“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.” GivingIdeasTodayLife IsGivenForceBreakRecordsBearsYesterdayTrialsGet Ahead Author:Carl Holmes
“The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.” GivenRecordsDepthJournalismLazyArticlesGiven UpTroll Author:Kurt Sutter
“It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.” WholeGivenPresidentRecordsBillsPresidentialApprovalSigning Author:Robert H. Jackson
“But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.” YearsKindGivenAnswersDealsMillionsRecordsSellsQuartersExpectingTheological Author:Amy Grant
“Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.” Would BeValuesGivenReligiousRecordsAtheismTeachingEvidenceHistoricalDemocraticPositive AtheismReligious FaithAmbiguityFoolhardyEmpirical EvidenceDemocratic ValuesReligious Texts Book:Religion and Politics in the United States Source: Religion and Politics in the United States
“The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.” LastsGivenSpaceCommonRecordsAtheismEventsPerceptionDeterminationThirdsClaimsRegardFellowsVariousAppearancePositive AtheismNarrativeBlindnessPredecessorsNarratorsEvangelistsLocalityDesignation Author:David Friedrich Strauss
“The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.” PeopleSchoolGivenAbilityNumbersRecordsProduceDependsInvestmentInvestingTrackProfitManagersTrack RecordDental Book:Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets