"The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero."
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"When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner."
"Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love."
"That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it."
"That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries."
"To many mortals silence great gain brings."
"If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing."
"I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life."
"The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it."
"I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain."
"It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith."
"When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth."
"When pain ends, gain ends too."
"And gain is gain, however small."
"What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth."
"Ill gotten gains will be ill spent."
"Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public."
"There is no gain without struggle."
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
"I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow"