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Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Charles Gounod

Limits, Breathe, Elegance

Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”

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Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future, centuries before it came to be. Hence, we affirm with the utmost confidence, that the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible attest and demonstrate the truth that the Scriptures are the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.

Arthur W. Pink

Men, Mind, Twenties

Arthur W. Pink (2007). “Divine Inspiration of the Bible”, p.47, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

Thomas Huxley

Cat, Jumping, People

Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

Michael Coren

Gun, Issues, Favour

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...the infallible man does not exist.

Marcus Aurelius

Men, Doe

Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.81, Penguin UK

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Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

Peter Beinart

Winning, Thinking, Vegas

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The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

Edmund Burke

Party, Judgement, Losing

'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

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Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

John Adams

Humility, Men, Years

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Truth, Receipts, Persecuted

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To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

John Newton

Humble, Mind, Doctrine

John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.245

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Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Christopher Morley

Decision, Choices, Finding Yourself

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Voltaire

Sight, Earthquakes, Secret

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.164, Penguin

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Voltaire

Method, Fanatics, Fanaticism

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4181, Delphi Classics

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With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate that gift. As the Lord has said, that is accomplished by consistent, righteous living. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy.

Richard G. Scott

Disappointment, Righteous Living, Choices

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There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

E. B. White

Stars, Writing, Thinking

William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White (1972). “The Elements of Style”

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Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

J. Oswald Sanders

Word Of God, Ifs, Conscience

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It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposite to one another.

Vasco Ronchi

Science, Law, Opposites

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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Henry A. Kissinger

Humorous, Office

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To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving, Forever, Experts

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Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Jesus, Atheist, Miracle

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And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

Thomas Hobbes

Art, Science, Skills

Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.117, Powell Publications, LLC

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If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Alan Turing

Intelligent, Machines, Expected

Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.394, Oxford University Press

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Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

John F. Carlson

Trust, Feelings, Credit

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The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art, Passion, Men

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 572-73, Maxims. No. 9, 1922.

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The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Thinking, Church

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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