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# Alasdair Gray

Alasdair James Gray (December 28, 1934 – December 29, 2019) was an award-winning Scottish writer and artist.
    See also:
       Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)

## Quotes
### Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)

    Unless otherwise indicated, quotations are cited from the 1984 Penguin Books reprint.
* Work as if you were in the early days of a better nation.
** Frontispiece
** Variants on this epigraph appear in other books by Alasdair Gray; one of them, "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation", is now engraved on a wall of the Scottish Parliament building. They are all loose paraphrases of a couplet from Dennis Lee's "Civil Elegies": And best of all is finding a place to be in the early days of a better civilization.
** Gray later devised a more distinct variant of this, because he believed the "nation" version should be credited to Lee:
          Work as if you live in the early days of a better world.
      * As quoted in "Early Days of a Better Nation" by Harry Mcgrath, in Scottish Review of Books (28 March 2013)
* I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?" He said, "No. The emperor needs all the headmasters he can get. If a quarter of his people were headmasters he would be perfectly happy. But more than two poets would tear his kingdom apart."
** "Five Letters from an Eastern Empire", p. 88
* A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seed-word is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but or if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb.
** "Prometheus", pp. 208-9
* This slip has been inserted by mistake.
** An erratum slip in the first edition.

## Quotes about Gray

* The first major Scottish novelist since Walter Scott.
** Anthony Burgess Homage to Qwert Yuiop (1987) p. 400
* Gray is in my estimation a great writer, perhaps the greatest living in this archipelago today.
** Will Self, in Phil Moores (ed.) Alasdair Gray : Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (2002) p. 3

## External links

* alasdairgray.info (official website)
* Alasdair Gray at DMOZ
* Alasdair Gray at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* Alasdair Gray at Edinburgh Central Library (video in several parts)
* Documentary: Unlikely Murals, Mostly ... Part1 (video in several parts)
* "Alasdair Gray: 'I regard my work as deeply unfashionable'" · Guardian video interview with Charlotte Higgins (2011)
* Guardian obituary (29 December 2019)
# Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin (born 31 August 1932) is a Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent born in New Hampshire, and raised primarily in Quebec; she has produced and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations culture and history.

## Quotes

* Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.
** As quoted in "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole in Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays (1972) edited by Ralph Osborne, p. 43. In the article "When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money", "Quote Investigator" states that Greenpeace placed a paraphrased approximation on a banner in 1981, which has been widely propagated as a "Cree prophesy" or "Cree saying" and alternately attributed directly to Obomsawin, as in "A Thought for the Day" at Wordsmith (8 October 2014):
          When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can’t eat money.
       The article of the Quote Investigator states similar expressions had also been used by others around 1972, and the earliest incident found of somewhat similar expressions of the importance of conserving natural resources occurred in the "Biennial Report of the State Fish and Game Commissioner to the Governor of North Dakota from March 17, 1893 to December 1, 1894", By North Dakota's Superintendent of the Department of Irrigation and Forestry, William W. Barrett, to the Governor of the same state:
          Present needs and present gains was the rule of action — which seems to be a sort of transmitted quality which we in our now enlightened time have not wholly outgrown, for even now a few men can be found who seem willing to destroy the last tree, the last fish and the last game bird and animal, and leave nothing for posterity, if thereby some money can be made.

## External links

* Alanis Obomsawin – femfilm.ca: Canadian Women Film Directors Database
* Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
* CBC Digital Archives: Alanis Obomsawin
* Films by Alanis Obomsawin at NFB.ca
* Dream Magic, a short a film about Alanis Obomsawin created for her Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
# Alaska: The Last Frontier

Alaska: The Last Frontier is an American television series that first aired in 2011 on the Discovery Channel. They showcase the Kilcher family, descendants of Swiss immigrants and Alaskan pioneers, Yule and Ruth Kilcher. At their homestead 11 miles outside of Homer near Anchorage, living without modern heating, they thrive to live the Frontier ethic. They farm, hunt, fish, and gather water to prepare for the Long Alaskan Winter. The tenth season premiered on October 25, 2020. In October of 2022, the eleventh season began.

## Quotes

* Basically, I just use whatever resources I have around here, and then I let nature do the rest.
** Atz Lee, Alaska: The Last Frontier Season 3 (2014)
* There is nowhere else in the world that I have been able to go where you can enjoy the wilderness and outdoors.
** August Kilcher, Alaska: The Last Frontier (2013)
* But for me it's also about pushing that frontier farther and farther, just like my grandfather yule did when he came to Alaska from Europe.
** Lee, Alaska: The Last Frontier Season 4 (2015)
* Daily adventure in Alaska, when you start off a day, you never know where you're going to end up.
** Otto Kilcher, Ep: Reasons to Live in Alaska, Alaska: The Last Frontier, Season 2 (2013)
* My yard is like a hardware store.
** Otto Kilcher, Alaska: The Last Frontier, Season 2
# Distichs of Cato

The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha), is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author from the 3rd or 4th century AD.

## Quotes
### Distichs of Cato, by Dionysius Cato, translated by Wayland Johnson Chase (1922)

* When I noticed how very many go seriously wrong in their manner of living I concluded that I must apply a corrective to their belief and take counsel of the experience of mankind in order that they may live most gloriously and attain honor. Now I will teach thee, dearest son, in what way thou mayest fashion a rule for thy life. Therefore, so read my precepts that thou mayest understand them, for to read and not to understand is equivalent to not reading.
** Introduction
* Try not with words the talker to outdo; On all is speech bestowed: good sense on few. (10) Love others so that thou'rt to self a friend; Prefer the good and thus dire harm forfend. (11) On others' promise do not base thine own; Talk doth abound: good faith is rarely shown. (13)
** Book I
* Let not despair o'er ill thy courage take; Not e'en at death doth hope a man forsake. (25) Observe what's past and what may next ensue And Janus-like keep both ways under view. (27) Disdain not, arrogant, what most advise; Thou none canst please while thou dost all despise. (29) Guard well thy health with special care and skill; Thyself and not the seasons blame when ill. (30)
** Book II
* If wealth abounds, when life draws near its end, Be not a stingy, but a generous friend. (9) If from thy wealth and place thou dost descend, Still be content with what the seasons send. (11) For dowry take not to thyself a wife. Nor keep her with thee if she spoils thy life.(12) From others' actions seek to find the clue To what thou best mayst shun and best mayst do. (13) Speak out when wrong thou knowest hath been done, Lest thou thro' silence urge the culprit on. (15)
** Book III

### Minor Latin Poets, Vol. 2, J. Wight Duff, Arnold M. Duff, eds. LCL 434 (1934)

* Deo supplica. Parentes ama. Cognatos cole.
** Pray to God. Love your parents. Respect your kindred.
*** advice to his son, p. 593
* Libros lege. Quae legeris memento. Liberos erudi.
** Read books. Remember what you read. Instruct your children.
*** advice to his son, p. 595
* Alienum noli concupiscere.
** Do not covet what is another's.
*** advice to his son, p. 597
* Stultitiam simulare loco, prudentia summa est.
** To act the fool at times is truly wise.
*** advice to his son, p. 607.

## About

* He knew nat Catoun, for his wit was rude, That bad man sholde wedde his similitude.
** Chaucer, "The Milleres Tale", ll. 40–41
# Distant Thunder (1988 film)

Distant Thunder is a 1988 American drama film about an uneasy reunion between father and son that accidentally sparks war-haunted violence, and they share a harrowing fight for survival that will either destroy them or unify them forever.
    Directed by Rick Rosenthal. Written by Robert Stitzel and Deedee Wehle.

## Jack Lambert

* My father wants to see me. He sure took his sweet ass-time about it.
* I'm not going to waste all of your time so I'm just going a few words. Like all of you, I would like to move on in life. Thank you.
* This is what they do. Kill theirselves by walking into trains?

## Mark Lambert

* I'm not fucking with you.
* When I was 18, my father used to call me "numbnuts" and "dumbass".
* Why don't you go take a flying fuck?

## Dialogue

    Mark: I wrote a letter, didn't I?
    Jack: 15 years and one goddamn letter? Fuck you!
    [Mark tries to dodge a train]
    Mark: There it is.
    Jack: Fuck "There it is"! Don't you see I care about you?

## Taglines

* A hero of war. A casualty of peace, With only one hope for survival...his son.
* The last echoes of war.

## Cast

* Ralph Macchio - Jack Lambert
* John Lithgow - Mark Lambert
* Kerrie Keane - Char
* Reb Brown - Harvey Nitz
* Janet Margolin - Barbara Lambert
* Denis Arndt - Larry
* Jamey Sheridan - Moss
* Tom Bower - Louis
* John Kelly - Andy
* Michael Currie - Coach Swabey
* Hilary Strang - Jane
* Robyn Stevan - Holly
* David Longworth - Sheriff
* Gordon Currie - Billy Watson

## External links

* Distant Thunder quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Distant Thunder at Mojo
* Distant Thunder (1988 film) at Rotten Tomatoes
# Distinction

In sociology, distinction is a social phenomenon in which different values are assigned to different people.

## Quotes

* This distinguished corruption will teach the distinguished person that he exists only for the distinguished, that he is to live only in the alliance of their circles, that he must not exist for other people, just as they must not exist for him.
** Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love (1847), as translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (1995), p. 75
* The distinguished person ... may very well use an exaggerated courtesy toward the more lowly, but he must never associate with them as equals, since that would express that he was—human, but he is—distinguished.
** Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love (1847), as translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (1995), p. 75

## See also

* Elite
* Elitism
* Hierarchy
* Inequality
# Dissoi logoi

Dissoi logoi (Greek δισσοὶ λόγοι "contrasting arguments") is a rhetorical exercise of unknown authorship. Based on comments in the text it appears to have been written not long after the Peloponnesian War.

## Quotes

* They introduce poets as witnesses, but these compose for the sake of pleasure not for the sake of truth.
** Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX, edited by Laks and Most (Loeb Classical Library: 2016), p. 181
# Barrington Levy

Barrington Ainsworth Levy (born 30 April 1964)[1] is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.

## Quotes

* Two months later she said come and get your son
'Cause I don't want your baby to come tie me down Because you are old, and I am young Yes while I'm young, yes I wanna have some fun Run me down! Whoah, seen! 'Cause I'm broad, I'm broad, I'm broader then Broadway Yes I'm broad, I'm broad, I'm broader then Broadway.
* In song Here I Come, Here I Come (album) (1984-1985).

## External links

* Official website
* Discography
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Barry Diller

Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman. He is Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc. and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting.

## Quotes

* What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
** The Wall Street Journal: "Barry Diller's Breakup: Why IAC Didn't Work" (7 October 2008)
* God knows, I’m hardly a sociologist. But I hope in the future for some form of reconciliation. Because I think all men are guilty. I’m not talking about rape and pillage. I’m not talking about Harveyesque. I’m talking about all of the spectrum. From an aggressive flirt. Or even just a flirty-flirt that has one sour note in it. Or what I think every man was guilty of, some form of omission in attitude, in his views. Are we really going to have only capital punishment? Because right now, that’s what we have. You get accused, you’re obliterated. Charlie Rose ceases to exist.
** March 2018 interview with New York Times
* I’ve always said that I believe deeply in creative conflict, and that means passionately arguing–whatever your thoughts are, whatever the point is. Some people love that and it helps them grow, learn, etc. Some people run for the hills. I’ve always said to people, “Look, it’s not a room for everybody. If you like this environment, great. If you don’t, please leave, because it’s not good for any of us.”
** Fast Company: "Why Barry Diller believes in cultivating creative conflict" (8 August 2018)
# Anne Karanja

Anne Karanja is a Kenyan businesswoman, auditor and corporate executive, who serves as the managing director and chief executive officer of Kenya Post Office Savings Bank, effective 2014.

## Quotes

* I am passionate about whatever I set out to do and I always strive for excellence.
** "ANNE KARANJA: PUTTING SMILES ON PEOPLE’S FACES" Biashara (March 27, 2018)
# Anne Herbert (writer)

Anne Herbert (born 1952) is an American writer and a past assistant editor of CoEvolution Quarterly, a precursor to the Whole Earth Review.

## Quotes

* Eschew blandness. Eschew causing others pain. We are all the target so wear bright colors and dance with those you love. Falling in love has always been a bit too much to apply to one person. Falling in love is appropriate for now, to love all these things which are about to leave. The rocks are watching, and the squirrels and the stars and the tired people in the street. If you love them, let them know, with grace and non-invasive extravagance. Care about the beings you care about in gorgeous and surprising ways. Color outside the lines. Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. This is your last chance.
** "Handy tips on how to behave at the death of the world" in Whole Earth Review (Spring 1995), p. 88, also available at the Internet Archive.
* Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
** "The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331., also available at [the Internet Archive] (Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.") The Los Angeles Public Library featured this quote on an in-library poster featuring the likeness of Shelton's Freewheelin' Franklin character.
# Anne Kelly Knowles

Anne Kelly Knowles (born 1957) is an American geographer and a specialist in Historical GIS.

## Quotes

* The old saw that history is the study of when, geography the study of where, has some truth to it, at least as the two fields have been taught at most colleges and universities in North America.
** From Knowles's chapter in the book Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history
* Using GIS intelligently requires a grounding in geographical knowledge. Applying the technology to history requires knowing how to contextualize and interpret historical sources.
** From Knowles's chapter in the book Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history
* The form of information in GIS can seem quite alien to humanists upon first encounter.
** From Knowles's chapter in the book Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship
* The most exciting thing about historical GIS is often the "eureka" moment when someone sees data mapped for the first time.
** From Knowles's chapter in the book Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship
* Whether one works with texts, historical maps, or any other kind of source, cultivating a spatial and visual imagination makes it easier to recognize the place-based information and spatial relationships embedded in historical evidence.
** From Knowles's chapter in the book Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship

## External links

* Faculty page at University of Maine
# Anne García-Romero

Anne García-Romero is a Latina playwright, translator and professor.

## Quotes

* It’s a 21st-century play…The overarching theme is, how do we find peace in the present? Through love, understanding and learning about our cultural and religious differences.
** On her play Paloma in “Playwright reaches into past for a better future” in the Albuquerque Journal (2012 Jul 15)
* This story contains many elements of my journey as a writer. As a Spanish-American, I gain much of my inspiration from the Latin world and often write about how the Anglo and Latin worlds collide, intersect and transform each other. I also draw huge inspiration from my father's Spanish family of artists. Dealing with loss has also been an area I've continually explored as a writer…
** On her work Paloma in “I Interview Playwrights Part 287: Anne Garcia-Romero” (Adam Szymkowicz, 2010)
* If I could change one thing about U.S. theater, theater companies would produce a wider, broader range of plays by women and men who fully represent the cultural complexity of twenty-first century U.S. culture. Theatergoers would then have access to a huge selection of diverse theatrical worlds that would challenge, entertain, delight and intrigue them…
** On making American theater more inclusive in “I Interview Playwrights Part 287: Anne Garcia-Romero” (Adam Szymkowicz, 2010)
* Patience and perseverance are key. Cultivate a spirit of generosity. Find your tribe of collaborators and keep working with them. Trust your gut. Stay true to your vision. Seek mentorship…
** On her advice for Latina playwrights in “Anne García-Romero” in 50 Playwrights Project (2016 May 6)
# Anne Hendershott
## Quotes

* I maintain that rather than the sin of pride, the transhuman advocates—much like the transgender advocates—are more likely suffering from the effects of the sin of envy. They envy those—including the God of creation—who have the power to create life and live forever on this earth. But faithful Christians know that such a quest for power like this is more demonic than divine.
** From transgender to transhuman: The expanding culture of death (February 12, 2021)
# Anne Kansiime

Kansiime Kubiryaba Anne (born 13 April 1986) and popularly known as Anne Kansiime, is an Ugandan entertainer, comedian, and actress. She has been referred to as "Africa's Queen of Comedy" by some African media outlets.

## Quotes

* The experience of having my first child has shown me to wait on God. I do not know what I want, I don't know when I will get what I want. I just pray for grace and good health.
** Ngigi, Elizabeth (14 September 2021). "Kansiime enjoys 'miracle' of baby". The Star. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
* It is easy to make people laugh if you do not make them sit and scratch about the things that you are talking about because social problems apply to everyone
* Whatever profession it is you are in, you know that you want to get back home and deal with the society within your reach so if you want to touch so many people you have to look for a subject that touches everyone.
** Nyavaya, Kennedy (7 August 2016). "Hands off politics, Kansiime urges fellow comedians". The Standard. Retrieved 8 November 2023

## External Links

Anne Kansiime on IMDb
# Ata Abu Rashta

Ata Bin Khalil Abu al-Rashtah (Arabic: عطاء بن خليل أبو الرشتة; born 1943) is a Palestinian Islamic jurist, scholar and writer. He is the global leader of the Islamic fundamentalist political party Hizb ut-Tahrir. He came to prominence in Jordan during the Gulf War and was a critic of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

## Quotes

* The establishment of the Caliphate is now a general demand among Muslims, who yearn for this: the call for Islamic government (the Caliphate) is widespread in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria and so on. Before Hizb al-Tahrir launched its career, the subject of the Caliphate was unheard of. However, the party has succeeded in establishing its intellectual leadership, and now everyone has confidence in its ideas, and talks about it: this is clear from the media worldwide.
** Suha Taji-Farouki, A Fundamental Quest – Hizb ut-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate, p. 156, Grey Seal, London 1996

## See also

* Islam
# Ataraxia

Ataraxia (ἀταραξία, "tranquility") is a Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a lucid state of robust tranquility, characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry.

## Quotes

* Aristo the Bald, a native of Chios and nicknamed the Siren, said that the chief good was to live in perfect indifference to all those things that are of an intermediate character between virtue and vice; making not the slightest difference between them, but regarding them all on a footing of equality. For that the wise man resembles a good actor; who, whether he is filling the part of Agamemnon or Thersites, will perform them both equally well.
** Aristo of Chios, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 160
* Ὁ δίκαιος ἀταρακτότατος, ὁ δ᾽ ἄδικος πλείστης ταραχῆς γέμων.
** The just man is most free from disturbance, while the unjust is full of the utmost disturbance.
** Epicurus, The 40 "Sovran Maxims" (or "Sovereign Maxims), or "Principal Doctrines" as translated by Robert Drew Hicks p.17

## See also

* Asceticism
* Pyrrhonism
* Stoicism