"In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain."
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"The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior."
"Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge."
"We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others."
"No brain, no gain. Stay in school."
"The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges."
"Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends."
"By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life."
"In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness."
"Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning."
"Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom."
"The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation."
"Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain."
"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."
"Evil gains work their punishment."
"The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe."
"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."
"From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage."
"But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain."
"Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away."