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• All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

  Rumi

  Peace, Anxiety, Desire

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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• The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

  Joseph Addison

  Humble, Humility, Literature

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• Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Iraq, Risk

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• Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Fall

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• All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Running, Dark, Winning

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Loss, Sisterhood

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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  You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

  Brad Pitt

  Funny, Order, Insightful

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• There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

  Federico Fellini

  Sweet Love, Self, Testimony

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• It was Lord Jesus Christ who said "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Life, Jesus

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• Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Believe, Winning, Church

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• Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

  William A. Dembski

  Antibiotics, Bacteria, Resistance

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• And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

  Jenna Elfman

  Character, People, Fans

  TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Economic Value, Iran, Oil

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• I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self, Attention, Feels

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• There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

  Gordon Getty

  Jobs, Years, Shallow

  "I want to make the world better". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

  Anthony Edwards

  Perfect, Kind, My Family

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, California, Texas

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• Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

  Snoop Dogg

  Fall, Men, Evil

  Song: Pimp Slapp'd

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Jobs, Looks

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• A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

  Derrick Bell

  Inspirational, Grief, Injustice

  Derrick A. Bell (1994). “Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

  Ludacris

  Night, Wish, Politics

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