"There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven"

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Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

Augustine Birrell

#Book Quotes #Eden Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.”
“Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.”
“Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.”
“It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.”
“Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.”
“We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else will not make me happy. These things are my responsibility. Not the neighborâ€™s, not the governmentâ€™s, not the church or the civic club.”
“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”

Source : "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.
“Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1316, Delacorte Press

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