Gain Quotes
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”
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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.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
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You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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The chase of gain is rich in hate.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
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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.
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I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.
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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.
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There is no gain without struggle.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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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.
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.
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It really is the height of irresponsibility, and it appears to be a calculated effort to mislead people for personal monetary gain.
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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
