"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."

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Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

Ralph Adams Cram

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“A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.”
“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”
“You're always going to have extremists in every religion.”
“I had always dared to dream large, but even this black kid~ez_rsquo~s imagination could not have come close to inventing the storybook success that I have enjoyed in the nearly thirty years I`ve worked in this medium I adore.”
“I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.”

Source : "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
“A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.”
“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”

Source : Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales
“Money or no money, acting is my calling”

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