"Its better to wear out than to rust out."

-- Richard Cumberland

#Birthday Quotes #Rust Quotes #Labor Quotes

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”
“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House
“I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.”
“Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.”

Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute
“God's solution for "I can't live that way anymore" is basically, "Good! Don't live that way anymore. Set firm limits against evil behavior that are designed to promote change and redemption. Get the love and support you need from other places to take the kind of stance that I do to help redeem relationship. Suffer long, but suffer in the right way." And when done God's way, chances are much better for redemption.”
“Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.”

Source : John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press
“I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.”

Source : Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria
“When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.”

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