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“Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.”

Source: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

“Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.”

Men Has Beens Hate Dies Asks Achieve Drink And Love Raised Strive Dust Mortality Here And There Love And Hate Chatter

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community.”

Ifs Way Want War Wanted Dies Community Achieve Military Funeral Flags Approval Firing Squad Unqualified Caskets Hallowed Ground

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]”

Love Moments Age Dies Achieve Grants Toil

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.”

Heart Doe Moving Dies Achieve Males Contrary Initiation

Author:Robert Bly

“They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!”

Life Believe Dies Existence Achieve Highest Sticks Believer Nothingness Martyrdom

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.”

Ifs Hard Death Dies Cases Achieve Hard Work Speech Suicide Great Things Inspirational Speech

Author:Scott Adams

“I don’t want to achieve my dream. I just want to pursue my dream until I die.”

Want Dream Dies Achieve Pursue

Author:Taeyang

“We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.”

“To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.”

May Persons Purpose Dies Achieve Highest

Book:Ghost Roads

Source: Ghost Roads

“We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.”

World Needs Humans Certain Dies Goal Born Human Beings Vision Achieve This World Ego Degrees Life Goal

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi