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"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
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"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."
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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."
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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."
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"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
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"Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies."
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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."
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"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."
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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
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"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."
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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."
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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
Instinct
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"
Work
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
History
"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
Man
"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."
Fact
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
Shakespeare
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
Act
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Science
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
Man
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
Men
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