"Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”
“God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.”
“The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.”

Source : Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.107, Lulu.com
“Mankind invents things to fight about.”
“There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give preference to artists over another group. Now, could there be an impressive envisioning process where developers would be asked to collaborate with urban designers? Maybe envision a large-scale development with local shops, dense housing, maybe a few towers, maybe a few mid-rise buildings, and art workshops in the mix? That would be great. I don't see a call for those proposals. But I think that it would not be outrageous to propose that kind of vision.”
“[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”
“Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges”
“The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.”

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