"Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others."

-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#Men Quotes #Unusual Quotes #Divine Quotes

“Hope for the best and work for it.”

Source : "Democrat – MA Gov. Deval Patrick". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 13, 2011.
“State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ... Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation.”
“Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.
“Love is the sun, desire - only flash.”

Source : "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.
“Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.”

Source : "Where I Learned To Read" by Salvatore Scibona, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2011.
“When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.”
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”

Source : Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197
“Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.”

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