"A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles."

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Source : Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.57, Princeton University Press

Judith Herrin

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“The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.”
“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].”
“It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.”
“I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.”

Source : " Lance Armstrong's doping denials - in quotes" by Stephen McMillan, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.
“I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.”
“Remember the poor, it costs nothing.”
“How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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