"The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us."

-- Thomas Adams

#Inspirational Quotes #Wise Quotes #Stars Quotes

“In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them.”
“It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”
“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”
“No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.”
“The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?”
“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”

Source : John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press
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“The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.”

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