"In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism."

-- Edith Hamilton

#Religion Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Temper Quotes

“All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.”
“The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change”
“When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.”
“Sometimes we want to have growth without challenges and to develop strength without any struggle. But growth cannot come by taking the easy way. We clearly understand that an athlete who resists rigorous training will never become a world-class athlete. We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.”
“I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.”
“Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories”
“[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.”
“With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.”

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