“It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.” PeopleMindLongImportantMatterEnoughHandsRunningGrowthKnowledgeEconomicEffectsCostMouthsEconomicsOvercomingSizePopulationIntellectContributionLong RunsSmart PeopleKnowledge Is PowerPopulation GrowthUseful Knowledge Author:Julian Simon
“It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.” PersonsMadeRealRunningChristianWinningHeavenRaceEnemySacrificeArmsVictoryBattleCostConflictStandardsCrossesOvercomingConversionChairsWildernessEgyptForsaken Author:J. C. Ryle
“Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.” MenMeanHas BeensLife IsTermWorstCostOvercomingDepthHeightObsessedThinkerWorth LivingModernityNihilismLiving OnBourgeoisRepresentingIllusoryContinentalLife Is Not Worth Living Author:Allan Bloom
“The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.” KindReasonLanguageCostSpeechOvercomingVery GoodTongueCirclesSophisticatedSnakesWillpowerAvoidedForeignersImpedimentsForeign LanguagePreludeSpeaking In TonguesSpeech Impediment Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.” ShouldMotivationSpaceProudCostOvercomingIndiaProgrammesHurdle Author:Narendra Modi
“It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.” PeopleHumansHomeLastsHumanityCostSurvivalOvercomingDesperateBeing HumanGambleNew Home Book:The 5th Wave Source: The 5th Wave
“How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.” MenInspirationalIndividualNationsFreedomEffortStepsFiveDangerTypeCostHighestOvercomingTyrannyResistanceThresholdFree ManServitude Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.” MenEarthSpaceCostOvercomingThriveGravityReservesSolar System Book:The Aims Of Astronautics Source: The Aims Of Astronautics