#ions

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#churches #contain #god #only #religions

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#inverse #relationship #reliance #self-reliance #state

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ↗

— Buddha

#best #contentment #faithfulness #gift #greatest

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. ↗

— Buddha

#believe #create #distinction #distinctions #east

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. ↗

— Bill Budge

#art form #becomes #carry #craft #engineering

She wasn't certain of exactly what they had together; she doubted Owen knew, either; but whatever it was, she desperately wanted to hold on to it. They were only at the beginning of what they could become together; if she could help it, she would do anything that she could to keep it from ending. ↗

— Dorothy Garlock

#uncertainty-of-relationship #relationship

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#game #god #men #nations #part

Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-spiritual #relationship-with-god #spirituality #truth

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps