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(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#civilization #catholicism

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #seismology #western-civilization #science

Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun. ↗

— N.J. Hallard

#creepy #horror #scary #zombies #apocalypse

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop. ↗

— Joe Haldeman

#human-body #visualization

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness. ↗

— Ariel Gore

#silence #socialization #talking #introvert

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time! ↗

— Esther Hicks

#creative-process #loa #visualization #visualization

amor omnia vincit ↗

— Sitta Karina

#love #love

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-realization

A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#crazy #love #love

Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#sizzling-sixteen #stephanie-plum #love