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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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• 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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• 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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• I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Growth, Sound

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

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• I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Eye, Two

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• The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.

  Gina McCarthy

  Government, Decision, Influence

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• As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Opportunity

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

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• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

  James Morcan

  Running, Mean, Reality

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• You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Mindfulness

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• Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

  Erica Jong

  Loss, Thinking, Loving Someone

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

  Tyra Banks

  Girl, Summer, Mirrors

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• For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tired, Light, Land

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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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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• Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.

  Roger Ebert

  Order, People, Evil

  Source: progressive.org

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• There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

  Gordon Getty

  Jobs, Years, Shallow

  "I want to make the world better". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

  Anthony Edwards

  Perfect, Kind, My Family

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• Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

  Snoop Dogg

  Fall, Men, Evil

  Song: Pimp Slapp'd

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

  Derrick Bell

  Inspirational, Grief, Injustice

  Derrick A. Bell (1994). “Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

  Ludacris

  Night, Wish, Politics

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