"Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars."

-- Novalis

#Blood Quotes #Europe Quotes #Circles Quotes

“It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club”
“When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.”
“It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
“When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus”
“The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.”
“Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children”
“Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider”
“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Source : Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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