"And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Bible Quotes #God Quotes #Religious Quotes

“They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.186
“It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.”
“I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection”

Source : "Edinburgh festival rapid review: Jon Richardson" by Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.
“A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.”
“A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.”
“Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.”
“Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.”
“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Source : "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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