"Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco."

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J. B. Priestley

#Dream Quotes #Men Quotes #Destiny Quotes

“Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.”
“Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.”
“I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.”
“Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.129, Penguin
“If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?”
“God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.”
“The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.”

Source : Erle Stanley Gardner (1983). “Pay Dirt: And Other Whispering Sands Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert”, William Morrow & Company
“Confusion is not an ignoble condition”

Source : Brian Friel (2013). “Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.393, Faber & Faber

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