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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

“You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.”

Break Risk Gains Standing

Author:Corey Taylor

“Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.”

Thinking Writing Spiritual Break Our Lives Seeing Mystery Ordinary Understood Gains Concerned Sensual Intimacy Borders Divided Buoys

Author:Kevin Hart

“Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

Want Long Motivational Pain Remember Order Term Pleasure Break Gains Valuable Long Term Short Term Break Through

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.”

Ifs Thinking Men Hard Choices Love Is Quality Break Doubt Danger Gains Advantage Punishment Obligation Liars Links Fearful Dread Greedy Rotten Ungrateful Fickle Deceiver

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.”

Source: A Kate Chopin miscellany

“You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.”

Source: Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters