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• Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Drug, Credit, Disease

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• An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Moving, Views

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• An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving, Shapes

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• You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Certain, Right Action

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• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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• You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

  Amy Dickinson

  Hurt, Women, Giving

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• There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Mma, Streets

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• In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Balance, Mindfulness

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• The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Feelings, Dimensions

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• Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Important, Energy

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• With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

  Georges St-Pierre

  Self, Mma, Discipline

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• MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got to overcome in that moment is not something you're ever going to gain in a daily lifetime routine.

  Enson Inoue

  Stress, Men, Mma

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• Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

  Court McGee

  Progress Not Perfection, Mma, Bases

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• Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

  Hsing Yun

  Kindness, Compassion, Meditation

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• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  Dan Ariely

  Football, Cheating, Motivation

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• Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

  Jay Gould

  Be Careful, Ability, Carried Away

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• Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Long, People, Soul

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• I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.

  Theophilus London

  Years, Different, Hats

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• Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.

  David Sklansky

  Hands, Play, Cards

  "The Theory of Poker". Book by David Sklansky, www.businessinsider.com. 1999.

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• We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Missing, Research

  "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

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• I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed.

  John Wimber

  Believe, Healing, People

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• God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think.

  Iain Pears

  Book, Thinking, Suffering

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.167, Penguin

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• By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

  Ernest Vincent Wright

  Thoughtful, Conditions

  Ernest Vincent Wright (2015). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E””, p.129, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.

  Ira Progoff

  Men, Intuition, Depth

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• Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Passion, Race, Sight

  Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

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