Gained Quotes
694 quotes by 572 authors
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I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test…
— Mark Edward
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There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
— Andrzej Wajda
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Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in…
— John Hamill
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong…
— Richard P. Feynman
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit…
— Cyril Connolly
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The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek…
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in…
— Aristotle
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The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep…
— Robert Breault
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Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you…
— Andy Weir
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder…
— J. William Fulbright
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To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below…
— Barbara Tuchman
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough…
— Camilla Luddington
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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
— Tracy Chapman
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Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are…
— Dan Fogelberg
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand…
— Edward Ruscha
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