Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding… — Stanley Krippner Copy Share Image
What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right.… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
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If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of… — Pavel Peter Gojdic Copy Share Image
I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45. . ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control… — Marion Winik Copy Share Image
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
War is honorable In those who do their native rights maintain; In those whose swords an iron barrier are Between the lawless… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
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The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost:… — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
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