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It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.


Marianne Williamson


#self-awareness #self-discovery #self-evaluation #courage

The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.


Moshe Sharett


#clearly #devastating #does #earth #effective

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.


Goldwin Smith


#beauty #churches #every #feels #heart

Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.


David Platt


#christianity #evangelism #faith #jesus-christ #dreams

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.


Richard Lederer


#dark-age #history #medieval #middle-ages #religion

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.


Neil Postman


#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today


Gillian Hovell


#britain #bronze-age #dark-ages #history #hovell

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!


Charles Dickens


#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.


Ian Mortimer


#justice #medieval-life #age

...; the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled times more ancient still. They brought forcibly to one's mind the night of ages when the primeval man, evolving the first rudiments of cookery from his dim consciousness, scorched lumps of flesh at a fire of sticks...


Joseph Conrad


#primeval-man #tales-of-the-sea #age






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