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Monday, May 20th, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Quotations regarding 'Gain'

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist (1937-  )
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner, American Businessman
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist (1688-1772)
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
Koichi Tanaka, Japanese Scientist (1959-  )
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
Yves Tanguy, French Artist (1900-1955)
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler, German Theologian
I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
Joe Theismann, American Athlete (1949-  )
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Paul Theroux, American Novelist (1941-  )
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas, American Actor (1914-1991)
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas, American Actor (1914-1991)
Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
David Tudor, American Musician (1926-1996)
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner, American Businessman (1938-  )
To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Harry Vardon, English Athlete (1870-1937)
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
Thorstein Veblen, American Economist (1857-1929)
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
William Vickrey, Canadian Educator (1914-1996)
You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.
Jon Voight, American Actor (1938-  )
It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Jon Voight, American Actor (1938-  )
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Denis Waitley, American Writer
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Henry A. Wallace, American Vice President (1888-1965)
 
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