Trials Quotes - Page 16

• What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".

  Benjamin Carson

  Attitude, Land, Brotherhood

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Strong, Iron Ore, Fire

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• My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Mistake, Views, Judging

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• Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica - that's slightly more than the total figure for New York - and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?

  Robert Fisk

  New York, Trying, World

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Errors, Information

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• I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

  Joshua Mohr

  Errors, Trial And Error, Poison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

  Ruth Graham

  Fall, Two Sides, Temptation

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• The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, Errors, People

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

  Ben Stein

  Teacher, Law, California

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

  Richard Dawkins

  War, Crime, Blair

  "Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 03, 2007.

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• I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.

  Joshua Wong

  Mean, Pay The Price, Faces

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessing, Wickedness, Life Is

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  Walter Lippmann

  Passion, Men, Office

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

  Ryan Lochte

  Moving, Olympics, Bigs

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• Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Order, Track, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Summer, Christian, Wisdom

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815”, p.146, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  Dada Vaswani

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Suffering

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• If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Political, Democracy

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• No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Marriage, Together, Overcoming

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• I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury.

  Thomas Dillon

  Country, Business, Exercise

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• The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.

  George Muller

  Motivational, Faith, Strong

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• Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Age, Revolution

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

  Henri Matisse

  Happiness, Light, People

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Strong, Philosophy

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

  Winston Churchill

  Stay Strong, Jobs, Long

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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