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# Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

Elizabeth J. Rosenthal is an American biographer.

## Quotes
### Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson (2008)

    All page numbers are from the trade paperback first edition, published by The Lyons Press ISBN 978-1-59921-962-2
    All formatting as in the book
* I believe that no mutiny ever got in under way unless there had been some shortcoming in the behavior of the captain.
** Chapter 2, “The Boy Wonder and the Conservative Conservationist” (p. 48; quoting Robert Cushman Murphy)
* In 1941 he (Roger Tory Peterson) seems to predict battles to come when he wrote: “Spraying kills the insects, but the effects are temporary. In short, we must choose between the two: to have some insects and some birds, or to spray and have no insects and no birds.”
** Chapter 3, “Spreading His Wings” (p. 67)
* We invent systems, Socialism, Fascism, Communism and Capitalism. Each despises the other. Yet, as Professor Aldo Leopold of the University of Wisconsin pointed out, they all espouse one creed: salvation by machinery. Is it any wonder that when these systems prove faulty and men detect the synthetic nature of the civilization of their devising they turn to nature? In a world that seems to have gone mad is it any wonder birds have such appeal? Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.
** Chapter 3, “Spreading His Wings” (p. 76; quoting Roger Tory Peterson)
* This whole business of the slaughter of…birds…for their plumes for millinery purposes is one that every lover of nature and every person of humane feeling who understands the case will regard no less than infamous. This is one of the moral questions—to be classed with the opium traffic and the slave trade—to which there is but one side. In these days there is arising a many-sided and tremendous problem in regard to saving the natural world from ignorant, short-sighted, commercial vandalism. Every tree must be cut down, every plant pulled up, every wild thing slaughtered, every beautiful scene disfigured, if only there is money to be made from it.
** Chapter 9, “Embryonic Conservationism” (p. 169; quoting Herbert K. Job)
* DDT anywhere is DDT everywhere.
** Chapter 11, “DDT, the Osprey, and the Old Lyme Offspring” (p. 239; quoting Roger Tory Peterson)
* “Now celebrities are not ordinary people,” says Clement. “The world treats them differently and, therefore, they react differently.”
** Chapter 14, “Offerings” (p. 293)
* “I had always thought that accidents happened to other people. From now on I will fasten my seat belt,” he (Roger Tory Peterson) said.
** Chapter 15, “Maturing with National Audubon” (p. 312)
* “I don’t think Roger…was particularly religious in a Bible, church way,” says Lasley. “His religion was life. Nature.”
** Chapter 19, “Still All over the Range Map” (p. 372)

## External links

* Website
* Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson. 2008. OCLC 1280745974.
* Rosenthal, Elizabeth J. (2001) (in en). His Song: the musical journey of Elton John (1st ed.). Wikidata Q115322604. ISBN 0-8230-8893-6. OCLC 1149349414.
# Deborah Owusu-Bonsu

Deborah Owusu-Bonsu (born 25 August 1984) better known by her stage name as Sister Derby or Sister Deborah is a Ghanaian-Romanian television presenter, musician and model of Akan origin and a former presenter at e.tv Ghana.

## Quotes

* Whenever I am in a relationship, I go all out for the person. I always put the people I love ahead of my needs. When I am in a relationship, I invest all my energy and resources which ends up draining me and slowing me down. I get turned off when I realize the affection is only one-sided.
* It is not something I'm looking forward to or looking at all. I'm not with anybody, but I'm not interested. I'm not looking forward to be with anybody because that is not my focus.
* It annoys me when some men take advantage of me after showing them love and care.
# Razia Khan

Razia Khan Amin (1936 – 28 December 2011) was a Bangladeshi writer, poet and educationist. She was also a journalist, theatre actor and columnist for newspapers. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1997 for her contribution to education by the Government of Bangladesh.

## Quotes

* Despite the level of achievement already attained, debate over the constitutionality of generating funds for the sovereign wealth fund undermine investor confidence in the country’s political commitment towards building a buffer for a potential collapse in the price of oil.
* The recent probe on the fuel subsidy has raised significant concerns about Nigeria’s effectiveness to curb leakages and prevent extra-budgetary spending. In addition to this is the delayed passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, which is holding back substantial investments in the sector and risks further undermining production levels.
* The key stumbling blocks have been related to the bankability of individual projects, and there are a number of factors feeding into this. The first one is cost recovery: the power sector is one example where many investment projects exist but the returns are affected by electricity tariffs that are well below market levels
* I do not think that the deficient lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) has anything to do with the willingness of banks to lend.
* There is little guarantee that interests rates would result in a significant boost in bank lending. The reasons for the current lack of lending are more structural. To get to the point where interest rate cuts would affect lending would be hugely destabilising to the country’s macroeconomic health. So, for the time being, there is no clear-cut argument for monetary easing.
# Philomena Nyarko

Philomena Efua Nyarko is a Ghanaian statistician and academic, and the former Government Statistician for Ghana, chief executive of the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).

## Quotes

* Non-food inflation rate of 24.1 percent is about four times as high as the food inflation rate of 5.8 percent.
* The country’s unadjusted GDP growth decelerated to 5.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, sharply down from a revised 10.8 percent in the same period last year.
* But despite contraction in several sectors, some as a result of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the 2014 growth forecast, while down on 2013, still puts Ghana well above the IMF forecast for sub-Saharan African growth of 5.1 percent. Ghana, which exports gold, oil and cocoa, has been hard hit in the hospitality sector.
# Doris Bozimo

Doris Bozimo (born 16 August 1942) is a Nigerian librarian, academician and administrator. She is a professor and former university librarian at Kashim Ibrahim Library, Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna state.

## Quotes

* Inadequate funding and lack of commitment to library development by the National Universities Commission was responsible for the poor state of libraries in the universities.
* Through 10 per cent of budgetary allocation to each university was meant for library development, government sometimes failed to release such grants
# Charles Handy

Charles Handy (25 July 1932 – 13 December 2024) was an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he advanced are the "portfolio worker" and the "Shamrock Organization" (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the "Shamrock").

## Quotes

* "Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can."
** "Revisiting the Concept of the Corporation"
* "To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there. But you won't risk mistakes if you think you will be punished. You have to be sure of forgiveness if it is a genuine mistake. You won't accept criticism or negative feedback either, unless you are sure it comes from someone you respect, someone that you know has your interests at heart."
** "The Hungry Spirit"

## Misattributed

* The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
** This quote about the McNamara fallacy appears in The Empty Raincoat (1994). Sometimes attributed to Handy but actually from 1971 and written by Daniel Yankelovich.
# Gayatri Mantra

The Gāyatrī Mantra, also known as the Sāvitrī Mantra, is a highly revered mantra from the Rig Veda (oldest sacred Hindu texts), dedicated to the sun deity (before sunrise called Savitr, and sunrise until sunset called Sūrya). The Gayatri mantra is cited widely in Vedic and post-Vedic texts, such as the mantra listings of the Śrauta liturgy, and classical Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, Harivamsa,and Manusmṛti. It was also praised by the Buddha in the Pali Canon. Its daily use, long a common Hindu practice is now widespread all over the world.

## Quotes

* May we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the god: So may He stimulate our prayers.
** Translated by Ralph. T. H. Griffith (1896)

## Quotes about Gayatri Mantra

* The Gayatri is perhaps the greatest and most beautiful of all the ancient mantras. It has been chanted all over India from time immemorial... in an antiquity so remote that the very memory of it has been forgotten, the altruistic use of such mantras was fully comprehended and practiced. It begins always with the sacred word Om, and with the enumeration of the planes upon which its action is desired—the three worlds in which man lives, the physical, the astral and the mental.
** C. W. Leadbeater in The Masters and the Path, p. 149, (1925)
* This aim is formulated with utmost brevity in the famous Gâyatrî Mantra which is daily recited by hundreds of thousands of people all over India. The Mantra prays for arousing, activating, animating and manifesting our mind and understanding. Several Upanishads begin with this prayer: "Make strong my limbs, my speech, my vitals, my eyes, my ears and other senses".
** Ram Swarup, On Hinduism (2000)

## See also

* The Ageless Wisdom Teachings
* Blessings
* Four Noble Truths
* The Great Invocation
* The Light of Asia, by Edwin Arnold
* Mantras
* Meditation
* Om
* Om mani padme hum
* Prayers
# Political aspects of Islam

Political aspects of Islam are derived from the Quran, hadith literature, and sunnah (the sayings and living habits of the Islamic prophet Muhammad), history of Islam, and elements of political movements outside Islam. Traditional political concepts in Islam include leadership by elected or selected successors to Muhammad known as Caliphs (Imamate for Shia); the importance of following Islamic law or Sharia; the duty of rulers to seek Shura or consultation from their subjects; and the importance of rebuking unjust rulers.

## Quotes

* Bolshevism combines the characteristics of the French Revolution with those of the rise of Islam. … Among religions, Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
** Bertrand Russell, "The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism", (London, 1920), pp. 5, 114-115
* One is that, even before the rise of Islamism, there were indications that leftism did not in general fare as well in the Islamic world as it did in other Third World regions. There was a sense at the time that the presence of Islam displaced the political spectrum to the right. One effect of this was a certain opportunistic reticence on the part of leftists in the Islamic world when it came to the manifestation of antireligious sentiments.
** Cook, Michael - Ancient religions, modern politics _ the Islamic case in comparative perspective-Princeton University Press (2014)
* Islam did not speak from catacombs ... it saw the way of truth as passing always through thrones.
** K. Cragg, House of Islam quoted from Francis Robinson - Islam and Muslim history in South Asia-Oxford University Press (2000)
* So history and belief encouraged men to feel that Islam could be Islam properly only in conjunction with political power.
** Francis Robinson - Islam and Muslim history in South Asia-Oxford University Press (2000),184-185, also partially quoted in Parallel pathways, M. Jain. 2
* [Iqbal elaborated that nationalism came into conflict with Islam] only when it begins to play the role of a political concept and claims to be a principle of human solidarity demanding that Islam should recede to the background of a mere private opinion and cease to be a living factor in the national life. ... In majority countries, Islam accomodates nationalism, for there Islam and nationalism are practically identical, in minority countries it is justified in seeking self-determination as a cultural unit.
** Muhammad Iqbal quoted in R. Hassan 1971, 146, in Iqbal Poet Philospher of Pakistan, also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
# Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies before the era of modern medicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness". Traditional medicine is often contrasted with scientific medicine.

## Quotes

* There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work.
** Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
* A concrete example showing the importance of preserving difference is that of healing systems throughout the world. Each brings something useful to the table because of its distinct models and approaches. Western medicine, Indian Ayurveda and yoga, and Chinese medicine and acupuncture all provide unique solutions for certain types of diseases and wellness management. Yet none can be properly mapped onto another's framework without compromise. What is needed is not a cut-and-paste insertion of these practices into a Western model of medicine but an understanding of the integrity and utility of each system's own model and the philosophy behind it, so as to give it a place alongside Western systems.
** Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.
# Mariam Lamizana

Mariam Lamizana (born 1951) is a Burkinabé sociologist, social worker, feminist activist and politician.

## Quotes

* We have reached a point when the female circumcision is discussed in the community and demystified
* It involves cutting off the clitoris of girls of the same age in the community, usually by a traditional practitioner with crude instruments and without anesthesia.
* We are confirming on this day our firm determination to fight a non-stop battle so that no single Burkina girl will be threatened by this practice of another age.
# Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration. It is a form of genocide denial.

## Quotes by Holocaust deniers

* I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
** David Irving, The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel — 1988: David Irving.
* Not there's no Holocaust, let say they exaggerated the Holocaust. We don't say many people...but they say there's Holocaust but they are exaggerating, so there's such perception of this event of this title, the Holocaust, in our region...It's not the matter how many were killed, six million or one million, or half...killing is killing, I mean how many Soviets were killed? eight million, so why didn't we talk about them? the problem is not how many were killed. How do they do use it? what do the Palestinians have to do to the Holocaust to pay the price? This is one question we asked...We know that there was massacre against Jewish and against others...what's going on in Palestine we see it the same way, but you don't see it the same way...
** Bashar al-Assad, Interview with Charlie Rose (2006)

## Quotes about Holocaust denial

* [In] the act of denying this historical truth [of the Holocaust], the deniers denigrate the Jewish people and memories of historical occurrences, suggest that those who accept the truth of the Holocaust lie, and relativize the suffering incurred. Thus, the act of Holocaust denial is not simply an expression of belief in what did or did not happen historically, given that the Holocaust has been historically verified. It is an act of vilification that denigrates and harms.
** Katharine Gelber, quoted in Gordon, Gregory S. (2014). "Speech Along the Atrocity Spectrum". Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 42 (2). page 454
* Negationism means the denial of historical crimes against humanity. It is not a reinterpretation of known facts, but the denial of known facts. The term negationism has gained currency as the name of a movement to deny a specific crime against humanity, the Nazi genocide on the Jews in 1941–45, also known as the holocaust (Greek: complete burning) or the Shoah (Hebrew: disaster). Negationism is mostly identified with the effort at re-writing history in such a way that the fact of the Holocaust is omitted.
** Koenraad Elst. Chapter One – Negationism in General, Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam, 2002. Also in
# Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on religion

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 has impacted religion in various ways, including the cancellation of the worship services of various faiths.

## Quotes

* Not all branches of faith go as far as handling snakes, but they’re all rooted in the one miracle that overrides our intellect. That’s why, as a young, idealistic Christian who only wanted to grow in my faith, I was prayed over to sever me from my intellectual and rational thinking. This global pandemic has revealed there’s already a virus inside some American forms of belief — ones that believe God isn’t powerful enough to exist outside of gatherings or ones who believe this is in God’s plan so he can show his power. This kind of spiritual terrorism is showing up on a national scale and, as in my own faith journey, only reason can get us out.
** Karen Alea, “I Was An Evangelical Christian, And I Know Why Many Of Them Resist Logic About COVID-19”, Huffington Post (17 September 2020)
* The Satan is using this opportunity as it has always done to lead us astray from our religious duties in the name of precautions, treatment and protection. Whenever a calamity strikes, Satan makes the victims of calamity commit such acts which destroy their rewards and add to their woes. This is the time to populate the mosques and to invite the ummah towards repentance. As I have already said, this is the time to make our supplications effective. This is not the time to pay heed to false remedial measures….
** Statement by Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi the emir of Tablighi Jamaat, March 22, 2020. Transcription and translation from Urdu by New Age Islam, 5 April 2020
# Ernest Binfield Havell

Ernest Binfield Havell (16 September 1861 – 31 December 1934), who published under the name E.B. Havell, was an influential English arts administrator, art historian and author of numerous books about Indian art and architecture. He was a member of the Havell family of artists and art educators. He was the principal of the Government School of Art, Calcutta from 1896 to 1905, where, along with Abanindranath Tagore, he developed a style of art and art education based on Indian rather than Western models, which led to the foundation of the Bengal school of art.

## Quotes

* They recognize that the present rulers of India . . . are generally animated by that same love of justice and fair play, the same high principles of conduct and respect for humanitarian laws which guided the ancient Aryan statesmen and law givers in their relations with the Indian masses ... in thus honouring our Aryan forerunners in India we shall both honour ourselves and make the most direct and effective appeal to Indian loyalty.
** Havell, E. B. 1918. The History of Aryan Rule in India. London. quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 1
* India s present Aryan rulers should misunderstand or ignore the political ideals and methods by which the great men of our own race made the people of India accept Aryan domination as the greatest of divine blessings.
** Havell, E. B. 1918. The History of Aryan Rule in India. London.
** in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.147
* In thus honouring our Aryan forerunners in India, we shall both honour ourselves and make the most direct and effective appeal to Indian loyalty.
** Havell, E. B. 1918. The History of Aryan Rule in India. London.
** in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.147
# Joséphine Ouédraogo

Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 22 December 1949) is a Burkinabé sociologist and politician. She served as Minister of Justice of Burkina Faso from 2014 to 2016.

## Quotes

* At Emmaus, every individual returns meaning to his or her existence whilst living in the Emmaus community, through sharing with others, work, and placing his or her talents at the service of the community.
* This mentality has produced a situation whereby on all continents of the world, the rich always believe they are “better” than the poor.
* The part of Abbé Pierre’s vision of Emmaus that particularly struck a chord with me was the idea that the movement ought to free the poor from the vice of moral and material poverty in whose grip society forces them to live.
* The Emmaus movement offers a new status to each of its members by allowing them to use their talents, energy and time to work others free from poverty’s clutches.
* What does “fighting against poverty” mean ?
All those working in development, mobilised through the international community, have been fighting against poverty for decades using an unfortunately linear, top-down approach. This approach involves financing or developing policies, projects and programmes in so-called “poor” countries and communities
* It must do everything in its power to avoid becoming trapped in classic development strategies which place emphasis on aid, finance, social and economic investments and the top-down approach – strategies championed by those who believe themselves to be experts in the fight against poverty.
# Zephyrin Engelhardt

Zephyrin Engelhardt (13 November 1851 – 1934) was a German Franciscan.

## Quotes

* The more supernatural and sublime the ideas, the ruder is their collision with reality and the more allowance must made for the feebleness of man.
** Order of Friars Minor (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia