"I suspect victims; they win in the long run."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Running Quotes #Winning Quotes #Long Quotes

“The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.”
“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, â€˜If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read â€¦â€™ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out â€˜what happens nextâ€™ â€¦ the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plotâ€™s been learned.”
“Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.”
“I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman. Will you let me know if you have any connections? Let's make it happen.”
“I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.”

Source : "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2004.
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
“If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.”
“Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.”

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