“Willful waste makes woeful want.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
“For this reason, I have stressed his evangelical Baptism as the passkey that unlocks many mysteries of his life.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
“It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.”
― The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
― The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
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