"Compromise is the oil that makes governments go."

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Source : Remarks during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

Gerald R. Ford

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“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn”
“I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.”
“Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.”
“...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

Source : FaceBook post by Terri Blackstock from Oct 18, 2013
“Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?”
“I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this 'more than I can handle.' Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.”
“Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1782). “An History of the Corruption of Christianity”, p.462
“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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