"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."

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Source : Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

Stewart Alsop

#Death Quotes #Time Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I canâ€™t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dogâ€™s eyes in the aptitude test â€“ a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I canâ€™t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.”
“Are we savages or what?”
“We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.”
“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”
“In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justiceâ€¦, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.”
“For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.”
“I don't limit myself.”
“The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study geology and astronomy, merely to find out about the earth's formation and the structure of the universe; but it is a book revealing truth, designed to bring us into living union with God.”

Source : George Frederick Pentecost (1885). “"In the Volume of the Book ": Or, the Profit and Pleasure of Bible Study ... with an Introduction by Revs. Joseph Cook and J.H. Vincent”

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