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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams

Family Bird Consider Our Possibility Small Like Like A Duck Looks Duck Least Hands

We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly. Elizabeth Thornton

Judge Fears Perception Situation Our Project Background Respond Perceive Mental Results Through Onto Instant Errors Person Models Often Experiences Senses Which Means Event Cognitive Incorrectly

We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator. Ellen G. White

Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them. Ellen G. White

Will Seen Met Discouraged Disposition Aid Others Favor Through Disappointed Leaning Always Been Waited Yield Expect Expectations Expecting Same Children Them Whole Helpless Lives

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift. Ellen G. White

People Church Impress Unless Members Must Ministers Individual Lift Effort Where Workers Should Flourish Necessity

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. Ellen G. White

Great Impossible Will Before Our Distinguish Sight Marvelous Except Open Counterfeit Delusion True Perform Soon Between His Antichrist Closely Scriptures Them Us Holy Holy Scriptures Resemble Works Last

If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. Ellen G. White

God Strength You Soul Heart Mind Will Before Nothing Living Other Only He True Accept Does Lord Affections Gods Short Turned Require Requires Your Who Whole Away Serving

Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked. Ellen G. White

God Obedience Grace Law Walk Christ Live Our Spirit Having Shall Through He Written Walked Hearts Even

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. Ellen G. White

Love Man Christ Met Meet Our Earthly Would Would-Be Degraded Case Throne Could Misery Unsatisfied Lifted He Also Woe His Condition Sinner Very Eternal Depths Necessities Desires

Being completely independent doesn't make you a strong woman - it's being strong enough to trust yourself in other people's hands that takes guts. Emily V. Gordon

You Woman Trust Yourself People Strong Other Enough Independent Strong Woman Guts Takes Make Hands Being Being Strong

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Eric Hoffer

Forcing Difficulty Rubbish Head Stuffed Empty Anything Really Hence

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. Eric Hoffer

The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery. Franklin Foer

News You Facebook People Problem World Feedback Google Become Fake News Giant Constantly Propaganda Give Demagoguery Biases Loops Fake Hear Susceptible Being Where Want Confirmed Biggest Biggest Problem Them Use Your

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Freya Stark

Christmas Home Heart Carries Piece Event External

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Gilbert K. Chesterton

Saying Patriotism Mother Desperate Country Drunk Think Would Case Except Wrong Like Patriot Sober Ever Right Thing

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken

Problem Every Solution Easy Wrong Always Plausible Neat

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H. L. Mencken

Justice Injustice Relatively Easy Bear

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

Stupidity Universe Hydrogen Most Common Elements Two

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. Harry Browne

Judge Every Assumption Honored Trial Evidence Rules Proper Counsel Fair Fair Trial Courtroom Accused Procedures Which Challenged Competent

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