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So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
Author:
David Wooster
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Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
Author:
James Wolfe
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Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
Author:
Kip Winger
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
Author:
E. Wilson
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Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
Author:
George Will
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
Author:
John Warnock
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I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Author:
Jon Voight
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You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.
Author:
Jon Voight
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Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
Author:
William Vickrey
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
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To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Author:
Harry Vardon
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Author:
Ted Turner
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Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
Author:
David Tudor
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Author:
Paul Theroux
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I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
Author:
Joe Theismann
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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
Author:
Yves Tanguy
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The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
Author:
Koichi Tanaka
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
Author:
William Sumner
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Author:
Ben Stein
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Author:
Sophocles
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Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.
Author:
Suzanne Somers
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As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Author:
Socrates
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Author:
Socrates
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If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Author:
Alfred Sloan
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Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Author:
Christian Slater
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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
Author:
Frank Shorter
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The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Author:
Li Shing
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
Author:
Mike Rutherford
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By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Author:
Elihu Root
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Author:
Erwin Rommel
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Author:
Kenny Rogers
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After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Author:
Cliff Richard
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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Author:
Anne Rice
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No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
Author:
Akbar Rafsanjani
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Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Author:
Pol Pot
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Author:
Plato
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You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
Author:
Brad Pitt
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An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
Author:
William Petty
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Author:
Fernando Pessoa
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We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
Author:
Ed Pastor
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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Author:
Ovid
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I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.
Author:
Michael Nyman
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I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.
Author:
Don Novello
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Author:
Larry Niven
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Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
Author:
John Nicolay
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Author:
John Newman
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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
Author:
Roger Moore
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
Author:
Merton Miller
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But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.
Author:
Francis Maude
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Author:
Horace Mann
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I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.
Author:
Peter Mandelson
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
Author:
George Mallory
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
Author:
Courtney Love
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
Author:
Ferdinand Lassalle
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A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
Author:
James Larkin
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Author:
Tom Landry
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Author:
Walter Landor
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I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
Author:
Brian Koslow
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I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
Author:
Imran Khan
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.
Author:
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Author:
Walid Jumblatt
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Author:
Gertrude Jekyll
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.
Author:
Tito Jackson
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And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Author:
Horace
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Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Author:
Dee Hock
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Author:
Hesiod
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Author:
George Herbert
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Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.
Author:
Don Henley
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.
Author:
Tony Hancock
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
Author:
Natalie Gulbis
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Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Author:
Pam Grier
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A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
Author:
William Greider
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Author:
Alan Greenspan
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There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Author:
Seth Green
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Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
Author:
Richard Grant
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We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.
Author:
Lou Gramm
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You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.
Author:
Lauren Graham
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Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Author:
Billy Graham
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No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
Author:
Lefty Gomez
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I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.
Author:
Tracey Gold
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.
Author:
Robert Gibbs
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There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
Author:
Gordon Getty
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Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
Author:
Jesse Garrett
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I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.
Author:
Marc Garneau
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The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Author:
Milton Friedman
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
Author:
E. Forster
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We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
Author:
Martin Feldstein
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
Author:
William Faulkner
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One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
Author:
Edie Falco
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Author:
Euripides
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Author:
Epicurus
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Author:
Epictetus
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
Author:
Jo Emerson
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Author:
Jim Elliot
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And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.
Author:
Jenna Elfman
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My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
Author:
Anthony Edwards
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You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Author:
Anthony Eden
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None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Author:
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
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It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
Author:
Robert Downey, Jr.
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They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
Author:
John Doerr
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To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Author:
Bernadette Devlin
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We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
Author:
Dorothy Denning
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Author:
Democritus
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Author:
Democritus
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
Author:
John Darby
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The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Author:
Davy Crockett
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
Author:
George Crabbe
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I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
Author:
Kent Conrad
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For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
Author:
Jim Coleman
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By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.
Author:
Howard Coble
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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Author:
Tom Clancy
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For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Author:
Jesus Christ
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Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Author:
Chilon
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
Author:
C. Cherryh
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Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
Author:
Julian Casablancas
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
Author:
Vince Carter
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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Angela Carter
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When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
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Charisma Carpenter
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We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
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George Bush
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To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
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Ken Burns
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Jacob Bronowski
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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
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Claude Bristol
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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Lakhdar Brahimi
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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
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Belle Boyd
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It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted to be a terrorist could gain eventually their freedom thanks to another kidnapping.
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Robert Bourassa
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'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
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David Borenstein
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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Josh Billings
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The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
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Polly Berends
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
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Francis Beaumont
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I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
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Birch Bayh
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One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
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Pedro Barca
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But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
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Pedro Barca
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Author:
Robert Baden-Powell
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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Saint Avila
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
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Saint Augustine
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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Aristotle
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Author:
Susan Anthony
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Barbara Amiel
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At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.
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Marcus Allen
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It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
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David Allan
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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Andre Agassi
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
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Aeschylus
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Author:
Joseph Addison
