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• The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Secret

  Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

  Stephen Potter

  Gambit, Advantage, Ploy

  'Lifemanship' (1950) p. 15

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• Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Flower, Grief

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• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Jail, Desire

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not gain any clear understanding of the psychology of the Other Men and the significance of their history till I encountered one of their philosophers, an aging but still vigorous man whose eccentric and unpalatable views had prevented him from attaining eminence.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Country, Men, Views

  "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (p. 26), 1937.

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• The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dark, Sacrifice, Engineering

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• Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others.

  Charles Rembar

  Ideas, Should Have, Speech

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• The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

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• State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

  Ian Bremmer

  Intelligent, Government, Safety

  "The End of the Free Market: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer". Interview with Scott Horton, harpers.org. May 07, 2010.

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• We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Persistence, Understanding, Mind

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• Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Loss, Wealth

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• The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

  Howard Dean

  Party, America, Political

  "Bush ordered leaking of Iraq secrets, ex-aide tells court" by Francis Harris, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 4, 2006.

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Valleys

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

  Christopher Paolini

  Love, Powerful, Heart

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!

  Theodore Guerin

  Order, People, Dollars

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• For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

  Mark Kingwell

  World, Danger

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.

  Bill Mollison

  Real, Book, People

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

  Flora Thompson

  Art, Ocean, Pot

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own.  Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Baby, Fun, Smart

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• You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

  Marshall Sylver

  Responsibility, Over You, Moments

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• But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

  John Muir

  Views, Perfect, Shelves

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• Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Trying, Rewards

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Success, Safety

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt”, p.220

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• If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Special, Use, Want

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