“As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.”
John Donne
“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence”
Charles Darwin
“And enjoin prayer on your followers, and steadily adhere to it; We do not ask you for subsistence; We do give you subsistence, and the (good) end is for guarding (against evil). (Ta Ha 20.132)”
quran
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Samuel Johnson
“But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me.”
“We were poor, almost totally dependent on the federal government for subsistence. And that's not good for a people to have to depend on someone else. It tears at your spirit. And this is what Indian tribes have gone through throughout the history of this country. Gaming is helping us out of that mentality and now we're helping ourselves and that's exciting.”
Chief Joyce Dugan
“Surely your Lord makes plentiful the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and He straitens (them); surely He is ever Aware of, Seeing, His servants.”
