"One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel."

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Isak Dinesen

#Doe Quotes #Planes Quotes #Parcel Quotes

“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”
“The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.”
“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”

Source : "Idol Talk", www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2003.
“Let our hearts admit, â€œI am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.”
“After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.”
“This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.”
“You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.”
“I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way”

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