Gain Quotes
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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
Euripides
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Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.
Euclid
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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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There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.
Eugene McCarthy
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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
Honore de Balzac
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.
Lao Tzu
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
Sophocles
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I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
Evelyn Lauder
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To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
Sophocles
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Walt Disney
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
Galileo Galilei
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
Victor Hugo
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Sophocles
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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes not. That's the challenge of the job.
Charlize Theron
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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
Francis Bacon
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The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
Washington Allston
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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Oprah Winfrey
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Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery