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“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.”

Mind Whole Energy Cases Dangerous Gains Applause Dangerous Things Standstill

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.”

Race Cases Style Gains Secure Immortality Distinction Thinker Turning Points

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

“It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.”

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.”

Men Trying Character Cases Crime Judging Gains Greed Without Hope Cassius

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”

“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”

Men Want Faces Quality Cases Gains Advantage Notes Vices Honestly Vanity Bad Qualities

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.”

Helping Bigs Cases Skills Gains Solve Help Me Ambitious Perpetual Schedules Fever Public Speaking Cabins New Skills

Author:Andrew Skurka

“Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.”

“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.”

Thinking World Whole Parent Interesting Cases Generations Information Internet Easier Adults Gains Trade Digital Activist Domain Youtube Intriguing New Generation Younger Generation Brewing

Author:Serj Tankian

“The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.”

“The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.”

Needs Self Cases Evidence Gains Criticism Self Criticism

Book:A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science

Source: A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science

“I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.”

People Thinking Ideas Inspiration Roles Cases Involved Models Gains Meaningful Core Who I Am Role Models

Author:Mike Vallely

“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.”

Ifs Mean Important Country Bigs Happens Jobs Young Cases Clear Lessons Happenings Gains Presses China Activism Reports Young Women Autonomy Freedom Of The Press Apparel

Author:Pietra Rivoli

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention”

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Book:The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.”

World Trying Cases Gains Hard Times Latter Divided Torment Understand Me My Sympathy

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".”

People Ifs Feels Wells Cases Involved News Gains Recognition Useless Feel Better Good News Assurance Bad News Useless Life

Book:The Devil's Notebook

Source: The Devil's Notebook

“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.”

Loses Cases Courage Despair Gains Outcomes Sunset Nothing To Lose Fear And Courage Fear Courage

Author:Diane de Poitiers

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