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“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.”

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Author:Will Durant

“Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.”

Matter Moments Causes Deny Tales Confusion Certainty Witness Grants Falsehood Accused Cunning Malice False Witness

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.”

Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.”

Heart Book Moments Lasts Levels Capable Illusion Mad Complexes Metaphor Wave Patterns Tales Idiot Nonsense Mathematician Absurdity Particles Reflecting Mock Never Ending Grotesque Turtles

Author:Martin Gardner

“I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.”

Way Moments Kids Fun Stuff Fantasy Imagine Exciting Tales Fairy Dull Fairy Tale Embellishment

Author:Gail Carson Levine