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“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”

People Giving Certain Social Type Amount Circumstances Cost Protect Giving Up Response Folly Regulation Sane

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.”

Giving Certain Figures Amount Giving Up Privacy Public Figures

Author:Jay Roach

“There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Wells Amount Giving Up Raises Prepared Meat Diets Vegetarian Vegan Diminish Need A Change Vegan Diet

Author:Michael Pollan

“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.”

“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.”

“It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.”

Giving Kind Hard Might Amount Directors Giving Up Scary All Kinds Vulnerable Unexpected Really Scary

Author:Sarah Polley

“We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.”

Giving Humans Earth Spirit Order Passion Social Common Violence Evolution Amount Limits Giving Up Crossroads Social Order Human Evolution

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least making some form of ends meet, or (B) you feel that you need to dedicate yourself for a certain amount of time to it and give yourself the last hoorah.”

Needs Giving Feels Ends Jobs Lasts Form Certain Amount Giving Up Entrepreneurship Hobbies Day Jobs New Business

Author:Daymond John

“Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.”

Giving Certain Amount Giving Up Giving Back

Author:Colin Powell

“It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.”

Giving Made Enough Strong Progress Failing Amount Giving Up Moderates Strong Enough Not Strong Not Strong Enough

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

“I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Self Hands Happiness Fall Loses Records Serious Amount Despair Giving Up Overcoming Temptation Etc Temper Offended Impatience Annoyance Upper Hand Petulance

Author:C. S. Lewis