Gain Quotes
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So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law as one of their instruments. Wicked men will enact wicked rules which others will enforce. What surely is most needed in order to make men clear sighted in confronting the official abuse of power, is that they should preserve the sense that the certification of something as legally valid is not conclusive of the question of obedience, and that, however great the aura of majesty or authority which the official system may have, its demands must in the end be submitted to a moral scrutiny.
H. L. A. Hart
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya Angelou
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You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe
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The chase of gain is rich in hate.
Confucius
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Mobility was a factor, ... We thought that if (McMahon) got into trouble, he could gain some yards with his feet. ... He did a good job. I have not had a chance to talk to the coaches and the players about it so I am not going to say something here.
Andy Reid
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There is no gain without struggle.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.
Galileo Galilei
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates