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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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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert, British Poet (1593-1633)
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod, Greek Poet
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill, American Writer (1883-1970)
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock, American Businessman
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace, Roman Poet
And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
Terrence Howard, American Actor (1969-  )
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes, American Poet (1902-1967)
I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.
Tito Jackson, American Musician (1953-  )
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James, American Philosopher (1842-1910)
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
Thomas Jane, American Actor (1969-  )
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Gertrude Jekyll, British Celebrity
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Politician (1949-  )
I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Inventor (1919-  )
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy, American Politician (1925-1968)
So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete (1952-  )
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
Ben Kingsley, English Actor (1943-  )
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
Brian Koslow, -
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
Thomas Kretschmann, German Actor (1962-  )
 
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