"The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state."

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Source : Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Donald Phillip Verene

#Jobs Quotes #Book Quotes #Advice Quotes

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”
“I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.”
“Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.”

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“The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.”
“I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.”
“Sometimes Iâ€™ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.”
“Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.”
“Impossible is just an opinion, nothing else!”

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