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Hans Zinsser
"Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions." --
Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers
Hans Zinsser
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“Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.”
“Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.”
“Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.”
“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
“The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.”
Source : "Fictional character: Andre Delambre". "The Fly", July 16, 1958.
“Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.”
“Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.”
“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”