Medieval Christians/high Middle Ages 800-1300/investiture Controversy

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    “The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

    “The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
    —Tertullian (c. 150–230)

    “When you’re right in the market, it’s the best high you can imagine. It’s a high without any alcohol. When you’re wrong, it’s the lowest low you can imagine.”
    —Michelle Miller (b. c. 1950)

    “In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “Neither the Ages of Faith nor the Age of Doubt had touched him; he was Phaethon in Tuscany driving a cab.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.”
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