"Your tragedy is Godâ€™s opportunity to show Himself faithful."

-- Jim George

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“I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here”
“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323
“You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.”
“All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.”
“It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.”

Source : Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon,
“You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”

Source : "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.
“Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find”

Source : John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.11, Taylor & Francis
“Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.”

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