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• One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

  Edie Falco

  Character, Thinking, People

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• We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

  Martin Feldstein

  Pay, Inflation, Permanent

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• If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mean, Support, Care

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• Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

  Dave Hickey

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rome

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• People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

  Thomas Jane

  Loss, People, Growing

  FaceBook post by Thomas Jane from Sep 18, 2011

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• Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

  LL Cool J

  Education, Book, College

  Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

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• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  Camilla Luddington

  Running, Weight, Active

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.

  Camilla Luddington

  School, Trying, Weight

  "Camilla Luddington As Lara Croft" by James Fell, www.askmen.com.

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• Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Political, Risk

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, Philosophy, May

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Teenager, Weight, Body

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  Oren Peli

  Firsts, World, Kind

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• To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

  Steven Rattner

  Impact, Income, Benefits

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• The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Light

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• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  Sam Raimi

  Hero, Journey, Quality

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• A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Crazy, Exercise, Simple

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.

  Rob Portman

  Hurt, Should Have, President

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Abuse, Purpose

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• Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Overcoming, Spheres

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• Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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

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• There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

  Andrew Tobias

  Jobs, War, America

  "Doonesbury on Job Creation" by Andrew Tobias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Hate

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• Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

  Todd Solondz

  Sex, Matter, Pounds

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• I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

  Shailene Woodley

  Trying, Weight, Skinny

  "Exclusive Interview: Shailene Woodley from The Secret Life of An American Teenager". Seveteen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 06, 2009.

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