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# Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi

Alī Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī (11th century) Al-Andalus, was a mechanical engineer and author of the unique technological manuscript entitled Kitāb al-asrār fī natā'ij al-afkār (The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas).

## Quotes

* When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after its ancient heritage, that its masters have perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them.
** Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas, 11th century; Translated and cited at leonardo3.net/bookofsecrets/index, 2015

## Quotes about Al-Muradi

* Among Islamic books studied or translated in Toledo, there were several which discussed mechanical devices, including astronomical instruments and several types of water clock. One author who wrote on this subject was al-Muradi, and he illustrated elaborate gear trains, some with epicyclic and segmental gears.
** Arnold Pacey (1991), Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-year History, p. 43
* The manuscript (of 'The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas) was copied in 1266 from the original text written by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi in the eleventh century. The only copy is in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, Italy. A unique source of medieval Arabic technology, it presents designs for more than 30 devices, including water clocks, calendars, and war machines.
** The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas, at library.rijksmuseum.nl, 2015.

## External links

* The Book of Secrets - Kitab al Asrar of al-Muradi - part 1 of 2 at youtube.com
# Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb al-Zurʿī l-Dimashqī l-Ḥanbalī (29 January 1292–15 September 1350 CE / 691 AH–751 AH), commonly known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya ("The son of the principal of [the school of] Jawziyyah") or Ibn al-Qayyim ("Son of the principal"; ابن القيّم) for short, or reverentially as Imam Ibn al-Qayyim in Sunni tradition, was an important medieval Islamic jurisconsult, theologian, and spiritual writer. Belonging to the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, of which he is regarded as "one of the most important thinkers," Ibn al-Qayyim was also the foremost disciple and student of Ibn Taymiyyah, with whom he was imprisoned in 1326 for dissenting against established tradition during Ibn Taymiyyah's famous incarceration in the Citadel of Damascus.

## Quotes

* Jihad against the lower self precedes jihad against external enemies and is the basis for it. Indeed, if one does not strive against himself first to do what he has been commanded and avoid what he has been forbidden and to wage war against it for the sake of Allah, one cannot possibly strive against external enemies. How can one strive against his enemies and be just if his enemy within has overpowered him, dominated him, and he did not strive or wage war against it for the sake of Allah? Rather, he cannot go out against his enemies unless he gives precedence to striving against himself.
** Zād al-maʿād, 3:6. Quoted in "Jihad in Islam: Just-war theory in the Quran and Sunnah", p. 6.
* They (i.e., the Prophet’s companions) did not make sexual relations with Arab captives contingent on their conversion; rather they had sexual relations with them after one menstrual period. God allowed them to do this and did not make it conditional on conversion.
** Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, quoted from Yohanan Friedmann, Tolerance and Coercion in Islam : Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2003.— pp. 176-178

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Wikipedia
# Leo William Cushley

Leo William Cushley (18 June 1961 –) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

## Quotes

* Personally I think the thing that will survive, as survives so many important figures, is the writing that they leave behind and he has left behind many books that he wrote when he was simply Joseph Ratzinger and they are standing the test of time quite well, in my view.
** Pope Benedict: Archbishop leads tribute to 'Bavarian gentleman' (31 December 2022) BBC
# Leon Festinger

Leon Festinger (8 May 1919 – 11 February 1989) was an American social psychologist, perhaps best known for cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory.

## Quotes

* When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range.
** Leon Festinger and John Thibaut. "Interpersonal communication in small groups." The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 46.1 (1951): 92.
# Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher (July 23, 1928-August 2, 2020) was an American pianist and conductor.

## Quotes

* French music is really very sensory, and appeals to sense of smell, taste, touch. It can be languorous, and almost erotic. Russian music is very subjective, sometimes whiny, breast-beating 'Look how I suffer, look how I suffer!'. German music is, to use your word, metaphysical. It really asks those existential questions of 'How do I relate to the Universe?', 'Is there a heaven?', 'How am I like a brook, or a leaf on a tree?'. I know this was the music that most challenged Schnabel. He said Mozart was the most inaccessible of the great masters, because with the fewest number of notes, he accesses the deepest levels of human awareness and experience.
** Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher by Elijah Ho (October 1, 2014)
* There are certain devices that one uses in Romantic music that are appropriate only for Romantic or subsequent music. If you take those devices and apply them to earlier music, then it’s totally inappropriate, and it makes the Classical music sound silly. However, if you were to use what you might call ‘Classical devices’ on Romantic music, historically, that would be correct! It very often benefits Romantic music, which is sometimes rather disjunctive, rather shapeless in comparison with Classical symphonic or sonata form. Romantic music very often benefits from that tighter organization that you get from Classical music.
** Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher by Elijah Ho (October 1, 2014)
* Speaking involves inflection, it involves an understanding of the language. Too many young people today play their instruments most wonderfully – they have such command of their instrument – but it’s as though they’re speaking a foreign language, phonetically. They pronounce all the words, but they have no idea of what they’re saying. And I think that’s one of the big differences between the great artists of the time and this level of expertise that is constantly expanding and rising. As I’ve said for a long time, the level of mediocrity is constantly rising.
** Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher by Elijah Ho (October 1, 2014)
* First of all, when you enter a conservatory, it’s already too late. The kind of connection that has to be made with an instrument, be it a piano, strings, a wind instrument, it really has to start much younger – five, six, seven - eight years-old is already getting late. The instrument must really become an extension of yourself. That neuromuscular connection between intention and realization is something that really has to be started very young. And the years between nine or ten and twenty, that’s when one should learn the whole repertoire.
** Interview with pianist Leon Fleisher by Elijah Ho (October 1, 2014)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Leon Fleisher on Wikipedia
* Media related to Leon Fleisher on Wikimedia Commons
# Leon C. Megginson

Leon C. Megginson (July 26, 1921 - February 22, 2010) was a professor in the business school at Louisiana State University (1952-1977), the University of South Alabama (1977-1999) and the J. L. Bedsole Professor of Business Studies at the University of Mobile as of 1999. He published extensively in the academic literature. Megginson is often cited for his clarifying statement about evolution, which made him well-cited beyond the business school scholarly literature.

## Quotes

* It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent but the ones most adaptable to change.
** As cited by The Darwin Challenge.
* According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
** Megginson, Leon C. “Lessons from Europe for American Business.” The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Wiley, 1963, pp. 3–13.
* ....that the civilization that is able to survive is one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.
** Megginson, Leon C. “Lessons from Europe for American Business.” The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Wiley, 1963, pp. 3–13.
# Leon Bertoletti

Leon Bertoletti (born 1971, Switzerland) is an Italian journalist and author.

## Quotes

* I call it "cut and paste journalism." It's very convenient, very easy, very useful. And very dishonest.
** Cut and Paste Journalism, Hic Sunt Leones, 16/01/2006
* Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.
** Arts, Hic Sunt Leones, 15/6/2007
* I prefer news without interviews to interviews without news.
** Useless Interviews, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/11/2007
* The Anglican Church seems the Wonder Emporium of Mr Magorium.
** Anglicanism, Hic Sunt Leones, 24/06/2008
* Pope Benedict XVI is working softly, slowly, often silently, unobtrusively, behind the scenes, mostly unseen. But he is working hard. I like the great job of reconciliation that he is doing inside the Roman Catholic Church: reconciliation between traditionalists and liberals, conservative and reform-oriented faithful, liturgical Latinists and Mass polyglots, old-time lovers and progressives, high-flying souls and pedestrian believers, thinkers and doers--Christians and Catholics. It is a hidden work of diplomacy, interactions, influences, concessions, agreements, acknowledgments. A "hard job" well done until now.
** Christians and Catholics, Hic Sunt Leones, 9/10/2008
* Believe it or not, after the Second Vatican Council anticlericalism is a Catholic virtue. In elaborating a theology of laity, as many call it, and speaking of a hierarchy of service rather than of domination in the Church, Vatican II implicitly endorsed opposition to clericalism, which is a policy of maintaining or increasing the power of a religious hierarchy. Clearly, this sort of anticlericalism has nothing to do with the other anticlericalism.
** The A-Word, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/10/2008
* Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.
** Complexes, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009
* The United Nations General Assembly: The greatest show on Earth, starring Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Muammar Gaddafi.
** UN Circus, Hic Sunt Leones, 24/09/2009
* Speaking frankly, I find it difficult to accept lessons on press freedom from The Times, a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.
** Freedom and the Press, Hic Sunt Leones, 3/10/2009
# Leon C. Marshall

Leon Carroll Marshall (March 15, 1879 – March 1966) was an American economist, Professor of Political Economy and fourth dean of the Booth School of Business from 1909 to 1924, Professor at the Law School of the Johns Hopkins University, and Professor at the American University. He is known for his works on economic organization, business administration, curriculum-making in the social studies and the divorce court.

## Quotes

* The materials collected in this volume are intended to acquaint the student with economic principles as they are manifested in the tangible facts of economic life. A few extracts of primarily theoretical character have been included to represent important aspects of contemporary or historic thought; but for the most part the selections are not so much authoritative formulations of economic laws as concrete case-material embodying such laws, or affording a background of information which the systematic treatises on economics can hardly give and which the teacher certainly cannot often assume that his students will possess.
** James A. Field, Leon C. Marshall and Chester W. Wright. Materials For the Study of Elementary Economics, University of Chicago Press, 1913. Preface

## Quotes about Leon C. Marshall

* This newest, largest and best collection of illustrative documents and programs, tables, and charts, extracts from federal and state commission and departmental reports, selections from trade and commercial newspaper and journals, and experts from the masters, old and new, is clearly the most important book of the year for students and teachers of economics.
    One must resort statistics to describe the work. It contains 927 large octavo pages, which bear to reader no less then 267 separate illustrative items, varying in length from suggestive quarter-page tables to a thirty-five page compilation from the National Conservation Commission. Over two hundred tables and charts are scattered through the volume
   * Walter E. Clark. "Materials for the Study of Elementary Economics. L. C. Marshall , C. W. Wright , J. A. Field." Journal of Political Economy 1914 22:3, 277-279
# Jason Smith (politician)

Jason Thomas Smith (June 16, 1980 –) is an American businessman, politician, and the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district after winning a special election on June 4, 2013. The district comprises 30 counties, covering just under 20,000 square miles of southeastern and southern Missouri.

## Quotes

* We shouldn’t be rewarding companies with American tax dollars who use the American capitalist system to achieve billions in profits, but then disown the same history of a country which inherently allowed them to succeed.
* We are the greatest nation on the face of the earth. We are home to the bravest and strongest military who defends freedom around the globe. We respect and honor the rights of the individual versus that of a central government. We believe you should get to wake up each day and decide for yourself what you want to do, not have your decisions dictated to you by the government. Our values, our rights, our freedom and our opportunities are the reason our borders are flooded at this very moment – because millions more wish they could be here, they wish they could be Americans. None of that would have been possible without our history, our story, the American story. I choose not to hide, not to run from that history, but to remember it, to celebrate who we are as Americans today because of where we have been and where we have come.
** Just Don't Do It (July 6, 2019)
* We know that fighting to maintain the liberty our forefathers fought and died to secure is paramount. In Missouri, we have always put the rights of individual citizens above the desires of the government. That means freedom to use your private lands for whatever you see fit. And that is why for generations, Missourians have toiled in their bountiful and beautiful fields in America’s heartland, fed a striving nation westward, and produced crops that remain the envy of the world.
** Still Worth Fighting For (August 9, 2019)

## External links

* Official website
# Jason Statham

Jason Statham (born 26 July 1967) is an English actor and film producer.

## Quotes

* It wasn't actually in the Olympic Games, but I spent 12 years on the national squad. And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
** "An Interview with Jason Statham". IGN. (6 June 2003).
* I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.
** "Jason Statham Talks Parker, Crank 3, Heat, Homefront, Hummingbird, and More: "Collider". (25 January, 2013)

## Quotes About Statham

* We chose Jason because we wanted our model to look like a normal guy. His look is just right for now: very masculine and not too male-modelly.
** Damon Syson, "Jason Statham stays true to himself". The Independent. (2 June 1995).
# Jason Whitlock

Jason Lee Whitlock (born April 27, 1967, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American sports journalist, columnist, and podcaster. He hosts a program for the media company Blaze Media, where he hosts the show Fearless with Jason Whitlock. Whitlock is a former columnist at The Kansas City Star, AOL Sports, Foxsports.com, and ESPN.

## Quotes

* I'm not mad at Limbaugh. He expresses no shame to the game he's been running for two decades. He's an opportunistic, race-baiting, anti-black entertainer. The popularity of the gangsta element of hip-hop music culture has allowed Limbaugh to proudly claim that his form of entertainment is mainstream.
** "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL", Fox Sports (October 13, 2009).
* Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football.
** "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL", Fox Sports (October 13, 2009).
* And here come the Left Brothers — Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson — barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.
** "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL", Fox Sports (October 13, 2009).
# Jason and the Argonauts

Jason and the Argonauts are characters from Greek mythology. The title may also refer to:
* Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film), a 1963 film directed by Don Chaffey with animation by Ray Harryhausen
* Jason and the Argonauts (TV miniseries), a two-part TV movie made in 2000
* Argonautica, a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC.
* Argonautica, a Latin epic poem written by Gaius Valerius Flaccus in the 1st century AD.
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# Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)

Jason and the Argonauts is a 1963 film about the legendary Greek hero who leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.
    Directed by Don Chaffey. Written by Beverley Cross and Jan Read, based on The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius.

## Pelias

* (Incognito) Jason, when your father defended his kingdom... no man fought harder than I!

## Zeus

* If I were to punish every blasphemy, I'd soon lose all loyalty and respect.
* The gods are best served by those who need their help the least.
* For the moment, let them enjoy a calm sea, a fresh breeze and each other. The girl is pretty and I was always sentimental. But for Jason, there are other adventures. I have not finished with Jason. Let us continue the game another day.

## Aeëtes

* Rise up, you dead, slain of the hydra, rise from your graves and avenge us! Those who steal the Golden Fleece must die.

## Phineas

* Lord Zeus, I was a sinner. I have never tried to deny it. But I didn't sin every day! Why then do you punish me every day?

## Dialogue

    Pelias: Well?
    Priest: Zeus, king of the gods of the Greeks, brighten the ashes that I may read the future. I see... a great tree at the end of the world. And in its branches there hang the skull and skin of a ram. They gleam and shine for it is a prize of the gods, a Golden Fleece.
    Phineas: But tell me, what gods protect you?
    Jason: None now.
    Phineas: You won't pass the Clashing Rocks.

## Taglines

* The epic story that was destined to stand as a colossus of adventure!
* Greatest Odyssey Of The Ages - for the first time on the screen

## Cast

* Todd Armstrong — Jason
* Nancy Kovack — Medea
* Gary Raymond — Acastus
* Niall MacGinnis — Zeus
* Laurence Naismith — Argus
* Michael Gwynn — Hermes
* Douglas Wilmer — Pelias
* Jack Gwillim — King Aeëtes
* Honor Blackman — Hera
* John Cairney — Hylas
* Patrick Troughton — Phineus
* Andrew Faulds — Phalerus
* Nigel Green — Hercules

## External links

* Jason and the Argonauts quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# John M. Culkin

John M. Culkin, Jr. (June 21, 1928 – July 23, 1993) was an American academic and former priest who was a leading media scholar and critic, educator, writer and consultant.

## Quotes

* So trying to keep certain things off television or out of books is futile. That same energy should be applied to helping children develop their own capacities for judgment, taste and sensitivity, so that they know how to make decisions that are based, we hope, on positive values.
** “In Conversation with John Culkin,” Maria P. Robbins, Television and Children Journal, Summer, 1981.
* We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
** McLuhan Galaxy (April 1, 2013)
# John M. Mason

John Mitchell Mason (March 19, 1770 - December 26, 1829) was an American preacher and theologian who was Provost of Columbia College in the early 1810s, and briefly President of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the early 1820s.

## Quotes
### Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers

    Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
* He who thinks he hath no need of Christ, hath too high thoughts of himself. He who thinks Christ cannot help him, hath too low thoughts of Christ.
** P. 86.
* When I go to the house of God I do not want amusement; I want the doctrine which is according to godliness. I want to hear the remedy against the harassing of my guilt and the disorder of my affections. I want to be led from weariness and disappointment to that goodness which filleth the hungry soul. I want to have light upon the mystery of Providence; to be taught how the judgments of the Lord are right; how I shall be prepared for duty and for trial; how I may fear God all the days of my life, and close them in peace.
** P. 150.
* They that deny themselves for Christ shall enjoy themselves in Christ.
** P. 534.
* Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with the judgment of charity.
** P. 554.
* A zealous soul without meekness is like a ship in a storm, in danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought.
** P. 625.
# John M. Rodgers

John M. Rodgers is a journalist and teacher who was born in New Hampshire, U.S. He later lived in Seoul, South Korea for ten years teaching high school English before returning to graduate school at Dartmouth. He returned to Korea to teach at Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies for three years before returning to the United States.

## Quotes

* Wherever you go in the world, it’s always nice to feel like you’re supposed to be there. Whether in a city or the woods, West or East, we all have someplace to be. You’ll know it when you arrive.
** “Two Homes, a World Apart.” The New York Times. 30 May 2012.