Gains Quotes - Page 12

• We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

  Martin Feldstein

  Pay, Inflation, Permanent

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• No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

  Renee Fleming

  Teacher, Voice, People

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• If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mean, Support, Care

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• Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

  Dave Hickey

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rome

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• It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

  Sean Kingston

  Weight, Easy, Studios

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

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, Philosophy, May

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

  Rob Kardashian

  People, Goal, Television

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• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  Camilla Luddington

  Running, Weight, Active

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Political, Risk

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• In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Player, Order

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• They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, College, Trying

  Song: Pencil-thin mustache, 1974

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• It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

  Adam Weishaupt

  School, Mean, Order

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• It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Self, Evil Within, Shining

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

  Steven Rattner

  Impact, Income, Benefits

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• I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

  Sonja Sohn

  Careers, Actors, I Realized

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• It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Reality, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.629

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• Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Abuse, Purpose

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• The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Light

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• When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Hate

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• Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

  Todd Solondz

  Sex, Matter, Pounds

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• I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

  Shailene Woodley

  Trying, Weight, Skinny

  "Exclusive Interview: Shailene Woodley from The Secret Life of An American Teenager". Seveteen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 06, 2009.

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