"Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure."

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Source : Edward Conze (1979). “Politics, people and places”

Edward Conze

#Plant Quotes #Function Quotes

“An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.”
“Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.”
“It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.”
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.”
“But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1855). “Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith”, p.18
“If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.”
“Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament". genius.com. January 1, 2002.
“When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.”

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