Jesuit maxim "Work as if success depended on your own efforts-but trust as if all depended on God."' Loyola's successor, Diego Lafnez, echoed the sentiment in blunter terms: "While it is true that God could speak by the mouth of an ass,
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“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.”
― Informal Sociology: a casual introduction to sociological thinking
Not everything that counts can be counted.”
― Informal Sociology: a casual introduction to sociological thinking
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”
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