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# Marek Jędraszewski

Marek Jędraszewski (24 July 1949 –) is a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kraków.

## Quotes

* There is a lot of talk about the so-called "European values," but we Europeans no longer know who we are. A thousand years ago, despite many battles, many betrayals, there was Christianity as a common factor to unify us. Europe was based on Christianity. Now, this common base no longer exists. We are united only by the market, by money; it has become very difficult to cement Europe. On what? Who are we? We do not know. How can we oppose Russia's expansionist ambitions if we do not know who we are, if we do not remain united in our historical foundation, which is Christianity?
** Archbishop of Krakow: To Be a Credible Opponent of Russian Imperialism, Europe Must Remember Who It Is (23 March 2022) National Catholic Register
* Europe does not want to listen to Poland, and even less does it want to listen to the Church. I think that Europe will look at us with respect and listen to our voice – I am talking about Poland, the Polish Church – as long as we as a nation remain faithful to the Church, Christ and the Gospel. Seeing our steadfastness, our constancy in lasting to Christian values, we may make them to be surprised, but they will certainly ask us why we are like this.
** Archbishop Jędraszewski for AWPE: God drives our fate and our history (26 September 2023) AWPE
# Marek Edelman

Marek Edelman (1919 or 1922 – 2 October 2009) was a Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. Before World War II, he was a General Jewish Labour Bund activist. During the war he co-founded the Jewish Combat Organization. He took part in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, becoming its leader after the death of Mordechaj Anielewicz.

## Sourced

* To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
** A True Mensch - Obituary to Marek Edelman by David Rosenberg
* Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
** "Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
* The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.
** "Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
# Marek Sanak

Marek Jan Sanak (born November 24, 1958) is a Polish geneticist and molecular biologist, professor of medical sciences, member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

## Quotes

* Andrzej Szczeklik was a fascinating personality in many respects. The scope of his general knowledge was absolutely rare. He saw what others did not notice. It's enough to say he was a better doctor than a good doctor. He could look and listen to what the patient says. Looking, he already knew what was wrong, after little things, after grimaces, after the way of breathing, after the way someone sits down or gets up...
** Kobos, Andrzej (2012). Po drogach uczonych. 5. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. pp. 317–335. ISBN 978-83-7676-127-5.
* At a time when cancer was a rare disease, people lived shorter for other reasons. When there were no antibiotics, they often died for ordinary infections. I therefore think that the "cancer epidemic" does not result from changes in genetic predisposition or carcinogenic factors, but from the fact that in recent decades these imperfections of human nature have been revealed that were previously masked by other diseases.
** Mazurek, Maria (13 May 2016): Komórki rakowe to anarchizujące potwory. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
* I had very happy high school years; I was not a very diligent student, but I had good achievements – I was a winner of biology and chemistry national competition, which gave me a lot of points when I decided to take the entrance examination for medicine, not being completely convinced of the medical profession, since there was never a doctor in my family.
** Kobos, Andrzej (2012). Po drogach uczonych. 5. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. pp. 317–335. ISBN 978-83-7676-127-5.
* If you want to be a good doctor for patients, you need to devote some time to it, and if you want to have achievements in scientific research, you need to spend a lot of time in the laboratory. It is difficult to reconcile.
** Kobos, Andrzej (2012). Po drogach uczonych. 5. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. pp. 317–335. ISBN 978-83-7676-127-5.
* In lectures, it is important that you lecture simply. We are interested in the smartest students, and we really should take care of those who have most difficulties to understand certain concepts. I try to balance it.
** Kobos, Andrzej (2012). Po drogach uczonych. 5. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. pp. 317–335. ISBN 978-83-7676-127-5.
* In science, wherever politics got involved, the results were deplorable.
** Kobos, Andrzej (2012). Po drogach uczonych. 5. Polska Akademia Umiejętności. pp. 317–335. ISBN 978-83-7676-127-5.
* The more times your cells divide, the greater the chance of mutations that lead to cancer. That is why the average oncological patient is a mature person or even a senior.
** Mazurek, Maria (13 May 2016): Komórki rakowe to anarchizujące potwory. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
* We can not predict who will develop the cancer. Cancer is a just disease – it affects everyone, regardless of whether we are poor or rich, where we live, how we live.
** Mazurek, Maria (13 May 2016): Komórki rakowe to anarchizujące potwory. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
# Marga Gomez

Marga Gomez (born June 19, 1960) is a Puerto Rican/Cuban-American comedian, playwright, and humorist.

## Quotes

* I want to represent queerness and mujerness in the conversation. I worry that my poor Spanish may be off-putting to some cohorts. I just talk so damn slow in any language. I also want to represent slow talkers—and mimes.
** On her show Latin Standards in “FAMILY, LATINIDAD, AND QUEERNESS COALESCE IN MARGA GOMEZ’S ‘LATIN STANDARDS’” in The Theatre Times (2017 Nov 2)
* My audience is a mix of people, very San Francisco progressive, gay straight, Latino, people of color, white folks, and women. What I’ve learned is you can’t get everybody. I don’t want to compromise who I am. I love anyone who buys a ticket to my show.
** On her audience in “A Tall Cool Drink of Marga Gomez" in Mission Local (2009)
* If I talk about my body the way the men do, that’s not okay with the audience. I was at a comedy show where there was this cool lesbian couple in the audience, really stylish, and one of them had to leave. She was crying sitting there listening to all the jokes about Subarus and mullet haircuts. I thought: I am going to get back at them. I want a man to look at this show and realize that their junk is no more appealing than women’s junk. I want them to look at junk.
** On choosing to be more vulgar when talking about the female body in “Marga Gomez’s Love/Hate Letter to Her Lesbian Role Models” in American Theatre (2015 Jul 23)
* I tend to channel my characters and their needs first—that leads to dramatic situations—and then…I start writing and barf out pages. Next, I read what I have and find a glimmer of plot in there. Then I do it all over again with the plot driving the characters. You have to write a lot and throw out a lot and have fun with it.
** On her writing process in “Exclusive Interview with Marga Gomez of Pound” in GOMAG (2015 Jul 9)
# Margaret Ball

Margaret Ball (born November 7, 1947) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels.

## Quotes
### Lost in Translation (1995)

    All page numbers from the mass market paperback first edition published by Baen Books ISBN 0-671-87688-0
* You’d know that if you’d studied something useful like engineering instead of, what is it this year, Down With Dead White Males, or whatever they call your artsy-fartsy curriculum.
** Chapter 1 (p. 2)
* At least some of the techniques she’d learned at Valley View still worked. If you talked nonsense long enough and looked like being a major interruption to the day’s work, they would send you on to somebody else. And when they ran out of somebody elses to send you to, the last one would sign whatever it was needed signing just to get you to go away.
** Chapter 2 (p. 30)
* Well, that was interesting. The question she really wanted to ask was, How come you people take all this so seriously? But that wasn’t in the book.
** Chapter 5 (p. 86)
* Savaric never let reality interfere with his assumption that he and his ways were naturally superior to anyone else’s way of doing things and that everybody else in the world was either a dolt or a weakling.
** Chapter 5 (p. 95)
* “You tried to warn me about Aigar. All of you did. And I didn’t want to believe you.” “Loyalty is no crime,” Domerc said gently. “Totally idiotic, unreasoning loyalty is. Or ought to be,” Allie said.
** Chapter 7 (p. 125)
* For once his years of teaching experience stood him in good stead; he was an old hand at sounding knowledgeable while dodging surprise questions from smart-breeched scholars.
** Chapter 8 (p. 150)
* It was one long scene of unrelieved misery; not the sort of thing a man of his position should ever be subjected to. One knew that these things happened in war, of course; they were regrettable but necessary. But one preferred not to experience them at first hand.
** Chapter 11 (p. 201)
* Allie decided that she didn’t understand anything that was going on and didn’t really care. Especially if the sequence of events ended in a hot bath.
** Chapter 12 (p. 222)
* I don’t know how they find things out so quickly, but haven’t you ever noticed how mercenary troops show up about three minutes after somebody’s decided to increase the war budget?
** Chapter 14 (p. 256)
# Robert Todd Carroll

Robert Todd Carroll (born 1945 – August 25, 2016) was an American writer and academic. He was the Philosophy Department chairman at Sacramento City College, and the author of several books, skeptical essays, and the online Skeptic's Dictionary.

## Quotes

* My beliefs are clearly that of a hardened skeptic […] I use the term "occult" to refer to any of all of these subjects. The reader is forewarned that The Skeptics Dictionary does not try to present a balanced account of occult subjects. If anything, this book is a Davidian counterbalance to the Goliath of occult literature. I hope that an occasional missile hits its mark…
** The Skeptic's Dictionary (book), pp. 1-3
* Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
** "Graphology", The Skeptic's Dictionary
* Ultimately, the main product being sold by human potential gurus is hope itself. It should be obvious that in itself this is not a bad thing. We all need hope. Without hope, there is no point in making plans for the future. Without hope, there is no point in working on a relationship or setting goals. Thus, insofar as participation in Large Group Awareness Training increases one's hope for finding one's way and for achieving one's goals, it is good. Even false hope may be better than no hope at all.
** "Large group awareness training program", The Skeptic's Dictionary
* History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?
** "Repressed memory therapy (RMT)", The Skeptic's Dictionary

## References

* Carroll, Robert Todd (2003). The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions. John Wiley & Sons. pp. pp. 1-3. ISBN 0-471-27242-6.
* The Skeptic's Dictionary website
# Robert Stawell Ball

Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1 July 1840 – 25 November 1913) was an Irish astronomer and author of several popular books.

## Sourced

* The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.
** The Cause of an Ice Age, London, 1891, p. 3
* The Planet of Romance
** Name for hypothetical planet nearer the Sun than Mercury
** The Story of the Heavens, London, 1893, p. 122
* The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.
** Star-Land, London, 1895, p. 227
* All screws of a given pitch belonging to a system of the third order are the generators of a certain hyperboloid. There is... a different hyperboloid for each pitch. ...all these hyperboloids are concentric.
** A Treatise on the Theory of Screws 1900 p. 173
* The intrinsic brightness of the Sun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.
** The Story of the Sun, London, 1906, p. 103
# Robert Thurman

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019. "Robert Thurman held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West." He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House US New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English. He is the father of actress Uma Thurman.

## Quotes

* The enlightenment tradition discovered the micro and macro dimensions more than two thousand years ago by using sophisticated contemplative practices to augment the sixth mental sense of inner vision … This realm is supernatural only in relation to a constricted definition of natural. It is mystical only when its analytic investigation is not completed. It is magic only when the technique involved is not understood.
** Thurman, Inner Revolution quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.

## External links

Modern Buddhist writers 19th century to date :
| Theravada / Vipassana movement | B. R. Ambedkar • Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu • Ajahn Chah • Anagarika Dharmapala • Joseph Goldstein • Henepola Gunaratana • Noah Levine • Nyanaponika Thera |
| Mahayana | Daisaku Ikeda • Yin Shun • Alfred Bloom |
| Vajrayana | Pema Chödrön • Kelsang Gyatso • Tenzin Gyatso • Matthieu Ricard • Robert Thurman • Chögyam Trungpa |
| Zen | Taisen Deshimaru • Thích Nhất Hạnh • Philip Kapleau • D. T. Suzuki • Han Yong-un • Hsing Yun • Sheng Yen |
| Other and Secular Buddhism | Stephen Batchelor • Robert Wright |
| Scholars | Lokesh Chandra • Walter Evans-Wentz • Richard Gombrich • Thomas Rhys Davids |
| Non-Buddhists influenced by Buddhism | Edwin Arnold • Helena Blavatsky • Fritjof Capra • Leonard Cohen • Alexandra David-Néel • Hermann Hesse • Carl Jung • Jon Kabat-Zinn • Friedrich Nietzsche • Henry Steel Olcott • Rajneesh • Helena Roerich • J. D. Salinger • Arthur Schopenhauer • Gary Snyder • Alan Watts • Alfred North Whitehead |
# Robert Staughton Lynd

Robert Staughton Lynd (September 26, 1892 – November 1, 1970) was an American sociologist, and professor at Columbia University, New York City.

## Quotes

* I see the tasks of social sciences to discover what kinds of order actually do exist in the whole range of the behavior of human beings; what kind of functional relationships between different parts of culture exist in space and over time, and what functionally more useful kinds of order can be created.
** R.S. Lynd (1939) Knowledge of What? p. 125-6, cited in Karl William Kapp (1976), The nature and significance of institutional economics. in: Kyklos, Vol 29/2, Jan 1976, p. 209
* The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis of parts to the analysis of the whole constitutes one of the major lags crippling their utility as human tools of knowledge.
** R.S. Lynd (1939) Knowledge of What? p. 15, cited in Karl William Kapp (1976), The nature and significance of institutional economics. in: Kyklos, Vol 29/2, Jan 1976, p. 209
* The preponderant weight of economic power in the Constitutional Convention, while conceding the outward forms of political democracy, went on at once to curb the exercise of the very power it had just granted; it crippled the force of democratic power at the source by parceling up this power by a marvelously dexterous system of barriers to its expression. Thus political equality under the ballot was granted on the unstated but factually double-locked assumption that the people must refrain from seeking the extension of that equality to the economic sphere. In short, the attempted harmonious marriage of democracy to capitalism doomed genuinely popular control from the start.
** Foreword to Business as a System of Power (1943), p. vii
* Liberal democracy has never dared face the fact that industrial capitalism is an intensely coercive form of organization of society that cumulatively constrains men and all of their institutions to work the will of the minority who hold and wield economic power; and that this relentless warping of men's lives and forms of association becomes less and less the result of voluntary decisions by "bad" or "good" men and more and more an impersonal web of coercions dictated by the need to keep "the system" running.
** Foreword to Business as a System of Power (1943), p. xii
# Robert T. Oliver

Robert Tarbell Oliver (1909–2000) was a professor of speech at Pennsylvania State University who wrote extensively on the subject of Asian rhetoric.

## Quotes

* Neither is it accidental that the Upanishads contain no internal evidence as to when, where or by whom they were composed. Their very thesis is that we dwell in the midst of a timeless eternity. With everything so indissolubly united that particular areas or places are of no concern. Who might be the author of an idea or a way of communicating it must be of no importance whatsoever, since truth is truth.
** Communication and Culture In Ancient India & China (1971)
* Ancient Indians had a far deeper confidence in living speech than in the moral, impersonal and derivative written communication. When words issued from the mouth of a sayer, they carried a personal endorsement.
** Communication and Culture In Ancient India & China (1971)
# Saint Guthlac

Saint Guthlac of Crowland (674 – 3 April 714 CE) was a Christian hermit and saint from Lincolnshire in England. He is particularly venerated in the Fens of eastern England.

## Quotes

Guthlac was a soldier, and later a hermit. His transition from violence occurred when the following words were constantly on his mind. They are from [Gospel of Matthew|Matthew's gospel].
* Let not your flight be in the winter, nor on the sabbath-day. (Translated to Modern English.)
** D. C. O. Adams, (1901) The Saints and Missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon Era p 5. Oxford and London. A. R. Mowbray & Co.

## Quotes about Guthlac

* (tr.) For the benefit of this purpose, this small book was thought to be made, so that those who know the memory of such a great man may be remembered, while those who do not know, it may be marked as an indicator of a widely paved road.
** (Latin): [A]d huius utilitatis commodum hunc codicellum fieri ratus, ut illis qui sciunt ad memoriam tanti viri, nota revocandi fiat, his vero, qui ignorant, velut late pansae viae indicum notescat.
** From Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci (c. 730-740)."The Early Texts of the Cult of Saint Guthlac". DOI:10.1080/0013838X.2018.1558700.
# Saint Nimatullah Kassab

Saint Nimatullah Youssef Kassab ', O.L.M., also known as "Al-Hardini" and Father Nehmet-Allah Kassab, (1808 – 14 December 1858) was a Lebanese monk, priest and scholar of the Maronite Church. He is believed to have performed many miracles during his life due to his deep spirituality and his high virtues. He was declared a saint by the Catholic Church in 2004.

## Quotes

* A monk's first concern, night and day, should be not to hurt or trouble his brother monks.
* Blessed be the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin.
* Better death than to be appointed Superior General.
* Those who struggle for virtue in community life will have greater merit [than hermits].
** Vatican biography of Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini, Vatican News Service (May 2004)

## About

* During the two civil wars of 1840 and 1845, he suffered greatly with his people. His brother, Fr Elisha, suggested he withdraw to a hermitage, but he replied: "Those who struggle for virtue in community life will have greater merit".
** Vatican News Service, St Nimatullah Youssef Kassab Al-Hardini (1808-1858), (2004 May)
* He observed that the ordinary, everyday life is a continuous martyrdom, since the monk must always be a model to his brother monks, guarding himself from becoming a source of scandal; instead, the hermit lives alone, away from all external temptations.
** Vatican News Service, St Nimatullah Youssef Kassab Al-Hardini (1808-1858), (2004 May)
* We know that Father Nimatullah lived a holy life. He was a man of prayer, totally 'enraptured by God'. He spent days and nights in meditation, prayer and adoration of the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary was his patron and Father Nimatullah prayed Her Rosary. He was also a very humble, sensitive and patient person who lived his monastic vows of 'obedience, chastity and poverty' to perfection.
** Living Maronite, The Example of Saint Nimatullah Hardini and our other Monastic forebearers
* Fr Nimatullah was at times also reprimanded by his superiors for being too hard on himself and too merciful and indulgent towards his brothers. He understood holiness in terms of communion and fraternal charity and is said to have remarked: "A monk's first concern, night and day, should be not to hurt or trouble his brother monks".
* Throughout his life he had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, his "source of strength"... After the Angelus he would often repeat: "Blessed be the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin".
* In 1845 the Holy See appointed him Assistant General of the order... He served as Assistant General for two more terms, but refused to be appointed Abbot General.
** Vatican News Service, St Nimatullah Youssef Kassab Al-Hardini (1808-1858), (2004 May)

## External links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimatullah_Kassab
# Saint Obi

Obinna Nwafor (16 November 1965 – 7 May 2023) popularly known as Saint Obi, was a veteran Nigerian actor, film producer and film director.

## Quotes

* We should not glorify people while they are dead; do that while the person is alive. I hope we can learn from that and show more love to each other.
** "I’m not one of the accidental actors –Saint Obi." New Telegraph (Nigeria), 2 April 2021
* All you need is your talent and God’s grace.
** "I chose acting to the stay away from crime –Saint Obi." The Punch (Nigeria), 13 February 2016