 1964 –) is an Italian politician and Member of the (Chamber of Deputies) of the Italian Parliament, elected for the Italian Democratic Party.

## Quotes

* We have a very tough (when it's required), but open and fair dialogue with all the authorities, no hidden agendas, and at the end the day, this kind of dialogue has been very welcome by those governments.
** Sudanese Christian Meriam Ibrahim meets Pope Francis (24 July 2014) Vatican Radio
# Laparoscopy

Laparoscopy is a methods of performing abdominal surgeries through tiny holes. It is also popularly known as "key hole surgery" or minimally invasive surgery.

## Quotes
### Dr. Raveenthiran, Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons 2010; pages 122 - 126.

* Peeping toms are condemned; but peeping surgeons are hailed.
* There cannot be anything more folly than to label laparoscopy as “minimally invasive.
* Pediatric laparoscopy appears to be too quickly adopted, unduly advertised and frequently misused by individual surgeons for their personal profit.
* Invasiveness of a surgical procedure is determined not by the length of the skin incision but by the stress response elicited in the host.
* If a plastic surgeon can inflict an acceptable scar in the face, cannot a pediatric surgeon replicate it in the abdomen?
* Many laparoscopists subconsciously use the term 'painless' to mean 'less painful'.
* Cosmesis and cost are not the end points of any abdominal surgery.
* It is surprising to learn as to how laparoscopists have sustained their claims despite the lack of high-quality evidence.
* Faddists have made laparoscopy fashionable.
# Laplace's equation

In mathematics, Laplace's equation is a second-order partial differential equation named after Pierre-Simon Laplace who first studied its properties.

## Quotes

* Laplace's equation is of great importance in theoretical physics. It appears in problems occurring in gravity, physical oceanography, thermodynamics, seismology, and geomagnetism. It is indeed the most often occurring partial differential equation in theoretical geophysics.
** C. B. Officer (6 December 2012). Introduction to Theoretical Geophysics. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 27. ISBN 978-3-642-65731-3.
# Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR) and also known as Laoland, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia.

## Quotes

* Then US terrorist activities shifted over to Southeast Asia. If you want to carry out terrorist activities, you need local people to do it for you, and you also need secret money to pay for it, clandestine hidden money. Well, if you need to hire thugs and murderers with secret money, there aren't many options. One of them is the drug connection. The so-called Golden Triangle around Burma, Laos and Thailand became a big drug producing area with the help of the United States, as part of the secret wars against those populations.
** Noam Chomsky, Interview by John Veit in High Times, April 1998
* Given its geography, the central party apparatus in Laos has always been unable to fully control what local officials do. Its capitalist reforms in the late 1980s also stripped socialist ideology as a common cause within Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP). In fact, the LPRP has long been less ideological than its Vietnamese counterpart. …The anti-communist diaspora is fractured and incompetent. Dissidents abroad, mainly in Thailand, are terrified of the long arm of state repression. …The LPRP’s monopoly on power and its willingness to quash any sign of a political alternative – the only thing that [a totalitarian] government needs to get right to stay in power – looks secure. Not even mounting public distress over the failing economy and declining living standards has sparked a recognizable anti-LPRP movement. Moreover, dynastic politics has become even more entrenched since Sonexay [Siphandone] became prime minister in late 2022.
** David Hutt, "Why Laos’ Communists cannot do anti-corruption", Radio Free Asia (March 3, 2024)
* Imagine if the 90,000 or so Laotians couldn’t have emigrated this year, nor the hundreds of thousands in previous years. Laos would be a political tinderbox. But it isn’t.
** David Hutt, "Migration throws Laos’ communist government a lifeline", Radio Free Asia (October 28, 2023)
* In the Western vernacular there’s a warning about tails wagging dogs. And [a] Buddhist adage dictates that when the sage points at the moon, only the fool looks at his finger. The point of both is not to confuse the object for the subject. For years, we’ve been warned that Laos has been ensnared in a Chinese “debt trap.’ What if Laos has equally caught Beijing in a “creditor trap?”
** David Hutt, "Has Laos ensnared China in a 'creditor trap?'", Radio Free Asia (June 30, 2023)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Laos on Wikipedia
* Media related to Laos on Wikimedia Commons
* The dictionary definition of Laos on Wiktionary
* Laos travel guide from Wikivoyage
# Nico van Kampen

Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen (June 22, 1921 – October 6, 2013) was a Dutch theoretical physicist,

## Quotes
### The Scandal of Quantum Mechanics (2008)

"The Scandal of Quantum Mechanics", Am. J. Phys. 76 (11), November 2008
* The solution of the measurement problem is twofold. First, any observation or measurement requires a macroscopic measuring apparatus. A macroscopic object is also governed by quantum mechanics, but has a large number of constituents, so that each macroscopic state is a combination of an enormous number of quantum mechanical eigenstates. As a consequence the quantum mechanical interference terms between two macroscopic states virtually cancel and only probabilities survive. That is the explanation why our familiar macroscopic physics, concerned with billiard balls, deals with probabilities rather than probability amplitudes.
* Second, in order that a macroscopic apparatus can be influenced by the presence of a microscopic event it has to be prepared in a metastable initial state—think of the Wilson camera and the Geiger counter. The microscopic event triggers a macroscopically visible transition into the stable state. Of course this is irreversible and is accompanied by a thermodynamic increase of entropy.
* The scandal is that there are still many articles, discussions, and textbooks, which advertise various interpretations and philosophical profundities. In the seventeenth century Cartesians refused to accept Newton’s attraction because they could not accept a force that was not transmitted by a medium. Even now many physicists have not yet learned that they should adjust their ideas to the observed reality rather than the other way round.