"Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age"

-- John Walter Bratton

#Birthday Quotes #Wind Quotes #Age Quotes

“Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.”
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.”

Source : Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts; Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: I. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland. By the Late Sir William Petty. To which is Prefixed His Last Will”, p.87
“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
“The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today, living under brutal dictatorships governed by nationalistic fervor. As for the Kurdish question: nobody from the Arab world is serious about fighting ISIS. It's only the Kurdish people who are standing firm against ISIS. And I think Europe, the United States, and most other democratic countries of the world are beginning to look at the Kurds in another way. The Kurds are really becoming their partners in the region.”
“The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.”
“We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.”

Source : J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.8, Discovery House

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