If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.


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JOHN C. CALHOUN
When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we&...
JOHN C. MATHER
Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical ele...
JOHN C. MATHER
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
JOHN C. HAWKES
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vagu...
JOHN C. CROSBY
I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ...
JOHN C. REILLY
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I als...
JOHN C. MATHER
The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's m...
JOHN C. REILLY
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and popula...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, po...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indee...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on ...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
JOHN C. MATHER
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrow...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary;...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards&#...
JOHN C. STENNIS
Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking proces...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my l...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.
JOHN C. MATHER
I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prospe...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changin...
JOHN C. REILLY
Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and mov...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
And look what it gets President Bush: It just gets him a kick in the rear, ... That's what they've d...
JOHN C. DANFORTH