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# Pan Wen-chung

Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠; Pān Wénzhōng; born 1962) is a politician in Taiwan (Republic of China). He was the Minister of Education in 2016-2018.

## Quotes

* English proficiency opens up opportunities for young (Taiwanese) people. We must do this for the next generation.
** Pan Wen-chung (2018) cited in "Premier to set goals in 2019 for making English official language" on Focus Taiwan, 27 August 2018.
* The true meaning of college education is to allow students from different countries engage in exchanges and to respect different opinions.
** Pan Wen-chung (2019) cited in "Chinese students urged to cherish, respect freedom of speech" on Focus Taiwan, 2 October 2019.
# Prasad Gallela

Prasad Gallela (7 April 1962 –) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Cuddapah.

## Quotes

* It is part of the Church's mission to ensure that every child has access to Christian catechism: it is education through which the faith of the child has the opportunity to grow and take root.
** A Bishop reiterates the "right to catechism" for children (7 November 2013) Fides News Agency
# Prashna Upanishad

The Prashna Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads.

## Quotes

* This [Lifebreath] burns as fire—this as sun;
    This as rain and Maghavan, this as wind;
    This as earth and the divine substance;
    As real and not-real;
    And what is immortal.
      * 2.5
* The lifebreath here arises from the self (atman).
    As this shadow here, upon a man,
    So this mind is stretched upon lifebreath;
    And it enters by a path created by the mind.
      * 3.3
* The origin, entrance, position,
    the fivefold expansion of lifebreath;
    how it relates to what's in the body—
    A man who knows this becomes immortal.
      * 3.12
* That on which rest the breaths and beings,
       and, with all the deities, the intelligent self;
    Whoever knows that, my friend, as the imperishable;
       He, knowing the whole world,
       has entered the whole world indeed.
      * 4.11

## External links

Upanishads :
| Principal | Isha • Kena • Katha • Prashna • Mundaka • Mandukya • Taittiriya • Aitareya • Chandogya • Brihadaranyaka |
| Other | Shvetashvatara |
# Pratap Singh

Raman Pratap Singh (6 June 1950 – 18 May 2020) was the President of Fiji's National Federation Party (NFP). He is a lawyer and a former parliamentarian.

## Quotes

* Instead of sharing and co-existing, the people have retreated into their racial compartments instead of uniting both as communities and as a nation. Instead of uniting as a nation, our leaders have created a racial gulf that is tearing our island nation apart.
** Fiji Day address, 10 October 2005
* The NFP firmly believes that a society has to be created where all people irrespective of race feel peaceful and secure.
** Fiji Day address, 10 October 2005
# Pramod Muthalik

Pramod Muthalik (born 1963) is a Hindu right-wing leader from India. He is the founder and chief of the nationalist organisation Sri Ram Sena.

## Quotes

* We are the citizens of this nation, and I feel it is our duty to discipline indecent behavior. It is out of this sense of duty that we feel the need to safeguard our culture.
** As quoted in "Attack on women at a bar in India raises fears of 'Hindu Taliban', Los Angeles Times (29 January 2009)
* What we have done in Mangalore is a big success story in out fight against indecency. We are thankful to our Mangalore cadre for everything that they have done.
** Defending the 2009 Mangalore pub attack, as quoted in "Mangalore pub row: Sri Ram Sene men get bail", IBNLive (31 January 2009)
* Some of the parents of beaten up girls personally called me and thanked for saving their daughters as none of them till then knew about their kids’ habits.
** Defending the 2009 Mangalore pub attack, as quoted in "Sex & drugs led to pub attack: Mutalik", Bangalore Mirror (6 February 2009)
* Our activists will go around with a priest, a turmeric stub and a ‘mangal sutra’ on February 14. If we come across couples being together in public and expressing their love, we will take them to the nearest temple and conduct their marriage.
** On Valentine's Day, as quoted in "We’ll not spare dating couples on Valentine’s Day: Muthalik", The Hindu (6 February 2009)
* Since they are women, stooping to the level of gifting undergarments will defame them only.
** On the Pink Chaddi Campaign, as quoted in "Mutalik rubbishes pink chaddi campaign", The Times of India (9 February 2009)
* Could Sania not find any eligible bachelor among 100 crore Indians, which includes 15 crore Muslims? It is India, which is responsible for her fame and by choosing a Pakistani cricketer as her life partner, she is insulting all Indians. We totally oppose the move.
** On Indian tennis player Sania Mirza's marriage to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, as quoted in "Sania should not be allowed to play for India: Muthalik", Hindustan Times (2 April 2010)
* This is an organised crime. There is money coming from the Gulf and other countries to enable a gang of Muslim men trap Hindu women, marry them and then use them for crime including terror.
** On Love Jihad, as quoted in "Muthalik finds cases of ‘love jihad’ in state, cites RTI info", The Indian Express (20 September 2014)
# Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (born 1967) is an Indian academician. He was the president of the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank and was the Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University from July 2017 to July 2019.

## Quotes

* Indians see the war as a moral triumph too, a victory for democracy and human rights. As the leading Indian scholar and analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta wrote, “India’s 1971 armed intervention in East Pakistan—undertaken for a mixture of reasons—is widely and fairly regarded as one of the world’s most successful cases of humanitarian intervention against genocide. Indeed, India in effect applied what we would now call the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) principle, and applied it well.”
** quoted from Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide. Epilogue
* The Citizenship Amendment Bill uses a legal instrument to send an insidious political message: Religious identity will play a dominant role in assessing claims to citizenship... But we should recognise that this direction is not going to be set through the nice formalisms of law, or the contrived conventions we can adhere to in normal times. The direction is going to be set by the mob, by brute power, by mobilisation... So while the legal and philosophical work is necessary, don’t count on them to do our work for us.
** The morning after CAB: It will be a mistake to rely just on Supreme Court December 12, 2019. quoted in Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0. chapter 19
* Ayodhya’s Ram temple is first real colonisation of Hinduism by political power.
** PB Mehta writes: Ayodhya’s Ram temple is first real colonisation of Hinduism by political power quoted also at

## Quotes about Mehta

* Trustees must “provide a full, public, accounting of whatever policies or pressures brought about the circumstances that forced Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s resignation … My Respect for Ashoka University Has Been Seriously Tested … I gave the first of the Ashoka ‘Crossover’ Series lecture unveiling the university to the public later that year; I offered the commencement address at the 2018 Ashoka convocation; I donated to its library my own and my late wife’s entire collections of books in 2019. And I have known Professor Mehta for almost 30 years and have learned from him for 30 years.” ... If this is not done, and done soon, he said, “the stain on the university will be indelible, and the support of its most fervent admirers permanently lost.”
** About the controversy following Pratap Bhanu Mehta 's resignation . Sheldon Pollock of Columbia University. Sheldon Pollock: 'My Respect for Ashoka University Has Been Seriously Tested' The Wire, 19/Mar/2021. quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0. chapter 19
# John Zephaniah Holwell

John Zephaniah Holwell FRS (17 September 1711 – 5 November 1798) was a surgeon, an employee of the British East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal (1760). He was also one of the first Europeans to study Indian antiquities.

## Quotes

* A significant section of early Englishmen in India also found in Indian culture “a deep and appealing wisdom.” John Z. Holwell (1711-1798), in his Interesting Historical Events, relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan (1767), declared that “the world does not now contain annals of more indisputable antiquity than those delivered down by the ancient Brahmins.” He avowed that the people “from the earliest times have been an ornament to the creation if so much can with propriety be said of any known people upon earth.”
** quoted in Jain, S., & Jain, M. (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. vol 4. Introduction
* Holwell wrote in his preliminary discourse to the Religious Tenets of the Gentoos, "Having studiously perused all that has been written of the empire of Indostan, both as to its ancient as well as more modern state; as also the various accounts transmitted to us, by authors in almost all ages.... I venture to pronounce them all very defective, fallacious and unsatisfactory to an inquisitive searcher after truth; and only tending to convey a very imperfect and injurious resemblance of a people, who from the earliest times have been an ornament to the creation if so much can with propriety be said of any known people upon earth."
* A mere description of the exterior manners and religion of a people, will no more give us a true idea of them than a geographical description of a country can convey a just conception of their laws and government. The traveller must sink deeper in his researches.... His telling us such and such a people, in the East or West Indies, worship this stork, or that stone, or monstrous idol; only serves to reduce in our esteem our fellow creatures to the most abject and despicable point of light. Whereas, was he skilled in the language of the people he describes, sufficiently to trace the etymology of their words and phrases, and capable of diving into the mysteries of their theology; he would probably be able to evince to us, that such seemingly preposterous worship, had the most sublime rational source and foundation."
** quoted in Ibn, W. (2009). Defending the West: A critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books.
# John Woodroffe

Sir John George Woodroffe (15 December 1865 - 18 January 1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose work helped to unleash in the West a deep and wide interest in Hindu philosophy and Yogic practices.

## Quotes

* There are then based on this common foundation three main religions, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Jainism. Of the second, a great and universal faith, it has been said that, with each fresh acquirement of knowledge, it seems more difficult to separate it from the Hinduism out of which it emerged and into which (in Northern Buddhism) it relapsed. This is of course not to say that there are no differences between the two, but that they share in certain general and common principles as their base.
** Sir John Woodroffe (originally under pseudonym Arthur Avalon): Shakti and Shakta, p.5., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743
* To an Indian, self-conscious of the greatness of his country's civilization, it must be gall and wormwood to hear others speaking of the "education" and "civilization" of India. India who has taught some of the deepest truths which our race has known is to be 'educated.' She whose ancient civilization ranks with the greatest the world has known is to be civilized.
** (source: Is India Civilized: Essays on Indian Culture - By Sir John Woodroffe p.290).
# John Yau

John Yau (born June 5, 1950) is an American poet and critic.

## Quotes

* But you were brushing out your hair and singing to yourself. And, for a moment, I think I saw what those artists saw — someone half in love with herself and half in love with the world.
** "January 18, 1979" lines 7-12, Corpse and Mirror, Henry Holt, 1983
* Why isn't there more meat on this chicken It's as if the damned thing began starving itself once it knew what the future had in store for it Is this what they mean by "organic"
** "Domestic Bliss" lines 10-13, Borrowed Love Poems, Penguin, 2002
# John Ziman

John Michael Ziman (May 16, 1925 – January 2, 2005) was a British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author.

## Quotes

* ...the 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.
** John M. Ziman (1976). The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 56-57. ISBN 0-521-09917-X.
* A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
** John M. Ziman (1976). The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-521-09917-X.
* The communication of modern science to the ordinary citizen, necessary, important, desirable as it is, cannot be considered an easy task. The prime obstacle is lack of education. … There is also the difficulty of making scientific discoveries interesting and exciting without completely degrading them intellectually. … It is a weakness of modern science that the scientist shrinks from this sort of publicity, and thus gives an impression of arrogant mystagoguery.
** John M. Ziman (1976). The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-521-09917-X.
* Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.
** Ziman, John M. "Why must scientists become more ethically sensitive than they used to be?", Science, December 4, 1998.
* "Even in physics, there is no infallible procedure for generating reliable knowledge. The calm order and perfection of well-established theories, accredited by innumerable items of evidence from a thousand different hands, eyes and brains, is not characteristic of the front-line of research, where controversy, conjecture, contradiction and confusion are rife. The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false. The scientific system is as much involved in distilling the former out of the latter as it is in creating and transferring more and more bits of data and items of 'information'."
** John Ziman in "Reliable Knowledge: an Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science" (1978)

## External links

* Obituary
* John Ziman Bibliography, compiled by Michael Berry
# Rachel Khong

Rachel Khong (born 1985) is an Asian-American writer and editor.

## Quotes

* I wanted the book to inhabit quieter moments, and to be about these smaller interactions that reflect the way life often is. A tidy, definitive ending wouldn’t have been right for this book or the people in it; I wanted to leave the suggestion that life goes on, for all of these characters, even after the last page.
** On what she aimed for in her novel Goodbye, Vitamin in “Hello, Rachel Khong: Talking with the Former Lucky Peach Editor about Her Debut Novel, GOODBYE, VITAMIN” in Booklist Reader (2017 Jul 11)
* People are so obsessed over this question of what is and isn’t autobiography—and I think the question is especially popular with people who don’t read much fiction, because a novel seems so mysterious: “Where did this story come from?…
** On readers wondering if she included biographical elements in her writings in whether writers have the responsibility to write about contemporary issues in “Hello, Rachel Khong: Talking with the Former Lucky Peach Editor about Her Debut Novel, GOODBYE, VITAMIN” in Booklist Reader (2017 Jul 11)
* Nonfiction requires logic and more careful thinking; sometimes I have to remind myself to be less self-conscious when I’m writing fiction. You have to turn off the part of your brain that tells you things don’t make sense or aren’t any good. Whereas that voice can be useful in nonfiction writing.
** On how writing nonfiction versus fiction compares in "Rachel Khong: How I Write" in The Writer Magazine (2018 May 25)
* Memory is everywhere, in the ways we think of ourselves and tell our stories. There are certain kinds of people who have more of a sense of who they are and their whole life story.
** On the role of memory in how working as a lawyer that served domestic violence victims inspired her to become a writer in "The Spaces In-Between: The Millions Interviews Rachel Khong" in The Millions (2017 Aug 22)
# Rachel McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams (born 17 November 1978) is a Canadian actress.

## Quotes

* You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think "oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by...
** "Rachel McAdams Interview – Married Life at Collider (6 March 2008)
* I’m still employed and that’s a good thing. I’ve gotten to do a wide variety of things and different roles. I’ve met different kinds of challenges on each and every film and I never get bored. So that’s been success to me, that I’ve been able to stay afloat and also get to do things that are fun. I don’t know where that puts me in the grand scheme of things but I’ve really enjoyed the journey and the course it’s taken so far.
** "Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana Interview - The Time Traveller's Wife by Steve Weintraub at Collider (13 August 2009)

## External links

* Profile at IMDb
* "Next Stop Wonderland", interview in ELLE (12 March 2007)
* About Time Interviews (Rachel McAdams, Ben Folds)
* Rachel McAdams's Official About Time Interview - Celebs.com
# Nerium

Nerium oleander, commonly known as oleander or rosebay, is a shrub or small tree cultivated worldwide in temperate and subtropical areas as an ornamental and landscaping plant. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium, belonging to subfamily Apocynoideae of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is so widely cultivated that no precise region of origin has been identified, though it is usually associated with the Mediterranean Basin.

## Quotes

* Hot oleanders in a rosy vale Search’d by the lamping fly, whose little spark Went in and out, like passion’s bashful hope.
** Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, "A Night in Italy"; The Wanderer: A Poem (1859)
* The entire way from Pila to Bhakra I came down a riverbed that had some running water and oleander flowers like peach blossoms, very colorful and in full bloom. In the land of Hindustan this flower is always in bloom. There were many of them on both sides of the riverbed. To those riding and walking with me an order was given to put bouquets of these flowers in their turbans, and anyone who did not have a flower on his head would have his turban taken off. An amazing field of flowers was thus made!
** Jahangirnama (April 1607), as translated by Wheeler Thackston (1999)
# Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions is a novel written by Tsitsi Dangarembga a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.

## Quotes

* You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
* It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end
* Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life
* You can't go on all the time being whatever’s necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I’m convinced I don't want to be anyone’s underdog
* You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. It's not right for anyone to be that. But once you get used to it, well, it just seems natural and you just carry on. And that's the end of you. You're trapped
* Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables
* And these days it is worse, with the poverty of blackness on one side and the weight of womanhood on the other. Aiwa! What will help you, my child, is to learn to carry your burdens with strength
* Quietly, unobtrusively and extremely fitfully, something in my mind began to assert itself, to question things and refuse to be brainwashed, bringing me to this time when I can set down this story. It was a long and painful process for me, that process of expansion
# NetHack

NetHack is a three-player roguelike game originally released in 1987.

## Introduction

* After the Creation, the cruel god Moloch rebelled against the authority of Marduk the Creator. Moloch stole from Marduk the most powerful of all the artifacts of the gods, the Amulet of Yendor, and he hid it in the dark cavities of Gehennom, the Under World, where he now lurks, and bides his time.
** Introduction to the game.

## Yet Another Stupid Death

* You fall into a pit! How pitiful. Isn't that the pits? You land on a set of sharp iron spikes! --More-- The spikes were poisoned! The poison was deadly... --More-- Do you want your possessions identified?"
** Upon falling into a pit, if the character is polymorphed into a pit fiend or pit viper, has lost poison resistance, and is wearing an amulet of unchanging.

## Physical impossibilities

* That is a potion bottle, not a Klein bottle!
** On attempting to dip a potion into itself.
* That would be an interesting topological exercise.
** On attempting to put a bag inside itself.

## Miscellanea

* You fall down the stairs.
** On descending stairs while burdened (can hurt or even kill the character).
* Talking to yourself is a bad habit for a dungeoneer.
** On attempting to chat with oneself.
* You decide not to force the issue.
** On canceling an attempt to force open a lock.
* You identify this as an identify scroll.
** On reading a scroll of identify while confused.
* The shrieker shrieks.
** A shrieker is a monster which possesses no attacks but shrieks to aggravate other monsters.
* The biggest obstacle in NetHack is perhaps your mind.
** Sometimes received as an engraving.
* You feel that eating the kitten was a bad idea.
** Received after eating a kitten corpse.