"Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy."

-- Alistair Cooke

#Christmas Quotes #Christian Quotes #Country Quotes

“The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.”

Source : Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.43, Charles F. Haanel
“I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.”
“There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.”
“Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master.”

Source : "Fictional character: Armand Tesla". "The Return of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1943.
“You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.”
“I donâ€™t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isnâ€™t good, or isnâ€™t useful for natural creative instincts”
“In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gender nonconforming, you're a lesbian, you're not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.”
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”

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