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“There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.”

People Made Mistake Careers Modern Lawyer Modern Life Funny People Funny Lawyer

Author:Robert J. White

“It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.”

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.”

Sin Mistake Modern Judging Confused Sinner Judged Inquisition Same Mistakes

Author:Peter Kreeft

“This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make the mistake of constructing epistemological systems to explain how we know reality without first acknowledging the fact that we do know reality. After they begin within the mind and find they can't construct a bridge to reality, they then declare that we can't know reality. It is like drawing a faulty road map before looking at the roads, then declaring that we can't know how to get from Chicago to New York!”

Knows Mind Firsts Important Philosophy Facts Reality Mistake Know How Modern New York Deny Drawing Bridges Distinction Maps Chicago Constructs Declaring Road Maps Modern Philosophy

Author:Josh McDowell

“Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science's modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes.”

Trying Use Fall Mistake Study Modern Pure Instruments Reasoning Telescopes Transcendental Microscopes Same Mistakes

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.”

Mistake Modern Thyself

Book:The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist

Source: The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist

“It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.”

People Humans May Stories Felt Human Beings Mistake Quality Modern Objects Breathing Short Story Essays Modern Life Sandman Inanimate Objects One Mistake

Author:DJ Spooky