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“Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.”

Men Ideas Effort Groups Female Males Russia Protest Something New Domain Emerging Accessories

Author:Alexei Navalny

“When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.”

“A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.”

People Men Leadership Effort Conscious Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.”

Men May Different Reason Facts Form Effort Poverty Successful He Man Masters Thousand Achievement Misery Defeat Despite Chiefs March Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.”

Men Mind Whole Body Effort All Things Supreme Mortals Perceive Mind And Thoughts

Author:Xenophanes

“The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.”

Men Years Children Form Community Challenges Poor Levels Effort Men And Women Resources Corruption Every Man Rejects Inclusion Bishops Prophetic Philippines

Author:Pope Francis

“You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened some people so deeply.”

People Men Ideas Choices Given Process Effort Wonder Protect Sexuality Revolutionary Frightened Disturbed Reproduction Revolutionary Ideas Protect Women

Author:Stephen Singular

“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

Knows Men Needs May Effort Roots Emptiness Masculinity

Author:Marilyn French

“It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth”

Men Doe Matter Effort Willing He Man Amount Size

Author:Woody Hayes

“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.”

Men World Way Littles Book Real Hard Language Effort Direct Painful Stores Invention Contact Real World Alphabet Hard Way Great Inventions

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .”

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”

Source: The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition

“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.”

“As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.”

Men World Feels Mind Wells Fighting Effort Millions Fire Progress One Day Corners Burning Our World Lit Kindles Untamed

Author:George W. Bush

“As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.”

Source: THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…

“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.”

“The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.”

Thinking Men Justice Results Effort Education Teaching Information Diversity All Things Social Justice Mere

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.”

Men World Spirit Effort Greater He Man Criticism Meetings Critics Various Wide Great Men Stations Association Approval Exalted

Book:Andrew Carnegie: His Methods with His Men

Source: Andrew Carnegie: His Methods with His Men

“We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”

Men Helping Winning Effort Quality He Man Neighbor Admire Manhood Strife Prompts Actual Life

Book:Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.”

Men World Giving Should Opportunity Black Chance Effort Race Successful Standards Successful Business Business Man Rothschild

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.”

Men World Way Want Humans Kind Doe Has Beens Real Political Human Beings Effort Politician Conscience Regard Contrary Real World Cows Bulls Psychopath

Author:Edward Britton

“The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”

Men Life Self Joy Effort Courage Sacrifice He Man Duty Spring Men And Women Ideals Labor Strive Philanthropy Self Sacrifice

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

Men Mind Heart Made Self Hands Seems Success Effort Greatness Achievement Claims Arrogant Shallow Heart And Mind Notable Self Made Many Hands

Author:Walt Disney

“It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.”

People Thinking Men Matter Seems Sex Can Do Results Effort Greater Ought Connected Invention Damage Puzzles

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.”

“In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.”

Ifs Men Made Hands Seems Sports Powerful Effort Brain Nice Authority Granted Things To Do Damage Combat Savages Diminish Fists Pillow Gloves Nice Things Powerful Man

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.”

Men Should Loses Effort Skills Every Man Authenticity Originality Niche Polished

Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

“[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.”

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.”

Men Should Heaven Stars Effort Atoms Discovering Contemplating Smallest Short Sighted Discovering The Truth

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.”

Knows Men World Way Mind Art I Can Today Used Joy Given Effort Worst Missing Pure Ocean Senses Flight Planes Ease Noses Continents Efficiency World Today Separating Pure Joy Equator

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.”

Men Art States Effort Principles Destiny Objects He Man Expression Capable Ideals Impression Magnificent Our Destiny Hesitation Impart Artifice

Author:Paul Valery

“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

Men Feels Long Two Whole Seems Would Be Age Remember Reading Effort Emotion Too Much Drinking Admire Excess Thorough Bruises Stimulation

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

“Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!”

Men Language Effort Morning Sky Fields He Man Flower Wings Flight Liberated Vigorous Serene Luminous Larks Voiceless Morning Sky

Book:Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book

Source: Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book

“Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.”

Men Inspirational Should God Hands Joy Effort Struggle Duty Victory Defeat Meaning Of Life Encouraging Hands Of God

Author:Aga Khan III

“Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities”

Men Mind Soul Ends Spiritual Purpose Passion Effort Existence Quality Comfort Tests Instinct Gratification Acquisition

Author:David O. McKay

“It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.”

Men Matter Effort Habit Mere Saint Sinner

Book:Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

Source: Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green

“In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.”

Men Way Soul States Moments Values Evil Literature Effort Psychology Century Discrimination Psychological Planes Good And Evil Twentieth Century Absent Describing

Author:Simone Weil

“A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.”

Men World Mind Mean Matter Moments Dream Suffering Song Effort Known Fellows Every Man Warrior Companion Transformed Toil Astonishing Ephemeral Portal Positiveness

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.”

Men Country Effort Struggle Climate Gentle Kinder Man And Nature

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse; and where there is equally vigorous effort, like distinction and success will almost surely follow. Thus the chain of example is carried down through time in an endless succession of links--admiration exciting imitation, and perpetuating the true aristocracy of genius.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.”

Men Wisdom Action Individual Effort Produce Property Possession Seeds Harvest Knowledge And Experience

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.”

Men Self Character Young Effort Self Esteem Tasks Raises Accomplish Esteem Young Man Initiative Formation

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”

Men Desire Effort Opinion Building Theory Concerned Praise Insight Conception Imaginary Shelter Preservation Persistent Imperatives Spectacular Building Up

Author:Eric Hoffer

“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”

Men Moments Artist Certain Effort Objects Appearance

Author:Edgar Degas

“You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.”

Ifs Men Said Stills States Age Effort Conditions Politician Mass Critics Improvement Granted Welfare Arrogance Inferiors Better Than You Welfare State

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?”

Men Mind Wells Reason Effort Fashion Despair Died Suicide Burden Rage Instance Nevertheless Remorse Madmen Composure Discreet

Book:ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

Source: ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

“All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.”

Knows Men Believe Ends Effort Originals Reports Originality Monstrous Quaint

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”

Men World Way Humans Made Body Eye Spirit Evil Individual Natural Effort Wall Diversity Patterns Accomplish Flesh Accomplished Barriers Mutual Shattered

Author:Yukio Mishima