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# Meredith Townsend

Meredith White Townsend (1831–1911) was an English journalist and editor of The Spectator. With Richard Holt Hutton, he was joint-editor of the Spectator until 1887, and he was largely instrumental in making it an established success, writing most of the political articles and the opening paragraphs every week. His two chief publications were The Great Governing Families of England (1865), written in conjunction with Langton Sanford, and Asia and Europe (1901).

## Quotes

* As the Englishman Meredith Townsend says: “None of the black races, whether negro or Australian, have shown within the historic time the capacity to develop civilization. They have never passed the boundaries of their own habitats as conquerors, and never exercised the smallest influence over peoples not black. They have never founded a stone city, have never built a ship, have never produced a literature, have never suggested a creed. ... There seems to be no reason for this except race. It is said that the negro has been buried in the most ‘massive’ of the four continents, and has been, so to speak, lost to humanity; but he was always on the Nile, the immediate road to the Mediterranean, and in West and East Africa he was on the sea. Africa is probably more fertile, and almost certainly richer than Asia, and is pierced by rivers as mighty, and some of them at least as navigable. What could a singularly healthy race, armed with a constitution which resists the sun and defies malaria, wish for better than to be seated on the Nile, or the Congo, or the Niger, in numbers amply sufficient to execute any needed work, from the cutting of forests and the making of roads up to the building of cities? How was the negro more secluded than the Peruvian; or why was he ‘shut up’ worse than the Tartar of Samarcand, who one day shook himself, gave up all tribal feuds, and, from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Baltic and southward to the Nerbudda, mastered the world? ... The negro went by himself far beyond the Australian savage. He learned the use of fire, the fact that sown grain will grow, the value of shelter, the use of the bow and the canoe, and the good of clothes; but there to all appearances he stopped, unable, until stimulated by another race like the Arab, to advance another step.”
** Asia and Europe (1901), pp. 92, 356-8. Quoted in Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color (1920), Ch. IV
# Mercy Wanyama

Mercy Wanyama (Born 14 January 1992) is a Kenyan basketball player. She is the younger sibling of Harambee stars captain Victor Wanyama, and ex-international McDonald Mariga; their father is a former AFC Leopard player.

## Quotes

* I have always wanted to play in Spain. I want to try European basketball and hope to give my best version.
** As quoted by
* McDonald spoke very well of Asturias and I am very excited about this opportunity. Right now, I only think about the remaining six matches but I would like to do things well and stay here longer.
** nairobiwire.com
* I am aware that on Saturday we have a final against Arxil, and I feel very well physically, I have not stopped training.
** nairobiwire.com
# Mercy Myra

Mercy Myra Grundberg, better known as Mercy Myra, is an R&B musician from Kenya.

## Quotes

* Music is my life. And through these last few years, I've experienced various challenges. But through it all I have recognized that music and life are quite similar. Music and life alike is a balance of order, rhythm and harmony.
* My first reason for singing is my love of music. When I am on stage, the real me comes out. It gives me great pleasure that people actually love me and my music. But I am just an ordinary Kenyan and I still eat my githeri (maize and beans) in the same restaurant I did since I was a small girl.
* I come from a talented family of singers and musicians, and I never thought being talented in music was a gift. I thought everyone could sing. I found out later that it was a gift and decided to pursue music as a career.
# Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi

Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi (14 January 1928 – 19 March 2021) was a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference.

## Quotes

* Dialogue is the only way to resolve differences in these difficult moments. I appeal to my brothers in Celendín to stop the violence and favor dialogue.
** Dialogue is the only way to resolve differences in these difficult moments. I appeal to my brothers in Celendín to stop the violence and favor dialogue (4 July 2012) Fides News Agency
# Luis Aponte Martínez

Luis Aponte Martínez (4 August 1922 – 10 April 2012) was a Puerto Rican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Ponce and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Juan.

## Quotes

* Let us speak out not as experts, but rather as Pastors of the American continent.
** H. Em. Card. Luis APONTE MARTÍNEZ, Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (18 November 1997) Press Office of the Holy See
# Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer

Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer (19 April 1944 –) is a Spanish cardinal.

## Quotes

* There is clearly a pastoral dimension. We have the task of promoting and defending the Faith, preaching the Faith. This is an eminently pastoral role. It involves promoting the Catholic Faith so that it is increasingly known and, when there are problems, defending this Faith as well.
** Vatican Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith: interview with the Prefect, Archbishop Luis Ladaria SJ (10 March 2018) Vatican News
# Luis Antonio Tagle

Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle (21 June 1957–) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

## Quotes

* The Bible, the practice of the Church from its birth, the Social Teachings of the Church, the witness of martyrs and saints, and the constant mission of the Church towards the poor and neglected through the centuries form a chorus and a symphony which we are invited to hear and to join with our voices and the "instruments" that we have, namely our persons, time, talents, treasure.
** Cardinal Tagle: Seven years with Pope Francis, a parable of God's closeness (12 March 2020) 'Vatican News
* God who comes to us. We will never be alone. Emmanuel: God with us. And other things that are with us will disappear: the investments, the achievements, the gifts, our money… will all disappear. All these things that we have associated with Christmas may disappear. But Jesus who comes as one of us, God with us, will remain with us forever. So that is our hope.
** Cardinal Tagle: Christmas in the pandemic calls for solidarity (15 December 2020) Vatican News
# Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga

Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga (8 April 1942 – 2 August 2022) was a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tunja.

## Quotes

* It's not a bad idea to insist on discussions in another country in order to avoid the issue of location and to find a way to establish that humanitarian exchange.
** Colombian bishop reminds rebels that agreements must be “totally humanitarian” (31 August 2005) Catholic News Agency
* Nowhere, in a democratic country, one can think of doing politics by defending their points of view with weapons.
** Mgr. Castro Quiroga: "FARC must hand over their weapons if they really want peace" (28 January 2016) Fides News Agency
# Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish film director.

## Quotes
### Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)

* God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
* Thank God I'm an atheist.
* Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese you dingus
* Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
* If someone were to prove to me- right this minute- that God, in all his luminescence, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
* If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
* In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
* Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.
* Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
* I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish.
* A paranoiac is like a poet, born, not made. (Un paranoico como un poeta, nace, no se hace)
* The story is also a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetic. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form its substance. (The golden age)
* Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
* I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial—largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox—in other words,—all the things I love the most.
# Luis Felipe Bravo Mena

Luis Felipe Bravo Mena (28 September 1952 –) is a Mexican politician.

## Quotes

* Concerning international affairs, relations between Mexico and the Holy See are very open. We collaborate on many issues and we have a fluid dialogue on human rights, migration, cooperation between international organizations, peaceful solution of conflicts, and of course the rejection of war. These are some of the principles of the national policies of Mexico which have much convergence with the Holy See.
** Mexico and The Holy See (24 April 2007) National Catholic Register
# July 2016 Dhaka attack

The July 2016 Dhaka attack was called the worst terrorist attack in Bangladesh's history. The local media described it as 7/16. 29 people were killed, including 20 hostages (17 foreigners and 3 locals), two police officers, five gunmen, and two bakery staff.

## Quotes

* The news was confirmed at around 10.30 p.m. and I was live on air for hours. It was clear from the beginning that this attack was on the lines of 26/11... It was ironical that the ISIS struck on the same day Owaisi had declared to help its operatives in India.
** Tiwari, D. P., (2019). The great indian conspiracy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
* It was the holy month of Ramazan, the auspicious day of Jumma. The Holey Artisan Bakery in the affluent Gulshan Thana area of Dhaka was teeming with foreign guests when five militants barged in, chanting ‘Allah Hu Akbar’. Dozens of people were taken hostages on gunpoint and asked to recite the verses of Quran. Those who could recite from memory were spared in an effort to only kill non-Muslims. According to eyewitnesses, the assailants clearly stated they would not harm Muslims. Those who did not fit their criteria were slain with sharp weapons. People across religions and nationalities were aghast alike. How could the minds of these educated young men from well-to-do backgrounds be poisoned to such an extent? What was the motive behind the attack? These questions have bothered me after every such incident. I have been covering terror incidents in India for some years now and the Bangladesh attack brought back all those unhappy memories. Bangladesh is too close a neighbour to ignore such an attack occurring there.
** Tiwari, D. P., (2019). The great indian conspiracy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
* Two days after the Dhaka attack, the Minister of Information & Broadcasting of Bangladesh, Hasanul Haq Inu, alleged that ISI was the mastermind of this conspiracy. The notorious spy agency is known to have fomented trouble in what was East Pakistan until 1971. The Pakistani authorities are especially miffed at the Bangladeshi government’s decision to bring pro-Pakistani war criminals to justice. From Osama Bin Laden to the recent killing of Taliban chief Mullah Mansoor Akhtar in a drone attack; it is no more a secret that Pakistan is the nursery of global terrorism. It has diverted money received from the US in the name of counter-insurgency to fund terrorists of its choice. Leave apart India, Pakistani connection is now found in almost every other terror strike across the world.
** Tiwari, D. P., (2019). The great indian conspiracy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
* The exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen lambasted hardline Islamists on Twitter for the Bangladesh attack. ‘For humanity’s sake please do not say Islam is a religion of peace. Not anymore,’ stated one of her posts.
** Taslima Nasreen, quoted in Tiwari, D. P., (2019). The great indian conspiracy. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
# Richard Anthony Proctor

Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 – 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer.

## Quotes
### Astronomical Essays (1872)

* As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
** "Sir John Herschel", p. 1

### Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882)

* An air of mystery surrounds his researches, lying, as they do, chiefly in depths to which the far-seeing eye of the telescope alone penetrates.
** Chapter 1, p. 2
* The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
** Of the Ptolemaic system
** Chapter 2, p. 32
# Richard Armour

Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.

## Quotes

* Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it, There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove you've got it.
** Richard Armour (1958) Nights with Armour: Lighthearted Light Verse. p. 97
# Richard Bartle

Richard Allan Bartle (born 10 January 1960) is an English writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon. He is one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry.

## Sourced

* When it comes to computer games, many academics seem to be one step down from judges in their lack of engagement with the real world.
** From Richard Bartle's blog, dated 18th May 2007
* I'd take over World of Warcraft and I'd close it. I just want better virtual worlds. Sacrificing one of the best so its players have to seek out alternatives would be a sure-fire way to ensure that unknown gems got the chance they deserved, and that new games were developed to push back the boundaries. Er, I would get to do this anonymously, wouldn't I?
** From an interview with Keith Stuart on Guardian Unlimited's Gamesblog
** The question that prompted this was "If you could take over control of one major MMORPG - which would you choose and what would you do with it?"
* If anyone samples this for a hardcore techno dance track I shall expect a royalty.
** From Richard Bartle's website.

## External links

* Richard Bartle's website
* Richard Bartle's blog
* Terra Nova collaborative blog
* Guardian Unlimited interview, July 17, 2007
# Richard Ashcroft

Richard Paul Ashcroft (born 11 September 1971 in Billinge Higher End, England) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and occasional guitarist of alternative rock band The Verve from their formation in 1990 until their split in 1999, and continues as a lead vocalist working with guitars and keyboards. He became a successful solo artist in his own right, releasing three UK top three solo albums. The Verve reformed in 2007 but again broke up by summer 2009. Ashcroft then founded a new band, RPA & The United Nations of Sound, and released a new album on 19 July 2010.

## Quotes
### A Storm in Heaven (1993)

* If trees cut stars and eyes to heaven I'll bend them back, I'll bend them again If my skin looks tired and old from living I'll turn right back and live it again
** Already There

### A Northern Soul (1995)

* I wander lonely streets behind where the old Thames does flow And in every face I meet reminds me of what I have run for
** History

### Urban Hymns (1997)

* Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony, that's life Try to make ends meet you're a slave to money then you die.No change, I can change I can change, I can change But I'm here in my mold I am here in my mold and I'm a million different people from one day to the next I can't change my mould, no, no, no, no, no...
* You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah.
* It’s just sex and violence, melody and silence.
** Bitter Sweet Symphony
* Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.
* Yes, there's love if you want it. Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord.
* Sinking faster than a boat without a hull.
** Sonnet
* And with a drugstore wife, I was dealing, sold a bit of the white, I don't shake no hands 'cause death has no fans.
** Rolling People
# Richard Aston

Sir Richard Aston (1717–1 March 1778) was an English judge, best known as King's Counsel and Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. Sir Richard Aston was known as one of the early pioneers in Irish Law, in which he sought to change the process in which bills of indictment were issued without the examination of witnesses. In 1765 Aston resigned from his post in Ireland and was subsequently knighted. Aston died on the 1 March 1778, leaving nothing to either of his surviving wives.

## Quotes

* It is the Court, not the jury, who are to determine the law.
** Pillans v. Van Mierop (1764), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1675.
* The Court will not keep back their opinion without having sufficient ground for doubting, and a necessity of taking time to satisfy their doubts: on the other hand, they will not give their opinions over-hastily and prematurely, merely to gratify the humours or passions of mankind.
** Rex v. Wilkes (1770), Hilary Term 10 Geo. 3. B. R..
* The Court of Chancery never decrees that shall be evidence, which in its nature is not evidence.
** Ludlam on the Demise of Hunt (1773), Lofft. 364.
* One would wonder, when a word was in use two hundred years ago, that there should remain now any doubt what it is.
** Vallejo v. Wheeler (1774), Lofft. 646.
# Louise Bourgoin

Louise Bourgoin was born on 28 November 1981 in Rennes. Bourgoin's parents, both secondary level teachers, encouraged her to pursue a stable career. She studied for five years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. She became a plastic arts teacher while simultaneously beginning to work as a model; some of her most notable early work as a model was for the photographer Ian Sanderson.

## Quotes

* The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care
** https://quotestats.com/topic/louise-bourgoin-quotes/
# Louisa Lytton

Louisa Claire Lytton (born 7 February 1989) is an English actress from Camden, London. She is most famous for playing Ruby Allen, in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.

## Quotes

* I don’t feel I have to look or act a certain way. But this might change, as I get older. I’m not worrying about it right now. I’m enjoying myself.
** "Louisa Lytton exclusive interview : Heart of glass" at Teens first for health at Great Ormond Street Hospital

## External links

* Profile at IMDb
* British Shakespeare Company
# Louise Chandler Moulton

Louise Chandler Moulton (April 10, 1835 - August 10, 1908) was an American poet, story-writer and critic.

## Quotes

* There is rust upon locks and hinges, And mold and blight on the walls, And silence faints in the chambers, And darkness waits in the halls.
** "The House of Death", in Swallow-Flights (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), p. 23.
* Youth is thy gift—the youth that baffles Time.
** "To Julia Ward Howe", in The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1909), p. 455

### In the Garden of Dreams (1890)

    In the Garden of Dreams: Lyrics and Sonnets (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890)
* Bend low, O dusky Night, And give my spirit rest; Hold me to your deep breast, And put old cares to flight; Give back the lost delight That once my soul possest, When Love was loveliest,— Bend low, O dusky night!
** "To Night", p. 24.
* At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife, At end of all we cling to so— The sun is setting—must we go?At dawn of Love, at dawn of Life, At dawn of Peace that follows Strife, At dawn of all we long for so— The sun is rising—let us go.
** "At End", p. 42.

### At the Wind's Will (1899)

    At the Wind's Will: Lyrics and Sonnets (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899)
* I hied me off to Arcady— The month it was the month of May, And all along the pleasant way The morning birds were mad with glee, And all the flowers sprang up to see, As I went on to Arcady.
** "The Secret of Arcady", first stanza, p. 8.
** Note in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919):— Compare Henry Cuyler Bunner, "The Way to Arcady".
* I dwell no more in Arcady:— But when the sky is blue with May, And flowers spring up along the way, And birds are blithe, and winds are free, I know what message is for me,— Fotr I have been in Arcady.
** "The Secret of Arcady", last stanza, p. 9
* This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know?
** "When I Wander Away with Death", p. 42.
# Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), born Mary Louise Brooks, was an American silent film actress, dancer, model, showgirl and writer.

## Sourced

* I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
** Lulu in Hollywood (1982)
* I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.
** Looking for Lulu (1998)
* 'I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.
** Louise Brooks: 'If I Ever Bore You, It’ll Be with a Knife.’
* We were Midwesterners born in the Bible Belt of Anglo-Saxon farmers, who prayed in the parlor and practised incest in the barn
** https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
* ‘The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it.’
** https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
* 'Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
** https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
* ‘I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so it seemed easy.
** https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
* ‘A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.’
** ‘A well-dressed woman
* ‘I was navigating, but not seeing.’
** a success away from home

## External links

* Louise Brooks Society