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“The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.”

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J. Arthur Thomson

J. Arthur Thomson was a British author born in 1861 and died on February 12, 1933. His works spanned across novels, poetry, and drama, known for his unique literary style and profound emotional expression. more

“It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.”

Hands Government Would Be Action Courses Millions Balance Cost Debt Holes Odd Pounds Massive Assets Payment Hand In Hand Own Business Liability Entirety Assets And Liabilities

Author:Nicola Sturgeon

“A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving States Seems Happens Song Enjoy Sleep Lord Our Lives Jokes Bird Mere Worried Great Men Sunrise Our Lord Live For Others Bird Song

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.”

Knows Different Facts Belief Strict Agnostic Casual

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Subjects Organize Our Thoughts

Author:William Zinsser

“Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?”

Earth Christian Pleasure Circles Circle Of Friends Christian Friends

Author:C. S. Lewis

“When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.”

Thinking Want Needs Giving Littles Facts Too Much Compliment Embarrassed Want U Much Love

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.”

Want Pain Theology

Author:Matt Chandler

“My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.”

Writing Possibility Lenses

Author:Charles Bartlett Johnson

“I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.”

Way Past Found My Way Recent Past

Author:Charles Bartlett Johnson

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