"There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing."

-- John Shelton Reed

#Running Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Justice Quotes

“No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.”
“the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.”
“When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 8, 2017
“When stuff is coming to an end, people freak out and they act crazy.”
“I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.”
“Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.”
“The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.”

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