Gains Quotes - Page 26

• Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Fate, Humanity, Atheism

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.135, Library of Alexandria

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• Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Miserable, Providence

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Humanity's Gain from Unbelief”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Country, Believe, Atheism

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• Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

  Colin Powell

  Life Experience, Parts Of Life, Deals

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• I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Payroll Tax, Government, Suffering

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Life Is Like, Pieces

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Loss, Hands

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

  Peter Thiel

  Country, Technology, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.

  Fred Thompson

  Building Up, People, Income

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

  RZA

  Moving, Fall, Enlightenment

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Self, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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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.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Giving, Enemy, Possession

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• There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wealth, Economy, Arise

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• Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Eye, Feet

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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• The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Knowledge, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
  The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Money, Spirit

  Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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• No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

  Henry Ford

  Crush, Past, Government

  Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1936). “The Only Real Security: An Interview with Henry Ford”

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• No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

  Michael Jordan

  School, Brain, Stay In School

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• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

  Epictetus

  Ships, Firsts, Wealth

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• Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Growth, Want

  "The Situatuin Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2011.

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• See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

  Woody Allen

  Anxiety, Knows, Aerobics

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• Our loss put six feet under ground
  Is measured by the magnolia's root;
  Our gain's the intellectual sound
  Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

  Allen Tate

  Loss, Roots, Feet

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.177, Macmillan

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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.

  Isaac Watts

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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• Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Oratory, Refinement

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