"William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish."

-- J. I. Packer

#Blessed Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.”
“My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.”
“I know we'll lead the league in defense.”

Source : Rex Ryan's first press conference as coach of the Buffalo Bills, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.
“The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.”
“We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.”
“Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.”
“After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals canâ€™t talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices.”
“Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.”

Source : Gary Becker, Guity Becker, Guity Nashat (1998). “The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life”, McGraw Hill Professional

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