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mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
democracy speech committees
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock
democracy public-opinion input
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]. Alan Blinder
democracy
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Al Smith
democracy knows ifs
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough
democracy humans corporate
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. David Korten
democracy way communism
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
democracy unions leon
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! C. Wright Mills
democracy boards cynic
Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. Carl Icahn
democracy soil wealth
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. Ai Weiwei
degrees measuring productivity
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Alan Watts
degrees biology
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology. Elizabeth Moon
degrees hysterical easy
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. Bill Nighy
degrees punjabis marble
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian Chetan Bhagat
degrees bliss form
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Desiderius Erasmus
degrees done sitcom
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. David Alan Grier
degrees trust-in-god knows
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him. Brennan Manning
degrees geek older-sister
My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks! Diane Neal
degrees heading warmer
We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday. Jennifer Schack