"Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst."

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Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (2002). “Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition”, p.54, Penguin

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

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“If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”

Source : Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster
“THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities”
“I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?”
“Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.”
“For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.”
“My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.”
“I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.”

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