"History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it."

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Source : John Buchan (1923). “Great Britain: The Nations of To-day : a New History of the World”

John Buchan

#Past Quotes #Giving Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.”
“I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals,”
“It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.”

Source : Arthur W Pink (2013). “Practical Christianity”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc
“The truth I've discovered is that you don't have to lift enormous weights to grow muscle. By using stricter form, slower negatives, and stretching between sets you can get an incredible pump in all your workouts. Numbers are an abstraction, especially to muscles. Your body doesn't know the absolute weight of what you lift, it only recognizes how heavy it feels. The secret is to make lighter weights feel heavier.”
“Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.”
“This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.228, W. W. Norton & Company
“Comedy, sometimes if you think about it too much then it becomes a bit boring. If you start thinking about striking the right balance sometimes it takes the spontaneity out of it.”
“A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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