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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

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• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

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• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

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• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

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• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

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• As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

  

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