Gracie Allen
Actress, Comedian
"They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it."
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Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"I love drama. I love to play an arc."
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"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."
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"We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God."
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"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well."
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"Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it."
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"Now I know how Joan of Arc felt."
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"Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life."
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