"The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them."

-- Bartolome de las Casas

#Christian Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.”
“Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
“The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.”
“When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”
“Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.”
“I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.”
“In the middle of Hillary Clinton's push for national healthcare in 1993, Bill Clinton cited Thomas Jefferson's concern for health issues as, somehow, apparently indicative of a need for federal management of the nation's healthcare system.”
“Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.”

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