"Women encourage killers. They do it by falling in love with warriors and heroes. Men know it and respond with enthusiasm. The Crusaders marched off to war with ladies favors in their helmets. The heroes sliced up adults and baked infants on spits, all the while thinking of how the damsels back home would admire their bravery."

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Source : Howard Bloom (2013). “The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Howard Bloom

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“Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends.”
“I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his”
“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”
“History never repeats itself, historians do.”
“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.”
“You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.”

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“I love music. I love going out dancing.”

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“Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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