"Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot."

-- Julian Simon

#Our World Quotes #Effort Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“There is no social life outside of Christendom.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.
“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”
“And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others”
“Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.”
“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”
“Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.”

Source : John Bowlby (1946). “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].”
“Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.”
“I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.”

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