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• ... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

  George Eliot

  Morning, Joy, Soul

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.603

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• Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Vanity, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.635, Modern Library

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• A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, War, Successful

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.20

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• Better be with the dead,
  Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Anxiety, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

  Bill Vaughan

  Culture, Film, Excellent

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• Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Giving, Society

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• The easiest way to get your body back after baby is to not gain too much weight during your pregnancy!

  Constance Marie

  Baby, Pregnancy, Weight

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• While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.

  Keri Russell

  Kids, Successful, Opportunity

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• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Nice, Acceptance, Thinking

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• If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.

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• I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le  vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.

  Pierre L. van den Berghe

  Distance, Political, Suffering

  'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

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• What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Pride, Blood, Greed

  Sylvia Thompson (1926). “The Hounds of Spring”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Time, Practice, Perfect

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

  Sarah Siddons

  Cheer, Order, Voice

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• we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

  Ann Bridge

  Technology, Swamps, Losing

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.17, A&C Black

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• Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Hard Work, Fate

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• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

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• When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

  Aristotle

  Errors, Views, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

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• In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Teacher, Children, Writing

  "The View From Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. April 3, 2006.

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• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Buddhism

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• I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.

  Edward C. Prescott

  Differences, Important, France

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• Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Men, Moral

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• I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

  John Lennon

  Growing Up, Son, Parenting

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• The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Order, Two, Reform

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• Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

  Ellen Barkin

  Looks, Faces, Pounds

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