"Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation."

-- Natalie Zemon Davis

#Drama Quotes #Men Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.”
“All it takes is a single moment.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.38, Candlewick Press
“If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.”
“I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.”

Source : "The Motion/Captured Interview: Michael Pena in ‘Observe and Report’". Interview with Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. April 7, 2009.
“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”
“Despite the fact that there's billions of dollars sitting in the Iraqi government reserves, somehow they are incapable of getting it out to the people. There are a very large number of people here who are on the edge of starvation. For those sort of people - a sizable chunk of people - that service makes them regard Muqtada as a sort of god.”

Source : "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.
“Even the most complex problem is resolved in the end. Because if there's a question, there also is an answer.”

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