"Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government."

-- Winston Churchill

#Wine Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Oil Quotes

“What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.”
“I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.”
“The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.”
“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.”
“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK
“There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.”
“Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.”
“Go and do, don't sit and stew.”

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