"Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Years Quotes #Two Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.”

Source : Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Pause for Power: A 365-Day Journey through the Scriptures”, p.278, David C Cook
“They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.”

Source : Song: Life, Love and Laughter, Album: Pass It Around, 2008
“He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool!”
“The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.”
“I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.”
“Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forcesÂ which our economy has not yet mastered.”
“Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.”
“If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.”

Source : I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.227, PublicAffairs

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