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# Blessing Okagbare

Blessing Oghnewresem Okagbare-Otegheri (born 9 October 1988) is a former Nigerian track and field athlete who specialized in Long jump and sprints. She is an Olympic and World Championships medalist in the long jump, and a world medalist in the 200 meters. She also holds the Women's 100 meters Commonwealth Games record for the fastest time at 10.85 seconds. She is currently serving an 11-year ban for breaching multiple World Athletics anti-doping rules. Her ban expires on 30 July 2032.

## Quotes

* There is no magic in sports, as much as we the athletes want to go there and win, but there is always somebody who is working harder than you are, and more is being invested in that person than in you.
** Interview on Nigerians who always expect instant success.
* It starts from the way you eat or sleep, the people you surround yourself with, the people that educate you, the people that sponsor you, the people that tell you that you can do it, versus Nigerians, the majority of whom just criticize.
** Interview on what criticism has done to her.
* You get to another stage of your life where you just don’t say things or do things like ‘I don’t know if I want to do this thing, I’m not sure’, no you have to want it, that’s just it.
** Interview on how she has changed over the years.
* Sports is big business. You have to invest. And you know we have great talents in Nigeria but you know, at the end of the day, all do not pay attention to these talents. They don’t prepare us for these major championships.
** Blessing Okagbare laments the federation's attitude killing Nigerian Athletics.
* I feel like most of the time, really some of us don’t pay so much attention on ourselves and try to put other people or other things into it. At the end of the day, we lose focus on the things we’re supposed to focus on.
** The Nigeria Athletics social media page.

## Quotes about Blessing

* She (Blessing Okagbare) is good, she’s got good character and she’s doing fine. She’s hardworking; she sprints and jumps well. I also want to sprint like her.
** Ese Brume as quoted in EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with ESE BRUME, Nigerian, African & Commonwealth Long Jump CHAMPION!, Making of Champions, September 8, 2014.
# Bleak Expectations

Bleak Expectations is a Radio 4 comedy series that pastiches the works of Charles Dickens and other Victorian-era tropes, with added steampunk-esque retrospective inventions, surreal humour and wordplay. It was written by Mark Evans and ran for five series originally broadcast from 2007 to 2012.

## Series 2
### Episode 1: A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-Kippered

    Sir Philip: My life has been an endless procession of trials, setbacks, and conveniently-spaced cliffhanger endings. Adventure has followed me like a dog follows a man with bacon trousers and lamb chop underpants.
    Sourquill: It is a Carrier Cheetah. It has replaced the Carrier Pigeon. Well, it has eaten the Carrier Pigeon.
    Lily: Come let us leave my father to contemplate his sad memories.
    Sir Philip: Actually I shall get drunk and ignore them - it is the British way.

### Episode 3: A Recovery All Made Miserable

    Sir Philip: Clocks should be like women. They should stand in the corner quietly, and once a year receive a good servicing.
    Sir Philip: Then, with relief, I saw we were falling into a mattress orchard. Their softness would break my fall. But alas, the mattresses were not yet ripe, and were consequently incredibly hard.
    Sir Philip: Harry and I eagerly caught up on our news of the past weeks...
    Young Pip: I've mostly been asleep and close to death.
    Harry Biscuit: Yes me too.
    Sir Philip: ...which didn't take long.

## Series 4
### Episode 1: A Tolerable Life De-Happified

    Sir Philip: Alas our search, like a Scottish menu, bore no fruit.
    Young Pip: Is that a cake shaped like a sofa?
    Harry Biscuit: Comfort Eating.
# Blessing Onuh

Blessing Onyeche Onuh (born 30 June 1976) is a Nigerian politician from Benue State. She represents Otukpo/Ohimini Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. She is the daughter of former Senate President David Mark.

## Quotes

* the primary purpose of the government was the security and welfare of the citizens.
* The banks attacked include IBTC, Zenith, UBA, and First Bank. Several people were killed on the bank premises and many others sustained gunshot injuries.
** https://dailypost.ng/2023/10/24/house-of-reps-to-investigate-otukpo-robbery/
* The perpetrators of this heinous act should be speedily fished out by security agents to face justice.
** https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/nass-member-onuh-condemns-otukpo-bloody-robbery/
* Worried that the security architecture of Otukpo Community, particularly the police and vigilante are badly demoralised.
** https://leadership.ng/house-of-reps-condemns-benue-bank-robbery/
* t’s obvious that the NFF president is frustrating this ad hoc committee from investigating the allegations levelled against it.
** https://punchng.com/falcons-bonus-reps-demand-payment-slips-from-nff/
# Bystander effect

Bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help.

## Quotes

* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
** Albert Einstein
* If the moderates fail to act now, history will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamour of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
** Martin Luther King, Jr. (1958).
* My commandment is ‘Thou shall not stand idly by’. Which means, when you witness an injustice: Don’t stand idly by. When you hear of a person or a group being persecuted: Do not stand idly by. When there is something wrong with the community around you or far away: Do not stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights.
** Elie Wiesel, Commencement ceremony at Washington University in St. Louis (2011).

## See also

* Bystander
# Bárður á Steig Nielsen

Bárður á Steig Nielsen (born 16 April 1972) is a Faroese politician who currently serves as the Prime Minister of Faroe Islands since 16 September 2019.

## Quotes

* Unlike most other governments, we decided early on that we wanted to influence the behavior of our citizens by issuing recommendations – not by making laws. Trust breeds trust – or at least that has been true in our case.
** Bárður á Steig Nielsen (2021) cited in "We got rid of Covid-19 in the Faroe Islands through competence – and luck: Bárður á Steig Nielsen" on The Guardian, 10 March 2021.
* The North Atlantic and the Arctic are increasingly in the spotlight of security policy, and therefore the active participation of the Faroe Islands and Greenland is also of growing importance. I'm sure it's going to benefit us all and I'm looking forward to getting started. I regard the new contact committee as a necessary modernization of the Commonwealth.
** Bárður á Steig Nielsen (2021) cited in "Greenland and Faroe Islands Take Step Towards More Autonomy on Foreign Affairs and Defense" on High North News, 8 October 2021.
# Bärbel Bohley

"All of these investigations," she said, "the thorough investigation of the Stasi structures, the methods with which they worked and are still working, all of this will fall into the wrong hands. These structures will be examined in great detail - in order to then take them over. They will be adapted a little so that they fit into a free Western society. You won't necessarily arrest the troublemakers either. There are finer ways to render someone harmless. But the secret prohibitions, the observation, the suspicion, the fear, the isolating and exclusion, the branding and silencing of those who don't conform - that will come back, believe me. Institutions will be created that work much more effectively, much more finely than the Stasi. The constant lying will also return, the disinformation, the fog in which everything loses its contours." Bohley in the spring of 1991 after Chaim Noll Quote Bohley in German Language after Chaim Noll
# Bärbel Höhn

Bärbel Höhn (born 4 May 1952) is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 national elections, after serving as State Minister of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005.

## Quotes

* “As parliamentarians we are the bridge between the local, national and international level. We can decide on legislation!” at Parliamentary Accountability Summit at COP28 in Dubia.
# Béatrice Nirere

Béatrice Nirere s a Rwandan politician who was convicted of genocide for her involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. At the time of her conviction in 2009, she was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Rwanda, the country's lower house of parliament.

## Quotes

* Being vaccinated among first groups is something of great importance that induces smile. This gesture evidences how the Government plans for all people including inmates.
** Noted by Béatrice Nirere among inmates vaccinated against Covid-19. Igihe (March 10, 2021)
# Béarnese proverbs

Béarnese is a French dialect spoken in south-western France.

## K

* Kokka por kokka.
** English equivalent: Give and take is fair play.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "6̟03, Gleiches" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. p. 313-314.

## See Also

* French proverbs
# Byzantine Iconoclasm

Byzantine Iconoclasm refers to two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and imperial authorities within the Eastern Church and the temporal imperial hierarchy.

## Quotes
### Biblical passages cites by iconoclasts

* Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (Hebrew פסל) or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
** Exodus 20:4
* God is spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
** John 4:24
* Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images (εἰκόνος) resembling mortal man.
** Romans 1:22-23

### Iconoclastic Conciliabulum, 754 AD

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* What avails, then, the folly of the painter, who from sinful love of gain depicts that which should not be depicted—that is, with his polluted hands he tries to fashion that which should only be believed in the heart and confessed with the mouth? He makes an image and calls it Christ.
* If anyone shall endeavor to represent the forms of the Saints in lifeless pictures with material colors which are of no value (for this notion is vain and introduced by the devil), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, let him be anathema!
# Avner Strauss

Avner Strauss (born 5 November 1954) is an Israeli poet, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

## Quotes

* The blind man sits in the dark, but for guests he turns on the light.
** 12 Years Before Now, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1991).
* If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time.
** If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
* In Jerusalem, the skies are closer.
** In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower.
* If you count the thorns, the flower disappears.
** The Rains, Anyhow.
* If I had plenty, I'd be content with what I have.
** If I Were a Cat.
* In Jerusalem, even the silence speaks. In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower
** (1989).
* Mama Rhino cries out loud, his nose is always the issue, every time he wipes his nose, he rips apart the tissue.
** Friends of the Rhino (2005).
* Words flow under a bridge of silence.
** A Song For You (1980).
* Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers. I Answer as if Someone Really Meant to Ask, Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
* Dry bones make good flutes
** The Hollow Flute, from "Voices Within The Ark" Howard Schwartz, Jewish Poets, [ISBN 978-0380761098].
* Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.
** "Voices Within the Ark", ibid.
* So many lovers, yet there is no love.
** Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
* To bend down for money is OK, but to bow is not.
** Introduction to Money, Power, and Honor, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1989).
* Once, my wife would make me coffee. These days, she hardly puts the kettle on.
** Distance and other Measures (1994).
* when a fool fails he says I was unlucky, when a wise man fails he says what a fool I had been. Song "If I was a Cat" live version.
** (2003 Blues Festival)
* When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.
** Artist Pages.
* The mind is like a sea, few are those who dare sail, most stand on the shore and watch. Artist pages. (A.S.)
* The Blues is an acoustic tear.
** (on his Album "Blues Haor Haganuz")
* A cup of kindness is better than a whole bottle of mercy can be.
** ( Song )

## Dialogues

From "Distance and other Measures", Don from Mars/ Somebody's Crazy and it Ain't Me.
    Dr.Lindenstrauss: So tell me Don, why don't you go back there?
    Don: Are you nuts? If I go back to Mars, and tell them that I came from Earth, they would put me straight in an insane asylum.

## External links

* Hebrew Wikiquote
* Official Avner Strauss website
# Awadeya Mahmoud

Awadeya Mahmoud Koko Sudanese and the founder and chairperson of the Women's Food and Tea Sellers' Cooperative and the Women's Multi-Purpose Cooperative for Khartoum state, Sudan. On 28 March 2016, the United States Department of State announced her as one of the recipients of the International Women of Courage Award for that year.

## Quotes

* I am optimistic because, unlike in the 1985 revolution, all of Sudan is participating. The new president will have to be fair with men and women.
** on the new president
* Do anything to help, even if it’s just chanting and clapping against the regime.
** on convincing her husband on joining the protest

## Quotes about Awedeya Mahmoud

* Steadfast efforts to promote legal reform and to advance economic empowerment for women in Sudan.
** Kerry hailed her
# Awadh

Awadh (Hindi: [ˈəʋədʱ], known in British historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a region in the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which was before independence known as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Awadh is bounded by the Ganges Doab to the southwest, Rohilkhand to the northwest, Nepal to the north, and Purvanchal to the east. Its inhabitants are referred to as Awadhis.

## Quotes

* England, by one stroke of the pen, has confiscated not only the estates of a few noblemen, or of a royal family, but the whole length and breadth of a kingdom nearly as large as Ireland, “the inheritance of a whole people,” as Lord Ellenborough himself terms it.
** Karl Marx, 1858.quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. ch 16
* Now, why was Lord Dalhousie so eager to deny the validity of a treaty which all his predecessors, and even his own agents, had acknowledged to be in force in their communications with the King of Oudh? Solely because, by this treaty, whatever pretext the King might give for interference, that interference was limited to an assumption of government by Britisn officers in the name of the King of Oudh, who was to receive the surplus revenue. That was the very opposite of what was wanted. Nothing short of annexation would do. This denying the validity of treaties which had formed the acknowledged base of intercourse for twenty years;this seizing violently upon independent territories in open infraction even of the acknowledged treaties; this final confiscation of every acre of land in the whole country; all these treacherous and brutal modes of proceeding of the British toward the natives of Indian are now beginning to avenge themselves, not only in India, but in England. (On Colonialism, p. 180)
** Karl Marx, ‘The Annexation of Oudh’ on May 14, 1858, quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. ch 16
# Avni Doshi

Avni Doshi (born 1982) is an American novelist currently based in Dubai. She was born in New Jersey to immigrants from India. She received a BA in Art History from Barnard College in New York, and a master's degree in History of Art from University College London. Her debut novel, Girl in White Cotton, was published in India in 2019. In 2020, it was published in the United Kingdom under the title Burnt Sugar. The novel was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.

## Quotes

* ...Ambivalence in a mother is too dangerous for the culture to integrate...
* ...The myths around maternal love and certitude have been, and are being, questioned in literature, and it’s no secret that mother-daughter relationships can be fraught and full of conflict, but somehow the conversation still elicits discomfort...
* ... My understanding of memory, time and duration (which are central themes in the novel) are also completely grounded in my study of art history...
** Avni Doshi Q&A
* ...Even if you have a relatively good relationship with your mother, the maternal complex is so deep-seated in the psyche, any kind of conflict or difficulty with the mother can lead to a fragmentation of one’s own self...
* ...Motherhood is such a large, expansive word – it almost means nothing...
* ...The more I grow into being a mother, I realise that so much about it has been about tradition, fear, family, pressure – probably a kind of narcissism...
** Interview with Avni Doshi for The Guardian
# Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Avrahm Yarmolinsky (January 13, 1890 – September 28, 1975) was an author, translator, and the husband of Babette Deutsch.

## Quotes

* The Bolshevik Revolution has emancipated the Jews as individuals, and — what is much more — as a group capable of developing a full national life. To this extent it has been a twofold gain, greater perhaps than the gain of the Frech Revolution to West European Jewry.
** The Menorah Journal New York, July 1928, p. 33
* There has been a considerable penetration of the ranks of Jewry by Communism, and Jewry in turn has come to wield a considerable power in the Communist Party.
** The Menorah Journal New York, July 1928, p. 37
# Ann Chiejine

Ann Agumanu-Chiejine (born 2 February 1974) is a Nigerian football goalkeeper who played for the Nigeria women's national football team at the inaugural 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2000 Summer Olympics. She is an assistant coach for the U17 Nigerian women's team.

## Quotes
### "INTERVIEW: How visa stopped my historic move to Arsenal — Ex-Falcons Keeper, Ann Chiejine" (2019)

    "INTERVIEW: How visa stopped my historic move to Arsenal — Ex-Falcons Keeper, Ann Chiejine", Premium Times (August 10, 2019)
* Everything is about time, we should look before we leap and not run faster than our shadow.
* If you are doing well and you are still calm, people reckon more with you than when your head is not down, they won’t give a damn about you even if you are doing well.
* In football, you either win, lose or draw, so they have tried their best.
# Ann Hui

Ann Hui On-wah (born 23 May 1947) is a Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter and actress

## Quotes
### Masterclass with Ann Hui at the 77th Venice International Film Festival

* Its always my conviction that young filmmakers do not actively need old filmmakers help, because the society in which they are living in, their surroundings and their knowledge is completely different. I mean there’s a whole set of different rules which they know better than we do, but if we use our experience to tell them what to do I think it hinders more than it helps. Not unless the old director who’s out to help is also a very good teacher that is saying to the student what he needs to know instead of just telling the student his experience. And being a teacher, I think I’ve been one myself and I know that I’m not good enough, because to be a great teacher is more difficult than to be a great filmmaker.
** 77. Mostra del Cinema - Ann Hui masterclass 28 Oct 2020, at 3 Min 12 Sec

### Interview at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival

Virtual interview with Ann Hui and Man Lim Chung moderated by Tan Pin Pin and interpreted by Sylvia Wong
* I’m not conscious, what I’m really trying to do when I shoot a movie. I was just looking at it as more or less like a toy, something which I like to play with and try to impress people. I think that is actually something not so bad. I mean like doing it for the fun of it, instead of doing it as a real sacred job. I think it should be both. (as a comparison of her artistic filmmaking ethos in relation to the Hong Kong New Wave and the Taiwanese New Wave)
** In Conversation with Ann Hui & Man Lim Chung | SGIFF 2020 - 15 Dec 2020 at 39 Min 32 Sec
# Ann Cryer

Constance Ann Cryer JP (née Place; born 14 December 1939) is a British former politician who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Keighley from the 1997 general election until standing down at the 2010 general election.

## Quotes about Ann Cryer

* Cryer said that it is because they do not want arranged marriages with “very young girls from their village” in Pakistan that Muslim men "look for very young girls through this organised sex ring that we are seeing in Keighley." She does not explain what part of "Asian culture" would lead the parents to want their sons to marry “very young girls” from Pakistan, nor why this should lead to "organised" rings of men who seek to exploit "very young", non-Muslim girls near Bradford, and get them addicted to drugs and alcohol and then turn them into prostitutes. Ann Cryer left it up to the population of Britain to assume that Hindu and Sikh and Buddhist men were also doing this, as these activities were supposedly part of “Asian culture”, rather than men from one specific religious group...
** Peter McLoughlin - Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal-New English Review Press (2016)
* But the quotations of contemporaneous reports of what Cryer actually said in 2003 show that in claiming that it was to do with "Asian culture" rather than religion, she had led the public to believe the problems were nothing to do with Islam. Since Islam comes from Arabia rather than Asia, and since Asia has many religions and cultures other than those of Muslims, the public was led to believe that what was happening in Bradford involved criminal grooming gangs of many different religions. But Cryer was talking to Muslim leaders in order to get the grooming gangs to stop; there was apparently no need for her to talk to Hindu or Sikh leaders to get their youths to stop grooming young white girls. Thus, even at the time, Cryer should have been able to perceive the difference between Muslim culture and Asian culture.
** Peter McLoughlin - Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal-New English Review Press (2016)
* We are aware of no evidence showing that Ann Cryer spoke out about the activities of the grooming gangs before August 22 2003, when Channel 4 News disclosed the existence of the 18-month investigation into the grooming gangs by Bradford Council and West Yorkshire Police, although surely as the MP she must have known about such a major investigation into their activities. Perhaps she had known about this investigation, but had chosen to remain silent, as the previous year she came under criticism from left-wing Muslims for "damaging race relations", when she stated that "Asian gangs" in her constituency were out of control.
** Peter McLoughlin - Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal-New English Review Press (2016)