"A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Philosophical Quotes #Government Quotes #Want Something Quotes

“We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.”
“Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.”
“What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.”
“Today the discredit of words is very great.”
“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”

Source : Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”
“I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.”
“People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement”

Source : Morning Star, 1976.

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