John Keats (1795-1821)

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posthumous
portrait
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William
Hilton,
c. 1822

John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations

Beauty

¶ A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness...

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

Alfred Sisley (/ˈsɪsli/; French: [sislɛ]; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. [1]

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Images

Works

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), La neige à Louveciennes, 1878, oil on canvas, h 61 x w 50.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sisley

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam (/ˈtʃaɪld ˈhæsəm/; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Childe Hassam

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Images

Childe Hassam

 

 

Childe Hassam, early 20th century

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childe_Hassam

August Malmström (1829-1901)

August Malmström

Johan August Malmström (14 October 1829 – 18 October 1901) was a Swedish painter. As an artist, he was known for his country motifs often featuring children.[1]

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Images

Works

August Malmström (1829-1901), Dancing Fairies, 1866, oil on canvas, h 90 x w 149 cm, Nationalmuseum, Sweden

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Malmstr%C3%B6m

Zhu Xi (朱熹, 1130-1200)

Zhu Xi (1130-1200)

Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (Chinese: 朱熹, October 18, 1130, Youxi, Fujian Province, China – April 23, 1200, China) was a Song Dynasty Confucian scholar who became the leading figure of the School of Principle and the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China. His contribution to Chinese philosophy include his assigning special significance to the Analects of Confucius, the Mencius, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean (the Four Books), his emphasis on the investigation of things (gewu), and the synthesis of all fundamental Confucian concepts formed the basis of Chinese bureaucracy and government for over 700 years.

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Quotes·Quotations by Zhu Xi

Time

¶ 少年易老学难成，一寸光阴不可轻。
The young become old soon. It takes a lot of time to learn something. We must not waste any time.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Xi

Walter Brooke (1914-1986)

Walter Brooke (1914-1986)

Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics".

He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71.

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Quotes·Quotations by Walter Brooke


Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967)

¶ Plastics.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brooke

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955.

Some of his best-known poems include "Valley Candle", "Anecdote of the Jar", "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Sunday Morning", "The Snow Man", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

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Quotes·Quotations by Wallace Stevens

Summer

¶ The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- )

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- )

Thích Nhất Hạnh (/ˈtɪk ˈnjʌt ˈhʌn/; Vietnamese: [tʰǐk ɲɜ̌t hɐ̂ʔɲ]; born October 11, 1926) is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He lives in the Plum Village Monastery in the Dordogne region in the South of France,[1] travelling internationally to give retreats and talks. He coined the term Engaged Buddhism in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.[2] A long-term exile, he was given permission to make his first return trip to Vietnam in 2005.[3]

Nhất Hạnh has published more than 100 books, including more than 40 in English. Nhat Hanh is active in the peace movement, promoting non-violent solutions to conflict.[4]

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Quotes·Quotations by Thich Nhat Hanh

Health

¶ Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

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References

[1]^ a b c BBC - Religion & Ethics - Thich Nhat Hanh
[2]^ a b c Nhu, Quan (2002) "Nhat Hanh's Peace Activities" in "Vietnamese Engaged Buddhism: The Struggle Movement of 1963-66", reprinted on the Giao Diem website "Nhat Hanh’s Peace Activities"
[3]^ a b Johnson, Kay (16 January 2005). "A Long Journey Home". Time Asia Magazine (online version). Retrieved 13 September 2010.
[4]^ Samar Farah, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor (April 4, 2002). "An advocate for peace starts with listening". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 13 September 2010.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso, (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso is commonly regarded, along with Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.

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Quotes·Quotation by Pablo Picasso

Arts

¶ "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

This quote suggests that art plays a vital role in human life, serving as a kind of cleansing for the soul, helping us to keep our inner selves clear and vibrant amidst the complexities of everyday life.

¶ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

¶ Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

¶ "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

This quote, often attributed to Pablo Picasso, suggests that painting can serve as a personal record of one’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences, much like a diary.

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Images

 

 

Picasso in 1908

 

 

 

Works

 

 

La Vie (1903), Cleveland Museum of Art

 

 

 

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.

Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. He also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.

At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. (Libel Act of 1843) The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest, tried for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis (written in 1897 & published in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

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Quotes·Quotations by Oscar Wilde

Animal

¶ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Appearance

¶ Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Arts

¶ Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Beauty

¶ Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. [The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890; revised 1891)]

¶ The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Children·Youth

¶ An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

¶ I am not young enough to know everything.

Experience

¶ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [Mr. Dumby, Act III, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)]

Finance·Money

¶ It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Stars

¶ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [Lord Darlington, Act III, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

Niels Bohr (1885-1926)

Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1926)

Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: [ˈniːls ˈboɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel Prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.

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Quotes·Quotation by Niels Bohr

Advice

¶ Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Science·Research

¶ An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Henrik_David_Bohr

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born essayist and critic.

Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey. He was the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith and a descendant of James Logan, who was William Penn's secretary and the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in the 18th century. His mother's family had become wealthy from its glass factories. He lived for a time as a boy in England, and later attended The William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, Haverford College, Harvard College, and the University of Berlin. In his 1938 autobiography, Smith describes how in his youth he came to be a friend of Walt Whitman in the poet's latter years. Smith later studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1891. He then settled in England with occasional forays to continental Europe and became a British citizen in 1913. He divided his time between Chelsea, where he was a close friend of Desmond MacCarthy and Rose Macaulay, and a Tudor farmhouse near the Solent, called "Big Chilling". Smith employed a succession of young secretary/companions to help him. This post was Cyril Connolly's first job in 1925 and he was to be strongly influenced by Smith. Robert Gathorne-Hardy succeeded Connolly in this post.

Smith was an authority on 17th century divines. He was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and his Trivia has been highly rated. He was a literary perfectionist and could take days refining his sentences. With Words and Idioms he became a recognised authority on the correct use of English. He is now probably most remembered for his autobiography Unforgotten Years (1938). He was much influenced by Walter Pater. As well as his employees listed, his followers included Desmond MacCarthy, John Russell, R. C. Trevelyan, and Hugh Trevor-Roper. He was, in part, the basis for the character of Nick Greene / Sir Nicholas Greene in Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

Gathorne-Hardy described Pearsall Smith as "a largish man with a stoop that disguised his height",. Kenneth Clark further wrote "His tall frame, hunched up, with head thrust forward like a bird, was balanced unsteadily on vestigial legs".

Smith's sister Alys was the first wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell, and his sister Mary married the art historian Bernard Berenson.

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Quotes·Quotations by Logan Pearsall Smith

Writing·Reading

¶ People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Money

¶ It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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Images


Wikimedia Commons

John Lennon (1940-1980)

John Lennon (1940-1980)

John Ono Lennon, MBE, born John Winston Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.[1]

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.

Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.

As of 2012 Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002 a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Quotes·Quotations by John Lennon

Life

¶ Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

This quote captures the essence of life’s unpredictability and the importance of living in the moment rather than being overly preoccupied with future plans.

Others

¶ I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon

Helen Hayes (1900-1993)

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes (10 October 1900 – 17 March 1993) American actress; one of the few people who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award; born Helen Hayes Brown

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Quotes·Quotations by Helen Hayes

Love

¶ The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Guideposts (January 1960)

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@ Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Showcase (1966) by Roy Newquist

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Hayes

Mahatma GANDHI (1869-1948)

Mahatma GANDHI (1869-1948)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi]; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu (Father of Nation), was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights, and freedom across the world.[2]

The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised[clarification needed] in a Bania[3] community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.

Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II. He was imprisoned for that and for numerous other political offences over the years. Gandhi sought to practice non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same. He saw the villages as the core of the true India and promoted self-sufficiency; he did not support the industrialisation programs of his disciple Jawaharlal Nehru. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. His chief political enemy in Britain was Winston Churchill,[4] who ridiculed him as a "half-naked fakir".[5] He was a dedicated vegetarian, and undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and political mobilisation.

In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by Nathuram Godse who thought Gandhi was too sympathetic to India's Muslims. 30 January is observed as Martyrs' Day in India. The honorific Mahatma ("Great Soul") was applied to him by 1914.[6] In India he was also called Bapu ("Father"). He is known in India as the Father of the Nation;[7] his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Gandhi's philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practising his principles in the moment. Asked to give a message to the people, he would respond, "My life is my message."[8]

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Quotes·Quotations by Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty

¶ True beauty consists in purity of heart.

Communication

¶ Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Love

¶ Where there is love there is life.

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Citations

[1]^ a b Gandhi, Rajmohan (2006), pp. 1–3.
[2]^ Pilisuk & Nagler (2011), pp. 306–307.
[3]^ "Bania". Britanica.com. Retrieved 1 April 2013. "The Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi belonged to a Gujarati Bania caste."
[4]^ Arthur Herman (2008). Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 379.
[5]^ Richard Toye (2010). Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made. Macmillan. pp. 176–7.
[6]^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2006), Gandhi: the man, his people, and the empire, University of California Press, p. 172 Quote: "Addresses in Durban and Verulam referred to Gandhi as a 'Mahatma', 'great soul'. He was seen as a great soul because he had taken up the poor's cause. (p. 172)"
[7]^ Markovits, Claude (2006). Un-Gandhian Gandhi. Permanent Black. p. 59. ISBN 978-81-7824-155-5.
[8]^ Douglas Allen (2008). The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century. Lexington Books. p. 34.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

Dawn French (1957- )

Dawn French (1957- )

Dawn Roma French[1] (born 11 October 1957) is an English actress, writer, and comedian, best known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. Dawn has been nominated for seven BAFTA Awards and also won a Fellowship BAFTA with Saunders.

References

[1]^ "Dawn French: I just had a lot of fun" Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 11 May 2007.

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Quotes·Quotations by Dawn French

Arts

¶ If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...

Frank Rizzo (1920-1991)

Frank Rizzo (1920-1991)

Francis Lazarro "Frank" Rizzo, Sr. (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991) was an American police officer and politician. He served two terms as mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from January 1972 to January 1980; he was Police Commissioner for four years prior to that.

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Quotes·Quotation

Duh...

¶ The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rizzo

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 28, 1466 – July 12, 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, early proponent of religious toleration, and theologian.[1]

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style and enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists." He has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists." Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament. These raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote The Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.

Erasmus lived through the Reformation period, but while he was critical of the Church, he could not bring himself to join the cause of the Reformers. In relation to clerical abuses in the Church, Erasmus remained committed to reforming the Church from within. He also held to Catholic doctrines such as that of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination. His middle road approach disappointed and even angered scholars in both camps. He died in Basel in 1536 and was buried in the formerly Catholic cathedral there, which had been converted to a Reformed church in 1529.

Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. Desiderius was a self-adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The Roterodamus in his scholarly name is the Latinized adjectival form for the city of Rotterdam.

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Quotes·Quotations by Erasmus

Advice

¶ In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

War

¶ War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus

Bill Gates (1955- )

Bill Gates (1955- )

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the second wealthiest person. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.[1]

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

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Quotes·Quotation by Bill Gates

Behavior

¶ We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Life

¶ Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Science

¶ If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

¶ You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Season

¶ Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Tool

¶ I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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Images

 

 

Gates in 2023

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Henri-Louis Bergson (French: [bɛʁksɔn] 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.

He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".[2] In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.

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Quotes·Quotations by Henri Bergson

Universe

¶ [L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.
[The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.]

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References

[1]^ Hancock, Curtis L. (May 1995). "The Influence of Plotinus on Berson's Critique of Empirical Science". In R. Baine Harris. Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought. Congress of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies held in May 1995 at Vanderbilt University 10. International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 139ff Extra |pages= or |at= (help). ISBN 0-7914-5275 Check |isbn= value (help). "That the philosophy of Henri Bergson is significantly influenced by the doctrines of Plotinus is indicated by the many years Bergson devoted to teaching Plotinus and the many parallels in their respective philosophies. This influence has been discussed at some length by Bergson's contemporaries, such as Emile Bréhier and Rose-Marie Rossé-Bastide. [...]" |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
[2]^ "The Nobel prize in Literature". Retrieved 2010-11-15.

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