"For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life."

-- Jake Simmons, Jr.

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Waste Quotes

“Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.”
“What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.”
“Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.”

Source : "An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford". Book by John W. Wallace, 1884.
“Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.”

Source : "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.
“This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.”
“All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.”
“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”
“To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail.”

Source : John Goddard (1979). “Kayaks down the Nile”

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