"In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing."

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Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin

C.J. Sansom

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“There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.”
“Don't be afraid of the shadows, it only means there's a light nearby.”
“Technology makes the world a new place.”
“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.83, St. Martin's Press
“I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.”

Source : Source: www.aintitcool.com
“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at Godâ€™s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”
“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”
“Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.”

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