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“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

“The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.”

Men Happens Force Water Justice Laughing Struggle Seeing Trouble He Man Hot Wave Strikes Midst Remedy Sail Distress Exhausted Unseen Wrecks Reefs Hot Headed

Author:Aeschylus

“It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.”

Men Mind Used Left Trouble He Man Cold Stones Violent Saving Cells Devices Temperature

Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot

Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot

“I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.”

Men Art Wanted Trouble He Man Masters Crowds Council Scottish Graveyard

Author:Alexander Stoddart

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”

Men Want Real Values Business Trouble He Man Cost Acquire Toil

Author:Adam Smith

“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”

Men Want Mean Persons Real Use Values Trouble He Man Cost Equal Command Acquire Labour Quantity Commodity Toil

Book:The Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations

“Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!”

Men Firsts Believe May Doe Moments Lasts Forever Trouble Awareness Tears He Man Arms Affair Woe Mistress Love Affair

Book:Adolphe

Source: Adolphe

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”

Thinking Men Years Has Beens Facts Lasts Change Environment Trouble He Man Terrible Hundred Dues Lawyer Paradise Tragic Misconception Fallacy

Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.”

Men War Ends Matter Hard Character Born Trouble He Man Disease Folks Hard Times Famine

Author:Louis L'Amour

“Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.”

Men Trouble He Man Wings

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.”

Men Way Feels Doe Self Dies Enemy Trouble He Man Despair Streams Misfortunes Surround Inner Self Console Confidant Public Enemies

Author:Khalil Gibran