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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b90bd1 | he is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 62ded2d | No one knew how to end it. The war had settled into unbearable, unwinnable battles. It had reached a point where there were no more victories, only death. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 4efeebf | As has happened in the American Civil War and World War I, the technology for mass destruction has far outpaced man's ability to maintain the peace. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 6d79feb | Burnside was in the best position on the field, could have moved at any time toward a weak defense, a defense that was weaker still | Jeff Shaara | ||
| e3e2a54 | All right. They're on our left. They're on our right. They're in front of us, they're behind us. They can't get away this time." --COLONEL LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER" | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 043cd78 | In terms of the collective memory of the American people, the Korean War is not just forgotten. It was not remembered in the first place...." --HISTORIAN ALLAN MILLETT" | Jeff Shaara | ||
| fc69e33 | Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell's division commander, | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 2d8f1aa | annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged | Jeff Shaara | ||
| d6c57c0 | who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 8ecba6c | Every Marine was trained in handling a rifle, no matter what noncombat job he might assume down the road. Right now, at Hagaru-ri, every Marine was now a rifleman. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 566fb3b | Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight ... touch the mountains and they shall smoke ... He had memorized that verse years before, Psalm 144, knew somehow, strangely, that it was for him, that God had put those words there as a sign, words to guide him to his duty. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| f1d05d0 | Go home, Sean. Go plant some flowers and mow your grass. And maybe hatch a couple more kids." "You sound like Colleen. That's what she wants." "It's what we all want. Some of us just don't know it yet." -- | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 29a2b0a | If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue. As long as it is just the soldiers, | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 02662dd | Under the Song dynasty, between 960 and 1279, China led the world in many technological innovatons. The Chinese invented clocks, the compass, gunpowder, paper and paper money, porcelein and the blast furnaces to make cast iron before Europe did. They independently developed spinning wheels and waterpower at more or less the same time that these merged at the other end of Eurosia. | Daron Acemoğlu | ||
| 08e7c99 | What mattered was not what you believed but how you behaved. Religion was about doing things that changed you at a profound level. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 904695f | The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, elite athletes, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized one or two strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures. You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. . . . Everyone is fighting a battle [and has fought battles] you know nothing about. The heroes in this book.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 65d6b2b | Muslim fundamentalists have toppled governments and either assassinated or threatened the enemies of Islam with the death penalty. Similarly, Jewish fundamentalists have settled in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with the avowed intention of driving out the Arab inhabitants, using force if necessary. Thus they believe that they are paving a way for the advent of the Messiah, which is at hand. In all its forms, f.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| bf9f8a9 | The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The Quran prescribes some degree of segregation and veiling for the Prophet's wives, but there is nothing in the Quran that requires the veiling of all women or their seclusion in a separate part of the house. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| a6067b6 | The Crusades were disgraceful but formative events in Western history; they were devastating for the Muslims of the Near East, but for the vast majority of Muslims in Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, Malaya, Afghanistan and India, they were remote border incidents. It was only in the twentieth century, when the West had become more powerful and threatening, that Muslim historians would become preoccupied by the medieval Crusades, looking back with.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 2682f00 | Men and women have formulated this perception of sacred space in different ways over the centuries, but in their discussion of the special status of a city such as Jerusalem certain themes tend to recur, indicating that they speak to some fundamental human need. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e364a24 | Theism is so confused and the sentences in which 'God' appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible." 2 Atheism is as unintelligible and meaningless as theism. There is nothing in the concept of "God" to deny or be skeptical about." | Karen Armstrong | ||
| fc5834b | The Quran did not put forward any philosophical arguments for monotheism; its approach was practical, and, as such, it appealed to the pragmatic Arabs. The old religion, the Quran claimed, was simply not working.3 | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 50206ae | all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same divine source. Hence Muhammad never asked Jews or Christians to accept Islam, unless they particularly wished to do so, because they had received perfectly valid revelations of their own. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 900a567 | All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity, | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 064f4e4 | beliefs and doctrines are not as important in Islam as they are in Christianity. Like Judaism, Islam is a religion that requires people to live in a certain way, rather than to accept certain credal propositions. It stresses orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| a80f63b | One of the most characteristic new developments since the 1970s has been the rise of a type of religiosity that we usually call "fundamentalism" in most of the major world religions, including the three religions of God. A highly political spirituality, it is literal and intolerant in its vision. In the United States, which has always been prone to extremist and apocalyptic enthusiasm, Christian fundamentalism has attached itself to the New.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| b904441 | According to Luke, far from denouncing the cult, like Stephen, they worshipped together every day in the temple.22 Indeed, the revered Pharisee Gamaliel, whose views were more liberal than Paul's, is said to have advised the Sanhedrin to leave the Jesus movement alone: If it was of human origin, it would break up of its own accord like other recent protest groups.23 But for Paul, the Hellenistic followers of Jesus were insulting everything .. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 48b4741 | But Enki wants to save Atrahasis,50 the 'exceedingly wise man' of the city of Shuruppak. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 2b81a47 | Deuteronomy had listed a number of obligatory laws, which had included the Ten Commandments. During and immediately after the exile, this had been elaborated into a complex legislation consisting of the 613 commandments (mitzvot) in the Pentateuch. These minute directives seem off-putting to an outsider and have been presented in a very negative light by New Testament polemic. Jews did not find them a crushing burden, as Christians tend to .. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 7691d34 | When he described the dramatic arrival of the Christ, instead of drawing on the conventional imagery of Jewish apocalypse, he used terminology that was quite new to the Jesus movement, presenting Jesus's return as an official visit of an emperor or king to a provincial city. When the command is given, when the archangel's voice is heard, when God's trumpet sounds, then the Lord himself will descend from heaven; first the dead who belong to .. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| feb7197 | Paul's opponents in Galatia believed that Jesus's heroic death and resurrection had inspired a spiritual renewal movement within Israel; they advocated continuity with the past. But Paul believed that with the cross something entirely new had come into the world.7 By raising Jesus, a criminal condemned by Roman law, God had taken the shocking step of embracing what the Torah deemed defiled. Jewish law decreed: "Cursed is everyone who is han.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 73bc5ac | Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal. | Arnold J. Toynbee | ||
| 0015f22 | There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics. | Arnold J. Toynbee | ||
| eadee01 | This, of course, directly contradicts Paul's insistence that "in Christ" there should be full gender equality. So glaring is this discrepancy that many scholars believe that this passage was inserted into Paul's letter at a later date by those who wanted to make Paul conform more closely to Greco-Roman norms. Paul's letters were copied assiduously after his death and survived in 779 manuscripts dating from the third to the sixteenth century.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| b806327 | changed the course of history, but the process was not yet complete. It was only when Jesus returned at the Parousia that "we shall all be changed" and "death be swallowed up in victory."64 Then and only then would Christ establish the Kingdom, "deposing every sovereignty, authority, and power."65" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 3f9b389 | Shortly after he had dispatched his "letter of tears," Paul's fortunes plummeted to a new low. Claudius's last years had been clouded by court intrigues, and in October 54, he was poisoned by his wife and succeeded by Nero, his adopted seventeen-year-old son. The accession of the new emperor was hailed with relief and joy and an empire-wide resurgence of the imperial cult. But Rome was in trouble: The Parthians threatened the eastern fronti.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 7e183ab | Perhaps the central paradox of the religious life is that it seeks transcendence, a dimension of existence that goes beyond our mundane lives, but that human beings can only experience this transcendent reality in earthly, physical phenomena. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 93d2cf0 | Jesus had been born during the reign of the emperor Augustus (r. 31 BCE-14 CE), who had brought peace to a war-weary world by defeating rival Roman warlords and declaring himself sole ruler of the Roman Empire. The ensuing peace seemed little short of miraculous, and throughout his far-flung domains, Augustus was hailed as "son of God" and "savior." But the Pax Romana was enforced pitilessly by an army that was the most efficient killing ma.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 36b08d8 | In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, dating only to the eighteenth century, and would have been incomprehensible to both Jesus and Paul. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| ab44bf2 | Jesus's demonstration in the temple was not, as is often assumed, a plea for a more spiritual form of worship. As he rampaged through the money changers' stalls, he quoted the Hebrew prophets who had harsh words for those who were punctilious in their devotions but ignored the plight of the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e299be6 | When these impoverished, indebted folk asked him what they should do, he told them to share what little they had with those who were even worse off--an ethic that would become central to Jesus's movement: "Whoever has two shirts must share with him who has none, and whoever has food must do the same."12" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 3a31cbe | The Kingdom of God has come upon you.'"30 The Kingdom became present whenever somebody had the compassion to admit a needy stranger to his home, when that stranger received food from another and then offered something in return. Peasants, Crossan explains, had two overriding anxieties: "Shall I eat today?" and "Shall I become ill and fall into debt?" In Jesus's system, if one person had food then everybody could eat, and there would always .. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 4e102a2 | All the great spiritual traditions have insisted that what holds us back from enlightenment is selfishness and egotism; they have also said that a practical concern for everybody (not simply those who belong to your own class or those you find congenial) was the test of true spirituality. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 970be3c | The Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel had lived only for God during his childhood in Hungary; his life had been shaped by the disciplines of the Talmud, and he had hoped one day to be initiated into the mysteries of Kabbalah. As a boy, he was taken to Auschwitz and later to Buchenwald. During his first night in the death camp, watching the black smoke coiling to the sky from the crematorium where the bodies of his mother and sister were to be .. | Karen Armstrong |