"Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales reps to different parts of the Australian outback. A while later, the company received a telegram from each. The first said, 'No business here - the natives don't wear shoes.' The second said, 'Great opportunity here - the natives don't wear shoes.'"

-- John Capozzi

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“I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.”
“They are more properly â€˜The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.â€™ No rulers are properly Godâ€™s ministers, but such as are â€˜just, ruling in the fear of God.â€™ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace â€¦ they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.”
“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”
“[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.”
“I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.”
“The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.”

Source : David McCullough (2007). “Brave Companions”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.”
“What about a compromise? Iâ€™ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, Iâ€™ll apologize.”

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