"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

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Source : Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10

Oliver Cromwell

#Mistake Quotes #Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.”
“Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get that down in some way. This is - this is a type of familiarity but a type of radical difference at the same time.”
“Elections have consequences.”
“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.”
“One does not have humor. It has you.”
“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”
“You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?”

Source : Chris Cleave (2010). “Incendiary: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
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