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"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Bernadette Devlin, Irish Politician

Gain, May, Worth

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"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

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"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

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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."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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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."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

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"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

"I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself."

Tony Hancock, British Comedian

"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

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"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament."

"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."

"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."

"One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!"

"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done."

"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

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