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# John Hawkesworth (book editor)

John Hawkesworth (c. 1715 – November 16, 1773), was an English writer and book editor.

## Quotes

* Among other dreadful and disgusting images which Custom has rendered familiar, are those which arise from eating animal food. He who has ever turned with abhorrence from the skeleton of a beast which has been picked whole by birds or vermin, must confess that habit alone could have enabled him to endure the sight of the mangled bones and flesh of a dead carcase which every day cover his table. And he who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and whether his life is become proportionately of more value by the exercise of virtue and by the superior happiness which he has communicated to [more] reasonable beings.
** From his edition of Swift's Works, as quoted in The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating by Howard Williams (London: F. Pitman, 1883), p. 168.
# Marina Claire Wheeler

Marina Claire Wheeler (Born August 18 1964) is British lawyer and writer.
* Also known as Marina Wheeler, her experience includes being a Barrister, Mediator and writer and is well renknowned for both her work in the UK parliament as well as the judicial court.
* She undertakes a multitude of cases; from complex family laws, employment and public work laws. Although, she specializes in detention, mental health and national security issues.

## Quotes

In her article, 'When some are more equal than others'she writes about her own legal work as:
- “My own experience, shared by many colleagues, is that a high proportion of discrimination cases we deal with are ill-founded. One colleague puts the figure at more than 60 per cent... Many unregulated advisors make a living bringing discrimination claims, and they do not always seem to have the best interests of the Applicant in mind.”
As the daughter of an immigrant and as a woman, she is very vocal about the experiences of both racial and gender discrimination.
- "It is time we offered the same protections to people reporting sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination in the workplace as we do to other whistleblowers."
-"It was this complete blank canvas, this whole side of my heritage, and I wanted to discover that." - from her memoir, The Last Homestead.
- "I certainly never pretended to be a Conservative."
She rather contradictingly joined the Labour party as their sexual harrasment adviser, to which many British Citizens see as a 'dig' to her ex-husband, the former leader of the Conservative Party.
- “This Is Still About Power. It’s Very Much A Male Thing Of, ‘This Is Our Space"
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110707061158/http://www.1cor.com/1158/?form_1155.replyids=19
* ↑ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1147952565
* ↑ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1147952565
* ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBN1rXN2qo
# Marin Srakić

Marin Srakić (6 July 1937 –) is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Đakovo–Osijek.

## Quotes

* Our faithful are looking at us, their shepherds, to see how we behave, how we relate toward one another, not only in words but by example. Christ has entrusted us with the task of proclaiming Him credibly by our words and lives.
** Serbian Orthodox episcopes (bishops) visited Đakovo (20 November 2000) Informativna katolička agencija
# Marina Loshak

Marina Devovna Loshak [Мари́на Девовна Лоша́к] (b. November 22, 1955) is a Soviet and Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. He is director of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (2013–2023), one of the leading curators of the Russian avant-garde and art director of the Proun Gallery at Winzavod (Moscow).

## Quotes

* Biochemical data and experiments confirm that human possibilities – including biological ones – they improve when they get in touch with positive energy and the adrenalin that derives from the best forms of culture. It is a very evident application and it help all sorts of human fulfillment. I think this is the main economic effect the museums give.
** Marina Loshak Sochi (Russian-Austrian) dialogue. Economy of culture/ SPIEF 2019. 06.06.2019

## External links

* Pushkin Museum
* Loshak Marina Devovna
# Mandu, Madhya Pradesh

Mandu or Mandavgad is an ancient city in the present-day Mandav area of the Dhar district. It is located in the Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh, India, at 35 km from the Dhar city. In the 11th century, Mandu was the sub division of the Tarangagadh or Taranga kingdom . This fortress town on a rocky outcrop about 100 km (62 mi) from Indore is celebrated for its fine architecture.

## Quotes

* Mandu became the capital of the Muhammadan Sultãns of Mãlvã who set about buildings themselves palaces and mosques, first with material pilfered from Hindu temples (already for the most part desecrated and ruined by the iconoclastic fury of their earlier co-religionists), and afterwards with their own quarried material. Thus nearly all the traces of the splendid shrines of the ParamAras of MAlvA have disappeared save what we find utilized in the ruined mosques and tombs…
** Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1902-03, Pp. 16-17. Quoted from Shourie, A., & Goel, S. R. (1990). Hindu temples: What happened to them.
* The date of the construction of the Hindola Mahall cannot be fixed with exactitude… There can, however, be no doubt that it is one of the earliest of the Muhammadan buildings in MãNDû. From its outward appearance there is no sign of Hindu workmanship but the repairs, that have been going on for the past one year, have brought to light a very large number of stones used in the structure, which appear, to have been taken from some pre-existing Hindu temple. The facing stones, which have been most accurately and smoothly cut on their outer surfaces, bear in very many cases on their inner sides the under faced images of Hindu gods, or patterns of purely Hindu design, while pieces of Hindu carving and broken parts of images are found indiscriminately mixed with the rubble, of which the core of the walls is made.
** Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1993-4, Pp. 31-32. Quoted from Shourie, A., & Goel, S. R. (1990). Hindu temples: What happened to them.
* “The transfer of the capital from Dhar to Mandu by Dilwar Khan in AH 794/AD 1392, marks a new phase in the development of Mosque architecture in Malwa. The Mosque built by him in C. AH 808/AD 1405-06 is oblong in ground plan, the western side being formed by the liwan. Its roof is supported by Hindu pillars…”
** Syed Mahmudul Hasan, Mosque Architecture of Pre-Mughal Bengal, Dacca (Bangladesh), 1979.
* When sultan Mahmud led an expedition against the Hara Rajputs in 1454, he put many of them to the sword, “and sent their children into slavery at Mandu.”
** Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.

## External links

* Mandu Tourist Places - MP Tourism
# Mandy Patinkin

Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor and renowned tenor. He is perhaps best known for his trademark line in 1987's The Princess Bride ("Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."). He is also a model railroader.

## Quotes

* If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
** Jewcy, "What makes Mandy Patinkin spin his wheels"
* I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called "My Lady" and that's all I'll say.
** Kansan.com (the University of Kansas Daily), "A conversation with Mandy Patinkin" (2005-04-07)
* It's pretty early out here in L.A., but I can guarantee it will happen today, I sure am lucky. It's better than NOT having it.
** Lawrence.com, "Man of a thousand faces" (2005-04-07)
** on being faced with a fan giving him the Inigo Montoya line
* Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.
** Forward.com, "Broadway Star Mandy Patinkin Finds His Forte: Yiddish"
* I always sang at temple growing up. I got a good reaction from Mrs. Goldberg and Mrs. Rosenbaum and the other old ladies.
** Oregon Daily Emerald, "Mandy Patinkin to show his many faces at Hult"
* No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
** People, "Actor Mandy Patinkin Battles His Perfectionist Tendencies…", (1989-05-08) by John Stark

## External links

* Mandy Patinkin on IMDb
* The Mandy Patinkin Showcase
# Mandukya Upanishad

The Mandukya Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads. It is a short upanishad about Om.

## Quotes

    Olivelle, Patrick (1998). The Early Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512435-9.
* OṂ—this whole world is that syllable!
    Here is a further explanation of it.
    The past, the present, and the future—all that is simply OṂ;
       and whatever else that is beyond the three times, that also is simply OṂ—
       for this brahman is the Whole.
       Brahman is this self (ātman) ("ayam ātmā brahma").
      * Verses 1–2
* Accordingly, the very self (ātman) is OṂ.
    Anyone who knows this enters the self (ātman) by himself (ātman).
      * Verse 12

## External links

Upanishads :
| Principal | Isha • Kena • Katha • Prashna • Mundaka • Mandukya • Taittiriya • Aitareya • Chandogya • Brihadaranyaka |
| Other | Shvetashvatara |
# Mandy Ojugbana

Mandy Brown Ojugbana is a Nigerian musician and radio presenter. In 1986, she released her debut album titled Breakthrough which included reworks of Bobby Benson's "Taxi Driver" and George Benson's "The Greatest Love of All".

## Quotes

* We need to remind ourselves as women never to sell ourselves short, we are masterful spiritual and all powerful beings responsible for bringing life into the world.
* We as women need to band together as a sisterhood stemming our petty quarrels the world is for the taking and we are the takers.
# Issa Rae

Issa Rae (January 12, 1985) is an American actress, writer, director, producer, and web series creator.

## Quotes

* There was such a dearth of films like that…And the high-school teen movie is a genre that I love. Everything at that age is so heightened and dramatic, and high-school movies capture that so perfectly. But those films are all white, too; there’s no black teen movie genre that exists in the same way.
** On how she didn’t see herself represented in the teen film genre in “Issa Rae: ‘I’ve not started writing season four of Insecure yet. We needed a break’” in The Guardian (2019 Apr 13)
* “I was trying to stand out, trying to be the class clown and be super-funny. But everybody thought I was lame and hated me…I’ve experienced that real sense of feeling out of place plenty in my life.
** On how her adolescent experiences partly shaped Insecure in “Issa Rae: ‘I’ve not started writing season four of Insecure yet. We needed a break’” in The Guardian (2019 Apr 13)
* …I found the world of nonprofits funny to begin with just because having worked there, you see that people are so altruistic and they're so benevolent and they're pretty selfless and you're working generally for a great cause.But the atmosphere within the work environment can be oddly competitive. People want the credit. Sometimes they don't listen to the people they're trying to help. And for me, this white guilt is so prevalent at this nonprofit. And they're so - they treat the kids as this pity party. And for me, I would hate to work in an environment like this, but it's ripe for comedy.
** On including the world of nonprofits in Insecure in “'Awkward' And 'Insecure' Get To The Root Of Writer Issa Rae's Humor”] in NPR (2018 Sep 3)
* “My parents helped me and they hurt me…My mom was extremely pro-Black, and I believed her. My dad is Senegalese, and I grew up around my dark-skinned cousins and just thought that they were the most beautiful women in the world. I was surrounded by beautiful dark people. And then middle school hit, and I was like, Oh, they think I’m ugly. They think I’m big. They think I’m unattractive. I went back to my mom like, ‘What the f—k?! Y’all lied to me my whole life. What is this?!’ I started realizing, Mom, you’re light-skinned. So I don’t know what you were talking about. It’s not like you can relate to being dark. And your hair is not the same texture as mine. So what do you know about telling me I’m beautiful? Why would you lie to me? That definitely had an impact on how I saw myself.
** On the standards of beauty in “Why Issa Rae Is Truly An Awesome Black Girl” in Essence Magazine (2019 Apr 1)
# Israel–United Arab Emirates relations

Israel–United Arab Emirates relations had been jagged and fueled by mutual distrust and hatred for several decades, but in the 2010s, the countries' informal relations improved considerably and they began engaging in extensive unofficial cooperation based on their joint opposition to Iran's nuclear program and regional influence.

## Quotes

* Among the most brutal aspects of this period for Palestinians have been the loss of support for their cause in neighboring Arab states. The Arab political party in Israel, Balad, said that by signing this pact, “the UAE has officially joined Israel against Palestine, and placed itself in the camp of the enemies of the Palestinian people.” The UAE’s change from supporting Palestinian dignity and freedom to supporting Israel’s never-ending occupation is a calculated move by UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, a shrewd Middle East dictator who uses his country’s military and financial resources to thwart moves towards democracy and respect for human rights under the guise of fighting Islamic terrorism.
** Medea Benjamin in The Deceptive Trump, UAE-Israel ‘Peace Deal’, Consortium News, (14 August 2020)

## See also

* Israel–United Arab Emirates peace agreement
# Israr Ahmed

Dr. Israr Ahmed (26 April 1932 – 14 April 2010) was the founder the Tanzeem-e-Islami, an Islamic revolutionary party in Pakistan.

## Quotes

* The Afghans have stood firm in the face of all odds and pressures and have indeed made the greatest of sacrifices. They have sacrificed a million and a half people. They are no longer afraid of death. The truth is that when death seems far away then fear of it is magnified, but this fear disappears for those who see it close to them. For the Afghans, death is no longer something to be avoided!
** http://www.jamiat.org.za/al-jamiat/june/taliban.html.

## External links

* Tanzeem e Islami
# Kunle Afolayan

Kunle Afolayan (born 30 September 1975) is a Nigerian actor, producer and director. He is widely credited for elevating the quality of Nollywood movies through larger budgets, shooting on 35mm, releasing in cinemas, and improving cliché Nollywood storylines.

## Quotes

* Stage is something that has been there and will continue to be there.
** Why stage plays will not die — Kunle Afolayan. 28 January 2024, Punch Newspaper.
* We know the African continent presents brilliant creatives and talent and I’m so excited for the rest of the world to enjoy our distinct voices.
** Interview with Kunle Afolayan. 20 March 2021, Business Day.
* Many people are just doing business, and the thing about doing business is that people don’t care about artistic integrity, they just want to make money.
** Kunle Afolayan on Aníkúlápó : I said this movie would be bigger than Game of Thrones. 22 October 2022, The Guardian Newspaper.
# Kural

The Tirukkuṟaḷ (Tamil: திருக்குறள், lit. 'sacred verses'), or shortly the Kural (Tamil: குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each.

## Quotes about the Kural

* The Kural (second to seventh century AD), authored by the celebrated Tiruvalluvar, is often described as an “atheistic” text, a hasty misconception. True, Valluvar’s 1,330 pithy aphorisms mostly deal with ethics (aram), polity (porul) and love (inbam), following the traditional Sanskritic pattern of the four objects of human life : dharma, artha, kàma, and moksha—the last implied rather than explicit. Still, the very first decade is an invocation to Bhagavan : “The ocean of births can be crossed by those who clasp God’s feet, and none else” ; the same idea recurs later, for instance in this profound thought : “Cling to the One who clings to nothing ; and so clinging, cease to cling”. The Kural also refers to Indra , to Vishnu’s avatar of Vamana , and to Lakshmi, asserting that she will shower her grace only on those who follow the path of dharma . There is nothing very atheistic in all this, and in reality the values of the Kural are perfectly in tune with those found in several shastras or in the Gita.
** VEDIC ROOTS OF EARLY TAMIL CULTURE Michel Danino Written in 2001 and published in Saundaryashri: Studies of Indian History, Archaeology, Literature and Philosophy (Festschrift to Professor Anantha Adiga Sundara), P. Chenna Reddy, (ed.), Sharada Publishing House, New Delhi, 2009, pp. 19–30.
* From Robert Caldwell's point of view, nothing ethical could emerge from the Dravidian mind, either by itself or under the influence of Vedic religion. Consequently, he attributed the Thirukural to Jain influences. G.U. Pope, another evangelist, maintained that it was Christian influence on Thiruvalluvar that produced this literary work. Christian scholars at his time, and for decades later, rejected this theory. However, it is being revived today by evangelical movements in Tamil Nadu.
** Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
* ...Kural refers to the Puranas and other Hindu texts in many of its couplets, including frequent references to Hindu gods. Indra is mentioned in several couplets. There is an obvious reference to the measuring of the world by Vamana, an incarnation of Vishnu. Kural states that the goddess of wealth resides in the houses of men who show hospitality. It warns against sloth as something disrespectful to Lakshmi. In tune with the Hindu shastras, it links the prosperity and spirituality of the land to the rule of a just king. It further states that the power of the king forms the mainstay of the scriptures of Brahmins and dharma.
** Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (Princeton, N.J.). (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
# Martin Hollis (philosopher)

James Martin Hollis (14 March 1938 – 27 February 1998) was an English rationalist philosopher.

## Quotes about Hollis

* Some philosophers – I am again thinking particularly of Martin Hollis – have objected that it will only be rational to hold such a belief if it was in turn rational to hold the core beliefs from which this specific item is said to follow. But this image of a rational bedrock strikes me as confused. What does it mean for a purportedly core belief to be rationally held? On the one hand, it can hardly mean that we are capable of giving good reasons for holding it. For in that case it would be a derivative rather than a core belief. But on the other hand, I cannot see – as I have already conceded – what else it can mean to describe a belief as being held in a rational way. I cannot see, in short, that Hollis’s proposal can be deployed in such a way as to set limits to the kind of holism I am trying to expound. Even in the most primitive perceptual cases, even in the face of the clearest observational evidence, it will always be reckless to assert that there are any beliefs we are certain to form, any judgements we are bound to make, simply as a consequence of inspecting the allegedly brute facts. The beliefs we form, the judgements we make, will always be mediated by the concepts available to us for describing what we have observed. But to employ a concept is always to appraise and classify our experience from a particular perspective and in a particular way. What we experience and report will accordingly be what is brought to our attention by the range of concepts we possess and the nature of the discriminations they enable us to make. We cannot hope to find any less winding a path from experience to belief, from observational evidence to any one determinate judgement.
** Quentin Skinner, "Interpretation, rationality and truth", Visions of Politics (2002)
# Martin John Amos

Martin John Amos (December 8, 1941 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland and as the bishop of the Diocese of Davenport.

## Quotes

* There needs to be, as St. Paul said to the Colossians, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, forgiveness and above all, love. That kind of love never fails.
** At diocesan Mass, couples celebrate 50 years (2010) Catholic Messenger
# Martin Joseph Routh

Dr. Martin Joseph Routh (18 September 1755 – 22 December 1854) was President of Magdalen College from 28 April 1792 until his death.

## Quotes

* I think sir, since you care for the advice of an old man, sir, you will find it a very good practise, always to verify your references, sir!
** Advice given to Dean John William Burgon, (29 November 1847), in response to the question: "Every studious man, in the course of a long and thoughtful life, has had occasion to experience the special value of some one axiom or precept. Would you mind giving me the benefit of such a word of advice?"; quoted in Lives of twelve good men, by John William Burgon, 1888, vol. 1 p. 73.
* It will lead to nothing, I fear, sir
** Remarked to William Palmer, on the eve of his 1840-1 journey to Russia to improve Anglican-Orthodox relations. The trip reaped little success; quoted in Notes of a Visit to the Russian Church in the Years 1840, 1841, by William Palmer, 1882, p. 10.
* But I know, my friends, that you may object to me what St. Irenaeus says.
** Said to his congregation after an exposition of his own theology; quoted in Essays and addresses, Herbert McLachlan, Manchester University Press, 1954, p. 354
* Wait, sir, until I am gone!
** Standard reply to people proposing changes in the running of Oxford University; quoted in Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), p. 37