Gained Quotes
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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Jail is cold. It's very, very cold… I just wanted to not freeze to death and stuff, you know? It was pretty scary and I gained like 60 pounds. Three hots and a cot, man.
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I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
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With 21CN, BT and our suppliers are leading the world in next generation networks. Where we go with 21CN, others will follow, and the experience gained and expertise developed in this transformation of BT's network will set the standard for other next generation deployments.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.
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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
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I am still learning, myself, but I guess I would say to be aware of what is around you. Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it. Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.
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When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
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I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.
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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
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If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
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We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.
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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
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Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.
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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
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There is the who they thought they were and the who they wrote down, the something lost and the something gained, the discrepancy, now easily measured, between the voice they hear in their heads and the voice they find on their paper. “Our notebooks give us away,” Joan Didion observes. And they do. They also provide, to memoir makers, a shelf and a foundation.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
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It is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.
