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Driving With Maniacs and Idiots

Use this to show how we justify our own actions and put others down rather than dealing honestly with our own shortcomings: "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot,and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." - George Carlin

Twain on Old Habits

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time. -- Mark Twain

How Much Fun is it?

Ever notice how much less immoral something seems after we discover how much fun it is? George E. Scherer

On Dogs and Fleas

?If you lay down with dogs, you?ll pick up fleas.?

Edison on Man?s Hearts and Minds

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein

Cigar Smoker Carries Insurance

God's Word says that you reap what you sow. For example, I heard the story of a cigar smoker who bought several hundred expensive stogies and then had them insured against fire. After he?d smoked them all, he filed a claim, pointing out that the cigars had been destroyed by fire. The company refused to pay, and the man sued. A judge ruled that because the insurance company had agree to insure the cigars against fire, it was legally responsible. So the company paid the claim. And when the man accepted the money, the company had him arrested for arson.

The Price of Compromise

When the space shuttle Challenger lifted into the sky and blew up seventy-three seconds into its flight, the world was shocked. Most of us have seen the videotape of that terrible moment many times. And we can recreate the picture in our minds of a deep blue sky marked with twisted trails of smoke and large chunks of metal plummeting toward the ocean. And we know, as we recall the grim specter of the explosion, that among the falling pieces were the bodies of some of America's finest men and women. Most of us also know that the investigations into the cause of the tragedy pointed out some serious shortfalls in human judgment and materials management. The New York Times put it frankly: the ultimate cause of the space shuttle disaster was pride. A group of top managers failed to listen carefully to the warnings of those down the line who were concerned about the operational reliability of certain parts of the booster rocket under conditions of abnormal stress. The people in charge were confident that they knew best and that they should not change the launch schedules. They were wrong. -- Gordon MacDonald, Rebuilding Your Broken World.

Fish Sees the Bait

?The fish sees the bait, not the hook.? Chinese proverb

Spiritual Failure as a Slow Leak

Collapse in the Christian life is seldom a blowout; it is usually a slow leak. (Paul E. Little)

Sin of Contempt

Perhaps the greatest sin one person can exert against one another is contempt. To exercise contempt is to invite contempt. Any person who looks with contempt upon another sets in motion an evil force which rarely ever stops. Charles Ashcraft

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