"It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king."

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Source : 'History of the United States' (1855 ed.) vol. 3, ch. 6

George Bancroft

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“It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”
“The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.”

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“I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.”
“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.”
“Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.”
“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
“It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.”
“I like people too much or not at all.”

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