Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and… — Fred Lebow Copy Share Image
When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph… — Allan F. Packer Copy Share Image
Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else.… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To… — Francis Asbury Copy Share Image
