Gains Quotes
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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
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If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.
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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 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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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
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Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
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Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.
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The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
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In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
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As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.
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I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.
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It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information flow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
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They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
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No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
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I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.
