"Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went."

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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press

Bernard Bailyn

#Growing Quotes #Sparks Quotes #Heat Quotes

“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”
“True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.”
“I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.”

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“Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred”
“If only more Christians read their bibles there'd be less Christians.”
“I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!”
“Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.”
“People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.”

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