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# Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur Subramanian "Rama" Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is a neurologist and neuroscientist, best known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and psychophysics.

## Quotes

* Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
** "A journey to the center of your mind", TED talks.

### The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

* What neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
** p. 247
* Your "conscious life" is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
** p. 249
* Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.
** BBC Reith Lectures, quoted in p. 291

### "VS Ramachandran: The Sherlock Holmes Of Neuroscience," (Swarajaya, April 4, 2017)

* Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means.
* Whether a country is to be called 'civilised' or not, depends not on how affluent the upper 10 per cent are, but how well they treat the lower 10 per cent.
# Vilhelm Ekelund

Vilhelm Ekelund (October 14, 1880 – September 3, 1949) was a Swedish poet and aphorist.

## Quotes
### The Second Light (1986)

A collection of aphorisms selected and translated by Lennart Bruce (1986)
* Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of it is always something new.
** p. 14
* The egotism of wisdom: to burn all that is pettily, painfully, stupidly selfish in the fire of love of spiritual vision and freedom.
** p. 14
* The noble Nazarene ... who raged against "the world," against the philistinism, the halfheartedness, the lack of ideals—if he had guessed that he was forging a weapon for the hands of exactly "this world"—he who sensed the misfortune of humanity so deeply that he didn't find any other solution to its enigma than to entirely reject and turn his back on all that is earthly, would see his name dragged into the service of an intense philistine optimism.
** p. 21
* The Jesuit principle: withdrawal from the world—in order to act on the world—was frequently also the principle of genius.
** p. 22
* The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditation "rests" in swiftness.
** p. 23
* Sometimes it is hard to avoid a certain feeling of sadness: when realizing that everything sensible has already, many times over, been excellently expressed—and expressed in vain. And note how well-hidden, pushed into obscurity, drowned by triviality's overwhelming mass—therefore, how important it is that the sensible be repeated again and again, experienced in new individuals over and over with new variations, with a new emphasis, in a new voice—continuously kept alive.
** p. 71
* Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them.
** p. 71
* What has been postponed by reason of road and effort is well postponed.
** p. 132
* Truth and beauty ... yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer.
** p. 133
# Village of the Damned (1960 film)

Village of the Damned is a 1960 film about the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered children.
    Directed by Wolf Rilla. Written by Stirling Silliphant.

## Alan Bernard

* People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad.

## Taglines

* Beware the stare that will paralyze the will of the world.
* Tody this village...tomorrow the world...what is the fate of the human race!

## Cast

* George Sanders — Gordon Zellaby
* Barbara Shelley — Anthea Zellaby
* Martin Stephens — David Zellaby
* Michael Gwynn — Alan Bernard

## External links

* Village of the Damned quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Village of the Giants

Village of the Giants is a 1965 film about teenage delinquents who ingest a substance that turns them into giants and enables them take over a small town.
    Directed by Bert I. Gordon. Written by Alan Caillou.

## Dialogue

    Genius: They got it. One of them ran off with it. I was going to stop him, but...
    Nancy: But what?
    Genius: Reasons of pure logic. He was bigger than me.
    Pete: Now maybe it won't be so easy for them to kick us around anymore!
    Elsa: Them?
    Pete: The adults, honey! This isn't there world anymore, it's gonna be ours!

## Taglines

* Teen-Agers Zoom to Supersize And Terrorize a Town!
* It's what happens when their sounds, their dances, their loves, their rebellions explode - 30 feet tall!

## Cast

* Tommy Kirk — Mike
* Johnny Crawford — Horsey
* Ron Howard — Genius
* Joy Harmon — Merrie
* Toni Basil — Red
* Beau Bridges — Fred
* Julie Kenney — Basement girl
* Bob Random — Rick
* Tisha Sterling — Jean
* Charla Doherty — Nancy
* Tim Rooney — Pete
* Kevin O'Neal — Harry
* Gail Gilmore — Elsa

## External links

* Village of the Giants quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Viktor Đerek

Viktor Đerek (born 8 March 2000), is a Croatian photographer, singer-songwriter and a human rights activist.

## Quotes

* I don’t think you should take photos just for the sake of taking them. You should only take photos because there is some deeper personal meaning for you. Whenever I see something that is truly important to me, I don’t need to “force” myself to take a photograph. The camera naturally floats toward my hand. There is no effort necessary.
* I also am intrinsically motivated to document my loved ones, especially my close friends and family. I also have tried to cultivate a sense of appreciation for the beauty of the moment, and then I think to myself; “This is a wonderful moment. I might want to reflect on and appreciate this moment in the future”. Then I take a photograph.
* I want my photographs and writings to be evidence that I was here and I had something to say and share with others. My life was not just about work and play, there was something more.
** Viktor Đerek for Croatia Week
* It always seems impossible until it's done.
** Viktor Đerek on his Twitter
* Finding paradise wherever I go.
** Viktor Đerek's caption on his Instagram photo
* For me, a portrait is something from which you feel the person, their inner quality, what it is that makes them who they are.
** Viktor Đerek for ND Magazine
* This movie is groundbreaking! I highly recommend it to anyone who has lost faith in true love because this is a romantic comedy in which anyone can find himself. It doesn't matter what race, religion or sexuality you are. This is the kind of movie that inspires everyone and restores faith in true love. Everyone deserves a great love story and I am convinced that many young people will make their friends, and hopefully, their parents go watch the movie.
** Viktor Đerek about the 'Love, Simon'

## External links

* Profile at IMDb
# Viliame Rovabokola

Ratu Viliame Rovabokola is the Paramount Chief of Nadogo, on the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji.

## Quotes
### Address to Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005 (excerpts)

(Source: Fiji Times).
* I know it's difficult to forget the past but I urge everyone here today to try and move the country forward.
* I believe if we all have faith in what we want to achieve, there's no doubt we will achieve it together as a community.
* They (Indo-Fijians) have been part of our lives and they are the very ones who made us what we are today, and I urge you to consider their plight and assist them in whatever way possible.
* Likewise to our Indian brothers and sisters, it's your duty to respect one another and value cultural differences and traditions.
# Vilem Flusser

Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written in several languages.

## Quotes

* There can be no doubt that Tsai's phenomena (whether they be works of art in the strict sense, or whether they be fantastic artifices) are extremely important. They show what promises and dangers may be in here in a "play," if it is proposed by a great artist. Because, even if Tsai's phenomena be considered artifices, there can be no doubt that Tsai is a great artist. Not because what he does is pleasant, or because he proposes a play, or because he represents the spirit of our times, but because he reveals to us, through artifice or works of art, the concrete experience of a future full of promise or abysmal danger.
** Vilem Flusser, Aspects and Prospects of Tsai's Work, Art International, March 1974
* The photographer’s gesture as the search for a viewpoint onto a scene takes place within the possibilities offered by the apparatus. The photographer moves within specific categories of space and time regarding the scene: proximity and distance, bird- and worm’s-eye views, frontal- and side-views, short or long exposures, etc. The Gestalt of space–time surrounding the scene is prefigured for the photographer by the categories of his camera. These categories are an a priori for him. He must ‘decide’ within them: he must press the trigger.
** Flusser, Vilém (2012) [1980], "Towards a Theory of Techno-Imagination", Philosophy of Photography (POP) 2 (2), p. 198.
# Zorro's Fighting Legion

Zorro's Fighting Legion is a 1937 serial film in which the masked hero leads a fighting force against a villain who plots the conquest of The Republic of Mexico.
    Directed by William Witney and John English. Written by Ronald Davidson, Franklin Adreon, Morgan Cox, Sol Shor, and Barney A. Sarecky.

## Don Diego Vega

* What Diego can't do, Zorro can!

## Dialogue

    Manuel Gonzalez: Gentlemen, this is becoming ridiculous! The next thing you know, someone will be accusing you of being Zorro.
    Don Diego Vega: Why, I believe I'd be flattered!
    Gov. Felipe: I propose that Kala be hanged in the public square tomorrow morning.
    Manuel Gonzalez: Excellent - make an example of him!
    Chief Justice Pablo: I also agree. Show the Yanquis they cannot break our laws and live and we'll have little to fear from that quarter.
    Don Diego Vega: Except bloodshed and death.

## Cast

* Reed Hadley - Don Diego Vega / Zorro
* Sheila Darcy - Volita
* William Corson - Ramón
* Leander De Cordova - Governor Felipe
* Edmund Cobb - Manuel González
* John Merton - Comandante Manuel
* C. Montague Shaw - Chief Justice Pablo / Don Del Oro
* Budd Buster - Juan
* Carleton Young - Benito Juárez
* Bud Geary - Don Del Oro

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Zorro's Fighting Legion on Wikipedia
* Media related to Zorro's Fighting Legion on Wikimedia Commons
* Zorro's Fighting Legion quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Zorro's Fighting Legion at Allmovie
# Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism or Mazdayasna is one of the world's oldest continuously practiced religions. It is based on the life and teachings of Zoroaster.

## Quotes

* Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed credal religions, and it has probably had more influence on mankind, directly and indirectly, than any other single faith.
** Mary Boyce, in Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, p. 1.
* Zoroastrianism survives today only among small communities in the province of Fars, and among the ninety thousand Parsees of India. These devotedly preserve and study the ancient scriptures, worship fire, earth, water and air as sacred, and expose their dead in “Towers of Silence” to birds of prey lest burning or burial should defile the holy elements. They are a people of excellent morals and character, a living tribute to the civilizing effect of Zarathustra’s doctrine upon mankind.
** Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage.
* The pantheon was never eliminated, and Zoroastrianism, in some sense at least, remained a polytheistic religion throughout its history, although today the many deities have lost their individual divine character and are not worshipped for themselves but have been reinterpreted as allegories or symbols. Thus, modern Zoroastrianism is probably best described as monotheistic, certainly as monotheistic as Christianity with its Trinity and angels, though less monotheistic than Judaism and Islam.
** Prods Oktor Skjærvø, Zarathustra: a Revolutionary Monotheist? (2011) as quoted in Reconsidering the Concept of Revolutionary Monotheism, in Pongratz-Leisten, Beate, p. 350, Winona Lake IN: Eisenbrauns. Also quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
* Zoroastrians were a colony from Northern India...[who] migrated westward to Arachosia and Persia.
** Max Muller, (1875:248)1875 The Science of Language New York, Scribner. quoted in Kazanas, N. (2015). Vedic and IndoEuropean studies. Aditya Prakashan., chapter 3
# Zork

Zork is a series of three text adventures from the 1980s.

## Dialogue

    You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
    Trap door crashes shut, and you hear someone barring it.
    Suddenly, the rainbow appears to become solid and, I venture, walkable (I think the giveaway was the stairs and bannister).
    Thank you very much. I was rather thirsty (from all this talking, probably).
    What the heck! You won't make any friends this way, but nobody around here is to friendly anyhow. Gulp!
    If you pray enough, your prayers may be answered.
    Such language in a high-class establishment like this!
    A hollow voice says "Fool".
# Zork: Grand Inquisitor

Zork: Grand Inquisitor is a 360-degree point-and-click videogame from Activision.

## Dialogue

    Man on PA: In a hypothetical universe of purely good things and bad things, totemization would be near the bottom of the list of desirable things.
    Dalboz of Gurth, the Dungeon Master: I shall call you ageless, faceless, gender-neutral, culturally ambiguous, adventurer person. AFGNCAAP for short.
    Dalboz of Gurth, the Dungeon Master: Your sword is blowing glue. Wait, let me try that again, your sword is glowing blue
# The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years (1988–93) was American television series that was aired on ABC. The series depicts the social and family life of an adolescent boy growing up in a suburban middle-class family, and takes place from 1968–1973.

## Seasons

       Season 1
       Season 2
       Season 3
       Season 4
       Season 5
       Season 6

## Cast

* Fred Savage - Kevin Arnold
* Danica McKellar - Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper
* Daniel Stern - Narrator/Adult Kevin
* Olivia d'Abo - Karen Arnold
* Josh Saviano - Paul Pfeiffer
* Alley Mills - Norma Arnold
* Jason Hervey - Wayne Arnold
* Dan Lauria - Jack Arnold

## External links

* The Wonder Years quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Tochi Onyebuchi

Tochi Onyebuchi (born October 4, 1987) is an American science fiction writer and civil rights lawyer of Nigerian descent.

## Quotes

* …The idea of police forces as little more than white militia employed to ensure a certain social stratification highlighted just how temporally ever-present police brutality is in American history. And I wanted to capture the intergenerationality of the national paroxysms, embodied in the riots and protests that followed so many of these killings.
** On the continuum of hatred and injustice in his novel Riot Baby in “'This Isn't New': Questions For Tochi Onyebuchi, Author Of 'Riot Baby'” in NPR (2020 Jan 26)
* … I was wary of engaging in any sort of savior complex; the incarcerated are most qualified to speak about their own experiences, but I wanted to tell people some of what I saw and heard and read about in these places. I had to get it out of me. And, given my time in law school and as a legal professional who has dealt in these systems, I felt I had the kind of background that was needed to do this telling. This wasn't a faceless black mass I was trying to humanize, these were specific stories I needed to get out of me and felt were especially compelling…
** On using his legal background to develop compelling characters in “'This Isn't New': Questions For Tochi Onyebuchi, Author Of 'Riot Baby'” in NPR (2020 Jan 26)
* As some are drawn to bars and others to churches, I’m drawn to bookstores and libraries. They’re sanctuaries. They’re sanctuary. Hope germinates in me that osmosis will take place and whatever goodness is in those books that got them a place on those shelves will leak into me and I’ll produce something that could someday go there.
** On where he finds inspiration in “THE PEN TEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOCHI ONYEBUCHI” in Pen America (2020 Jan 16)
* They provide relief. Sometimes, it’s the relief of the same genre as what we find in a church sanctuary when the minister ascends to the pulpit and late-morning sunlight is blasting through the windows behind him to gild him and the congregants before you as the choir reaches the climax of the doxology. Sometimes, it’s the relief of a kind yet somehow firm-and-gentle hand at the back of the neck, kneading away not sorrow but the loneliness that can attend it. Sometimes, it’s the relief of discovering you’re no longer bound by the laws of gravity and that, yes, you can actually fly. Sometimes, it’s an answer. Stories do all of these things for us. I’m convinced we’d be utterly lost without them.
** On why people need stories in “THE PEN TEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOCHI ONYEBUCHI” in Pen America (2020 Jan 16)

### Riot Baby 2020

* I hate it here. Everything's so—' She searches for a word that will tell Mama how violent it always is or how much she hates having to hide in the closet every time it even looks like gangbangers might roll through...--
* (Part I paragraph 1)
* The Devil is busy here...The gangs, the drugs, all the evil that men do to each other here. Sometimes even...
* (Part I paragraph 4)

## External links

* Riot Baby
# Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett (c. March 16, 1721 – September 17, 1771) was a Scottish novelist, translator, historian and editor.

## Quotes

* Facts are stubborn things.
** Translation of Gil Blas (1749), Book X, Chap. 1.
** Also used by Bernard Mandeville in An Enquiry Into the Origin of Honour (1732), p. 162, and by Jared Elliot in Essay on Field Husbandry (1747), p. 35.
* Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
** Ode to Independence, strophe 1.
* Those sculptur'd halls my feet shall never tread, Where varnish'd vice and vanity combin'd, To dazzle and seduce, their banners spread, And forge vile shackles for the free-born mind.
** Ode to Independence, antistrophe 3.
* Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
** The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771).
* Thy fatal shafts unerring move, I bow before thine altar, Love!
** The Adventures of Roderick Random (1848), Chapter xl, reported in Bartlett's Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

### The Regicide (1749)

* Keen are the pangs Of hapless love, and passion unapprov'd: But where consenting wishes meet, and vows Reciprocally breath'd, confirm the tie, Joy rolls on joy, an inexhausted stream! And virtue crowns the sacred scene.
** Act I, scene iii.
* To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules The ravag'd plain—Anon the teeming earth Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year: And shall not we—while fate, like winter, frowns, Expect revolving bliss?
** Act I, scene vi.
* To exult Ev'n o'er an enemy oppress'd, and heap Affliction on the afflicted, is the mark And the mean triumph of a dastard soul.
** Act II, scene vii.
* True courage scorns To vent her prowess in a storm of words; And, to the valiant, actions speak alone.
** Act II, scene vii.
* To send the injur'd unredress'd away, How great soe'er th' offender, or the wrong'd Howe'er obscure, is wicked—weak and vile: Degrades, denies, and should dethrone a king!
** Act IV, scene ix.

## Misattributed

* As Love can exquisitely bless, Love only feels the marvellous of pain; Opens new veins of torture in the soul, And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.
** Edward Young, The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.
# Tocqueville effect

The Tocqueville effect (also known as the Tocqueville paradox) is the phenomenon in which, as social conditions and opportunities improve, social frustration grows more quickly.

## Quotes

* The hatred that men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. I have already given the reason for this phenomenon. When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye, whereas the slightest dissimilarity is odious in the midst of general uniformity; the more complete this uniformity is, the more insupportable the sight of such a difference becomes. Hence it is natural that the love of equality should constantly increase together with equality itself, and that it should grow by what it feeds on.
** Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter III.
* Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.
** Max Scheler, Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), Full text in English - Full text in German, L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 50
* It is a curious fact that the more democratic a country becomes, the less respect it has for its rulers. Aristocracies and foreign conquerors may be hated but they are not despised.
** Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931-35 (1975)
* Here is the theory invented by Tocqueville. ... The lighter a yoke, the more it seems insupportable; what exasperates is not the crushing burden but the impediment; what inspires to revolt is not oppression but humiliation. The French of 1789 were incensed against the nobles because they were almost the equals of the nobles; it is the slight difference that can be appreciated, and what can be appreciated that counts. The eighteenth-century middle class was rich, in a position to fill almost any employment, almost as powerful as the nobility. It was exasperated by this “almost” and stimulated by the proximity of its goal; impatience is always provoked by the final strides.
** Émile Faguet, Politicians and Moralists of the Nineteenth Century, Boston: little, Brown; 1928, p.93
* Overwhelming and astounding inequality, especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
** Helmut Schoeck Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior (1987 ed.)
* The best means of protection against the envy of a neighbor is to drive a Rolls-Royce instead of a car only slightly better than his...overwhelming and astounding inequality arouses far less envy than minimal inequality.
** Helmut Schoeck Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior (1987 ed.)