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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

“Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?”

“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing”

Men May Done Whole Age Action Wise Gains Harder Ill Whole Life Foolish Applause Censure

Author:David Hume

“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”

World Done Bigs Stuff Term Loss Accepting Higher Demand Gains Strategy Distance Celebrate Hills Valleys Tolerate Short Term Crossings Halt Stagnation Big Stuff

Author:Neal Stephenson

“If I work hard and am rewarded, then I haven't really gained anything. It has been a trade: I've put in, and I've gotten back. Only if I am rewarded without having done anything have I actually come out ahead. The best way to gain the most is to do nothing.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Hard Done Havens Hard Work Gains Trade Best Way

Author:John S. Hall

“If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Humans Done Philosophy Fall Left I Believe Sides Differences Lines Space Rights Conditions Gains Concerned Property Acquire Human Condition Platforms

Author:George Carlin

“It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.”

May Done Causes Gains Commerce

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.”

Men Firsts May Littles Done Opinion Atheism Objects Conscience Gains Fellows Secure Primaries Reverse Fellow Man Applause

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.”

“Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was all about. That's how we were able to mobilize the international community, including some folks that we are not particularly close to, to abide by these sanctions. That's how these crippling sanctions came about, was because we [USA] were able to gain global consensus that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a problem for everybody.”

“But if you stagnate, the growth is over. I have done many comedy films. Success of films like Partner, Singh is Kinng gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.”

Ifs Needs Done Film Growth Audience Comedy Greater Gains Wide Partners Recognition Gamble Singh

Author:Katrina Kaif

“The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.”

World Done Whole Would Be Birth Gains Whole World Abortion Temporary

Book:To the Protagonists of Pakistan

Source: To the Protagonists of Pakistan

“It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit... He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.”

People Needs Done Motivational Energy Leader Deserve Gains Credit Loyalty Excitement

Author:Robert Townsend

“I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.”

Way Should Done Use Seems Social Acceptance Gains Boxes British Tea Frustration Conform Norm Social Norms Predictability Pointlessness

Author:Rupert Friend

“When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.”

Knows Long Done Night Order Games Sports Loses Know How Proud Gains Argument Tired Satisfaction Circles Selling Enthusiasm Scare Hunting Swings Trails Work Done Elude

Author:Carl Sandburg

“We rejoice in all the Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for each of us to gain our salvation and exaltation.”

Made Done Gains Salvation Made It Savior Rejoice Exaltation

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“Learn to let others do their share of the work. Things may be done less well, but you will have more peace of soul and health of body. And what temporal interest should we not sacrifice in order to gain these blessings?”

Should Wells May Soul Done Body Order Interest Sacrifice Share Blessing Gains Peace Of Soul

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.”

People Art Sometimes Done Would Be Form Deals Gains Bases Judged Collaborators

Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

“Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.”

Needs Different Done Possibility Gains Awake Demographics

Author:Theresa May

“He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.”

Giving Done Use Shows Turns Poor Rich Lovers Gains Sake Impression Disappointed Gracious

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Should Done Might Gains Caring Gentleman Spite

Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.”

Way Done Loses Destiny Gains Forests Mysterious Life Changing Immense Power To Change Posse

Author:Jack Zipes

“In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”

People Men Long Done Wisdom Might Science Order Found Enjoy Knowledge Duty Hard Work Paper Long Time Discovery Gains Praise Remarkable Craving Pursued Ingenious

Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.”

Ends Done Faces Force Can Do Prayer Gains All Things Overcoming Bounds Obstacles Remove Invincible Resisting Hindrance Importunate

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.”

Men Done Bigs Success Order Leadership Risk He Man Gains Not Afraid Big Things Risk-taking Overcoming Failure Risks In Life

Author:B. C. Forbes

“I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Done Helping Together Progress Team Football Gains Nfl Working Together Teamwork Inspiring Football Steelers

Author:Chuck Noll