"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#Winning Quotes #People Quotes #Said Quotes

“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.”
“Kill them all, God will recognise his own.”
“The mind longs for what it has missed.”
“A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.98, Hachette UK
“Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.”
“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.”
“The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.”
“I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospelâ€¦. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

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