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When we are right, let’s try to win people gently and tactfully to our way of thinking, and when we are wrong—and that will be surprisingly often, if we are honest with ourselves—let’s admit our mistakes quickly and with enthusiasm. Not only will that technique produce astonishing results; but, believe it or not, it is a lot more fun, under the circumstances, than trying to defend oneself. Remember the old proverb: “By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
PRINCIPLE 3
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Every time Christians proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord,” they were also saying, “Caesar is not.” It was deeply and subversively political. It was as strange to say, “Jesus is my Lord,” two thousand years ago as it would be to declare him commander-in-chief today.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
Alcohol is a special case. Alcohol is metabolized mostly in the liver. Some 80 percent of the calories from a shot of vodka, for instance, will go straight to the liver to be converted into a small amount of energy and a large amount of a molecule called “citrate.” The citrate then fuels the process that makes fatty acids out of glucose. So alcohol will increase the production of fat in the liver, which probably explains alcoholic fatty liver syndrome. It might also make us fatter elsewhere, although whether we store these fats as fat or burn them might depend on whether we eat or drink carbohydrates with the alcohol, which we usually do.
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
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