Procurement Inspirational Quotes

4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty & singularity of opinion... shake off all the fears & servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. You will naturally examine first, the religion of your own country. Read the Bible, then as you would read Livy or Tacitus. The facts which are within the ordinary course of nature, you will believe on the authority of the writer, as you do those of the same kind in Livy and Tacitus. The testimony of the writer weighs in their favor, in one scale, and their not being against the laws of nature, does not weigh against them. But those facts in the Bible which contradict the laws of nature, must be examined with more care, and under a variety of faces. Here you must recur to the pretensions of the writer to inspiration from God. Examine upon what evidence his pretensions are founded, and whether that evidence is so strong, as that its falsehood would be more improbable than a change in the laws of nature, in the case he relates. For example in the book of Joshua we are told the sun stood still several hours. Were we to read that fact in Livy or Tacitus we should class it with their showers of blood, speaking of statues, beasts, &c. But it is said that the writer of that book was inspired. Examine therefore candidly what evidence there is of his having been inspired. The pretension is entitled to your inquiry, because millions believe it. On the other hand you are astronomer enough to know how contrary it is to the law of nature that a body revolving on its axis as the earth does, should have stopped, should not by that sudden stoppage have prostrated animals, trees, buildings, and should after a certain time have resumed its revolution, & that without a second general prostration. Is this arrest of the earth's motion, or the evidence which affirms it, most within the law of probabilities? You will next read the New Testament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus. Keep in your eye the opposite pretensions: 1, of those who say he was begotten by God, born of a virgin, suspended & reversed the laws of nature at will, & ascended bodily into heaven; and 2, of those who say he was a man of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition, by being gibbeted, according to the Roman law, which punished the first commission of that offence by whipping, & the second by exile, or death in fureâ. ...Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you... In fine, I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it... I forgot to observe, when speaking of the New Testament, that you should read all the histories of Christ, as well of those whom a council of ecclesiastics have decided for us, to be Pseudo-evangelists, as those they named Evangelists. Because these Pseudo-evangelists pretended to inspiration, as much as the others, and you are to judge their pretensions by your own reason, and not by the reason of those ecclesiastics. Most of these are lost... [Letter to his nephew, Peter Carr, advising him in matters of religion, 1787]

What is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that of my family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of human beings—by the terror of the gallows; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prison walls; by the fear inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization, torn from their homes and besotted by discipline, to protect our pleasures with loaded revolvers against the possible interference of the famishing? Is it to purchase every fragment of bread that I put in my mouth and the mouths of my children by the numberless privations that are necessary to procure my abundance? Or is it to be certain that my piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that every one else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat?

Ah ! sans doute, ce sentiment est pénible, quand l’objet qui l’inspire ne le partage point ; mais où trouver le bonheur, si un amour réciproque ne le procure pas ?

I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' the Goodness of a Man's Heart did not incline him to relieve the Distresses of his Fellow-Creatures, methinks the Desire of Honour should move him to it. What inspires a Man to build fine Houses, to purchase fine Furniture, Pictures, Clothes, and other things at a great Expence, but an Ambition to be respected more than other People? Now would not one great Act of Charity, one Instance of redeeming a poor Family from all the Miseries of Poverty, restoring an unfortunate Tradesman by a Sum of Money to the means of procuring a Livelihood by his Industry, discharging an undone Debtor from his Debts or a Goal, or any such Example of Goodness, create a Man more Honour and Respect than he could acquire by the finest House, Furniture, Pictures or Clothes that were ever beheld? For not only the Object himself who was thus relieved, but all who heard the Name of such a Person must, I imagine, reverence him infinitely more than the Possessor of all those other things: which when we so admire, we rather praise the Builder, the Workman, the Painter, the Laceman, the Taylor, and the rest, by whose Ingenuity they are produced, than the Person who by his Money makes them his own.

So that I do not see how those who make revelation alone the sole object of faith can say, That it is a matter of faith, and not of reason, to believe that such or such a proposition, to be found in such or such a book, is of divine inspiration; unless it be revealed that that proposition, or all in that book, was communicated by divine inspiration. Without such a revelation, the believing, or not believing, that proposition, or book, to be of divine authority, can never be matter of faith, but matter of reason; and such as I must come to an assent to only by the use of my reason, which can never require or enable me to believe that which is contrary to itself: it being impossible for reason ever to procure any assent to that which to itself appears unreasonable.

The iron miners who belonged to the Italian Club in the town of Virginia, Minnesota, took pains to procure more suitable grapes, dispatching a grocer named Cesare Mondavi to the San Joaquin Valley late each summer to acquire their supply. Inspired to get into the grape business himself, Mondavi soon moved his family to California, where his precocious son Robert would make his own name in the winemaking world.

If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god’s favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity.

Cryptoassets adhere to a twenty-first century model of governance unique from all other asset classes and largely inspired by the open source software movement. The procurers of the asset and associated use cases are three pronged. First, a group of talented software developers decide to create the blockchain protocol or distributed application that utilizes a native asset. These developers adhere to an open contributor model, which means that over time any new developer can earn his or her way onto the development team through merit.

All the things your body has already collected, processed and stored inside you, whether the fat or anything, your body has already stored inside you and that is the best food for your body. It means: if you want to live healthy and long, allow the body to eat the food that is procured and stored inside. Stop dumping too much food from outside. Allow the body to eat itself.

He resolv’d not to part from her without the Gratifications of those Desires she had inspir’d; and presuming on the Liberties which her suppos’d Function allow’d off,told her she must either go with him to some convenient House of his procuring, or permit him to wait on her to her own Lodgings. – Never had she been in such a Dilemma: Three or four Times did she open her Mouth to confess her real Quality; but the influence of her ill Stars prevented it, by putting an Excuse into her Head, which did the Business as well, and at the same Time did not take from her the Power of seeing and entertaining him a second Time with the same Freedom she had done this. – She told him, she was under Obligations to a Man who maintain’d her, and whom she durst not disappoint, having promis’d to meet him that Night at a House hard by. – This Story so like what those Ladies sometimes tell, was not at all suspected by Beauplaisir; and assuring her he wou’d be far from doing her a Prejudice, desir’d that in return for the Pain he shou’d suffer in being depriv’d of her Company that Night, that she wou’d order her Affairs, so as not to render him unhappy the next. She gave a solemn Promise to be in the same Box on the Morrow Evening; and they took Leave of each other; he to the Tavern to drown the Remembrance of his Disappointment; she in a Hackney-Chair hurry’d home to indulge Contemplation on the Frolick she had taken, designing nothing less on her first Reflections, than to keep the Promise she had made him, and hugging herself with Joy, that she had the good Luck to come off undiscover’d. But these Cogitations were but of a short Continuance, they

Popery inspires the same feeling in regard to the Romish queen of heaven, and leads its devotees to view the sin of Eve in much the same light as that in which Paganism regarded it. In the Canon of the Mass, the most solemn service in the Romish Missal, the following expression occurs, where the sin of our first parent is apostrophised: "O beata culpa, quae talem meruisti redemptorem." "Oh blessed fault, which didst procure such a Redeemer!" The idea contained in these words is purely Pagan. They just amount to this: "Thanks be to Eve, to whose sin we are indebted for the glorious Saviour.

This is an important re-reading of this Joshua passage because few preachers highlight the spies as johns, and thus procurers of sex from women. Granted, the two spies were on a mission of espionage, but they also stopped at a brothel, a stop they were never instructed to make.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and it paramount in some reverence whether he opts to be or not.I ken of no more emboldening fact than the incontrovertible competency of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. After all destiny is not a matter of chance, but of cull. Not something to optate for, but to procure.

Or quel est le résultat de cette conduite, si rapidement résumée ? Le voici, indubitablement. L’homme, simple et confiant tout d’abord, n’est pas éternellement dupe. Les sophismes, dont il fut le crédule approbateur, les erreurs dont ensuite il fut la facile victime, lui font de l’expérience, et lui inspirent, avec la réflexion, une défiance salutaire. Ainsi, ce sont ceux-là mêmes, qui le trompèrent, qui lui apprennent à ne plus se tromper. Donc, l’homme qui a compris qu’il avait été abusé de lui, pour le conduire dans une voie qui n’était pas celle de l’humanité, mais celle seulement de quelques individus ou de quelques groupes, retire sa confiance et son estime à ceux qui l’ont guidé, et prend le ferme propos de se guider lui-même ou de se faire guider par d’autres. Mais, comme il n’arrive à cette clairvoyance et à cette résolution qu’au moment où ceux qui l’ont abusé sont devenus ses maîtres, il n’a de recours que dans l’intrigue, la révolte, la révolution ; et, malgré l’éducation qui lui fit une fausse nature, la première nature réclame à la fin si impérieusement, qu’il se résigne à user de violence ou de ruse pour récupérer sa normalité. Et ainsi, combattant son vainqueur avec ses propres armes, il forme de nouveaux groupes occultes, à l’image des premiers, mais qui ne valent pas davantage pour le but auquel il tend, et n’atteindra vraisemblablement jamais. Là est la cause, le secret et le mécanisme de la maladive instabilité ethnique, économique et politique de l’Occident. Le résultat obtenu par les sociétés secrètes orientales est tout contraire. Eclairé constamment, sans avoir été contraint à une obligation réciproque quelconque, sur sa voie et l’intérêt général et continu qu’il a à s’y conformer, l’homme de race jaune, par l’action de la société secrète, qui est la quintessence ethnique de cette race, atteint à la fois la connaissance de son avantage et le pouvoir de se le procurer. Non pas par gratitude, mais par la conviction qu’il se sert lui-même, il est porté à appeler à côté de lui les groupes grâce auxquels il occupe une si solide et bénéfique situation ; et tout naturellement, il provoque et utilise, dans. la tranquillité de la paix et de la puissance, les conseils de ceux qui lui ont fait obtenir la paix et la puissance. Ce que les sociétés secrètes n’ont point cherché, elles le trouvent dès lors avec d’autant plus de certitude que précisément elles ne l’ont pas cherché : l’« influence », ou l’exercice du pouvoir sans le titre, c’est-à-dire sans les inconvénients attachés au pouvoir, l’envie, l’inquiétude et l’ambition. Et, dans cet état social, il n’y a point de mécontents, parce que chacun est suffisamment heureux suivant sa condition ; et chacun est heureux parce que tout le monde est à sa place, dans l’État comme dans l’univers.

No one ever got fired for hiring IBM,” goes the old adage, describing a behavior completely borne out of fear. An employee in a procurement department, tasked with finding the best suppliers for a company, turns down a better product at a better price simply because it is from a smaller company or lesser-known brand. Fear, real or perceived, that his job would be on the line if something went wrong was enough to make him ignore the express purpose of his job, even do something that was not in the company’s best interest.