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“If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.”

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George Frederick Pentecost

George Frederick Pentecost, born on September 23, 1842, and died in 1920, was a scholar whose profession and category remain unknown. Limited information is available about his life and contributions. more

“The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem.”

Ifs Ideas Self Able Self Esteem Illusion Expectations Disappointment Accomplish Checks Esteem Exceed Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.”

Facts Causes Influence Media Students Achievement Evidence Mere Currents Instruction Vehicle Nutrition Truck Groceries Student Achievement

Author:Richard A. Clarke

“Thought is born of failure.”

Born Failure

Book:The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion

Source: The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion

“The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?”

Ifs Ends Happens Literature Individual Style Personality Habit Lovers Clouds Checks Being True Streams Protest Perpetual Quotations Indulge Spontaneity Indulge In Insidious Good Literature

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women”

Women Ambiguity Men Women Often Is Ambivalence Puzzling

Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

“Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.”

World Today Social Technology Economic Debt Access Abundance Capability Technological Servitude Economic Systems Advanced Technology

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.”

Family Wife Husband Spread Peaceful Androgynous

Author:Emmett Tyrrell

“You can't underestimate the power of fear.”

Fear Underestimate

Author:Pat Nixon

“Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.”

Thinking World Should Real Reality Happens Suffering Happened Illusion Expectations Should Have Projection Whatever Happens

Author:Jacque Fresco

“When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.”

Men God Gone Broke Idols

Book:THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY

Source: THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY

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