Adverse Quotes - Page 7

• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Inspire, Mixtures

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• What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Struggle, Ignorance, Fate

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• He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

  Livy

  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XLV, section 8,

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

  John Calvin

  Meditation, Joy, Suffering

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• My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Influence, Hinduism, Poor

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• Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.

  Narendra Modi

  Zero, Powerful, Thinking

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• The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Its going to require a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases and hopefully derail some of the adverse impacts that we are experiencing today and the devastating impacts that we are going to experience in the future as a result of global warming.

  Jerome Ringo

  Impact, Effort, Today

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

  Anne F. Beiler

  Order, Ideas, People

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• When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

  Andre Ethier

  Team, Player, Numbers

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• There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Reason, Obedience

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (François, M.), William Smith (1871). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.425

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• Some people promote the idea that there can be two marriages, co-existing side by side, one heterosexual and one homosexual, without any adverse consequences. The hard reality is that, as an institution, marriage like all other institutions can only have one definition without changing the very character of the institution. Hence there can be no coexistence of two marriages.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Character, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Powerful, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There's hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn't have a cause or effect that's generated abroad. Increasingly, we must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Government, Data

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. People can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. If you repeal part of Obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. And so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of Obamacare.

  Rand Paul

  Ideas, Obamacare, Sick

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mean, Worry, Abuse

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Humanity, Delay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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