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“There also were the widespread failures of prediction that accompanied the recent global financial crisis. Our naïve trust in models, and our failure to realize how fragile they were to our choice of assumptions, yielded disastrous results. On a more routine basis, meanwhile, I discovered that we are unable to predict recessions more than a few months in advance, and not for lack of trying. While there has been considerable progress made in controlling inflation, our economic policy makers are otherwise flying blind.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“That evolution should select for larger brains may seem to us like, well, a no-brainer. We are so enamoured of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to cerebral power, more must be better. But if that were the case, the feline family would also have produced cats who could do calculus, and frogs would by now have launched their own space program. Why are giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom?”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been cut to the bone, stabbed in the back? Have you ever given someone your whole heart only to find out they used your heart to beat you with it? Have you ever laid down your life for someone? Have you ever served with reckless abandonment and in return got back a list of things that you failed to do?”
― The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness: Discover How to Escape Your Prison of Pain and Unlock a Life of Freedom
― The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness: Discover How to Escape Your Prison of Pain and Unlock a Life of Freedom
“When we came to Christ, it was humility to honestly assess ourselves as sinners. To go back and say that’s still who we are is to deny what Christ did for us. Doing that is no longer humbling ourselves; it’s undercutting the resurrection power God has given us to live like Him.”
― The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God
― The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God
“The truth is that it is neither pride to recognize our strengths nor humility to demean them. This kind of false humility keeps the saints in darkness and results in us never stepping into our destinies. Remember what we just saw in the previous chapter? Romans 3:23 says that we, “fell short of the glory of God.” Though we missed it, we were made for glory. Thankfully, when Jesus died on the cross, He didn’t just die so He could forgive our sins. He died so we could be restored to our original purpose. The price that Jesus paid on the Cross determined the value of the people He purchased. We were created to share God’s glory and bring Him glory. After all, who is greater—a king over a bunch of bozos, or a king over a great army of confident soldiers who take pride in serving their king? Isn’t it true that the greatness of the King’s subjects actually glorifies the King Himself?”
― The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God
― The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God
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