"To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments……" — Isaac Asimov

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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… — Mahmoud Abbas
• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other… — Saint Augustine
• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the… — 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… — 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… — Gary Bauer
• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,… — Joseph Addison
• Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain… — Ezra Taft Benson
• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no… — 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… — Aeschylus

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