Gains Quotes - Page 14

• Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

  Greg Egan

  Lying, Mean, Sake

  "The Demon's Passage" by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. July 1991.

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• Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
  But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,
  Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, -
  A life-complete in death-complete to die.

  John B. Tabb

  Loss, Perfect, Fruit

  "The Bubble". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.

  John Constable

  Hands, Together, Firsts

  John Constable (1966). “Correspondence”

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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.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Men, Hands, Perfect

  "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p. 256, 1980.

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• The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

  William Greider

  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community.

  Robert Nozick

  Struggle, Winning, Ifs And

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

  Joseph Stalin

  Strong, Doubt, Enemy

  Speech on the 24th Anniversary of the Revolution, November 7, 1941.

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• I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Feelings, Use, Action

  "Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews". Book edited by Valerie da Costa and Fabrice Hergott; Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, p. 9, 2006.

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• I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

  Julie Andrews

  Yoga, Work Out, Ballet

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• The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.

  James Callaghan

  Country, Wish, Use

  James Callaghan's speech at Cardiff (May 25, 1983), as quoted in "Callaghan defends deterrent" by Tim Jones in The Times (p. 1), May 26, 1983.

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• Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Christian, Unseen, Doctrine

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• He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.

  Thomas Brooks

  Religious, Atheist, Home

  "The Privy Key of Heaven". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1665.

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• We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

  Lucy Stone

  Sight, Hands, Reason

  "Woman Suffrage", Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.

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• No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

  Charles A. Reich

  Persons

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Loss, Commodity, Criteria

  1871 The Theory of Political Economy.

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• We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

  Karl Rove

  Oil, Enemy, Purpose

  'Meet the Press', www.nbcnews.com. August 19, 2007.

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• I once heard that women dress for women -- not for men -- and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don't know if you gain or lose five pounds. They're oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say "I like you just as you are." And you're like "But I'm bloated!" If they're attracted to you, they're attracted to you.

  Scarlett Johansson

  I Like You, Men, Thinking

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• Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Power, Garden, Records

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• At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.

  Tommy Douglas

  Friday, Wall, War

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• If you want to make it as a sportsperson - Become knowledgeable in the sport you want to participate in. Think about the sport and what it can offer in its entirety. You shouldn't want to become a professional sportsperson because of the money. There's a lot more to gain from being involved in sport. Work hard to get what you want. If it's your ambition, go for it. You don't have to be the best in the world to make it as an elite athlete. You need to be a grafter and be prepared to sacrifice.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Athlete, Ambition

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Listen to people, gain advice and gain the respect of your fellow team-mates. Make sure you put in the hours and you'll have fun.

  Phil Hill

  Fun, Team, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, White, Racism

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

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• The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Secret

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

  Christine Lagarde

  Responsibility, Loss, Economics

  "Is Angela Merkel The Real Cause Of The Irish Sovereign Debt Collapse?" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

  Stephen Potter

  Gambit, Advantage, Ploy

  'Lifemanship' (1950) p. 15

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