"If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past"

-- John Hope Franklin

#Motivational Quotes #Past Quotes #Order Quotes

“He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.”
“My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.”
“You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.”

Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.226, Penguin
“To speak of â€˜limits to growthâ€™ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be â€˜persuadedâ€™ to limit growth than a human being can be â€˜persuadedâ€™ to stop breathing. Attempts to â€˜greenâ€™ capitalism, to make it â€˜ecologicalâ€™, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”
“I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition.Â He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.”
“The main thing is to race over to McDonald's to get an egg McMuffin before they shut down for the morning.”
“Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?”
“I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.”

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