Gains Quotes
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The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.
Virchand Gandhi
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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.
Victor Hugo
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The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
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An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
William Petty
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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
Joseph Nye
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I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
Van Jones
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Frances E. Willard
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner
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It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.
Wendy Greuel
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Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. "Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.
Sarah Rees Brennan