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Margaret George

"I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church."

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan

Margaret George

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“Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit....”
“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.”
“Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.”
“Naheed Nenshi is a friend of mine. We - he - knows how close I am to all of the cultural, ethnic, and religious communities in Canada, particularly his own Ismaili community. By the way, the vast majority of Canadian Muslims, particularly Ismaili Muslims that I know, strongly support our government's reinforcement of the public nature of the public citizenship oath.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Do you think 'Duke' is a good name?' she asked. His face blanked for a second before it cleared. He glanced at the dog in consideration. 'I don't think so. He would outrank me.”
“If it werenâ€™t for my horse, I wouldnâ€™t have spent that year in college.”
“Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.”

Source : "Everything I Know, I Learned from Warren Buffett". Interview with Christopher Caggiano, www.inc.com.
“I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.”

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