"I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying."

-- R. Scott Bakker

#Fun Quotes #World Quotes #Destroying Quotes

“That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.”
“A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.”
“In Luke ... receiving the Holy Spirit is the way that those who already believe in Christ are empowered to serve Him. .... It's more important to focus on how one lives the Spirit-filled life than on a rigid formula for receiving it.... Receiving the Spirit in the Lucan sense is not a one-time event, but an ongoing way of life.”
“But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.”

Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan". "Morning Edition" with David Welna, www.wfdd.org. February 21, 2013.
“... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.”

Source : Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (1986). “Class and health”
“He who hugs too much, hugs badly!”
“Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.”
“But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.”

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