"My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then."

-- Wilbur Smith

#Father Quotes #Air Quotes #Yards Quotes

“Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.”

Source : Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.111, Harper Collins
“When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.”
“You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.”
“Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.”

Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.”
“Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.”
“I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.”
“Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.”

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