"To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup."

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Source : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.399, Random House

Barbara Tuchman

#Firsts Quotes #Garments Quotes #Legitimacy Quotes

“I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.”
“Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.”

Source : William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.7, Psychology Press
“In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.”

Source : "Five questions for John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. August 8, 2016.
“I think the public will judge if stardom has gotten into my head.”
“If the Earth has a soul, it swims in you.”
“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.”
“A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.”

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