"In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined."

-- Leopold von Ranke

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“I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.”
“I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.”
“I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.”
“To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.”

Source : "Justice For Sale". "Journal" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.
“Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.”
“Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.”

Source : "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.
“The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.”

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