"The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul."

-- Alan Hirsch

#Christian Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?”
“The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'”

Source : Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”
“People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.”
“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”
“Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.”

Source : "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.
“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future”
“We like to say medicare is uniquely Canadian, but Americans have Medicare too. Even the name. I can't actually determine where the name started, except that it appeared in the two countries at about the same time. Had the Vietnam War not occurred, the Americans would have had a Medicare system much like ours.”
“Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!”

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