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• Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Giving, Energy

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• To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, Buddhism

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• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

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• With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Meditation, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Profound, Desire

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• In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Politics, Way

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• The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.

  Pope Pius XI

  Children, Ambition, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Jobs, Buddhism

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• It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Analysis, Looks, Personal Power

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• There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Loss, Two Sides, Energy

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• We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.

  Frederick Lenz

  May, Littles, Rooms

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• You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Crowds, Gaining Power

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• You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Feel Good, Gaining Power

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• Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.

  Alexander Meiklejohn

  Wise, Loss, Safety

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• In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Numbers, Atheism, Leeches

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Believe, Fall

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Getting Older, Littles

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

  Van Jones

  Helping, Help Me, Higher Power

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

  John Rocker

  Fans, Behavior, Don't Like Me

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• Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.

  Tony Gaskins

  Successful, Men, Wife

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

  Peter Senge

  Individual, Insight, Dialogue

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.170, Random House

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• If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Decision, Mind, Trials

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Positive, Caring, Impact

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

  Eskinder Nega

  Pain, Europe, Economic Sanctions

  "A prisoner of conscience's call for sanctions against Ethiopia" by Eskinder Nega, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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