"The law's the law, but people are people."

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Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

M. L. Stedman

#Law Quotes #People Quotes

“I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.”
“Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the power of drawing and the power of travel. They both make the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa. They show what we all have in common and what we may have missed thanks to preconceptions that may have marred our vision.”
“President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office”
“I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.”
“Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.”
“Maybe I just have a different line than other people in terms of where my personal emotional space becomes public and private. There's almost nothing I wouldn't tell somebody about my quote - unquote "personal life" if they asked in any conversation. There's nothing I've done or said that's that great. I don't see anything I've done to be that different than any other normal person.”
“Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.”
“In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.”

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