"The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time."

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Source : "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War". Book by Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008.

Drew Gilpin Faust

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“Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah”
“The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.”
“London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.”
“....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his Iâ€™ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.”
“Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”
“To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.”
“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.”
“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”

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