"If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood."

-- Edwin Gaustad

#Blood Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18
“The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.”
“I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”
“But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.”
“It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.”
“If I even tell anything false, within one minute I have to come clean. And I think most people, even if they're not that direct, it comes out in indirect ways. If somebody cheats on you, they end up telling you they've been spending all this time hanging out with that person. Why? Because nobody can bear a lie. A lie won't stay silent. It makes noise.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I wish I had spent more time at the office.”
“It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.”

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