"Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own."

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Source : John Foxe (2001). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, Barbour Publishing

John Foxe

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“Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

Source : 1909 Socialism Made Easy.
“It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.”
“Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.”
“When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

Source : Sol LeWitt, Andrea Miller-Keller, John B. Ravenal (1984). “From the Collection of Sol LeWitt: A Traveling Exhibition Organized and Circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York”, Independent Curators
“Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.”
“With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.”
“When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.”
“By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.”

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