If we ask of
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer. Evelyn Underhill
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If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer. Evelyn Underhill
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. Evan Davis
A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society. Erving Polster
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers…There are …purveyors who label their ‘iso-amygdalin’ products ‘amygdalin’ contrary to all of the recognized specs…For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy…This scientific heresy and commercial fraud…(is) … Read more
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth Eric Hoffer
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction. Eliezer Yudkowsky
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. Edward Whitacre, Jr.
The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. Edward S. Herman
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed … Read more
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose. Edward de Bono