"History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events."

-- Antoine Rivarol

#History Quotes #Events Quotes #Rich Quotes

“There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.”
“War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization”

Source : "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.
“Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.”
“Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.”
“I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.”

Source : Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co
“What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.”
“So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.”

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