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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

“When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.”

Ifs Firsts Bits Behinds Gains Murder Starting Temptation Rhythm Get Away Distortion Guitarist Starting Out

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues.”

People Way Interest Levels Growing Majors Gains Baseball Starting Soccer League Canada High Level Major League

Author:Joey Votto

“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Light Lying Motivation Three Opportunity Four Fool Intellectual Gains Starting Decades Hardship Ministry Preaching Disciple Ridicule Martyr Hostility Renounce Unwavering

Author:J.P. Moreland

“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

Facts Political Space Events Objects Conflict Gains Starting Radio Interpretation Warfare Representation Strategic Presentation Radar Completing

Author:Paul Virilio

“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.”

“I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.”

“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?”

Ifs Writing Two Enough Courses Found Given Hours Space Wonder Emotional Ready Intellectual Gains Salvation Rewards Starting Prize Time And Space Waitress Course Of Life

Author:Ann Patchett

“There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.”

Source: Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

“One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.”

Should Forget Half Pieces Gains Starting Never Forget Dozen Life And Love Finishing One Piece

Author:Johannes Brahms