#nations

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #conferences #john-paul-warren #john-warren #motivational

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#problems

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#explanations #friends #enemy

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#nations #politics #creation

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#before #branded #call #deal #down

When in darkness....strike a match ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian #faith #hope #john-paul #john-paul-warren

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#extraordinary #false #hear #leading #learned

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoid #cannon #nations #precede #shots

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules