"As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college.""

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G. H. Hardy

#Clever Quotes #School Quotes #Boys Quotes

“God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.”

Source : Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.117, WaterBrook
“For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.”
“The way to build a strong future is by both protecting the environment and creating good jobs.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.”
“It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.”

Source : Keri Arthur (2006). “Full Moon Rising: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.156, Bantam
“In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.”
“Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.”
“Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz, Katherine Ketcham (2009). “The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning”, p.31, Bantam

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