"I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all."

-- Iain Pears

#Achieve Quotes

“[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.”

Source : Nehemiah Grew (1965). “The Anatomy of Plants: With An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures Read Before the Royal Society”
“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free”
“Christ in us must take dominion over the earth.... The next move of God cannot occur until Christ in us takes dominion.”

Source : Earl Paulk (1985). “Held in the heavens until--”
“Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.”
“What is happening to human resources in Punjab. 7 out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.”
“After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we had actually done it. We were standing at the highest point in all of Africa, looking down at the clouds below us, with the sun directly in front of us, its rays welcoming us to the beginning of a new day. It didn't seem like this was something that humans were meant to experience, yet here we were”
“Your garden will reveal yourself.”
“The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved...”

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