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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. -- Herodotus
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. -- Oliver Herford
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -- Laurence Sterne
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. -- Albert Schweitzer
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. -- George S. Patton
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. -- Andrew Jackson
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth. -- Barry Ritholtz
Evil gains work their punishment. -- Sophocles
Reason gains all people by compelling none. -- Aaron Hill
The end of labor is to gain leisure. -- Aristotle
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. -- Karl Rove
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. -- Charles Darwin
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -- Jim Elliot
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. -- Rumi
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. -- Marilu Henner
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. -- Napoleon Hill
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. -- Epictetus
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. -- Mahavira
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. -- Langston Hughes
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. -- Stephen Covey
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. -- Thomas Jefferson
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. -- Ted Turner
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. -- Harold Washington
As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers. -- Stephen F. Lynch
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. -- Plato
The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence. -- John Gerzema
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases. -- Manfred von Richthofen
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. -- Joe Biden
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. -- George Crabbe
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. -- Plato
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss. -- Alexis Herman
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. -- Alexander Meiklejohn
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. -- Davy Crockett
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. -- John F. Kennedy
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. -- Tryon Edwards
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. -- Barack Obama
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000. -- Daniel Kahneman
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. -- Margaret Thatcher
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power -- Rutherford B. Hayes
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. -- Mark Skousen
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. -- John Lydon
If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. -- Henry B. Eyring
No gains without pains. -- Benjamin Franklin
Ill-gotten gains work evil. -- Sophocles
Bad gains are true losses. -- Benjamin Franklin
Integrity gains strength by use. -- John Tillotson
He who gains time gains everything. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Trivial losses often prove great gains. -- Ovid
Declines are temporary, gains are permanent. -- Nick Murray
There is no gains without pain. -- Benjamin Franklin
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. -- Publilius Syrus
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage. -- Franz Kafka
He who faces no calamity gains no courage. -- Rudyard Kipling
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. -- Adolf Hitler
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. -- Horace
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses. -- Hesiod
For one gains by losing And loses by gaining. -- Laozi
If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains -- Mahatma Gandhi
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory. -- Nicolas Chamfort
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. -- Publilius Syrus
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. -- Joseph Addison
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized. -- Sheryl Sandberg
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems. -- Paul Tudor Jones
You learn more from your losses, than from your gains. -- Paul Tudor Jones
I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero. -- Mitt Romney
Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it. -- Horatio Nelson
A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity. -- Albert Camus
Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. -- Immanuel Kant
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book. -- George Herbert
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses. -- Hesiod
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster -- Hesiod
All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides. -- Michael Mandelbaum
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A wise person does not fear failure but gains experience and wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with! -- Gary Vaynerchuk
The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day. -- Laozi
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it. -- E. M. Forster
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation. -- Christine Lagarde
When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains. -- Joe Biden
People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices... -- Rick Rubin
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. -- Wendell Willkie
One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself. -- Watchman Nee
By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation. -- Peter J. Carroll
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. -- William Penn
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. -- Hesiod
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. -- Robert Herrick
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious -- John Owen
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. -- Epicurus
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. -- Sarah T. Bolton
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered. -- Mas Oyama
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains. -- J. B. Pritzker
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. -- Joseph McCabe
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance. -- Italo Svevo
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root. -- Rabindranath Tagore
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains. -- Alex Berenson
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. -- George Bernard Shaw
Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step. -- James Keller
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. -- Umberto Eco
An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. -- Edmund Phelps
I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings. -- Adolf Hitler
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. -- Sylvia Earle
Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come. -- Dwayne Johnson
The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage. -- Steve Blank
In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening. -- Neil Clark Warren

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