"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."

-- Horace

#Inspirational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Success Quotes

“So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.”
“Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'”
“I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.”
“Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)”
“I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?”

Source : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
“To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the greatest of God's gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution of the problem of evil.”
“It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.”
“I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.”

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