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# Omotu Bissong

Cecilia Ohumotu Bissong is a Nigerian model, television presenter, actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2003 and represented her country at Miss World 2003 and Miss Universe 2003 pageants. Best known as Funke Lawal in Desperate Housewives Africa.

## Quotes

* Acting was always something I wanted to do, I remember playing a school teacher in a church play when I was young. I had so much fun doing that, so when the opportunity came up I took it.
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
* I think it is a good thing to laugh a lot, isn’t it?, I mean I’m a jolly good person, I find humour in things and I have no reservations laughing so there you have it. As I go older I would rather have wrinkles from laughing than from frowning.
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
* Regrets hold you back; you just have to forge forward
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
* I am comfortable with who I am, good or bad, I accept myself for who and what I am and I wouldn’t change a thing. I was brought up to appreciate what God has done for me or what he has used people to do for me, I am just grateful to God the way I am.
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
* One passion that I have is helping young girls to be well-rounded individuals, helping them believe in themselves and their potentials while buttressing the points about the importance of the values that the family and educational system offer them. I work with girls to see that they are prepared for the future in which the world needs all of its citizens to be
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
* As an actor, you are required to immerse yourself into a role, so much that you can’t afford to have any airs and graces.If I have to play a market woman for instance, I would have to portray such a role as naturally as possible. In doing this, I would have to let go of the ex-beauty queen or diva toga.
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
* I think if you know what you are looking for in a life partner, you will get it right in marriage. Some people discover this early in life while some others don’t. But, when you do, societal pressure won’t get to you. Some people get married at 18 and some at 60. With everyone running their own race in life, there is no need to compete with them.You have to be confident and with God by your side, you will remain on the right track.
** Omotu Bissong's quotes
# Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez (IPA: [pjɛʁ bulɛz]) (March 26, 1925 – January 5, 2016) was a French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.

## Quotes

* [A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
** Emphasis in the original. From "Eventuellement..." (1952), translated as "Possibly..." in Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 113. ISBN 0193112108
* Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
** From "Éventuellement..." (1952), translated as "Possibly..." in Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 133 ISBN 0193112108
* Stupid, stupid, stupid!
** On the music of Giuseppe Verdi. Quoted in Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma by Joan Peyser, New York: Schirmer Books, 1976.
# Pierre Bourgault

Pierre Bourgault (January 23, 1934 - June 15, 2003) was a politician and essayist in Quebec, Canada, and a public speaker who advocated Quebec independence.

## Quotes

* Not a single one, not a single one among us, in 200 years, has won a battle... and this is what it is to be colonized! When we have but martyrs! How can we have aspirations!? How can we have the will to fight!?
** Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale speech.
* Homogenization sterilizes. It's the sum of cultures and languages that makes humanity
** L'homogénéisation stérilise. C'est la somme des cultures et des langues qui fait l'humanité.
** La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.130, tome 2
* If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.
** Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le Québec, alors il ne mérite tout simplement pas d'exister.
** La Colère. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.257, tome 3
* It is almost normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.
** Il est presque normal d'être raciste, mais il est criminel de le demeurer.
** La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.297, tome 2
# Pierre Bosquet

Pierre Bosquet (8 November 1810 – 5 February 1861) was a French soldier. He served as General during the conquest of Algeria and the Crimean War; returning from Crimea he was made Marshal of France and senator.

## Quotes

* C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie.
** It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness.
** Of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. Quoted in "Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations" - Page 346 - by Robert Debs Heinl - 1966
# Pierre Bouvier

Pierre Charles Bouvier (May 9, 1979–) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and actor.

## Quotes

* It doesn’t matter if radio thinks it’s a dying genre, or if there are people who thinks it sounds like ‘this or this or that’. If you write a good song, and it’s pop-punk, people will like it; because pop-punk doesn’t really mean a whole lot: it just means that it’s got that pop catchiness to it, but it’s got that punk energy and speed, and stuff that makes you want to jump up and down or drive a car real fast; and that’s something that will never get old. So, I love having that direction, and just being able to say, “let’s focus on writing some good songs,” and we produce them the way Simple Plan should and would; and that’s our target.
** Simple Plan: The 13th Floor Interview (February 7, 2018)
* I think a lot of times in our adult lives, we either block out or straight-up forget about the challenges of being a kid. We know it's all going to work out, but when you're a kid in that moment, it feels like the whole world is coming down on you. I'm going to try to look back and remember that when my kids get in those situations.
** Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan (February 6, 2020)
# Pierre Bürcher

Pierre Bürcher (20 December 1945 –) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, as the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Reykjavík, and as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chur.

## Quotes

* My first feeling, after the death of Pope John Paul II, is of thanks to God for having given him to us. In such an important period for the history of the Church and the world, he has been God’s blessing for everyone Two images remain embedded in my memory and in my heart. I see him in prison as he forgives his aggressor and I see him at the feet of the western wall of the Temple of Jerusalem, an encouragement for all those who promote interreligious dialogue.
** “I thank God for having given us John Paul II in such an important time for the history of the Church and the world. He has been God’s blessing for us all” says Msg. Burcher, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne (7 April 2005) Fides News Agency
# Mathematical economics

Mathematical economics is the application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics.

## Quotes

* A wide variety of economic problems lead to differential, difference, and integral equations. Ordinary differential equations appear in models of economic dynamics. Integral equations appear in dynamic programming problems and asset pricing models. Discrete-time dynamic problems lead to difference equations.
** Kenneth L. Judd (1998). Numerical Methods in Economics. MIT Press. pp. 335. ISBN 978-0-262-10071-7.
* Mathematical modeling is a mixed blessing for economics. Mathematical modeling provides real advantages in terms of precision of thought, in seeing how assumptions are linked to conclusions, in generating and communicating insights, in generalizing propositions, and in exporting knowledge from one context to another. In my opinion, these advantages are monumental, far outweighing the costs. But the costs are not zero. Mathematical modeling limits what can be tackled and what is considered legitimate inquiry. You may decide, with experience, that the sorts of models in this book do not help you understand the economic phenomena that you want to understand.
** David M. Kreps, Microeconomic Foundations I: Choice and Competitive Markets (2013), Preface
* I have not been able to lay my hands on any notes as to Mathematico-economics that would be of any use to you. I have very indistinct memories of what I used to think on the subject. I never read mathematics now: in fact I have even forgotten how to integrate a good many things. But I know I had a growing feeling in the later years of my work at the subject that a good mathematical theorem dealing with economic hypotheses was very well unlikely to be good economics: and I went more and more on the rules—(1) Use mathematics as a shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life. (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in (4), burn (3). This last I do often.
** Alfred Marshall, Letter to Arthur Lyon Bowley (Feb 27, 1906) Memorials of Alfred Marshall (1925) ed., A. C. Pigou p. 427.

## See also

* Economics
* Mathematics
# Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation.

## Quotes

* Seventy-two thousand of the flock stand prepared to break the Sabbath this coming Sunday. Break it? Nay, destroy, shatter utterly with screams of pleasure as they observe a large vulgar person, himself a confessed glutton, propel a sphere an unholy distance. Old Nick rides on Ruth's bat, else how could he smite the ball so far beyond the power of ordinary man? He is in league. Forbid the games. Cast this Ruth out into utter darkness. He creates joy annually for millions.
** "Stop the Series" (tongue-in-cheek, Prohibition-era tirade, regarding upcoming 1927 World Series), New York Daily News (October 5, 1927)
* No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
** Quoted in The New York Times, January 14, 1962

## Quotes about

* It made sense, to the New York Daily News sports editor, that these guys dominated basketball. After all, “the game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind and flashy trickiness, artful dodging and general smartalecness,” not to mention their “God-given better balance and speed.” He was referring, of course, to the Jews. In the 1930s, Paul Gallico was trying to explain away Jewish dominance of basketball. He came up with the idea that the game’s structure simply appealed to the immutable traits of wily Hebrews and their scheming minds. It sounds strange to the ear now, but only because our stereotypes about who is inherently good at particular sports have shifted. His theory is not any more or less insightful now than it was then; his confidence should remind us to be skeptical of similar, supposedly explanatory arguments that abound today.
** Adam Serwer Article (2022)
# Paul Gerhardt

Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German hymn writer.

## Quotes

* O sacred head, now wounded, With grief and shame bowed down; Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, thy only crown.
** Passion Corale [1656], based on twelfth century Latin hymn, st. 1
* Oh! make me Thine forever; And should I fainting be, Lord! let me never, never, Outlive my love to Thee!
** Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 400.

## External links

* Paul Gerhardt 1607-1676 from The Cyber Hymnal
* Theodore Brown Hewitt. Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and His Influence on English Hymnody New Haven: Yale University Press. 1918
* In Behalf of Paul Gerhardt and the Elenchus
* Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs, trans. J. Kelly, 80 pages, 1867.
# Pallywood

Pallywood, a portmanteau of "Palestine" and "Hollywood", is a derogatory label used to describe supposed media manipulation, distortion or fraud by some Palestinians putatively designed to win the public relations war with Israel. The term came into currency following the killing of Muhammad al-Durrah in 2000 during the Second Intifada, involving a challenge to the veracity of photographic evidence. Israeli pundits have used the term to dismiss videos showing Israeli violence or Palestinian suffering.
Richard Landes coined and popularized the term "Pallywood" through his online documentary video titled Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources, which exposed alleged instances of media manipulation by Palestinians. Journalist Ruthie Blum defines "Pallywood" as Landes's term for staged productions by Palestinians in collaboration with Western camera crews, aimed at promoting anti-Israeli propaganda under the guise of news.

## Quotes

* In the early 2000s, at the dawn of the social media revolution, Israelis used to dismiss filmed evidence of brutality by their soldiers as fakery. It was what they called "Pallywood" – a conflation of Palestinian and Hollywood. In truth, however, it was the Israeli military, not the Palestinians, that needed to manufacture a more convenient version of reality.
** Jonathan Cook , "Israeli army’s lies can no longer salvage its image" Mondoweiss. 5 March 2018.
* Half of Palestinian propaganda is bragging about how much they love death, the other half is crying about Israel giving it to them.
** Richard Hanania, "Half of Palestinian propaganda is bragging about how much they love death, the other half is crying about Israel giving it to them." (21 February 2024), X

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Pallywood on Wikipedia
# Palm-leaf manuscript

Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. Palm leaves were used as writing materials in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia dating back to the 5th century BCE. Their use began in South Asia and spread to other regions, as texts on dried and smoke-treated palm leaves of the Palmyra or talipot palm.

## Quotes

* One of the main reasons why such hard proof or hard circumstantial proof is missing from ancient Indian studies is that our writings were generally inscribed on palm leaves or birch leaves and such writings have not survived. We seldom wrote on perish- able materials like clay which, once burnt, became well-nigh imperishable. This is how so much of the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian literature has survived whereas the surviving Indus civilisation corpus of writing is amazingly incomplete. This must be the reason why the administrative archives of ancient India have not survived. Some inscriptions do, in fact, imply that there were administrative store houses of documents. That the Indians preferred to record most of the things of their lives on palm leaves has been known even as late as the late nineteenth century when the Indian census recorders of the period returned their ‘proformas’ incised on palm leaves.
** Dilip K. Chakrabarti, Review of K. Rajan, Early Writing System: A Journey from Graffiti to Brahmi. DOI: 10.1177/0376983617694685
# Pam Ayres

Pam Ayres, MBE (born 14 March 1947) is an English poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter of humorous poetry.

## Sourced
### The Wonderbra

* I bought myself a Wonderbra For fourteen ninety nine, It looked so good on the model girl's chest, And I hoped it would on mine, I took it from the packaging And when I tried it on, The Wonderbra restored to me All I believed had gone.

### In Favour Of Pushing Your Car Over A Cliff And Buying A Bike...

* I am a mighty Garage, On the corner of the Square, And it is all my pleasure, To provide a quick repair, Or I can do your service, In the blinking of an eye, I wouldn't say it's thorough, But it'll get you by.

### Oh No, I've Got A Cold

* I am sitting on the sofa. By the fire and staying in. Me head is free of comfort And me nose is free of skin Me friends have run for cover, They have left me pale and sick With me pockets full of tissues And me nostrils full of Vick.

## External links

* www.pamayres.com (Official website)
* The Wonderbra Song - an example of Pam's poetry
* Several more examples of Pam Ayres' poetry (Note: this page has an embedded music file).
* Interview with Woman's World (archived)
# Palindromes

A palindrome is a word or a phrase that has the property of reading the same in either direction. Spacing and punctuation do not matter.

## Quotes
### Palindromes
#### English

* Able was I ere I saw Elba.
** Apocryphal response of Napoleon when supposedly asked at St. Elba if he could have eventually sacked London
** Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439
* Madam, I'm Adam.
** Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439
** To which she replied, Eve
* A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!
** Leigh Mercer, Notes and Queries, November 13, 1948
* A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal – Panama
** Guy Steele, Common LISP: The Language, Second Edition, 1984, ISBN 1555580416, p. 405 (computer-aided)
* Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel (Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel)
** John Taylor (1578–1653), in 1614.
* No one made killer apparel like Dame Noon.
** Jon Agee, as quoted in "Worldplay," by David Astle, Sydney Morning Herald (October 1, 2016), p. 21

#### Latin

* Si Nummi immunis.
** Translation (by William Camden): Give me my fee, and I warrant you free.
** Facetiously known as the "lawyer's motto"
** Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439
* Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.
** Translation: The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort.
** Alternative translation: The sower Arepo leads with his hand (work) the plough (wheels).
** Known as the Sator Square
** Quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439
* In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
** Translation: We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.
** quoted in The concise Oxford companion to English literature, 2007

## See also

* "Bob" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, a song consisting entirely of palindromes.

## References

* 1 2 3 4 "Bosidevele No Droschdt". The Galaxy, Vol. 1. Google Book Search (1866). Retrieved on 2007-10-03. Digital version: Twain, Mark (19 March 2007) [1866] (PDF). The Galaxy, Vol. 1. W.C. and F.P. Church (original). pp. 755 pp.. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
* ↑ http://puzzles.about.com/od/palindromes/p/Palindromes.htm
# Marie Claire Uwumuremyi

Marie Claire Uwumuremyi is a Rwandan politician. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies. In September 2018 she became the MP for Nyanza District, Southern Province, as a women's representative. Before becoming an MP, Marie Claire Uwumuremyi worked for the Land Bureau, as a District Land Officer and District Land Valuation Officer. She was Chairperson of the National Women Council (CNF) in the Southern Province. In October 2018 she attended a World Food Day event, supporting the Rwandan government's Girinka programme (One Cow Per Poor Family). In December 2019 she was elected to the Executive Committee of the Rwanda Chapter of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP).

## Quotes

* How will this Indian company be held accountable?
** "balance will be able to complete the remaining part, Muhongayire asked" (July 26, 2019)
* These decisions of the parliament of the European Union countries are insulting Rwanda and undermining the sovereignty of this country and belittling the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.
** "he finds what the European Parliament has done to be extremely disrespectful, Muhongayire said" (February 16, 2021)
* women should take advantage of the Umurenge Saccos which can help them develop.
** Marie Claire Uwumuremyi Said during Huye women urged to embrace gov’t programmes (October 12, 2011)
* It has been for many years we have not been taught about technology and development but instead have been taught to hate and measure our noses. We should be stronger in what we share relationship than in what we disagree with. And we must fight against the ideology of genocide to build a stronger Rwanda.
** Marie Claire Uwumuremyi said, Twitter (June 9, 2019)
* For instance, women should take advantage of the Umurenge Saccos which can help them develop. If you are a farmer, for example, you can get loans through the cooperative which will enable you buy fertilizers.
** National Women Council, The New Times (10 December 2022)
* Land registration process has resolved land disputes conflicts among families.
** A Dialogue with Marie Claire Uwumuremyi. en.igihe.com (March 2, 2013)
# Marie Dressler

Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known by her stage name Marie Dressler, was a Canadian stage and screen actress, comedienne, and early silent film and Depression-era film star.

## Quotes

* Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. Therefore, I sat down when a mere child—fully realizing just how utterly "mere" I was—and figured out my life early. Most people do it, but they do it too late. At any rate, from the beginning I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
** The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924), Ch. 1
* ... poor had no terror for me! It was pie for me! My whole life had been a fight!
** The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling (1924), Ch. 5
* I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.
** My Own Story (1934), Ch. 1
* It is well enough to be interested in one's profession, but to restrict one's leisure to association with the members of one's guild, so to speak, is to be doomed to artificiality and eventually to sterility. In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.
** My Own Story (1934), Ch. 3
* Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious! I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
** My Own Story (1934), Ch. 7
* There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.
** My Own Story (1934), Ch. 17
* By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
** My Own Story (1934), Ch. 17
* If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
** Quoted in Lore & Maurice Cowan, The Wit of Women (1969), p. 149
* A rut is like a grave – it's only a question of depth.
** Quoted in The Wit of Women, p. 150
# Marie Guillard

Marie Guillard (born 20 June 1972) is a French actress. She was born in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.

## Quotes

* “I would like to think those flights of mine have a small corner in the history of achievement. I always liked to say I travelled the world with a Gipsy.”
* “When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.”
** https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2018/03/in-her-words-inspiring-quotes-from-australias-ground-breaking-women/