"... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage."

-- George Washington

#Land Quotes #America Quotes #Prosperity Quotes

“I knew that this was the movie in which a lot of the cinema version of Burton-esque first started. So, I knew that there were things that were hugely important to him for it, but it didn't really feel that different than working on any other of these projects.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Weâ€™re in the business of luxury and thereâ€™s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.”
“No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.”
“Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.”

Source : David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.80
“The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to the darkness we must return, each of us individually accepting his ignorance and loneliness, his sin and weakness, and, most difficult of all, consenting to wait in the dark and even to love the waiting”

Source : Helen M. Luke (1992). “Kaleidoscope: The Way of Woman and Other Essays”, Morning Light Press
“Manchester's got everything except a beach.”

Source : "Manchester's missing tech scene? Here comes the resurrection ..." by Rob Coupland, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.
“Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.”
“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”

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