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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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• The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

  Horace

  Use, Misers, Acquire

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

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• Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Victory, Weakness

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• Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Ambition, Luxury

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• Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Effort, Spirit

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Loss, Made, Persons

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• An evil gain equals a loss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Loss, Evil

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 306, Maxims, 1922.

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

  Walter Scott

  Winning, Hands, Mind

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.229

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• If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Joy, Inner Strength

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Today, Riches

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• O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Greed, Stronger

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Confidence, People, Solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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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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• From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

  Franz Kafka

  Courage, Real, Antagonist

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• The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

  Hesiod

  Successful, Artist, Envy

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• You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

  Michael Crichton

  Answers, Knows, Access

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.387, Vintage

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• From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Powerful, Spring

  George Crabbe (1834). “The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834”, p.135

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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

  Earl Warren

  Diversity, Bitter, Strife

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• We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

  Guy Finley

  Fear, Prove, Our Lives

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Large Print 16pt)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

  Randolph Bourne

  Art, War, Mean

  "Diplomacy is a Disguised War: Obama’s Diplomatic 'Sleight-of-hand'" by Peter Fay, www.globalresearch.ca. March 22, 2011.

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• The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

  Cennino Cennini

  Nature, Lying, Heart

  Cennino Cennini (2012). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

  Madison Cawein

  Rain, Wind, Littles

  Madison Cawein (2017). “The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy”, p.19, Litres

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• For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

  Victoria Wood

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.

  Jared Bernstein

  Strong, Wages, Way

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