"All history is incomprehensible without Christ."

-- Ernest Renan

“For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die,”

Source : "'My time as leader is nearly over but for Scotland the dream shall never die'". www.heraldscotland.com. September 20, 2014.
“It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.”
“One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.”
“Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”
“We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.”
“The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.”

Source : "I couldn't be Judd Gregg". Interview with Martin Kady II and David Rogers, www.politico.com. February 12, 2009.
“I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.”

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