“Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.” PeopleKnowsWorldSaidStatesWholeHelpingWishUnitedEnemyUnited StatesWeaponsGainsAccessNuclearWhole WorldAlsAlliesNuclear WeaponsEngineersPakistanPhysicistAl Qaeda Author:Richard Holbrooke
“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.” DoeHas BeensWholeHappensWould BeLosesLossEconomyGroupsPossibilityParticularHigherGainsAcceptableFixingTransactionsGains And Losses Author:Thomas Sowell
“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing” MenMayDoneWholeAgeActionWiseGainsHarderIllWhole LifeFoolishApplauseCensure Author:David Hume
“Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.” WayShouldWellsLittlesCountryWholeIndividualGainsDestructionConservativeCriminalsForestsWell BeingPermitPreservation Book:Presidential addresses and state papers Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.” IfsWorldWaySoulWholeLosesForgetGainsSticksFingersWhole WorldYour SoulPrudentSlipping Author:George Bernard Shaw
“It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.” MindWholeEnergyCasesDangerousGainsApplauseDangerous ThingsStandstill Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.” IfsHumansMeanChildrenArtWholeUseFeelingsLawDesireOrderBornDesignDivineGoes OnDrugGainsVariousWhole LifeObservationProvidenceLaws Of NatureDominionOffspringImmoralityDivine Providence Author:Clement of Alexandria
“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.” WellsWholeCultureStrongLossLevelsViewsAttentionEnvironmentHigherGainsCurrentsContemporaryCuresDescriptionRelativePreferenceCognitiveHigher LevelHolisticAdvocatingIntertwinedInterconnectionReductionism Author:Francisco Varela
“We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.” WorldNeedsLittlesWholeWisdomSpiritPoliticsResponsibilityEconomyRightsSacrificeGainsSalvationConstantWesternForgottenLiberalismWillingnessSelflessnessWestern WorldClamorPersonal Gain Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn