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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

“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”

Years Two Seems Past Situation Policy Gains Regard Raised Two Years Sustainability Equity Caution

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”

Ifs Years Two Past Used Draws Gains Weight Twenties Conclusion Used To Be Cute Pounds Two Years Mathematician Over The Past Stunning Diagrams Really Cute

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.”

Littles Doe Reality Past Universe Technology Events Information Photography Shadow Gains Photograph Access Silver Grain Smallest Slides Dots Dazed

Book:Underworld: A Novel

Source: Underworld: A Novel

“Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.”

Matter Care Past Term Tears Gains Short Term

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.”

Thinking Men May Littles Has Beens Philosophy Past Force Grows Virtue My Friends Gains Dignity Bravery Senses Ruins Association Indifferent Marathon Piety Envied Frigid

Author:Samuel Johnson

“When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.”

Mind Character Past Values Grows Forget Doubt Gains Deeds Dread Entrances Forget The Past Character Change

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)

“There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.”

Way Moments Past Regret Illusion Gains Immortality No Point Altered

Book:Time to Be in Earnest

Source: Time to Be in Earnest

“We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.”

Ifs Bigs Earth Past Faces Realizing Rooms Deals Too Much Gains Edges Big Deal Living On Living On The Edge

Author:Farrah Gray

“One's entire life - his mental state, his health, his relationships, the material gains that he may or may not make - are all effects which have been set in motion by causes to be found somewhere in one's background, in this life or previous ones.”

May Has Beens States Past Found Causes Healing Effects Materials Gains Backgrounds This Life Past Life

Author:Brad Steiger

“Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.”

Past Remember Greater Gains Importance Fervor Remembering The Past

Book:Zeno's Conscience

Source: Zeno's Conscience

“The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.”

Past Wealth Standards Gains Majority Decades Significant Income Inequality Stagnant

Author:Janet Yellen

“If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”

Ifs Thinking Mind States Today Past Space Gone Virtue Modern Activity Gains Notion Arrogance Decay Time And Space Passivity Banality Profundity Classifying

Author:Russell Jacoby

“Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.”

Want Years Has Beens Made Two Past Faces Hundred Gains Experts Insisting

Book:Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

Source: Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time

“I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.”

People Trying Looks I Can Book Sometimes Past Energy Blood Messages Happenings Gains Blame Fingers Pointing Pessimistic Messengers Happening Again People From The Past

Author:James Vance

“I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.”

People Men Needs Has Beens Government Earth Past Mother Vision Brother Gains Areas Concern Harmony Fellows Medicine Democratic Creator Fellow Man Mother Earth Democratic Government

Author:Leonard Peltier

“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.”

“Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.”

Years Past Mother Courses Audience Huge Percent Gains Operations Endeavor Awards Staff Editorials Multimedia

Author:Clara Jeffery

“Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.”

Country Past Remember Lost Loses Deals Powerful Careers Journey Identity Amount Gains Longing Definitions Immigrants Refugee Prestige Personal Things Remembering The Past

Author:Nguyen Viet Thang

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”

Ifs Knows Important Past Time Future Gains Carpe Diem Mislead Carpe Hope For The Future Present Future Future And Present Future Time

Author:George Harrison

“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.”

Life Self Problem Able Action Past Spiritual Individual Results Compassion Benefits Gains Forgiving Solve Ignorant Motivated Our Actions Convenience

Author:Dalai Lama

“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

Past Romance Given Sleep Arms Gains Eternity Warm Romantic Love Blanket

Book:Lady chatterleys lover

Source: Lady chatterleys lover

“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future”

“It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good to look upon the VIRTUES of those who have gone before; to gain STRENGTH for whatever lies ahead. It is good to REFLECT upon the work of those who labored so hard and gained so little in this world, but out of whose DREAMS and early pains, so well nurtured, has come a great gravest of which we are the beneficiaries. Their tremendous EXAMPLE can become a compelling MOTIVATION for all of us. ~Gordon B. Hinckley”

World Wells Looks Littles Hard Dream Pain Past Lying Motivation Gone Virtue Example This World Perspective Gains Appreciation Compelling Beneficiaries

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.”

World May Past Process Understanding Planets Keys Gains Climate Climate Change Insight Warm Wide Landscape Wet Mars Exploring Barren Colonizing Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. What had caused this condition?”

Source: Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History

“Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.”

Thinking Wells Hard Stories Past Can Do Leadership Periods Gains Tales Bob Propositions You Can Do It

Author:Julia Gillard

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