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"When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it."
"Strain every nerve to gain your point."
"No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another."
"Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence."
"We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not."
"The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them."
"Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class."
"He that gains well and spends well needs no count book."
"To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]"
"Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining."
"Honor and profit lie not all in one sack."
"[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention."
"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."
"States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation."
"The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy."
"In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends."
"People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected."
"Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step."
"Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness."
"A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in."
