"We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us."

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Source : Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.159, Penguin UK

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

#War Quotes #Together Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.”
“We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Therefore we examineÂ with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.”
“I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.”
“The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.”
“Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.”
“When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky”

Source : Keorapetse Kgositsile (2002). “If I could sing: selected poems”
“I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.”

Source : "Plan to give every child internet access at home" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. January 04, 2008.

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