"The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument."

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Source : Agnes Strickland (1853). “Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII., and His Mother, Elizabeth of York”, p.8

Agnes Strickland

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“Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?”
“As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.”
“Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.”
“We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.”

Source : "Exit Interview: Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.
“I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.”
“How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.”

Source : Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.277
“Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.”
“A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.”

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