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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as read more
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it read more
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
