"The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties."

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Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (1978). “Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs”, p.33, Zondervan

John Foxe

#Loss Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got in it with a 79 I.Q. and the first day I said, "I'm getting the hell out of here quick!" They're all losers. All they do is talk about their IQ.”
“We'll review President Obama's plan [on closing Guantanamo], but since it includes bringing dangerous terrorists to facilities in U.S. communities, he should know that the bipartisan will of Congress has already been expressed against that proposal.”

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“I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.”
“History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.”
“There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally donâ€™t think thatâ€™s going to happen.”
“I don't write books inadvertently.”
“We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.”
“Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.”

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