"Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years."

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Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House

Elaine Pagels

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“There is no evil in the world without a remedy.”

Source : Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, "Evil", 1922.
“For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.”
“I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
“Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.”

Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”
“There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.”

Source : "Tamara Mellon's New York Life" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.
“We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.”
“Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.”

Source : Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey
“The public is never wrong.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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