"A good lawyer is a bad Christian."

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Source : John Lothrop Motley (2011). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

John Lothrop Motley

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“For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.”

Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr
“The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.”
“Life, the permission to know death.”
“I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.”
“The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.”
“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godâ€™s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”
“Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.”
“Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.”

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