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"We can't always trust what we see in museums, but we can certainly ALWAYS trust what we read in the Bible."

"I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for li…"

"It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo."

"The Book as a whole gives a coherent picture of an era and propounds the thesis that the institutions of pre-monarchic Israel were so chaotic... that centralized, hereditary kingship was necessary."

"When reading the Renaissance authors who spread their religious ideas by laughter rather than by thumbscrew and stake, we find that they do not limit themselves to the few places in Scripture where la…"

"There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued."

"Christian Classics Ethereal Library: St. John of the Cross"

"Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sen…"

"No online cipher is safe, simply because if they don't have the key they'll come across and get it from you. Assuming they didn't already implant it in the system"

"If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades."

"I'm reading Kristin Lavransdatter again - it's one of the greatest poetic books, and the most powerful portrayal of medieval Christendom I know....I must admit that it makes me cry every time - becaus…"

"Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment."

"One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man…It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process."

"Occupiers have a role in spreading insecurity and terror in Iraq to justify their illegitimate presence there."

"Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories."

"The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place."

"EZLN and Subcomandante Marcos official webpage"

"As far as fanatical Muslims are concerned, Yazidis must be classified among the heathen because they do not belong to any of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Under Islam…"

"Poemhunter.com ebooks with 35 poems by Stevens)"

"By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. …"