"For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity."

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Source : Ezekiel Hopkins (19??). “Exposition of the Commandments”

Ezekiel Hopkins

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“I would have oriented myself in case of Donald Trump according to what former German Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der said to then - U.S. President George W. Bush when the Americans launched a war that was in violation of international law. SchrÃ¶der showed that a German chancellor can act in a clear and self-confident manner toward a U.S. president.”
“I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart.”
“Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.”
“In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.”

Source : Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Trump Entertainment Resorts declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Or as Donald Trump describes Chapter 11, "Back-to-back number ones!"”
“I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.”
“The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.”
“I have studied at the school of the world.”

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