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“After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.”

“The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.”

Saws Century Source Weakness Performances Constant Complaints Sober Impossibility Englishmen Sailor Despised Spaniards Infantryman

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.”

War Causes Religious Atheism Century Worship Regard Constant Various Positive Atheism Factors Wicked Hateful Pious Jerusalem Agitation Infidel Unifying Religious Wars

Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

“Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.”

Firsts Facts Process Change Century Masters Skills Twenties Constant Critical Rapids Facts Of Life Leadership Skills Process Of Change Rapid Change

Book:Thinking In The Future Tense

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.”

Source: THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

“Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.”

Writing War Reading Voice Struggle Rich Century Masters Tradition Constant Strikes Nine Poetry Is Exile Parallels Humane Enlightening Incomparable Constant Struggle

Author:Sam Hamill

“Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.”

Mind Use Next Bits Impossible Century Constant Handle Manage Drunk Thinker Monkeys Jumping Skillful Scorpions

Book:TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN

Source: TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN