"Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?"

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Source : 1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.41-4.

Thomas Gray

#Voice Quotes #Dust Quotes #Honor Quotes

“In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.”
“Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.”
“I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.”

Source : Song: Wishful Thinking, Album: Tuesday's Child, 1999
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”

Source : "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?". Book by Michael Guillen, Chapter 7: "Hope Springs Eternal," p. 90, 2004.
“I think theres a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.”
“I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.”
“Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.”
“The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers

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