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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.


Jacques Ellul

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GERALD R. FORD The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE History has been the history of warfare.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN True fragments of history have re-emerged intact from the oblivion of time and the Earth.
FRANCESCO BURANELLI The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
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CHAD HARBACH Prayer without faith is as futile as a body without breathe.
ROBIN BERTRAM Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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JACQUES ELLUL Mr. Ayaa Kojo Armah said, "Keep praying as always.
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FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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UFUOMA APOKI Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
AZZEDINE ALAIA The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
FELIX FRANKFURTER The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
KARL MARX Living in your genome is the history of our species.
BARRY SCHULER I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
TIM VINE March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
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JOHN BROWN GORDON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH It looks as though some of the fragments are themselves forming their own sub-fragments.
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JOHN ADAMS She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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WARREN LITTLEFIELD The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
BENITO MUSSOLINI As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
KARL JASPERS I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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JACQUES VERGES Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in ...
JACQUES LACAN The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al...
MARTIN JACQUES The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prim...
MARTIN JACQUES The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend...
MARTIN JACQUES The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it mu...
MARTIN JACQUES Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can f...
BRIAN JACQUES What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too lo...
JEPH JACQUES 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scor...
JEPH JACQUES If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
JEPH JACQUES Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the b...
JEPH JACQUES You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
JEPH JACQUES The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop...
JEPH JACQUES You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentra...
JEPH JACQUES Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
JEPH JACQUES There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster ...
JEPH JACQUES To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
JACQUES BOSSUET The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because ...
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