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  • There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
  • I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
  • History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
  • When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
  • No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
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  • Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Aristotle I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Voltaire Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Cullen Hightower A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Anna C. Brackett All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Thomas Carlyle All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
    Source: On Heroes 5
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brooke Shields At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Machiavelli Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • William James If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Sydney Smith It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Thomas Szasz Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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