"Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Retreat Quotes #Advantage Quotes #Wit Quotes

“I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.”
“The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.”
“Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.72, The Floating Press
“The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.”
“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.”
“When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.”
“It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !”
“Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.”

Source : Calvin Miller (1979). “The Finale”, Intervarsity Pr

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