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Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.”

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.”

Mistake Enemy Cases Equal Intolerance Rhetoric Fundamentalism Creationism Masquerade

Book:Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.”

Natural Mistake Records Written Episodes Fossils Natural Science Juicy Natural History Informative Emmanuel

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.”

Thinking Needs Philosophy Seems Values Mistake Argument Appeals Goods Spares Judgmental Non Judgmental

Author:Michael Sandel

“Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.”

Children Made Mother Mistake Trouble Land I Realized Dry Womb Made A Mistake Dry Land

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.”

Thinking Two Sex Mistake Connections Errors

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.”

Knows God Mistake Five Senses God Knows Knowing God Five Senses

Author:Coventry Patmore

“Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.”

Giving Believe Art Enough Reality Mistake Objects Shapes Art Is Reality Of Life Artifice

Book:The rehearsal: a play in three acts

Source: The rehearsal: a play in three acts

“We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.”

Ifs Mistake Growing Failing Blessing Worthy Neighbor Awful Settling Expanding Jerusalem Settlement Predecessors

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.”

People Heart Father Lines Mistake Audience Direct Logic Bad Mistake

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.”

Ifs Years Reason Feelings Bigs Age Winning Dark Mistake Computer Twenties Dark Ages Big Mistake Ibm Personal Feelings

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.”

Ifs Easy Mistake Lord Sake Bombs Spares Pardon Gracious

Book:Tennis Whites and Teacakes

Source: Tennis Whites and Teacakes

“Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.”

Believe May Matter Political Language Force I Believe Mistake Accepting Particular Speech Judgment Favors Doctrine Censorship Sexist Labeling Sociological Desirability

Author:Neil Postman

“Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.”

Kind Running Sports Mistake Responsibility Seeing Team Economic Consequence Negative Enterprise Academic Taking Responsibility Setback Sports Team Negative Consequences

Author:Thomas Sowell

“An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.”

“A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.”

Made Mistake Vision Benefits Valuable Missions Productive Mission And Vision

Author:Pete Seeger

“Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.”

Mistake Riches Economist Opulence

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”

“People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.”

People Heart Stills Shows Able Mistake Conditions Determine Seeking Reactions Making Mistakes Corrections Rebuke God Is Able

Book:Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Source: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

“Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.”

Way Important Whole Certain Reading Enjoy Mistake Missing Portions Phases Great Mistakes

Book:CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]

Source: CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]

“All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.”

Knows Trying Made Done Bigs Mistake Screws Keep Trying Screw Ups

Author:J. J. Abrams

“With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.”

Mistake Yesterday Reverse

Author:Alexander Pope

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