"The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Unity Quotes

“Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.”
“It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.”
“Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”
“Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.”
“this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.”
“Not all knowledge comes from college.”

Source : "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. April 30, 2014.
“If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?”
“We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.”

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