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Gain Quotes by William James
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
- When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- 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…
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- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell
- I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and… — Ellen Barkin
- More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political… — Gary Bauer
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
- Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare… — Felix Adler
- One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. — Josh Billings
- To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. — Aeschylus