Gains Quotes
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We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.
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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
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The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
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Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.
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He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.
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I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.
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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.
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Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.
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I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.
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The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
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I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
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Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
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We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.
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The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
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I was spending a lot of money and overcompensating to feel superior in the gym, and now that the gear was locked in, I could go back to focusing on my gains.
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I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
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If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
