"When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that sheâ€™d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species."

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Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.32, Vintage

J. Courtney Sullivan

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“What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.”

Source : "The War — Its Cause and Cure". teachingamericanhistory.org. May 03, 1861.
“For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”
“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”

Source : Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.
“Certain books come to meet me, as do people.”
“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”
“As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.”
“Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.”

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