"Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this."

-- Wendell Berry

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #People Quotes

“The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.”
“The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.”
“I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.”

Source : "Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual". Book by Joseph Sambrook, Vol. 1, 153, 2001.
“I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.”
“Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.”

Source : Jill Briscoe (2009). “Spiritual Arts: Mastering the Disciplines for a Rich Spiritual Life”, p.32, Zondervan
“When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.”
“I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.”
“Statistically speaking, when a woman says I'm not going to have sex with you, she'll often have sex with you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 16, 2011

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