#stake

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#black #bush #compatriots #countrymen #hearts

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#children #cumulative #each #gained #generation

What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#become #character #conservatives #elected #five

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically. ↗

— Eminem

#artistically #going #grow #i #learn

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead. ↗

— Dave Foley

#cast #high #i #lead #movie

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#cannot #even #fall #fallibility #get

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ↗