"Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity."

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Source : "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

Peter Lewis Allen

#Disease Quotes #Pox Quotes #Voyages Quotes

“Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.”
“Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.120
“Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.”
“I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'”
“I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think itâ€™s tougher to be in your 20s because youâ€™re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.”
“As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.”
“Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.”
“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”

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