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• We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

  Douglas Southall Freeman

  Inspiration, Past, Shrines

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• Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

  John Muir

  Dust, Solitude, Yosemite

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.350, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Steve Jobs

  Nothing To Lose, Colonization, Tranquil

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• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fate, Luck, Difficult

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Drug, Credit, Disease

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• An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving, Shapes

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• You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Certain, Right Action

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• The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Feelings, Dimensions

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• Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Important, Energy

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• MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got to overcome in that moment is not something you're ever going to gain in a daily lifetime routine.

  Enson Inoue

  Stress, Men, Mma

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• Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

  Court McGee

  Progress Not Perfection, Mma, Bases

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• Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

  Jay Gould

  Be Careful, Ability, Carried Away

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• Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Long, People, Soul

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• Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.

  David Sklansky

  Hands, Play, Cards

  "The Theory of Poker". Book by David Sklansky, www.businessinsider.com. 1999.

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• We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Missing, Research

  "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

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• Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.

  Ira Progoff

  Men, Intuition, Depth

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• Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Passion, Race, Sight

  Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

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• Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Soul, World, Way

  1919 Captain Shotover. Heartbreak House, act 2.

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• Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.

  Willi Smith

  Want, Way, Certain

  Source: collider.com

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• The beauty of having nothing to lose, is you learn the beauty of having everything to gain.
  This is where hope lives.
  Hope can’t be taken.
  Hope can’t be lost.
  Hope can’t be broken.
  When we are boiled down to what we are as people. We are not love, because we hope to love, we are not money or who we hold, because we hope to have and to hold. We are not religion or God, because we enter into belief in the hope we get something back for ourselves. We are not a soul.
  We are hope.

  Craig Stone

  Taken, Love Is, People

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• The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Definitions, Poet

  1978 In the Saturday Review, 15 Apr.

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• The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Writing, Reality

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Fleeting, Yards, Three

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• To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Practice, Musician, Essentials

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