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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"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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"You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

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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."

Martin Feldstein, American Economist

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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

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"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

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"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

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

"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!"

"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."

"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."

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

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

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