"I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Grateful Quotes #Sober Quotes #Drink Quotes

“Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.”
“Taste everything, eat nothing.”

Source : Bethenny Frankel (2009). “Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.”
“When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors.”
“Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.”

Source : James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”
“Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves”
“We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.”
“Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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