"My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me"
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"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us."
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"The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion."
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"No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had."
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"The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite."
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"But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink."
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"The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial."
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"My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure."
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"If you innovate broadly, focus on the customer experience, and deliver everyday a great product, you will gain share."
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"I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows."
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"Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability."
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"The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose."
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