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“Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.”

Way May Stills Gone Economic Racism Gains Advantage Regard Slavery Financial Expenses Plantations

Author:Alveda King

“I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.”

Way Used Gains Access

Author:Liz Phair

“If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.”

Ifs Men Way Happiness Opinion Ignorance Gains Riches Rely Lasting Permit Imperfect Rely Upon Lasting Happiness Imperfect Man

Author:Joseph Franklin Rutherford

“I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.”

Way Want Today Spirit Attention Watches Gains Temptation Subtle I Want You Adversaries Entitlement

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”

Ifs Way Heart Whole Body Able Morning Calling Succeed Gains Blame Whole Life Setting Settings Evening Substance Every Morning Samurai

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

Way Love Giving Bigs Order Differences Perfect Greater Pieces Keys Gains Bigger True Love Compromise Pie What You Love Love And Marriage Small Differences This Lullaby

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before. A way of thinking that would never have occurred to you with out exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.When you look in to some ones eyes you see them in that other light and for just a second they see you in the same way.”

Thinking World Way Looks Light Eye Deals Magic Perspective Gains Exposure Wizards Way Of Thinking

Author:Jim Butcher

“It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?”

Ifs Way Giving Heart Stills Given Darkness Doubt Greater Influence Calling Gains Hatred Envy Resistance Malice Unbelief Greater Power Giving Way

Author:George Q. Cannon

“A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Firsts Heart Said Ends Faces Loss Grief Path Greater Fashion Sorrow Despair Gains Rough Shade Clay Giving Back Vessel Crude Wool

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”

“To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.”

Way Firsts Children Self Spiritual Courses Grows Sin Growing Up Influence Discipline Gains Labor Our Children Salvation Consideration Self Discipline Ascendancy

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.”

Way Made Whole Mistake Judging Gains Advantage Plenty Illegal Shortcuts

Book:Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

Source: This Lullaby

“Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.”

Source: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”

Source: Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.”

Men Way Whole Together Romance Courses Loss Love Is Quality Too Much Weakness Gains One Way Strength And Weakness

Author:Robertson Davies

“A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.”

“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

“The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.”

World Way Want Heart Children Soul Spiritual Moving Influence Gains Roots Our Children Down And Spread Wide Speed Stillness Slow Down Shattering

Author:Marianne Williamson

“My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I’m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin’. —c) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I think I might like you.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans I Can Soul Helping Might Fall Like You Conversation Gains Blue Falling In Love Lips Phones Lists Immortality Fairy Puppets Impart Just Sayin

Author:Laini Taylor

“We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.”

Ifs Way Said Fear Friendship Simple Trust Approach Gains Lasting Suspicion Mistrust Simple Truths

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.”

Way Mean Able Freedom Land Gains Indian

Author:Russell Means

“People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support”

People Knows Way Want Leadership Support Skills Gains Communicate

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.”

Way Audience Greater Gains Sympathy Unfortunate No Sympathy

Author:Seth Green

“If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.”

Ifs Way War Helping Spirit Gains Strategy Oneself Honour Defeated Involving

Book:The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

Source: The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

“Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.”

Source: The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal

“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

“Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.”

Ifs Way Should Wells May Doe Art Stills War Together Subjects Citizens Gains Hatred Property Rate Absence Interfere Art Of War

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.”

“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.”

Way Looks Littles Made Bigs Happens Lasts Next Change Tomorrow One Day Gains Improvement Each Day Next Day Big Things Conditioning One Day At A Time

Author:John Wooden

“The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.”

Way Desire Too Much Gains

Author:Francis Beaumont

“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.”

People Way Believe Liberty Democracy Gains Slave Libertarian Best Way Libertarianism Ruling Democracies Have Submissive Libertarian Party

Author:Joseph Sobran

“To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.”

Way Science Perfect Knowledge Theory Gains Tests Instruments Philosopher Greek Imperfect Impress Greek Philosopher

Book:The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

Source: The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

“Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.”

Way Want Needs Strong Deals Drama Gains What You Want Warning Elegant

Author:Jay Park

“It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.”

Way Persons Ideas Easy Loss Information Gains Thrive Entropy Thermodynamics

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“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

“The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.”

Knows Men Way Leadership Business Know How Men And Women Capitalism Gains Economics Western Greed Pursuit Communism Free Market Manipulate Western Society Free Market Capitalism

Author:Davis McCaughey

“Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.”