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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#attended #awe #became #endowed #greatest

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#because #becoming #brain #dancers #decrease

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#actress #always #anything #because #becoming

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#appear #before #caring #concern #cure

If we must die, we die defending our rights. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#die #must #our #rights

God made me an Indian. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#indian #made #me

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#find #finding #only #our #ourselves

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. ↗

— Tory Burch

#difficult #easier #entrepreneur #hours #i

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#also #assured #buffalo #country #forever