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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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• There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.

  Wright Patman

  Country, Sacrifice, Agency

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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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• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

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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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• I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Waiting, Balance

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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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• The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Essentials

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• To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Block, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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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 go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Encounters

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• If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.

  Andrew Stone

  Pain, Sweat, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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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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• 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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• It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Believe, Hands

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• Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Past, Tears, Care

  "Warmth In Architecture: Why Grand Central Station Loves Us And Penn Station Could Care Less" by Michael Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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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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• I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

  Chuck Lorre

  Sports, Spiritual, Believe

  "Running A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits". "Morning Edition", www.kmuw.org. November 27, 2012.

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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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• Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Order

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• In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

  Confucius

  Prosperity, States, Found

  Confucius (2013). “The Great Learning (Unabridged)”, p.1, e-artnow

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