"In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars."

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Source : Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

Amos Elon

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“There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!”
“I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.”
“All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.”
“We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.”
“This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.”
“The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.”
“When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.”

Source : "Christian's Mistake" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (p. 64), 1865.
“The camera is the slave to the actor.”

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