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• As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Secret, Credit, Scandal

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.224

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• Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

  Walter Scott

  Winning, Hands, Mind

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.229

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• And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Today, Riches

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• O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Greed, Stronger

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

  John Milton

  Men, Weakness, Wickedness

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

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• I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed.

  John Wimber

  Believe, Healing, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• We are delighted to be working with PCG to continue to develop professionalism in the IT industry, and making BCS membership more accessible to PCG's IT members enabling them to gain industry-recognised endorsement of their credentials. BCS membership supports career development at every stage, offering a wealth of IT industry information, and access to an unrivalled network of IT professionals to help secure that next job or contract.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Jobs, Careers, Offering

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• Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Wisdom, Loss, Understanding

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• Master data management is a discipline that goes hand in hand with information governance. Forward-thinking organizations are instituting processes to gain agreement on roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures surrounding the maintenance of a single view of the entities needed for conducting business and measuring its performance,.

  Henry M. Morris

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

  Graham Sutherland

  Sacrifice, Order, Risk

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