"Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah"

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Source : Francine Rivers (2002). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.337, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Francine Rivers

#Blessing Quotes #Calamity Quotes

“My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.”
“Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.”
“What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.”
“As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.”

Source : "Raul Castro Says Cuba Open to Normalized Relations With U.S". www.foxnews.com. August 18, 2006.
“If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Don't kill yourself, have sex instead!”
“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source : Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books
“Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.”

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