“We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.” IfsWorldTogetherWinningPovertyClearFailingDevelopmentBattleSucceedOvercomingClimateClimate ChangeManageEconomistCrystalsWorld Poverty Author:Nicholas Stern
“Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.” MenEnoughWishDesignHonorBattleSucceed Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.” GivingReasonMomentsBlackForgetNumbersGreaterBattleSucceedHundredDecadesResistanceConclusionCrushRepresentativesForget ItBrutalityReactionariesClergyBourgeoisieExecuting Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.” ThinkingChildrenBookEndsStoriesHappensFailingKingsBattleSucceedOur ChildrenTerrorYour ChildrenGiantsWickedDragonsDungeonsBlameless Author:C. S. Lewis
“And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.” IfsNeedsLinesJusticeStruggleHonestBattleSucceedRedemptionBeing HonestVacationObtainingFinish LineLooming Book:White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son Source: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
“Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.” GivingHas BeensSaidFatherSidesTroubleBattleSucceedSkillsDifficultyMarkWitnessScarRepentTrumpetsPilgrimagePilgrims Progress Author:John Bunyan