"Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless."

-- Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

#Mistake Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.”
“They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.”
“An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.”
“People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.”
“Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.”
“Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: 'Look, and look again unto Jesus.' Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the gospel? Can the world die for you? Can the world reconcile you to the Father? Can the world advance you to the kingdom of heaven? As Christ is all in all, so let him be the full and complete subject of our desire, and hope, and faith, and love, and joy; let him be in your thoughts the first in the morning, and the last at night.”

Source : Isaac Ambrose (1832). “Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel, Or, the Soul's Eyeing of Jesus, as Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation, from First to Last”, p.715
“I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.”
“The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.”

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