"I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations...."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.”
“As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.”

Source : Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press
“I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.”
“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.127, Courier Corporation
“I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.”
“It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.”
“I'm as far away from technology as possible. But I like to be as present as possible.”
“I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.”

Source : "Why I Walked Away From the NBA (Video)" by Larry Sanders, www.theplayerstribune.com. February 25, 2015.

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