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“Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.”

Book:That Hideous Strength

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That Hideous Strength

C.S. Lewis' final novel in the space trilogy, it follows the adventures of a group of scholars and their struggle against a malevolent force that seeks to dominate the world. more

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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was a British novelist, academic, and Christian theologian. He is renowned for his fictional works, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of fantasy novels that have become a beloved classic of children's literature. Lewis also penned adult fiction, including the science fiction trilogy Out of the Silent Planet and the space trilogy. His non-fiction works, such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, have had a significant impact on Christian thought and spirituality. more

Book:Dris Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: Or, Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at His Table,&c: Which in His Life Time Hee Held with Divers Learned Men (such as Were Philip Melancthon, Casparus Cruciger, Justus Jonas, Paulus Eberus, Vitus Dietericus, Joannes Bugenhagen Joannes Forsterus, and Others) Conteining Questions and Answers Touching Religion, and Other Main Points of Doctrine, as Also Many Notable Histories, and All Sorts of Learning, Comforts, Advises, Prophesies, Admonitions, Directions and Instructions. Collected First Together by Dr Antonius Lauterbach, and Afterward Disposed Into Certain Common Places by John Aurifaber Dr in Divinitie. Translated Out of the High Germane Into the English Tongue by Capt. Henrie Bell. ...

Source: Dris Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: Or, Dr Martin Luther's Divine Discourses at His Table,&c: Which in His Life Time Hee Held with Divers Learned Men (such as Were Philip Melancthon, Casparus Cruciger, Justus Jonas, Paulus Eberus, Vitus Dietericus, Joannes Bugenhagen Joannes Forsterus, and Others) Conteining Questions and Answers Touching Religion, and Other Main Points of Doctrine, as Also Many Notable Histories, and All Sorts of Learning, Comforts, Advises, Prophesies, Admonitions, Directions and Instructions. Collected First Together by Dr Antonius Lauterbach, and Afterward Disposed Into Certain Common Places by John Aurifaber Dr in Divinitie. Translated Out of the High Germane Into the English Tongue by Capt. Henrie Bell. ...

“The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.”

Religious Praying Conscience Mere Mentor Pope Crew Assembly Frogs

Book:Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

“Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.”

Important Country Rich Needed Red Gold Army Coffee Finance Desert Iron Reserves Items

Author:John Flanagan

“Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.”

Fun Forget Exercise Dancing Having Fun Fitness Weight Loss Forget The Past

Author:Paula Abdul

“Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.”

Ends Dream America Space Policy Broken Moon Prove Apollo Visionaries Predecessors Restoring Dead Ends Broken Dreams Spacecraft