"I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of Christians who had faced similar pains and temptations to surrender and thought how I might adapt their experiences. Many who had not so prepared themselves were crushed by suffering, or deluded into saying what they should not."

-- Richard Wurmbrand

#Christian Quotes #Pain Quotes #War Quotes

“There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.”

Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.25
“I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.”
“One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.”
“People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.”
“If there's something else already out there in the universe, it would almost certainly have puts limits on our growth of intelligence. And the reason it would have put limits on us is because it doesn't want us to grow so intelligent that we would one day maybe take away their superpowered intelligence. Whatever advanced intelligence evolves, it always puts a roadblock in the way of other intelligences evolving. And the reason this happens is so nobody can take away one's power, no matter how far up the ladder they've gone.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.”

Source : Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”
“All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan
“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”

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