Raymond Holmes

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Book cover for Trust: Knowing When to Give It, When to Withhold It, How to Earn It, and How to Fix It When It Gets Broken
Neuroscience tells us there’s a good reason we should not “just trust” someone. I’ll explain this in greater detail in this book, but suffice it here to say that the entire human nervous system and brain are wired to scan our environment ...more
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“He now deals with the believer’s sin as the sin of a beloved son, rather than the sin of an enemy.”
Stuart Scott, The Exemplary Husband: A Biblical Perspective

Blaise Pascal
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Donald Rumsfeld
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
Donald Rumsfeld
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Blaise Pascal
“Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées

Blaise Pascal
“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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