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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#beer #chewed #drink #early #first

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#could #i #just #singles #them

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#being #conceded #creatures #earth #earthly

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous. ↗

— George Saunders

#birds #evolution #nature #beauty

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#cannot #cast #conscience #down #evil

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. ↗

— Ernest Rutherford

#comforts #created #god #lender #owner

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#almost #always #consisting #cost #false

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#gain #guided #happiness #ignorance #imperfect

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#creation #earth #his #jehovah #right

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#attending #blessings #certain #continue #diligently