Constance Havlick

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions.” If”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

“So bitter is it, death is little more;”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971