"Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities."
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"We had nothing to lose and everything to gain."
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"There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate."
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"In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace."
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"Every mortal loss is an immortal gain."
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"People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure."
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"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."
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"The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain."
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"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."
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"Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation."
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"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."
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"Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain."
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"All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth."
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"The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity."
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"Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life."
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"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."
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"If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature."
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"We gain internal freedom through external actions."
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"If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence."
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"Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized."
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