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“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”

Men Ends Mother Father Streets Debt Teenager Ruined Mother And Father

Author:Jo Nesbo

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”

Men Ends Shows Invention Our Thoughts Archaeology Archeology

Author:Michel Foucault

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.”

Men Want Ends Fighting Birth Politician Mad Access Episodes Birth Control Mad Men

Author:Cecile Richards

“As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.”

Ifs Men Way Believe Children Ends States Care I Believe Quality Cost Program Every Man Health Care The End Of The Day Men Women Quality Health Care

Author:Bernie Sanders

“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”

Men Should Writing Ideas Ends Dies Literature Color Stores Bars Versions Code Organs Consistency Groceries Great Idea Grocery Stores Toothpaste Prometheus Fastidious Cuneiform

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”

Men Writing Believe Ends Lying

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”

Men Ends Running Talent Safety Compromise Perceive Reasonable Contentment Stability Progression Settlement

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!”

Men Want Ends Moving Good Times Anchors Precipice

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The end, as St. Paul says, is everlasting life (cf. Rom. 6:22). 'And this is eternal life, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent' (Jn. 17:3).”

“Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men.”

Men Mean Doe Soul Ends Age Christian Spiritual Law Spirit Found Christ Virtue Teaching Divine Worthy Guides Flesh Prophet Orthodox Manifest Advent Converting Cfs Logos Gals Harbinger

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.”

Thinking Men Doe Ideas Real Ends Planners

Author:Amy Grant

“The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses’ (Luke 12:15). Things—our possessions—can tie us down to this world. While heaven and hell prepare for war, we go shopping. Eternal values are at stake! The end of all we know is near—and we are busy playing with our toys!”

Knows Men World Doe War Ends Values Jesus Heaven Hell This World Eternal Busy Possession Ties Abundance Stakes Shopping Toys Heaven And Hell Luke Covetousness

Author:David Wilkerson

“The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.”

Men Made Ends Whole Conscience Competence

Author:John Dickey

“If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Years Ends Can Do Lifestyle Familiar Feel Better Uncles Uncle Sam

Author:Curtis Jackson

“You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.”

Men Ends Water Holy Intention Oil Interiors Buckets Thug Holy Water

Author:William Henry O'Connell

“I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.”

Men Ends Fundamentals Dare Chiefs Damn Formulas Propositions

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.”

Men Ends Use Pride Madness Dancing Dance Vanity Profitable Pious Depraved Inbreds Necessary Use

Author:William Prynne

“The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.”

Men Firsts Humans Ends Character Individual Human Beings Acceptance Expression Capacity Western Accepted Civil Rights Realization Justified Premises Freedom Of Expression

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”

Men Ends Politics Politician

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.”

Ifs Men World Feels Ends Christian Economy Trouble Danger Misery Greed Sensitive Consumption Nevertheless Consumerism Finite Discontent Overconsumption

Author:Joy Davidman

“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”

Men Ends Earth Animal Cutting Tree Rocks Destruction Environmental Streams Formulas Agriculture Nature Of Man Negation Short Cuts Panacea

Author:Louis Bromfield

“It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Ends Men And Women Great Men Symptoms Vans Splendid Virginia Grim Bipolar Woolf Plath Schumann

Author:Stephen Fry

“Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.”

Men May Mean Ends Ears Soldier Quitting Posts This Day Plato

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.”

Men World Ends Dies Laughing Goes On Sight Amusement Amused Misanthropic

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.”

Men Ends Humanity Goal

Author:Rajneesh

“The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.”

Men Way Years Made Ends Hours Study One Thing He Man Habit One Hour

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.”

Men Ends Feelings Marriage Profession Occupation Livelihood Inconvenience

Author:Honore de Balzac

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.”

Men Two Ideas Ends Universe Animal Pieces Possibility Intellectual Intellect Senses Contradiction Centre Torn Everlasting

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

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