"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

-- Oliver Cromwell

#God Quotes #Historian Quotes #Shaking Quotes

“I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.”
“People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.”
“If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“Goods which are not shared are not goods.”

Source : "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
“As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.”
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
“Somebody's gonna give you A lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back What you've been givin' And I hope that I'm around To watch 'em knock you down It's like you to love'em and leave'em Just like you loved me and left me It's like you to do that sort of thing Over and over again You're a fool-hearted man.”

Source : Song: Lesson in Leavin', Album: I'm Alright, 1998

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