Famous quotes containing the words official, burning and/or man:
“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 21:23-25.
“And ever complex, ever taut, intense,
You hear man crying up to Any one—
“Be my reviver; be my influence,
My reinstated stimulus, my loyal....””
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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