"Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence."

-- Stonewall Jackson

#Providence Quotes #Duty Quotes

“If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?”
“In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.”
“Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.64, Verso
“Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.”
“Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.”
“While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.”
“Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.”

Source : Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.125, Hachette UK
“Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.”

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