"In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow."

-- Francis Parkman

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“I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.”

Source : "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'm famous for being a silky midfielder.”
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers awayâ€”an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”
“Itâ€™s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend Godâ€™s plan, I donâ€™t have a pencil with me.”
“I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.”
“America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.”

Source : Speech on September 26, 1891. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 269, 1990.
“For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educational.' The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf
“You know I have dutiesâ”€â”€we both have dutiesâ”€â”€before which feeling must be sacrificed.”

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