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# Iowa

Iowa is a state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north.

## Quotes

* Iowa and Minnesota play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of a porcine star of a Will Rogers movie. I would like to remind you that this is, on balance, a marvelous nation.
** Chuck Culpepper, "JUST FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL TO PASADENA", (16 November 2001), The Oregonian
* IOWA: Her affections like the rivers of her borders, flow to an unseparable union.
** Enoch W. Eastman, as quoted in Iowa Authors and Their Works, p. ii, Des Moines 1918.
* In all that is Good, Iowa affords the best.
** Sidney Austin Foster (one-time editor of The Osage News), as quoted in Iowa Authors and Their Works, p. ii, Des Moines 1918.
* A beautiful summer day in Iowa leaves no room for worry.
** Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), Chapter 27
* Why, the justices [of Iowa] asked in conclusion, do statutes and civil law protect the secret of the confession? This is based, they answered, on “the idea that the human being does sometimes have need of a place of penitence and confession and spiritual discipline. When any person enters that secret chamber, [the law] closes the door upon him, and civil authority turns away its ear. The privilege of the statute purports to be applicable to every Christian denomination, of whatever polity. Under the polity of the Presbyterian denomination, this privilege cannot be applicable to it unless it be true that the ruling elders are ‘ministers of the Gospel,’” when sitting collectively as a committee.
** Massimo Introvigne, "California and Confession. 2. A Landmark Case, Reutkemeier v. Nolte", Bitter Winter (December 14, 2022)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Iowa on Wikipedia
* Media related to Iowa on Wikimedia Commons
* The dictionary definition of Iowa on Wiktionary
* Iowa travel guide from Wikivoyage
# Ip Man (film)

Ip Man is a 2008 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the life of Yip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and master of Bruce Lee.
    Directed by Wilson Yip. Written by Edmond Wong.

## Ip Man

* [To Captain Li] You know Captain Li, we martial artists are energetic. Sometimes we might be a bit too loud but doesn't mean we're not civilized. We're civilized folks, please don't pull the gun. Cut me some slack.
* [To Kam Shan-chu] No men are afraid of their wives, they're only men who respects their wives.
* [To Kam Shan-chu] Good kung fu does not depend on age or sex but on how well you fight.
* Although martial arts involves armed forces, Chinese martial arts is Confucian in spirit. The virtue of martial arts is benevolence. This is something that the Japanese will never understand, for they learn martial arts only to become stronger and terrorise others. They are not worthy of learning our martial arts.

## Dialogue

    (Ip Man cornered Kam Shan-chu after their duel)
    Kam Shan-chu: My northern boxing has lost to your southern one.
    Ip Man: No, it's not a matter of northern or southern style. The problem is you.

## Cast

* Donnie Yen — Ip Man
* Lynn Hung — Cheung Wing-sing
* Hiroyuki Ikeuchi — Miura
* Gordon Lam — Li Chiu
* Fan Siu-wong — Kam Shan-chu
* Simon Yam — Chow Ching-chuen
* Xing Yu — Master Lam Zealot

## External links

* MOVIE TITLE quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* MOVIE TITLE at Rotten Tomatoes
* Official website EN
* Official website Chinese
* IP Man Quotes YIP Man
# Ion Mihai Pacepa

Ion Mihai Pacepa (28 October 1928–- 14 February 2021) is a former two-star general in the Securitate, the secret police of Communist Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He is the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc. At the time of his defection, Pacepa simultaneously had the rank of advisor to President Nicolae Ceauşescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service and a state secretary of Romania's Ministry of Interior.

## Quotes

* Throughout my years in Romania, I always took my KGB bosses with a grain of salt, because they used to juggle the facts around so as to make Soviet intelligence the mother and father of everything.
** Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican (January 25, 2007)
* History often repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I have done, you have a good chance of seeing the reenactment with your own eyes.
* Each society reflects its own past. Down through the ages, everyone who has sat on the Kremlin throne — autocratic tsar, Communist leader, or democratically elected president — has been preoccupied with controlling all expressions of religion that might impinge on his political ambitions. When Ivan IV — the Terrible — had himself crowned in 1547 as Russia’s first tsar, he also made himself head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tsarism and Communism may have been swallowed up by the sands of time, but the Kremlin continues this tradition.
** The Secret Roots of Liberation Theology (April 23, 2015)
# Regina Daniels

Regina Daniels born October 10, 2000 is a Nigerian actress and a film producer. She is a businesswoman and entrepreneur.

## Quotes

* I was not the kind of child that always had dolls. I never had dolls. I was a hustling child.
** By Legit.ng, 27/05/2021, https://www.legit.ng/1417058-i-never-had-dolls-dress-up-a-child-regina-daniels-admits-as-she-starts-fashion-line.html
* They said I changed a lot. I said a lot changed me.
** By Legit.ng, 27/05/2021, https://www.legit.ng/1417058-i-never-had-dolls-dress-up-a-child-regina-daniels-admits-as-she-starts-fashion-line.html
# Reggino proverbs

Reggino is an Emilian dialect spoken in Reggio Calabria in the south-western point of Italy.

## A

* An és pól avèir l'èv e la galléna.
** English equivalent: You can't have your cake and eat it (too).
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "545, geben" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. pp. 284-285.

## L

* 'L è un brutt sórd quéll ch én vól sintir.
** English equivalent: None so deaf as those who will not hear.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "427, Tauben" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. Fries. p. 238.

## N

* La nežessitèè n'ha lėgg.
** English equivalent: Necessity has no law.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "191, Noth" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. p. 105.

## See Also

* Italian proverbs
# Regina Chukwu

Regina Chukwu is a Nigerian actress , film producer and director.

## Quotes

* I had a great time in Dubai when I went on vacation.
** Her most memorable travel experience (4 November 2018)
* I don’t really know much about their culture but I know it’s a Muslim country and they take their religion very seriously. I also noticed that they don’t easily mix with foreigners, especially black people.
** Her description of the culture of the people of Dubai and things that stood them out (November 2018)
* If you want to travel anywhere, be it within the country or outside, make sure you have enough money. Also, if you are travelling abroad, make sure your documents are correct and you are travelling through the legal means.
** Traveling advice for prospective travellers (2018)
* When I came to the industry, I thought it was going to be easy and that I would just come and there would be rules and that’s just it. But it wasn’t easy, as it was difficult and roles weren’t coming, nothing was happening and nobody believed in anybody as they didn’t believe in wasting their time on who they are not sure of.
** Earlier challenges she faced in the movie industry (5 January 2019)
* When I’m off the set I’m still Regina and if being a celebrity has done anything for me, it’s to be a better me.
** How she copes with fame (2019)
* I see myself as a better person, as the plan of God for me is a better one. I know where he wants to place me is better.
** How she sees herself (2019)
* Like I don’t get, aren’t we supposed to be the ones with a very tender and compassionate hearts? How come we are stone hearted, why are we doing this for goodness sake ? or how do we even start to explain all this wicked acts by women.
** Expressing displeasure about how women treat children who are kept in their care with disgust (14 July 2020)
* Acting is make-believe, so you have to be comfortable when you’re doing it and you also have to take into consideration that our society does not really support some things; they may just condemn you for doing some things but that does not mean we would not do it. We only have to be considerate when we’re doing it.
** Expressing one's craft (16 May)
* I was in my 20’s with two kids. I was sitting down there with zero balance. We had spent everything we had trying to save their father’s life. Not even a good cloth on me.
** Narrating how being a widow at young age made her devastated
* Yes, if the right man comes along.
** Her response when asked if she is ready to remarry
* I am a very beautiful lady that is single and searching indicate interest in the comment section.
** Her desire to date again (4 June)
* Entertainers influence people. Or, why do you think business owners pay entertainers to influence the sale of their products? Let’s not be biased. We have some die-hard fans and they would support whichever politician we are behind.
** Speaking during an interview with Saturday Beats
* If we reject money from these politicians, they will start to see us as serious people. I will start campaigning on my page, imploring people not to sell their votes.
** Advising her colleagues
# Reggie Jackson

Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). Jackson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993. Jackson was nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the Athletics and the Yankees.

## Quotes

* Now, when we go into a park on the road people start booing me. You don't know how good that makes me feel. To me it means the fans recognize who I am and what I mean to my ball club. Fans don't boo nobodies.
** As quoted in "A's Jackson glad about 'boos'," in "The Chicago Defender" (April 23, 1974)
* Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when Nolan Ryan's throwing balls by you. You just hope to mix in a walk so you can have a good night and only go 0-for-3.
** As quoted in "Fastest Arm in the West" by Pete Axthelm, in Newsweek (June 16, 1975)
* I was 'colored' until I was 14, a Negro until I was 21 and a black man ever since.
** "We Have A Serious Problem That Isn't Going Away", Sports Illustrated, May 11, 1987.
* I did very little against two lefties, Mike Caldwell and Scott McGregor, for a few years anyway. Eventually, I caught up with both of them, though. It was really Jim Palmer who stands out in this context; I had some success against him overall, but he was so good in clutch situations that I never really hurt him when the game was on the line.
** As quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acoccella and Donald Dewey, p. 117

## Quotes about

* As he was going around [the bases], I was applauding into my glove. [...] I have never seen anything like that in a championship game situation. He beat us singlehandedly. And actually that's exactly what he did. He knocked in five runs and we only scored four. I sure wish I'd had a chance to talk to him at first base. But he didn't stay there long enough for conversation.
** Steve Garvey, on Jackson's 3-HR performance in the sixth and deciding game of the 1977 World Series, as quoted in "Torrez Wins 8-4 Crusher; Jackson,Buddies Slam Door on Dodgers, 8-4" by Thomas Boswell, in The Washington Post, October 19, 1977.
* There isn't enough mustard in America to cover Reggie Jackson.
** Darold Knowles, circa August 1977, as quoted in "Reggie's Role Is Playing 'What I Am'" by Steve Jacobson, in Newsday, August 31, 1975.
* No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name, and a black man's third name.
** Mickey Rivers, as quoted in "Young Ideas" by Dick Young, in The New York Daily News, June 17, 1977.
# Reggie Yates

Reginald "Reggie" Yates (born 31 May 1983) is a British actor, television presenter and radio DJ.

## Quotes

* It’s never an interview, it’s a conversation, researched to a point, but I can still be surprised in the moment. I feel confident in saying that if I sat down with George Clooney, I could get him to say something he’d never said before.
** On his confidence after launching two documentary series in “Reggie Yates: ‘I could get George Clooney to say stuff he’d never said before’” in The Guardian (19 October 2019)
* The greatest lesson I’ve learned from it is that context is irrelevant when you hurt somebody. I felt justified in saying what I was saying, because of the context, because of the conversation, but the words I used offended a lot of people and some people I care about, and those words were wrong…
** On his mea culpa after making what some interpreted as an anti-Semitic statement in “Reggie Yates: ‘I could get George Clooney to say stuff he’d never said before’” in The Guardian (19 October 2019)
* There’s a unique trust between me and the public that’s grown up and that’s really important to me, but the truth is that trust has come about because the programmes I make are not about me. The subject is always bigger: that’s the lesson I’ve learned about making documentaries.
** On how he’s viewed differently compared to when he was a television personality in “Reggie Yates: ‘I have late-night romantic dinners with my laptop’” in The Guardian (18 March 2018)
* I’m very aware of the time I have on this planet…I lost loved ones at a young age. I realise the platform I have and the responsibility I have, and I’m aware of my mortality. No one like me has ever had this opportunity, so I’d be a fool not to make the most of it.
** On the scope of his current projects in “Reggie Yates on The Insider: ‘What I’m doing, no one else is doing’” in The Jackal Magazine (10 March 2017)
# Reggie Watts

Reginald Lucien Frank Roger "Reggie" Watts (born March 23, 1972) is a French-American comedian and musician. His shows are mostly improvised and consist of stream of consciousness stand-up in various shifting personae, mixed with loop pedal–based a cappella compositions.

## Quotes

* The future states that there is no time other than the collapsation of that sensation of the mirror of the memories in which we are living. Common knowledge, but important nonetheless.
** Cited in: Beats That Defy Boxes: Reggie Watts at TED 2012. Posted February 2012.
* I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn’t like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
** Cited in: "Comedy Bang! Bang! sidekick extraordinaire Reggie Watts sits down to talk at SXSW 2013" ifc.com. Posted March 10th, 2013, 8:03 PM by Melissa Locker: Watts reply to the question "You were on the football team!"
# Morale

Morale is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

## Quotes

* [M]orale is the spiritual capacity of a people to endure pain and suffering, and not a campaign of bill posters, pep talks and band concerts.
** Ralph Austin Bard, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, New York City, September 24, 1942.: Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 21-23
* An American general defined morale as "when a soldier thinks his army is the best in the world, his regiment the best in the army, his company the best in the regiment, his squad the best in the company, and that he himself is the best blankety-blank soldier man in the outfit."
** H. R. Knickerbocker, (1941). Is Tomorrow Hitler's? 200 Questions On the Battle of Mankind. Reynal & Hitchcock. p. 96. ISBN 9781417992775.
* Since 2009, $287 million has been spent on programs aimed at improving morale within the US military, which has shouldered two major overseas combat deployments over the past decade. But these efforts may have been largely fruitless, as 52% of soldiers across all branches remain "pessimistic about their future in the military," according to an April USA Today report.
* A Brookings Institution report notes: "Observers regularly fretted over low morale during the defense drawdown of the 1990s, during the start of the Iraq War, during the Iraq Surge, during the Afghanistan Surge; and at practically all the points in between ... After each report of troop morale hitting 'rock bottom,' troop morale seems to slip lower yet and, still, the military soldiers on."
** Alex Lockie, "US military morale is reportedly at 'rock bottom' again", Business Insider, Jul. 1, 2015.
* Unit cohesion can be considered a contributor to morale. Manning reviews various definitions of the terms morale and esprit de corps and suggests that morale is best thought of as “the enthusiasm and persistence with which a member of a group engages in the prescribed activities of the group” (Manning, 1994). He suggests that esprit de corps is the counterpart to cohesion at the level of the organization rather than at the level of the primary unit and that cohesion and esprit de corps are each contributors to one’s morale.
   * Robert J. MacCoun & William M. Hix, Unit Cohesion and Military Performance, in Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy: An Update of RAND's 1993 Study, Santa Monica: RAND, 2010, ch.5, p.140.
* An official policy statement issued in 1940 by the War Department (predecessor of the Defense Department) said that intermingling the races would "produce situations destructive to morale and detrimental to the preparation for national defense."
** H. G. Reza, "Blacks' Battle in Military Likened to Gays' : Armed forces: Activists point to parallels in arguing for an end to the Pentagon's ban on homosexuals. But African-American veterans of segregated units are divided over today's debate.", LA Times, (June 14, 1993).
# Moralistic therapeutic deism

Moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD) is a term that was first introduced in the 2005 book Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton. The term is used to describe what they consider to be the common beliefs among U.S. youths. The book is the result of the research project the "National Study of Youth and Religion".

## Quotes

* The problem with MTD, in both its progressive and its conservative versions, is that it’s mostly about improving one’s self-esteem and subjective happiness and getting along well with others. It has little to do with the Christianity of Scripture and tradition, which teaches repentance, self-sacrificial love, and purity of heart, and commends suffering—the Way of the Cross—as the pathway to God. Though superficially Christian, MTD is the natural religion of a culture that worships the Self and material comfort.
** Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (3 April 2018)
* Wishy-washy Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is going to be burned up, and is now being burned up. There is going to be no middle ground left. Churches will either go militantly woke, or may turn to a Christianized version of white nationalism. The rest of us believers will be doing our best simply to hold our churches and families together, and not lose our members to the passionate ideologies tearing the country apart.
** Rod Dreher, "How Do We Fight The Woke Militants?" (11 June 2020), The American Conservative
* [T]he de facto dominant religion among contemporary U.S. teenagers is what we might well call "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism." ... Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is about inculcating a moralistic approach to life. It teaches that central to living a good and happy life is being a good, moral person. That means being nice, kind, pleasant, respectful, responsible, at work on self-improvement, taking care of one's health and doing one's best to be successful. ... Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is, second, about providing therapeutic benefits to its adherents. This is not a religion of repentance from sin, of keeping the Sabbath, of living as a servant of a sovereign divine, of steadfastly saying one's prayers, of faithfully observing high holy days, of building character through suffering, of basking in God's love and grace, of spending oneself in gratitude and love for the cause of social justice, etcetera. Rather, what appears to be the actual dominant religion among U.S. teenagers is centrally about feeling good, happy, secure, at peace. It is about attaining subjective well-being, being able to resolve problems, and getting along amiably with other people.
** Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005), pp. 162–164

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Moralistic therapeutic deism on Wikipedia
# Moral clarity

Moral clarity is long defined by usage as a capacity to make firm distinctions without hesitations or much thought between evil and good, and to take action based on those distinctions. It is a catchphrase associated with American political conservatives from the 1950s to around 2018. Like other catchphrases, it encapsulates meaning derived from its historical usage. Those that make a claim of moral clarity are suggesting that they are Good and that their enemies are Evil. It follows, historically, that all actions are justified in order to combat said Evil. (Alternately, "The ends justify the means.")
The phrase originally had anti-Communist connotations (like "fellow traveler.") It was popularized by William J. Bennett's "Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism". He was a Catholic neoconservative and Reagan's education secretary and the “czar” of George Bush’s war on drugs. Eventually, he used the catchphrase often enough to became synonymous with moral clarity. The phrase was first used in its current context during the 1980s, in reference to the politics of Ronald Reagan.

## Quotes

* If you have moral clarity, you aren't in deep enough.
** Mark Lloyd, Seattle resident quoted on NPR about helping the homeless by providing toilets.
* Until recently, “moral clarity” was more likely to signal combativeness toward the left, not from it: It served for decades as a badge of membership among conservative hawks and cultural crusaders. But in the Trump era, militant certainty takes precedence achross the political spectrum.
** Frank Guan, Jan 2nd 2019, "What Could Be Wrong With a Little ‘Moral Clarity’?", New York Times Magazine
* What adrenaline does for the body, moral clarity does for semantics.
** ibid
* ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/magazine/what-could-be-wrong-with-a-little-moral-clarity.html