"The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner."

-- Ruth Hurmence Green

#Christian Quotes #Fall Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.”
“Silence is sorrow's best food.”
“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2010). “The Underland Chronicles #5: Gregor and the Code of Claw”, p.411, Scholastic Inc.
“Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.”
“The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.”
“It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.”
“I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight.”
“To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.”

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