"There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament."

-- Charlie Campbell

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“To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.”
“How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?”
“One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1963). “Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love”
“What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.”
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”
“We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!”
“Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.”
“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.”

Source : EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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