"It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe."

-- H. A. L. Fisher

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“I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press
“We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.”
“Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.”
“There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.”

Source : Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company
“It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.”
“Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.”

Source : Oswald Mosley (2012). “The Greater Britain”, p.132, Black House Publishing Ltd
“Ive got a lot of friends there and there is stuff to do but as much as I dislike LA I really like living and working in New York City.”
“I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.”

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