"The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell."

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Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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“Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.”
“When I was in Coshocton as a kid, I was like, "God, I need more than this out of life." But now that I'm in the city, I'm like, "God, I'd love to just be able to run around naked and shoot a gun in my backyard again."”
“In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.”
“What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.”

Source : "Interview with Andrew Forrest, Businessman and Philanthropist". "Lateline" with Emma Alberici, www.abc.net.au. October 23, 2013.
“At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.”
“I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)”
“The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.”

Source : Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc
“First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.”

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