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# George H. Burgess

George H. Burgess (December 25, 1949–) is an ichthyologist and fisheries biologist with the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. He is the former director of the International Shark Attack File and author/coauthor of numerous books and papers on sharks and other fish.

## Quotes

* The Shark Attack File offers us an opportunity to not only, I suppose, help humanity at some level by trying to reduce the opportunities for shark and humans to get together and therefore saving some grief among humans, but equally importantly, it allows us to put it into perspective: shark attacks as a phenomenon are a fairly uncommon event. By contrast, our decimation of sharks and ray populations is going on largely unabated. It gives us a bully pulpit to talk about the real concern of the shark in the scientific world, which is the fate of the sharks.
** George Burgess on the Science of Shark Attacks (December 18, 2012)
* We tend to forget that when we enter the sea, we’re entering a foreign environment. It’s not ours. We can’t breathe underwater. When we enter the sea, it’s a wilderness experience. In any wilderness experience, there are potential dangers to be involved in that environment. Luckily for us, the sea is a pretty benevolent place. Each year, millions of people enter the sea and come out unscratched and unscathed and oblivious to the notion that they’ve had a wilderness experience. But we all need to remember that, especially if we go in areas where large predators such as white shark live.
** George Burgess on the Science of Shark Attacks (December 18, 2012)
* I had jars in my bedroom, much to the chagrin of my mother, you couldn't throw away a mayonnaise jar in my house. That was a specimen jar.
** No. 1 shark expert in Florida? George Burgess (August 10, 2014)
# Elizabeth Gitau

Elizabeth Gitau is a Kenyan physician and corporate executive, who serves as the chief executive officer of Kenya Medical Association, the national industry association that aims at championing and preserving the interests of the medical doctors practicing in the country.

## Quotes

* As Kenya moves towards universal health coverage, private hospitals play a crucial role in expanding access to quality care.
** "MoH pledges to work with private hospitals to attain UHC" The Star (March 2, 2023)
# Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3,1984) is an American convicted fraudster and former biotechnology entrepreneur. In 2003, Holmes founded and was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Theranos, a now-defunct health technology company that soared in valuation after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. By 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. In the following year, as revelations of potential fraud about Theranos's claims began to surface, Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune named her in its feature article on "The World's 19 Most Disappointing Leaders".

## Quotes

* You’ll get knocked down over and over and over again, and you get back up.
* This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.
* I know that we made mistakes.
* The wonderful thing about the way I was raised is that no one ever told me that I couldn’t do those things.
* I have done something, and we have done something, that has changed people’s lives. I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.
* That moment is when you find what you were born to do. For me, I reached the point where I was spending all my time doing this anyway, and I was wasting my parents’ money on courses I wasn’t going to. So I had that moment where I was very clear: This is what I wanted to do with my life.
* When people say, ‘I want to start a business,’ my question is always, ‘Why?’ Because there’s got to be a mission — there’s got to be a reason you’re doing it so that no matter how hard it is, you want to keep doing it over and over and over again, because you love it.
* When you find what you love, you do it. That’s it.
* “ would say three things: Find what you love, and don’t let it go no matter what. I would say Winston Churchill really knew what he was talking about when he said, ‘Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never ….’ And I would say that I am living proof that it’s true that if you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
# Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books.

## Quotes

* We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations.
** The Bird in the Tree (1940), Chapter 6.3
* In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another.
** Gentian Hill (1950), Book 3, Chapter 3.1
* Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.
** The White Witch (1958), Part 1, Chapter 12.2
* A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.
** The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 9.2
* There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.
** The Dean's Watch (1960), Chapter 10.1
* For unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.
** The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2
* Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.
** The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 13.2
* There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year.
** The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 14.2
* The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.
** The Child from the Sea (1970), Book 2, Chapter 1.5
# Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge (August 15, 1803 - March 5, 1875) was a Dutch minister.

## Quotes
### Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855)

* Compared with the rest of mankind, these believers were small in number and in power; here, might be but a single individual, there, two or three; here, might be found ten persons, and there some seventy or a hundred. In their manner of life and of thought, as well as in their worship, they were too different from other men to admit of their uniting with them, or walking after their ways. And because they could not walk as others walked, they were constantly misunderstood, and were exposed to all manner of suffering.
** pp. 1-2
* Let each of us hear this letter with the conviction that it is addressed especially to him; let him say in his heart, All this is for me.
** p. 3
* His walk and conversation will then be very different from his former course of life, when he willingly served sin and Satan, indulged his evil desires, and walked after the course of this world.
** p. 6
* They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord.
** p. 7
* We are chosen “according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,-through sanctification of the Spirit;” and this sanctification, it is a comfort to know, is a sanctification we may safely confide in; because it is widely different from the self-sanctification, the fleshly holiness, or wilful separation, to which “he that runneth,” and “he that willeth,” addicts himself, in order that the idol self may be magnified and worshipped.
** p. 7
* The world and the devil fight against us believers, because we will not wear their mask of hypocrisy, under which gross wickedness may be committed.
** p. 7
* We reject the pharisaical sanctity, which is but a covering of shame, under which sin has free play.
** p. 7
* Every thing that is around us strives to draw us away from the true faith.
** p. 9
* In their enmity to the truth, they set up another religion, an idol-worship, wherein the creature, with its works and its fleshly righteousness, has something to boast of. This they do in order to render vain the work of Christ, and to destroy the work of the Spirit. They do it also that they may have a wide mantle under which to cloak their crimes.
** p. 9
* This, then, is the obedience of faith, whereunto the Holy Ghost sanctifies us, that we should not give ear to the doctrine taught by the world, which is a doctrine of self-righteousness, and that we should keep ourselves altogether “unspotted from the world,” in our daily walk and conversation, and that we join not with the world in any thing that denies God and Christ, be it what it may.
** p. 11 (quote from James 1:27)
# Hermann Laroche

Hermann Laroche (May 25 1845 – October 18 1904) was a Russian banker, critic of classical music and composer who was renowned throughout Moscow

## Quotes

* No style can have absolute significance in art theory; each one is rooted in its own time and locality and bound by conditions above which it is incapable of elevating itself no matter how great the content it carries.
** Quoted in Vladimir Barsky, Chromaticism (1996, ISBN 371865704X)

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# Hermann Jacobi

Hermann Georg Jacobi (11 February 1850 – 19 October 1937) was an eminent German Indologist.

## Quotes

* Without weighty grounds, we must not push aside unanimous Indian tradition; else one practises scepticism, not criticism.
** Quoted in R.P. Kangle, The Kautiliya Arthasastra, Part III - A Study; 1965, University of Bombay.
* It is easy to see that this estimate [i.e., two hundred years] is far below the minimum of the possible period, during which in India a department of literature could take its rise, reach perfection, become obsolete and die out, to give place finally to a thoroughly new departure. For a Brahmana, for example, could only be widely spread by being learned by heart by a gradually extending circle of Brahmanas, and with the size of the country this would certainly demand a long time. Every man, who learned such a work, became, so to say, a copy of it. ... But several of such works must successively take the place of their predecessors, before the entire class of works in question becomes obsolete. I maintain that a minimum of a thousand years must rather be taken for such a process, which in the conditions that prevailed in ancient India was of necessity a very slow one, especially when we take into consideration that in historical times die literature of the classical period remained for more than a thousand years unaltered.
** Jacobi (1884) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
# Hermann Oldenberg

Hermann Oldenberg (31 October 1854 – 18 March 1920) was a German scholar of Indology, and Professor at Kiel and Göttingen.

## Quotes

* For hundreds of years before Buddha's time, movements were in progress in Indian thought which prepared the way for Buddhism.
** Hermann Oldenberg, quoted in Ancient Indian Education: Brahmanical and Buddhist by Radha Kumud Mookerji
# Ian Cameron Esslemont

Ian Cameron Esslemont (born 1962) is a Canadian writer. He was trained and has worked as an archaeologist. He is best-known for his series Novels of the Malazan Empire, which is set in the same world as the Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy series popularised by his friend and collaborator, Steven Erikson. Esslemont is the co-creator of the Malazan world.

## Quotes
### Return of the Crimson Guard (2008)

* And I will not ask what all others ask of you - why? Because what I have come to understand is that there is no why. To ask why is to impose expectations on mute existence - expectations it is in no way obliged to meet or even extend. And so I make no more, ask no more.
# Ian Carmichael

Ian Gillett Carmichael OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English film, stage, television and radio actor.

## Quotes
### National Film Theatre interview (8 December 2002)

    From "Features: Interviews: Ian Carmichael", British Film Institute
* [Robert] Hamer was an alcoholic. And Hal Chester, the little volatile American producer of School for Scoundrels, looked after him like a child. He picked him up in the morning and took him to the studio, he looked after him at lunchtime, he took him home at night. And everything was hunky dory. He was compos mentis and played well [until] the last fortnight of shooting. It was a night shoot outside the Camelia room ... [a]nd I got down there and he was stoned out of his mind. He was absolutely rolling around, couldn't do a thing. So I'm afraid he had to be removed, and the producer directed that night. Then after that, for the last three weeks, another director came in who never got a credit, a man called Cyril Frankel, who I was in the army with, strangely. He directed the last three weeks. Of course, you've always got to remember that everything is shot out of sequence so the last three weeks doesn't necessarily mean the last fifteen minutes of the film. You can't see the join.
* [On the early end of a Broadway run] So I went over there and, I'm delighted to say, the play flopped [audience laughter]. I hated New York. I loathed it. I sent Michael [Mills] a telegram after the notice went up at the end of the first week. It said "Boeing Boeing coming off next week. Am at your full disposal." He told me later that telegram arrived on his desk at Television Centre while he was holding a conference as to who should play Bertie [Wooster] as I wasn't available.
** Carmichael was cast in The World of Wooster for BBC Television with Dennis Price as Jeeves.
* Q: Who were your comedic or revue influences? IC: I adored Jack Buchanan and Fred Astaire. Cary Grant roles are ones I would love to have played but I was never given any.

## About Carmichael

* He had great zest for life, and a lot of style - he belonged to an age of elegance.
** Anne Reid "Actor Ian Carmichael dies at 89", BBC News (6 February 2010)
* He had that love of life and love of people; he gathered people around him like other people gather butterflies or postage stamps.
** Neil Durden-Smith "Actor Ian Carmichael dies at 89", BBC News (6 February 2010)
# Ian Dunlop

Ian Dunlop (born 1940) is an English writer and former art critic for the Evening Standard. His first book, The Shock of the New, was published in 1972.

## Quotes

* The Shock of the New
** Title of book (1972).

## Quotes about Ian Dunlop

* The author of the first Shock of the New is Ian Dunlop, an English writer who was once the art critic for The Evening Standard in London and is now on the staff of Sotheby's, the auction house in New York.
    Mr. Dunlop's Shock is quite different from Mr. Hughes's, of course. It focuses on seven historic exhibitions of the modern period, beginning with the Salon des Refuses in Paris in 1863 and ending with the Degenerate Art show staged by Hitler's minions in Munich in 1937. Along the way, attention is paid to the Armory Show of 1913 and the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1938.
    To say that Mr. Dunlop's book was published without fanfare would be a gross understatement. It seems to have fallen from the presses directly into the deepest obscurity. This writer stumbled upon a copy only last year in a secondhand book shop. The book proved to be very lively reading. It is certainly worth rescuing from the oblivion to which it was so hastily consigned. But if it were to be reprinted now, I suppose it would have to be given a new title. Such is the power of television.
   * Hilton Kramer, "Notebook; Pound as Critit: More than a Footnote." New York Times, January 22, 1981.
* In The Shock of the New Ian Dunlop quotes first-hand accounts of the irresistible laughter provoked by the exhibits. Word would get around that in this or that there was a funny picture, and, as Zola reported in his novel L'CEuvre, "people came stampeding from every other room in the exhibition and gangs of sightseers, afraid of missing something, came pushing their way in, shouting 'Where? — "Over there!" "Oh, I say! Did you ever?"
** Harold Rosenberg (1983). Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations, p. 155

## External links

* Authority control: VIAF: 110889962 | WorldCat search
# Ian Hislop

Ian Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is editor, and part-owner, of British satirical magazine Private Eye and a panelist on Have I Got News for You. Owing to the many writs for libel Private Eye once received, Hislop has sometimes been described as being "the most sued man in Britain".

## Quotes

* If this is justice, I am a banana.
** Statement to the press outside court, following losing a libel action brought by Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" (24 May 1989), quoted in UPI article and Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations p. 154
* Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'
** Parkinson, ITV (19 November 2006).
* The trouble about working on a tabloid is that they tend to be run by bullies.
** Room 101, BBC (9 February 2007).
* For fifty years Private Eye has pretty much in most issues exposed a miscarriage of justice, and a lot of them have been murders. Over the years, large numbers of these cases have been found to be entirely wrong, and the men convicted -- almost always men, there was a couple of women -- have been found innocent, so we would have killed those people, and in some of those very high profile cases which involved terrorism cases, we would have made very dangerous new martyrs by executing people who turned out not to have committed the murders involved. So on a purely practical basis, whatever you think it says about the civilised nature of your society or not, I think it would be incredibly dangerous to have capital punishment back.
** On capital punishment in the United Kingdom in response to its advocacy by Priti Patel MP (later Conservative Home Secretary) on Question Time, BBC One (22 September 2011).
* I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.
** Interview with Ginny Dougary "Inside the Private world of Ian Hislop" The Daily Telegraph (29 November 2012).
* In Britain we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it."
** On Have I Got News For You (11 October 2013).
* So no, I'm not in that camp, but I do think that statutory regulation is not required, and most of the heinous crimes that came up and have made such a splash in front of this Inquiry have already been illegal. Contempt of court is illegal. Phone tapping is illegal. Taking money from - policemen taking money is illegal. All of these things don't need a code. We already have laws for them. The fact that these laws were not rigorously enforced is, again, due to the behaviour of the police, the interaction of the police and News International, and - I mean, let's be honest about this - the fact that our politicians have been very, very involved, in ways that I think are not sensible, with senior News International people, and I hope you'll be calling the Prime Minister and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to explain how that comes down from the top."
** At the Leveson Inquiry (17 January 2012).
# Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma (born December 28, 1951) is a Dutch writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan. In 2003 he became Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College, New York.

## Sourced

* It was, as we know, not so much eradicated as replaced by a Communist orthodoxy after 1949. And when this orthodoxy began to lose its grip on the Chinese public after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, Chinese officials struggled to find a new set of beliefs to justify their monopoly on power. The ideological hybrid that followed Maoism was "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," a mixture of state capitalism with political authoritarianism.
** Battling the Information Barbarians China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google.
* The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.
** Battling the Information Barbarians China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google.
* But, in the late twentieth century, it became more important to many leftists to save “Third World” culture, no matter how barbaric, from “neo-colonialism,” than to support equality and democracy. People on the left would defend brutal dictators (Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, Khomeini, et al.) simply because they opposed “Western imperialism.” As a result, all politics that were derived, no matter how loosely, from Marxism, lost credibility, and finally died in 1989. This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism. And, without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.
** Ian Buruma What’s Left After 1989?
* Obama is neither a socialist, nor a mere political accountant. He has some modest ideals, and may yet be an excellent president. But what is needed to revive liberal idealism is a set of new ideas on how to promote justice, equality and freedom in the world. Reagan, Thatcher, and Gorbachev, assisted in the end of an ideology, which once offered hope, and inspired real progress, but resulted in slavery and mass murder. We are still waiting for a new vision, which will lead to progress, but this time, we hope, without tyranny.
** What’s Left After 1989?
# Ian Dury

Ian Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and actor.

## Quotes

* I'm spasticus autisticus.
** "Spasticus Autisticus", On Countdown (Australia) 1981
* So long have I been languished on the shelf
    I must give all proceedings to myself.
   * "Spasticus Autisticus", On Countdown (Australia) 1981
# Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.

## Quotes

* Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
** Stephen Bann ed. 'Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton' Willmington Square Books 2014 (Letter to Pierre Garnier)

## Poetry Quotes

* Evening/Sail EVEN -ING WILL COME
** Concrete poem Extract:Stephen Scobie 'Stephen Scobie:Introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay ' Scottish Library

## Quotes about Finlay

* An everyman who happened to accomplish the extraordinary.
* Finlay blended flowers, words, photography, sculpture, and typography into a potluck of avant-garde pieces of art.
** 'A Different Kind of Poet'Essay-Katsarel,Michigan State University www.msu.edu
* A devout Classicist in an age of Romanticism.
** Stephen Scobie , 'Stephen Scobie Introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay' Scottish Poetry Library