Gains Quotes
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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.
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The gains mostly reflect expectations of more rate cuts in the months ahead.
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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.
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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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.
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To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
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Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.
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I think that if he Donald Trump does really want to make gains, if he does want to find a path to those voters who are in the middle, then he needs to do different things than just do these rallies.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff in Mother Jones, as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.
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A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.
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If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.
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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
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We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.
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If Hillary Clinton is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital gains? Unless democrats have a clean sweep of Congress, I don't think that's going to happen either.
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He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
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I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
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It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability.
