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• May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Confidence, People, Solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Clarity, Ends

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

  Franz Kafka

  Courage, Real, Antagonist

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• The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

  Hesiod

  Successful, Artist, Envy

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• We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Years, Two

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• However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

  Paul Gauguin

  Determination, Giving Up, May

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Groups, Doe

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• You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

  Michael Crichton

  Answers, Knows, Access

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.387, Vintage

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• Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Movie, Girl

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• From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Powerful, Spring

  George Crabbe (1834). “The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834”, p.135

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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

  Earl Warren

  Diversity, Bitter, Strife

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• It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Age

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• God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Ocean, Fundamentals

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• We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

  Guy Finley

  Fear, Prove, Our Lives

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Large Print 16pt)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

  Randolph Bourne

  Art, War, Mean

  "Diplomacy is a Disguised War: Obama’s Diplomatic 'Sleight-of-hand'" by Peter Fay, www.globalresearch.ca. March 22, 2011.

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• The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Men, Memorial, Honor

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• The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

  Cennino Cennini

  Nature, Lying, Heart

  Cennino Cennini (2012). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

  Madison Cawein

  Rain, Wind, Littles

  Madison Cawein (2017). “The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy”, p.19, Litres

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• I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

  Bill Frisell

  Listening To Others, Musician, Sound

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• I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

  Courtney Love

  Fun, Caring, Years

  "Courtney Love ordered to drug treatment". The Associated Press, www.today.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

  Linda Lingle

  Integrity, Believe, Hard Work

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• When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.

  Gary North

  Jesus, Men, Law

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• For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

  Victoria Wood

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.

  Jared Bernstein

  Strong, Wages, Way

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