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title: "8 Gains Losses Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesiod/gain-not-base-gains-base-gains-are-the-same-as-losses/)

[Hesiod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hesiod/)

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> [All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mandelbaum/all-policy-is-a-matter-of-gains-and-losses-upsides-and-downsides/)

[Michael Mandelbaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mandelbaum/)

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> [It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bibesco/it-is-harder-to-cut-our-gains-than-our-losses/)

[Elizabeth Bibesco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bibesco/)

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> [There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-henry-stoddard/there-are-gains-for-all-our-losses-there-are-balms-for-all-our-pain/)

[Richard Henry Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-henry-stoddard/)

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> [Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesiod/do-not-seek-dishonest-gains-dishonest-gains-are-losses/)

[Hesiod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hesiod/)

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> [“ Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-h-stoddard/gains-for-all-our-losses-there-are-gains-for-all-our-losses-there-are/)

[R.H. Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-h-stoddard/)

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> [Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/price-fixing-does-not-represent-simply-windfall-gains-and-losses-to/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-lagarde/all-stakeholders-must-participate-in-the-gains-and-losses-of-any/)

[Christine Lagarde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-lagarde/)

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