"Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none."

-- John William Draper

#Change Quotes #Law Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.”
“On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.”

Source : Charles Bradlaugh (2016). “Why do Men Starve? Who Was Jesus Christ? Poverty: Its Effects on the Political Condition of the People and other Essays”, p.16, Library of Alexandria
“When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.”
“Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.”
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
“Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?”

Source : "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
“Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.59

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