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# Shi Zhengli

Shi Zhengli (石正丽; Shí Zhènglì; born 26 May 1964) is a Chinese scientist. She is a virologist and researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology.

## Quotes

* I say "possibly" (for the COVID-19 to more dangerous to humans than the other coronaviruses) because so far, not only do we not know how dangerous it is, we can't know. Outbreaks of new viral diseases are like the steel balls in a pinball machine: You can slap your flippers at them, rock the machine on its legs and bonk the balls to the jittery rings, but where they end up dropping depends on 11 levels of chance as well as on anything you do. This is true with coronaviruses in particular: They mutate often while they replicate, and can evolve as quickly as a nightmare ghoul.
** Shi Zhengli (2020) cited in "We Made the Coronavirus Epidemic" on The New York Times, 28 January 2020.
* Viruses in bats may have mixed and matched genes to create the virus that gave rise to the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003, a new study suggests. And it could happen again. All of the ingredients needed to create a new SARS virus are found among viruses currently infecting horseshoe bats.
** Shi Zhengli (2020) cited in "Coronavirus: Experts dismiss conspiracies blaming Wuhan Institute of Virology for outbreak" on Newshub, 30 January 2020.
* The 2019 novel coronavirus is a punishment by nature to humans' unsanitary lifestyle. I promise with my life that the virus has nothing to do with the (Wuhan Institute of Virology) lab.
** Shi Zhengli (2020) cited in "China denies lab link to coronavirus as questions over origin mount" on The Washington Times, 5 February 2020.
# Sheryll Murray

Sheryll Murray (born 4 February 1956) is a Conservative Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South East Cornwall from 2010 to 2024.

## Quotes
### 2017

* Social media is becoming, amongst a certain group of people, a tool to use against MPs and Government. One of the things people don’t understand when they try to engage with me on social media, is when you’re an MP every communication is confidential.
** Comments during an interview with The Cornish Times. General election interviews: Sheryll Murray (6 June 2017)

### 2018

* I have lost confidence in the Brexit policy of the Prime Minister and have therefore written to the Chairman of the 1922 Committee asking for a vote to take place over her Leadership.
** Said in a tweet (November 2018)
** The prime minister, Theresa May survived her party's confidence vote on 12 December 2018, but resigned as Conservative Party leader on 7 June 2019. In this period, the Chairman of the 1922 Committee was Sir Graham Brady.

### 2019

* We could lead the world in environmentally-responsible exploitation of vital seabed minerals. We have the engineers, the marine scientists, the ecologists, the finance industry. We have the offshore oil and gas expertise. We have high, respected environmental standards. ... A little push now means vast rewards in a few years’ time.
** From an article, "Sheryll Murray MP: If we want clean energy we need the raw materials", PoliticsHome, (20 February 2019)
* I am very happy to stand again and look at the area where people stood thousands of years ago. I congratulate those who made this excavation. It is a great work
** Said on a visit to Göbekli Tepe, an ancient temple in Turkey. UK MPs hailed preservation of historic sites in Turkey (6 August 2019)
# Sherrie Silver

Sherrie Silver is a Rwandan-born British choreographer who choreographed the music video for Childish Gambino's 2018 song This Is America.

## Quotes

* When I met the twins, I fell in love straight away. Their mother hadn’t had an opportunity to name them and when their father asked me to name them I called them Precious and Sapphire Gihozo. I promised to look after them until they were 18 at least and they’ve actually started calling me mommy.
* Contributing to their upbringing has impacted me massively. I was looking after kids before but taking them from being babies has made me grow up even more and my heart has become bigger. They bring me a lot of joy.
* We want the youth in Africa to feel they don't need to leave their countries to realize their artistic dreams and entrepreneurial aspirations.
https://kura.rw/my-life-is-an-example-of-what-a-girl-can-achieve-if-given-the-opportunity-sherrie-silver/
** Sherrie Silver said, (The New Times Rwanda, August 21, 2023)
# The American Mercury

The American Mercury was an American publication known for its controversial views.

## References

* ↑ Portwell, B. G. (May 1940). "Mumbo Jumbo in Education". The American Mercury L (197): 429-432. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
# Suffian Hakim

Suffian Hakim (born 24th July 1986) is a Singaporean media professional and author known for his novels, Harris bin Potter and The Stoned Philosopher and The Minorities.

## Quotes

* The first story I wrote was called “Attack of the Giant Killer Underwear”. It was about a batch of dirty underwear that got exposed to toxic radiation and grew to an enormous size. They gained sentience and travelled to Singapore, wreaking havoc along the way.
** Dream Chasers: An Interview with Suffian Hakim
* I wanted to explore the frustrations a supernatural being would face. Both are beings treated as the unseen by most of society, both are trying to hold on to the things that make them human. The connecting ectoplasm between apparitions and the marginalized? They’re both holding on tightly to their identity and humanity.
** on The Minorities, from Hunting for Ghosts, Metaphors and Meaning: A cemetery stroll with ‘The Minorities’ author Suffian Hakim
* I’m a firm believer of cross-cultural exchange of ideas, I'm a believer in friendships that transcends borders and cultures, and I hope to set a good precedent here for other writers in Singapore to attend in the future and share their stories. It will also be a good opportunity for me to sort out my mummy issues.
** on speaking at the Cairo Literature Festival 2019, from Epigram authors Bernice Chauly and Suffian Hakim head to Cairo Literature Festival 2019
# Sufyan al-Thawri

Sufyan al-Thawri or Abu Abdullah Sufyan ibn Said ibn Masruq al-Thawri (716 –778) was a Tābi‘ al-Tābi‘īn Islamic scholar and jurist, founder of the Thawri madhhab. He was also a great hadith compiler (muhaddith).

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* Renunciation of the world is reduction of hope for worldly gain, not eating coarse foods or wearing a rough cloak.
** p. 28
* I have never seen anything easier than abstaining. Whatever yourself devises, abandon it.
** p. 28
* Flesh eaters are those who backbite; they eat human flesh.
** p. 28
* There is a punishment for all things. The punishments for the gnostic is to be cut off from His remembrance.
** p. 28
* Five souls are the most dignified in creation: a scholar who is not self-indulgent (moderate), a Sufi jurisprudent, a humble rich person, a thankful poor one, and a noble who follows the Sunnah.
** p. 28
* Moaning and wailing have ten kinds of which nine are full of showoff and only one kind is full of reality.
** p. 28
* If one tear falls on account of fear of God, it is better then fasting throughout life.
** p. 28
* He who spends life in remoteness is much better, for it was the practice of the foremost saintly people. They liked to live comely instead of grandeur.
** p. 29
* The king who seeks company of the ascetics is superior to that ascetic who seeks nearness of the king.
** p. 29
* Someone asked: "What is meaning of certainty? " He replied, it is the name of inner voice, and the folk of certainty arrive at the gnosis. And the meaning of certainty is that every affliction be considered sent by Allah.
** p. 29
* Sell not the friendship of the Lord for the friendship of the world and its possessions.
** p. 29
* I fear to accept anything from anybody lest my heart should start cherishing love for that person. I desire only to live in His thoughts.
** p. 29
* Worse than sin against God is sin against man.
** p. 29
* For the people of the world sleep is more profitable than to keep awake, for then they keep off worldly discourses during sleep.
** p. 29

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Charles Leonard (born 17 May 1956) is an American former professional boxer. He was one of the leading boxers in the world in the 1970s and 1980s.

## Quotes

* I know exactly what it takes to beat this man, but people say, 'Well, Ray, two years of inactivity, you'll be rusty.' No, no. He will eliminate the rust because he is what I want and I am what he wants. And boxing needs that kind of fight.
** On his come back fight against Marvin Hagler
* Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
** Sugar Ray Leonard, Oct 6, 2006 interview
* I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
** Sugar Ray Leonard on his first taste of boxing
* I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
** Sugar Ray Leonard talking about drugs
* Duran quit in frustration. People were laughing and he couldn't deal with that.
** Leonard referring to the epic no mas(no more, in spanish) fight against Roberto Duran.
* Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
** Sugar Ray Leonard

## Sugar Ray Leonard on other boxers

* Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
** Sugar Ray Leonard, Oct 6, 2006 interview
* The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.
** Sugar Ray Leonard predicting a Ricky Hatton win if he fought Floyd Mayweather .Tuesday, 6 February 2007.
* That name, 'Manos de Piedra', is true, Hands of Stone. Every punch, and I'm not exaggerating, every punch that he hit me with, from the body to the head, felt like bricks, stone, rocks. He knocked my teeth back. My front, my first 3 or 4 teeth, he knocked them back because he was just so possessed. He was a demon.
** Sugar Ray Leonard on his first fight with Roberto Duran
* "Of all the fighters today, I have to say that Mayweather reminds me most of me," Leonard told Irish boxing writer Brian Doogan in describing the incident. "The kid has every gift and physical attribute, but if he continues to be the kind of person he is, he'll never be one of us. He'll never make it."
** Sugar Ray Leonard on Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
# Sufficiency

Sufficiency is the quality of being equal to a proposed end or adequate to satisfy wants.

## Quotes

* He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole life complete and perfect. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labor and conflict.
** Epicurus, “Principal Doctrines,” 21

## See also

* Self-sufficiency
# Pascal

Pascal may refer to:
* Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, logician, physicist and theologian
* Pascal (programming language), designed by Niklaus Wirth as a programming language intended to encourage good programming practices
* Pascale Machaalani, a Lebanese singer
* Pascual Jordan, a German theoretical and mathematical physicist
This disambiguation page, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, lists articles associated with the name Pascal. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
# Pascal (programming language)

Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968–1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

## Quotes

* That is the great strength of PASCAL, that there are so few unnecessary features and almost no need for subsets. That is why the language is strong enough to support specialized extensions--Concurrent PASCAL for real time work, PASCAL PLUS for discrete event simulation, UCSD PASCAL for microprocessor work stations.
** C. A. R. Hoare (1980) "The Emperor's Old Clothes", 1980 Turing Award lecture, Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (February 1981): p. 75-83.
* Pascal is for building pyramids -- imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. Lisp is for building organisms -- imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place.
** Alan Perlis, as quoted in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
* Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal to provide features that were lacking in other languages of the time. His principle objectives for Pascal were for the language to be efficient to implement and run, allow for the development of well structured and well organized programs, and to serve as a vehicle for the teaching of the important concepts of computer programming. Pascal, which was named after the mathematician Blaise Pascal, is a direct descendent from ALGOL 60, which Wirth helped develop. Pascal also draws programming components from ALGOL 68 and ALGOL-W. The original published definition for the Pascal language appeared in 1971 with latter revisions published in 1973. It was designed to teach programming techniques and topics to college students and was the language of choice to do so from the late 1960's to the late 1980's.
** Quote from "The Pascal Programming Language - University of Michigan." on groups.engin.umd.umich.edu, last modified 11/23/1996
# Pichilemu

Pichilemu is a beach resort city and commune in central Chile, and capital of Cardenal Caro Province. The commune comprises an urban center and twenty-two villages, such as Ciruelos, Cáhuil, and Espinillo. It is located southwest of Santiago, the capital of Chile. Pichilemu had 12,866 residents as of 2012.

## Quotes about Pichilemu

* ¡Que lindo es Pichilemu!
** Translation: How beautiful is Pichilemu!
** José Arraño Acevedo
* When he came here, there was nothing. Just a pair of houses, or less. He gave a form to the town, he gave it European looks. Look these balustrades which decorate the slope or the ones which border the park, are the same which Mr. Agustin saw on Biarritz.
** Jaime Parra, current administrator of the Ross Hotel. Revista Sábado, El Mercurio. Balnearios con Historia (III) (in Spanish). Retrieved on 2009-12-05.

## External links

* Official website
# Picard proverbs

Picard is a dialect spoken in northern France and Belgium.

## C

* Ch til qui cache y treuve.
** English equivalent: Seek and ye shall find.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "411, Suche" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. II. p. 229.

## H

* Gn yo pau de différeinche d ein homme d esprit qui ne palle pau avec ein sot qui ne dit rien.
** ̽English equivalentː Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
** von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "148, Narr" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen. p. 83.

## See Also

* French proverbs
# Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata no. 5 in C major, Op. 38 (1923) and Op. 135 (revised 1952-53) is a sonata for solo piano.

## Quotes

* [T]he neoclassical streak of Prokofiev’s music is expressed in mock Baroque or Classical textures, such as an allusion to Alberti bass in the finale of Sonata No. 5.
** Boris Berman, Prokofiev’s piano sonatas : a guide for the listener and the performer (2008), "Prokofiev the pianist"
* The Fifth Sonata, written in Paris, differs significantly from both the early sonatas and the later ones. Its musical language shows Prokofiev in his more experimental phase, as do his many other works of this period.
** Boris Berman, Prokofiev’s piano sonatas : a guide for the listener and the performer (2008), "Sonata No. 5 in C Major, op. 38 (First Version), op. 135 (Second Version)"
* The Fifth Sonata, the Quintet and the Second Symphony, continuing from the Sarcasms through the Scythian Suite and Seven, They Are Seven, were the most chromatic of all my compositions. This was the effect of the Parisian atmosphere where complex patterns and dissonances were the accepted thing, and which fostered my predilection for complex thinking.
** Sergei Prokofiev, In: S. I. Shlifshtein, ed., S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, trans. Rose Prokofieva
* In 1944 to [Prokofiev’s] great joy the pianist Maria Grinberg gave a performance in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire of his long-neglected Fifth Sonata for piano. After the recital he asked Myaskovsky, who sat next to him, whether there were many ‘false notes’ in the sonata. Myaskovsky replied that ‘all traces of the scarlet fever had disappeared.’ Nevertheless in 1952 before the publication of a new edition of the sonata Sergei Sergeyevich decided to revise it and wrote a new version. He often told me how pleased he was that he had rewritten that sonata.
** Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva, In: S. I. Shlifshtein, ed., S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, trans. Rose Prokofieva
# Piano Sonata No. 6 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 (1940) is a sonata for solo piano.

## Quotes

* In fact, one could argue that in the Sixth Prokofiev turned toward the Romantic concept of the sonata, with its traditional exploration of the conflict between the individual and fate or other impersonal forces beyond one’s control. The mechanistic qualities of Prokofiev’s music, familiar to us from his earlier works, play the crucial role in this drama; they collide with the warmly human thematic material, suppressing and brutalizing it. The carnival atmosphere or the “masques” of the early sonatas and the objective neoclassicism of the Fifth are abandoned, never to return in Prokofiev’s subsequent works in this genre.
** Boris Berman, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas : a guide for the listener and the performer (2008), "Sonata No. 6 in A Major, op. 82"
* The remarkable stylistic clarity and the structural perfection of the music amazed me. I had never heard anything like it. With wild audacity the composer broke with the ideals of Romanticism and introduced into his music the terrifying pulse of twentieth-century music. Classically well-balanced in spite of all its asperities, the Sixth Sonata is an utterly magnificent work.
** Sviatoslav Richter, In: Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, trans. Stewart Spencer
* The Sixth Sonata is magnificent. From beginning to end. I am very happy that I had the opportunity to hear it two times, and regret that it was only two times.
** Dmitri Shostakovich, quoted in Harlow Robinson, Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography (1987)
# Piano Sonata No. 7 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B♭ major, Op. 83 (1942) (occasionally called the "Stalingrad") is a sonata composed for solo piano, the second of the three so-called "War Sonatas". The sonata was first performed on 18 January 1943 in Moscow by Sviatoslav Richter.

## Quotes

* Early in 1943, I received the score of the Seventh Sonata, which I found fascinating and which I learned in just four days.... The work was a huge success. The audience clearly grasped the spirit of the work, which reflected their innermost feelings and concerns. (This was also felt to be the case with Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, which dates from more or less the same period.) With this work we are brutally plunged into the anxiously threatening atmosphere of a world that has lost its balance. Chaos and uncertainty reign. We see murderous forces ahead. But this does not mean that what we lived by before thereby ceases to exist. We continue to feel and love. Now the full range of human emotions bursts forth. Together with our fellow men and women, we raise a voice in protest and share the common grief. We sweep everything before us, borne along by the will for victory. In the tremendous struggle that this involves, we find the strength to affirm the irrepressible life-force.
** Sviatoslav Richter, In: Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, trans. Stewart Spencer
* One dramatic idea permeates the whole sonata. It seems that contradictory tendencies in the musical style of Prokofiev are exposed and lead to a greater synthesis. Romantic exaggeration of feelings in this sonata sharply contradicts the ironclad logic of the classical sonata-allegro. This bipolarity is reflected in the combination of the essentially two-part, Scarlatti-like piano writing with harsh chords of complex harmonic nature, in the complex modal structure of the sonata-allegro, and, most importantly, in the character of musical images. ... this sonata has none of [Prokofiev’s] beloved masques, nor has it the polypersonalia of early sonatas. The Seventh Sonata has one protagonist and one purpose. In this sense, it is a monodrama.
** Givi Ordzhonikidze, Fortepiannye sonaty Prokofieva[Piano Sonatas by Prokofiev] (1962)
# Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 8 in B♭ major, Op. 84 (1944) is a sonata for solo piano, the third of the Three War Sonatas. The sonata was first performed on 30 December 1944 in Moscow by Emil Gilels.

## Quotes

* The Eighth is the most expansive of Prokofiev’s sonatas; the first move ment in particular unfolds in an unhurried fashion. The composer initially intended the sonata to consist of four movements, not three.
** Boris Berman, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas : a guide for the listener and the performer (2008), "Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, op. 84"
* I studied the sonata from the manuscript, and at that time I frequently visited S[ergei] S[ergeyevich] at home.... I played for him the work I had just learned very tentatively. S. S., while checking certain passages, made corrections in the score. Sometimes he would sit at the keyboard and, without playing every note, indicate what he would like to hear from the performer above all.
** Emil Gilels, In: S. I. Shlifshtein, ed., S. S. Prokofiev: Materialy, dokumenty, vospominaniya[Materials, Documents, Memoirs] (1961)
* Prokofiev himself played it at the Composers’ Union but it was Gilels who gave the first public performance. Prokofiev played it twice. Even after a single hearing, it was clear that this was a remarkable work, but when I was asked whether I planned to play it myself, I was at a loss for an answer. S. S. now had difficulty playing. He no longer had his former confidence, and his hands fluttered helplessly over the keys. After the second hearing, I was firmly resolved to learn the piece. Someone began to snigger: “It’s completely outdated! You don’t really want to play it?!” Of all Prokofiev’s sonatas, this is the richest. It has a complex inner life, profound and full of contrasts. At times it seems to grow numb, as if abandoning itself to the relentless march of time. If it is sometimes inaccessible, this is because of its richness, like a tree that is heavy with fruit. It remains one of my three favorite works, alongside the Fourth and Ninth Sonatas. Gilels played it magnificently at his recital in the Grand Hall.
** Sviatoslav Richter, In: Bruno Monsaingeon, Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, trans. Stewart Spencer