"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything."

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Source : Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”

Floyd Dell

#Being Free Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I believe God gives us special grace to help us in moments of persecution. But I also believe he often uses his own words deposited in our hearts. We "must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.”
“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.”
“Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.”
“I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.”
“There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it”
“Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.”
“I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put out my hand and played whatever club he put in it. I'd say, "How hard do I hit it?" He'd tell me and I'd swing. The guys who come down here once a year and try to get smart with Mr. Jones' course are the dumb ones.”

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