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“The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man.”

Ifs Men Life May Real Hard Character Life Is Loses Religious Business Break Our Lives Trouble Blessing Tests Encouragement Blow Permit Rebel Peril Greatest Blessings Demolish

Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.”

Chance Fate Theory Irresponsible Puppets Demolish

Author:W. H. Auden

“Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.”

Sometimes Stories Wall Holes Glimpse Frontiers Demolish

Author:Elif Safak

“The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.”

Theory Constructs Demolish

Book:Novum Organon Renovatum

Source: Novum Organon Renovatum

“The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.”

Needs Made Simple Powerful Clothes Argument Raises Financial Fragile Bankers Persuasive Lobbyists Financial System Demolish New Clothes

Author:Diane Coyle

“There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that these atheists nurse against religion and against God? Let's face it, there is only one force that hates God's creation more than anything else - and that is Satan. Satan knows that God exists but wants no part of Him. It is Satan's ultimate goal to demolish all Christian elements in society and to damage the human image that was made in God's image. Could Satan be the real instigator of this aggressive form of atheism?”

“What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.”

Polish Demolish

Author:India.Arie

“Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.”

Feels Sides Flip Demolish

Author:Taylor Swift

“You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.”

Self Reason Belief Core Negativity Belief In Self Demolish

Author:Steve Backley

“Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.”

“Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.”

Ifs Ideas Advantage Method Collaboration New Ideas Hostile Candid Demolish Cooperative Learning

Author:Francis Crick

“By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.”

“Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.”

People Management Objectives Managers Features Constructs Surroundings Constraints Variables Insert Demolish Orderliness

Author:Karl E. Weick

“The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.”

Source: Memories of My Life