"Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result."

-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#Catholic Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Elbows Quotes

“Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.”
“There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.”
“There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.”
“And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.”
“Honest history is the weapon of freedom.”
“The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.”
“Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.”
“Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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