“Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.” IfsPoliticalChallengesStudyFailingGroupsAmountIntellectualStructureCollectives Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.” IfsTryingDoeWholeBigsGovernmentNextPoliticsPresidentNumbersTalkingMorningToo MuchFailingAmountHigherRaisedAgendasRepresentativesSenatorsNext DayReelection Author:Patricia Schroeder
“Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.” GivingAttentionPlansFailingAmountAreasAverageCease Author:Grant Cardone
“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.” PeopleFightingForceWishPartyEffortFailingAmountTaxesBillsCorporationsAnxiousSchedulesResortsHeadlinesReductionFrictionSplittingTariffs Author:William Howard Taft
“When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."” IfsWayBigsEnergyFailingAmountProjectsDestroyed Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.” ThinkingTryingMadeEndsRealityEasyHoursDifferencesFailingMediaChangedAmountPressesHearingAccomplishOilLocalsReleaseThirtyGasStationsOrganizeAdjustmentCongressmanGas StationsAccomplish NothingOil PricePress Release Author:Joel Miller
“Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.” PeopleGovernmentBlackMoralFailingCenturyAmountBlack PeopleBait Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.” IfsEffortFailingDependsAmountSucceedPeacefulResolveEndeavorGreat Future Author:Akio Morita