"one would suffer a great deal to be happy."

-- Mary Wortley Montagu

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“Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benedictions on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety.”

Source : Frederic Dan Huntington (1862). “Sermons for the People”, p.99
“We have too large a disparity in the world; we need more inclusivenessâ€¦ If we continue to have uninclusive growth and we continue with the unemployment situation, particularly youth unemployment, our global society is not sustainable.”

Source : "Inequality Threatens 'Global Society': WEF Founder" by Katy Barnato, www.cnbc.com. January 21, 2013.
“When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.”
“I try to ï¬nd clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.”
“Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.”
“Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.”
“When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.”
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

Source : Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

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