Free Living Quotes

• Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

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  Hans Zinsser

  War   Adventure   Science  

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• The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

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  Dan Miller

  Successful   Errors   Differences  

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

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  Lou Rawls

  Philosophy   Want   Free Living  

  503

• The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.

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  Mancur Olson

  Country   Sacrifice   Dust  

  3223

• The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

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  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus   Self   Decision  

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